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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5h

100% clean on OpSec. A perfect text message.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

“.. On Sept. 20, Trump meant to send a private message to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging her to prosecute” Comey.

“.. Trump believed he had sent Bondi the message directly .. and was surprised to learn it was public, the officials said.” 🤡

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 7h

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 7h

Better yet, show two minutes of drone footage of Portland, and two minutes of drone footage of Gaza.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Dizzying how some of the biggest doofuses who skulked around the most feverish, fetid corners of the internet now whisper in the ears of the people who run the government.

Ten years ago, Posobiec was an Infowars clown who was throwing out 1488s and parenthesizing Jews on Twitter.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

Antisemitic, pro-Putin, in league with white nationalists, promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory - and now being platformed by the president of the United States

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 7h

love your work mrs theranos but how do you walk into this

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 7h

Sure, but what about antisemitism at Harvard

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 8h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 8h

The Macedonian Teenagers, all grown up! 10 yrs later it turns out that tapping the right wing rage machine remains extraordinarily lucrative! Who could’ve guessed?

(I wrote a book about it lol and researched some of this guy’s prior art)

Meanwhile, the capacity for investigations has diminished.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 8h

He has an -R against his name, so that’s off limits, Will.

Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 8h

Speaker Mike Johnson is Squealer from Animal Farm in human form.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 8h

Thread. Eek.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 8h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 8h

Or, your average X post blue check replies.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 9h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 9h

It’s ”low-IQ” with the hard -r, Dante.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 9h

Let’s have two minutes - just two minutes - of drone footage of Portland. And two minutes of drone footage of Gaza. Show them to the President. Ask him to describe what he sees.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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."

Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 9h

Trump saying “low IQ” with the hard -r Here.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14h

This is not only amazingly racist but deeply anti-Christian. Fuck this shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 16h

Mini thread.

The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 17h

Things could change quickly, obviously. But the scale of actions is still very small. If Portland is “burning to the ground“ how can 200 overweight Texas National Guard help?

They can be dropped into 60 second Tik Toks, CBS News and other admin propaganda hits.

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Andrew Burton @burtonad.bsky.social · 17h

It’s Kristi Noem as this decade’s Leni Riefenstahl.

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