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Anti-fascist & recovering Catholic. Gen Xer & DC native who is 420 friendly. Please adopt, don't shop. 🚫MAGA MORONS 🚫DM's unless I know you. No posts...no follow...reposts don't count. I Have Friends Everywhere...

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DreadedPool💙🇺🇦🏳‍🌈🐸 @dreadedpool.bsky.social · Mar 4

Corporate media and their paid propagandist's have determined that dictatorship is more profitable than democracy.

First rule of Trump Club: He always lies.
Second rule of Trump Club: His supporters always lie.
Third rule of Trump Club: The media amplifies the lies.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mike Johnson is still calling the No Kings protests the "hate American rallies"

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DreadedPool💙🇺🇦🏳‍🌈🐸 @dreadedpool.bsky.social · 2h

He's such a lying little weasel.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

"A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries."

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

www.cbsnews.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

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Saigonbond @ogsaigonbond.bsky.social · 13h

More GOP Nazis, of course.
Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and said he has “a Nazi streak.”

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

Trump nominee says MLK Jr. holiday belongs in ‘hell’ and that he has ‘Nazi streak,’ 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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romanyel.bsky.social @romanyel.bsky.social · 16h

Please, somebody tell me. If the borders are closed as tight as the admin keeps saying, why are they killing people in boats?

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 16h

trump is training the US military, just like you train a dog and don't forget Kristi Noem, you kill the ones you can't train. In this case you force them into retirement but it is the same thing. They don't dare speak up or he'll come for a rank and their retirement.

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Blue in Alaska🤙🏻 🫘the Real Fat Shady. Is it 4:20 yet?? @akmooserider.bsky.social · 13h

I might catch heat for this, but I have reservations with Pritzker.......dude's a billionaire......eat the fucking rich. YES, I know he's doing a great job of bucking Trump and MAGA, but I'm always wary of rich dude's like him...........comment and assuage my fears please, because I wanna like him.

a man in a pink hat is covering his mouth with his hand .

ALT: a man in a pink hat is covering his mouth with his hand .

media.tenor.com

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🇨🇦MAGA CL🤡WN🇨🇦 @magabraindisease.bsky.social · 14h

Unless people do a No Kings turnout every single day, things will only get worse when it comes to ICE and all of the damage Trump, Noem, Bondi & Hegseth are causing.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 14h

ICE has killed at least 19 people since it began its kidnapping spree under orders of Donald Trump; most victims died while in internment due to “illness” caused by the deliberate poor conditions they are held in.

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Macalester. @macalester.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine being such an anti-democracy pos that you think the president of the United States should have the authority to deploy the military against U.S. citizens in an American city.

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wacky paki @wp410.bsky.social · 18h

Fascist court decrees fascist leader can use fascist troops on citizens.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 15h

“You have to keep my messages secret because I used the magic phrase for journalists but also you’re not a journalist [so the magic phrase doesn’t work]” is all of the insight you ever need into the prosecutorial mind of Lindsey Halligan.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist.

But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a...

You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about

LH Lindsey Halligan @
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Sat, Oct 11
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By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.
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I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 15h

This is amazing.

My big takeaway is that a lot of these Trump appointees, and definitely Lindsey Halligan, are desperately insecure about how stupid/unqualified they are for the positions they hold.

Which just tells me we should talk about it more.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

You clearly didn’t get the response you wanted—which was information handed over to you without having to dig into the facts of the case to craft a truthful story—so you thought you’d “tattletale” to main justice. Lindsay [sic] Halligan was attempting to point you to facts, not gossip, but when clarifying that she would adhere to the rule of the law and not disclose Grand Jury information, you threaten to leak an entire conversation. Good luck ever getting anyone to talk to you when you publish their texts.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 14h

LIVE NOW: @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and @annabower.bsky.social are discussing her article about how interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan reached out to her on Signal—and the conversation that followed. youtube.com/live/SZZyccE...

Lawfare Live, The Now: Anna Bower's Signal Exchange with Lindsey Halligan

YouTube video by Lawfare

youtube.com

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 14h

I believe this is Lawfare-speak for “Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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DreadedPool💙🇺🇦🏳‍🌈🐸 @dreadedpool.bsky.social · 14h

🎯and I hope Americans are paying close attention.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14h

Makes so crystal clear how absurd 9thC is, how baseless the Trump regime's justification is. Yeah, that hippo in a pink tutu looks menacing...

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14h

wonderful: the reality vs. the 9th circuit!!

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 14h

The Contrarian welcomes @timdickinson.bsky.social, reporting from the ground on the hippos in tutus threatening to turn Portland into a "war zone" necessitating military deployment.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 14h

The Contrarian welcomes @timdickinson.bsky.social, reporting from the ground on the hippos in tutus threatening to turn Portland into a "war zone" necessitating military deployment.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14h

wonderful: the reality vs. the 9th circuit!!

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 14h

The Contrarian welcomes @timdickinson.bsky.social, reporting from the ground on the hippos in tutus threatening to turn Portland into a "war zone" necessitating military deployment.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 15h

Eliza Orlins breaks down today's enraging 9th Circuit decision—by Trump appointed judges—allowing the president to deploy Oregon National Guard to battle the army of carnival-attired loungers in Portland.

@elizaorlins.bsky.social

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15h

superb explainer

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 15h

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know about you, but what I get from Trump's social media posts is that he could easily be replaced by AI slop and literally no one, including his wife and kids, would notice the difference.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22h

Ugly, dishonest, dangerous, divisive, and completely un-American. But a reminder that Christian Nationalism is a very real and growing threat to our nation.👇

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