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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 7h

Until Oliver Cromwell comes around.

bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 8h

I like to look at the line that’s formed behind us and remark that it looks like we got here at the right time.

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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 10h

This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 9h

I’d imagine, if they bother to justify it, they’d say something along the lines of “he already served two consecutive terms, so he can’t run again.”

But yeah, we’re basically just waiting on one of his vessels to clog up to move us past him at this point.

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 12h

I hadn’t realized this piece of shit is from Ohio. Goddammit, Ohio!

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 13h

So weird how one major US political party keeps getting caught electing nazis and hiring nazi staffers and hanging out in nazi group chats and displaying nazi symbols and using nazi talking points and stuff

Anyway, let’s put them in charge of the government for a while, I’m sure it’ll be fine

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Meanwhile, Justice Gorsuch is nodding along to oral arguments at the Supreme Court about how there’s no racism in politics anymore

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 13h

This guy was a clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Anyone want to argue this is not a racist (and damn stupid) taunt?

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 13h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 14h

Please notify President Trump and Vice-President Vance immediately. Isn’t this a mandatory one-year jail sentence—or is this a kind of flag desecration they have no problem with?

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 16h

My favorite part (other than that main part) is that all around that place are a mosque, a Penthouse store, a jail, and an anatomical statue of a horse over a flea market. And guess what God smote.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 1d

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 23h

Joe Willis was a third round pick, I think taken in part because he went to the University of Denver and Chad Ashton was from Denver.

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 23h

Also that Republicans in general are good for the economy.

bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 1d

Because, brother, when you were good, you were the best we had.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

Trump really just bragged at a Charlie Kirk memorial event that he’s better at dodging assassin’s bullets than Charlie Kirk.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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The States Project @statesprojectus.bsky.social · 1d

We’re not trying to win elections for winning sake.

We’re fighting for the governing power that allows lawmakers like the MI Senate to support young mothers, families, and to make life better for communities across the country.

www.mlive.com/politics/202...

Program giving new mothers $500 monthly will soon expand with $270M state budget boost

Rx Kids - a program providing prenatal and infant support to expecting and new mothers - received $270 million in funding to expand to more areas across the state.

www.mlive.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutional, damaging to our democracy and--last time I checked--murder is a crime. Let's not gussy it up and call it acts of war. This is murder.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d

This is the FIFTH time Trump has carried out an illegal bombing in the Caribbean.

Using the military to execute alleged criminals with no due process or input from Congress is brazenly unconstitutional and damaging to our democracy.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 1d

I read "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Once it gets into "The Praetorian Guard turned on the Emperor" territory, it doesn't really leave there until the Visigoths come knocking.

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