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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 10h

Bravo to the judge who recognizes the blatant absurdity and unconstitutionality of the other judges ruling.
These rulings not only undermine our faith in the Judicial branch of our government, but also our belief in the rule of law.

Kris @pachyaena.bsky.social · 18h

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Dissenting judge calls ruling allowing Trump to deploy National Guard troops in Portland more than 'merely absurd'

The dissenting judge called the decision more than "merely absurd," but that it "erodes core constitutional principles" around state sovereignty and free speech.

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Jim Brown @jimbrown.bsky.social · 1d

When Drumpf finally dies, and the dust from the ensuing media circus settles, we’ll inevitably see a slew of former staffers, etc.
close to him write tell-all books and decry how mentally unstable and evil he was. How they witnessed his cruelty.

Don’t wait, do it 𝐧𝐨𝐰. Break free. Out him.

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

"[R]ecords and interviews with 20 people familiar with the route or the strikes, including current and former U.S. and international officials, contradict the administration’s claims.

The passage, they said, is not ordinarily used to traffic synthetic opioids."

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Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats

Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1d

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 21h

"Mom, why is the pet growling at it's master?"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

These criminals that Trump pardoned keep getting arrested. Pretty much every week there is a new one.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 1d

Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona’s 7th District on September 23rd, yet Speaker Johnson STILL refuses to swear her in.

He’s using the government shutdown to prevent a Member of Congress from doing her job and to stop the Epstein files from being released.

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 1d

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"You are not Moses...

You are a coward in cufflinks, a fraud in a prayer circle, a malfunctioning sermon in human form. History will remember as the man who mistook cowardice for faith, corruption for leadership, and silence for salvation."

JoJo from Jerz on Mike Johnson

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 21h

Imagine destroying your own country's sacred heritage & getting stiffed by the guy widely known for stiffing his contractors.
How big of a clown do you need to be to reach that level of dumbassery?

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 23h

Knowing Trump’s track record, all of the people tearing down the East Wing and constructing his sure-to-be-tacky ballroom will never get paid. The man was sued more than 3,500 times for tens of millions of dollars when he was just a real estate developer.

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✊Larry Colvin✊ @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 1d

In tiny, red Warren, Ohio, the people showed up — loud, proud, and fearless. 💙
They’re proof that courage isn’t partisan and democracy has no color but freedom. The heartland is stirring, and the crown is cracking. 👑❌🇺🇸 #NoKings

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: A rickety dictatorship

"Trump’s increasingly desperate attempts to incite a civil war in advance of the midterms and the rejection of his party’s healthcare evisceration each demonstrate growing vulnerabilities of the nascent MAGA tyranny."

A rickety dictatorship

Trump's hand of cards is weaker than it appears.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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Zeke Radford @zekeradford.bsky.social · 22h

Trump's clown lawyer thought she could retroactively make a convo off the record. That's hilarious!
🤣😂🤣😂
Who could have guessed American democracy would be destroyed by the Keystone Cops?

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 1d

I believe this is Lawfare-speak for “Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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

Oh, oh, I know who committed the crime! Ask me, ask me!! 🙋🏻‍♂️

Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 1d

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime

He was released by authorities in the South American nation.

www.politico.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

For several years, I lived an hour south of Syracuse on a grad school stipend of $11,000 for the entire year.

The Hitler Middle Age here spent twice that in a weekend.

Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

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