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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Again, if you live in Portland, just strolling around the city to verify the (checks notes) existence of store windows would do wonders for counteracting the delusions of President Livia Soprano.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

It's a rambling mess of bullshit, capped off by "we'd like to make Obamacare better" from the same asshole who repeatedly tried to kill it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Democrats want to approve healthcare for illegals coming into our country, many of them coming from prisons and mental institutions and drug dealers. We don't want that for our people because that's gonna destroy the healthcare that we already have. We'd like to make Obamacare better."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans 2026: "We took the freedom of speech away."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

One of these women has spent a lifetime selflessly funding a reading program widely available to any child who wants it, while the other one is an author of several books for children who did not do that.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Quick follow up for the senator -- who is they?

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

The percentage of coverage the New York Times devotes to things that could have easily been an angry letter dashed off to the Harvard Alumni Review is disturbingly high.

No one else gives a shit, you weirdos. No one at all.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1h

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

NYT front page headline: "Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture."

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 49m

I haven't yet seen evidence that CNN has formally changed its house style for reporting, but FWIW, compare WSJ yesterday www.wsj.com/articles/vol...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

“We’re going to hold them fairly to account, and by that we mean we’ll use the propaganda term they invented and not the legal name for the department. In short, MAGA.”

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2h

He's so cognitively garbled that I can't guess what he means at the end, when he says freedom of speech "is always something I felt strongly about, but it never passed the courts."

At this point, it's important for Democratic politicians to raise questions about his brain function every single day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia …”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Democrats should go on TV to say they need to impeach Trump because of the cocaine-fueled pedophilia parties that he holds in the East Room of the White House with his friends in MS-13.

I mean, if he gets to lie shamelessly, why not them?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

Every morning DSA, Antifa, the DNC, and Jimmy Kimmel hold a conference call with President Obama. Obama gives them their official M.A.Y.H.E.M marching orders and that is why Portland, Chicago and Seattle all burned to the ground and are being rebuilt as MegaCommunist Super Woke Cities.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Look, I'm not gonna claim he's the worst president ever – we've had some bad ones – but he's certainly the one who lied the most outrageously

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1h

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1h

I met Andy Ngo once, when I was speaking at a thing and he found me backstage and tried get me to say something he could use against me.

What leaped out was how comically shifty he was. Nervous, sweaty, desperate. No game at all, no charm.

Up close, they are what you figure they are.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1h

andy ngo is at the white house right now briefing the president on the antifa menace. that is a real sentence that is true. what the fuck

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6h

Hats off to one of the most craven dolts ever to do it. variety.com/2025/music/n...

House Speaker Johnson Calls Bad Bunny at Super Bowl ‘a Terrible Decision,’ Says It Should’ve Been Someone With ‘a Broader Audience’ — Like Lee Greenwood

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it is 'a terrible decision' to book Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl, saying Lee Greenwood would have been a better pick.

variety.com

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Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 10h

Attorney General Pam Bondi encapsulated that approach to the government when she refused to answer questions, instead attacking Democratic senators.

Gerald Friedman @gfriedma.bsky.social · 10h

Trump regime hates the government, and does not care about the law open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

open.substack.com

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 8h

Universities have to band together to fight this.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 4d

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 7h

Food Network announces 2025 holiday slate, streaming next day on HBOMax & Discovery+

New seasons HOLIDAY BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP & HOLIDAY THROWDOWN, new series GINGERBREADLAND, TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS: ALL-STAR CHRISTMAS & SWEET EMPIRE + special WORLD'S SWEETEST CANDY SHOPS
variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Food Network Unveils Holiday 2025 Slate: ‘Tournament of Champions’ Christmas Spinoff, Wells Adams-Hosted Dessert Competition and More ‘Harry Potter’ Bake Off

Food Network is setting its holiday table with more than 50 hours of programming, including a Christmas-themed spinoff of "Tournament of Champions."

variety.com

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Ho! Ho! Holiday Viewing! @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social · 7h

Rowan Atkinson's upcoming Netflix series MAN VS BABY is holiday set and will release all four episodes on December 11

A follow up to 2022's MAN VS BEE, BABY sees Atkinson taking care of a baby for Christmas through a set of humorously bizarre circumstances

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...

First Festive Look at Rowan Atkinson in ‘Man vs Baby’ as Netflix Sets December Air Date

The follow-up to 2022's 'Man vs Bee' will hit the streamer Dec. 11.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

Lots of interesting/grisly financial detail in this Costner piece. But it's odd that Waterworld is always misremembered as a Heaven's Gate-sized disaster. It was a flop relative to cost, but it grossed $88M in the US in '95--it was the #12 movie of the year.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

How Kevin Costner Lost Hollywood

On-set brawls. Courtroom battles. Epic bombs. Why the world's most bankable cowboy is suddenly shooting blanks.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either.

They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Heavy machinery? Like a hydraulic pump?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Deputy AG Todd Blanche: "We have organized efforts by domestic terrorists -- and that's what they are -- to do things like box in law enforcement's cars ... they are armed with heavy machinery."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Take this source with a huge grain of salt but uh, “huge, if true” is an understatement

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9h

Wow:

Matt Gaetz says politicians at an AIPAC reception had to wear QR codes around their necks and go around and introduce themselves to potential donors. AIPAC members would scan the QR code to donate if they liked them.

If true, AIPAC is literally buying US politicians like groceries at a store.

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"At my first AIPAC reception, you had to wear a name badge with a QR code, talk to donors, and if they liked you, they scanned it to donate on the spot."
@mattgaetz on the surreal, humiliating world of AIPAC fundraisers.
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