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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 11h

Any other sources on this?

“She made the announcement on Friday, saying that after an "open channel of communication" with Putin, Ukranian children displaced in the war had been reunited with families.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Melania Trump says she has 'open communication channel' with Putin about Ukrainian children

The US First Lady has been directly engaged in diplomacy in Russia, pleading for the protection of children.

www.bbc.com

weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 19h

What a joke.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

You guys should really go read old issues of your newspaper to see just how idiotic you sound now by comparison.

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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 1d

This!!! I’m so sick of hearing about him!!

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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 1d

So butthurt

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 1d

Smarmy son of a bitch

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans in Congress strangely silent on the Argentina bailout to benefit Bessent’s friends.

It also helps you to avoid talking about it when you are never asked about it.

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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know how to react

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 1d

@davidsoncollege.bsky.social nice that you just allowed them to open a chapter. Great work.

weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 1d

@davidsoncollege.bsky.social good job allowing a chapter to launch

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 2d

NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 2d

What’s with this “hot” bullshit?

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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 2d

What’s Jared’s cut?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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weeniepyon.bsky.social @weeniepyon.bsky.social · 2d

A middle school classmate of mine posted a similar sentiment on FB, believe it or not.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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