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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 11h

Make no mistake. This nonsense about Antifa is directly tied to the 2026 and 2028 elections. It’s the “crisis” they will use as justification to shut down key voting centers.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 11h

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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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 20h

Wish Johnson cared enough about pregnant people to worry about the hospitals that will turn them away for fear they’ll be prosecuted for performing basic medical procedures.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 10h

This reminds me of when 60 Minutes tried a roundtable segment of PJ O'Rourke, Stanley Crouch, and Molly Ivins, and people hated it so much it was cut after two months.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Can somebody liberate that thread Popehat just did as antifa General Counsel because I want to include it in a collection of important American treatises.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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

Jack Posobiec is criticizing Weimar Republic Germany the right way.

--Ezra Klein

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

Read this thread for a frankly breathtaking example of the utter garbage you get when Techbrahs try their hand at law.

Although if you say "I have an issue that's important to me, huh, I guess I will try Vibe Lawyering," I am basically ok with whatever happens to you.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 15h

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

He is once again an oath breaker.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 16h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 20h

We are the richest shithole of a nation to demonstrate our inhumanity in the long, miserable history of this failing planet.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 15h

Pritzker fights. It's refreshing as all hell.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h

The sign holder with the beard in this photo has been doing it for years and is one of the best at getting his (usually excellent) message in an uncroppable part of the frame

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21h

NEWS: James Comey pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that followed President Trump’s demand to prosecute.

The judge set a Jan. 5 trial date — but Comey is expected to try to kill the case before it starts, including by disqualifying Lindsey Halligan

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18h

I’m guessing the commercial carrier landing fees at Denver exceed $155.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 19h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 14h

I challenge the media to show pictures of Portland. Go to a store with glass. That's all you have to do

They can't do it because it would offend Deal Leader

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

I don't think it was planned, but I think the shutdown is destabilizing that in ways that could be very productive.

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Travis McGee @procrastin.bsky.social · 22h

The Republican Party in a nutshell, the tie that binds them is a common enemy. If an enemy is "defeated" (or never existed at all) they create a new one.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Is the fentanyl crisis over at the Canadian border?

TRUMP: Is what?

Q: The fentanyl crisis

TRUMP: No, it's not over. I think it's never gonna be over

Travis McGee @procrastin.bsky.social · 22h

We are always at war with Eastasia.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Is the fentanyl crisis over at the Canadian border?

TRUMP: Is what?

Q: The fentanyl crisis

TRUMP: No, it's not over. I think it's never gonna be over