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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 8h

He can find it on the tariff shelf

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

This part didn’t make into the Final Cut on 60 Minutes ⬇️

And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don't have to put this on, because I don't wanna embarrass you, and I'm sure you're not-- you have a great-- I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who's the young woman that's leading your whole enterprise is a great-- from what I know.
I don't know her, but I hear she's a great person. But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me-- a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election.
And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can't have fake news. You've gotta have legit news. And I think that it's happening. I see--
NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr. President--
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --I see good things happening in the news. I really do.
And I think one of the best things to happen is this show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership. I think it's the greatest thing that's happened in a long time to a free and open and good press.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 19h

🙏🙏🙏

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

can someone make a supercut of johnson saying he doesn't know anything

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

Raju: Last week, you were very critical of Biden, you said he didn’t even know who was pardoning. On 60 minutes, Trump admitted not knowing he pardoned a crypto billionaire guilty of money laundering. Is that also concerning?

Johnson: I don’t know anything about it.

Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 21h

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

We didn't. Read the story that he wanted dropped:

“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America

Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2d

just call this the titanic world series

an elderly woman says it 's been 84 years ...

Alt: an old woman says "it's been 84 years ..."

media.tenor.com

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 2d

I like that, it attempts to box the president in with his own words. Notice I say "attempt".

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 2d

No, but refusing food stamps to millions of kids will, you fucking monster.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

ROTFL i fucking hate this timeline

Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, to EBT cards once a month, but the dates are staggered by state and within each state.

Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

Does the TRO apply to all states or just Defendants? I can't tell from the court's phrasing.

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

give him a few minutes, his handlers need to tell him the plan

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

The point, as always, is to destroy institutions of art that might disrupt or threaten the ruling party. THIS WAS THE INTENT.

Travis M Andrews @travismandrews.bsky.social · 3d

EXCLUSIVE: After Trump took over the Kennedy Center in Feb, he vowed to make it "hot" again. So, how's it doing? @jeremybmerrill.com and I used data from the center's ticketing website to find out. Ticket sales are lowest they've been since the pandemic.

www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover

Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

The point, as always, is to destroy institutions of art that might disrupt or threaten the ruling party. THIS WAS THE INTENT.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3d

25 hospitalizations, six deaths and one fetal loss have been reported in a listeria outbreak linked to recalled ready-to-eat pasta salads supplied by Nate's Fine Foods Inc. sold at Trader Joe's, Sprouts, Kroger, Walmart. FDA, CDC are investigating multi-state outbreak.

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

"Most egregiously, however, the Government has charged the Defendant with “forcibly” resisting a federal officer BASED ON THE OFFICER'S USE OF FORCE." (my emphasis)

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

This dismissal opinion on a failed ICE arrest that @seamushughes.bsky.social found is worth reading in its entirety. Come for the debunking of DHS "fiction," stay for the snark about wiener dog, but definitely take time to read the 18 USC 111 analysis.

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The sworn affidavit submitted in support of the Criminal Complaint in this matter tells a
very different—and largely fictional—story. For example, Special Agent Steven Fuentes of ICE,
HSI, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) swore to the following:
On June 20, 2025, [HSI, ICE-ERO, and TxDPS] were conducting
surveillance at a residence on Benrus, in San Antonio, Texas, in the Western
District of Texas. Database checks indicated that Jaime Albert
QUINTANILLA-Chavez, with a Final Order of Removal from an
Immigration Judge, was residing at the above address. At approximately
0715 a.m., QUINTANILLA exited the residence and entered a white Dodge
Ram. The Dodge Ram was towing a trailer containing construction
equipment. Both license plates for the truck and trailer were expired.
ECF No. 1 ¶ 2 (emphasis added). Fuentes also swore that (1) the Defendant refused to “follow any
commands”; (2) after the Defendant was blocked in between the officers’ vehicles, he was given
“multiple verbal commands to exit the vehicle”; and (3) the Defendant “fought the law
enforcement officers.” Id. ¶¶ 3–4. Fuentes further testified at the preliminary hearing that the
Defendant was surveilled (and taken into custody) because he was subject to a Final Order of
Removal from an Immigration Judge. See ECF No. 12, 6/26 Preliminary Hr’g Tr. at 4:20–25.
Despite HSI’s sworn statement to the Magistrate Judge that the vehicle was stopped
because of expired license plates, the Assistant U.S. Attorney conceded at a bond hearing in July
2025 that Fuentes had “misrepresented what was going on.” ECF No. 29, 7/10 Hr’g Tr. at 8:12–

The Defendant pulled over, came to a stop, and took out his cell phone to call a friend to come
pick up the only other occupant of his vehicle: his weenie dog, Rocky. ECF No. 29, 7/10 Hr’g Tr.
at 29:9–18. The Defendant’s friend saw from his video messaging application that there were men
aiming guns at the Defendant and yelling at him. See id. at 25:17–21.

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

"[T]he officers at the scene decided to wait until he was in his truck to conduct the Terry stop, instead of stopping the Defendant—standing five-foot-five and 128 pounds--as he emerged from his home unarmed and, presumably, carrying a wiener dog."

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

This dismissal opinion on a failed ICE arrest that @seamushughes.bsky.social found is worth reading in its entirety. Come for the debunking of DHS "fiction," stay for the snark about wiener dog, but definitely take time to read the 18 USC 111 analysis.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 3d

OMG even the first lines: "The Government seeks an enhanced penalty of up to twenty years in prison... for “inflict[ing] bodily injury” on ... Special Agent (SA) William Carl, who scraped his arm when he punched a hole in the Defendant’s driver-side window during an investigative stop."

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 4d

Ozymandias FTW

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 4d

deporting citizens and violating court orders I CANNOT TAKE THIS

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d

Souvannarath is likely a citizen, ICE kidnapped him, he filed habeas, a judge ordered he not be deported, and *the next day* DHS deported him.

DHS told the press they didn't get the order, which is undoubtedly a lie and will be perjury when they say it to the court.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 6d

NEW: ACLU of Louisiana asks a federal judge to order the govt to immediately return Chanthila (Shawn) Souvannarath from Laos, to which it deported him over the weekend in violation of the judge's injunction. @acluoflouisiana.bsky.social www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 4d

YES YES YES thank you :)

Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 4d

can't you see they're deterring crime?!? (I would love to see crime stats to understand what, if any, crime reduction has occurred and at what price).

Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 4d

omg please remind me where this is from? it's killing me :D

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Jinky @jinkster13.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah I thought I was doing ok but these people are living in a parallel fucking universe of shiny things