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𝕋𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕠𝕣 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕤 @taylorcollins.bsky.social · 2h

Johnson wants way more than that based on his past ties… cannot someone start connecting all the epstein dots… this is not rocket science. Way too many men think with the wrong organ… entire GOP is beyond sickening at this point… www.texastribune.org/2024/06/15/p...

Paul Pressler, a former Southern Baptist leader accused of sexual abuse, dead at 94

One of the most influential evangelical figures of the last half-century, Pressler died about six months after he settled a high-profile lawsuit with a former member of his youth group.

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MJ @ambientheat.bsky.social · 2h

People ain’t paying $2500 a seat or more to see freaking Lee Greenwood at the Super Bowl.
#RepublicansRuinEverything

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tbeaumont.bsky.social @tbeaumont.bsky.social · 1h

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 1h

Remember that Mike Johnson is 2nd in the line of succession to the presidency. I've never seen America sinking to such low depths. The quality of our leadership is a disgrace.
The GOP has all but ceded every ounce of power to the Executive, unless that power stands to further authoritarianism.

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 7h

📌 Who was in his ear?
📌 Who made the executive decision to edit it and post version 2?
📌 What were they threatened with to pull it? Because let’s be real
📌 Can we all agree these people are out of their minds?
📌 Seriously, wtf?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h

Bari tried to get cancelled and couldn’t even manage that. So she fake-canceled herself. Hilarious that @mattyglesias.bsky.social doesn’t remember that.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 20h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 2d

📌 Listen Up California ‼️

Frances Fisher is letting
ya know it's done 👑♥️

#YesOnProp50 #Vote 🗳

I Adore her ♥️♥️♥️💐 🐥

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tbeaumont.bsky.social @tbeaumont.bsky.social · 1h

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 4h

I don't understand why I see things so differently. I see a health insurance industry that thinks it's entitled to charge people 1/3rd of their income for healthcare. That industry shouldn't be "fixed." It should be burned to the ground and its ashes pissed on.

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REMALONE @ipasa.bsky.social · 4h

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mikemenn.bsky.social @mikemenn.bsky.social · 2h

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 4h

📌 The tide is slowly shifting
Souls are fighting back ⤵️🐥

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 5h

📌 Pam Bondi in the hot seat🐥

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J. Stephen Clark 🏳️‍🌈 @jstephenclark.bsky.social · 23h

Not to be too contrarian, but given her crusade against “woke,” including that preposterous George Floyd “story,” I’d use a stronger description for her than “talentless.” The word “bigoted” comes to mind.

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ydlr.bsky.social @ydlr.bsky.social · 2h

And right now we live in the era of talentless freaks being in charge of everything.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 23h

I’ve underestimated her before. Or more accurately I underestimated the commitment of the biggest loser billionaires in our country to floating her talentless career.

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 23h

I have a strong sense that Bari's tenure in her current role will be short. She may get moved up or she may exist but I don't think it's sustainable.

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Arthur Seaton #FBPE #Wessex @southsaxon.bsky.social · 2h

The USA has gone insane.

Remove the Trump idiot NOW.

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 4h

📌 OH SNAP ‼️ Stank Ice just
brutally shot a Priest with a pepper ball‼️🙈👀

❌️🔴 E N O U G H 🔴❌️ ⬅️🐥

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 3h

🔴 Because Canks has her

under lock , and key 💯 🔐 🐥

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snufkin @snufkin7.bsky.social · 4h

this is fascinating. Pasting "sick burns" inside a manilla file folder is what we can expect from the country's top law enforcement official. I wonder who printed out that Jan 2024 tweet from Sheldon and cut it into a little square for her? who put rubber cement on the back? Big Balls?

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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 2h

She violated her oath to tell the truth. In fact she was damn arrogant about the audacity of having to appear before the committee… Who do those Senators think they are--making me fake answerng their questions… How dare!! As phony as the cheap cross necklace she was wearing and the blond hair.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

So Bondi plans her congressional hearings by bringing up dirt on the senators who questioned her rather than answering the questions. This is the lying schemer that is running the DOJ.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15h

'Hypocrite!' Pam Bondi's attack notes snapped by photographer during contentious hearing

Attorney General Pam Bondi drew reactions from those watching her appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, when, instead of answering specific questions from Democrats, she turned ...

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