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🇺🇸 RULE OF LAW MATTERS @mke-voter.bsky.social · May 11

Trump/Republican Marketing Plan

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man / [immigrant], he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson

~AND~ ⤵️

Trump/Republican Marketing Plan

Executive Summary:

[Quote paraphrasing President Lyndon B. Johnson:]

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man / [immigrant], he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

…followed by 4 bullet points from Goebbels:

#1 If you tell a lie big enough, and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

#2 Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.

#3 Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident that they are acting on their own free will.

#4 It [is] vitally important for the State… to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus… the greatest enemy of the State.

― Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister for “Public Enlightenment” (Propaganda) in Nazi Germany.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1h

Anybody who has never been to Milwaukee comes to us with a similar reaction: "Why the hell didn't I know this was here?"

jasper33.bsky.social @jasper33.bsky.social · 1h

Milwaukee is an underrated city, sir.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Gov. Pritzker after Trump calls for him to be jailed: “I will not back down… what else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?”

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11h

Excuse me? www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

MEDPAGETODAY®
Public Health & Policy > Health Policy
Many With Obesity 'Don't Respect the Temple of Their
Soul,' Dr. Oz Says
— "The only thing they think they control in their life is the fork at the end of their arm"
by Joyce Frieden, Washington Editor, MedPage Today
October 7, 2025 • 5 min read

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

A quick walkthrough of the latest right-wing effort to downplay Jan. 6 and play up purported "weaponization" by the Biden administration.

Dethawing ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

www.pbump.net

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 1h

Rick Wilson compares her stuttering evasions, insults, and faux bursts of performative outrage to a fake orgasm — Unfortunately, this makes her performance seem far more entertaining than it actually was; and is unfair to orgasms.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage

If you woke up this morning with the vague sense that you were missing a goodly portion of your brain cells, it’s likely that you watched Pam Bondi’s performance yesterday before a Senate committee.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2h

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

now this is fascinating (check the age breakdown)

Canadians Overwhelmingly Say They'd Never Vote To Join The US
"I would never vote for Canada to become part of the United States"

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

Almost incomprehensibly wack.

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 1h

Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday the NFL choosing Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime performer was a "terrible decision" and suggested Lee Greenwood instead. The post Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

#WarRavagedPortland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1h

Blonde Ambition

B-List bimbo Bondi flaunts her faith like she's the Madonna, but she's on the borderline of total fraud when she says there aren't pics of Trump and Epstein on La Isla Bonita with a girl who looks like a virgin. Release the Epstein material, girl!

by Maureen Dowd

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 1h

Elon Musk and X Corp have reached a settlement in a lawsuit by four former top executives at Twitter, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, who claim they were not paid $128 million in promised severance pay after Musk acquired the social media company and fired them.

Musk's X settles ex-Twitter executives' $128 million severance pay lawsuit

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

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 · 3h

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

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 1h

As one who has litigated FOIA cases for over 30 years, this decision is consistent with applicable law and policy.

As the Court notes, "record evidence establishes that any privacy interest of Musk’s is outweighed by the substantial public interests in disclosure."

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Wraith X @dodgeintercept1.bsky.social · 53m

MAGA would rather see brown people harassed than get health insurance for their family.

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🇺🇸 RULE OF LAW MATTERS @mke-voter.bsky.social · 27m

Minorities for now…

homer simpson and bart simpson from the simpsons

Alt: homer simpson and bart simpson from the simpsons: Homer says to Bart, “Minorities for now…”

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🇺🇸 RULE OF LAW MATTERS @mke-voter.bsky.social · 30m

“The worst of the worst,” they said.

They do nothing but lie.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Sickening.

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Saigonbond @ogsaigonbond.bsky.social · 1h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Sickening.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

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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🇺🇸 RULE OF LAW MATTERS @mke-voter.bsky.social · 34m

The Speaker of the House 🤡

What an embarrassment to this country!

Nothing but propaganda & lies.

Not politics - pure PROPAGANDA.

Disgusting.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

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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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 1h

From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

a hand holding a trippy white paper cut to distort perspective

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