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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 13h

GOP think it’s a documentary

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 13h

Always with the bats

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 16h

A lens to view this thru:
Declaring he’s ended seven wars.
Repeatedly mentioning his concerns about getting into heaven.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19h

The signs are becoming more obvious.

Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months — TIME

When the President visits Walter Reed on Friday, he’ll do a “routine” annual check-up, the White House said—despite the fact he just did one in April.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: Palestinians moving back towards Gaza City are being fired upon.

Israeli forces say the ceasefire does not exist until the government votes for it.

At least 8 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely not mental.

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 1d

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans won’t come back to work because we can now force a vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

Meanwhile, folks' insurance is skyrocketing because they refuse to extend healthcare tax credits.

They’re putting Pedophiles before the American People.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

“Miller is working overtime to polarize the public debate about Trump's increasingly dictatorial abuses of power…He relentlessly depicts Democrats as allied with a vast, inchoate class of violent criminals and insurrectionists…” sharp read of what Stephen Miller wants from @gregsargent.bsky.social

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

“The state does less and does it better“.
Lmao wut?

Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Tax cuts for the rich.
Trickle down economics.
More austerity.

Wow. What a speech

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

According to Kemi, the amount of civil servants has ballooned since Brexit.
We’ll duh

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

“If the Conservative party didn’t exist, would there be any need to invent it?”
OOOFF

Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Happy “Mickey Mouse Degree” day
to all who celebrate!

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says "the party of ambition" like restricting access to higher education.

Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

My sums might not add up, but I’m pretty sure that Hamlet and Harry Potter did more for our economy than Liz Truss

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 3d

After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words:

Rail Replacement Bus

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Our arts and culture are one of the few remaining economic and soft powers we have.
So yeah, why not smother them too

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Hundred quid says Jenrick “leaked” that audio himself

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 2d

As Israeli society is marking two years to the 7th of October attack, with public events and rallies and media coverage - the Israeli government is ignoring the anniversary.
No official statements
No personal statements from Netanyahu or ministers
No memorial services, no ceremony

Extraordinary

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 2d

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 2d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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