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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

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Unfunky In 5/4 @inunfunky5.bsky.social · 1h

Ha! Where’s that Grindr info?

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Resistance Frog Russ @massivruss.bsky.social · 1h

Mike is a bottom, after all.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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duddyp.bsky.social @duddyp.bsky.social · 3h

I wish the politicians, media, and others would suspend all use of it.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening

good!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then, well 👇🤷‍♂️

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1h

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives made hyped-up accusations the IRS was being politicized and denounced that.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2h

The Trump administration is planning massive changes that will allow the IRS to go after left-wing groups, according to a new report late Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.

New Trump scheme seeks to let loyalists hunt down left-wing groups through IRS

The Trump administration is planning massive changes that will allow the IRS to go after left-wing groups, according to a new report late Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.The change would allow the administration to stack the IRS's criminal investigation unit with Trump allies "to exert firmer c...

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ᴋʟᴀᵾs @tinyklaus.com · 10h

They're finally roasting Peter Thiel.

Twisted Christian: Cartman is possessed and may be the key to stopping the Antichrist.

Watch an all-new episode of South Park tonight at 10/9c on Comedy Central and next day on Paramount+.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans love to portray immigrants as domestic abusers but when actually given the opportunity to say whether they care about domestic violence, the answer is always no.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h

What a lede

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sasha (hochul state of mind) @silverknyaz.bsky.social · 2h

i hate both of these people want nothing but failure for them, regardless of the level of accuracy of Shitcil's post

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schnucksmacguffin.bsky.social @schnucksmacguffin.bsky.social · 2h

I always get mixed up, follow Talia J*ne, and then quickly unfollow.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h

We don't need a fucking Fox News, but on the left.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h

I try not to repost news from Meidas because, and this is important, they click bait and rage bait and honestly I don't think any of us need that shit.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how all the beautiful dumb stuff really does matter, and why you should come out for No Kings Day on Saturday.

The opposite of complicity

Why showing up matters and what it can actually do.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees let Mississippi kill Charles Ray Crawford tonight, despite treatment at trial that was of the same type that SCOTUS later held in another case is unconstitutional.

All three Democratic appointees, in a lengthy dissent, would have kept him alive.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25-385 (25A378)
CHARLES RAY CRAWFORD v. MISSISSIPPI ON APPLICATION FOR STAY AND ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
[October 15, 2025]
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to JUSTICE ALITO and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is de-nied.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from the denial of application for stay and denial of certiorari.
Charles Ray Crawford will be executed tonight for a crime that his own lawyers told the jury he committed, despite his express instructions not to do so. Had this case come to this Court on direct appeal, Crawford could have proved that his Sixth Amendment rights were violated under our decision in McCoy v. Louisiana, 584 U.S. 414
(2018), in which we held that lawyers may not override a defendant's explicit and unequivocal decision not to concede guilt at trial. He would also likely be entitled to a new trial, as a McCoy violation is a structural error that mandates reversal.

Charles Ray Crawford has identified an important constitutional issue that this Court has not addressed and has divided courts around the country. The Court refuses to
Cite as: 607 U.S.
(2025)
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SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
resolve that question, even though a man's life is in the bal-ance. For these reasons, the Court should have granted Crawford's motion for a stay of execution and petition for writ of certiorari. I respectfully dissent.

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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 2h

The first rule of covert action is to make sure it gets covered in the paper.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 2h

A bureaucracy like DHS and Border Patrol have dedicated staff whose sole responsibility is the drafting, approving, and posting of such social media content. They know the people involved. They know damn well why and it is because this is a Nazi government.

Border Patrol won’t say why it used a Michael Jackson song with antisemitic lyrics

The video was live on Facebook and Instagram for two months.

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Sciencematters @totoroandscience.bsky.social · 10h

Friendly reminder from 2020. Rubber bullets are very hard and can do permanent damage, like skull and brain injury. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Portland protester disabled by 2020 incident with US Marshal gets $7.65 million

A deputy U.S. Marshal shot Donavan LaBella in the head with a less-than-lethal munition outside the federal courthouse in downtown Portland on July 11, 2020. The incident has left LaBella, who at the ...

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Unfunky In 5/4 @inunfunky5.bsky.social · 2h

Didn’t know this —

“DiCaprio typically gets first-dollar gross on his movies, meaning he gets a percentage of box office revenues before the studio recoups any costs.”

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‘One Battle After Another’ Projected to Lose $100 Million Theatrically as ‘Smashing Machine’ and Others Also Struggle Due to Oversized Budgets

Why "The Smashing Machine," "One Battle After Another" and other buzzy films are failing to make a profit at the box office.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2h

Did this movie fuck Variety’s girl?

"One Battle After Another" needs roughly $300 million to break even in theaters. The film's current $140 million gross is impressive for an original movie that's R rated and nearly three hours long, but the film is still tracking to lose $100 million.
Warner Bros. spent more than $130 million on production and $70 million on promotional efforts, and ticket sales are typically split 50-50 between studios and theater operators.
Read more here: wp.me/pc8uak-1|GrTQ

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2h

But I was told trump was going to make things cheaper

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

if there's an overarching theme of the last decade, (with obvious antecedents in 2009, 2000, 1994, and earlier) it's that one political faction believes governance to be a tool of warfare against their domestic enemies, and the other is surprised they keep getting attacked seemingly out of nowhere.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

Trump is in no small part the result
of failing to staff up the IRS and send it after white-collar crime, so of course now that he has a second presidency he's planning to use it as a weapon against his political enemies.

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