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Patrick Gaspard: "Donald Trump last night looked at the American people and said, pay no attention to what you're feeling at the gas pump...to what you're paying at the diner and the supermarket...Pay no attention to any of that, because MBS says we're doing really fine."
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Patrick Gaspard: "Donald Trump last night looked at the American people and said, pay no attention to what you're feeling at the gas pump...to what you're paying at the diner and the supermarket...Pay no attention to any of that, because MBS says we're doing really fine."
"This morning, I told everybody I'm gonna be out with Elf on the Shelf and they all got it."
Patrick Gaspard reveals the nickname his family uses for Tim Miller.
Patrick Gaspard reveals the nickname his family uses for Tim Miller.
December 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"This morning, I told everybody I'm gonna be out with Elf on the Shelf and they all got it."
Patrick Gaspard reveals the nickname his family uses for Tim Miller.
Patrick Gaspard reveals the nickname his family uses for Tim Miller.
NEW: A bill to give pediatric cancer patients better access to lifesaving drug treatments was one vote away from passing. Bernie Sanders cast the vote that stopped it.
@samsteindc.bsky.social tells the story of the families who fought for it, and the political bet behind Sanders’ decision.
@samsteindc.bsky.social tells the story of the families who fought for it, and the political bet behind Sanders’ decision.
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
NEW: A bill to give pediatric cancer patients better access to lifesaving drug treatments was one vote away from passing. Bernie Sanders cast the vote that stopped it.
@samsteindc.bsky.social tells the story of the families who fought for it, and the political bet behind Sanders’ decision.
@samsteindc.bsky.social tells the story of the families who fought for it, and the political bet behind Sanders’ decision.
"I'm going to name names, now."
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social talk about how Israel became a political litmus test and how one answer became an excuse for Democrats to attack Zohran Mamdani instead of grappling with U.S. foreign policy.
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social talk about how Israel became a political litmus test and how one answer became an excuse for Democrats to attack Zohran Mamdani instead of grappling with U.S. foreign policy.
December 19, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"I'm going to name names, now."
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social talk about how Israel became a political litmus test and how one answer became an excuse for Democrats to attack Zohran Mamdani instead of grappling with U.S. foreign policy.
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social talk about how Israel became a political litmus test and how one answer became an excuse for Democrats to attack Zohran Mamdani instead of grappling with U.S. foreign policy.
NEW: Trump’s raids are wrecking construction crews, worsening labor shortages, and threatening homeowners’ rights. So why won’t the industry that’s getting crushed say anything?
@crampell.bsky.social takes a look in the latest edition of Receipts.
@crampell.bsky.social takes a look in the latest edition of Receipts.
December 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
NEW: Trump’s raids are wrecking construction crews, worsening labor shortages, and threatening homeowners’ rights. So why won’t the industry that’s getting crushed say anything?
@crampell.bsky.social takes a look in the latest edition of Receipts.
@crampell.bsky.social takes a look in the latest edition of Receipts.
"I actually think that we have to recognize that this is not just a left versus right moment," Patrick Gaspard says. "This is not a Democrats versus Republican moment. If we really do believe that there's an existential threat to our democracy, we gotta look for defectors."
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
"I actually think that we have to recognize that this is not just a left versus right moment," Patrick Gaspard says. "This is not a Democrats versus Republican moment. If we really do believe that there's an existential threat to our democracy, we gotta look for defectors."
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Ben Shapiro: "If many speakers, including Tucker Carlson and others, get on stage here at TPUSA and claim, without proper evidence, that Jeffrey Epstein was running a Mossad rape ring being covered up by the Trump administration…they're implicating in their speculation actual human beings."
December 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Ben Shapiro: "If many speakers, including Tucker Carlson and others, get on stage here at TPUSA and claim, without proper evidence, that Jeffrey Epstein was running a Mossad rape ring being covered up by the Trump administration…they're implicating in their speculation actual human beings."
Ben Shapiro: "When Steve Bannon, for example, accuses his foreign policy opponents of loyalty to a foreign country…he's simply maligning people he disagrees with. Which is indeed par for the course for a man who was once a PR flack for Jeffrey Epstein. Check the record."
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Ben Shapiro: "When Steve Bannon, for example, accuses his foreign policy opponents of loyalty to a foreign country…he's simply maligning people he disagrees with. Which is indeed par for the course for a man who was once a PR flack for Jeffrey Epstein. Check the record."
Ben Shapiro on Tucker Carlson: "If you host a Hitler-apologist, Nazi-loving, anti-American piece of refuse like Nick Fuentes…and you proceed to glaze him, you ought to own it."
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Ben Shapiro on Tucker Carlson: "If you host a Hitler-apologist, Nazi-loving, anti-American piece of refuse like Nick Fuentes…and you proceed to glaze him, you ought to own it."
Ben Shapiro: "No, Tucker Carlson, it is not an excuse to go silent on Candace's targeting of TPUSA or to mirror her bullshit…The same holds true of Megyn Kelly…That is a moral and logical absurdity."
December 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Ben Shapiro: "No, Tucker Carlson, it is not an excuse to go silent on Candace's targeting of TPUSA or to mirror her bullshit…The same holds true of Megyn Kelly…That is a moral and logical absurdity."
"AOC understands how wrestling works, and she understands that wrestling is popular media now and popular media is politics now."
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"AOC understands how wrestling works, and she understands that wrestling is popular media now and popular media is politics now."
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to whether she could beat JD Vance in 2028.
Ben Shapiro: "If Candace Owens decides to spend everyday since the murder of Charlie Kirk casting aspersions at TPUSA…and to imply or outright claim complicity in a cover up over Charlie's murder…we have a moral obligation to call that out."
December 19, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ben Shapiro: "If Candace Owens decides to spend everyday since the murder of Charlie Kirk casting aspersions at TPUSA…and to imply or outright claim complicity in a cover up over Charlie's murder…we have a moral obligation to call that out."
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
December 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Ben Shapiro: "Today I want to talk about something even more important — how to discern those attempting to speak truth from frauds and grifters…The conservative movement is in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracy and dishonesty."
"He's saying a quiet thing out loud."
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss Trump's order of a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela.
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss Trump's order of a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela.
December 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"He's saying a quiet thing out loud."
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss Trump's order of a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela.
Patrick Gaspard and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss Trump's order of a total blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of Venezuela.
Patrick Gaspard: "Donald Trump last night looked at the American people and said, pay no attention to what you're feeling at the gas pump...to what you're paying at the diner and the supermarket...Pay no attention to any of that, because MBS says we're doing really fine."
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Patrick Gaspard: "Donald Trump last night looked at the American people and said, pay no attention to what you're feeling at the gas pump...to what you're paying at the diner and the supermarket...Pay no attention to any of that, because MBS says we're doing really fine."
The stove is hot and America touched it. What happens next? lnk.thebulwark.com/4pIRRzw
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The stove is hot and America touched it. What happens next? lnk.thebulwark.com/4pIRRzw
"This morning, I told everybody I'm gonna be out with Elf on the Shelf and they all got it."
@patrickgaspard.bsky.social reveals the nickname his family uses for @timmiller.bsky.social.
@patrickgaspard.bsky.social reveals the nickname his family uses for @timmiller.bsky.social.
December 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
"This morning, I told everybody I'm gonna be out with Elf on the Shelf and they all got it."
@patrickgaspard.bsky.social reveals the nickname his family uses for @timmiller.bsky.social.
@patrickgaspard.bsky.social reveals the nickname his family uses for @timmiller.bsky.social.
NEW: A Florida gubernatorial candidate is openly pitching himself to Nick Fuentes’s movement.
@willsommer.bsky.social explains why James Fishback’s campaign marks a chilling new stage for the far right.
@willsommer.bsky.social explains why James Fishback’s campaign marks a chilling new stage for the far right.
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
NEW: A Florida gubernatorial candidate is openly pitching himself to Nick Fuentes’s movement.
@willsommer.bsky.social explains why James Fishback’s campaign marks a chilling new stage for the far right.
@willsommer.bsky.social explains why James Fishback’s campaign marks a chilling new stage for the far right.
After receiving his nomination for the ambassador to Malaysia, Nick Adams laid low, scaling back his super-macho posting. But like any truly-addicted poster, he hasn’t been able to actually drop the habit.
The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social lnk.thebulwark.com/490ZE4y
The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social lnk.thebulwark.com/490ZE4y
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
After receiving his nomination for the ambassador to Malaysia, Nick Adams laid low, scaling back his super-macho posting. But like any truly-addicted poster, he hasn’t been able to actually drop the habit.
The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social lnk.thebulwark.com/490ZE4y
The latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social lnk.thebulwark.com/490ZE4y
Fox News' host presses Howard Lutnick over Trump's claim that he is cutting pharmaceutical prices by more than 100%:
“If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to zero. If you cut it by 400% or 500%…the drug companies are actually paying you to take their products.”
“If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to zero. If you cut it by 400% or 500%…the drug companies are actually paying you to take their products.”
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Fox News' host presses Howard Lutnick over Trump's claim that he is cutting pharmaceutical prices by more than 100%:
“If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to zero. If you cut it by 400% or 500%…the drug companies are actually paying you to take their products.”
“If you cut something by 100%, the cost goes down to zero. If you cut it by 400% or 500%…the drug companies are actually paying you to take their products.”
Q: "Will you be seeking any authorization from Congress for any land attacks on cartels in Venezuela?"
Trump: "I wouldn't mind telling them but it's not a big deal. I don't have to tell them…I just hope they wouldn't leak it."
Trump: "I wouldn't mind telling them but it's not a big deal. I don't have to tell them…I just hope they wouldn't leak it."
December 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Q: "Will you be seeking any authorization from Congress for any land attacks on cartels in Venezuela?"
Trump: "I wouldn't mind telling them but it's not a big deal. I don't have to tell them…I just hope they wouldn't leak it."
Trump: "I wouldn't mind telling them but it's not a big deal. I don't have to tell them…I just hope they wouldn't leak it."
Trump on the vote to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center: “The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country. And I was surprised by it, and I was honored by it.”
Trump appointed the board.
Trump appointed the board.
December 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Trump on the vote to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center: “The board is a very distinguished board, most distinguished people in the country. And I was surprised by it, and I was honored by it.”
Trump appointed the board.
Trump appointed the board.
"There's no human right to be able to sit at a wine bar and eat crudité and stinky cheeses without people telling you that you suck."
@timmiller.bsky.social on Scott Bessent:
@timmiller.bsky.social on Scott Bessent:
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"There's no human right to be able to sit at a wine bar and eat crudité and stinky cheeses without people telling you that you suck."
@timmiller.bsky.social on Scott Bessent:
@timmiller.bsky.social on Scott Bessent:
Trump on cannabis: "You'll be able to see if it is as good as people say it is. I mean, people say it is beyond good. And you'll be able to find that out now."
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trump on cannabis: "You'll be able to see if it is as good as people say it is. I mean, people say it is beyond good. And you'll be able to find that out now."