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Barrett Madden @barrettmadden.bsky.social · 2h

They say so much😏

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7h

Congressional Republicans could begin to end this chaos today if they really wanted to.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

If a temporary resident of the White House can totally demolish the East Wing to build a gaudy ballroom, without any authority, approval, or regulation, he can tear down the rest of the White House to build a Walmart. That this destruction is allowed underscores how off the rails our country is now.

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Barrett Madden @barrettmadden.bsky.social · 8h

What did the guard say when you asked them why these people weren’t arrested as they would have been had they been any other private citizen? Trespassing on Guard property is a pretty serious offense, isn’t it?

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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 13h

Photojournalist Nick Stern was felled by an LAPD officer on horseback and threatened with arrest while covering a “No Kings” protest in downtown LA on Oct. 18.

pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 1d

NEW(!): Kicking off my new posting space, Five Asides, with an MLS playoff preview.

A personal note before scrutinizing the postseason format in its third season and sizing up each first round matchup. Great to be back! jeffrueter.substack.com/p/introducin...

Introducing Five Asides... with a MLS playoff preview!

This will cover far more terrain in time. But until then: I'm back!

jeffrueter.substack.com

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 1d

"The ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Not your health care.
Not rising prices.
Not the dragging economy.
Not ending the shutdown.

Trump's "main priority" is wrecking the White House so he can build a fancy new ballroom.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 1d

After being told for decades that reparations are a non-starter, Trump is about to give himself $230 million because our government tried to apply the law to him.

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Kellum Dander @kellumdander.bsky.social · 1d

things you'll only read when Republicans are in office

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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Barrett Madden @barrettmadden.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve become a firm believer in term limits, but not the kind that are ever talked about. For example, I think 6 terms as senator is a good limit. Keeps institutional knowledge but creates turnover for new blood. Seems like it would reduce the issue of gerontology that plagues our current senate.

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Chaos Cherub @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 2d

Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.

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Barrett Madden @barrettmadden.bsky.social · 2d

It’s *always* projection

Barrett Madden @barrettmadden.bsky.social · 2d

@jeffrueter.bsky.social - minor quibble with TSS episode about Chi/Orl - Chicago is NOT on a 2 game winning streak. As much as it felt like a loss, that was a late *equalizer* own goal, not a winner.

Barrett Madden @barrettmadden.bsky.social · 2d

Video games are one of the places Democratic leaders should be paying attention to.

Tons of misogyny, plenty of “fuck the rules”, shoot first and ask questions later, and learn to ignore cries of help to get your objective done.

Barrett Madden @barrettmadden.bsky.social · 2d

When is a reporter going to follow up with “why do you know so little? Do you ever watch the news?”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

We are being erased in real time, our history, the laws created to protect our status as citizens. Emboldened white supremacists disparage us openly & on TV.
The President calls us low IQ.Our Dad & Moms are being kidnapped by ICE in front of their children.
We will not ignore a Nazi tattoo. No.

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Barrett Madden @barrettmadden.bsky.social · 3d

Number one as a lothario was the most unbelievable part of that show

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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 3d

Kinda wild that Mamdani and Sliwa are the guys who won their primaries and there has been open, nonstop meddling to overturn that will of the voters and install the disgraced former governor and it’s largely being covered like this is perfectly normal shit

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

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Paul Tenorio @paultenorio.bsky.social · 3d

In Austin, I sat with #USMNT legend Landon Donovan to talk about his openness with a big vulnerability and the unexpected reward of sharing his hair journey with the public.

“We’re just people struggling, trying to figure it out and doing the best we can,” he said.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/672...

Landon Donovan’s new hair, and the side effect he wasn’t expecting

The USMNT great has been a trailblazer in the mental health space, but even he wasn't expecting the reaction to his latest public journey

www.nytimes.com

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Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · 4d

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 3d

Made a Google Calendar for the 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs; will update as the bracket evolves: tinyurl.com/MLSCup25

Google Calendar - Sign in to Access & Edit Your Schedule

Access Google Calendar with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).

tinyurl.com

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Kathleen Rowan 🌱 @rowanauthor.bsky.social · 3d

It's a palpable loss to us as individuals, and as a society, for us to stop doing creative things just because we're not in the top skill or popularity percentages of people who do them.

We don't do ourselves any favors by thinking stuff we create has to impress or sell to have value.

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