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Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 14h

If he thinks hungry people are taking a lot of his tax money, wait till he finds out about corporate welfare.

onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17h

Trump is throwing 15 million Americans off health care.

He's doubling premiums for 20 million Americans.

Now, he's refusing to use a $5 billion emergency SNAP fund to keep 16 million kids from going hungry.

But the 1% keep $1 trillion in tax breaks.

Oligarchy in action.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h

"There is a clear mental health crisis going on in the Oval Office right now. He is detached from reality. Every politician and pundit, every journalist...knows this. It should be the biggest story in our media. But, shamefully, it isn’t."

Me for 'First Draft':

👑 The Madness of King Donald

Mehdi's Monday morning roundup of an increasingly unhinged US president, a new pro-Palestine Irish president, the big Mamdani/AOC/Bernie rally in Queens, and Gavin Newsom's 2028 plans.

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Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 16h

If the president is thinking that the medical exam to determine, “is this person mentally diminished” shows his intellectual fortitude is GREATER than others, that’s pretty much grounds for the 25th amendment.

@aoc.bsky.social
@crockett.house.gov
And it’s not age!
@sanders.senate.gov is sharp!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "They have Jasmine Crockett -- a low IQ person. AOC is low IQ. Have her pass the exams I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. They're cognitive tests. Let AOC go against Trump. Let Jasmine go against Trump. The first couple questions are easy -- a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe ... "

Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 17h

Was their assignment, “Tell us you’re an INCEL without saying it and use as many “big words” as you can.”

Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 18h

This is the most insane response to a normal post I've ever seen

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

🔥 @jessicatarlov.bsky.social : “No one can confirm we’ve actually been taking out drug traffickers… the admiral in charge resigned… all these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime… the government’s story is not adding up.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

This is another lie. Trump & Republicans find every conceivable way to plunder funds and redirect them to things they weren’t appropriated for, but money specifically set aside to feed people in a shutdown situation are now untouchable. DIDN’T JESUS SPEAK ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

Johnson: Snap benefits is a unique situation. I got a summary of the legal analysis…the contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17h

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people:

Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president

TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17h

So,
1) The Kirk tweet I was criticizing was about Mamdani, not me. But sure, we Muslims look all the same, right?
2) He spells my name wrong.
3) Kirk's murder was bad, that doesn't make his Islamophobia good.
4) Does the VP really have nothing to do all day except... quote-tweet at people like me?

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17h

I have a very bad feeling about this...

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

The Trump Administration: Where genuine beliefs in being white supremacist win out over purported beliefs in being "pro-life."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention, rights groups say

Women report miscarriages, delayed care, being shackled and being held in solitary confinement, letter says

www.theguardian.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Just checking: the republicans that attacked and sent marshals to arrest Texas dems for not showing up to work (in an effort to protect voting rights, btw) are the same republicans that are not showing up to work, yeah?

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Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 1d

But Hunter Biden (searches for something Trump Jr. hasn’t also done…. Comes up empty)…. Well!

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Sleepy Joe never provided for his son the way Donald Trump has smh

Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 2d

NEW: Don Trump Jr.--after helping pick top Pentagon officials to join his dad's administration--has now become an investor and advisor to Pentagon drone builders. This as President Trump orders Pentagon to buy more drones. A NYT investigation of this latest conflict.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 1d

This is a shame to our nation.

Why should anyone employed by the federal government make such a low salary that they have to apply to the federal government for assistance with food?!?!?

Someone make that make sense! You can’t because the federal govt. sets the pay rates and earnings criteria.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry to hear that.

I didn’t know. Almost 50 years and I had NO IDEA until I got cancer what “chronic pain” is like.

After a couple days everything else takes a back seat to trying to be comfortable.

Everything is a fog. “Hurts too much to think” is accurate and as time goes by…

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Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 1d

This is the issue with the MSM.

The fascist right has been calling them “enemy” for so long their primary objective now is to “not appear too critical of the right” to prove the “enemy” part wrong, even though precisely NOW is when we most need them to be critical!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.

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Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 1d

You know why you never see pictures of Trump like this with any of his kids?

Because, on top of every other way Trump is a horrible piece of shit, kids are afraid of or at least see him as a threat. So do dogs… And eagles. 🦅

Anyhow I’m not much of a fan of the GOP but at least Adam has humanity.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

The Bears lost but at least….

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci in “Home Alone”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"The president’s statement announcing the relief funding emphasized the number of times he won Missouri’s electoral votes, as if there were some kind of connection between his political support in the state and his eagerness to provide disaster aid..."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump approves disaster declarations for red states, as blue states go without

“President Trump and his administration have politicized disaster relief,” one governor said, “and our communities are the ones who will pay the price.”

www.msnbc.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Jane Doe - an Epstein survivor - just sued the Bank of New York Mellon for funding Epstein and failing to file a Suspicious Activity Report. A Mellon heir is the one who gave $130M to pay the troops. Seems bribey to me.

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Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Gov @govandybeshear.bsky.social pointed out there was only ONE TRANS KID in KY.

SO, answer me this @realtimers.bsky.social , @smerconish.bsky.social, who’s making TRANS ISSUES a priority? The party passing bills & overturning vetos or the party reacting appropriately with “why? No.” To bigotry?

prince is sitting on a couch with his eyes closed and the words `` do better '' written on the screen .

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Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 2d

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OLD SCHOOL LIBERALS!

I know a lot of you think like @realtimers.bsky.social and I’m sure @smerconish.bsky.social would be in lockstep.

Bill brought up TRANS bills the KY GOP passed that @govandybeshear.bsky.social vetoed.

Then Maher accused Democrats of making this an issue. HUH?!?!?

a man in a suit is covering his face with his hand

ALT: a man in a suit is covering his face with his hand

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Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a poem from the holocaust that MAGA better familiarize themselves with.

It ends something like “and when they came for me there was no one left to speak on my behalf.”

GOP! WAKE THE FUCK UP!

TRUMPS gonna burn each and every one of you! It’s all about TRUMP for Trump.

Rachel Hurley @rachelandthecity.bsky.social · 2d

Well, I didn’t expect to see John Thune throw a punch at his own party’s president, but here we are.

Jim J Smith (used to be a funny handle but got me blocked) @thejimjsmith.bsky.social · 3d

a man and a woman are sitting next to each other in a dark room and the man is talking to the woman .

ALT: a man and a woman are sitting next to each other in a dark room and the man is talking to the woman .

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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