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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 4h

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 5h

When Trump said he likes to assault women by grabbing their genitals, we were told it's locker room talk.

Then they wrote their 900 page fascism plan & we were told it was fake news.

Now their 20-40 year olds have hard-ons for Hitler & we're being told kids will be kids.

Fuck the #GOP

#NoKings

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 5h

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice secured indictments of Donald Trump, said it was “ludicrous” to suggest he was motivated by partisan politics — and offered a scathing denunciation of the Trump Justice Department — in his first extended remarks since resigning in January.

Jack Smith Calls Idea That Politics Infected Trump Prosecutions ‘Ludicrous’

The former special counsel’s first extended remarks since resigning in January were released the same day House Republicans summoned him to testify.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 5h

"It’s no wonder the up-and-coming ranks of politically active youngish Republicans feel emboldened to speak in the way that they did to each other in the leaked messages. They have a mirror in the White House, and defenders all around them."

The Right Jumps to Defend Young Republicans' Racist Texts

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 5h

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 5h

🤦🏻‍♀️“Medicare doctor directory, a Trump team priority, launches with errors
 The directory, intended to help older Americans navigate Medicare Advantage open enrollment, produces conflicting responses about which providers are covered by health plans.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Medicare doctor directory, a Trump team priority, launches with errors

The directory, intended to help older Americans navigate Medicare Advantage open enrollment, produces conflicting responses about which providers are covered by health plans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6h

I didn't know draining the swamp meant Donald Trump building a $200 million ballroom for billionaires to bend the knee for special favors.

Donald Trump building a $200 million ballroom for billionaires to bend the knee for special favors

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 6h

Scheduled NO KINGS rallies...
Wow! This... is POWER!
Fantastic!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Vought has blocked CFPB staff from doing their work, and is also charging CFPB $5 million for his bodyguards. So technically, they are protecting one consumer.
www.govexec.com/management/2...

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 11h

Remarkable. This piece, written by Jake Tapper, helps construct a pretext for Israel to resume full-scale operations in Gaza.

Zero mention of the *multiple* attacks by Israeli forces over the past few days.

Instead, he writes, “But so far, the tenuous ceasefire has held.”

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

Trump tells CNN that Israeli forces could resume fighting in Gaza "as soon as I say the word" if Hamas won't uphold ceasefire deal https://cnn.it/4qdKot3

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11h

So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis.

OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, a photo authentically shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents spraying "pepper pellets" on a Chicago pastor.

Real photo shows federal immigration agents spraying Chicago pastor with 'pepper pellets'

The image circulated as alleged evidence of a scene outside an ICE processing facility in a Chicago suburb.

www.snopes.com

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 10h

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 10h

She's perfectly qualified to serve in the Trump administration: she's an ignorant idiot.

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 11h

This may be the shittiest thing anyone has ever said about Thomas Jefferson.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."

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DanSkinnerArt @danskinnerart.bsky.social · 11h

Fox reporter sounds alarm over new polling: 'This has got to be scary for the White House'

www.rawstory.com/fox-white-ho...

Fox reporter sounds alarm over new polling: 'This has got to be scary for the White House'

A conservative Fox reporter and supporter of Donald Trump sounded the alarm on Wednesday over worrying polling on the president.FOX Biz senior correspondent Charles Gasparino, who reports on Trump oft...

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 10h

Pete's a putz.

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Jonathan @frakitall.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is basically saying if you're white and can speak English, you are better than everyone else and will give them preference to immigrate here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 11h

Here's the general in charge of NORTHCOM admitting its war on cartels has had no effect on fentanyl coming into the US.

CONGRESS: 225k Americans are estimated to have been killed bc of fentanyl ... Are we making any progress?

GEN. GREGORY GUILLOT: No. I wouldn't say it's better...

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 12h

Hey Mike Johnson, America has a question for you: What would be someone's motivation for covering-up for a pedophile?

There's only a couple answers:
• Either you're guilty of the same crimes, or
• The accused party is blackmailing you for other very serious crimes you've committed.

Which is it?

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 12h

This article does a good job at showing ways to recognize coded imagery and language used by fascists if you don’t spend much time looking at it.

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 11h

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