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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 4h

North Korean propagandists would blush at this level of sycophancy

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 4h

Beauty Pageant "Miss Uncongeniality" winner screws up again #LindseyHalligan #BrooklynAintInNewJersey 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 5h

📣 Hands Off Tish James
📆 Friday, October 10
⏰ 5:30 – 7pm EDT
📍Foley Square (Pearl Street & Centre St, NYC)

#HandsOffTish

More info:
www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

Solidarity Rally Hands Off Tish James Friday 10/10 Foley Square, 5:30pm

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 4h

One thing about me is that the first concert I ever attended was Johnny Cash. I was six.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9h

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.

on.wsj.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 6h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 8h

Again, Trump has crossed a Red Line no president has ever crossed: personally ordering the criminal prosecution of an American he doesn't like despite DOJ not finding evidence of any crime.

If Trump can do this to the powerful, he can do it to you. That's not freedom, and its not America.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 9h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 7h

I can recall a time, not too long ago, where examples of "papers, please" governments were used as un-American counter examples.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12h

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 12h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 13h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

I know this isn’t the point but is it normal for DHS officials to stay at a Ritz-Carlton on work trips?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in a 2022 interview warned supporters of reproductive rights that "one day it’s going to be your turn."

"Murder is murder. And one day it's going to be your turn."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 6h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 6h

a woman says i have a lot of questions number one how dare you ..

ALT: a woman says i have a lot of questions number one how dare you ..

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 6h

Hey, there’s still time to delete this

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 9h

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.

on.wsj.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7h

Another day, another hit to our democracy as Trump’s corruption of the DOJ continues. AG Bondi is his tool for prosecuting his political targets.

Normalizing this is how democracies die. I refuse to accept it — and the American people shouldn’t either.

New York AG Letitia James indicted for alleged fraud following pressure from Trump

New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted on at least one count of alleged fraud following pressure from President Donald Trump.

abcnews.link

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-compl...

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 7h

He is very thin skinned so it makes sense that he’s so easily cut

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 7h

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 7h

It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.

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Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 7h

Me? It’s a famous meme of an anatomically incorrect drawing

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16h

Whether it’s Donald Trump saying J.B. Pritzker should be in jail or Donald Trump being convicted of 36 felonies but not going to jail because the American people re-elected him as president, both sides have been linked to jail time.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

it’s all just a grift

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