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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 4h

I guess if you don’t know dick about shit you could think Johnny Cash seems “deeply uncool” but anyway glad newborn babies are getting to write opinion columns, good for those lil cuties

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 7h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Chris Wagnon @wags1680.bsky.social · 6h

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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 9h

Tarp as a shack, I'll bet.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 9h

If you want a Nobel Peace Prize, maybe start by calling off the extrajudicial military murders of Venezuelan boaters, champ. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Obama got a prize for doing nothing. Obama got a prize, he didn't even know what he got it -- he got elected and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country. He was not a good president."

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 9h

The only good news about having a bunch of white supremacists in positions of power is that, largely, white supremacists are really really dumb.

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 10h

"You know, there’s many different factors that go into something like that...Then obviously the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you," Greg Bovino said before gesturing to a white reporter.

chicago.suntimes.com/2025/09/30/t...

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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 9h

It says a lot about JD Vance that he considers "Palestinian" an insult.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 10h

Soooooooo dumb.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 10h

This is something all too rare: A Republican asking himself, 'How would I feel if a Democrat did to me what Trump is doing to Democrats?'

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 11h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 1d

So false, so easily disproved, so dumb.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. They were anti-Nazi, which I'm sure the bottom-feeding propagandist Posobiec thinks is bad.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 1d

Free speech doesn't end whenever it annoys someone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

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

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

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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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE thugs on the roof shooting a pastor on the sidewalk below in the head with a pepper ball.
What threat did he pose to them?
None.
But the cruelty and violence is the point.
This fascist regime doesn't want our respect, it wants our fear.
It must get neither.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks, New Yorker

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 2d

Pam Bondi is simply no match - intellectually or ethically - for Adam Schiff.

Watch this must-see clip as he dissects and exposes her pathetic performance today.

When she realizes how badly he is rolling her, she tries to interrupt. But it’s to no avail. She knows that he has her dead to rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

based on the standards set by hegseth and others in the administration, this clearly means that hegseth should be fired

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2d

LOL the Boston Globe gets its hands on Pete Hegseth’s 2013 Master’s thesis at Harvard KSG, in which he was a bit of a woke DEI lover.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/m...

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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 2d

"You were in a public place with people who believe something. DO YOU BELIEVE IT TOO???"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

HIRONO: Did you approve closing the Homan bribery investigation?

BONDI: The DOJ & FBI conducted a thorough review and found no credible evidence of wrongdoing. You were also on video outside the WH protesting w/a group called Casa where antifa members were. Does that mean you're a membr of antifa?

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 2d

Newly obtained documents confirm what law enforcement and Flock Safety tried to deny: A Texas sheriff’s office used license plate readers while investigating a woman’s self-managed abortion, not to find a “missing person." www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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