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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

Dems, I bet of you, STOP VOTING FOR TRUMP JUDGES JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 10h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 12m

And jail for all those clowns standing there with him

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 23m

Democrats need to go on the record re. whether they'll use every available means to expropriate the full stolen fortune of this lawless mobster family or whether they'd prefer to leave public life for good. There's no third option:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 3h

The New York Times describes Trump demanding his own Justice Department pay him $230 million as a "potential" ethical conflict.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1h

I’m like genuinely, personally pissed off about Trump just wrecking the East Wing of the White House. And I generally don’t care about shit like this. Democrats should be screaming about this, standing near the destruction, asking if anyone who loves the country would ruin the people’s house.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 3h

"The stated policy of every Democrat seeking the presidency should be that the first thing they will do is demolish the Trump ballroom and restore the East Wing of the White House and the White House grounds to their pre-Trump state."

www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-a...

No Kings and the Laws of Power

Understanding the Republican will to power and what Democrats must do to counter it.

www.thebulwark.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h

the most popular smartphone maker in history literally had to stop using "AI" because it would constantly just make things up and had zero contextual "understanding" of what it was doing

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 8h

There is a very strong case that everything started breaking in one specific year: 1971.

That was the year of the Powell Memo.

Take a look at this website. Scroll and scroll and scroll. It'll blow your mind.

wtfhappenedin1971.com

WTF Happened In 1971?

Visit the post for more.

wtfhappenedin1971.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 10h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄️ @mu-peter.bsky.social · 9h

High-quality Denisovan genome, reconstructed from a molar found at Denisova Cave. Belonged to a man who lived ~200 Kya

A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan 🏺🧪
S. Peyregne, @benceviola.bsky.social, @elenaessel.bsky.social, @janetk.bsky.social et al
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Relationships of Denisova 25 to archaic and modern humans.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h

Democrats are still voting to support Trump nominees

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 10h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 9h

A new video circulating on social media shows Israeli soldiers assaulting two young Palestinian children, Adam and Ibrahim al-Rajbi, aged around four and six, while they were playing on the ground in Hebron.

Filmed by Palestinian journalist Yasser Jaradat.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10h

Until Margaret Thatcher decided we needed to Privatise it the UK had the cheapest Water in Europe, among the cheapest Electricity and cheap rail/mail.

Now we have ripoff Water, the world's most expensive electricity and the most expensive rail/mail in Europe.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 10h

The deepest aspect of the Epstein scandal, I think, is this question: and it's one that many, many sectors of polite society seem to go out of their way to avoid asking

so much focus has been put on the prince that after reading this book, it wasn’t him I thought about most; it was the casual visitors to Epstein’s New York mansion, the illustrious men and occasional woman whom Giuffre says she encountered at dinners there.

In respect of these people I’d like to ask: who the fuck did they think the 17-year-old at the table was? What did they think she was doing there? Only Melinda Gates, who met Epstein once and cited him as a factor in the breakdown of her marriage to Bill Gates, sensed what apparently none of these people could put their finger on. Giuffre quotes from a statement made by Gates after her meeting with Epstein: “I regretted it the second I walked in the door. He was abhorrent. He was evil personified.” It was an insight that evidently escaped geniuses like the MIT professors Epstein continued to advise long after he’d become a convicted sex offender.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · Aug 2

Last summer, The Heritage Foundation encouraged people to fill out an application so they could be matched with a position in a potential Trump administration. The applications recently leaked; a Paul Ingrassia wrote that he is passionate about ending birthright citizenship, and wants voting tests.

Project 2025 Data Leak Shows a Paul Ingrassia Calling for Test for Voting and Halting Immigration

Trump appointed far-right loyalist Paul Ingrassia to head a Justice Department office responsible for keeping politics out of the civil service.

theintercept.com

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Marcus @dkircaldy.bsky.social · 12h

It's illegal. He needs to be arrested.

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Fricking Delight (No Refunds) @blikethecheese.bsky.social · 14h

The architect in charge of this monstrosity is Jim McCrery

Jim McCrery, bootlicker and destroyer of the people’s house.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 12h

I just do not get it.

Do they not teach in law school how breaking the law is illegal? Why are all these lawyers so scared to call out that the ENTIRE political system is engaging in some of the most cartoonishly extreme crimes in the entire history of the republic?

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sick @sickjon.bsky.social · 12h

If the president asks you to illegally knock down the White House and you do it, you should be arrested.

We have to go after all of this like you go after any criminal enterprise. Start with street level and work up.
Trump may have immunity, but no one else does. Arrest and charge them all

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

I find it amazing too that Republicans’ boycott of Washington isn’t the biggest story of them all.

The shutdown can’t end if they refuse to show up for work.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 13h

Please, lefties, no more proud troop candidates.

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 1d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14h

Anyone else think it’s sort of funny how AWS laid off 40% of its DevOps staff in July because AI made them “redundant” and then it suffered a catastrophic outage?

AWS Laid Off 40% of Its DevOps Staff — What They’re Using Instead Will Shock You

- By Sandesh (5 + Years of DevOps | CI/CD | AWS | k8 | DevSecOps)

aws.plainenglish.io

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

We took infinity more care with our 100-y-o windows during a recent renovation than this, and our house is...not the White House

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT THE FUCK

One side of the White House has just been ripped out

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