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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2h

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

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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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · 2h

Grandpa has lost it

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 4h

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."

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans are fighting to ensure that Americans in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and a raft of other red states pay DOUBLE what they paid before for healthcare.

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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · 13h

As angry as I am over our present situation, I welcome this reminder that we are ALL in danger - even those who voted for this. (And we need some of them to get it to stop.)

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Serious Question: We Want to Win, Don't We?

Amid Economic Pain, Do We Open Doors or Slam Them Shut?

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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · 2d

This essay was good

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?

Read more here.

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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · 2d

And so we begin a new week in this ongoing nightmare.

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October 5, 2025

On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...

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Spicy Mimi Gen❌ 💙💜🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @mimicrochets.bsky.social · 2d

The only “men” who would do this job, that WE as taxpayers are footing the bill for, are the SAME “men” who beat their spouses and children. As a survivor of domestic violence I SEE these people. They are sick and should be jailed, period.

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Gloria Pan @glopan.bsky.social · 2d

ICE zip-tied CHILDREN in the overnight Chicago raid.

“I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other."

#MomSky

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 3d

Trump sending troops from other states to attack blue states is an act of war. Trump is committing treason. Period.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

I’m just going to keep repeating that undocumented immigrant workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_.

In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

Oh so the guy who made up gross lies about immigrants STEALING AND EATING PETS has more thoughts about immigrants? I’m sure he’s totally telling the truth this time.

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They’re Lying, Dividing, And Distracting. Don’t Believe The GOP’s Shutdown Hype

“This isn’t about health care for undocumented immigrants—that’s already against the law," said Sen. Mark Warner. "It’s about the fact that Republicans are intentionally skyrocketing your premiums.”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

Sen. Schiff to NBC: "He's described me as the enemy within. He's described other Democratic elected officials as the enemy within. He is using the Justice Dept. to go after his political enemies, and he's using the Justice Dept. to protect his political friends … This should concern every American."

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 3d

#RepubliKLANCHEATS

This Week at Democracy Docket: Reporting Live from the Texas Gerrymander Challenge

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Trump admits what we knew all along - the shutdown is happening because they want to repeal Obamacare by choking off funding for it. Project 2025.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Do we really have such abysmal collective memory that we need to be *told* that the right has a history of censoring free speech? Have we really swallowed so much reactionary-centrist bullshit about "cancel culture" that we've forgotten that primal political truth?

Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either

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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · 5d

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Leader of the pro-Trump Project 2025 suggests there will be a new American Revolution

Kevin Roberts said the revolution will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”

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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · 6d

🔥

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The vice president has too much time on his hands

Tweet less and govern more, James David; you are wasting our time and tax money

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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · 8d

When all the best sourced information is behind a paywall and free broadcast is monopolized by oligarchs, it's no wonder we live in different "realities." Bookmarking this one so I can re-read it.

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Jimmy Kimmel Live! Lives On While the Oligarchs' Power Grab Rolls On

What the Kimmel dustup tells us about the demise of free speech

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Donna Schwartz Mills @socalmom.bsky.social · 9d

Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl? As @charlotteclymer.bsky.social points out - this is going to be interesting.

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America Brought to You by Bad Bunny

Hell of a choice.

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Ellen Barber @ellenbarber.bsky.social · 9d

New reporting from @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social

Trump Got Venezuela Intel from Controversial "Fixer"

Venezuelan expat with rich, dissident clients and an ex-CIA partner told Trump that Maduro's waging a covert war

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Ron Rutherford-Triche (He/Him) @rtriche.bsky.social · 12d

Great news

Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 12d

NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 13d

probably of Trump. A year ago, @alizawrites.bsky.social @socalmom.bsky.social and I walked the streets of DC at night with absolutely no fear. So just get out with that BS.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Trump: "They go to Uber. Young ladies in the White House. They'd call Uber for protection. They'd run to the car because they were petrified."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14d

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting.
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1 week after deadly shooting at CDC, some employees feel Trump and RFK Jr. have moved on

In the days after a deadly shooting, CDC employees said they feel frustrated with federal leaders due to a lack of statements and for the peddling of vaccine skepticism.

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