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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 50m

Speaker Johnson just declared the House will remain in recess all next week. This will mark a full month off; the chamber has not been in session since September 19.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 1h

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

what

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 1h

I really do not want to hear that Democrats are the ones who don’t give a shit about federal workers as the House GOP extends their vacation

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 1h

House GOP just said they won't be back in Washington next week, so the shutdown probably goes at least until the week of Oct 20th.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 1h

America's unions will see you in court.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 2h

*violations of

🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 2h

it is extremely on-brand for this administration to try to execute RIFs they could have performed at any time between January and now during a period where they are legally prohibited from doing so. it is also typical of Vought to act like he has the authority to order gv’t-wide RIFs when he doesn’t

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 2h

obviously the administration won’t prosecute itself, but Democratic politicians should make clear that there is no statute of limitations for violations the Antideficiency Act, which carries criminal penalties

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 2h

since Russ Vought has declared government layoffs are underway, here’s @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social making it clear that the administration is prohibited by the Antideficiency Act from conducting RIFs during a shutdown: www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 2h

If I were a DC reporter, I’d consider maybe pressing Johnson on how he reconciles these two statements.

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Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, l'm a very patient guy, but l'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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Mike Johnson: "People have got to stop framing simple policy disagreements in terms of existential threats to our democracy. You can't call the other side fascists and enemies of the state and not understand that there are some deranged people in our society who will take that as cues to act."

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 3h

you would never know from the way these shitheads talk that they are describing 75 million Americans

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 3h

they’re just taking their cues from Johnson, who earlier this morning went on Fox News to call the October 18th protests a “hate America” rally that is “pro-Hamas”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

Speaker Mike Johnson, standing next to Emmer here, urged Democrats less than a month ago to "turn down their rhetoric," saying, "Nazis and fascists is not helpful."

As such, striking to see him stand quietly as a fellow Republican insists there is a "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Your regular reminder, aside from the performative public lying of far right authoritarians, that the GOP & the national media would have a week-long Discourse On Civility if <any Democrat> ever spoke about GOP voters/conservatives the way GOP leaders speak about Dem voters/liberals every single day

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

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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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 5h

why should we be concerned with the guy who uses “Palestinian” as a slur having ultimate authority over the fate of Palestinians

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 5h

if you book far enough in advance, the world’s your oyster

🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like the endpoint of all this irresponsible bullshit is a government bailout of crypto when the value of this entirely speculative asset inevitably tanks

🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 5h

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Wall Street Pivots: Morgan Stanley Officially Recommends Exposure To Crypto, Especially Bitcoin

One of the world’s oldest investment institutions, Morgan Stanley, has advised clients to allocate 2-4% of their investment portfolios to crypto. With a strong spotlight on Bitcoin as a “scarce asset,...

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 5h

lol. lmao

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h

MORGAN STANLEY TO LET RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS INVEST IN CRYPTO - CNBC

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

If you ever stuck up for "ideological diversity ' or good faith debate or whatever and thought guys like Thiessen were part of that congratulations you are a huge sucker and Thiessen and the other conservatives are laughing at you now that they won.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 18h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 17h

embrace retiring in your 70’s instead of dying in office under a Republican governor

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