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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

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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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14h

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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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like they really want to make a deal 😬

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding
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Diffcrcntial privacy is opaque and liable to mistakcn count totals. Sure cnough, the 2020 Ccnsus ovarocunted the noculation in cicht states and undercounted it in six." Tihe most extrcmi andercount was Arkansas, at 5.04%, and the larg…

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

The @iea.org's guess at the variable renewable energy share in various countries by 2030 - Denmark will be around 78%.

None of this was meant to be even remotely possible!!

iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/48ecc...

a chart showing various VRE shares by region

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TheWall @eightman.bsky.social · 3d

"I've tasted spicier, I'm Mexican."

Lol, you absolute beast.

Never stop.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

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MerryGhouled @merryghouled.bsky.social · 4d

Look at how the Gestapo sprays pepper spray into the valve. 😡😡😡

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 2d

This is certainly the case in Australia, although private insurance usually is t connected to employment. There is no “insurance” to manage care in the public system. Most screenings are free of charge. This is similar to the NHS I think.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 2d

I feel you and Jon Kudelka are really doing a number on us Rob…

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 2d

It’s true that Portland has been burning down since 2020. Surely it no longer exists with all the burning? Fox News couldn’t possibly have been lying all these years?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland is on fire. Portland's been on fire for years. And not so much saving it -- we have to save something else. Because I think that's all insurrection, criminal insurrection."

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 2d

How about providing advice that would stand up to public scrutiny? Seems to rarely occur to these senior public servants.
Listened to a replay of your 7am interview with Colleen Taylor this morning. Could we get her to retrain some of these “public servants”?

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Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social · 3d

Albanese’s subliminal message to British Labour government. Don’t do what we did.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah but nah but if --

'when more details of the address were made available we decided to pursue other speakers on the matter'

-- what were these 'details' that forced the National Press Club to cancel Chris Hedges' address, I wonder?

Chris Hedges - Statement by the National Press Club (4 October 2025)

https://archive.is/jm7KO

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 3d

www.who.int/news/item/22...

Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza

More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths. FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and ...

www.who.int

JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 3d

news.un.org/en/story/202...

The world is failing Gaza’s starving children, aid teams warn

As Israeli forces continued their push to take full control of Gaza City on Wednesday, reports emerged that another skeletal child whose plight was highlighted by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has n...

news.un.org

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll stick with evidence from the UN, Amnesty International and MSF thanks all the same, random person.

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 3d

OMG. Pathetic!

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 4d

You’re right. Had time to kill, and these views are so insane! Still ignoring would be better. ✊🏻🇵🇸

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JBFittz @jbillz.bsky.social · 4d

Yes because protest have been happening over 23 months and the flotilla JUST HAPPENED.
Listen Ian mate the speed and number of your replies suggest you are very lonely. Maybe in a basement somewhere. I was doing this while I got ready to go out. Don’t have time for this rubbish now

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