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kdk @kdkildal.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe mention which former American allied countries now have travel advisories against USA for contextual purposes?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21h

But here's the problem: if you tried to transfer that money into the military personnel accounts (milpers), it would immediately transform into money whose period of availability ended on September 30, 2025 - and thus not be usable anymore, despite the money existing.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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kdk @kdkildal.bsky.social · 13h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

OH LOOK www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 19h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, look. Another billionaire dinner.

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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kdk @kdkildal.bsky.social · 17h

Is that a pole barn in the yard?

kdk @kdkildal.bsky.social · 17h

SCOTUS prefers this narrative too

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 20h

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol

“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

www.huffpost.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

The more GOP officials and right-wing hacks try to spin and pivot from their Young Republican leaders praising Hitler and racism and gas chambers for their enemies, the more it puts the story in the spotlight.

Keep at it!

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Let us translate Mike Johnson's comments about Obamacare for you www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Per the story, the sequence of events:

Gilbert finds grand jury probe unwarranted.

Bondi and Blanche's aides “frustrated” with the answer, blame 20+ year vet prosecutor.

They order Gilbert to sideline that prosecutor.

He refuses; they tell him he’s fired; he resigns.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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kdk @kdkildal.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you.
“State sanctioned terrorism is a weak look, regardless of how the state propaganda frames it.”

kdk @kdkildal.bsky.social · 2d

Now, let’s revisit the Astro-turfed tea party summer of 2010. Lotsa live feeds from those stupid skits

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 2d

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 2d

The photographer deserves a medal.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

In case you got lost in the steaming pile of bullshit Speaker Johnson’s been shoveling, the shutdown fight Democrats are holding the line on is about healthcare for hard-working Americans.

Leader Jeffries isn’t flinching, isn’t wobbling; he’s been consistent and hasn’t wavered on this issue.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 2d

Mission reaccomplished

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RepJackKimble @repjackkimble.bsky.social · 2d

The BIDEN DEFENSE DEPARTMENT let the JAPANESE destroy our PACIFIC fleet at Pearl HARBOR less than THREE weeks before CHRISTMAS 1941.

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