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Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 58m

The GOP DOJ doesn't care because
It's not their money. It's the same as conjoined twins on payday when cashing it in. All the pockets are in the same set of clothes.

Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 1h

Dementia has full sway in that diseased brain. I can hardly wait for the aphasia stage. It can't come soon enough.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 7h

Trump is demanding DOJ pay him $230M in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

CAN SOMEONE CALL GARLAND AND ASK HIM HOW HIS MILITANT COMMITMENT TO "NORMS" IS WORKING OUT?

I hope he knows history will remember him as one of the main cowards who enabled the collapse of our Republic.

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Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 7h

Fetterman reversed so fast he's an inside-out a-hole, which is a synonym for Republican= liar, cheat, and grifter on the taxpayer's dime, which is what we will have left after Trumo stiffs his vanity project contractors, pay tariffs, lose jobs, and pay exorbitant premiums in a flatlining economy.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Government employees are going unpaid during the shutdown, food stamps and other programs are about to come to a screeching halt, and the tariffs continue to hurt ordinary Americans, but the mobster doesn’t care.

“Fuck you, pay me.”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Goldman: "We are combining the weaponization of the DOJ with his grift and corruption to make money off the presidency. It is completely absurd. Trump would've been convicted at trial in both of those cases. The only reason they went away is bc he won the election...it's a shakedown of his own govt"

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 8h

NEWS: Trump demands DOJ pay him $230 million for investigating him, ICE struggles with recruitment because of "athletically allergic" candidates, Trump defends demolishing the East Wing, and more.

Please consider sharing and subscribing today: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

NEWS: Donald Trump Demands $230 Million Payment from DOJ For Investigating Him

Trump demands DOJ pay him $230 million for investigating him, ICE struggles with recruitment because of "athletically allergic" candidates, Trump defends demolishing the East Wing, and more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 12h

Best laugh since South Park featuring chopsticks in an episode. Thanks.

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Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 12h

A fiction writer couldn't come up with the outrageous 💩 this regime peddles.

PS We need a different 💩 emoji, one without the wide-eyed smile. Maybe Munch's The Scream version.

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Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 13h

What is the opposite of confidence and assurance, you ask? JD Vance, obviously. Israel violated the ceasefire before the ink was dry on the signatures. Kushner only cares because he has a groundbreaking scheduled as soon as the last Palestinian body is removed. Does anyone think I'm joking?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021

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Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 13h

Ever see the movie Millennium starring Cheryl Ladd and Kris Kristifferson? The Council's suspended female face in the box is what I recall each time I see a photo of the Mar a Lago hags. I doubt these women have a diamond studded acrylic pinkie nail full of her intelligence. Snort. Oops! 🤧 Gone!

Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 13h

Rats! I didn't think of lecherous in my description of the depraved in chief pimping for Vought.

Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 13h

My eyes, my eyes! 👀 😖😵‍💫 🧠🤯💣💥
You're right. It's a custom fit for the depraved in chief to out-libertine the Marquis de Sade. That should be the real name of the MAGA movement. The Libertines. They're into pedophilia, perversions, predation, vast inuquities, and surgical deformities.

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Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 14h

We need better words to describe Trump and his fascist regime. Vile, repugnant, reprehensible, repulsive, disgusting, repellant, depraved, evil, nefarious, wicked, unredeemable, detestable, lawless, corrupt, contemptible, villainous, abominable, amoral, and atrocious, aren't cutting it any more. 🤢🤮

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The scene at Mar-a-Lago is as gross and creepy as you imagined, with these old pervs chasing their surgically enhanced prey with Trump acting as sick Degenerate-in-Chief. bsky.app/profile/mehd...

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 14h

If anyone in the distant future dares say that Donald John Trump, the vile 45th & 47th POS was a catalyst for the reformation of the United States Constitution's phoenix-rise from the dust and ashes he wrought, I will come back and haunt them and their future generations without mercy. ETTD

Susan Wade @susanrwk.bsky.social · 14h

My exact same thought. Trump's decay in full display and a fitting representation of the filth and destruction he has wrought, in both this picture of the demolished East Wing and our country as a whole. If only there were words more fitting in describing him other than vile, despicable, repulsive.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

Kudos to the patriot projecting this on FCC HQ!

Brendan Carr is FCC chairman—i.e. the hypocrite who warned during the Biden admin that "Govt censorship is fascism," but now champions Govt censorship under Trump.

Selective Free Speech ain't Free Speech Mr. Carr!
www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-cancel...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Trump may have set out to get revenge on former FBI Director Jim Comey but it’s not working out well for the government. Today, two motions to dismiss the case & Comey calls the govt’s bluff when U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan tries to smear one of his lawyers. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Comey Moves To Dismiss

You have choices about where you get your news and analysis.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 23h

Debbie Brockman, the WGN-TV producer violently arrested by ICE Friday morning in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago, has retained an attorney and intends to “pursue all legal avenues available” to hold federal authorities accountable.

WGN-TV producer hires attorney to ‘pursue all legal avenues’ after ICE detention

Debbie Brockman and her legal team “adamantly deny” allegations that she assaulted federal officers during an immigration enforcement action.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

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Jazzy @jazzyjones.bsky.social · 1d

They are absolutely terrified of the Epstein files that chicken shit Johnson won't even swear in a recently elected democratic congresswoman.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16h

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