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

Q. What's the difference between Pam Bondi and Meg Ryan?

A. No one wants to have what Bondi's having.

Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 22h

Rick Wilson compares her stuttering evasions, insults, and faux bursts of performative outrage to a fake orgasm — Unfortunately, this makes her performance seem far more entertaining than it actually was; and is unfair to orgasms.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage

If you woke up this morning with the vague sense that you were missing a goodly portion of your brain cells, it’s likely that you watched Pam Bondi’s performance yesterday before a Senate committee.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 13h

Today, a question came up with a group of organizers I’m working with, some of whom are also lawyers, and it’s a serious inquiry:

Is anyone undertaking an effort to collect evidence that could eventually be used in a Nuremberg-style set of trials, or for a truth and reconciliation commission?

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

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3h

Every single word in this piece is important

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 14h

Chris Hayes: New reporting from the Wall Street Journal tonight, that message that Trump posted to Pam Bondi online was meant to be basically a DM that he accidentally posted publicly... Pam was surprised to learn it was public. Bondi, upset, called the White House aides.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 3h

If this happens in a hospital you call a stroke code 😳

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump's mouth starts drooping as he struggles to stay awake during this antifa roundtable

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

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

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2h

"A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons in countries with notorious human rights records."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Why won’t @joerogan have @gavinnewsom.bsky.social on? 😬

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 2h

Russian intelligence was paying Benny Johnson $400,000 a month prior to the 2024 election. Don’t think for a minute this isn’t about our geopolitical foes trying to destroy the US.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2h

lol. this is the GOP's new line. The Dems demands are actually our demands and if the Dems would just open the government we'd finally do what the Democrats aren't allowing us to do by closing the government. makes sense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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drwpds.bsky.social @drwpds.bsky.social · 2h

Ummm, isn’t that what Trump said he would do during his whole first term?

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

Federal investigators who used to fight crime are now being redirected to immigration
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

www.wsj.com

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2h

They really need to make a slideshow of all the heavy-handed tactics of this administration, since they're so proud of them
all the while they demand everyone stop calling them fascists

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

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 21h

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

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Rose Ann The Sharer @thecleannewdeal.org · 18h

It's THEFT!

Resistor Sister @sistergf.bsky.social · 21h

We pay them not to work

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1d

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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