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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11h

It's official: Speaker Johnson just cancelled all votes in the House next week.

The next scheduled voting day is 10/27; the last time the House was in session was 9/19.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 14h

I'll take my shot at refutation.

I don't hate America. I loathe everything you and your kind is doing to undermine and destroy its honor, promise and humanity. So I will join with millions of others in dissent, which is the most American thing there is.

You lying, fearmongering, cowardly trash.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

Johnson: “They're going to descend on our capital for their much-anticipated so-called ‘No Kings’ rally. We refer to it by its more accurate description: 'The Hate America' rally. I'm not sure how anybody can refute that."

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 3h

again, these are Republican voters who donated to Santos’s campaign, not Democrats, who Trump is now denying court-ordered restitution bsky.app/profile/purp...

Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 4h

Per the NYT, Trump didn’t just commute Santos’ prison sentence:
“He will also no longer be required to pay more than $370,000 in court-ordered restitution to his victims, according to a copy of the commutation posted online by Ed Martin, the U.S. pardon attorney.”

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 4h

who is this even for? he defrauded Republicans

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 5h

Trump commutes former Rep. George Santos' prison sentence www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Trump commutes former Rep. George Santos' prison sentence

The disgraced Republican politician began serving his seven-year sentence this July.

www.msnbc.com

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 8h

does DHS think Republicans want white cops to be deported lol

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

Excited to inform you all that the Department of Homeland Security is currently attempting to ratio me (and failing, as of more than two hours later).

With a heavy sigh, I repeat: bring back professionalism. For the love of god. You're running comms for the government of the USA. Act like it.

@DHSGov account says "Ratio." They are QTing a post that I wrote (next picture reproduces in full) asking, with a fair amount of snark, why DHS was blaming Governor Pritzker for the Hanover Park PD having hiring someone who allegedly was a visa overstay. They post two headlines about an Illinois law which authorized noncitizens with valid work authorization to become cops.

The post that set this off, in which I too was QTing the DHS account. The DHS post about the Hanover Park PD incident reads as follows: ".
@GovPritzker
doesn’t just allow illegal aliens to terrorize Illinois’s communities, he allows them to work as sworn police officers.

Radule Bojovic overstayed a B2 tourist visa that required him to depart the U.S. on March 31, 2015. Over a decade later, he was still illegally in the U.S. working as a police officer for the Hanover Park Police Department earning a salary of $78,955.

Criminal illegal aliens have NO PLACE in our communities, especially on our police forces."

My QT response to this was: "What the heck does Governor Pritzker have to do with a local police department hiring decision?

Do the people running @DHSgov not even know the basics about how state governments work?"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 12h

"utilise"

inglorious bastards scene where he holds up three fingers incorrectly, thus giving himself away as a perfidious englishman

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 12h

this is such a stupid idea. the administration wants black bloc agitators, not normal people attending a protest

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12h

Yeah I don’t think this guy’s gonna do it

Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 12h

Really gonna have to be good at politics!

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 12h

so we’re $40 billion+ on deliberately fucking over American soybean farmers

Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

Bessent says US bought pesos again, currency dips reut.rs/47ehiB2

Bessent says US bought pesos again, currency dips

The U.S. Treasury bought Argentine pesos in the "Blue Chip Swap" and spot markets on Thursday and it continues to monitor all markets, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday.

reut.rs

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 16h

🚨NEW: After we revealed Russ Vought's "put them in trauma" video, I spent the next year reporting on him, his influence, and his vision for America.

Yes, I got *new* recordings & videos of Vought.

Here is the story.

A @propublica.org + @newyorker.com collab: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball

Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.

www.newyorker.com

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 16h

there’s a chance Cuomo could come in third

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 16h

Cuomo concedes it'll be "very, very hard mathmatecially" for him to win on Nov. 4 if Sliwa stays in the race.

He says local GOP "bosses" are keeping Sliwa in the race because Mayor Mamdani would be a good foil for Trump and national Republicans.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16h

No, they're doing it because NYC Republicans still hate your guts. That's been clear for a while and was on display last night, when Sliwa clearly hated Cuomo more than Mamdani

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 16h

Cuomo concedes it'll be "very, very hard mathmatecially" for him to win on Nov. 4 if Sliwa stays in the race.

He says local GOP "bosses" are keeping Sliwa in the race because Mayor Mamdani would be a good foil for Trump and national Republicans.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 16h

this was what toppled SVB btw

🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 16h

this, and measures of on-hand liquidity often don’t take into consideration the losses banks would have to sustain to liquidate their investment portfolio. like sure, you have $1Bn in US Treasuries, but your unrealized loss position is like 20% of capital

Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 17h

This FDIC chart on US banks' unrealized losses is crazy www.fdic.gov/news/speeche...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 17h

it’s also somewhat amusing that US politics is so myopically focused on Israel that nobody has pressed him on what he thinks of Narendra Modi as a Gujarati Muslim

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 17h

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 17h

it’s a stupid litmus test, but hilariously it is one that Mamdani would pass

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

No one is ever asked by moderators and by Democratic leadership if they recognize any of these states "right" to exist as an Islamic state because everyone agrees that this would be a stupid and ridiculous litmus test.

Filipovic & @JillFilipovic
X.com
Fair enough, but does anyone who makes this point every ague that Pakistan, Bangladesh, Algeria, Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iran, and a long list of others don't have a right to exist?

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 17h

also India

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

If you're running in a Dem primary for Senate, preemptively endorsing the filibuster is already a red flag.

... but not knowing the filibuster for lower court judges has been gone for more than a decade is even worse, it's indisputable evidence of incompetence.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is actually worse, we haven't had a judicial filibuster since 2013 dawg

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