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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 16h

"I never use the words Democrats and Republicans. It's liberals and Americans." -James Watt, Reagan's first interior secretary.

That's Trumpism in embryonic form.

Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 18h

We're also three decades into Murdochism. The main reason Republican voters hate us and want us all jailed or executed is Fox (and talk radio before it, and Gingrich and Reagan before them).

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve also got to stop imagining that this will all somehow stop and go back to normal overnight once Trump makes some specific key mistake or, eventually, leaves the stage entirely.

We are a decade into Trumpism. Whatever comes after him for the GOP isn’t going to be a McCain or a Bush.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 1d

Relatedly, Dems have to stop ceding any ground on the crime issue. Stop saying Trump has a point or that Rs are right about crime in cities.

First and foremost, they aren’t right. They are presenting a nightmarish hellscape that doesn’t exit.

Second, there’s no compromise here. They want tyranny.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 19h

At this point, pretty much just the Times and the Atlantic. Maybe Morning Joe, the New Yorker, and New York magazine.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 19h

The same way she always has: by flattering fascists 98% of the time and pretending to disagree with them 2% of the time so she'll continue getting favorable coverage in the "prestige" media.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 21h

But Republican voters are still extremely positive about the GOP. They're upset about inflation and other problems but don't blame the party running the country.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

the me too administration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2d

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure.

We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Yes - great to see you here.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty sure I'm both a Palestinian genocide enabler and an anti-Israel Jew hater.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Is RFK Jr. now saying that Tylenol causes people to hate Trump? Because I never take Tylenol and I fucking despise the guy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Cillizza is the Marc Thiessen of Jake Tappers.

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 1d

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

52 years old and he just ended his political career.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections.”

@nytimes.com #OKgov
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Third possibility: evil. If you know better and choose to be complicit (e.g., Rubio), you're evil.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Show us on the doll where Tylenol hurt you.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand, everyone knows he's wrong. On the other hand, half the country thinks, "Oh, that's just him."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I think gasoline is gonna be below $2 at some point in the pretty near future."

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Fetterman has one core principle, which is that Donald Trump's ass smells like nectar and ambrosia and feels soft and pillowy against his lips.

Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 1d

Last night Fetterman voted to allow Trump to execute people at sea, today he wants to give him a Nobel Prize. Just no core principles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

We need to make Donald Trump so unpopular that even John Fetterman won't defend him.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

A Washington Post columnist is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Headline of a Marc Thiessen column: Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but we shouldn't need that explained to us by now.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

It's not from the Fasciste region of France, so it's just sparkling authoritarianism.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 6d

If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared.
You have no idea what "fascism" really means.

shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 6d

the regime is zip tying toddlers and ripping them away from their mothers unclothed... calling it fascism upsets this neo-con.

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Steve M. @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · 1d

Trump won't need to use the military to make America a one-party state because the Supreme Court will do it for him.

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

Republicans could draw 19 more House seats after an upcoming Supreme Court ruling

Many experts are forecasting the end of a key provision of election law — enabling Republicans to shore up their advantage in the House, according to a new report.

www.politico.com

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