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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2h

"It was unclear why Admiral Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure...

But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

NYT: "Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
Adm. Alvin Holsey is leaving less than a year into his tenure, and as the Pentagon escalates attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea."

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 10m

They want this to be the thing they invoke the Insurrection Act over.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

it won’t ever get the coverage it should, but it remains remarkable that the republican party and republican president have a plan for rural america, and that plan is “eat shit, then die, in that order”

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

this politico piece credulously quotes a number of anonymous white house advisors whose answers are all, basically, “we are sure someone is working on it”

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2h

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 1h

The year is 2036. Trump is dead.

The Democratic candidate is running on protecting healthcare, and the Republicans just appealed to the Supreme Court over whether a fully conscious TrumpAI is Constitutionally allowed to be President.

We’re waiting on the decision to come down.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 2h

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is, in full public view, trying to ease the President's death anxiety and fears of being tortured for eternity in Hell for his long lifetime of evil.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

RFK Jr: "I saw on the airplane the other day you said you didn't believe you were gonna get to heaven. But you're doing god's work here. You made peace in the Middle East and now you're giving millions of Americans the chance to have babies."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h

🚨WOW. A unanimous per curiam (meaning no named author) panel of the 7th Circuit, made up of a Bush appointee, an Obama appointee, and a Trump appointee, decline to step in and block a lower court order barring the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refuses to undo an order blocking deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois.

"We conclude that the district court's factual findings … were not clearly erroneous, and that the facts do not justify the President's actions in Illinois."

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 3h

"The President committed a crime and violated the Constitution and instead of congratulating him for it, people are saying he committed a crime and violated the Constitution."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

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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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 6h

There already was an “I Hate America” rally. It was on January 6th, 2021. The President spoke at it.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 6h

“I’m not worried about nazis in the party because this is a Nazi party that uses Nazi methods to achieve Nazi goals and I’m a Nazi. Does that make sense?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 5h

They need to make Americans comfortable with the idea an American King. They actively desire King Trump.

To agree with "No Kings" would be to undermine the ultimate project of the Republican Party, and they've already done what they believe is a good job warming Americans up to monarchical rule.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 5h

It's awkward propaganda to say "No Kings" means "I Hate America." Normal Americans hate Kings and still experience pride over the Revolutionary War.

They should've gone with "We agree, and Trump won't be a King," but saying that would provoke Trump's ire because he actually does want to be King.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Barrasso on No Kings: "They have this big 'I Hate America' rally this Saturday in Washington where you have all these far-left activists groups coming to protest the president and the administration."

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 6h

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

National Lawyers Guild, the org on the top left?

When Joseph McCarthy finally got “have you no shame”d, the person he was targeting at that hearing had been a volunteer for them. So let’s just say they’ve been in the crosshairs for many decades.

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 9h

Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 9h

"Mike Johnson you've been accused of having sexual intercourse with a camel on the steps of the Capitol Building. There's a verified video circulating of you doing it as well as multiple in-person witnesses."

"I haven't seen that. You'll have to ask the camel about that. I don't know the details."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 9h

Also imagine being the director of the FBI, watching an episode of Glenn Beck's dumbass show, and then dispatching FBI agents to get tips because "this guy might be onto somethin'."

This is how the FBI operates under Patel. A combination of obvious pretext hunting and pants-pooping incompetence.

Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 9h

I'm so tired of being right. It's all so pathetic and predictable.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 9h

I'm so tired of being right. It's all so pathetic and predictable.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 17h

The Mandela Effect isn’t real. They’re changing little things on purpose to mess with you.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 17h

This is fucking obscene.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21h

i do not think the president can pardon a crime he ordered the commission of, because the order reinstantiates a conspiracy to commit to that crime

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

to temper that a hair, i think people generally need to start wrapping their head around what prosecutions into a likely field of pocket pardons look like, because it's not going to be anywhere near as satisfying as you want it to be

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

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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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 21h

Why is every crime the Trump Administration commits treated like some scholarly challenge to Constitutional Law?

They literally just want to stop the Constitution from working so they can commit crimes and yet we have to sit here and pretend to take any of this shit seriously.

Absolutely unreal.

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