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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

Only the best people

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 1d

Before targeting Trump foes, Pulte practiced on his own family, per @
Brian Slodysko and Chris Megerian. He accused his grandfather’s widow of insider trading, was tied to a website trashing an aunt as a "fake Christian" and called another relative "a fat slob." apnews.com/article/trum...

How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James

Bill Pulte has become a significant player in the Trump administration. Known for his aggressive online persona and bitter public fights with several family members, Pulte currently serves as director...

apnews.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5h

One more time: As it’s not “weaponization of justice” for law enforcement to prosecute someone who committed crimes trying to rob a bank, it’s also not weaponization of justice for law enforcement to prosecute someone who committed crimes trying to overthrow an American election.

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 2h

Pressure from whom, Jim???

Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 2h

It’s like Loomer blaming the GOP for the airbase but not Trump. They never blame Trump for anything.

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 2h

Who could it be, Marj? Put your thinking cap on….

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

💯 CO-SIGN 👇🏽

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 10h

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @jesseduquette.bsky.social )

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 2h

Trump is nothing but ME ME ME ME ME ME

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 2h

The government has been shut down for nearly half a month.

Insurance costs are doubling for millions of families.

And you’re still trying to rewrite history on the first bipartisan vote to impeach a U.S. president?

Put down your phone and focus on ending the Trump shutdown.

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 2h

Right? I feel like I have been taking crazy pills watching all these people be so sad. She was good friends with a fucking creep who married his own daughter.

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 2h

I fully expect this to happen to my husband because he looks Mexican, but is not Hispanic at all.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 7h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 2h

Except that now they have no problem wearing masks so to abduct people. It was never about the masks. It was always about them just being assholes.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4h

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 2h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 7h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 3h

AND IF YOU AREN’T????

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Winsome Earle-Sears: "The hospitals that are closing? They were closing long before the bill passed ... why should you have Medicaid when you're able-bodied?"

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 3h

How would Biden have done that when it was Trump’s FBI and Trump was President.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Sewmageddon @sewmageddon.bsky.social · 5h

He does nothing but lie. Why keep interviewing a blatant liar??

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