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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 9h

Telling billionaires what they want to hear is a very different skillset from being generally interesting or engaging

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 9h

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 10h

Rizz for billionaires is very very very niche. She's like the Elizabeth Holmes of Kirsten Sinemas.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h

Weird and amusing that the same people touting unwatchable Bari Weiss as the Authentic Voice Of The People are also claiming that Bad Bunny, the famous musician / actor / WWE wrestler, at the Super Bowl is imposing an unpopular ideology on the majority.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

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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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9h

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
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Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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

I joked about it but it may actually be worthwhile for every Dem who gets on tv to start saying Stephen Miller is the real president

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 11h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 9h

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 9h

When the Yankees get eliminated

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 8h

So they weren’t peaceful tourists? I’m losing the plot.

(Also, that means he pardoned Antifa, in case anyone cares)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Diogenes of Snarkadia @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 9h

Conservatives aren't capable of believing things, except the one thing, the belief in their own entitlement. They say all kinds of things, but don't believe them, just say them to justify robbing out-groups of human rights while granting themselves impunity to commit more crimes without consequence

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Penthesilea @hansklocker.bsky.social · 10h

Step one before admitting that it's important is just admitting that it's true. And that's what is so chilling: his followers believe the lies deeply, thoroughly, and consistently. It's hard to fathom. Like, this is flat-earth levels of delusion

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

I guess I should also add that a key difference between the Trump investigation and the Comey indictment is that *Trump did something obviously and significantly wrong*. Like, if you can't grok that distinction as important, I don't know what to say.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 13h

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11h

Trump (1) reveals he doesn't know what habeas corpus is and (2) punts to Noem, who famously revealed her own ignorance at a Senate hearing when she defined habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...

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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Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 8h

Donald Trump is a demented old man.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 9h

Holding aside everything—everything—else, the President conducting very sensitive conversations with his Attorney General on an unencrypted social media platform would have been a major scandal any time before 2016. Is he DMing the CIA Director on there? The Secretary of Defense? We don’t know.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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ChaosRogue.bsky.social @chaosrogue.bsky.social · 10h

Remember, kids. The ones who opposed the NSDAP during the Weimar period in Germany are considered the bad guys by the MAGA choads.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 9h

The fascist regime is attempting to demonize any opposition to its immorality, idiocy, and lawlessness.

Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 14h

“they” in this case is a young Mormon man whose whole family is MAGA.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

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

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D @dkdmac.bsky.social · 10h

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