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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 36m

NOTE: Leavitt says Trump will "stop by for his routine yearly check up."

But…Trump had his annual check up already. 5 months ago. On April 11.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 44m

New — White House says Donald Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday.

"On Friday morning, President Trump will visit Walter Reed Medical Center for a planned meeting and remarks with the troops. While there, President Trump will stop by for his routine yearly check up. He will then return to the White House. President Trump is considering going to the Middle East shortly thereafter." - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 2h

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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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 58m

Pop quiz: can you give another name to the ‘fa’ that Weimar Antifa was against

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 1h

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 56m

As we await genuinely momentous news, let's take a moment and remember how it's going to be announced on a social media company owned by Trump himself, and not via the White House or general media release.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 55m

Vewy Well. Wewease Habeus Corpus!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 1h

@seanjones.org Sorry, boss, but needs must and once again I'm not going down alone under the weight of this...

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, dear good God above.

Make the writ great again, eh?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 1h

You do realise I can't but hear that in Ralph's voice, yes?

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

"Bullet shelf".

Which presumably makes Ikea Rheinmetall in terms of arms manufacturing...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a far left extremist who inscribed the words, 'hey fascist, catch' -- meaning catch the bullet -- onto the bullet shelf itself."

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, but remember, they had to run the risk of being hit by a shelf...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a far left extremist who inscribed the words, 'hey fascist, catch' -- meaning catch the bullet -- onto the bullet shelf itself."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

the revenge of woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump's mouth starts drooping as he struggles to stay awake during this antifa roundtable

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

He’s been talking about “the tariff shelf” (which is mad in and of itself, but I digress). Words and concepts are starting to bleed and blur into one another.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h

"We took the freedom of speech away."

That's, um, uh, uh...wait, how did this Virginia State Flag get here...

An image of the flag of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 2h

“Shelf” is not a typographical error. The rate of decline is entering hungry peregrine falcon territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a far left extremist who inscribed the words, 'hey fascist, catch' -- meaning catch the bullet -- onto the bullet shelf itself."

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 3h

Ah, I see the inside-thought/outside-thought barrier has completely eroded away.

“We took the freedom of speech away” - that’s a nice useful quote.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 3h

It is eight months to the start of the World Cup.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico was moved from Chicago to Florida amid immigration crackdown, AP source says.

Soccer match between Argentina, Puerto Rico moved from Chicago to Florida amid immigration crackdown

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida because of unrest linked to the immigration crackdown in the city, according to a person familiar with the decision.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 3h

Look, I, for one, am willing to shoulder the burden of eating as much pheasant and sika venison as possible. For the greater good.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 3h

I give you: Obstberg in Bern.

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Schosshalde/Obstberg – Wikipedia

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David O'Sullivan. @dos13.bsky.social · 5h

We're going to have to think about what kind of planet we're going to leave Ma'a Nonu.

Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 5h

Some remarkable Nonu facts after his try scoring feats at the weekend 🤯🤯🤯🤯

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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