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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 11h

I unpacked the implications of Nick Fuentes' collaboration with Tucker Carlson and the former Fox News host's willingness to portray the white nationalist livestreamer as a victim.

Someone wants him in the mainstream. Why? And what does it mean? postsfromunderground.ghost.io/on-tucker-ca...

on tucker carlson, nick fuentes, the heritage foundation, and all that

If you had asked me in 2016 whether I thought I’d write a blog about the Heritage Foundation defending a former Fox News host after he hosted a friendly conversation with one of the country’s leading ...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

US approved sale of chips to UAE after UAE put $2 billion into Trump’s crypto company.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 19m

Trump is sending his secret police to voting places now …

Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 25m

dailyboulder.com/this-is-vote...

‘This Is Voter Intimidation’: Outrage Erupts as Trump Admin Sends ICE to Polling Locations

With millions geared up to vote in a key off-year election, including a hotly watched redistricting measure in California, the Donald Trump administration has ignited fierce backlash by deploying fede...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19m

Loaner AUSA Tyler Lemons Confesses Kash Patel's FBI Was Reading Previously Seized Material without a Renewed Warrant

www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/03/t...

A picture of Loaner AUSA Tyler Lemons, who is wearing an awful green tie.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 13h

Is this the long-awaited, much-ballyhooed replacement for Obamacare?

You message the president on social media and hope he intervenes?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h

It’s worse than pointless — it’s complicity.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1h

On this @60Minutes interview. Trump lies as he breathes. He lies every time he opens his mouth. We’ve never ever faced this before. And the media still has no fucking clue how to deal with it. It is pointless to interview him if you don’t fact check his lies. It’s just pointless.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1h

"Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'"

In today's 'First Draft' morning newsletter from Zeteo, I counted and debunked at least *17 obvious, brazen lies* that the president told CBS's Norah O'Donnell, and that she just let slide:

🧾 Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'

Mehdi debunks the president's lies, unpacks the failure of our mainstream media, and has the latest from Gaza, as well as Trump's 'Great Gatsby'-esque Halloween party.

zeteo.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 50m

The FDA's top drug regulator claims retaliation:

George Tidmarsh abruptly resigned after officials began reviewing "serious concerns about his personal conduct."

Tidmarsh claimed a "toxic environment" at the FDA and said the review was retaliation for warnings about politics trumping science.

F.D.A. Drug Unit Chief Resigns, and Is Sued by Drug Company

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

This quote continues to rattle me to my core:

"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."

That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 53m

NEW: “I Don’t Feel Safe.” Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force, by @wendicthomas.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social w/ @mlk50.com

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force

A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 48m

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability

The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

“every time theres a republican president the economy collapses” feels like pretty easy messaging on the economy

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Layoffs Already Higher Than for Any Full Year Since 2020
Announced US job cuts by quarter

It’s been harder than normal to get a grasp on the US labor market lately, with several agencies that produce key economic data, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, going dark during the government shutdown. Even before that, President Donald Trump’s efforts to downsize the US government left holes in the sprawling federal statistical system. But private datasets have helped fill in some of the gaps.

A report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed almost 950,000 US job cuts this year through September, the highest year-to-date total since 2020—and that was before the heavy October run of announcements. (Excluding that first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, US job cuts in the first nine months have already surpassed full-year layoffs for every year since 2009.) When something is almost the worst since the Great Recession, North says, “that’s not a very encouraging number.”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

Congrats to everyone who put Republicans in charge "for the economy," the first three quarters of 2025 already had more layoffs than any of the years in which Biden or Obama was President except 2009 (when Dems were still cleaning up the prior Republican mess).
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going.

Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

• "We have no inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "It's at 2%. It's-- it's the perfect inflation." Inflation is at 3%.
• "Right now [grocery prices are] going down." Grocery prices are up 1.4% since
Trump came to office.
• "A year ago, we were a dead country." Not only did the US have the fastest-growing economy in the G7 in both 2023 and 2024, but the Economist magazine called it "the envy of the world."
• "11,888 murderers were let into our country." Not only is this number inaccurate, but many of the non-citizens convicted of homicide either here or abroad came in during Trump's first term.
• "Washington, DC, was... almost like a crime capital of the world." In 2023, per PolitiFact, "at least 49 other cities in the world had higher homicide rates.
• "[Biden] hardly went anywhere. Guy couldn't leave his bedroom." Not only did Joe Biden visit roughly as many countries in his term of office as Trump did in his first term, but Biden was the first US president to visit an active warzone - Ukraine - not under the control of US forces.
• "I made Middle East peace. For 3,000 years, they couldn't do it." There is no peace in Palestine, no peace deal in place, and it isn't a 3,000-year-old conflict.
• "Communist, not socialist. Communist. He's far worse than a socialist."
Zohran Mamdani is not a communist.
• "I can't give them $1.5 trillion so that they can give welfare to people that came into our country illegally." The Trump/GOP claim that Democrats want to give free healthcare to undocumented immigrants has been repeatedly debunked.
• "They emptied their mental institutions and their insane asylums-- into the United States of America." Asylum seekers don't come from "insane asylums."
Obviously.
• "One thing I can tell you, the 2020 election was rigged." It wasn't. The courts agreed.
• "And a lotta people say when it's rigged you're allowed to do it again." A lot of people don't say this. The US Constitution doesn't, for sure.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Trump always tells us how popular he is in NYC so this should really help Cuomo. bsky.app/profile/zohr...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.

At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25

Then beneath it

TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 9h

they did it :)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 11h

like yes we knew this but honestly this should be running everywhere for the next 36 hours or so

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 11h

Underreported clip from the 60 Minutes video is Trump basically endorsing Andrew Cuomo:

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 3h

I took his words more ominously:

"If we end the filibuster, we can do exactly what we want. We're not gonna lose power. The theory is, oh, then we'll do it, but then when they get into power someday they'll do it. That's true. But you know what?"

That Thune isn't on board is a positive indicator.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure he's mentioned the word before, but you get the impression this is the first time somebody managed to explain the filibuster to him, and get him to pay attention enough to get the gist of it and form an opinion. Which is of course, as always, he wants the immediate gratification option.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, NOT JUST FOR THE SHUTDOWN, BUT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE. WE WILL GET ALL OF OUR COMMON SENSE POLICIES APPROVED (VOTER ID, ANYONE?) AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! REMEMBER, THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO IT IMMEDIATELY, AS SOON AS THEY GET THE CHANCE."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

Next time they're running a cognitive assessment and doing an MRI at Walter Reed for totally normal nothing-to-see-here reasons, they should see how he fares on the marshmallow test.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure he's mentioned the word before, but you get the impression this is the first time somebody managed to explain the filibuster to him, and get him to pay attention enough to get the gist of it and form an opinion. Which is of course, as always, he wants the immediate gratification option.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, NOT JUST FOR THE SHUTDOWN, BUT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE. WE WILL GET ALL OF OUR COMMON SENSE POLICIES APPROVED (VOTER ID, ANYONE?) AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! REMEMBER, THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO IT IMMEDIATELY, AS SOON AS THEY GET THE CHANCE."