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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 1d

Shot of a Coast Guard officer apparently serving Kristi Noem's aide-to-camp, lugging her $2500 Goyard GM tote. Three sleeve stripes so she's a Cdr, equivalent to a Lt. Colonel in the Army I think

29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · May 6

No immigrants are going to actually take this offer (which is a pittance at best) but even if they did Trump would never pay. It’s bait. He’s setting a trap.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

Trump Offers to Pay Immigrants Who Deport Themselves

The administration says the program to pay migrants $1,000 once their travel home is confirmed will save money because of how expensive it is to find, detain and deport people.

www.nytimes.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

A Pulitzer for investigative journalism should be awarded to any reporter who can identify a major official in the Trump administration who is *not* a certifiable wacko

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 2d

Before targeting Trump foes, Pulte practiced on his own family, per @
Brian Slodysko and Chris Megerian. He accused his grandfather’s widow of insider trading, was tied to a website trashing an aunt as a "fake Christian" and called another relative "a fat slob." apnews.com/article/trum...

How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James

Bill Pulte has become a significant player in the Trump administration. Known for his aggressive online persona and bitter public fights with several family members, Pulte currently serves as director...

apnews.com

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 1d

good afternoon

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Youngman @youngman.bsky.social · 2d

I saw this interview with Cheryl Hines this week where she was complaining about how the Kennedy family shuns her and her husband now and my reaction was that I really hope more people shun Cheryl Hines.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Youngman @youngman.bsky.social · 2d

Presidential aide Stephen Miller, 40, has died of autoerotic asphyxiation after his wife Katie failed to honk the big air horn and cut the noose off immediately after he climaxed.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

they need to be mocked relentlessly for this

oh did your special little guy not get his little prize? did your wittle boy not get his wittle trophy? is pee paw sad he didnt get his trinket? these people are a fucking joke

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
X.com
President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
MODA
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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 8d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 5d

Last year the Secretary of Defense was a black general and now the Secretary of Defense is a washed up National Guard major who the military considered a white supremacist insider threat and said white supremacist is also an alcoholic accused of spousal abuse.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6d

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 6d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Youngman @youngman.bsky.social · 8d

The dog only has one ass.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 8d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Youngman @youngman.bsky.social · 8d

Trump is so far gone he doesn’t do anything more than plan his ballroom but Stephen Miller and people in his orbit are running the country now and are laying the groundwork to invoke the Insurrection Act. They want a reverse Reconstruction.

Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 8d

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city.

Troy and I were on the ground:

Federal tactics on protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

www.opb.org

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 8d

[chrous from Disney's Hercules] Who puts the 'mess' in 'Debra Messing?'

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 9d

The funniest thing in the world is someone posting something egregiously fake followed by “let that sink in.”

Debra Messing: @emmabenson92 I have nothing against Socialism, don't know where you got that. I voted against M because he celebrated 9/11.
Let that sink in. I love my country. My reasoning is not Islamophobia. I I've chosen to live in the most beautifully diverse city in the world.

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Michael F @michaelf617.bsky.social · 9d

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

President Trump just signed an executive order that says you can't fart on the flag.

Pete Hegseth gets into a Blackhawk helicopter. He's wearing a blue suit lined in the USA flag. The back of his suit is flying up at the vents, exposing his rear.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d

Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

www.nytimes.com

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Youngman @youngman.bsky.social · 11d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11d

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it.

But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell

JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too

D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?

J: I didn't see it

D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13d

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13d

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 13d

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13d

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 13d

america about to become the first country where civilian gov't is overthrown by the military due to acute embarrassment

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13d

Trump: I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do. I'm a very aesthetic person and I don't like some of the ships you're doing, aesthetically.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 13d

Imagine spending your entire life studying naval warfare and your big dumb boss comes on stage and says we need to focus on the ship that was immediately proven to be outdated in the opening months of World War 2

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Trump: "I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships, by the way. We have a Secretary of Navy who came to me, 'cause I look at the Iowa out in California and I look at different ships, the old pictures. I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea. And I look at those ships... "

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