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CoffeeMonstress @apersoninnyc.bsky.social · 34m

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Trump’s VILE New Video Says It All (w/ Jack Cocchiarella)

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h

Donald Trump has illegally blown up at least seven boats in the Caribbean without any reason that would stand up in court.

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s Petty-Tyrant Brand of Fascism
The GOP president is both a dire threat to democratic governance and a clownish mob boss.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Trump’s Petty-Tyrant Brand of Fascism

The GOP president is both a dire threat to democratic governance and a clownish mob boss.

www.thenation.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1h

'Trump wants to 'Make America White Again' it was never about immigrants, it was always about hate and racism.
www.miamitimesonline.com/opinion/trum...

Trump wants to 'Make America White Again'

I have long held the view that President Donald Trump’s declaration of war against Mexican immigrants was in effect code for war on all brown and Black immigrants and people.

www.miamitimesonline.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.

Why evangelicals couldn't care less about Trump's Epstein scandal

They have a long history of falling for narcissists posing as Saviors.

www.motherjones.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

What exactly was the reason we needed to fire artillery shells over I-5?

So JD Vance can feel like a real boy?

Couldn’t he and Hegseth have just done some pushups together?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6h

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

StatesmanJournal.com
SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
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TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
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Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump Doctrine:

The US military blows up boats in the Caribbean to try and kill everyone on board claiming they are narco terrorists as the justification to dispense with interdiction and trial, but if the targets survive we let them go and fly them home.

Makes sense.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1h

Trump posted an AI video showing him DUMPING FECES on No Kings protesters. Here is how the media covered it:

1. NYT: Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

2. Axios: Trump posts fake video in "KING TRUMP" jet as GOP dismisses No Kings marches

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

In 1933, Adolf Hitler was legitimately made Chancellor of Germany. That doesn't mean that everything he did while in that office, like giving himself absolute power like a king, was legitimate, Meghan.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1h

Wait so we’re also in an armed conflict against a completely different group? Sure yeah why not

Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social · 6h

Pentagon discloses the latest strike on suspect boats in the Caribbean -- No. 7 in its current campaign -- with another video, but no evidence. In a first, this one is alleged to have ties to the Colombian insurgency group the ELN.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

U.S. Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs for Colombian Rebels

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

When this story broke earlier today Republicans claimed it was probably fake news since it was reported by the NYT. Now multiple media outlets have confirmed it, including Fox. Hegseth and Vance are complete morons for pulling this dumb stunt.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

Israel violating a ceasefire deal as a mob of Israeli settlers attack an American journalist and Palestinian grandma & an Israeli soccer match has to be cancelled because of violent fans is all the worse when you remember the deal calls to "de-radicalize" Palestinians and not Israelis

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

This is why they had the Marines fire artillery rounds over I-5. For a JD Vance TikTok.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

The whole thing as a vanity exercise to demonstrate a show of force before the No Kings events.

DOD had said that firing bombs over a highway was safe; state officials disagreed and shut down the highway, used by about 80K people daily. Turns out the state officials were right.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 5h

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has escalated from murdering South American fishermen to now bombing California freeways

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h

Here is a map showing the exact spot a CHP vehicle was struck by shrapnel after a shell detonated over I-5 during the Trump-Vance missile firings at Camp Pendleton:

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people?

Who could have foreseen this?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

Sounds … about right.

But still crazy to think those words were spoken aloud.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 12h

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

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CoffeeMonstress @apersoninnyc.bsky.social · 2h

I’d bet the ranch that Bari Weiss will continue to be a fascist-adjacent buffoon and blame everyone but herself for the fact that she is reviled.

Bella Allen @msbellaf.bsky.social · 10h

Let’s see see can either stop being a buffoon or she can obsessively search for who is leaking her buffoonery. She’s made her choice. She won’t change, her idiocy is what got her the big bucks

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 12h

it is possible to run a newsroom that doesn’t leak, but the reporters in it have to like and respect their leadership for that to happen

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 2h

Aka the Hegseth dilemma

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 12h

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

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