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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 17h

In today's episode of "water wets things," we once again see that letting billionaires steal the wealth working people create helps usher in authoritarianism:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says

Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

www.theguardian.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder how many recent Russian arrivals are on the White House demolition crew. Probably not as many as will be on the ballroom construction crew.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

we doomed america because we wouldn't say "are you just stupid, bro?" and make it too embarrassing to support him, because then everyone knows you're stupid, too

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump: "Buttigieg spent billions fixing the air traffic control. They used copper wire going into glass wire. Any union electrician here or any non-union electrician would say you can't hook copper into glass. It doesn't work. They spent billions, turned on the system & it was stone cold blank"

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

That rage you feel, as you watch the White House get leveled? That's how we beat Trump. Harness that, refine it, find ways to get other people equally enraged. Get them so mad they can't see straight. None of this kumbaya BS. White-hot, unreasoning anger, that demands the people who did this PAY.

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 22h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

It is incorrect that Jesus dumped diarrhea on people from a fighter jet. The Bible says it was a flaming wheel, and uses the Greek term skubalon, meaning dung. Also He did not wear a golden crown, He does not really like crowns for some reason

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

The San Jose Sharks apologized following a controversial message shown during Saturday's Hispanic Heritage Night game.

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The externally submitted message displayed on the in-arena scoreboard read "SJ SHARKS FANS LOVE ICE !! GET'EM BOYZ!"

www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/s...

San Jose Sharks apologize after controversial 'ICE' message

The San Jose Sharks apologized following a controversial message shown during Saturday's Hispanic Heritage Night game.

www.nbcbayarea.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Beyer: I don’t like to do ad hominem attacks, but I’ve served with four different speakers. This is the fifth one—by far the weakest speaker, I think, in American history.

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. So The White House
is designated a National Historic Landmark.

That means:

It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance.

Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted.

It’s not his house! WTF.

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Scarecasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Know something that’s never down due to AWS? A gosh dang newspaper.

The newest edition of The Onion featuring the headline Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled Don and Jeff: Time Pedophiles

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.

It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.

Millions hit the streets this weekend in solidarity with each other and to affirm the foundations of the common good.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

It’s long past time for Speaker Johnson to do his job and swear in Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva. She won on September 23rd that’s 26 days ago.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

ugh. Ninth Circuit in split opinion revseres Immergut: "Rather than reviewing the President’s determination with great deference, the district court substituted its own determination of the relevant facts & circumstances. That approach is error under Newsom.
Graber dissent.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

Really foreboding and ill-reasoned opinion, and reversal of excellent thoughtful district court opinion, but issue now before Court anyway on emergency application from 7th Cir opinion.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 1d

Just now: In 3d Circuit argument over whether Alina Habba was properly appointed, Circuit Judge D Brooks Smith asks whether govt's theory isn't a "complete circumvention of the [Constitution's] appointments clause"? (Reagan appointed Smith to DCt; GWB appointed him to appeals court.)

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

A lot of wealthy and powerful people helped Epstein fund his sex trafficking operation. The American people deserve to know who they are. Secretary Bessent, like his boss, is covering it up. I’m going to keep following the money. Stay tuned.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Jamie Dimon really thinks Congress and the American people will believe that only one top exec at his multi-billion dollar bank enabled Epstein. Be serious. Today I’m giving Dimon and JPMC another chance to explain why they appeared to enable Epstein's trafficking for years.

With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct | The United States Senate Committee on Finance

With JPMorgan Chase Dodging Epstein Inquiry, Wyden Investigation Drills Down On Bank Executives’ Unexplained Conduct

www.finance.senate.gov

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

It’s laughable for JMPC to try to lay its whole Epstein relationship off on a former employee. The evidence indicates that the bank’s ties with Epstein, and the mistakes it made, went all the way to the top.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Public reporting, which JPMC has not disputed, shows that executives including the head of JPMC’s private bank for the ultra-wealthy, were warned repeatedly about Epstein but kept him on as a client.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Banks are required by law to flag suspicious transactions right away so law enforcement can stop monsters like Epstein. JPMC is one of several banks that willingly chose not to alert law enforcement about Epstein's money laundering and trafficking payments.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Another mystery: By 2013 concerns over Epstein's criminal activity boiled over at JPMC. Top execs finally agreed to ditch him as a client. They then waited SIX YEARS to flag his suspicious transactions to FinCEN, even though federal law requires they be flagged right away.

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