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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 20h

It's almost as if a movement that began with lusty chants of "lock her up" in regard to the opposition party's candidate for President in 2016...combined with a refusal to honor the results of the election...has morphed into a cult of unaccountable, authoritarian power.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13h

For no reason, just remembered this explicitly antifascist version of Chicken Little that Disney made in 1943. It's about the danger of following leaders who tell big lies. youtu.be/p_GaYdae4j0?...

Chicken Little

YouTube video by Mousefiles

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

Who needs cameras in the courtroom when you’ve got this

Doodle of parties at the comet arraignment. Messy stick figure drawings

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14h

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 13h

Hakeem Jeffries came to play today as Lawler tries to confront him: "You’re not going to talk over me because you don’t want to hear what I have to say so why don’t you just keep your mouth shut."

More 👏🏼Of👏🏼This👏🏼

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Ask why Trump installed Ellis as CIA General Counsel and if that has anything you do with getting a favorable legal opinion on boat strikes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 12h

Stephen Miller is a corrupt loser with a microphone and a Napoleon complex. He’s also basically running the government.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 12h

You have got to be kidding me.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 14h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11h

Marjorie Taylor Greene just said the Republican Party is “getting destroyed” during this government shutdown as they refuse to protect health care.

“Everyone’s just getting destroyed... Republicans, you have no solutions... It is hurting so many people.”

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 12h

Miller is lying in order to get you (and “low-info voters”) to give up. Without surrender, Miller and the rest of the regime got nothing. They believe you will believe their lies and conquer yourself. But they can’t conquer you if you don’t believe them.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 12h

www.editorialboard.com/stephen-mill...

Stephen Miller will conquer you if you believe his lies

The lies start with the ones he tells himself, about himself.

www.editorialboard.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 12h

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 14h

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

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

These things, of course, are exactly why Donald Trump and his hospice nurse Stephen Miller like him

Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 13h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.house.gov · 13h

Oversight Democrats have one message for Speaker Johnson: Stop the Shutdown, Release the Files!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

I heard they screened SAVING PRIVATE RYAN at the White House and Trump cried over all those poor soldiers who sacrificed their lives defending Normandy Beach.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Motion to replace the "Andy Card whispering to W. on 9/11" meme with this photo.

The back of his hair, the makeup line, and the giant folds of his neck waddle make it perfect.

Rubio Wormtongue speaks to King Trumpdim

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 12h

Christ, even the access crew at Axios are dumping on Johnson and GOP

Things have to be really bad for Republicans when their pals at DC gossip outlets are piling on

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 12h

At this point Democrats in Congress shouldn't concede an inch unless Johnson and Thune meet all their demands.

Republican rank and file members know it - majority of public are siding with Dems over healthcare and tired of giving Trump blank checks. www.axios.com/2025/10/08/m...

AXIOS HEADLINE with Mike Johnson reading a folder:

"Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown

Kate Santaliz,Andrew Solender "

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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 2d

Last week, Republicans in Congress shut down the government…then skipped town to go on vacation.

Democrats are ready to reopen government — and standing ten toes down to protect health care.

Here’s what’s really happening and how it impacts Central Floridians.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 1d

For the purists who didn't vote for @kamalaharris.com because not enough of their student loans were cancelled: Trump may sell your student loan to the private market. All completely foreseeable. All completely predictable.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration weighs selling parts of $1.6T federal student loan portfolio

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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