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Randi Mayem Singer

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Mrs. Doubtfire and some other stuff. Screenwriter, creator, complainer. Politics obsessor. imdb.me/randimayemsinger

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Jul 25

I don't care if Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton or Jesus Christ himself is implicated in the Epstein files. Anyone who committed such crimes should burn. I believe that because I'm not in a cult.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5h

Duh he is.

Trump Is Using The National Guard To STEAL The Election

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5h

Chat GPT did a great job for her.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5h

Chat GPT did a great job for her.

Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 1d

This Bari Weiss letter is the journalistical equivalent of Hegseth lecturing the generals.

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 1d

The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 5h

When @washingtonpost.com is gone, there will be all kinds of hand wringing about its legacy and loss of a lion of journalism and of course Watergate, but it’s already gone, so gone. The time to lament the loss is now, not years from now when they pull the plug on the pale shadow that’s left.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 7h

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5h

I'm worried due process is over for good. That the fascists know how unpopular they are, that they can't legit hold Congress - so they'll "win" illegally. Military will be out in force, intimating voters at the polls. Nobody seems to understand that the time to stop this is NOW. If not yesterday.

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5h

The ICE stories in this Reddit thread should shake every American, regardless of party, to their core. We no longer have a Constitution. This is fascism, pure and simple.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5h

The ICE stories in this Reddit thread should shake every American, regardless of party, to their core. We no longer have a Constitution. This is fascism, pure and simple.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5h

sorry, left out of alt text that this is Zelda Williams, Robin's daughter.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 5h

It's only gonna get worse. 🙁

Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough'.
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 11h

This. And more evidence that our fascist regime is actually incredibly weak. Just a bunch of losers who are fucking it all up.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h

We're now hearing threats about withholding post-shutdown pay. They first threatened widespread new firings? So why hasn't that happened. As I noted last week despite all the threats none of the firing machinery had actually been started up. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Don’t Believe the Hype: Trump Bum-Rushing DC Reporters Edition

News comes today that Russ Vought is now threatening not to pay...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

A populace that is agitated without being informed. A leader who encourages the worst suspicions, fuels the most dangerous lies, and mocks compromise and tolerance. It is getting close to being too late. ICYMI: www.thebulwark.com/p/everything...

Everything Is Awful. And It’s Changing Us.

It’s great that Disney is bringing Jimmy Kimmel back—but is it too late?

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12h

Headlines say Pam Bondi "testified." I don't think she testified. I think she cunted. A verb she invented for me today.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 16h

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17h

Draw on your own experience:

Is there any situation you've ever been part of, with you or anyone else in the hot seat, in which a person who does NOT have something to hide, reacts the way Bondi does?

I've been on trial juries that concluded "we can't trust that witness," after evasions like this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 1d

When I cannot help but imagine horrible things happening to that vampire... I feel nothing but relief.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Stephen Miller—both Trump Administration capo and de facto head of DHS, ICE, and DOJ, has just declared that peaceful protesters are "street terrorists." Under an executive order signed by Trump just days ago, that means he is saying that all protesters in America can be arrested on sight.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

We knew it was coming. When peaceful protests are taken off the table, the only option left is to not repeat history.

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❡υᚢ₦ą—ⓩ🩵🇺🇸🇮🇸 @gunna-z.bsky.social · 1d

We have crossed the line into Nazi Germany now - head on a swivel, everyone and watch ur six.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 12d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 1d

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

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Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents are reportedly creeping around high schools in Chicago. And because they are wearing masks, often not wearing uniforms and using unmarked vehicles this means that ANYONE could show up dressed like this and disappear kids off the streets. This is especially dangerous

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Pro-tip: the people zip-tying kids or shoving the elderly down stairs are never the good guys.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · Jul 25

I don't care if Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton or Jesus Christ himself is implicated in the Epstein files. Anyone who committed such crimes should burn. I believe that because I'm not in a cult.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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