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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 12h

Honestly this whole thing has made me realize how valuable labor is because the United States Congress literally rather hand the keys of the entire government to a child rapist who tried to murder them rather than work Fridays.

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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 1d

Lunch sketch.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 11h

Hahahahahaha

The Hill @thehill.com · 21h

Mike Johnson says Bad Bunny ‘terrible decision’ for Super Bowl, suggests Lee Greenwood

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16h

I was completely unprepared for the threat posed by the Antifa super soldiers.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 17h

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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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 14h

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 17h

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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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 23h

Obligatory Jenny Nicholson Tweet

Jenny Nicholson Tweet:

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

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 · 17h

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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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 21h

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19h

"We separate people from their kids. Tackle as many of them as possible. Zip-tie their toddlers and grandparents. And stand around looking tough. We look so tough. Increasingly, we also really need to take dumps."

Please Let Our Warfighters Use Your Restroom

By now, you’ve noticed our brave patriots—ICE, the National Guard, police officers, select local mall cops, rando bodyguards, weird little incels, ...

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19h

She went down in 1937. Agents' work stations won't have those files. (Unless there was an earlier search of physical files that was captured somehow.)

CNN @cnn.com · 19h

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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Lee Kovarsky @kovarsky.bsky.social · 19h

This really is Trumpism in a nutshell.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

This made me laugh so hard. Second screenshot is of the video posted by Benny Johnson of the event.

Benny Johnson « @bennyjohnson
X.com
BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland.
Noem says:
"Hey; Guy in the chicken suit. You can do better.
Too bad they are uneducated and ill-informed."
Noem isn't chicken: [chicken emoji]

A view from the roof of the building. There are about 15-20 people visible in total, several of whom appear to be reporters. Most are holding signs. They aren’t even taking up the whole sidewalk. One guy is wearing a chicken suit.

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Eroticannon @eroticannonball.bsky.social · 13d

Doomerism is fed shit. Hope and action terrify them.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 1d

Back on April 2, Speaker Johnson swore in 2 House Republicans - during a pro forma session - who were elected the day before. Anyone who says Adelita Grijalva D-AZ can only be sworn in when the House is back and voting is lying to you.

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

CNN: “Nashville’s air traffic approach control will go dark for five hours tonight due to short staffing—the second FAA facility in as many days to shut down over shortages.”

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Well said.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 1d

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 1d

From Wikipedia:

Charles I was accused of treason against
England by using his power to pursue his personal interest rather than the good of the country.
• 266) The charge stated that he was devising "a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people". In carrying this out he had "traitorously and maliciously
levied war against the present Parliament, and the people therein represented", and that the
"wicked designs, wars, and evil practices of him, the said Charles Stuart, have been, and are carried on for the advancement and upholding of a personal interest of will, power, and pretended prerogative to himself and his family, against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice, and peace of the people of this nation."[266]

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

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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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 23h

what is the other 20-30% of "what I want" that I wont get with Gavin Newsom? be specific!

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1d

The idea of a U.S. president, all on his own, levying taxes and appropriating revenue would have been entirely alien to the framers.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. there is the question of how the bond market will react to tariff revenue being redirected away from lowering the deficit.”

@barrons.com
www.barrons.com/articles/tru...

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 1d

The constitutional remedy for a president who is using public money contrary to congressional appropriations is impeachment, removal, and disqualification.

(And would have, before Justice Roberts got a bright idea, led to eventual criminal charges.)

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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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1d

Russ Vought has always wanted to pretend the spending clause, impoundment control act, and civil service laws don’t exist so that he can just slash and burn whatever he likes. Alas, it’s a government of laws and not of Voughts

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Untitled Goose Name @goosname.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely fuck this guy. If Democrats nominate him, I’ll vote for the fucking Republican. You wanna hurt us? Then you should suffer too. Christ, what an asshole.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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