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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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MadAsHell-NeverTrumper 🌊💙🌈 @janl99.bsky.social · 11h

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 10h

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“As long as the outcome is foreordained, the gas just drains out of the politics tank. This is why the Epstein story caught hold like wild fire during the summer.”

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The Shutdown, Zombie Politics and How Trump Stumbled Into Not Being All-Powerful

It’s always a complicated matter to say who is “winning” a shutdown...

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 11h

But there was a point in DJT’s first term that even us slow kids in the back understood there was no negotiation to be had with these insurrectionists; compromise is as unacceptable to them as defeat. Obliteration of the movement is the only remedy. It has to become toxic, a badge of dishonor.

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 11h

I know part of the problem is that this assault was long and relentless. As a steady drip in a limestone cave creates a stalagmite over thousands of years, it was hard to see its intrusion for decades.

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 11h

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The Two Democrats Quietly Reshaping Their Party

Democrats have found two authentic voices emerging that may resurrect its fortunes

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SteveBev @stevebev.bsky.social · 12h

And the Brazilians had the complete documentary plans for the coup recovered from the safe of Bolsanaro’s defence minister, and forensically proven to have been printed in Bolsanaro’s private office when Bolsanaro was present. Evidence of self coup doesn’t get better than that.
Plotting to kill a…

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

Yeah, and the indictment took the same amount of time as Trump's.

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Thomas Knapp (chemiclord) @tkocreations.com · 13h

I sometimes like to remind people that it took Brazil THREE YEARS to get a conviction on Bolsonaro, and that was while supposedly doing "everything right."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h

One of the reasons the Jack Smith investigations seemed to take forever is because Biden's DoJ *did* have their hands around the evidence before they indicted. And they'd have convicted, too, if it weren't for those pesky SCOTUS fellas. 1/

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 12h

It has taken too long for far too many people to understand that we’re not engaged in any kind of normal politics. This has been an insurrection. You can’t use normal governing principles to fight against an insurrection. Not if you’re going to win the war you don’t. Many still don’t get it.

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 13h

it's about fucking time, if the Dems had gone after Trump immediately after the insurrection hammer and tongs along with any possibly still patriotic Republicans we might've been able to avoid the whole mess we're in now.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

As a reminder, when Jack Posobiec was in the US Navy, they assessed his full capabilities and concluded that he was best suited to collecting samples for urinalysis

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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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

It's always both. The only question is which neurosis is dominant at any particular moment.

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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 16h

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 14h

Important 🧵 here…👇

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 15h

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 14h

And again here. Your clip is only the first minute of an 11-minute video:

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Heather Cox Richardson's SHOCKING PREDICTION of a MAGA CIVIL WAR

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 14h

Look at “Political Voices Network.” In the latest they have you in the thumbnail, and label it with a quote from you, but 60 seconds in you and Katie Couric disappear and this channel switches in their own content. See here:

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Heather Cox Richardson STUNS Katie Couric with BOLD Trump Confession

YouTube video by Political Voices Network

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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 14h

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Are you aware that another channel is using clips of your YouTube channel and other channels that have you as a guest as clickbait?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

“.. Oh, we've entered the ‘shooting priests’ phase of the Glorious Trump Revolution. Good to know.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

The Justice Department had 36 attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians when Trump took office in January.

Today it has two.

See how this works?

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21h

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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Jon B. Wolfsthal 🤯 @jonatomic.bsky.social · 18h

Wait. so Homan did not take the money but still has it, but did not accept a bribe, but does not have to give the money back?

This is the single most stupid timeline anyone has ever lived through.

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