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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 15m

A lot going on there

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 2h

Mariners to Seattle sports fans circa 2004:

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 8h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 6h

Actually no the Don’t Tread on Me Conservatives for Armed Occupation are running away with this one

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17h

NEVER IN DOUBT

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17h

NEWS: I wish for death’s sweet release

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 17h

Mariners win

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Nick L. Underfront @jasoncheathawks.bsky.social · 17h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

Currently listening to Sum 41 while writing wedding gift thank you notes and really enjoying the incongruity

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

Local senator who has no beliefs and would sell his family into slavery for 5% more wealth and power assumes that everyone else must be the same

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

?????

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

It is weird that this pathology emerged only in Trump 2.0 though.

Same with Tariffs, something he is absolutely obsessed with now but barely mentioned his first four years in office

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

Have we reached 1,000 different things that would have been an unimaginable scandal for any other president in American history yet or are we not quite there yet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

lol this is crazy i mean this guys the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

I feel reasonably confident that if Joe Biden had unilaterally raised nationwide taxes on coffee to try and interfere in some other country’s domestic politics on an issue that had absolutely nothing to do with American interests, we would have heard a bit about it

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 1d

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 2d

Again, Trump has crossed a Red Line no president has ever crossed: personally ordering the criminal prosecution of an American he doesn't like despite DOJ not finding evidence of any crime.

If Trump can do this to the powerful, he can do it to you. That's not freedom, and its not America.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 2d

It already exists too: isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 2d

So are you hiring that guy

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 2d

So strange that this context is not making into mainstream media reports of the James indictment

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

As @propublica.org reported, "at least three of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages."

No indictments for them, because this is how a fascist regime works. "For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law."

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 2d

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 2d

On the other side of the ledger, you can increasingly rely on WaPo for bad headlines and framing these days:

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 2d

Also not terrible

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

BREAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted on one count of bank fraud, after steady pressure from President Trump to prosecute one of his longtime political foes.

Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump in N.Y., is indicted on one count of bank fraud

The indictment comes after steady pressure from President Trump to prosecute James, who successfully sued Trump and his company for inflating the value of some of its properties.

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