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IslandMapleTree @buttermaple.bsky.social · 4h

Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 2d

A DEMENTED PRESIDENT going in for his annual physical AGAIN while ruminating on proving to god he's been good and segueing to his great weapons while he posits invoking the insurrection act

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 2d

Poor Pam Bondi

First the Comey Soon-To-Be-Dismissed-Indictment, now the Tish James Soon-To-Be-Dismissed Indictment

Blondie never knows if Trump's illegal and threatening orders to her will be made in private or on social media

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 2d

Then there's Beauty Pageant Contestant (she won "Miss Uncongeniality) and TrumpAss sorta-lawyer Lindsay Halligan, who has signed her freedom away by putting her name on the Comey and James bullshit - presumably in exchange for free hair styling

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 2d

Beauty Pageant "Miss Uncongeniality" winner screws up again #LindseyHalligan #BrooklynAintInNewJersey 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump ran a great campaign for Machado’s Peace Prize.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA's responding well to Hegseth and Trump 'giving Idaho to the Muslims'

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1d

ISIS on our streets going by the nickname "ICE"

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 13h

This is because Trump is LYING

He is telling LIES to provide excuses to injure, terrify, and kill Americans

He is a LIAR

It is all Trump DOES:

He LIES

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 12h

I'm late to this masterpiece by @lopatto.bsky.social but it's a series of darts sticking Bari Weiss to the bullseye. A totally different viewpoint on why she's been put in charge of CBS News and why she will regret that forever👏👏👏👏👏 www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 2d

A DEMENTED PRESIDENT going in for his annual physical AGAIN while ruminating on proving to god he's been good and segueing to his great weapons while he posits invoking the insurrection act

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

GET THE NEW THURSDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mpbrk3jp

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 4h

So if Russ Vought and Bob Kennedy were deliberately trying on behalf of an enemy to sicken and kill Americans by destroying the public health structure - what would they be doing differently?

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4h

Concord is well known as the home of Walden Pond, made famous by the writer Henry David Throreau, but the small town’s wider geography was crucial to the origins of the American Revolution, Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson argue: https://theatln.tc/7IM93J1s

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Brit Talking @lordye.bsky.social · 4h

Make some noise people

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 11h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

NEW: So it IS a second home and not an investment property. Motion to dismiss for abuse of the grand jury process in 3...2...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

www.nytimes.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 9h

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.

Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.

Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Angus: Who else are you going to give military bases to? When’s Vladimir Putin getting his rocket bases in the United States?

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 10h

And military families are visiting food banks just to survive.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 6h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 4h

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16h

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