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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

the one admirable trait trump has is he wants to bleed his entire fanbase dry of all of their money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7h

I would vote for her 3 times if she promised there would be hangings

Le Wokisme? or La Botte? @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 7h

Tish James said “there’s a nonzero chance this bullshit turns me into the President let’s go motherfucker.”

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 12h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 6h

antifa built a potemkin portland to hide the apocalyptic truth from our secretary of domestic war

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7h

they’re smoothing the landing for when they run off to Argentina to retire on the large pile of assets they pilfered while in power lol

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 7h

I found it actively relaxing to learn after sister splinter

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 7h

it is so funny that trump is so reflexively venal and vindictive that he trampled all over his good news day of a ceasefire in gaza going into effect with an obviously political prosecution of an official in the most populous city in and cultural capital of the country

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 8h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 9h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 8h

(in that commercial guy VO voice) EA SPORTS: its in the game. and also we are responsible for the september eleventh plane attack on new york city

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 12h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h

Just in case anyone is still holding on out of nostalgia for what it used to be.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 8h

Sure, everything might be getting worse all the time, but at least we will be poorer forever

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 9h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 10h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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"Captain" "Ruck" "Cohlchez" @captainruck.bsky.social · 9h

Libertarianism WIN! This country decided to run on libertarian principles and almost immediately needed a bailout from another government

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

finally some good news everyone, we are propping up the argentine peso

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9h

these people are stealing from you and laughing at you

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

Insane that the Supreme Court didn't immediately stop the tariffs and let this drag on for 6 months. Even the most sacrosanct, load bearing pillar of this country-the interests of capital-must submit to the whims of one old doofus. And we love to see it

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 10h

by perfect score he means he got all the points, comma, for dementia

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Terrence Nowicki, Jr. @deephurting.bsky.social · Apr 28

"Smart tech guys" who lack the competence or at least insight required to operate a Pop-Tart without injuring themselves.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Apr 28

Again memocracy, goverment by group chat, the worst frat you’ve ever seen

Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · Apr 28

I know it's not the most important thing here but this story also corroborates one of my biggest theories about these tech guys: they do zero hours of work in a day. They do no work no matter how much they claim to work 14 hours a day. They're just on their phones.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 28

Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

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Potato Cat @sappo7.bsky.social · 10h

I think the joke is that stephen miller is the actual president for the moment

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

finally some good news everyone, we are propping up the argentine peso

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 10h

An essentially meaningless demand, but it's even more so of a meaningless one when you remember that Israel also insists there be no Palestinian Authority in Gaza. The demand is not disarmament of the spear of Palestinian militancy but the dissolution of any semblance of potential self government.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

i’ll never get over this

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