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Pat Az

@pataz1.bsky.social

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I post about the mainstream media centering their reporting on conservatives; I also post on LGBT issues. Occasionally I write an article or two.

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Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a tweet for everything

Trump tweeted:

Obama should play golf with Republicans & opponents rather than his small group of friends. That way maybe the terrible gridlock would end.
10:01 AM • Sep 19, 2012

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 3h

Is the answer “the NYT’s institutionalized transphobia”?

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 4h

Paging @jaketapper.bsky.social

More evidence of Trump’s decline for you to ignore

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 4h

A war Israel kept going in part to help Trump win an election

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 5h

I remember this

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Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 7h

A reminder where CNN’s loyalties lie

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe Musk shouldn’t have given Nazi salutes at a republican political convention

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 13h

Deleted my LinkedIn and Academia dot edu accounts yesterday. Not going to feed myself to their AI theft machines either.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then this guy speaks again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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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Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 13h

Did Amazon write this?

Stop shilling for the broligharchy

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 13h

That’s like a day’s income for him?

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 14h

Chriatofascists strike again

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 14h

A reminder of where CNN’s loyalties lie

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Geoff @itzspelledgeoff.bsky.social · 15h

I was reading on Reddit about how the EU requires:

* The lowest price during the last 30 days needs to be shown

* The discount percentage cannot relate to a price that wasn't offered during the last 30 days

I wonder what it would be like living in a society that values consumer protections.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 15h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 16h

Trump wants lock up the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois

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Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 17h

It does.

Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 1d

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Pat Az @pataz1.bsky.social · 1d

Hey CSM!

When are you going to reach out to the citizens being deported by agents of the state?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Catching up on what happened while I was in court and then writing, and this is among the notable developments. —>

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

NEW: The Ninth Circuit schedules oral argument for Thursday in the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Immergut's order temporarily blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.

The panel assignment:
Susan P. Graber (Clinton)
Ryan D. Nelson (Trump)
Bridget S. Bade (Trump)

2025-10-09 9:00 am Courtroom 2, 3rd Floor Rm 330, James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse, San Francisco
Before: GRABER, R. NELSON, and BADE, Circuit Judges
Case No.
25-6268
State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

If an adult wants to subject themselves to psychological torture, they are free to do so, of course. But Supreme Court Justices saying that ideological radicals have a First Amendment right to abuse your child face-to-face as part of a fake medical treatment the child cannot truly object to is sick.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

The subhed here is a master class in corporate journalism rewarding malfeasance via semantics

Bondi didn't valiantly fend something off, she refused to answer legitimate questions before Congress because the answers would be horrifying and politically inconvenient

And that's a profile in cowardice

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