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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 8h

This is going to kill the TikTok deal lol

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h

*TRUMP: US WILL IMPOSE 100% TARIFF ON CHINA STARTING NOV 1 *TRUMP: US TARIFF ACTION BASED ON CHINA'S EXPORT CONTROLS

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 9h

Abbott will say shit like this and when people point out his disability he immediately brings out the pearls to clutch.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

people who think this will not have an effect on employer-provided health care rates and premiums are walking into a buzzsaw

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 14h

HOO BOY. I just acquired the FINAL, approved 2026 #ACA rate filings for #ARIZONA and it's not pretty at all.

Premiums are going up 46.3% on average...and that's for full price enrollees.

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2026 Final Gross Rate Changes - Arizona: +46.3% (updated)

Originally posted 8/7/25 Overall preliminary rate changes via federal Rate Review database. Antidote Health Plan of AZ: (Unfortunately, no rate justification summary is available, and the full actuari...

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 14h

Two things:

1. They’re not getting paid, that’s why they’re not going to work.

2. This is terrible bluff. If the DOGE catastrophe taught us anything, it’s that most ATC crews are operating as skeleton crews already.

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

"When you come to work, you get paid. If you don't come to work, you don't get paid."

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 14h

Paving the way for the 25th and handing power over to Vance.

I personally don’t believe it, but it’s easy to see why people would.

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 14h

I remember reading a post on Reddit months ago: a conspiracy that Trump’s inner circle, who are actually in charge of most policies, will see that Trumps time is almost over (for whatever reason) and will begin to sabotage his administration to make it less popular…

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 15h

Looks like 145 percent tariffs is back on the menu, boys!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump posts a bizarre, whiny screed signaling an escalation of tensions with China

Some very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to Countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China. Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would “clog” the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere. Our relationship with China over the past six months has been a very good one, thereby making this move on Trade an even more surprising one. I have always felt that they’ve been lying in wait, and now, as usual, I have been proven right! There is no way that China should be allowed to hold the World “captive,” but that seems to have been their plan for quite some time, starting with the “Magnets” and, other Elements that they have quietly amassed into somewhat of a Monopoly position, a rather sinister and hostile move, to say the least. But the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s. I have just not chosen to use them, there was never a reason for me to do so — UNTIL NOW! The letter they sent is many pages long, and details, with great specificity, each and every Element that they want to withhold from other Nations. Things that were routine are no longer routine at all. I have not spoken to President Xi because there was no reason to do so. This was a real surprise, not only to me, but to all the Leaders of the Free World. I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so. The Chinese letters were especially inappropriate in that this was the Day that, after three thousand years of bedlam and fighting, there is PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

I wonder if that timing was coincidental? Dependent on what China says about the hostile “order” that they have just put out, I will be forced, as President of the United States of America, to financially counter their move. For every Element that they have been able to monopolize, we have two. I never thought it would come to this but perhaps, as with all things, the time has come. Ultimately, though potentially painful, it will be a very good thing, in the end, for the U.S.A. One of the Policies that we are calculating at this moment is a massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products coming into the United States of America. There are many other countermeasures that are, likewise, under serious consideration. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 15h

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 18h

Ghost of Yotei is amazing…from the ten minutes I’ve had to play this past week

a close up of a man 's face with a sad look on his face

Alt: a close up of a man 's face with a sad look on his face

media.tenor.com

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 18h

“Norway, who doesn’t select winners, has to prepare for Trump’s wrath because he’s is too stupid to distinguish between the Nobel Committee and the country where the committee meets”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Mr. Spookytime Grift @djdunclive.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about stove-touching memes is that it's about letting folks realize that the Rs are the stove, not about Dems grabbing their hands and holding it against the stove indefinitely. That... doesn't convince people that they need to vote for you.

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

So when we take Congress in the midterms which aid should we refuse to give to people so that we forestall the bad consequences we know are downstream of not helping them?

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 1d

At this point Fetterman is better off either going republican or independent. No way he survives a primary.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Samus is Here @samusishere.bsky.social · 1d

Paxton is quite easily the worst human being in the state and is hated by literally every person who ever once considered him a friend or husband so the Texas population is fine with him.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting poll of Texas finds the GOP with a low-to-mid single-digit lead in any of the 12 configurations of the 2026 Senate race that were tested. And the conventional wisdom of a large difference in how Cornyn and Paxton would perform in November isn't showing up here. www.uh.edu/hobby/txtren...

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 1d

This is the clearest sign yet that Democrats are winning this argument. Nobody is going to buy this desperate B.S. I’m honestly surprised, but the Democrats have managed to back Johnson into a corner.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 1d

Also, he actually livestremed himself going to the pizza place, sitting awkwardly for more than an hour before walking out.

He then proceeded to delete all his pizzagate references from his social media and deny that he ever promoted it.

To discuss "left-wing Antifa violence," the White House invites the man who pushed the bogus Pizzagate conspiracy so hard it radicalized a guy to shoot up a crowded restaurant.

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 2d

“But don’t call us fascists, commies”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson on nuking the filibuster: "Is it wise? A lot of people would tell you it's not. I mean, on the Republican side, I would be deeply concerned if the Democrats had a bare majority in the Senate right now of Marxist ideology taking over the Democrat Party...turning us into a communist country"

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. I’ll cross my fingers but I’m not holding my breath.

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Mike G. @mestizoqueso.bsky.social · 2d

Ojalá

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

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