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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2h

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

They say nicer things about murdering dictators. Strange

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

Can't negotiate too good without Zelensky

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

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...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 7h

"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

😡😡😡😡

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 6h

Clown

Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

"India's oil refiners expect to reduce, not stop, the purchase of Russian crude following remarks by Donald Trump" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

India Refiners May Take Less Russia Oil After Trump Comments

India’s oil refiners said they expect to reduce — not stop — the purchase of Russian crude following remarks by Donald Trump that the South Asian nation would halt all buying, but are awaiting clarifi...

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

But...

“I can’t guarantee it’s going to pass,” Thune told MSNBC. “I can guarantee you that there will be a process and you will get a vote.”

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 9h

I want to know what happened to this guy youtu.be/T9uEbL-tdPY?...

Sen. John Thune: Lying to the American People is a Betrayal of Trust

YouTube video by Republicans for the Rule of Law

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 22h

What's congress for

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Locker room talk... normal stuff😏

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Shocker...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: President Trump is considering an overhaul to the U.S. refugee program that would favor mostly white people, documents show.

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Hypocritical asshole

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 1d

Quite the endorsement of Justice Kavanaugh's opinion.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

The nazi thugs ran into band members

"federal agents barreled into the band while pursuing another suspect, bystander video shows." www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Digital Soldier😏

an elderly woman wearing glasses and a wig is holding a piece of string in her hand .

ALT: an elderly woman wearing glasses and a wig is holding a piece of string in her hand .

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

The government pressured Facebook. Same thing SCOTUS dinged the Biden administration for...

Got it

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