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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20h

No one in Canada will ever love you again — they know they’re living right above the madhouse.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

Senator, it used to be called a jumpoline before yo momma got on it. I am a serious person doing an important job.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 7h

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

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.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1h

France asking for reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is basically a moral monstrosity.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

Sickening.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

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.

apnews.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1h

Yup.

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1h

It was annoying.

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Sherida Jayne @trustmeimagrandma.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't think it was possible to live and respect her more, but here we are. What a great lady!

[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1d

Famed #primatologist Jane #Goodall gave an interview on Netflix's show "Famous Last Words" that would only be released after her death. Goodall shared some #candid words about world leaders.

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1h

Any minute now...

[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1h

The arrest marks the end of a months-long, multi-agency manhunt that began after he and nine other inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish facility in May:

Escaped New Orleans inmate Derrick Groves captured after standoff in Atlanta, police say

After nearly five months on the run, U.S. Marshals confirm Derrick Groves, the last fugitive from the May jailbreak at the Orleans Justice Center, is in custody.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 2h

On the White House’s WIC plan, we’re not supposed to have a system in which a president can:

- impose his own tax without Congress

- create his own pile of money that Congress never approved

- allocate funds, at his discretion, to whichever cause he deems fit, without Congress

White House announces radical new plan to allocate tariff revenue without Congress

The Constitution gives Congress what’s known as the “power of the purse.” When Trump tries to claim he has his own purse, there’s a problem.

www.msnbc.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

WATCH: TN National Guard veteran Rachel Davis is headed to Memphis to protest the Trump-Lee troop deployment.

She is joining a veteran-led movement launched by @jollygoodginger.bsky.social to protest against military operations in American cities.

Via WSMV www.wsmv.com/video/2025/1...

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 2h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1h

Dear @cnn.com: Please pay attention.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder to @CNN about why this is a humiliating self-own by them.

1) Prez *does* have some legal power to change geog name, as used in federal documents. Thus Gulf of Mexico-->USA!

2) Prez has *zero* legal power to create, abolish, or rename a fed dept. Requires act of Congress.

STOP NOW CNN

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 2h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1h

“One Battle After Another” is a great action film—not solely because of its taut suspense, its visceral thrills, and its strong rooting interest but because of the inventiveness with which details are deployed to embody the story, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

The Real Battle of “One Battle After Another”

Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.

www.newyorker.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

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

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 17h

I'm beginning to think Donald Trump was the only person mentioned in the files and that he was Jeffrey Epstein's only client.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

COHEN: “Federal workers earned that pay, and the law makes it clear they’re entitled to it.”

US Rep. Steve Cohen rips into Trump for threatening to withhold back pay from federal employees who are working through the #republicanshutdown

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1h

How the #Supreme #Court could aid the GOP's #redistricting games.

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games

If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.

www.msnbc.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson says furloughed workers deserve #back #pay after #shutdown.

Government Shutdown Tracker: Mike Johnson Says Furloughed Federal Workers Should Be Paid, Contesting White House Memo

The government shutdown began at midnight on Oct. 1 as Democrats and Republicans appeared to be nowhere close to reaching a funding deal.

go.forbes.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Ford on Tariffs: But there has to be a point that, if Prime Minister Carney can’t get a deal, we have to start hitting back.

We can’t just keep rolling over to President Trump. As he strengthens his case, we seem to be weakening our case by continuously pulling off tariffs.

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