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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Drew Webb Free @Azbrittney and @Donkoclock @archeryfan93.bsky.social · 1h

You know why the Epstein list is being delayed besides the fact that the government is shutdown? Johnson is trying to pressure one of the 4 republicans who signed the discharge petition to FLIP. Stay strong and don’t cave to Johnson

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4h

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 1h

Perhaps @merriam-webster.com can remind us what “yearly” means…🤔

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4h

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1h

Johnson and Lauer are stalling.

If Grijalva isn’t sworn in, it gives them time to pressure one of the 4 Republicans who signed the discharge petition to flip.

The reason they’re working this hard to shield the Epstein files is because Trump’s name is all over them.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Voting away your own constitutional powers to a dictator. We cannot forget who these people are.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 3h

Pennsylvania, wtf?

Who are you going to get to primary this wolf in sheep's clothing?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3h

I have the same question for Tomi

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

I have a friend who owns a restaurant. He says tourism and travel to DC in recent months has devastated many restaurants in DC. So, yes, Trump is lying. Again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "You can go and eat at the restaurants. The restaurants are booming. They were closing one after another and now they're booming, they're opening. Nobody has ever seen a transformation like they have in Washington DC. It's as hot as it can get."

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 3h

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Texas flew the immigrants they’re looking for there in the revenge flights during Biden. Remember that.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every single word. But way too many people don’t care that he lies as he breathes. That’s a really bad thing that people don’t care. A people who do not care about being lied to like this deserve the tyranny they live under.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 3h

👀

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Outstanding!

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Gift article from Newsweek in comments.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 3h

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

🧵

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 4h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

Love this. “NATO for nonprofits.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

'NATO for nonprofits': Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump

Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs.

www.nbcnews.com

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 2h

Today I spent my day on Capitol Hiill looking for members of Congress to interview, sadly no republicans were around. Thanks to Democratic Representatives Pete Aguilar, Steven Horsford, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Glenn Ivey, Jimmy Gomez, and Nanette Barragán.

www.thesirennetwork.com/p/its-day-8-...

It's Day 8 of the Republican Shutdown, With No End In Sight

Harry Dunn travels to the Capitol to bring you the latest update on the Gov. Shutdown

www.thesirennetwork.com

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

A+

Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 2h

I tried all day to join antifa.
I was thwarted!
•No website.
•No email.
•No Substack.
•No Instagram.
•No LinkedIn
•No TikTok
•Not even a lousy Facebook page.

I wonder if Pam Bondi can help me find them.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

If FBI had information Republicans in Congress were helping plan and/or implement January 6 or the elector scheme, it would’ve been a violation of their duty not to investigate them. Of course some were investigated.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 2h

The alignment of far right politicians with billionaire tech bros is at play.
The op ed is an illustration of why so many subscribers left the WashPo and so many journalists left the newspaper in disgust and dismay over what happened to a revered paper.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2h

So they weren’t peaceful tourists? I’m losing the plot.

(Also, that means he pardoned Antifa, in case anyone cares)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 1h

Yea, if it’s a “.gov” website, don’t trust it anymore. Period.

Mike Watkins @watkinsimmigration.bsky.social · 3h

USCIS Q3 data dropped today and woof, it's not pretty. Total pending cases at a new record high of 11.5m, net backlog increased from 4.9m to 5.4m cases, and "frontlog" bizarrely increased to 60K cases.

A lot of red flags in this data.

www.uscis.gov/tools/report...

Immigration and Citizenship Data

These reports provide data on various aspects of USCIS operations. In addition, certain tables list the USCIS office responsible for the adjudication.

www.uscis.gov