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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Overlands @19seventyseven.bsky.social · 9h

They're about to get us into a couple wars. All to cover up epstein. They can't let the media in on attack plans.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

"The Trumpified right is at this point scarcely conservative. It is increasingly uninterested in virtue as it is actually practiced. And it is in no position to tell others what it means to be a man." Always good from the archives: www.thebulwark.com/the-rights-i...

The Right’s Ironic Fixation on Roman Virtues

The Trumpified right adores the manly and republican virtues of the Romans and the American Founders, but doesn’t live up to them.

www.thebulwark.com

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 9h

Another shitty Republican.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h

A judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep. Cory Mills after he was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 9h

Former Fox & Friends weekend co-host and defense secretary Pete Hegseth learned a sharp lesson in choosing his words more carefully.

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 9h

It is ALWAYS, and I mean ALWAYS about money with this son of a bitch.
FOLLOW THE MONEY

Zachary Taylor @zacharytaylor1971.bsky.social · 13h

Rambling Trump accidentally reopens questions about an election payoff🤔

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Rambling Trump accidentally reopens questions about an election payoff

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 10h

Has there ever a more self centered mother f*cker on the face of this earth?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 11h

Damn! He’s pissed and he’s right.

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Zachary Taylor @zacharytaylor1971.bsky.social · 13h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 13h

Trump is stooping so low that he’s gutting the federal Office of Special Education.

Attacking students with disabilities is wrong. Every child in America deserves a fair shot at success.

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

www.npr.org

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

If the media won't report on it, we need to personally tell everyone we know. The msm is making themselves obsolete, and it's time we learned to bypass them.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 14h

These are supposed to be the best genetic specimens 🤢
Ohh pa-lease

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 15h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23h

It’s a mental illness

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

"Miller slipped up because even he knows it is an outrageous thing for Trump to claim absolute, unreviewable power to send active-duty military troops into American cities based only on his delusions."

Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

This is not how the Constitution works.

www.publicnotice.co

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 14h

Oh please let him! I’d love to see the Honorable Mr Smith devour the piss ant known as Gym Jordan.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 14h

In fairness, I was traveling, but I completely missed that there'd been yet another lethal strike on a boat in the Caribbean. We're getting to the point where the military murdering boatloads of civilians is a below-the-fold kind of story. We're in a very dangerous place

Trump says U.S. struck 5th boat accused of carrying drugs off coast of Venezuela, killing 6

President Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat he accuses of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h

EXPOSED: @lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 19h

Perversion and greed run rampant in the Republican Party.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, color me shocked.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

abcnews.go.com

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 1d

The US executive branch is cutting academic research funding & withholding grants on political grounds. But now it’s funding the Chase Center. This is part of the attempted takeover of higher education by the right.

There's nothing neutral about that.

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