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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 1h

I disagree with you for the above stated reasons. I think it was a bad faith question, that her response was fair, and that it wasn't about leadership.

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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 2h

"...who you need to win..."

That means she was asking what she intends to do to get their votes. What a politician offers people to get their votes is policies. To win over maga voters you have to offer them maga policies.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 2h

Asking a democrat why they don't change their positions to wrongheaded MAGA positions to try to win over what constitutes a minority of her electorate couldn't be stupider from both a mathematical and moral standpoint.

Asking a democrat why they don't change to be maga couldn't be more bad faith.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 8h

You have got to be joking hahaha

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 3h

The homebase location of the reporter has no bearing on the fact that she asked asinine questions. I think the point of my comment was that it's refreshing to see a Dem not put up with bad faith bs.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5h

California is the first state to define ultra-processed foods and phase them out of school meals.

DC politicians can talk all day about "Making America Healthy Again," but we've been walking the walk on boosting nutrition and removing toxic additives and dyes for decades.

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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 5h

I can't help but feel like this is all of these southern neo-confederates cos-playing their wildest "lost cause" wet dreams at the expense of Illinoisans, the guardsmen who obviously don't want to be there, and every single American tax payer's expense. And it's really pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 12h

Trump started this tactic and the media let him get away with it so now all of them do it.

The immediate follow up should always be, "Why are you not aware of it!? Is your briefing team not up to informing you and does your lack of preparedness constitute a risk to your and the nation's security?"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth sure is yelling at the wrong guys 👀

In all seriousness, these guys should be home with their families not playing commando down the Magnificent Mile.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 1d

This actually makes me like Katie Porter more and I am NOT a supporter of hers. This "reporter" is asking asinine questions in bad faith that are dumb on their face. It's actually refreshing to see a

Democrat push back on canned idiocy.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who used to work with Katie Porter sent me this clip from a train wreck interview with her and said “now imagine what she’s like when there aren’t cameras around.”

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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 1d

This actually makes me like Katie Porter more and I am NOT a supporter of hers. This "reporter" is asking asinine questions in bad faith that are dumb on their face. It's actually refreshing to see a Democrat push back on canned idiocy.

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Clear Eyed J @cleareyedjuraj.bsky.social · 2d

"We can waste time and cost people thousands individually and the government billions"

I don't think it's the win he thinks it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson on spiking healthcare premiums: "They've been saying that some of the insurance companies will be sending out notices in early November. The last time I checked it's October 6. We have the entire month of October."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5d

Republicans are lying to the American people about the government shutdown.

It's shameful and they know it.

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1stBascombe @1stbascombe.bsky.social · 6d

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 6d

Under a real democracy, when you don't like the government, you go on strike. You don't go to work, but you still get paid.

Under US democracy, when your government doesn't like you, they shut down. You don't get paid, but you still have to go to work!

Any questions? 🇺🇸🤡

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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