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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 29m

JD Vance told shameless lies on both ABC’s This Week and NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday.

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The Insufferable Liar, JD Vance

Sunday’s talk show circuit revealed the Vice President is willing to lie shamelessly, but he’s just not very good at it

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 1h

The ramifications for such a ruling could widely reverberate across America, and it could give the GOP more seats to illicitly keep control of the House due to the elimination of VRA districts and GOP election-rigging gerrymandering schemes, even if their agenda is unpopular.

SCOTUS Seems Ready to Scrap Fair Elections, Greenlight Racial Discrimination and Hand House Control to GOP

Read more here.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 1h

Malignant moron JD Vance pushed the BS narrative about “left-wing violence” being a “big problem”, when in reality we have a far-bigger right-wing violence problem.

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JD Vance has some wild ideas about left-wing protesters

Vice President and cat hater JD Vance appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show” Wednesday to falsely claim that left-wing political violence is out of control. He alleged that the “deep state” has ...

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 1h

David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher wrote in a Rolling Stone opinion column that right-wing interest seek to shred any remaining constraints against letting billionaires buy elections to turn America into a Russia-style kleptocracy.

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The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections

J.D. Vance and other MAGA interests are working to get the Supreme Court to end restrictions on campaign-spending limits.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 1h

Blues got embarrassed by the Blackhawks 8-3 on home ice on national TV. The sadder thing is that the game was even 2-2 after 20, and it all fell apart for the Note from there. #STLBlues #CHIvsSTL

Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 1h

Aaron Blake wrote in CNN’s Politics section that the GOP’s power-hungry election-rigging redistricting schemes at the behest of the Trump White House are about illicitly maintaining power even when the majority of Americans are opposed to their fascistic and terroristic agenda.

Analysis: The GOP’s redistricting gambit is not ‘the will of the people’ | CNN Politics

Republicans are ratcheting up their extraordinary efforts to tip the scales of the 2026 midterm elections by redistricting new GOP-leaning US House seats in the middle of the decade.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 4h

In AFGE v. OMB, Judge Susan Illston issues a temporary injunction against the unlawful firings by OMB head Russ Vought during the GOP-caused government shutdown.

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Judge temporarily blocks firings by Trump administration during shutdown

Judge says White House office of management and budget took advantage of government shutdown in firing workers

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 4h

Very scary times indeed. The Trump Regime is creating a secret police omniforce.

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Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 8h

The Trump Regime is using the upcoming No Kings 2.0 protests as a pretext to suppress dissent against the fascist regime.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 19h

President Donald Trump, Republican officials, and their right-wing media allies have laid the groundwork for a broadbased attack on core progressive and Democratic Party institutions in response to Saturday’s planned nationwide “No Kings” protests. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 8h

NewsNation uses Decison Desk HQ, and as for the separated from NBCU MSNBC (soon-to-be MS NOW), they could join the AP VoteCast or join up with DDHQ.

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Top News Networks Shift to AP Data for 2026, 2028 Elections

ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN join Fox News in using the wire service’s election tabulation data ahead of 2026 and 2028.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 8h

Big news for election data prognostication: ABC News, CBS News, CBS News, and CNN exit the Edison Research's National Election Pool, will join AP VoteCast for the 2026 and 2028 elections that the agency and Fox "News" also use.

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Top News Networks Shift to AP Data for 2026, 2028 Elections

ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN join Fox News in using the wire service’s election tabulation data ahead of 2026 and 2028.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 10h

Eric Trump made himself look a fool on MAGA blowhard Benny Johnson’s The Benny Show Monday.

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‘Dissent Becomes Evil’: Eric Trump’s Claim Father Is Guided by God Slammed by Experts

Eric Trump’s controversial remarks — declaring that his father is guided by God and praising what he describes as a divinely orchestrated series of events leading America to this moment — are being bl...

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 11h

This is 100% correct. Indigenous Peoples’ Day should be the holiday the US celebrates on Canadian Thanksgiving (2nd Monday in October), not Columbus Day.
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Indigenous Peoples' Day Must Replace Columbus Day

Columbus was a historical figure who should be studied, not an icon to be honored

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 11h

Arizona AG Kris Mayes (D) threatens to file a lawsuit against pedo protector and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over his refusal to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), as her swearing-in would likely mean that the discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files would pass.

Arizona Attorney General Threatens To Sue Mike Johnson Over Failure To Swear In New Member

Democrats have also accused Johnson of delaying the move to head off a vote related to the Epstein files.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 12h

What is in those chats is the consequences of how the bigoted rhetoric from Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes and their ilk are normalized in some YR circles.

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 12h

Politico reported on the private chats in Telegram used by Young Republicans across the nation to launder antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+, sexism, and racism, along with violent talk.

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

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 13h

Moms For Liberty, a right-wing “parental rights” organization, had an iron grip on Indian River County’s schools in Florida.

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How Moms for Liberty Took Over One Florida County

As the M4L annual summit kicks off this weekend, here’s how one of the group’s original chapters is sowing chaos and pushing anti-LGBTQ policies in Indian River County.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 15h

Los Angeles County’s commissioners voted 4-1 to approve the state of emergency declaration over ongoing ICE-tapo raids in the area that have disrupted the economy and caused widespread fears among immigrant populations.

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Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 15h

Rene Knott, who worked at KSDK for over 21 years, suddenly left the station.
Knott first came to KSDK to be the sports director when Mike Bush converted to news anchor full time, then later did the same thing Bush did and also become a news anchor.

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Rene Knott parts ways with KSDK in sudden split

Morning show anchor Rene Knott wasn’t on air this morning at KSDK (Channel 5)—and while reporter Mercedes MacKay told the audience she was filling in for 21-year station veteran, the reality appears t...

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 15h

Republicans’ temper tantrums over No Kings 2.0 protests that will happen Saturday across the nation, such as calling these protests “hate America” & “pro-Hamas” rallies, is yet more proof that they are afraid of lots of Americans standing up to the crazed anti-American agenda of the Trump Regime.

The GOP has only brought enormous attention to No Kings protests

That's good, because the corporate media is doing a terrible job.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 16h

Over the last year or so, The Washington Post, especially its opinion section, has veered further to the right, and that is a sad tragedy for the once-storied paper.

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Washington Post columnist proudly boasts ‘we’re now a conservative opinion page’

Marc Thiessen declared on social media that he’s no longer an ‘outlier’ at the Washington Post, as the paper’s opinion section is wholly ‘conservative’ now

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 16h

As millions of Americans face health insurance coverage losses, right-wing media pundits sing from the same hymnal that the Trump Regime and GOP politicians to push the BS lie that Democrats want to give free health care benefits to undocumented immigrants.

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Right-wing media falsely claim benefits go to undocumented immigrants as millions of Americans face health coverage losses

On October 1, the federal government shut down after Republican majorities in the House and the Senate failed to negotiate a funding extension with Democrats, who are looking to prevent millions of Am...

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 16h

As of today, 68 Democrats in the House have co-sponsored the bill include Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Nikki Budzinski (IL), Wesley Bell (MO), Jasmine Crockett (TX), and Greg Landsman (OH).

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Democrats launch bid to fund nutrition program for low-income women and kids amid shutdown

Exclusive: Congressional Democrats set to introduce bill to shore up the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 16h

House Democrats, led by Reps. Bobby Scott (VA) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR), seek to introduce the WIC Benefits Protection Act to ensure WIC funding is secure, even during government shutdowns, by making the program mandatory.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Democrats launch bid to fund nutrition program for low-income women and kids amid shutdown

Exclusive: Congressional Democrats set to introduce bill to shore up the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program

www.theguardian.com

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