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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

“It’s weird.”
“It seems messy.”

That’s what experts had to say about the $1.3 billion contract handed to a tiny firm called Acquisition Logisitics to run a detention facility at Texas’ Fort Bliss Army base.

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4h

Vance could not give a straight answer to questions about:

➡️ Tom Homan's alleged acceptance of a bribe
➡️ Trump's accusations that J.B. Pritzker is a criminal
➡️ Layoffs at the CDC

Read/Watch: bit.ly/4nMSVl9

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sociablesocialist.bsky.social @sociablesocialist.bsky.social · 8d

The hatred and constant vilification directed at this young woman by the far right simply because she cares tells me a lot.

Ali Haydor @alihaydor.bsky.social · 8d

Greta Thunberg for Nobel Prize

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3h

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’s new PBS series, “The American Revolution,” tells the nation’s founding story. Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg asks Burns: What would the Founding Fathers make of this political moment in America?

Watch the full discussion: https://bit.ly/3J6Yqfc

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

🇺🇸🧑‍🌾Soybean Association President: “Unfortunately there’s not enough market competition due to (Trump’s) Trade War - the aid package is putting a band-aid on an open wound.”

@rustygrills @GovBillLee @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @RepChrisTodd @RepFaison are you listening?

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zipperheadedfool.bsky.social @zipperheadedfool.bsky.social · 7h

But they have concepts of a plan, damn it!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Johnson strikes a patronizing tone about MTG: "Republicans have been working around the clock on healthcare. They're on the committees of jurisdiction that deal with this. Marjorie doesn't serve on those committees, so I offered to have her come into the room and be a part of those discussions."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

ICYMI — Trump lied that Chicago had “4000” murders, when it’s projected to have 380 this year (way down from last year)

If it’s so bad there why does he have to keep lying about it?

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zipperheadedfool.bsky.social @zipperheadedfool.bsky.social · 1d

America is the empty piñata at Trump's fascism party.

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ALT: Sml Jeffy GIF

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: He's never "just joking"

"Trump is an aspiring autocrat with obvious physical and mental issues, but Johnson and his Republican cronies are insulting our intelligence about it."

He's never "just joking"

And Republicans know it, even as they play dumb.

www.publicnotice.co

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zipperheadedfool.bsky.social @zipperheadedfool.bsky.social · 1d

georgiarecorder.com/2025/10/10/m...

Good for her, BUT she's going to run for governor and then president, or maybe skip governor and go straight for president. She's not doing this for "the people."

Marjorie Taylor Greene sounds alarm over expiring health care subsidies as shutdown continues • Georgia Recorder

As the government shutdown drags into its second week, Georgia’s congressional delegation is locked in a partisan struggle over who is to blame, with one of the state’s most high-profile Republicans, ...

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Trump’s TikTok deal is short on details. “But what has been released should alarm anyone concerned with this administration’s drive to consolidate wealth and media power in the hands of a loyal few,” @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.

Trump’s Dodgy Plan for TikTok

The details are murky, but it looks like the president is about to further enrich and empower his friends.

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zipperheadedfool.bsky.social @zipperheadedfool.bsky.social · 1d

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Make the Trump Regime OWN this shutdown and all the pain that will go with it. Do not fold. Do not let him off the hook. He's going to do what he's going to do anyway, but if the Dems fold, the country will see them as weak. And they'll be right.

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zipperheadedfool.bsky.social @zipperheadedfool.bsky.social · 1d

Or lying. Or bigotry. Or racism. Or misogyny. Or blatant criminality.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

If only there were a Nobel prize for narcissism ….

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"Advanced imaging" are the important words here.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: So far, Trump has deployed the National Guard to at least five Democratic-led cities. While lawsuits swiftly followed, the courts will now decide whether to maintain traditional limits on military enforcement of federal law. Here’s where the legal battles stand👇
https://bit.ly/3KHchcR

Where the Legal Fight Over Trump’s Military Deployments Stands

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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zipperheadedfool.bsky.social @zipperheadedfool.bsky.social · 1d

It just occurred to me that we don't have to say Trump is not my president because he has already announced many times that he hates us, all of us. He's proving he doesn't consider himself to be our president every single day.

a stuffed monkey with the words `` not my circus , not my monkey '' written below it .

ALT: a stuffed monkey with the words `` not my circus , not my monkey '' written below it .

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philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social · 1d

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zipperheadedfool.bsky.social @zipperheadedfool.bsky.social · 1d

www.thedailybeast.com/medical-repo...

Medical Report For Trump, 79, Ignores Cankles and Bruises

The president also received a COVID-19 vaccine, which RFK Jr. has described as “deadly.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing that’s been reduced 500 percent are his brain cells.

Tweet from Acyn quotes Trump: “We are the ones saving health care. One of the things we're doing is we are going to be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500%, even more.” Below is a Fox News image of Trump speaking at a White House meeting.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 2d

Under Trump, you have two options with your health care: lose it entirely or start paying more.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

How delusional will Trump have to get before our media start questioning his health?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has begun dismissing federal workers, with furloughed staff at the Department of Health and Human Services now facing permanent layoffs. The cuts are hitting the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention especially hard.

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