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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 14h

Fox News host Jesse Watters:

I think AOC wants to sleep with Stephen Miller. It's so obvious. I’m sorry, you can’t have him.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 14h

Pray for Dolly Parton🙏❤️

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 3d

Has Trump said anything about his former “spiritual leader”, Robert Morris, who was just sentenced to 6 months in prison for sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl? Will the media even bother to ask him?

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

Newsmax: Sean Diddy Combs. Would you consider pardoning him?

Trump: “Well, he was essentially, I guess, sort of half innocent…Probably hmm. You know, I was very friendly with him. I got along with him great. Seemed like a nice guy”(August)

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Sean "Diddy" Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

MAGA propagandist Benny Johnson: What’s your message to violent lefty protesters?

Kristi Noem: “Leave the country. We don’t want you. We’ll put you in jail.”

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

The Treasury is planning to mint a $1 coin featuring Trump’s face for America’s 250th anniversary. – POLITICO

Welcome to the banana republic.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump administration illegally defunded the police in NYC to pressure Democratic leaders

Trump, two days later: “I reversed the cuts…It was my honor to do so.”

You can’t make this sh*t up.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5d

Donald Trump just posted this.

We are not a serious country anymore.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5d

JUST IN: Former Trump spiritual adviser and Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.

He will serve only 6 months in jail and pay $250,000 in restitution.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5d

Trump is wrecking the economy with his reckless trade wars and more and more Americans are feeling it.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5d

OMB Director Russ Vought just canceled $8 billion in climate funding for CA, NY, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, OR, VT, and WA.

He also froze $18 BILLION for NYC infrastructure projects “to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles.”

How is this legal?

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5d

Bessent: "At the meeting in Geneva, when I asked them [China], 'Why didn't you continue buying soybeans and the other products?' they had one word, and guess what it was?: Biden."

CNBC's Joe Kernen: “That sounds like malarkey. Come on, man."

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5d

Trump before the election: “I know nothing about Project 2025.”

Trump today:

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 5d

Albanian PM Edi Rama mocked Trump for repeatedly claiming he ended a war between Albania and Azerbaijan, confusing his country with Armenia

Rama to French President Macron: “You should congratulate Ilham Aliyev and me. Trump has ended the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan”

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 6d

Rep. Dean: The president is unhinged

Mike Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 6d

As Americans face the pain of the shutdown, JD Vance went on Fox and reminded the country how unserious this administration really is.

Vance: “That’s the most important part. There were the Trump 2028 hats, which I think made them very uncomfortable”

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: U.S. private companies lost 32,000 jobs in September, far below expectations of a 51,000 gain, payrolls processor ADP reported Wednesday.

This marks the biggest decline since March 2023. t.co/wSC5ra79e3

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/private-payrolls-declined-in-september-by-32000-in-key-adp-report-coming-amid-shutdown-data-blackout.html

t.co

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

Ted Cruz: “How about we all come together and say let's stop attacking p*dophiles." 🤔

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

Trump just posted these photos on Truth Social.

We’re not a serious country anymore

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

Hours before the government shutdown, Donald Trump posted another racist AI video mocking Hakeem Jeffries.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

The judge was unsparing not only in his views of Noem and Rubio's actions, but also of President Trump, who he said approves of "truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech" on the part of two senior administration officials.
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Judge finds Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted pro-Palestinian students in searing rebuke

A judge gave a blistering assessment of the Trump administration's efforts to go after international students who expressed pro-Palestinian views on college campuses.

www.cbsnews.com

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

Ronald Reagan–appointed U.S. District Judge William Young:

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence… To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed, masked secret police.”

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7d

Trump: “I'm going be meeting with generals and admirals and with leaders, and if I don't like somebody, I'm gonna fire them right on the spot.”

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