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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 13m

Civil Discourse With Joyce Vance:
The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Slow Death Facing The Comey Prosecution

This morning at 10 a.m., former FBI Director Jim Comey was arraigned in federal court.

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 39m

Letters From An American
Heather Cox Richardson
October 8, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 44m

'Spilled the beans': Observers stunned as Stephen Miller freezes up after 'plenary' claim
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'Spilled the beans': Observers stunned as Stephen Miller freezes up after 'plenary' claim

Political observers blasted White House senior aide Stephen Miller's bizarre claim during a CNN interview about the scope of President Donald Trump's powers.During an interview with CNN, Miller claime...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 47m

Trump placed an 'enormously risky' bet — and gave opposition a huge 'opportunity': expert
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Trump placed an 'enormously risky' bet — and gave opposition a huge 'opportunity': expert

President Donald Trump's administration just made a huge gamble — and opened the door for a golden opportunity for the opposition, a Democracy expert wrote Wednesday in The New York Times.Henry J. Far...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 49m

Cops caught lying about why they used AI tool to track woman who had abortion: report
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Cops caught lying about why they used AI tool to track woman who had abortion: report

Police in Texas—led by a county sheriff later charged with an unrelated felony sex crime—lied about their motive for using artificial intelligence-powered surveillance technology to search for a woman...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 59m

DOJ mocked by legal expert for new stumble: 'We've gotta learn what we're supposed to do!'
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DOJ mocked by legal expert for new stumble: 'We've gotta learn what we're supposed to do!'

President Donald Trump's team of prosecutors in the case against former FBI Director James Comey is so slapdash that the line attorneys hastily recruited from another district don't even understand th...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 1h

'Keep your mouth shut!' Republican gets earful after ambushing top Dem in hallway
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'Keep your mouth shut!' Republican gets earful after ambushing top Dem in hallway

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) was accused of embarrassing himself after causing chaos in a congressional hallway by confronting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).Instead of meeting with Jeffries ...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 1h

'What are you doing?' Fox News host implores Trump to drop Comey indictment
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'What are you doing?' Fox News host implores Trump to drop Comey indictment

Fox News co-host Harold Ford Jr. implored President Donald Trump to drop his prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday, saying that the president should instead seek to "unite the co...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 1h

The Social
Contract With
Joe Walsh:
You're Damn Right I'm Shocked open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

You're Damn Right I'm Shocked

And you should be too. Or he wins.

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 1h

Right-wing social media accounts beloved by MAGA run by man who’s never visited US: report
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Right-wing social media accounts beloved by MAGA run by man who’s never visited US: report

A pair of pro-MAGA social media accounts promoted by prominent Republican politicians and that push election fraud conspiracy theories in the United States has been exposed as being run by an Eastern ...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 1h

The Contrarian
Evening Roundup October 8, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Evening Roundup, October 8

Featuring Carron J. Phillips, Justin Wolfers and Jen Rubin, Lorraine Forte, Ned Price, Austin Sarat, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Brian O'Neill, "Rabid Miller Needs a Muzzle," Michael de Adder, & RJ Matson

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 1h

Robert Reich:
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Trump's plan to invoke the Insurrection Act

You need to be aware of his four-point plan

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 2h

Fox News employees privately admit their content has made the country 'a worse place'
Source:
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Fox News employees privately admit their content has made the country 'a worse place' - NewsBreak

Private communications between rank-and-file employees at Fox News show that the conservative news network has a significant image problem — even among its

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 2h

A New Perspective:
A Week Of Reckoning For The Republicans open.substack.com/pub/oliviaju...

A Week of Reckoning for the Republican Party

From shutdown fallout to digital flops, the GOP’s grip on the narrative is slipping.

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 2h

'5 alarm fire': Legal experts warn Trump may be about to commit an 'impeachable offense'
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'5 alarm fire': Legal experts warn Trump may be about to commit an 'impeachable offense'

White House advisers are now seriously weighing whether President Donald Trump might invoke the Insurrection Act — an obscure law from the early 1800s that permits the use of active-duty military troo...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 2h

Ford employees have been told they could be fired if they don't follow the company's RTO mandate
Source: Business Insider
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Ford employees have been told they could be fired if they don't follow the company's RTO mandate - NewsBreak

Ford has been sending some employees automated emails warning that they could face termination if they do not improve their office attendance.

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

The Warning With Steve Schmidt:
Katie Johnson's Lawyer Speaks &
Pam Bondi's Epstein Evasions| A Conversation With Tara Palmeri open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

Katie Johnson's lawyer speaks & Pam Bondi's Epstein evasions | A conversation with Tara Palmeri

PLUS: Join Charlie Sykes and me TOMORROW at 12 pm ET on Substack Live

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

MeidasTouch
Network:
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Ron Filipkowski on Today's Uncovered

On today’s show we started off talking about the heated and contentious Senate Judiciary hearing with AG Pam Bondi yesterday, where she hurled insults at Democratic senators and refused to answer any ...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

MAGA influencer clashes with Dem in heated exchange over Trump troop deployment
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MAGA influencer clashes with Dem in heated exchange over Trump troop deployment

Democratic strategist Jack Cocchiarella clashed with MAGA influencer Michael Knowles on Wednesday over President Donald Trump's justification for deploying federal troops to Democratic-run cities like...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

'My blood is boiling': Ex-GOP governor rails at Trump after violent raid
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'My blood is boiling': Ex-GOP governor rails at Trump after violent raid

Even conservatives are reacting with anger over the raid in Chicago last week that left children nearly naked and zip-tied on the streets. Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

'My jaw dropped': Ex-FBI official stunned by never-before-seen move by Comey prosecutors
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'My jaw dropped': Ex-FBI official stunned by never-before-seen move by Comey prosecutors

Former FBI Director James Comey appeared in an Alexandria, Virginia, court on Wednesday along with President Donald Trump's new prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia. One of the details reve...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

Lauren Boebert calls for House Dem to be jailed and deported based on conspiracy theory
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Lauren Boebert calls for House Dem to be jailed and deported based on conspiracy theory

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) agreed with a far-right influencer that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) should be imprisoned or deported to Somalia, based in part on a conspiracy theory about her former marriage."I...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to first phase of peace deal
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Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to first phase of peace deal

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace deal to end the more than two-year war. The announcement came about an hour after Trump ab...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

'Less evidence than a ham sandwich': Lawyer mocks DOJ as another prosecution collapses
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'Less evidence than a ham sandwich': Lawyer mocks DOJ as another prosecution collapses

Another U.S. attorney under President Donald Trump's Justice Department has failed to get an indictment from a grand jury, although this time it was in Chicago, not Washington, D.C.There have been a h...

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Philly Joe @joehick58.bsky.social · 3h

Trump sends Vance back to Indiana in frantic attempt to save gerrymandering scheme
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Trump sends Vance back to Indiana in frantic attempt to save gerrymandering scheme

Vice President JD Vance is once again taking a trip to Indiana to push President Donald Trump's mid-decade redistricting pleas to a GOP-controlled state legislature that has been reluctant to follow t...

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