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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

Mrs. Corpus’s little boy. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

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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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11h

(I want to be clear, that's not some sort of 'well they should just tough it out baking their own bread from raw grains' sort of thing. I'm not delivering some moral judgement on poor Americans, I'm just pointing out their consumption patterns are *very* different)

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 5h

No lessons learned from our ag welfare kings (and queens).

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent point on inflation. I do wonder, however, how many consumers factor that into their buying decisions.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 6h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 6h

Who doesn't love the Painter of Light? ;)

Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 6h

According to monthly pre-recorded call, traffic up 2.1% and ticket up 3.8% ex-fuel, so still seeing more visits but inflation is real. $COST investor.costco.com/events-and-p...

Costco Wholesale Corporation - September Sales Results

investor.costco.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 7h

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 7h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 6h

💯 agree. There is a massive amount of professional risk in being a contrarian in this market with so much momentum in mega-cap tech unless you happen to be significantly outperforming on the year.

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 6h

One should assume every accusation/story is a complete and total fabrication.

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Matthew Shirts @matthewshirts.bsky.social · 7h

Cool 😎 stuff from Texas

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. Close-up photos .. revealed that Bondi had a folder containing screenshots of social media posts, bullet-pointed clapbacks ..” 🤡

@thedailybeast.bsky.social
www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondi-ac...

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.

www.thedailybeast.com

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 7h

The Army Emergency Relief web page is crashing right now as the entire military grapples with the reality that they're probably not getting paid next week.

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Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social · 8h

Hard to take DHS seriously when they say citizen recordings are illegal but they’ve got a whole reality TV setup documenting their actions.

Post by Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

“ICE is not only chasing Don every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.”

The post’s text is followed by a screenshot of security camera footage showing an ICE cameraman filming as officers seize two individuals.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 8h

With Fed super dove Miran soaking up so much bandwidth post FOMC, its worth noting the minutes showed a potentially bigger cohort for holding steady than the FOMC voted reflected.

08 Oct 2025 02:00:01 PM - FED MINUTES: A FEW PARTICIPANTS SAW MERIT IN KEEPING FED FUNDS RATE UNCHANGED AT SEPTEMBER MEETING OR THAT THEY COULD HAVE SUPPORTED SUCH A DECISION

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 11h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Bob Elliott @bobeunlimited.bsky.social · 9h

Tariffs cause inflation.

Forget the tortured analyses desperately trying to prove a political point. Just look at the damn data.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 11h

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Airwolf! @airwolf.bsky.social · 11h

On top of being a total Fascist cunt, if Mark Andreesen actually believes any of this he is also a total moron.

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Mike @mtannenbaum.bsky.social · 11h

Your problem is that you have never developed the ability to think like the average idiot does. ;)

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.”

- @therickwilson.bsky.social

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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