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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14h

Tom Homan reportedly accepted $50,000 stuffed into a takeout bag from undercover F.B.I. agents. We must continue to ask where the money went, @ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes.

Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand

Lawmakers and ordinary citizens have to keep asking about the bag of cash, or accept an executive branch without any accountability.

www.newyorker.com

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Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social · 14h

DO these 42 million people realize that in 12 days they will no longer receive food benefits?

Elderly people. Disabled people. Homeless people.

NOTHING.

42 Million Americans - 10% Of Country - May Lose Food Stamps Due To Shut Down. Now What?

As the government shutdown enters its third week, roughly 42 million Americans, one in every ten, are two weeks away from having their benefits stopped. Now what?

www.forbes.com

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 21h

It takes somebody special to choose to be a public servant. Even more special these days, a *faithful* public servant. I don’t know this man personally but I see a guy who understood this:

Doing the job > having the job

And that’s something *you* should honor.

youtu.be/vcSHMkyM0aE

Fired Justice Department lawyer blows the whistle on what he describes as abuses of power at the DOJ

YouTube video by 60 Minutes

youtu.be

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dickra.bsky.social @dickra.bsky.social · 12h

Trump is focusing National Guard deployments on political targets, not crime data azmirror.com/2025/10/20/r...

Trump is focusing National Guard deployments on political targets, not crime data | Arizona Mirror

Trump National Guard deployments crime rates data show focus on Democratic cities despite lower violent crime levels

azmirror.com

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 16h

The White House plans to give asylum to far-right anti-immigrant protesters from Europe. No. This is not a joke. It does put one in mind planned terrorism, however.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday he hopes the White House withdraws Paul Ingrassia’s Office of Special Counsel nomination, after POLITICO reported on texts that showed him making racist and anti-Semitic remarks to fellow Republicans.

“He’s not gonna pass,” Thune told reporters.

Thune hopes White House withdraws Ingrassia nomination

At least three other Republicans signal they will oppose Ingrassia's confirmation.

www.politico.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 6h

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

It looks even worse by video 😢

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 6h

can't wait for Mike Johnson to come out tomorrow and say he hasn't seen the pictures of the white house and doesn't know a thing about it

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

I haven’t seen a single Republican show any concern for workers going without pay, still scraping together money for childcare and transportation just to get to the office.

They just care about keeping Trump happy and blocking the Epstein files.

STAND STRONG, DEMOCRATS
( @rokhanna.bsky.social )

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 8h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h

👇👇

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

President Donald Trump so far has sought to deploy National Guard and active-duty soldiers to five major Democratic-led cities across the U.S.: Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Chicago; Portland, Oregon and Memphis, Tennessee.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mapped: Trump's Deployment of National Guard Troops

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14h

Tens of millions of people are set to lose food stamps in weeks and conservatives are celebrating it right in the open on social media. They’re gleeful about starving children, literally saying “fuck them kids.” Yet another reason that “pro-life” is a misnomer. They’re loudly pro-death

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Politico @politico.com · 13h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 11h

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.

The white house, a gaping wound in the east wing. It looks like a ruin or a mound of garbage

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 9h

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

Real talk…

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 8h

I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows