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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 2h

China has all the cards in this game with a lunatic egomaniac.

Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 2h

Not asking for anything free, just don't want to be bashed for disliking paywalls after being teased by seeing articles I can't access. I'm married to a writer (fiction) so have deep respect them.

Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 2h

💯. Nothing but admiration for writers & reporters; I'm married to an author.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 2h

So many calls to the show about this today.

Just when Trump thought he'd tamped down calling him and the GOP nazis

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 3h

So for someone who never protested in college, it's fresh air to do so as a senior citizen. A shared sense of purpose & determination to protect our democracy marked the last No Kings protest & will doubtless be even more meaningful this time. Friends are joining me & they're not political at all!

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 4h

And what is his "cut," since the felon always demands one for himself and his lame-brain spawn.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 4h

She better define "antifa"'as a first step.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 4h

Utterly loathsome "journalist".

Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 4h

New: Trump corruption is coming so fast & furious, no one can keep up let alone maintain moral, ethical and legal standards for public officials.

Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans are NOT the only people in America. Just the worse ones.

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 4h

Another lunatic, this one in charge of our largest federal department. Hopeless is our future with these nincompoops.

Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 5h

A ceasefire that lasted less than 24 hours.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Remember the Trump administration's unsuccessful Labor Day effort to expel children to Guatemala?

The lawyers filed an amended complaint today, expanding the scope of the litigation — reflecting the long-term goals of the administration to do the same thing with kids from many countries.

INTRODUCTION
1. This is a complaint on behalf of hundreds of children at risk of unlawful removal
from the United States.
2. Plaintiffs are unaccompanied minors in Office of Refugee Resettlement (“ORR”)
custody whom Defendants have sought or are seeking to remove from the United States in clear
violation of the unambiguous protections that Congress has provided them as vulnerable
children. Defendants have unlawfully claimed the power to expel these children, in violation of
the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (“TVPRA”), the Immigration
and Nationality Act (“INA”), and the Constitution. Plaintiffs seek to represent a class of
unaccompanied children who are or will be placed in ORR custody and who do not have a final
order of removal or grant of voluntary departure by an immigration judge

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5h

Impeachable acts every day

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: The Trump administration has blocked or slowed almost $28 billion in federal aid since the shutdown began, largely harming Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, underscoring how the president has weaponized a fiscal stalemate

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 5h

So true as Republicans abandon any pretense to moral choices.

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 5h

Laughably false.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 5h

Where is Congress? THEY hold the constitutional purse strings, not the White House.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

COLLINS: The Dept of Energy just canceled $1b for a hydrogen hub that covers Montana. Is that taking away good-paying jobs?

SHEEHY: Of course it is. We want govt to be open

C: But the Energy Secretary says he would've pulled that funding even if govt was open

S: ... Well, that's unfortunate

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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 5h

Snowflakes are on the RIGHT not that Left.

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Matt @occamsbathrobe.bsky.social · 5h

All while complaining about Democrats weaponizing politics. Thus once again proving they're masters of projection. Every accusation they hurl is insight into how they think. Egocentrism at its finest!

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