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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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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Lawrence O’Donnell eviscerated the CNN star, dedicating nearly 10 minutes to trashing Jake Tapper and accusing him of giving Trump preferential treatment.

MSNBC Skewers CNN Host Over ‘Softball’ Trump Text Interview

Lawrence O’Donnell said his CNN counterpart would not have allowed Joe Biden to conduct an interview exclusively in writing.

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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...

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Crystal Mendoza @cgmendoza.bsky.social · 2d

Lawrence O'Donnell obliterating Jake Tapper for doing his interview w/ Trumpty via TEXT & NOT asking about Epstein is sooo deserving. Tapper is partly why we've been in hell for 10 months. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17h

After freaking everyone the fuck out about Dolly Parton’s health yesterday, her sister issued an “oopsie!” apology today. Woof.

I’m begging everyone not to add unnecessary anxiety to our lives right now. My tummy was in knots over Dolly yesterday 😞

www.tmz.com/2025/10/08/d...

Dolly Parton's Sister Freida Apologizes for False Alarm

Whoopsie! Dolly Parton's sister Freida says she didn't mean to start a panic Tuesday over Dolly's health ... because the music legend is expected to be just fine.

www.tmz.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17h

Dolly’s rep says she has kidney stones and an infection. I was in the hospital for something similar in August. It was the worst pain of my life plus I was projectile vomiting and lost all dignity writhing in pain while they probed every orifice 😬.

Bad, but if they’re telling the truth she’ll be ok

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17h

After freaking everyone the fuck out about Dolly Parton’s health yesterday, her sister issued an “oopsie!” apology today. Woof.

I’m begging everyone not to add unnecessary anxiety to our lives right now. My tummy was in knots over Dolly yesterday 😞

www.tmz.com/2025/10/08/d...

Dolly Parton's Sister Freida Apologizes for False Alarm

Whoopsie! Dolly Parton's sister Freida says she didn't mean to start a panic Tuesday over Dolly's health ... because the music legend is expected to be just fine.

www.tmz.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17h

Poor Dolly is going to have to put out a statement today on Instagram addressing her impending kidney stone surgery which is shitty as she is a very private person!

But it’s necessary because her fans all thought her sister was saying she’s dying.

all-a-mort.bsky.social @all-a-mort.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine Freida explaining this to Dolly:
"So the good news sis is that I can confirm *everyone* still loves you and thinks you're a national treasure. The bad news is I might of given the impression you were dying and now some lunatics will probably start a conspiracy theory that you're an android"

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Livia Scott @livialand.bsky.social · 15h

"Darker" how?

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RoyalChels✨ @chelsmoiese.blacksky.app · 16h

Update on Dolly is she just had kidney stones. Big Hair is okay everybody

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 16h

Everyone needs to know that Dolly Parton responded to a climate disaster in her community with a temporary universal basic income for everyone who lost their homes.

Here's a short documentary about it:

The Great Equalizer: What Dolly Parton & a Tennessee Wildfire Can Teach About Universal Basic Income

YouTube video by In The Mesh

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Livia Scott @livialand.bsky.social · 15h

Thank GOD

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Among the more obvious differences, this was about using the Alabama National Guard to enforce federal law *in Alabama*, where the state government was defying court orders.

Note that even in that much more extreme context, Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard, not some other state's.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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Livia Scott @livialand.bsky.social · 20h

Oooo YES

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 1d

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

I want a fucking Works Progress Administration devoted solely to auditing, investigating, and prosecuting every shitheel DOGE kid and MAGA cultist involved in gutting USAID, starving Gaza, and siccing ICE goons on our cities and towns

Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a single-issue voter from now until the day I die: “hold the people who did this and all these other crimes responsible, no matter what it takes”

I’m gonna go to town halls and congressional field offices and bring it up ad infinitum

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 2d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 23h

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Doaa. Doaa is the mother of 3 children Omar, 10, Yasmine, 8 and Youseff, 4 but she primarily started this fundraiser to help her sister Amal who lost a husband and son and is trying to support her children Hiam, 13, Omar, 12 and Jawad, 7.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 21h

Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 21h

On social media and their website, the Liberal Democrats have claimed “Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID”.

But this isn’t the case, and we can’t find any evidence the Prime Minister said it was.

Digital ID won’t be mandatory for ‘everyone in the UK’ – Full Fact

The Liberal Democrats have claimed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said everyone in the UK will have to have digital ID, but that’s not the case.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 20h

This is an incredibly obvious instance of projection and mirroring, revealing how Casey Babb thinks of both Bari Weiss and Van Jones not as individuals but as fungible and replaceable assets (tokens?) within a general category.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21h

A useful illustration of the limits of liberal identity politics.

It's astounding to see self-described progressives lose their minds over the successes of a Jewish female entrepreneur and intellect in @bariweiss, and a wildly successful Black man in @VanJones68. I guess equity, diversity, and inclusion don't mean as much as they've told us.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Your Bubbe and Zayde are now Hamas

Blame the grandparents: Why young Jews align with antisemites - opinion
Parents and grandparents denied their offspring the necessary tools that would make being a proud Jew a priority in their lives.

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ChatGPT Quantum Particle Physician @smullins3000.bsky.social · 1d

How is it not news, according to the @nytimes.com, that an ICE agent in Chicago said "do something bitch" and deliberately SHOT a United States citizen? Can someone answer that question for me? @toddgregory.bsky.social @peterbakernyt.bsky.social @kenvogel.bsky.social @risenc.bsky.social

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

It's not, like, some minor paperwork mistake. If this is correct, ICE rammed a woman's car, threatened her derisively, shot her, and then wrote up a report claiming she drove at them.

Someone prosecute someone for perjury someday please.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

It's not, like, some minor paperwork mistake. If this is correct, ICE rammed a woman's car, threatened her derisively, shot her, and then wrote up a report claiming she drove at them.

Someone prosecute someone for perjury someday please.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

chicago.suntimes.com

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