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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 1m

A liberal group should start a website that just documents all of the Republicans or Trump donors/supporters that have been caught abusing women and/or been identified as pedophiles.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4m

Cory Mills, boy I dunno

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/14/j...

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11m

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 8m

No I think she meant that it's bad that Republicans have been taken over by fascists like this and that it would be better if The Bulwark types and Liz Cheney were in control of the party. Like it wasn't really that deep of a comment.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 1h

He wins because of this stuff not in spite of it btw

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump to Milei: "I'm going to endorse you today. Fully endorse you. And people in Argentina like me. A lot of people like me. I'm ever surprised myself."

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 2h

It would have been the better answer but I don't think you can read that much into those types of answers

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 2h

Young people in general can be pretty uh.. unfiltered. Now imagine what kids must be like that self-identify as Republicans in the Trump era lol

Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 4h

A genuinely good piece of reportage in Politico today sheds some light on young Republicans’ love of racial epithets and other slurs. I definitely recommend reading it, but as I’ve explained before, I doubt this will lead to any sort of a reckoning for Republicans.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 5h

TBF it was current US Senators he had to pick from and he obviously couldn't pick Collins lol

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 6h

And the stuff about Platner being a potential Fetterman clone also seem like a stretch. I've seen people whine that he said one Republican he admires is Hawley. Ya Hawley sucks, but if you ask any Democrat to name a Republican they admire, it'll be bad one, because all Republicans are bad!

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 6h

See this is dumb? Millis seems fine and she's proven she can win statewide. There is value in that vs. Collins! But instead of being skeptical of a near 80 year old we have to do the whole 2016 framing.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 8h

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race

Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

www.politico.com

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 6h

Millis vs. Platner is going to get warped into relitigating 2016 again because that's all people care about online. Millis is old old (she'll be 79 when entering office) and Platner is a complete unknown/untested. That's what the primary comes down to, not some weird ideology test or "DNC rigging"

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 6h

Do we know what their YTD digital numbers are or are those never disclosed?

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 7h

ah okay thought there was something new on them going after ACA protections

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 7h

I think its fine-ish that she's running because there will be a primary but I don't think I'd vote for her (if I was in Maine) unless the opponents are glaringly bad. 79 when entering the Senate is *REALLYYYYY old*. You are effectively voting for her Chief of Staff to be Senator.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 7h

what is happening now

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 7h

This is offensive to Monster energy drinkers

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 18h

i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 19h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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local man @thickdingus.bsky.social · 20h

It's the Wisconsin model. What Walker did was the blueprint, the modern day GOP is just re-enacting it on a national level. Lock down the judiciary, gerrymander the legislature, when in control of the executive be an authoritarian, when the opposing party controls the executive neuter the office.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 21h

Legitimately disgusting that were getting legal rigging of elections and nobody cares in the media or the electorate. This is not that functionally different than tossing out thousands of votes to help your side win.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 21h

Who is doing this aside from Green Glenn

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 22h

They interpreted "people, on the whole, are doing better than they were 4 years ago" as a personal attack on everyone who isn't. Telling them they're doing worse than the average person is an affront to their sense of self.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Like it’s absolutely surreal for me, listening to these bozos construct elaborate fantasies where people personally mocked them for feeling squeezed. This did not happen. No one did this. No one ever said that aggregate national economic data proved that every single person was doing great.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 1d

Been 10 years of this

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Damn! Some of you are dangerously susceptible to propaganda when it confirms your priors, and the people who are making the propaganda know and exploit that in bad faith!

Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 1d

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to Donald Trump.

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure this is enough to incentivize more Buy American. Any chance we could get more?

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Who doesn’t love their new trump taxes

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Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 1d

Get Rekt

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 1d

Feel like we said this most of his first term too. I'll believe it when I see and Trump has sort of proven the country has a ton of financial durability even with an insane person heading the country

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 1d

CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Is ‘Anxious’ Wall Street Is ‘Reliving’ 1929 Market Crash Under Trump

CNBC star Andrew Ross Sorkin told 60 Minutes that he is "anxious" Wall Street is racing towards a stock market crash like the one that rocked investors in 1929 The post CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin Is ‘Anxious’ Wall Street Is ‘Reliving’ 1929 Market Crash Under Trump first appeared on Mediaite.

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