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God @thegodpodcast.com · 14h

If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13h

And hung out with those fine Young Republicans.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Stefanik endorsed, campaigned, and fundraised for George Santos.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13h

Factcheck: True.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h

He lost the 2020 election. He knew it. He lied about it. And now he’s demanding your money because knowingly lying didn’t make him President.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16h

How conveniently they forget.

A tweet from Really American reads: “BREAKING: In an insane moment, Donald Trump Jr. says... that if his dad wanted to be king, he would never have left office. He tried to stay, Junior. On January 6th.” Below is a news screenshot showing Donald Trump Jr. on one side and a photo of Donald Trump shaking hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the other, with the Fox News chyron: “PRESIDENT TRUMP TRIGGERS THE LEFT.”

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16h

Republican senators have lost all autonomy and are no more than Trump’s puppets. Don’t mistake them for democratic leaders. Listen to Stuart Stevens on MSNBC

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h

This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 21h

U.S. strikes alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side.

In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two to three individuals aboard the vessel were killed.

www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-str...

U.S. strikes 8th alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side

This is the first U.S. strike against an alleged drug vessel on the Pacific side of South America.

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David C. Pan @oyasin.bsky.social · 17h

The orange faux monarch wants to give $40 billion to his weird hair buddy in Argentina. He’s desecrating The People’s House to build a gaudy monument to himself. He wants the taxpayers to pay him $230 million for his crimes. Marie Antoinette would blush at his arrogance and hubris.

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Shilpi Chhotray @shilpichhotray.bsky.social · 21h

The Klamath River runs through the heart of Yurok life. For decades, the community fought to free it — and in 2024, they won.

I spoke with Yurok Tribal attorney Amy Bowers Cordalis about what it means to restore a river, a people, and a way of life in my latest conversation for @thenation.com.

The Water Remembers, With Amy Bowers Cordalis

On A People's Climate: The largest dam removal in US history.

www.thenation.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21h

The GOP-led Congress has been out of session for too long. The House is not shut down. They’re getting paid and should be working.

A tweet from Tim Walz reads: “18,000 Minnesota federal employees are facing unemployment while you’re sitting on your ass. Get back to Washington.” It quotes a tweet from Pete Stauber that says: “No better way to end a beautiful weekend in Northern Minnesota!” with an attached photo showing a cozy outdoor fire pit surrounded by chairs, wood stacks, and string lights at sunset.

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David C. Pan @oyasin.bsky.social · 21h

Social Security and Medicare are the most successful programs ever implemented in the United States. The PPACA (Obamacare) is also a successful program. Republicans have been attempting to destroy each of these successful programs. They must be stopped.

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 1d

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 1d

Social Security is NOT a handout.

It is a benefit earned with every paycheck, and it must be protected and expanded, not cut, privatized, or means-tested.

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David C. Pan @oyasin.bsky.social · 1d

So this degenerate wants US taxpayers to pay him for illegally taking and hiding highly classified documents, attempting to overturn the 2020 election, and inciting a mob to storm and trash the Capitol and assault capitol police officers? He’s delusional. He needs serious mental health care.

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Shanna's Treasure Trove! @jami-jam.bsky.social · 1d

Serious? Can you wrap your head around this one?

KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

Is there no bottom to the greed and depravity of this individual?!

#UnfitForOffice
#UnfitForHumanExistence

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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David C. Pan @oyasin.bsky.social · 1d

Hubris, depravity, arrogance, degeneracy, greed, ignorance; there are not enough common adjectives to describe the enormity of trump’s twisted existence.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

But of course.

Mike Johnson Just Made A Surreal Admission About George Santos—And Yep, That Tracks

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, government workers aren't getting paid.

DHS Blasted After Buying $172 Million Luxury Jets For Kristi Noem Amid Government Shutdown

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like selling out U.S. beef and soybean farmers to buy Argentine beef instead. #ArgentinaFirst

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David C. Pan @oyasin.bsky.social · 2d

trump began the demolition of democracy on January 21, 2025. He has now begun demolition of The People’s House to feed his ego and that bottomless hole in his existence.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 3d

Fifteen presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act.

Trump claims one president used it 28 times in the course of a single presidency.

The Insurrection Act has been used a total of 30 times over the course of its 217-year history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 2d

Frontier AI models poses two major challenges. They need giant data centers that suck up massive amounts of electricity and water, and there's a risk that the technology will fail, with unforeseeable but potentially calamitous consequences.

Trump’s AI Deregulation Is His Oppenheimer Moment

He has chosen to unleash a powerful and potentially cataclysmic new technology on the world with no regard for consequences.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2d

"I quit. I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice to the party in the throes of an authoritarian cult." www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party

Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

www.thebulwark.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2d

In the middle of all Trump’s distractions, pay attention to the fundamental issue:

While the richest people are getting richer, tens of millions of people are struggling to pay for rent & groceries.

Now 15 million Americans are going to be thrown off health care. Unacceptable.

Shutdown Day 20 | Sen. Bernie Sanders

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

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David C. Pan @oyasin.bsky.social · 5d

Republicans in Congress have capitulated to trump. The Supreme Court republicans have capitulated to trump. We the People have NOT capitulated. We the People will stand up tomorrow to declare “No Kings”. We the People stood up in 1776 and we will again.

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