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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 1h

This is an overt lie from JD Vance.

The CATO Institute and a study cited on the DOJ’s own website (before Trump scrubbed it) found that far-right extremists commit significantly more politically motivated murders than the left.

I cited this data on CNN a couple weeks ago.

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 4h

The GOP underestimated the impact of the women’s march in Trump’s first term and how it would galvanize the movement that eventually ousted him from office.

This time they’ve swung the other way and sound like they’ve been traumatized and personally targeted by the mere idea of a protest.

Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump Admin is desperately trying to falsely defame the No Kings protests as a paid "Antifa" operation because they know the image of millions of Americans organically protesting Trump highlights their deepening unpopularity.

The lies are a mask for their weakness.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump Admin is desperately trying to falsely defame the No Kings protests as a paid "Antifa" operation because they know the image of millions of Americans organically protesting Trump highlights their deepening unpopularity.

The lies are a mask for their weakness.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 5h

The radicalization of young men is a problem. The path from lonely incel to loser far-right nutjob is paved with algorithmic grifters preying on their insecurities.

Rather than taking ownership over their lives & becoming real men, many fall for the scapegoating far-right grift.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 5h

When Johnson was asked about Trump's Jan 6 pardons, he defended them:

"The president has the pardon & commutation authority.… There was a weaponization… The prosecutions that happened after Jan 6… The president made his decision. I don't second-guess those."

This is a lie👇🏾

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Bob Hiebert @bobgonit.bsky.social · 21h

More than general concepts, Ahmed breaks down specifically where Trump policies are costing all of us money and impacting our livelihoods for no benefit to us.

Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote an article in my newsletter breaking down this point in more detail. You can check it out here and consider subscribing if you like it:

Authoritarianism Has A Cost: How Trump’s Abuses Of Power Are Harming The Economy

Trump's tariffs are raising prices. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. And his immigration raids are damaging local economies. Trump's authoritarianism is a kitchen table issue.

www.ahmedbaba.news

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote an article in my newsletter breaking down this point in more detail. You can check it out here and consider subscribing if you like it:

Authoritarianism Has A Cost: How Trump’s Abuses Of Power Are Harming The Economy

Trump's tariffs are raising prices. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. And his immigration raids are damaging local economies. Trump's authoritarianism is a kitchen table issue.

www.ahmedbaba.news

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rslugs @rslugs-mross36.bsky.social · 1d

Worth a read!

Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's tariffs are raising prices. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. His ICE raids are damaging local economies.

Dems don't have to pick between affordability & democracy messaging.

Trump's authoritarianism is a kitchen table issue.

Authoritarianism Has A Cost: How Trump’s Abuses Of Power Are Harming The Economy

Trump's tariffs are raising prices. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. And his immigration raids are damaging local economies. Trump's authoritarianism is a kitchen table issue.

www.ahmedbaba.news

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's tariffs are raising prices. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. His ICE raids are damaging local economies.

Dems don't have to pick between affordability & democracy messaging.

Trump's authoritarianism is a kitchen table issue.

Authoritarianism Has A Cost: How Trump’s Abuses Of Power Are Harming The Economy

Trump's tariffs are raising prices. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. And his immigration raids are damaging local economies. Trump's authoritarianism is a kitchen table issue.

www.ahmedbaba.news

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 1d

Appreciate you always watching and sharing my work! It really means a lot 🙏🏾

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 1d

I really appreciate how Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social listens to the other people at this table, acknowledges their contributions, then pulls in his own thoughts.

MTG shocks Democrats by going scorched-earth against Trump”

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the only Republicans who sees where this is headed.

Trump is weak. He’s tanking the economy and raising prices. He’s underwater on key issues. The GOP is likely headed to a midterm loss.

This isn’t a moral awakening. MTG is positioning herself for a post-Trump GOP.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about this in more detail in my newsletter. Check it out and consider becoming a subscriber:

Trump & Russell Vought Plan To Exploit The Shutdown To Accelerate Project 2025

The Trump Administration is using the government shutdown as a pretext to speedrun their planned purges of federal workers, executing a key goal of Project 2025 - which Russell Vought helped craft.

www.ahmedbaba.news

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 2d

Trump & Vought are exploiting the shutdown to accelerate Project 2025.

They're on track to hit 300k ousted federal workers by the end of 2025. They just ousted 4.2k more.

The purge of nonpartisan civil servants aims to twist the federal bureaucracy into a loyalist tool of Trump.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism has a cost.

Trump's tariffs are based on a fake economic emergency declaration. His federal purges are surging Black unemployment. His cruel ICE raids are damaging local economies.

Trump's abuses of power are hitting Americans' wallets. Dems should say that.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll be on @msnbc.com’s The Weekend Primetime at 8:15 pm EST tonight to talk about the government shutdown with Ayman Mohyeldin, @ahylton26.bsky.social, and @paoramos.bsky.social.

Tune in 🙌🏾

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump Admin is lying. There is no “rebellion,” as multiple judges have ruled. Crime is down in all the cities Trump is targeting.

This is a clear effort to create a false justification to invoke the Insurrection Act & put the military in control of civilian law enforcement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 4d

Trump talks about Portland like it’s a violent hellscape and then we see footage of the protests and it’s just some twerkers in a Reptar costume

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Johnson is falsely generalizing the “No Kings” protestors as extremists to justify crackdowns. The truth is, they’re patriots.

These protestors don’t “hate America.” They oppose an authoritarian president who tramples on the freedoms and principles America was founded on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 5d

The purging of the federal bureaucracy of nonpartisan civil servants is a central component of Project 2025.

You can read more about this in my newsletter. If you like the piece, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber:

Trump & Russell Vought Plan To Exploit The Shutdown To Accelerate Project 2025

The Trump Administration is using the government shutdown as a pretext to speedrun their planned purges of federal workers, executing a key goal of Project 2025 - which Russell Vought helped craft.

www.ahmedbaba.news

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 5d

Last week, I wrote an article about how Trump and Russell Vought would exploit this shutdown to accelerate Project 2025.

Here we go. Mass layoffs have begun.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 5d

Surprise. The President, who is deploying troops to Democratic cities, sending ICE to terrorize communities, changing the name of DOD to the Department of War, approving extrajudicial killings of people on boats near Venezuela, didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Shocking.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 6d

Marjorie Taylor Greene is out here calling for the ACA subsidies to be renewed and blaming GOP leadership for the shutdown.

There are some real cracks beginning to form in the Republican Party’s shutdown strategy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Marjorie Taylor Greene on polls showing Republicans are getting blamed for the shutdown: "I'm not putting the blame on the president. I'm actually putting the the blame on the Speaker and Leader Thune in the Senate. This should not be happening ... we control the House & Senate & have the WH."

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 7d

"We took the freedom of speech away..." - Donald Trump, October 8, 2025

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

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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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 7d

We can't become desensitized to this.

The President of the United States is baselessly calling for the jailing of two Dem leaders on the same day a former FBI Director was arraigned for an indictment the president personally directed. This is un-American authoritarian insanity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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