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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 17h

Got kicked out of my work’s holiday party planning committee for suggesting the theme be “man’s inhumanity to man”

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Scott Linnen @scottlinnen.bsky.social · 14h

from the people who killed billions in overdue infrastructure & clean energy projects. so proud.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Scott Linnen @scottlinnen.bsky.social · 15h

speaking of open channels of communication, how many times did the FBI flag Melania’s name in the Epstein files.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 15h

The No Kings rallies have been peaceful. But when was there ever a protest with violence in Washington, DC? I'm racking my brain on that one....Oh yeah, when YOUR people showed up to overturn an election, beat up cops, and threatened Dem. and Repub. legislators. Trump pardoned all those thugs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17h

So Trump gave Argentina a $20 billion bailout and is now building a Qatari military facility in Idaho.

While Americans can’t afford groceries.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 16h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Scott Linnen @scottlinnen.bsky.social · 1d

it’s a real eureka moment when your obsession with children’s genitalia syncs with your antisemitism

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

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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Grant Tanaka @granttanaka.bsky.social · Feb 3

can’t believe I have to say this again, but if you find me unconscious beneath a freeway overpass, please leave me alone, that’s MY time

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Danny @mardigroan.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, you mean fall as in autumn, not as in "of civilization."

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

Some stories about my friend Kaleb, on the occasion of his funeral:

channel-6.ghost.io/its-just-dif...

IT'S JUST DIFFERENT VALLEYS, THAT'S ALL

Kaleb Horton has departed this life, and for those left behind there is nothing that reconciles any part of what’s happened with what should’ve happened. He had a family, grieving now. He had friends,...

channel-6.ghost.io

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Scott Linnen @scottlinnen.bsky.social · 1d

they’re all striking thirteen.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 3d

Look, I know this is controversial, but I’m on the side of the ones who **aren’t** shooting priests in the head with pepper balls.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Senator Megan Hunt @meganhunt.bsky.social · 3d

No reputable medical or psychological association supports conversion therapy. Being LGBTQ+ is not an illness, and we don’t need to be cured.

We have been working to ban conversion therapy in Nebraska since 2019. With my LB 367, we could be next to ban this inhumane practice.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn 32 state bans on conversion therapy and explicitly legalize the abusive and torturous process.

They don't care how many LGBTQ people this traumatizes and kills.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Supreme Court to decide if states may ban attempts to ‘convert’ gay and transgender youth | CNN Politics

Matt Salmon remembers getting into a circle with the other teenagers in his group therapy session and shouting obscenities at a gay boy forced to stand in the middle.

www.cnn.com

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Scott Linnen @scottlinnen.bsky.social · 3d

Channeling the ghost of Roy Cohn. Just in time for Halloween!

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 3d

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Scott Linnen @scottlinnen.bsky.social · 3d

bearing false witness and covering up child rape. but nice crucifix necklace!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5d

Trump and Vance want badly to stop you from using the f-word

That's because if we accurately call out rising fascism from the streets of Chicago to the waters of the Caribbean, we will understand that we must fight back with the moral strength of war

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch

The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

www.inquirer.com

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 9d

Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the terrorist group known as the federalist society?

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 9d

“If you have not experienced the kind of supercharged harassment this environment breeds, count yourself lucky. But don’t count yourself safe.”

Thank you @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for this. Will be assigning it to my students to read and discuss in class TODAY. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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