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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 53m

prince is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and a necklace around his neck .

ALT: prince is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and a necklace around his neck .

media.tenor.com

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 1h

The corruption is INSANE.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2h

This is who Trump is.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2h

Trump/GOP are going about this shutdown as if they are trying to win over the public opinion of their hostages (American people) by threatening to kick some of the hostages (American people) in the teeth and to show they mean business actually kicking them in the teeth. Seems DUMB!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know

Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 3h

Crazy how the billionaire-tech bro-Trump era that swaggers around congratulating themselves on being all about meritocracy has elevated so many positively incompetent kiss-asses.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 23h

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 5h

GOP trying to rig elections with gerrymandering and SCOTUS has been trying to rig reality with their rulings. In part for similar reasons: to protect their power and fiefdoms, which they know they would otherwise lose. And will.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h

Frustration toward SCOTUS building even among Republican judges. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 5h

There are few things more powerful in combatting this lawless authoritarian cruelty and oppression than creating a space where the survivors of it can speak for themselves and tell their stories. Why? Because seeing and hearing what is happening to them / us makes you *feel* it.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 18h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 14h

Wackjob who is clinically obese due to Big Macs and being completely full of shit got a(nother) Covid shot because he knows horse pills and bleach don’t do dick against a virus. And because he’s a flesh bag of unhealthy gross. He’ll tell his base idiocy they want to hear but he’ll get the vaccine.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Sometimes nowadays Watergate can feel almost quaint, but this is a good refresher on Nixon's corruption and poor character, and how Nixon wrote the playbook in many ways for Trump: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-nixo...

Trump’s Abuses of Power Show We Didn’t Learn Much From the Nixon Era

That failure is implicit in nearly every frame of a new documentary about Katharine Graham.

www.thebulwark.com

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 1d

Labeling Americans who will gather to peacefully assemble & express their 1A Right to be “pro-Hamas” and “Antifa” feels like he’s trying to create a predicate for violence against Americans, priming the pump for the expectation of it. It feels like that because that’s exactly what he’s doing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

The "somebody showed me a TikTok" era of American government is going pretty much exactly how you'd expect.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 1d

And with that I have officially turned into my dad.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 1d

I shut it off at the half. Thanksgiving is a long way off but these Birds are already cooked for the season.

JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 1d

Let Big Dom call plays

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 1d

Giants look a lot better than a 1-4 team. Just sayin.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2d

Whatever the upside-down opposite of The Enlightenment is — that’s where we are now. Wouldn’t be surprised if this administration insists that gravity is leftist nonsense.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Vjaybombs @vjaybomb.bsky.social · 2d

GOP

#vjaybombs

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2d

ALSO: It was obvious when he posted it that by “our reputation and credibility” he didn’t mean the nation, he meant his own.

ALSO: My god, all this man does is think about himself. If you were to pie-chart out how much time he spends thinking about himself v Americans it would be 100% him.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2d

Guy who could launch nukes posts for all the world to see what he intends to be a private message to his AG.

In doing so he makes the obvious…obvious: Bondi just does whatever the hell he tells her to do. She was upset because he made clear to the world that she has no integrity.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2d

It has been clear since Term 1 that he will take it all down, destroy whatever he has to in order keep power, to not “lose,” to not face accountability. Big differences now: Surrounded by enabler-lackeys and SCOTUS-bestowed immunity.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Trump’s openly talking about invoking the Insurrection Act with zero insurrection in sight. He’s inventing chaos in Portland and Chicago, and even saying he’d use it if courts or local officials are ‘holding us up’.

Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2d

Considering this administration has blown up four boats, killing 21 people, claiming they were cartel drug-runners without presenting any evidence of such … we’re in a place where if they decide someone is a “bad guy” or “antifa” they feel no inhibition of just going ahead and killing them.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2d

When The New York Times puts “civil war” in any kind of headline it is noteworthy.

This is a remarkably well-researched, thorough yet tight assessment of our most precarious moment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 2d

“The Trump administration has yet to provide underlying evidence to lawmakers proving that alleged drug-smuggling boats targeted by the U.S. military in a series of fatal strikes were in fact carrying narcotics, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.”
apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say

The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified.

apnews.com

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