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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Trump admits that Indonesian President Subianto was caught on a hot mic talking with his dad about Trump family business deals in Indonesia

(so much for the supposed firewall between Trump's business and the federal government ... )

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Trump admits that Indonesian President Subianto was caught on a hot mic talking with his dad about Trump family business deals in Indonesia

(so much for the supposed firewall between Trump's business and the federal government ... )

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 6h

Trump's also working overtime to ensure the babies are exposed to deadly diseases that could be prevented by vaccinations.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Dr Oz: "Turns out that about 1/3 families don't have the number of babies they desire. They're under-babied. So this president committed to address that during the campaign and he's delivering on that today."

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine if KJP or Psaki had said this about the Republican base: not just that half of them were “deplorables” but that the GOP’s “main constituency is made up of domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and violent criminals”? The media, not just Fox, would be in meltdown. GOP would be screaming!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine if KJP or Psaki had said this about the Republican base: not just that half of them were “deplorables” but that the GOP’s “main constituency is made up of domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and violent criminals”? The media, not just Fox, would be in meltdown. GOP would be screaming!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 5h

Kudos to anyone who voted for America to get more gurgly old-man hot takes about teenager sperm count.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 5h

Kudos to anyone who voted for America to get more gurgly old-man hot takes about teenager sperm count.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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hi, no thanks @hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · 5h

what the fuck dude

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6h

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6h

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 5h

"She should be doing the job I'm literally preventing her from doing."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

the amount of time conservatives spend thinking about childrens genitals is legit crazy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 5h

OUR PARENTS AREN'T HAVING CHILDREN??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 5h

OUR PARENTS AREN'T HAVING CHILDREN??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

It occurs to me Trump is doing something extremely similar to what Sam Bankman-Fried went to prison for.

SBF took funds from customer deposits at his crypto exchange FTX and put them into his other company Alameda Research to keep it solvent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

It occurs to me Trump is doing something extremely similar to what Sam Bankman-Fried went to prison for.

SBF took funds from customer deposits at his crypto exchange FTX and put them into his other company Alameda Research to keep it solvent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

www.publicnotice.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

New in PN: Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"I’ve been taking images that are nowhere near this one conflict driveway — ones of puppies & kids playing, & families having picnics — b/c the idea that Portland is burned down & a war zone is just preposterous" — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

www.publicnotice.co

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 8h

“He’s a citizen!” she screams as federal thugs tackle a 19-year-old inside a Walgreens.
Her brother-in-law.

Born here. Legal. None of it mattered.
This is what happens when a regime turns immigration into a witch hunt: where brown skin is treated like probable cause.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 8h

“He’s a citizen!” she screams as federal thugs tackle a 19-year-old inside a Walgreens.
Her brother-in-law.

Born here. Legal. None of it mattered.
This is what happens when a regime turns immigration into a witch hunt: where brown skin is treated like probable cause.

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mvrw.bsky.social @mvrw.bsky.social · 4h

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 4h

Call it the Bill Ackman effect.

Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 5h

Fox News Poll - NYC MAYORAL RACE

🔵 Zohran Mamdani (D) - 52% (+5)
🟡 Andrew Cuomo (I) - 28% (-1)
🔴 Curtis Sliwa (R) - 14% (+3)

(shift since last poll)

Oct 10-14, NYC LV ±3.5

www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 4h

Call it the Bill Ackman effect.

Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 5h

Fox News Poll - NYC MAYORAL RACE

🔵 Zohran Mamdani (D) - 52% (+5)
🟡 Andrew Cuomo (I) - 28% (-1)
🔴 Curtis Sliwa (R) - 14% (+3)

(shift since last poll)

Oct 10-14, NYC LV ±3.5

www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Fox News Poll: Mamdani maintains significant lead in NYC mayoral race

New Fox News survey shows Zohran Mamdani maintaining 21-point lead over Andrew Cuomo in NYC mayoral race as voters favor him on crime and housing issues.

www.foxnews.com

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Shari in AZ🌵 @mutsy67.bsky.social · 7h

👥WE THE PEOPLE say:

🗽In America, we don’t have kings. We never will!

🪧Get out, get loud and wear YELLOW

#NoKings

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