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MangoBOO! 💀🎃 @mangobee.bsky.social · 7h

Adios!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

Happy Yankee Season Is Over Day to all who celebrate!

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 8h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

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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MangoBOO! 💀🎃 @mangobee.bsky.social · 12h

JFC. I mean, really.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12h

Question: Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?

Trump: Suspending who?

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MangoBOO! 💀🎃 @mangobee.bsky.social · 13h

My only regret in finding out my history is that I didn’t have enough therapy beforehand. I was so desperate at 19.

Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 13h

#adoption made my identity into someone else’s vanity project. i was made to understand that the truth is unknowable, that i have no right to it, and that anyway the truth is what we and the lawyers and the clerks say it is. like every other adoptee, i am expected to be thankful for this.

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 13h

#adoption made my identity into someone else’s vanity project. i was made to understand that the truth is unknowable, that i have no right to it, and that anyway the truth is what we and the lawyers and the clerks say it is. like every other adoptee, i am expected to be thankful for this.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Democrats should go on TV to say they need to impeach Trump because of the cocaine-fueled pedophilia parties that he holds in the East Room of the White House with his friends in MS-13.

I mean, if he gets to lie shamelessly, why not them?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

If you obey the administration’s demands to use its NewSpeak vocabulary, why would I ever trust you to describe its actions objectively?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

“We’re going to hold them fairly to account, and by that we mean we’ll use the propaganda term they invented and not the legal name for the department. In short, MAGA.”

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 16h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15h

Jeffries says Dems "have made clear privately and publicly" to Mike Johnson that Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) must be sworn in.

"Why the delay?" he asks. "Does it have anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files from the American people?"

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h

Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”

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MangoBOO! 💀🎃 @mangobee.bsky.social · 16h

Mike Johnson is a bitch.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h

Mike Johnson said he would swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva "as soon as she wants." His office then backtracked — saying Johnson would only swear in the duly elected Grijalva once the government reopens. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 16h

they are all such pathetic losers oh my god

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 20h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

trib.al

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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.

apnews.com

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 19h

Not prosecuting every last person involved in January 6th, from Trump to his co-conspirators in Congress, has cost us dearly as a nation.

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Sky Island Alliance @skyislandalliance.org · 19h

Next week, Oct. 16-18, is the 4th Festival of the Sky Islands in Moctezuma, Sonora. Looking forward to celebrating with you all! Today we have some updates to share, including a full program of activities day by day, as well as info on lodging and camping: ow.ly/EL7Y50X7hEZ

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19h

Important farm labor update: Trump DOL is now planning to massively expand the H2A program.

Their logic? "Gee, all the farm workers are gone now. It's causing a food crisis. We just HAVE to run a crash-expansion of our slavery-prone H2A program."

prospect.org/politics/tru...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump regime is having trouble prosecuting James Comey on frivolous charges, and hasn’t been able to get charges against Letitia James.

They couldn’t keep Kimmel off the air.

Their desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Hurting people yes, but bluffing a lot too.

Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations

Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not

www.arcdigital.media

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 20h

"Ernesto" is clearing the cauliflower plants that are left after the harvest in Salinas CA. Then a tractot will come to prepare the land for a different crop that will be planted. #WeFeedYou

A worker using a cultivating machine to clean what was left of a cauliflower field after the harvest

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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