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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 5h

State of the Union

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 8h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 7h

Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 6h

The Toronto Blue Jays are (North) American heroes.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 6h

Canadian enthusiasm knows no bounds.

Two very bland “Go Jays” posts. (But both dudes are great people)

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 21h

We at The Steady State have studied the indicators of authoritarianism for decades — usually dry words in intelligence reports. But sometimes, a single photograph says it all.

Authoritarianism doesn’t arrive all at once. It creeps in under cover of “order,” cloaked in uniforms, justified by fear.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

Grandpa's been watching cable news and gotten confused again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Greg Abbott is a lackey of Donald Trump.

He’s going against exactly what he said he would do last year.

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Ihor Gowda @ihorgowda.bsky.social · 6h

a BJ is better than a yank, as the kids say

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 7h

I’m so damn spooked by this headline

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National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10h

We need more leaders, Dems and (come ON!) even Republicans to speak up this way.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11h

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 12h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

A window into how policy is made in this White House

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 13h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 10h

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

"I'd love to do something about that" -- Trump floats the idea of stopping a planned protest in Austin

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Ihor Gowda @ihorgowda.bsky.social · 11h

jesus fucking christ
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump to a right-wing influencer: "Do you know the name of any of the funders? Because if you do, I'd like you to give them to Kash or Pam or Kristi as soon as you can. That's all of you. These are people that do not have good intentions for the country. That's treasonous, probably."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

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Ihor Gowda @ihorgowda.bsky.social · 11h

best Dem meeting the moment

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