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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24m

In the last week, Donald Trump has insisted that there are no more stores left in war-ravaged Portland, asserted that Joe Biden was president during the January 6th insurrection, hosted conspiracy theorists for an "Antifa" summit, and said he'd consider pardoning his good friend the sex trafficker.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 35m

Watchmen, he says? www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...

‘Fandom has toxified the world’: Watchmen author Alan Moore on superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in

www.theguardian.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h

Utterly evil

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 13h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 17h

Heck of a day to kick off pheasant hunting season in Ortonville! Grateful for this community’s hospitality, top notch guides, and bagging a couple birds.

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

Imagine that

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 17h

Particularly when the guy ending it gave the assailant his brass knuckles and has promised him lots more as long as the beating stops for a little while.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 18h

We've memory-holed the millions of lives lost to America's hemorrhagic fever epidemic under Obama. Sad really.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18h

I looked these up in light of the gutting of our ability to respond to Ebola and every other possible outbreak, but it struck me that THIS is the guy who wants to criminalize criticism of the president and his leadership?

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
There is a good possibility that a person who treated patients in West Africa and who FLEW into New York has Ebola. Touched many, bedlam!
Donald J. Trump O @realDonaldTrump
A single Ebola carrier infects 2 others at a minimum.
STOP THE FLIGHTS! NO VISAS FROM EBOLA STRICKEN COUNTRIES!
Donald J. Trump O @realDonaldTrump
Tremendous pressure on President Obama to institute a travel ban on Ebola stricken West Africa. At some point this stubborn dope will fold!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Obama just appointed an Ebola Czar with zero experience in the medical area and zero experience in infectious disease control. A TOTAL JOKE!
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
If there is one more Ebola case in the U.S., a full travel ban will be instituted. This common sense move should have been done long ago!

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I don't know if President Obama isn't stopping the flights from Ebola torn West Africa because he is stubborn, stupid, or just doesn't care!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
With all that is happening with Ebola, including the doctor who so easily came back to New York, Obama still refuses to stop the flights!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
There is ZERO margin for error on Ebola. Are we confident in Obama when he can't even make a website for $5 Billion?
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Here we go - A healthcare worker who treated Thomas Duncan, the man who flew into the U.S. from West Africa infected with Ebola, caught it!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
All the governors are already backing off of the Ebola quarantines. Bad decision that will lead to more mayhem.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 19h

That kid gives major Damien Thorn vibes. Yeesh.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 19h

Somewhere, Ibu Tien Percent and Pak Harto are nodding sagely. (I think late New Order Indonesia is a really good model for the type of kleptocracy the Trumps are building). bsky.app/profile/robe...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Reuters @reuters.com · 19h

Firefights erupt between Pakistani and Afghan forces along the border reut.rs/4q3Rosi

Firefights erupt between Pakistani and Afghan forces along the border

Firefights broke out along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late on Saturday, with the Afghan Taliban attacking Pakistani posts, according to security officials from both countries, following a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul this week.

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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 19h

Whole different stove that is heating up reeeeaalllly fast here. Almost every uniformed person I know said their first step was the interest free USAA or NFCU loan to carry them over any bumps.

Drew F. Lawrence @dflawrence.bsky.social · 20h

Troops stung by ‘hard’ credit checks and unexpected denials in USAA’s relief loans — latest from me @taskandpurpose.com

One soldier messaged USAA’s chatbot about his denied loan. It pushed a credit card, then said to consider opening an account with Navy Fed.
taskandpurpose.com/military-lif...

Troops stung by ‘hard’ credit checks and unexpected denials in USAA’s relief loans

Some troops were surpised by hard credit checks and unexpected denials for relief loans by military-friendly lender USAA.

taskandpurpose.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 1d

Remarkable reporting, and hugely significant that federal judges are speaking out like this (anonymously).

One thing that seems to go unsaid: judges see the Supreme Court’s shadow docket decisions as arbitrary. They are opaque, unexplained, unreasoned. Antithetical to the entire judicial system.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 1d

I've quite enjoyed the poor reporting that Qatar has a "base" of its own here now since it's down to the utterly incompetent comms team working for the utterly incompetent people in charge.

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David E. Rovella @davidrovella.bsky.social · 1d

Masked ICE agents beat US citizen, threaten him with attack dog, arrest him for hours on no charges.

apnews.com/article/us-c...

US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release, lawyer says

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S.

apnews.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

It's great that the New York Times employee the nation's leading segregationist as an contributing op-ed writer and the Douthat regularly injects pure uncut white supremacy into the national discourse and we still get regular lectures on how the mainstream media is too woke.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."

I don’t want to take any guidance at all from the secular society around us. And the reason I don’t is they killed 60 million babies. I don’t want to hear any more lectures from these people about slavery. You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today.

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 1d

Yo this is wild AF

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

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 1d

All items are for sale.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 1d

As Trump whines "where's my Nobel prize?" US-supplied munitions continue to fuel Israel's regional offensives. bsky.app/profile/alja...

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Huge explosions were seen as Israeli air attacks hit a town in south Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring at least seven others.

The strikes targeted a site that sold excavators and other heavy machinery.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

Of course Peter Mandelson introduced Epstein to Blair ... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal

National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and ‘young and vibrant’ financier

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1d

But today's trip was mostly about Bangkok's history as a port destination for Chinese migrants

Started at a migrant museum, walked the Chao Phraya to a wat built in the shape of a migrant ship, then to a mall where the migrants' labor has been packaged for consumption by their affluent descendants

A panorama of Yaowarat road at the Wat Traimit Chinese migrant museum

Nick Brumfield standing in front of a boat plying a muddy brown Chao Phraya River

Wat Yannawa, with part of the temple constructed as a stylized replica of a Chinese junk

A statue of a Chinese laborerer pulling a stone

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone Opposed to Me is the Antichrist

- by The Antichrist.

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