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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 3d

While Americans suffer from the government shutdown and farmers go bankrupt from Trump’s trade wars, Trump rides around his golf course telling his rich friends their taxes are going down. So out of touch.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

It's hard to overstate just how badly and completely they screwed up.

The White House is already walking back hundreds of federal layoffs

Trump's cronies fired critical public health workers. Regret set in immediately.

www.motherjones.com

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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 4d

Today In 1907: Panoramic View of World Series Game 5 - Chicago #Cubs vs. Detroit #Tigers at Bennett Park! #MLB #History #Postseason

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 5d

lol

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 7d

Well done. I appreciate you so much

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d

We need to ALWAYS highlight the ways the White House is a crime scene.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rten...

The White House crime scene

YouTube video by emptywheel

www.youtube.com

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 11d

We are on Sportsnet, Pacific channel, and we have Dan and Buck

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15d

Dear @apnews.com

The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once.

Fix your headline.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15d

BREAKING: Democrats vote down a GOP bill to keep the government open, putting it on track for shutdown after midnight.

Democrats vote down GOP funding bill, putting government on path to shutdown

Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday.

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 17d

Except he will simply pardon them, or arrange for law enforcement not to charge them. The lawlessness that Ketanji Brown Jackson warned about in the immunity case oral argument phase turned out to be understating the danger after all. Mitch McConnell and John Roberts between them sold out America.

Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 17d

This times 10,000

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17d

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 17d

Criminal malpractice from Jeffries here.

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 19d

Even if we aren't getting the label right, Tom, I think it's clear its pretty bad. Let's say they are fascist wannabees, and we are lucky they aren't very good at it yet.

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 23d

Pitiful, vacuous. I am so tired of him.

Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 23d

well done. I hope to work my way up from private some day.

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WIRED @wired.com · 24d

Before we drop clues on where we've placed our cover, you must read @stevenlevy.bsky.social's piece on just WTF happened to Silicon Valley.

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

www.wired.com

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24d

Trump: Charlie Kirk was like a son to me.

Also Trump: Laughs and chats through Charlie Kirk’s memorial service and eulogies.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24d

Murphy continues to be a really clear voice

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25d

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes.

That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 25d

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 26d

Love this. The judge is determined to make very clear how nonsensical (and childish) the claim is.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 27d

When we get to pleading in my first-year Civil Procedure class, my students often ask me just how over the top a complaint would have to be for a judge to strike it without even being *asked* to do so.

Thanks to President Trump, we have an answer:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27d

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 28d

Did the dems vote FOR this?

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Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 28d

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com

Sally 🇨🇦 @sallyf.bsky.social · 28d

Everybody keep speaking up. Here's @sanders.senate.gov being radically reasonable, and people warming to people who talk about what matters. www.youtube.com/shorts/yALFQ...

How Bernie Changed This Trump Voter’s Mind

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28d

Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one.

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Does Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?

The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along.

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