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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 6h

When The New York Times puts “civil war” in any kind of headline it is noteworthy.

This is a remarkably well-researched, thorough yet tight assessment of our most precarious moment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 5h

Considering this administration has blown up four boats, killing 21 people, claiming they were cartel drug-runners without presenting any evidence of such … we’re in a place where if they decide someone is a “bad guy” or “antifa” they feel no inhibition of just going ahead and killing them.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 5h

It has been clear since Term 1 that he will take it all down, destroy whatever he has to in order keep power, to not “lose,” to not face accountability. Big differences now: Surrounded by enabler-lackeys and SCOTUS-bestowed immunity.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Trump’s openly talking about invoking the Insurrection Act with zero insurrection in sight. He’s inventing chaos in Portland and Chicago, and even saying he’d use it if courts or local officials are ‘holding us up’.

Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 4h

ALSO: It was obvious when he posted it that by “our reputation and credibility” he didn’t mean the nation, he meant his own.

ALSO: My god, all this man does is think about himself. If you were to pie-chart out how much time he spends thinking about himself v Americans it would be 100% him.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 5h

Guy who could launch nukes posts for all the world to see what he intends to be a private message to his AG.

In doing so he makes the obvious…obvious: Bondi just does whatever the hell he tells her to do. She was upset because he made clear to the world that she has no integrity.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

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JDukakis @jdukakis.bsky.social · 1d

🙄

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

Treasury defends lawfulness of minting a $1 Trump coin - The Boston Globe

The 1866 law enshrined a tradition that individuals could appear on US currency only posthumously to avoid the appearance that America was a monarchy.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 12h

“IDIOCRACY” WAS NON-FICTION.

These people really need to study the history of cults and how they all end. These people worship a mentally deteriorated man who is quite literally the most transparent conman alive. Its absolutely crazy and will be studied long after the cult has imploded.

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 3d

Its probably bad that the President of the United States is acting like a dictator while spewing out *UTTERLY* delusional lies & exaggerated, insane nonsense about what’s going on in the states he’s trying to illegally invade by force to quell uprisings that DON’T FUCKING EXIST.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

NOW: Starting a new thread on the Portland National Guard hearing happening now. We're in the hearing. 1/

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

NEW: Judge Immergut - a trump appointee - has called an emergency hearing tonight because the administration appears to have tried to circumvent her order by calling in the California guard after she blocked the Oregon guard deployment with a temporary restraining order yesterday. 1/

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

Someone needs to tell MAGA the pedophilia calls are coming from inside the White House.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

Judge Immergut is a woman.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump on Portland ruling: I wasn’t served well by the people who pick judges. I appointed the judge and it goes like that. If he made that decision—Portland is burning to the ground… all you have to do is look at the TV and read your newspapers.

That judge ought to be ashamed of himself

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JDukakis @jdukakis.bsky.social · 5d

NOT the Onion.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin

The draft design of the coin, which was overseen by the Office of the U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, features Trump’s profile on one side of the coin.

www.politico.com

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JDukakis @jdukakis.bsky.social · 4d

It’s as if Joe McCarthy had been elected POTUS instead of only sniping from a distance.

Fired Prosecutor Assails Justice Dept.’s Pursuit of Trump’s Enemies www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Fired Prosecutor Assails Justice Dept.’s Pursuit of Trump’s Enemies

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 3d

He’s either knowingly lying or bonkers-delusional. Once again.

This is a context that should be reported.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump on Portland ruling: I wasn’t served well by the people who pick judges. I appointed the judge and it goes like that. If he made that decision—Portland is burning to the ground… all you have to do is look at the TV and read your newspapers.

That judge ought to be ashamed of himself

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

"How can you say, ‘They take no pleasure in this,’ and then the next minute say, ‘Oh, they’re just having fun and trolling people?’” trib.al/XScJfpf

Mike Johnson Snaps When Shutdown Comments Thrown Back in His Face

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also struggled to defend Republicans’ comments.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 3d

beyond what Steve says, I think the OP‘s argument is a trial balloon for just outright ignoring court orders and if that is not what he means he should clarify

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

It’s clear that Stephen Miller and team Trump are just ACHING for violence. They desperately want violence on our streets bcuz they desperately want the military on our streets. Miller & the rest of them are purposely inciting violence. It’s what authoritarians do. Hence the incendiary language.👇

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 3d

Every single hour of every day, he is more unhinged and lives in a delusional fantasy world filled with made up numbers and complete nonsense that doesn’t exist. Despite this being the kind of rant an escape mental patient would spew out, its become normalized & it gets totally ignored by the MSM.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 4d

The nation’s largest for-profit jailer of immigrants

“Ten days after Trump won … the company hired top Trump advisor and former Florida state congressman, Carlos Trujillo as a lobbyist. Trujillo’s firm, Continental Strategy, employs the daughter of Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff.”

Florida’s GEO Group plays central role in Trump’s mass deportation plan

The company has already landed contracts worth up to $500 million since Trump’s second inauguration, a Miami Herald analysis found.

www.miamiherald.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

It’s hard to find much evidence of a true youth movement rallying behind Kirk beside the conservatives who were already fans.

Instead, we see a top-down effort from powerful people to use a controversial man’s death to create a cult of personality where one didn't exist. trib.al/pAP5Egz

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not sure what the point of law is under Professor Wurman’s theory of American constitutionalism.

My friend over from Minnesota often likes to talk about the history of the common law— whatever happened to equitable remedies?

Tort law is not a shield against the impulses of a wananbe tyrant.

Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 4d

We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.

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Maximillian Potter @maxpotter.bsky.social · 3d

The Congressional Republican talking point that Democrats should give Trump what he wants now, end shut down, essentially give up the only leverage Dems have, and then Trump and his R’s will negotiate in good faith — discounts the reality that Trump and his GOP have pissed all over good faith.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

Republicans aren’t just trying to blame Democrats for the shutdown, they’re punishing their states, too

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

"'That fucking dumbass,' one of the senior Trump administration officials told Zeteo on Wednesday, after seeing a clip of Lutnick riffing on Epstein. 'I’ve worked with him ... He just talks and talks, and doesn’t care what unhelpful bullshit comes out.'"

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d

"‘F***ing Dumbass’: Trump Officials Want Howard Lutnick Sidelined After Epstein Comments"

Trump's commerce secretary called Epstein ‘the greatest blackmailer ever' & his colleagues are now super mad at him.

Another scoop from Zeteo's newest reporter @swin24.bsky.social:

Howard Lutnick Enrages Trump Officials With Jeffrey Epstein ‘Blackmail’ Remarks

The Trump administration claims Jeffrey Epstein didn’t blackmail anyone. His commerce secretary just called Epstein ‘the greatest blackmailer ever.’

zeteo.com

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