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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 4h

At least you know about this BEFORE he's elected Lt. Governor. North Carolina had to find out about their Nazi porn fetishist the hard way.

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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 9h

Curtis Sliwa (the GOP nominee for NYC mayor) has launched a devastating ad against Andrew Cuomo (still running as an independent) featuring Donna Johnson, who claims that Cuomo's COVID policies regarding nursing homes killed both of her parents.

This hits home with Cuomo's prime demographic.

Andrew Cuomo’s Deadly Leadership: Meet Donna Johnson

YouTube video by M. Sliwa Public Relations

www.youtube.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 5h

It is insane to not pay our troops.

Democrats are here. Republicans need to come back from their vacation, work with us, and we need to pay our troops.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 5h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 4h

And now he’s heading to Israel to bring peace to Gaza?

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 4h

Please understand that This is Trump regime explaining how they will use the government to prosecute Democrats. Page 1 of the fascist playbook is imprison political opponents so that the fascist has one party rule.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 4h

Destroying soybean farmers would make sense if it was in retaliation for Biden giving them Green New Deal grants for soybean and edamame factories.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Lee Greenwood is 83-years-old and has exactly one (1) incredibly terrible song, so I say we let them have this one and let all of America bask in their vision of conservative excellence.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5h

Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion dollars, but instead spending is higher this year than we thought it would be before Trump took office. Truly incredible stuff.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 5h

CBO fy2025 projections for deficit/spending/etc are out

Some issues make simple comparisons apples-to-oranges, so I'll do apples-to-apples & explain in the thread

Relative to pre-Trump projections:
-Primary deficits ⬆️ $34 bn
-program spending ⬆️ $97 bn
-revenues ⬆️ $63 bn
www.cbo.gov/publication/...

2025 (January estimate, adjusted to fix issues) 2025 CBO estimate (remove student loan one-time revaluation) 2025 (adjusted for student loans) vs. 2025 projection (adjusted to fix issues)
Spending 7061 7166 105
Program spending 6108 6205 97
Interest 953 961 9
Revenue 5163 5226 63
Primary deficit 945 979 34
Total deficit 1898 1940 42

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 4h

And they’ve clearly forgotten they lost the first Civil War, too. And the civil rights battle, too.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

when you are worried that THIS supreme court will rule against you on invoking the insurrection act, a statute that famously gives enormous deference to the president ... maybe that's a sign that your military deployments are pretty baseless

Alex Koppelman @alexkoppelman.bsky.social · 5h

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

If you obey the administration’s demands to use its NewSpeak vocabulary, why would I ever trust you to describe its actions objectively?

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 8h

Forgive me for being furious whenever my white colleagues seem to be able to commit all manner of journalistic wrongs and be rewarded with multiple income streams while I am left to wonder how the hell I'm going to pay my already exorbitant ACA premiums as I float my living expenses from my 401K

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 8h

You can't blame the world. We are more unstable than we've been since 1860. Anything could happen.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

open.substack.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 23h

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Thomas Brackett “Czar” Reed @czarreed.bsky.social · 8h

Thank God the National Guard will defend us from… [checks notes] … a guy in a dinosaur suit singing a song in the style of Barry McGuire

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 8h

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 16h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 17h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 14h

Yup, the only possible solution for this is the 82nd Airborne.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 21h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 8h

And he’s second in line to the presidency…

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 9h

That's an unbelievably insane thing to punt on.

The fact that he can't say 'no' to what would be a clear authoritarian act is terrifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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