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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3h

He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

"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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VinegarMike @vinegarmike.bsky.social · 4h

Chicago October 2025: "Are the helicopters over my house this evening because of the Cubs playoff game or is it the federal government doing extrajudicial kidnappings?"

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 11h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 2h

So not only am I to believe that ANTIFA is a thing, but now we're being told the government has arrested the founder's girlfriend? Didn't they just say at the White House ANTIFA roundtable that it dated back to the Weimar Republic? 🤔

Get your story straight!!

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 4h

What in the transubstantiation is going over there?! 🧐

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 1d

horror movie posters but with muppets: thread

Oscar the Grouch in the movie poster for Alien.

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

So they're saying anti-facist movements date back to *checks notes* the start of fascism?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

He has no idea what the job entails -- he's just rubbing around doing photo ops and acting like an O4 on a power trip. Which, given his National Guard and FoxNews background seems predictable.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 2d

32 years ago today, Sideshow Bob first met his old archenemy: Rakes. "Cape Feare," first aired October 7, 1993.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Slotkin asks Army GC nominee about how many "designated terrorist organizations" the US is now supposedly in an armed conflict with and whether he can name them.

Army GC nominee refuses to answer.

Administration refuses to tell American public and Congress who POTUS has declared war on.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 2d

NEW: @amandacarpenter.bsky.social offers four essential questions (and answers) to understand what’s really at the heart of Trump’s troop surge to blue cities — and why the unjustifiable military deployments must be stopped, in her latest briefing for The Entrenchment Agenda. Read and subscribe:

Federalism at a breaking point

When red state troops police blue cities

www.ifyoucankeepit.org

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, also known as WIC, will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, experts say. The food aid program helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children.

Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families

Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 4d

Hell yeah. @crampell.bsky.social

Former Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark | Semafor www.semafor.com/article/10/0...

Washington Post economics columnist moves to The Bulwark

Catherine Rampell will write a weekly economics and policy-focused newsletter for the anti-Trump media brand.

www.semafor.com

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 3d

At 10am, Judge Xinis will hold a conference in Abrego Garcia’s civil (habeas) case. I’ll cover for @lawfaremedia.org. Expected mainly to be about whether to grant Abrego discovery into, e.g., how the govt chose to try to send him Uganda or Eswatini (former Swaziland). ...
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 4d

Who was President when we agreed to give Afghanistan back to the Taliban? I forget.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

He's the one who surrendered in Afghanistan -- is he saying his first administration was too politically correct and chose not to "win" in Afghanistan when they could have?! 👀

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

Played Baseball and Soccer at Yale.

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

It's all so ridiculous.

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 4d

Deter China? Seems out of place in his list of priorities... 🤔

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