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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 17m

Fetterman has one core principle, which is that Donald Trump's ass smells like nectar and ambrosia and feels soft and pillowy against his lips.

Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 2h

Last night Fetterman voted to allow Trump to execute people at sea, today he wants to give him a Nobel Prize. Just no core principles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 19m

We need to make Donald Trump so unpopular that even John Fetterman won't defend him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1h

A Washington Post columnist is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Headline of a Marc Thiessen column: Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, but we shouldn't need that explained to us by now.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3h

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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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1h

It's not from the Fasciste region of France, so it's just sparkling authoritarianism.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 4d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 5h

Trump won't need to use the military to make America a one-party state because the Supreme Court will do it for him.

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

Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling

Many experts are forecasting the end of a key provision of election law — enabling Republicans to shore up their advantage in the House, according to a new report.

www.politico.com

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 15h

The Supreme Court is about to legalize racial gerrymandering and there won't be a single Black Democrat in Congress from a red state by the end of the decade.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 15h

OHPLEASEOHPLEASEOHPLEASEOHPLEASE

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/z...

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 21h

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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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

"The fever will break" v. 2.0.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Fessler @professler.bsky.social · 1d

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize goes to...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

👀 😂 @mikenellis.bsky.social

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

"One set of rules for Rs and another for Ds" is now the official governing philosophy of all three branches of the federal government.

Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 2d

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

I know your next line - "What's hateful about all that?" I won't play that game with you. The words speak for themselves.

Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

You're an idiot if you fall for Babb's argument, which Republicans have deployed since at least the days of the Clarence Thomas hearings.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

There was a Kristi Noem video on the monitors at airport security this morning and I mourned Orwell.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Saw this headline and knew without looking that it was Caitlin Flanagan.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 1d

If you are a Texan being investigated for your connections to "radical leftist" groups, I am interested in representing you against harassment by Ken Paxton's office.

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 2d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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Witty Librarian Resistance @paulwartenberg.bsky.social · 1d

trump will get Norway/Sweden confused with Denmark and use the Nobel snub as an excuse to invade Greenland. /headdesk

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Calling it now: After he learns that he hasn't won the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump will increase tariffs on Norway.*

*Or Sweden because he probably doesn't know which country's Nobel committee oversees the Peace Prize.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

He was close to Charlie Kirk, and he might be thinking that the post-mortem fictional version of Kirk - the civil-tongued free-speech champion - seemed a lot more popular than the real Charlie Kirk ever was.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Could be a factor.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Longshot, and more so now.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 2d

I don't buy it. Trump's base was ready for fascism on Day One in 2017. D.C. Republicans would have gone along then as well. But Trump didn't realize that personnel is policy. He hadn't been supplied with a top-to-bottom list of fascists.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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