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

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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

she does make a lot of people moan though

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 20h

Rick Wilson compares her stuttering evasions, insults, and faux bursts of performative outrage to a fake orgasm — Unfortunately, this makes her performance seem far more entertaining than it actually was; and is unfair to orgasms.
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Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage

If you woke up this morning with the vague sense that you were missing a goodly portion of your brain cells, it’s likely that you watched Pam Bondi’s performance yesterday before a Senate committee.

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 1h

You see what is coming, right? Trump wrecked the economy, shredded U.S. credibility, and the GOP knows it cannot win a fair midterm. So they invent an enemy, yell ANTIFA, flirt with the Insurrection Act, put troops in cities, and stoke chaos to drown out the vote.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1h

Republican congressional leaders have been quietly warning the White House not to move forward with plans to decimate the federal workforce and shred the social safety net under cover of the government shutdown.

GOP lawmakers privately 'frustrated' by Trump's shutdown moves as Dems refuse to give in

Republican congressional leaders have been quietly warning the White House not to move forward with plans to decimate the federal workforce and shred the social safety net under cover of the government shutdown.Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and other senior Republicans have advised Presid...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for philosophical and bleakly funny novels, has won the Nobel Prize in literature.

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in literature for what the Nobel committee called his compelling and visionary work.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 44m

And this highly-productive white guy*, who is so competent he can run both the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service. Meritocracy!

* I assume he's a white man although by appearance he is a melting Elf on the Shelf.

Bessent Taps Social Security Chief to Serve as C.E.O. of I.R.S.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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

"In the moment, Trump was terrified of being convicted and still seethes at the humiliation he faced."

Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: Retribution is here

President Trump today called for the arrests of Illinois’ governor and Chicago’s mayor

And he has an AG who has proven pliant - as evidenced by the Comey arraignment minutes later

Inside Trump’s escalating campaign of payback: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Retribution Is Here

The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

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

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1h

Elon Musk continues to push his AI girlfriend feature

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

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1h

The winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 10. Trump has been permanently excluded due to his status as a child rapist, rapist, embezzler, fascist, and mass murderer.

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

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 58m

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 57m

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 55m

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Erika Kirk has been accused of sex trafficking Romanian children to US military officials.

Allegedly, a deal was cut to keep the Romanian government from prosecuting.

Does that sound like Ghislaine Maxwell 2.0 to you?

Because it sure does to me.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 54m

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, voted down an attempt to block the Trump administration’s missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. interc.pt/4o9CBur

A photo of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., sits on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington, overlaid with the headline, "Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks," and the DEK, "It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 53m

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 49m

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 49m

Hoping media outlets--including independent ones--that cover Gaza peace deal include Palestinian voices in the conversation. Too many of them --even independent ones--talk about the issue with ZERO Palestinians in the discussion.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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[email protected] @blueangie.bsky.social · 1d

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 8h

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Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats — The Washington Post

A Rutgers University professor who wrote a book about antifa received the threats after he commented on President Donald Trump designating the movement a “domestic terrorist organization.”

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