mdtoorder
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Mom, editor, attorney, Macs, foodie, cats, #ERA, #gunsense, #Democrat, #INTJ, #Arizona, etc. I can gift a ltd. number of WaPo and NYT articles for now. Ask me nicely. Write so that you cannot possibly be misunderstood. DM me for $ = immediate block.
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dearlstephens.bsky.social
Don't you DARE tell me both parties are the same.
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cwebbonline.com
These are the faces of men who think racism, rape, and gas chambers are punchlines.

The fact that these are actual GOP officials, not trolls in a reply section, says everything about the rot inside their movement.
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cwebbonline.com
Wait one damn minute‼️

I know Lisa Murkowski isn’t up on her high horse talking about the lack of trust between Republicans and Democrats after she cast the deciding “Yes” on the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill and slipped in backroom deals for Alaska.

She’s part of the problem & needs to own it!
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cwebbonline.com
Trump didn’t light the fire overnight. He’s been turning up the heat slowly, hoping we won’t notice until we’re already cooked.
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.
murshedz.bsky.social
"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?
‘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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jimoleske.bsky.social
In her judicial opinions engaging originalism, Justice Barrett has thoughtfully raised key questions about the challenges of implementing the methodology.

In her non-judicial appearance on Fox yesterday, Barrett was decidedly less thoughtful when defending the Court's shadow docket behavior.
Moreover, as I’ve explained at length before, the Court would have no trouble writing such an opinion in a way that doesn’t lock in any future result if and when the case returns on the merits; all it would have to do is rest its analysis on a proper balancing of the equities and a clear statement that it wasn’t conclusively resolving the merits—something it’s had no trouble insisting upon in non-Trump-related cases. As for Justice Barrett’s concern that even a short opinion might “give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue,” it’s the justices who, for the first time, are publicly insisting that even their unexplained rulings on emergency applications are entitled to precedential effect—something that wouldn’t make sense unless the justices have reached some kind of merits-based conclusion. To pretend that isn’t happening borders on gaslighting.
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
#ICYMI: Yesterday’s “One First” summarized just how weak the defenses of the Supreme Court’s behavior on Trump-related emergency applications have been—and explained what someone would have to do to *actually* defend all that the Court’s majority has been doing:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/183-the-mi...
After all, maybe one can defend the Court granting emergency relief more often than ever before and in cases with far greater real-world (and structural) impacts. And maybe one can defend the Court altering (if not completely scrapping) the traditional balance of the equities in these cases. But does that defense extend to the Court doing so especially in cases in which President Trump is a party-and no others? And does it extend to the Court doing all of this without usually providing written explanations of what it is doing-or why? And even if the answer is somehow "yes," does it also extend to the Court doing all of this, not usually explaining what it's doing or why, and nevertheless accusing lower courts who fail to read the justices' minds of "defying" the Court?

I have a very hard time believing that anyone can genuinely make it through even three of those sentences with a coherent defense of what the Supreme Court has done over the past seven months-let alone all five of them. I'd love to see such an argument, if it exists, but I haven't been-and won't be-holding my breath.
mdtoorder.bsky.social
Now I get it. Thus, the frogs.
cwebbonline.com
Trump didn’t light the fire overnight. He’s been turning up the heat slowly, hoping we won’t notice until we’re already cooked.
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susanmcgraw88.bsky.social
This should alarm every one of us who have a moral conscience.
The truth has risen.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
mdtoorder.bsky.social
Harsh!

I was just going to go with Nora Ephron's "I Feel Bad About My Neck."
cwebbonline.com
Oh! My! God! ☠️ 😭

Sound up 🔈
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schiff.senate.gov
Donald Trump has been firing people who protect your health, safety and pocketbook, and who keep our country safe.

The shutdown is just his latest excuse for these purges.
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
(Gentle reminder: We don’t actually need to do far-right justices’ work for them. If they want to destroy the VRA, trust me, they’ll do it. You don’t need to cut down the brush in front of them to help them on their way.)
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cwebbonline.com
Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.

As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.
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mrneu.bsky.social
And why aren’t they sharing this!👇🏽
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maddow.msnbc.com
“Defense lawyers who have clients caught up in the case have expressed bafflement at what possible crime could have been committed…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry
www.nytimes.com
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maddow.msnbc.com
“People like Maxim — who refuse to become silent accomplices to the Kremlin’s crimes — are saving our country’s honor amid this current darkness. And it will be they who will lead Russia back to normality once the drawn-out nightmare of Putin’s rule is over.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | What Putin is crushing in Russia
The arrest of opposition leader Maxim Kruglov is a blow against the last vestiges of Russian democracy.
www.washingtonpost.com
mdtoorder.bsky.social
#GhislaineMaxwell said there were multiple Trump cabinet members on it (besides Trump himself, duh!) and Deputy AG Todd Blanche then chose to gloss right over that tidbit.

I’d like to know who they are and apparently, #MAGA would too. Wouldn’t you?
betseyrocks.bsky.social
Anyone who resists releasing the #EpsteinFiles is either on the list or protecting someone on it 𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐇! Makes one wonder if Creeper Speaker Johnson, Thomas,Alito & Roberts are on the list. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Those who fight the release shall be assumed to be rapists & pedos, too. #GOPedos

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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acyn.bsky.social
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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axidentaliberal.bsky.social
You know who hates America

The guys who took healthcare away from millions of Americans

The ones who CUT billions of dollars for programs like cancer research and FEMA

Who sit and watch the president use military troops to attack our cities

That’s Mike Johnson

HE hates America

NO KINGS
OCT 18
mdtoorder.bsky.social
My retirement accounts have still not recovered from the stock market losses a few days ago. Anyone else here?

I feel unnecessarily screwed, like a farmer, a consumer, a fed employee, a special needs child, a minority, etc.

See you Saturday? #NoKings