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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19h

Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.

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Religion Dispatches @religiondispatches.org · 21h

Joel Swanson on VPOTUS' casual, horrifying antisemitism

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JD Vance Trivializes Jewish History by Referring to ICE Criticism as 'Blood Libel' — But Reveals What this Admin Thinks of Jews

Last week, in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Vice President JD Vance accused critics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of committing “blood libel” against ICE agents. As Va...

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 20h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 21h

A five-point-five billion Trump golf course in Qatar, and Qatar gets an air base in Idaho.

New Trump Golf Course, $5.5 Billion Beachside Project Announced for Qatar

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 22h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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travging.bsky.social @travging.bsky.social · 21h

Wtf

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

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travging.bsky.social @travging.bsky.social · 2d

Can these organizations just not suck? It shouldn't be this hard.

travging.bsky.social @travging.bsky.social · 2d

Almost like we can get a variety of takes from one event. I am curious as to her thoughts and yours. I really don’t care to hear your thoughts on trans rights, at least not now or in a long form article.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 2d

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 3d

This isn’t the first time Miller has used the term “plenary authority” with respect to the Presidency. He did so already in March, but that time he was referring to the president’s authority in foreign policy. What’s new here is now to say this absolute power also applies domestically.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 3d

The "antifa army" that Noem stared down 😂😂😂

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 4d

Remember when these guys ran a completely fabricated story about trans kids sourced to a single bigot who worked at St Louis Children’s Hospital and it got so much traction that they ended a bunch of programs for trans kids because of all the bomb threats

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5d

Abbott egged on the Jade Helm conspiracists, who claimed that a military training operation was actually Obama invading the state of Texas.

Now a U.S. president is deploying Texas troops to other states to dominate and intimidate those states, and Abbott is complicit.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Someone needs to tell MAGA the pedophilia calls are coming from inside the White House.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 5d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

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travging.bsky.social @travging.bsky.social · 6d

He never did in the first place. He said those words and then surrounded himself with those who created project 2025, to think he distanced himself from it is just journalistic malpractice.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

A right wing influencer was arrested after starting fights in Portland and blaming “antifa”. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

Conservative influencer Nick Sortor released after arrest in fight outside Portland ICE building, police say | CNN

A conservative influencer who this week posted videos of clashes outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, has been released without bond after he was arrested late...

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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 8d

A political media apparatus either full of suckers or accomplices willing to gobble up absolute garbage about Trump “distancing himself from” Project 2025.

NPR headline:
Trump again distances himself from Project 2025

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travging.bsky.social @travging.bsky.social · 8d

Invoke the Thomas rule

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

JUST IN: DOJ suggests Judge Simon recuse from the Oregon National Guard case because he's married to @RepBonamici, who has vocally opposed the deployment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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