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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 35m

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 48m

You know he smells just terrible.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

Good lord.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 2h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 1h

Good thing hurricanes are extinct.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 1h

White House and DHS cancelling a $11b payment in disaster-relief funds meant to reimburse states that have already had to bear the brunt of recovery — from NC to TX.

It becomes an IOU for next year, reducing FEMA's already diminished $26.5b by nearly half. We'll have only $15.5b until Sept. 2026.

FEMA canceled $11B in disaster payments to states

The unannounced move came after President Donald Trump threatened to reduce FEMA aid, jarring emergency management professionals.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3h

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 3h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2h

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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Donutella @pbvdc.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s go folks:

#YesOnProp50
#EarlyVoting
#GOTV

Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 2h

Hella

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 2h

Mostly just hands and feet but the day is young.

Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 2h

Hella

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 5h

My hands feel like they’re burning!

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6h

A healthy democracy, where the leader and his followers spent a week threatening the destruction of the UN because the president fucked up an escalator briefly, and we all just moved on largely because the president was busy invading his own people’s territory in part because he got mad at a tv

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 5h

If that’s true, seems like maybe he shouldn’t say that and give the pres time for a pressure campaign

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 19h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23h

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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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 23h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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