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Zapp Brannigan™️ @realzappbrannigan.smokefleet.net · 10h

No, we aren't. Fuck you, Donald.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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bugeye61.bsky.social @bugeye61.bsky.social · 9h

No surprise. Israel has mad the complete transformation to a fascist state.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9h

This is what Israel did to Greta.

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me

• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked

• She was filmed while stripped naked

• Prison was 40 degrees but no water was given to Greta and her friends for days

• People fell sick. Guards mocked them saying they would gas them, showing them cylinders

• She was kept in solitary confinement for hours with bugs

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

How do you do, fellow state senators, GOP attorneys, and balding, 31-year-old Hitler enthusiasts?

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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bugeye61.bsky.social @bugeye61.bsky.social · 9h

They are all saying the racist and fascist parts out loud

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14h

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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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

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

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bugeye61.bsky.social @bugeye61.bsky.social · 23h

George- it seems like to me it was more than a few tweets that blew up your marriage if one of her best friends is Stephen Miller

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

"George has continued criticizing the president and figures of his administration, including Stephen Miller (during her appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, Kellyanne described the Millers as some of her 'best friends' in the current administration)."

www.thedailybeast.com/kellyanne-co...

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

Remember how MAGA told us Javier Milei would fix Argentina's economy with his right-wing policies?

And now we are bailing out Argentina with billions.

Remember how MAGA told us Donald Trump would save US farmers with his right-wing policies?

And now we are bailing them out with billions also.

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bugeye61.bsky.social @bugeye61.bsky.social · 1d

Art of the Deal, unless the guy from Argentina looses the election

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

OCT 14: Shutdown Pain Spreads, “No Kings” Protests Surge, Trump Pushes Middle East Agenda — and Uses Argentina Visit to Attack Allies

onest.substack.com/p/oct-14-shu...

OCT 14: Shutdown Pain Spreads, “No Kings” Protests Surge, Trump Pushes Middle East Agenda — and Uses Argentina Visit to Attack Allies

Factual information is our love language.

onest.substack.com

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Given the DHS talk of "remigration" and private chats revealing the overtly Nazi stances of the NY Young Republicans, it would be really good for those opposed to show up October 18 then continue to collaborate in their communities, because all this will get worse and worse until we act to stop it.

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 1d

There must be SOMETHING written in the constitution that forbids bad pictures of the presidents VaJayJay Neck from being published!

He should call for an investigation!!!

#FuckDonaldTrump

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?
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10/13/25, 10:36 PM

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for."

#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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bugeye61.bsky.social @bugeye61.bsky.social · 1d

Seems very accurate

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHRIS CHRISTIE (a Republican): “This is no longer the Department of Justice. What it is now is a Capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so.”

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bugeye61.bsky.social @bugeye61.bsky.social · 1d

You mean the one that Trump torpedoed? Exactly

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

We didn't do anything extraordinary here. Sure, I wrote a nice script, and my friend @barubin.bsky.social did a fantastic job overlaying visuals. But what we're saying is pretty obvious.

What I wonder is why *we* have to say these things as opposed to, I don't know, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

"Show them you're not afraid. Do it for the country. For the Constitution. For your family. For yourself. Do it for your freedom. While you still can."

This is excellent. Every Dem strategist who thinks there's risk in engaging these debates should watch it for guidance.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t forget.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

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