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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 3h

One of the best messagers in the Democratic party, hands down.

Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 4h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 4h

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like we're going to have to do this with all of Tricia's lies.

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Senior ICE Barbie Official Posts Totally False Information About Violent Arrest of Teen Girl

DHS communications lead Tricia McLaughlin made the false claim over a video that went viral.

www.thedailybeast.com

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 3h

And their faces and names, too.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h

Democrats shouldn't let go of these Young Republican messages.

Have the right-wing defend it. The VP, JD Vance, already has, and the talking points have been delivered to the MAGA base.

They keep deflecting and doing both sides, but nothing is comparable.

Just keep it in the news.

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 3h

It's why they've been attacking public education. They want to privatize it, suck up public money, and indoctrinate students.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h

Republicans are grooming a young generation to grow up to become degenerate psychopaths who indulge in racism, cruelty and anti semitism for fun.

Look at what they made you give.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 4h

Too short. Part of the reform package @democrats.org campsign on in 2026 should include special tribunals with longer statutes of limitations for any corruption and other crimes committed against the country or its inhabitants while serving in any federal role. @ericswalwell.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 4h

Johnson's entire approach to survival, which has worked for him up to now, is intransigence. He knows nothing. He does nothing. Whatever you ask him, he's never heard of it. He hasn't been there, done that, he has no strategy. Well now he has no exit.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 4h

It's called the Democratic party. Members should be able to run and whoever wins get the support of the party in the general, but the DSCC should stay out of it. If the party picks the candidate to back with financial support in a primary and/or refuses to endorse the party nominee, that is not okay

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 7h

The fact that whatever's in his brain would kill a brainworm is scarier than him having a brainworm in terms of the quality of his brain.

Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 7h

"Does he or or does he not have a brain worm?”

“It ate just a little bit of his brain and died,” Hines said. “So don’t worry."

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‘The View’ Grills Cheryl Hines On Husband RFK Jr.: “He Has Spread A Lot Of Disinformation”

Cheryl Hines, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star married to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., squared off against the co-hosts of The View today.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 7h

I love books! But I'm 1,000 times more likely to undergo an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind procedure to make me forget I ever heard about Nuzzi's relationship with RFK Jr. than I am to read her book.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah, you don't wanna know. I wish I didn't. But there's not a piece of journalism she's ever done that shouldn't be met with extreme skepticism after what she did.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h

"When the dust settles, we’ll probably see a whole lot of books written about the fancy math games that convinced investors that two companies passing $100 billion back and forth were creating $200 billion in value instead of having a net financial impact of 0" davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 7h

Hey, if you're gonna set fire to your professional reputation because you can't control yourself, might as well try to monetize it. I hope it does worse than Jake Tapper's book. Each of them in their own small way contributed to where we are right now, and no one needs to forget that.

Status @status.news · 8h

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

RESULTS: voters in Oklahoma City have passed all 11 ballot measures that make up this package—unlocking $2.7 billion across hundreds of projects. All measures up by gigantic margins.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

A set of elections to watch today: Oklahoma City residents are deciding whether to finance $2.7 billion in projects and services, a big chunk to street projects but also large pots for other purposes like funding parks.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 8h

It's awfully incompetent of her not to give the names of the leaders and their specific locations of operation so that we can be on the lookout.

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe they ought to stop attacking innocent people and try to find one then. Shameless liar is evidently a basic requirement of working in this administration.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 10h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 9h

Why would he? He agrees with it.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10h

When people show you who they are, believe them.

And of course JD Vance refused to condemn this.

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 9h

But the norovirus is free.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

"as low as $6,400 per person"

Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 13h

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arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 9h

What sad is Joe Biden would have been so empathetic, and Kirk's wife wouldn't have been able to appreciate it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

The Consoler-in-Chief.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 10h

More like every time his mouth opens.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12h

Every day a horrifying thing coming out of his mouth that will just sail on by

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

arknet @arknet.bsky.social · 10h

He's nutty as a shithouse rat. How long are Republicans going to be able to act like it's otherwise?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump on LA: "They already lost 25k houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest. They didn't do it and we had 25k homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. We broke in and had the water come down."