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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 44m

said this elsewhere, but (gaffe aside) it reads like propaganda for old men who creep on young girls

“fellow aged Epstein Islanders, you are the future! you are more virile than young men! those 13 year olds over there hit puberty at 9! the human race depends on you and them!”

Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 46m

that guy had to know who gets hung out to dry for war crimes between him, Hegseth, and Trump

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 1h

Trump is delivering on his promise to create more babies? Who knew?

There's something just plain gross about all these rich, elderly white men obsessing over the wimmin failing to provide the fatherland with enough babies.Yuck.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Dr Oz: "Turns out that about 1/3 families don't have the number of babies they desire. They're under-babied. So this president committed to address that during the campaign and he's delivering on that today."

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 1h

combine that with this and (gaffe aside) it reads like propaganda for old men who creep on young girls

“fellow aged Epstein Islanders, you are the future! you are more virile than young men! those 13 year olds over there hit puberty at 9! the human race depends on you and them!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 1h

this is why i want a color wheel option for clothes and furniture called “successfully conceals coffee spills”

Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 1h

dude had to be verrrrrrrry clear on who the fall guy would be for war crimes

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1h

To the extent anyone cares, the legality of tapping into tariff money is identical to the legality of tapping into federal income tax money, because they are both taxes that accrue to the treasury. Appropriations are still needed to spend it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 8h

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 4h

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3h

If there is to be an American republic in more than name, there must be serious consequences for a lawless executive stealing “the power of the purse” from the American people. As New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez once said, **only the Democrats** can be those consequences.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3h

www.editorialboard.com/in-latest-mo...

Trump steals the power of the people to control their own money

The shutdown is now legitimate resistance to illegitimate rule.

www.editorialboard.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

theres nothing preventing a response here. not time. not resources. they just dont want to do it.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

so its been about 3 hours since this happened. and the democratic response? essentially crickets.

this is all i could really find.

its pathetic. the party is just awol.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

this is conservatives operating like the entire world is their fox news bubble. this kind of rhetoric sounds insane to people who aren't gobbling up fox/trump 24-7

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Caga Tio @scottgoeke.bsky.social · 4h

gaffe aside, this reads like propaganda for old men who creep on young girls

“fellow aged Epstein Islanders, you are the future! you are more virile than young men! those 13 year olds over there hit puberty at 9! the human race depends on you and them!”

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4h

Sure does

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

Whether he jumped or was pushed, this seems like a big deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 10h

The punk ethos has always been about mutual aid and community. We *know* our systems and institutions will fail us; that’s why we’re punks. “Pick someone up in the pit” is much more than literal, and especially when we’re most down in the shit, we need to remember that.

Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 11h

Good morning I’m in @theverge.com profiling @ekkoastral.bsky.social @jael.bsky.social and some other cool trans musicians who are bringing the organizing energy they learned from being trans online to music venues across the country. These musicians are meeting the moment.

The DIY and IRL energy of punk rock mutual aid

Bands like Ekko Astral are bringing the urgency of online solidarity into the mosh pit.

www.theverge.com

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 11h

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted."

That will change the frame of the story.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h

“Trump is deeply unpopular. He’s failing on multiple fronts. His presidency is a disaster. The economy is is on the skids. The tariffs are a catastrophe. He’s admitting, and his own agencies—the Labor Department is admitting—that his mass deportations are screwing the economy in various ways.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11h

I have spent the last couple of years writing about the Young Republicans. Here is some of my work.

Undercover With the New Alt-Right

For 11 months, I pretended to be a far-right extremist. I discovered a radical youth movement trying to infiltrate the Republican Party.

www.thenation.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12h

The first Jim Crow was enacted under the auspices that racism is a necessity and a great and natural moral good.

The second one is being enacted under the auspices that racism doesn’t exist if you claim you don’t see it and anyone who questions your motives about that is oppressing you.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 1d

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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