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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1h

"The presence of plywood at this construction site is evidence that while Trump's rhetoric might be hyperbolic, there is an element of truth behind his recent statements."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1h

We need to get a Bluesky poster in one of these briefings to ask Trump what he will do to combat the scourge of Glonzo.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 2h

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 3h

This is a delusional old man who can't distinguish fantasy from reality, and I'm glad more Dems are starting to talk openly about dementia.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 3h

This is the guy that Thomas Massie said is in the Epstein files.

CREW @citizensforethics.org · 3h

John Paulson, one of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street, owns a stake in the tiny mining business whose value tripled overnight after the news that the US government invested $35.6 million in the company.

Billionaire Trump Donor Paulson Scores Windfall Thanks To Government’s Investment In Trilogy Metals

One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s investment.

www.forbes.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4h

"The folks at the White House were very disappointed that the entrance into L.A. in June didn't provoke more violence....What they didn't have was the thing that they wanted, like they saw in Portland in 2020, which were protests that did grow unruly and out of control."

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 7h

NEW: In this important new piece, our @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social looks inside the new Trump propaganda machine—which uses embedded MAGA influencers to create viral videos of ICE agents and actions, videos the government then packages and promotes.
www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive

MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.

www.thebulwark.com

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 3h

Mike Johnson is protecting his billionaire donors who are in the Epstein files.

Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 7h

Speaker Johnson crashes Kelly and Gallego gaggle. Says he’ll swear in Grijalva when they reopen the government

Kelly asking why Fine and Petronis got sworn in on pro forma, Johnson says it has to do with being on recess.

Johnson: “this has nothing to do with Epstein”

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 4h

Whiskey Pete Hegseth says the job of the military is to “kill people and break things.” Trump wants the military to do those things in the United States. They are declaring war on America.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h

White House officials have held increasingly serious discussions in recent days about President Donald Trump invoking the Insurrection Act, a rarely used 19th century law that gives the president the power to deploy active-duty troops inside the U.S. for law enforcement purposes

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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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 4h

She’s an idiot, but she also honestly believes in her bullshit and does have some sort of underlying principle, even if she’s mostly crazy.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

Jack Smith wouldn't be involved in the classified documents until months after the raid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 6h

The illegal rabble rousers are coming from South America to engage in shenanigans, tomfoolery, and ballyhoo.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 6h

I think it’s a “terrible decision” to be taking musical advice from a guy who thinks mayonnaise is too spicy.

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 7h

Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday the NFL choosing Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime performer was a "terrible decision" and suggested Lee Greenwood instead. The post Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 6h

Marco Rubio is going to end up as one of the biggest mass murderers in human history.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

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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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 6h

just ask @darthbluesky.bsky.social about it

darth™ @darth
to reiterate
u are not beating a goose in a fight that goose will fuck u up

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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 22h

A little bit of the "green flash" captured during Sunday night's sunset

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acallan1's 1500% pure 24K gold posts @acallan1.bsky.social · 1d

when your parents won't get you that skateboard but you know shredding is a state of mind

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Chico. He is the star of this year's hottest film, Fast and the Furriest: Tokyo Drift. 13/10 (TT: mariana_rodrigues_ssilva)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. & But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

Lionel Hutz voice: "Do these sound like the actions of a woman who had all she could eat?"

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 1d

Please respect my privacy during this difficult time.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

Also we really don't need guys named Schmitt using that word, given the history.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

“Let’s do the fucking news” sounds like something Pete Hegseth would say if you put him in charge of CBS News.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 1d

Personal context on this. I was working for a conservative magazine at the time. I was in the internal discussions where they talked themselves into accepting Trumps “very fine people” thing on Charlottesville.

This was not inevitable. It was a choice. I watched people choose it.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

One reason former Republicans have been better at opposing Trump than many progressives is because they correctly understand that the GOP’s descent into fascism represents a dramatic shift, and is therefore scarier, where the latter groups feel the need to argue it’s just a continuation of trend

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jdixon10.bsky.social @jdixon10.bsky.social · 1d

Is it any wonder Americans have become so disgusted with elites and insiders?

They have the thinnest skins in the country, and they truly believe they speak for people whose perspectives they cannot even begin to fathom.

Cancelled, for them, is essentially "being criticized."

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 1d

The government is now just a giant slush fund of our tax dollars that the mad king gets to direct based on his momentary whims.

Constitution? Never heard of him.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting stuff here:

‪Clay Risen‬@risenc.bsky.social‬
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Nice. If I may add 2 cents: The real reason BW quit the Times was that as soon as Katie Kingsbury took over from James Bennet, she told her she could no longer commission and edit articles. She could only write. But commissioning articles was key to her grift. I mean literally …
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Clay Risen‬@risenc.bsky.social‬
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She promoted herself among certain circles as the key to getting into the Times. Which is one reason why I and others blocked so many of her commissioned pieces (one reason: they were also terrible). She said it was our deep ideological bias against conservatives…
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Clay Risen‬ ‪@risenc.bsky.social‬
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What so many of us found offensive about that is that our esprit de corps was based on not being ideologically biased (to a fault, if anything — pobody’s nerfect). It was so obvious that it was all a grift, and that it would end badly, with her defenestrating all the people she had sucked up to …

‪Clay Risen‬ ‪@risenc.bsky.social‬
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along the way. When Katie K told her to pound sand, the next step was inevitable. My only surprise was how quickly she bounced back, and how much higher. I believe one of my colleagues said she “won.” Um, maybe…

Clay Risen@risenc.bsky.social‬
Anyway, Liz makes a lot of great points here and perhaps she’s right, but also, never underestimate a master at her craft.

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