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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12h

DOJ WHISTLEBLOWER: “I wouldn’t be abiding by my oath if I stayed silent right now.” He says Trumps DOJ wanted him to lie (about Kilmar being a gang member & a terrorist…)— and then fired him when he wouldn’t.

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Nurse Chapel 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @nurse-chapel.bsky.social · 8h

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

He’s gonna put TRUMP in gold letters on the White House, isn’t he

a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames

ALT: a woman in a black dress says it - it - the f - it - flam - flames

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 8h

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Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s Special Prosecutor Nominee, Just Had His Text Chat History Leaked. It's Bad. Really, Really Bad

Leaked texts. Alt-right ties. Misconduct allegations. GOP panic. From Telegram to the Senate floor—how a 30-year-old podcaster almost seized America’s whistleblower watchdog.

deanblundell.substack.com

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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 14h

I am literally fucking sick. This travesty of a President has literally, IS literally, destroying everything. Disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe it. Trump has taken apart every ounce of dignity, respect, history, and brick by brick foundation this country was built on and wanted to achieve

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 20h

It’s so fucked up.
substack.com/@logicallyjc...

The People’s House Is Becoming a Party House

The East Wing of the White House is being torn down to make room for a ballroom.

substack.com

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Everlast2 @everlast2.bsky.social · 8h

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 19h

How long are we going to keep pretending that the fascist Trump regime is not a cabal of Nazis? Texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, reveal vile pro-Nazi and racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people. 👇

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 16h

Every newsroom leader should prioritize coverage of every #PressFreedom attack to be #FrontPage in solidarity.

First they came for the indy photo journalists, then the @lataco.bsky.social …

An attack on one is an attack all. This should never be normalized. #1A

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 17h

Statement on LAPD targeting our reporter @shoton35mm.bsky.social 🧵

Video by @filmthepolicela.bsky.social

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

Trump on Putin and Zelensky: "They hate each other, and it makes it a little bit difficult."

Look, we “hate” Russia, including Putin, because they kill us, destroy our cities, abduct our children, and do everything they can to erase Ukraine from existence.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 17h

Federal workers aren’t getting paid, but of course Kristi Noem gets two private jets costing taxpayers $172 million.

Nothing new from the people who are also sending $40 billion to Argentina while refusing to fund our own government. Shameful.

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21h

Just a reminder that "en banc" review in the Ninth Circuit is ... unique.

The full court (29 active judges, currently with a 16-13 D-R split) votes on whether or not to rehear a case en banc.

If so, then *10* judges are randomly drawn to sit with Chief Judge Murguia as the "en banc" court.

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like people are sort of sleeping on the US Attorney for EDVA clarifying—to a reporter!—that she did indeed intentionally violate the Federal Records Act by setting the Signal messages to auto-delete

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lilliepi.bsky.social @lilliepi.bsky.social · 16h

Not the brightest bulb

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17h

As well as having an incredible legal mind and being a superb writer, @annabower.bsky.social is also much nicer and more polite than I could ever be in the face of such idiocy and proud mean-girl nastiness.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 19h

Folks. I'm going to suggest that the interim United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is... not very bright.

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 17h

In 1925, Congress felt it needed to pass a joint resolution to authorize Grace Coolidge to accept gifts of furniture

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but that’s one of the worst things about it.

These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.

Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47
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A lot of FAKE OUTRAGE over construction of the big, beautiful (and privately funded) White House Ballroom.
FACT: Presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House for more than 100 years.
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing.
In 1909, President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office during a West Wing expansion.

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lilliepi.bsky.social @lilliepi.bsky.social · 16h

And have some true native Americans sage everything

Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 19h

When this is over, no matter the effort and no matter the cost, we tear down Trump's ballroom and restore the White House to the way it was.

And then we take a wrecking ball to Mar-a-Lago.

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 19h

When this is over, no matter the effort and no matter the cost, we tear down Trump's ballroom and restore the White House to the way it was.

And then we take a wrecking ball to Mar-a-Lago.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 17h

Rachel Maddow is literally rattling off every city and state that had a No Kings protest against Trump and his fascist authoritarian regime. The list is unbelievably long, including a shitload of red states. She's a half hour into her show and still going. 😂🤣🙌💪👏✊

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17h

Ben Meiselas calls on those with standing to act: seek an injunction to halt Trump’s White House ballroom. Argue fraud—Trump claimed he’d pay and not alter the structure—and use the damage to the East Wing as the emergency basis. Demand discovery now.

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Debby33 ❌ 👑 @debby33.bsky.social · 19h

Can we stop calling Musk a genius?

He's a vampire. Always has been. Sucks up other people's ideas, claims them as his own, drains them dry, moves on. 🦇🧛

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17h

Elon lies a lot.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

“In 2016, Tesla proudly announced that all its vehicles produced onward are equipped with ‘all the hardware for full self-driving,’ which would be delivered through future software updates.

“.. The automaker turned out to be significantly wrong about that.”

@electrek.co
electrek.co/2025/10/20/t...

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 17h

No one could have predicted this: "The White House worked to hold together the Gaza peace deal on Monday as American officials said they were increasingly concerned that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, could dismantle the U.S.-brokered agreement." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...

White House Works to Preserve Gaza Deal Amid Concerns About Netanyahu

www.nytimes.com

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 17h

7 million people who love America and want freedom and opportunity for all showed up for No Kings. It was peaceful and powerful. Some were in fun inflatable costumes and others held serious signs about democracy or the economy. We want unity, not division. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They’re teachers, nurses, Mennonites, and Marines. The Trump administration calls them antifa.

The No King protests represent a broad popular front. That's exactly why the president's allies are demonizing the organizers.

www.motherjones.com

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Marcy Kaptur @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social · 17h

Wishing all celebrating a Diwali filled with light, laughter, and happiness.

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