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Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli @ofwp.bsky.social · 11h

Rand Paul has on average shown more principle and backbone than John Fetterman. And Rand Paul is a real piece of shit.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 13h

The republicans aren’t working yet are getting paid while federal workers are working yet aren’t getting paid.

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 14h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 17h

This is exactly what he intends to do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 17h

He was always planning to do this.

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 17h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

www.nbcnews.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 1d

Antifowl instead of Antifa.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson
X.com
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better.
Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not aware of any Attorney General, no matter how harshly grilled by the opposing party, who conducted themselves at a hearing with the hostility and open contempt that Pam Bondi did today.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 1d

Immediately zeroes in on the Black woman and slings out “low IQ” like the POS racist he is.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

1. CBS, once one of America's most trusted sources for news, has hired anti-woke crusader Bari Weiss as its Editor-in-Chief

With Weiss, CBS is embracing someone who talks a lot about honesty but has a history of distorting the truth to conform to her right-wing ideological agenda.

Let's review.

The devolution of CBS News

A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism

popular.info

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

HIRONO: Have lobbyists met w/your political deputies about Ticketmaster?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss anything ongoing

H: It's highly likely the same lobbyists who met w/your people got rid of the antitrust case

B: I don't think a lot of people liked that you were out protesting with antifa

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boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 2d

Any increase has been caused by his stormtroopers.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Hughes eventually responded in what Weiss called the longest article they've ever published. And his response, they had to know I was going to parse, was also riddled with easily checkable errors.

radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...

The retconning of George Floyd: a coda

A response to Coleman Hughes and Avak Howsepian

radleybalko.substack.com

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boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 2d

Words no longer many anything anymore.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 2d

Why don’t you go ahead and eff off Joseph Goebbels.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

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boymom04.bsky.social @boymom04.bsky.social · 2d

It will be renamed CBS “News”

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 4d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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