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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 7h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 6h

The class war is over, guess who won

How I Became a Populist

My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 6h

All is not lost

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 7h

happy hockey season

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 9h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 9h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

See this for what it is:
*Trump wants to make the military/FBI loyal to him
*GOP refuses bipartisan legislation to pay the military
*Trump creates a new executive power: that he and he alone decides if the military/FBI is paid during shutdown

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 10h

It feels like the real thing

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 10h

The problem of tech people not understanding why normal people do things is longstanding, but in this case: people who read long business stories do it *because* they want the stuff the company might not want to tell you. The audience for anything else is just the subject’s friends and employees

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 10h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 15h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 20h

These idiots really deeply believe that it’s some kind of trick or brainwashing—pulled by the government, the schools, Hollywood, the NFL, whatever—when other people don’t share their beliefs about the world and how it should work.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of writing yet another essay about morality from deep within his mind palace, what if David Brooks simply posed this Q to the portion of the American electorate that voted for Trump and likes what Republicans are doing?

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

Totally agree

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

This AM someone left a 2012 issue of the New Yorker on the subway. My phone was nearly dead and so I decided to read the mag. By god, it was so much more relaxing and pleasurable—not just b/c it was from The Before Times. The physical and intellectual exp. of takin in printed words was just *better*

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

The previous Sunday, a 7-11 manager flagged down soldiers to report that a man who tried to pay $2 for $4.50 worth of pizza. He also threw pizza at the manager, then his friend stole two slices of pizza.

Soldiers pursued and detained both accused pizza thieves.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

On September 28, soldiers from West Virginia patrolling D.C.'s Navy Yard area observed a man masturbating in public.

The soldiers "advised [him] to stop."

Police officers arrested him a little while later after they said they saw him peeing in front of a restaurant.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

Some real OG scammer stuff from Dr. Phil

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👻Wereman 🐺🎃 @spookarties.bsky.social · Dec 1

Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Cory Mills, boy I dunno

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/14/j...

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

For every other president of my lifetime: an immediately impeachable abuse of power

For the current Republican Party: a Tuesday

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta be at least two future GOP senators and one chief justice in this group chat www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social · 1d

Happy pub day to me!

Also pictured, bottom to top: Webster's Third (1961); battered Webster's New World (1974; my first dictionary); Webster's Collegiate, Fifth Edition (inscribed by my immigrant father in 1949)

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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