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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 5h

No, Adam, it does not. Someone who wishes for my nonexistence is a fucking bigot and a fascist even if they dress it up in nicer words than the current fucking bigots and fascists. I am not acceptable collateral damage and neither is anyone else. We all get out together or we don't get out at all.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 19h

Popular Front politics requires a willingness to hold your nose & embark upon common purpose w/those who may (yes) wish for your nonexistence. It’s on the theory that the present threat to you is *actually that* – existential – & you need to survive to press your claims on other, weaker adversaries.

Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 20h

Hi Melissa I'm not demanding ideological purity, I'm a trans man demanding that my civil rights not be sacrificed. I am demanding that I be allowed to live with dignity and with access to medical care that I depend on to survive. No one's civil rights are negotiable. Due process is not negotiable.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 6h

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 6h

Before you start making jokes about this - the reptilian conspiracy theory is deep, rabbit hole-level antisemitism.

www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 9h

Just got kicked out of bottomless brunch

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

This shows in so many ways Halligan is unsuited to be United States Dogcatcher, let alone United States Attorney. She writes a reporter whining about reporting but not offering any actionable specific things the reporter got wrong. There's NO WAY that helps anything.
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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 12h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 12h

The 1990 Paul Verhoeven film TOTAL RECALL was *not* intended to be aspirational

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 12h

Big Pets dot com energy from this sector

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think we should let it go that the president posted a video of himself shitting diarrhea on us. It should be on his wikipedia page

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 16h

A year ago I cofounded @theflytrapmedia.com w a bunch of extremely talented feminist writers/artists. We're celebrating our first year with a 15% sale for new subscribers, as we need 950 new + recurring readers to be able to pay ourselves this year + set us up for another year of feminist badassery.

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 22h

HAPPY MONDAY, FLYTRAPPERS. Welcome to The Flytrap's 1-year anniversary subscription drive campaign. We are celebrating a whole year of existence, and using this joyous occasion to delight our followers with paywall drops, flash merch sales, and subscription sales.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

A few points on Trump and Hegseth and everyone else who murdered Colombian fishermen on a Colombian boat in Colombian territorial waters:

1. Colombia has jurisdiction.
2. There is no statute of limitations for murder.
3. Colombia has an extradition treaty with the US.

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 12h

None of these words are in the Bible

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

President George W. Bush being informed about the second plane reaction jpg

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 13h

I have taken the tour at an Utz potato chip factory where you can see every step from whole potato to bagged chip. Reassuring!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

The biggest renovation of the White House -- the so-called Truman Reconstruction of 1949-1952 -- came about only because the building was in such a state of disrepair that inspectors decided it was unsafe for occupancy.

Not because the president just decided he needed a big fancy ballroom.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15h

Small thing maybe but I really wonder what goes through the mind of the workers. "Yeah I'm showing up to tear down a bunch of the white house. Normal stuff"

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 16h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 16h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies

The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 17h

Have you tried adding +"built different" to your query?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 17h

Encourage her to watch TANK GIRL to iterate further on this delusion

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

It’s fun to be a Republican when you can just make shit up

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

CNN: Do you really believe that the 7 million attendees who participated this weekend hate the United States of America?

REP. LISA McCLAIN: Well, look at what they're standing for. They're standing for communism. They're standing for antisemitism.

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 17h

T is for Talia 🎉

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 18h

I remember a pub radio conversation during the Tea Party era with David Gergen and a left leaning journalist who I remember as being Matt Taibbi (?!)

Journalist: “These people don’t care about taxes. They’re upset because there’s a black President.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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