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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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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 3h

What are we still doing here? Go away and do the work, @grahamformaine.bsky.social

Amy Fried @asfried.bsky.social · 5h

There's lots of homophobia in Platner's posts, including from a few years ago. #mepolitics

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts. www.advocate.com/politics/gra...

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts

"Today I find that stuff abhorrent," Platner told The Advocate. "And I am sorry that I ever used it.”

www.advocate.com

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3h

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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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 3h

Once again old man, water does NOT “come in from the Pacific Northwest,” the “riots” were started by his masked men in unmarked cars snatching people off the streets, & LA wasn’t “lost” — he even thanked local law enforcement.

If you’re going to lie about our state, at least get new material.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "Gavin has to be careful"

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

As Paul Weiss, Paramount, anyone who has capitulated to Trump has learned — it never ends. You are giving up your principles and (at least in the case of law firms and universities) reason for existence, and you are getting nothing in return other than letting Trump know you will give in.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

This is the statement the Department of Justice in the Trump administration released in regards to the University of Virginia's capitulation to authoritarianism.

The United States Department of Justice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WWW.JUSTICE.GOV/NEWS
October 22, 2025
The Justice Department Announces Agreement with
University of Virginia
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with the University of Virginia ("UVA") that will protect UVA's students, faculty, and employees from violations of federal civil rights laws, including from discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin.
As part of the agreement, the University of Virginia agrees to be bound by the Department of Justice's "Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination," ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities. UVA will provide relevant information and data to the Department of Justice on a quarterly basis through 2028. The President of UVA will personally certify each quarter that UVA is in compliance with the agreement. The Department will pause its pending investigations into the university's admissions policies and other civil rights concerns. The United States shall treat UVA as eligible for future grants and awards. If UVA completes its planned reforms prohibiting DEI at the university, the Department will close its investigations against UVA.
"This notable agreement with the University of Virginia will protect students and faculty from unlawful discrimination, ensuring that equal opportunity and fairness are restored," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. "We appreciate the progress that the university has made in combatting antisemitism and racial bias, and other American universities should be on alert that the Justice Department will ensure that our federal civil rights laws are enforced for every American, without exception."
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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 3h

We gave the President a palace to rule from and a throne room to sign proclamations in. Is it any surprise that eventually a party decided their President is a King?

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, I'm staying out on my shingle here, we level whatever Trump made and whatever bombed-out crackhouse the White House will have been turned into and replace it with a memorial to the victims of the regime and move the President into an apartment, no, you move.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19h

In other words, “reconstruction” will only take place where there are no Palestinian people because Israel is preventing their return to that part of Gaza.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Kushner confirmed reconstruction will begin only in areas of Gaza under Israeli control, saying “no reconstruction funds will be going into areas that Hamas still controls.” He described plans for a “new Gaza,” built and secured by an international force to provide Palestinians “a place to go, a...

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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 3h

Just give me an hour with him, I'll rant about red triangle activists and also inject a ton of "so this is how good LGBTQ advocacy works" lines including a reference to Dana International. A friend of Israel is a friend of the parts of Israel that subsidize the rest is a friend of LGBTQ people, etc.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

i really do think we underestimate Fetterman's usage of X

Fetterman was, according to Jentleson, avoiding the regular checkups advised by his doctors. He was preoccupied with the social-media platform X, which he’d previously admitted had been a major “accelerant” of his depression. He drove his car so “recklessly,” Jentleson said, that staff refused to ride with him. He had also bought a gun. “He says he has a biometric safe and takes all the necessary precautions, and living where he does I understand the desire for personal protection,” Jentleson wrote, referring to Fetterman’s rough-and-tumble town of Braddock, Pennsylvania. “But this is one of the things you said to flag, so I am flagging.”

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 4h

get him over here and we can fix him

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

i really do think we underestimate Fetterman's usage of X

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h

We’ve updated our story with an additional comment provided by the United States Justice Department.

At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: "By the way-everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know."
I responded: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. You don't get to say that in retrospect."
Halligan was unpersuaded: "Yes I do. Off record."
"I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked," I said. "But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?
To my surprise, she kept going: "It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never told me about a story."
I didn't respond. It was time to publish my story. I'll text it to her.
Postscript: Read the full exchange between Lindsey Halligan and Lawfare's Anna Bower here.

Highlighted text: “Hours after Lawfare published this article, Justice Department spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre provided the following additional comment:

“Thank you for including my statement in your story. I just realized I spelled Lindsey's name wrong in the initial response, would you mind correcting?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

Not a basketball court or a bowling alley.

Republicans sound ridiculous making that comparison.

This isn’t an “upgrade” to the White House, it’s a monument to himself. Trump has no intention of ever leaving — he’s building his own palace and tearing down the entire East Wing to make it happen.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

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noctouyan 🔸🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @noctouyan.bsky.social · 3h

if the disgusting ballroom ceiling collapses on his head later that night, God will conclusively prove that sometimes he works in less than mysterious ways

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 3h

This proving conclusively, by failing to be struck down on the spot, that there is no god

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3h

Nick he is going to do a weigh in for his grotesque White House MMA fight on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, like it’s an open air slave market.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3h

Do it, Don. I know you want to. Fire up a few barges and pull the Statue of Liberty into the sea.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3h

It's a bad joke. The harm he represents manifest directly into the stonework of our national symbols.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 3h

It's amazing that the White House and Capitol Building, the two principal structures which functionally and symbolically represent civilian government in the United States, stood against even the prospect of harm for two centuries until Donald Trump intentionally desecrated both of them.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Has Speaker Johnson reached out to you since the January 6er made a threat on your life?

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: No

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6h

First thing we do is rip his name off of every federal building anywhere it was placed.

Straight into a dumpster.

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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 3h

A Nazi tattoo fails all tests.

Mr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social · 12h

You cannot defeat authoritarianism with purity tests. If you are actively working to splinter a unified front against authoritarianism, you are the problem.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 5h

Another illegal military strike on a boat — this time in the Pacific — broadening the Administration’s deadly campaign to another ocean.

Once again, there is no detail on who was killed or why.

The urgency increases: Congress must stop America from being dragged into another war.

US military strikes boat in Pacific in apparent expansion of campaign against alleged drug trafficking | CNN Politics

The US military conducted a lethal strike against a boat in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, killing both people on board, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

www.cnn.com

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 3h

I have a multigenerational ranching family. Ranchers actually are kind of stupid about a lot of things, like how to raise cattle using non-lethal predator control methods. But they’re smart enough to know when they’re getting fucked.

Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 4h

Donald Trump thinks Cattle Ranchers are stupid.

Cattle Ranchers are not stupid. They are smart, hardworking Americans getting screwed by Trump’s tariffs.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h

Trump attacks the cattle ranchers and basically says he knows what’s best for them and that they should be grateful for him

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