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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 16h

Fucking abhorrent...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 19h

He said he doesn't have to tell how he'd disarm them.. nearly verbatim quote

Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 19h

He's currently spitballing combo lies and praising his own ingenuity all live on air.

Welcome to Trump's America

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 19h

Huh. Imagine that

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 19h

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own

As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

www.motherjones.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 1d

And yet people purchased them so gaming the system or meeting a demand in the market

And not the biggest since Adele, the biggest of all time

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

“The Life of a Showgirl” is now Billboard’s biggest album debut since Adele’s “25” in 2015, though some critics have accused Swift of gaming the system by releasing 38 variants of the album between physical copies and digital versions.

Taylor Swift's 'Life Of A Showgirl' Debuts With Record-Breaking 4 Million Album Units On Billboard Chart

“The Life of a Showgirl” is now Billboard’s biggest album debut since Adele’s “25” in 2015, though some critics have accused Swift of gaming the system by releasing 38 variants of the album between physical copies and digital versions.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Ohio Begins Executing Random People In Hopes They’re Criminals https://theonion.com/ohio-begins-executing-random-people-in-hopes-they-re-cr-1851218315/

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 1d

Can Republicans be trusted to fix the healthcare crisis they have created?

Hell No.

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 1d

2008 Italian National Football Team?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody tell Trump there's an Argentinian banker in one of these houses.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

See how complicated this gets when you see this philosophy as anything other than "Republicans win and Democrats lose."

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

www.rawstory.com

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 2d

He's in ranting old grievances like a looney mode as usual, yes?

Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 2d

And the branch slap

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

why u may ask well

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 5d

Good

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 5d

That's definitely going to help the shortage

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5d

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is threatening to fire "problem children" air traffic controllers who fail to show up for work during the government shutdown.

DOT chief threatens to fire air traffic controllers who skip work

The Trump administration has also threatened to lay off thousands of federal employees at other agencies if Congress doesn’t halt the government shutdown.

nbcnews.to

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 5d

In fairness Thiessen has been there forever and has always been this dumb

John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 5d

Time to truly cancel your WaPo subscription (even though they still have some great reporters).

“Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, but there has arguably never been an American president who deserved it more.”

I just can’t.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

His Gaza agreement, though still fragile, adds to an unprecedented peacemaking record.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 6d

Navarro: 'we are just in the most beautiful place we've been I think ever with respect to trade'

*In Q2 2024, China bought over $3 billion in soybeans from U.S. farmers. This year, they’ve bought $0.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 8d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 8d

just amazing to me that the political press in VA is getting the vapors about political rhetoric on the Dem side

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8d

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump pushes a new label for Democrats: ‘The Party Of Hate, Evil, And Satan’

Republicans apparently want Democrats to stop using the kind of incendiary political rhetoric that the president uses all the time.

www.msnbc.com

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 8d

A panel of judges on an appeals court Friday seemed split about whether the Trump administration’s move to request taxpayer information from the Internal Revenue Service for the purposes of immigration enforcement is lawful.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/03/r...

Appeals court hears case dealing with information-sharing between the IRS and ICE • Ohio Capital Journal

A panel of judges on an appeals court Friday seemed split about whether the Trump administration's move to request taxpayer information from the Internal Revenue Service for the purposes of…

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Shannon Freshour @shannonfreshour.bsky.social · 8d

One of the best things about being a grown-up in social media is instablocking and unfollowing those that don't bring enjoyment *AND* intellectual value without a second thought