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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

I don't think many people realize yet how damaging Trump's suspension of SNAP payments will be to millions of Americans, doubly so because huge cuts are simultaneously hitting food banks and charities. Help your neighbors any way you can.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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Joelelan @typomaker.bsky.social · 13h

I remember Fox News spending days on the scandal that was Michelle Obama’s modest little veggie garden. It was discussed and berated non-stop with the general theme being ‘how dare she desecrate those hallowed grounds.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 5h

One way to think about this is that the last time the NBA saw a rookie score more points in his debut than what Edgecombe did tonight, the St. Louis Hawks were both the southernmost and westernmost of the NBA's 8 teams.

(Also, every Wilt record is ridiculous: he went 43/28, playing all 48 mins.)

NBA @nba.com · 6h

With 34 points tonight, 76ers G VJ Edgecombe scored the third most for a player in their career debut and the MOST SINCE Wilt Chamberlain in 1959 🤯

🔥 Wilt Chamberlain: 43 PTS (Oct. 24, 1959)
🔥 Frank Selvy: 35 PTS (Nov. 30, 1954)
🔥 VJ Edgecombe: 34 PTS in 2025 (tonight)

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Samuel Durso @samueldurso.bsky.social · 5h

Makes sense. Looks like it was rendered at gunpoint.

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

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Samuel Durso @samueldurso.bsky.social · 6h

The greatest debut since Wilt Chamberlain in 1959 for the Philadelphia Warriors!

(People around the country will learn anew that the Warriors played in Philly. My late dad is smiling somewhere.)

And 40 from the amazing Tyrese! 74 from the starting back court!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson is lying his scrawny ass off.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

COLLINS: If the government reopened tonight, would Republicans have a plan to address the Obamacare subsidies?

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. We do. We have proposals. Yeah. We can have that ready immediately.

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 7h

Party leader won’t endorse the popular primary winner of a major race in his home city and has managed to keep this in the news for 3 months. Just all-around awful politics. He’s the worst.

All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 9h

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social asks Rep. Hakeem Jeffries who he plans to vote for in the NYC mayoral election.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 7h

This administration is populated by the dumbest motherfuckers the country has to offer. www.axios.com/2025/10/22/t...

Scoop: Homan says fentanyl as WMD "at least" merits discussion

Homan said there are around 73,000 annual fentanyl deaths.

www.axios.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h

The US government: Well, we might have zip-tied children and/or shot them with rubber bullets, but not the young ones! (not a joke or an exaggeration)

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

L’état, c’est moi

apnews.com/article/trum...

"I have a lawsuit that was doing very well, and when I became president, I said: I'm suing myself. I don't know. How do you settle the lawsuit?'" he said. "I'll say, 'Give me X dollars,' and I don't know what to do with the lawsuit. It's a great lawsuit and now I won, it looks bad. I'm suing myself, so I don't know."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Earlier this year, we published an article headlined “10 Ways to Enrich the Trumps and the MAGA Movement.”

We failed, though, to consider that the president might simply force the US government, i.e. us taxpayers, to straight-up pay him hundreds of millions of dollars.

Report: Trump demands taxpayers hand him $230 million

Is it still "ridiculous that anyone would even suggest" that he's cashing in?

www.motherjones.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h

I agree with Cuomo that it takes a certain amount of maturity to work in government. Charlotte Bennet was driven out of public service because Andrew Cuomo doesn’t have it.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

Hakeem Jeffries was just now on Chris Hayes and refused to endorse Zohran Mamdani. I can't even.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h

NYT reporting on this story has been exceptional, but it’s worth considering how the framing might differ if a foreign nation or group was blowing up American boats with Americans a few miles off the Florida shore.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 13h

"Antidrug campaign" dear lord

NYT: U.S. expands its antidrug campaign, striking a boat in the Pacific off Colombia.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Stefanik endorsed, campaigned, and fundraised for George Santos.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 9h

It would be thrilling. Like when they tear down statues of the tyrant when a country is liberated.

Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 9h

Why aren’t elected Dems publicly telling Trump that they’re going to raze the ballroom the minute the next D is elected?

He would lose his shit.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

wow. zohran brought one of cuomo’s accusers, charlotte bennett, to the mayoral debate. he asked cuomo what he would say to his 13 accusers of sexual harassment. cuomo said it takes “a certain level of maturity to work in government” and that the cases were resolved anyway. fucking scum.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 9h

He's gonna need to dole out more favors.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9h

President Trump on Wednesday raised the estimate of his planned White House ballroom, saying that the project would cost $300 million — up from his initial claim of $200 million.

Trump defends East Wing demolition, raises ballroom price to $300 million

The president said the new building would be connected to the White House with a glass bridge.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 11h

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9h

Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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