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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 36m

“signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 1d

people are allowed to change etc. etc. but every one of these glowing profiles *completely erasing* the fact that 3 years ago the subjects ran a totally DIFFERENT NV-named think tank with a polar opposite ideological mission, *where i worked*, is...surreal? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The New Think Tank Infuriating Progressives

It thinks Democrats can take a lesson from Donald Trump.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 3d

and for the afternoon crowd……..

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 3d

🚨fork found in kitchen🚨

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 3d

likely place for him to be……..

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6d

lol this is crazy i mean this guys the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 6d

Molly Shannon as Pat Dubek in The Other Two, who constantly tweets out what are meant to be direct messages

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Brown Anthony™ @anthelonious.bsky.social · 7d

"Her name is...Anne. Anne Tifa. Yeah, that's it."

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 7d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 6d

i really do try to avoid resorting to whataboutism in most situations but the number of blue-checked centrists + DC Politico Gays i have seen who are taking a break from loudly stanning *Amy Klobuchar* to (validly!) condemn Katie Porter’s staff treatment as disqualifying makes me feel…fully insane?

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 7d

clap! if! you! care!

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 7d

new gym shoes……clap if you care!!!

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 7d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 8d

(not exactly quantifiable but i am fairly convinced that a good share of why a significantly worse Trump 2 even exists at all after the idea was solidly rejected in 2020 is because of what Elon did to Twitter….)

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Matti has a Boo-ty 👻 @mrbtx.bsky.social · 10d

......that's not true....at all? stop eating their propaganda

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

They’re not acting like they’re in a four-year term.

They’re acting like they’re in an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 10d

“traumatized” is giving

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 11d

🎶it’s a June Squibb world, and you’re lucky to be living in it🎶

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 11d

🤫🤫

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 12d

the mane has once again grown top-heavy, i fear……

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · Nov 29

another Friday upon us…..

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Ryan Kearney @ryankearney.bsky.social · 12d

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12d

Journalism, the job where when someone powerful lies you describe it as "not strictly true" because describing facts would be bias bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true--

ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

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