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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 54m

"If I were breaking this down, I wouldn't do it like this."

(I was literally transcribing as he talked.)

Then he laid out the information completely differently, because my notes gave him a visual cue that he wasn't conveying the information in the way he thought he was.

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

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lindaisee.bsky.social @lindaisee.bsky.social · 1h

DOGE destroyed important jobs, research, and people's lives. They literally killed children by destroying USAID. As for the books "closing" on the government's fiscal results, we can no longer trust any information coming from this lying regime.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 36m

Putin offered his “condolences” to Azerbaijani leader for the downed AZAL plane, while blaming Ukraine.

He admitted that Russian air defense was involved, but claimed 2 missiles fired “did not hit the AZAL aircraft directly, but exploded a few meters away.”

Russia killed 38 passengers in Dec 2024.

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Montana Democrats @montanademocrats.org · 15h

It’s really this simple. No games, no lies, no spin - just fighting for you and your family. 💙 #mtpol

Montana Democrats want you to have health insurance without picking up a second job. Daines, Zinke, Downing, and Sheehy want you to pay over $4,000 a month. Who's looking out for YOUR family?

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2h

But this claim is one of the oldest baseless claims in the book. It was how Jay Bhattacharya rose to fame during COVID. Use unreliable antibody binding assays to claim widespread immunity, then use that to say a major public health threat is no big deal. Let it rip.

www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Bhattacharya To Decide the Fate of Medical Research

An economist turned pandemic celebrity, who loudly and repeatedly advocated for mass infections with the coronavirus, has been nominated by Donald Trump as the new director of the National Institutes ...

www.mcgill.ca

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Montana Democrats @montanademocrats.org · 19h

Donald Trump has taken a wrecking ball to the US economy. His erratic policy has eliminated a million jobs in the first 9 months of the year, the highest cuts since the pandemic in 2020. #mtpol

Donald Trump has caused one million job cuts in 2025. There are officially more unemployed Americans than available jobs. Are we great yet?

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Janet Webb @janetwebb.bsky.social · 1h

Yet another reason CBS is dead to me. As if. Who wants to listen to him?

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 17h

At least Andrew Cuomo knows he can get a CBS show once he loses to Zohran

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Janet Webb @janetwebb.bsky.social · 1h

That's garbage, what Thune's saying, and no one believes it.

Janet Webb @janetwebb.bsky.social · 1h

I am so disillusioned, it feels like wishful thinking.

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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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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 23h

they getting tax breaks to lay off their own workers, destroy creative jobs with automation, drink up all our water, and drive our electrical bills through the roof

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23h

37 states have passed legislation specifically granting sales tax exemptions for data centers.

Among the beneficiaries of these exemptions are Amazon, Meta and Google, all companies worth over $1 trillion.

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 23h

I really really keep thinking about how all the Democratic side did was clap for the cops who did do their jobs on January 6th and entirely shut up about all the collaborators.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

For Trump's secret police, the claim that US citizens have no right to monitor them or record what they are doing is a tenacious and firmly held conviction... which lacks any plausible basis in actual law. It's invoke to justify the use of violence against citizens where other pretexts fail.

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Bob’s Your Uncle @bobsyouruncle.bsky.social · 12h

People who are really good at kissing up are rarely good at managing people underneath them

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Dr. Canuck, MD @drcanuckmd.medsky.social · 12h

Blue Jays are going to the ACLS! Let’s go Canada 🇨🇦

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Adrian Egli @adrian7745.bsky.social · 11h

So I got flyer in the mail saying "VOTE NO ON PROP 50" paid for by #WhiteTrash & #NepoBaby Charles Munger Jr.

Munger is also a financial sponsor toward the pseudoscience and child abuse known as "conversion therapy" whom SCOTUS heard arguments yesterday in the Chiles v. Salazar case.

Munger Jr also contributed nearly $83,000 to Campus Crusade for Christ (now known as Cru). The conversion-therapy-promoting organization seeks to promote campus ministries on college, middle, and high school campuses and has taught that “same-sex attraction is contrary to God’s design for human sexuality.”

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 11h

I tried all day to join antifa.
I was thwarted!
•No website.
•No email.
•No Substack.
•No Instagram.
•No LinkedIn
•No TikTok
•Not even a lousy Facebook page.

I wonder if Pam Bondi can help me find them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Janet Webb @janetwebb.bsky.social · 11h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

Wow — Harvard Crimson student newspaper busts Hegseth for having written a long policy brief touting diversity before he joined Trump’s war on DEI.

With receipts. Bravo, Crimson.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 18h

Apple removed an app to preserve TikToks, IG reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE.

Eyes Up, was an aggregation service pooling information to preserve evidence for future prosecutions.

Why is this a bad thing?

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h

Donald Trump has cut heath and human services in the US to give this lunatic, Argentine President Javier Milei $20 billion dollars while he pretends to he a rock star.

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doomandgloom 💙📚🚀🌈🌴🌺🌞🏖🏝🎶🌹🐈‍⬛🌹💐🦋 🌻🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @doomandgloom1951.bsky.social · 1d

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