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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Jeffries: "Republicans enacted permanent tax breaks for the wealthy, well-off, and well-connected. Permanent tax breaks. And now the nerve of these people to say to us that 'we do not have the time or inclination to address the ACA tax credits for working-class Americans'"

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 2d

Latest version of this game.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3d

Insanity

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...

“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 5d

He could drop a nuke on New York and they would say, "that's just Trump." 🤷🏼

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "Is he trolling the Democrats? Yes. Yes! Because that's what President Trump does and people are having fun with this ... Russ takes no pleasure in this ... the president takes no pleasure in this."

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 5d

He's still upset the generals didn't clap.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump has not been seen in public since Tuesday and has no public events on his calendar today

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 6d

30%..... the maga base that will believe anything he says.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6d

New WaPo poll:

47% of respondents blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the government shutdown. Just 30% blame Democrats.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 7d

I wish I did nazi this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8d

Lawrence: One of the examples you've put out is in Speaker Mike Johnson's Louisiana district, a 60 year old couple earning 82,000 a year. Their health care premiums will rise by almost $20,000 by 300% because of what their congressman is doing.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

DelBene: He’s the president of the United States, and instead of talking about standing up for our communities or what’s best for the country, he’s talking about inflicting pain if he doesn’t get what he wants. He’s been inflicting pain on the American people since he went into office in January

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Angus: American farmers who bought into Trump, thinking tariffs would help them—their markets are gone. Canada’s not making noise about it; we’re just moving in. Canadian corn is now being sold in Ireland, Spain, and the UK. Those used to be guaranteed American markets. Not anymore.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective…

You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 7d

If you didn't see it, you are looking the other way while the branch of government you are supposed to be doing oversight on craps all over the constitution. In reality, you did see it, and you are lying about seeing it because your real opinion about it is as disgusting as Trump's behavior.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

Dean: The president is unhinged

Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him

Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals.

Johnson: I didn’t see it.

Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 9d

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9d

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday rescinded Biden-era restrictions on civilian firearms exports, eliminating rules against sales to 36 countries deemed high-risk for the weapons being diverted to criminals and terrorists.

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 9d

And now they have admitted to this publicly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hassett: "If money is not appropriated for a position, they then have the authority to eliminate the position. It's very intuitive. And that's an enormous amount of leverage over the Democrats ... if they shut it down, then they might not like the consequences."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 9d

That's fucking rich! The Vance lectures are such an arrogant display of entitlement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Vance: "You don't use your policy disagreements as leverage."

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 9d

'If Biden didn't fund them, we wouldn't have had to defund them.'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

JD Vance blames "Biden policies" for rural hospitals shutting down in September 2025

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 10d

I think Trump and the Republicans will allow the budget to expire so they can defund the things the courts wouldn't let them without congressional approval. Then they will emergency fund programs Trump likes and cut funds to programs Trump doesn't like.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Schumer: "As for these massive layoffs, guess what? They're doing it anyway! There's no shutdown, they're laying off all these people, the budget they've proposed says another 300,000 federal workers should be laid off ... "

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 10d

100%

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10d

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 10d

Welfare entitlements?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Thune: "We've got a big harvest coming in here in South Dakota, corn and soybeans, and no place to go with it ... we are looking at potential solutions to make sure we can help support farmers until some of those markets come back."

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