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Recovering journo, Champion of the Apostrophe Former: Your favorite neighborhood bartender Current: Librocubicularist Laureate Still pretty good at listening & libations Dogs are welcome here. Humans will be vetted.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · Jan 26
" ... the soul-blighted Donald Trump and the satraps and lackeys who abet his nefarious behavior—are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. This must be stated clearly, and repeatedly."

Sadly, unbelievably, it must be stated again.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
A Party, and Nation, in Crisis
The GOP’s leaders are ​​attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy.
www.theatlantic.com
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h
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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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h
Never forget they aren’t telling the truth when they say they care about stopping political violence.

Few acts in history have done more to incentivize political violence than the January 6th pardons. And virtually every mainstream Republican supported letting them all out.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h
WOW. A third of ICE recruits can’t pass a fitness test that I do multiple times a week, and I’m a 51 year old woke cat lady with a nose ring who loves a soy latte.
adamweinstein.bsky.social Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 16h
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1h
Ernst knows Charlie Kirk paid to send busloads of white supremacists to DC for the failed insurrection.

She also knows Iowans made signs, took time off, arranged child care, walked, carpooled, rode mobility scooters across town to make our voices heard - because we've been telling her.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h
For several years, I lived an hour south of Syracuse on a grad school stipend of $11,000 for the entire year.

The Hitler Middle Age here spent twice that in a weekend.
alexckaufman.bsky.social Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 2h
Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h
As predicted.
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h
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
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 14h
Amateur hour at DOJ.
annabower.bsky.social 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 @ © 8h Sat, Oct 11 • Unknown set disappearing message time to 8 hours. ‹ You accepted the message request. Options Today 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. 32m O I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect. 24m O o
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
NEW: Paul Ingrassia, Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of 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," according to a text chat viewed by POLITICO.
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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h
The New York Times should be writing paragraphs like this:
“Mr. Trump originally said back in July that the construction of his ballroom, at a cost of more than $200 million, ‘won’t interfere with the current building.’ But that was a lie, as was suspected at the time and was proven Monday.”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14h
Can’t wait to share my exclusive interview with the incredible @kim.senate.gov and @petebuttigieg.bsky.social!

Check out the Katie Phang News channel on YouTube tomorrow, October 21st at 1:30 pm ET, for this amazing conversation:

youtube.com/@katiephangn...
kim.senate.gov Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 14h
Today, I caught up with my friend @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. Turns out, we’ve both had it with Trump’s mob boss politics. Full conversation with @katiephang.bsky.social dropping on YouTube tomorrow at 1:30pm.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 13h
Idk but if I was them I'd be thinking "How am I gonna cover my ass when this all goes to shit?"
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14h
Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14h
Trump Is Literally Destroying The White House and America

Progressive commentator and host Kyle Kulinski joins The Left Hook to urge Americans, & the Democratic Party, to wake up and play hardball against a Trump Administration aiming for permanent power.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-is-l...
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h
According to TMZ (so take that how you will), Trump is considering commuting Sean Diddy Combs’ sentence as early as this week.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
REAGAN: “When someone says let’s impose tariffs, it may look like they’re doing the patriotic thing… but over the long run trade barriers hurt every 🇺🇸 worker.”

🇨🇦 Ontario just ran this👇🏽powerful ad using Reagan’s voice against Trump’s trade war during game 7 of the ALCS ⚾️
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h
MAGA: there wasn’t even a mishap with the artillery over I-5 you lying libtard

Marines: halted exercise after firing 6 155 mm rounds because one prematurely detonated over the highway

MAGA: DIDN’T HAPPEN NERDS

Marines: we’ve opened an investigation and believe a fuze failed
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d
"AI, make a video of a bunch of angry-looking young Black men with obviously large penises that will inspire fear and anger in the hearts of shriveled up old white guys"
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d
Wonder if she told AI to give the Black men obvi large ... energy ... to further frighten & enrage shriveled old white dudes?
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d
One of the leaders of the Tea Party was literally named Dick Armey and they got tons of favorable coverage, one person shows up as a lone volunteer for a No Kings dick army and they get arrested on site. bsky.app/profile/thek...
thekoolaidmom.bsky.social thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 2d
#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d
Lying Mike Johnson claims the last government shutdown was in 2013. The last TWO federal shutdowns were during Trump’s last term. Trump has been responsible for close to 2/3 of all federal shutdown days in US history.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Mike Johnson: "We congratulate them on an apparently violent-free speech exercise ... but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open right now ... by the way, the Mall was open because President Trump hasn't closed it."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d
I would love to see you in Linn County, Iowa on November 1st.
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inkwrat @inkwrat.bsky.social · 1d
Hey when you're accidentally fragging your security detail maybe you shouldn't be in charge of anything, ever.
willbunch.bsky.social Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d
Trump has escalated from murdering South American fishermen to now bombing California freeways
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d
Yesterday, millions of us affirmed the foundation of the common good. That solidarity is stronger than Trump and his lapdogs. Our determination is more powerful. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-in-solidarity
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d
the ceasefire is not holding www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
New Flare-Up of Violence Strains Gaza Cease-Fire
www.nytimes.com
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d
The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.
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