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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Trump hosted a dinner last week for donors helping fund his ballroom project.

Today, crews are starting construction and literally tearing down parts of the White House.

It's day 20 of the government shutdown and this is what he's prioritizing?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

When Pam Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while legacy news outlets like the Washington Post wanted to seem "fair" and gave her a thumbs up.

Reject both sides journalism by subscribing to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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manly_stanly @chroniquee.bsky.social · 4d

JD Vance was at least half-right, those are definitely the textbook definition of man-children.

manly_stanly @chroniquee.bsky.social · 4d

Republicans had 7 months to negotiate a budget and chose to sit on their hands and do nothing at all besides blame the minority party.

I wonder why they would do that, I can't quite Epstein files put my finger on it.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 5d

It’s day 15 of the Epstein shutdown

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manly_stanly @chroniquee.bsky.social · 7d

TIME magazine stealing from other people's work and ideas and profiting from it, just following the same playbook as the fat senile rapist that they are idolizing here.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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manly_stanly @chroniquee.bsky.social · 15d

But Kamala had a weird laugh and Biden was old. Good thing the corporate media focused 90% of their attention on that before the election instead of this shit.

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manly_stanly @chroniquee.bsky.social · 15d

It's almost as if Americans aren't as smart and great as they think they are, and are actually some of the dumbest people on the planet. The rest of the world figured this out a long, long time ago.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 18d

Release the jobs report. And while you’re at it, release the Epstein files.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18d

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18d

Wow. This really says it all.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18d

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21d

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 22d

REMEMBER WHEN OUR WORTHLESS PRESS TRASHED KAMALA AND SANEWASHED DONNY'S FASCISM, AND NOW HE'S PRESIDENT? AND OH LOOK — NOW HE'S SENDING THE MILITARY TO WAR AGAINST AMERICA. THANKS, MEDIA! MANY ARE SAYING THANK YOU JEFF TIEDRICH (ME!) FOR WRITING THE GREATEST POST EVER! READ IT HERE: bit.ly/42hqdQG

hey, remember when Kamala Harris warned everyone that Donny Convict would send the military after us — and the press was all “shut the fuck up, laughing lady, prove you worked at McDonald’s”?

that was fun, wasn’t it?

it’s a good thing there weren’t any serious consequences from that bit of journalistic malpractice, isn’t it?

oh, wait.

tell me, where does America go to get its apology from the press?

better question: where does America go to hide from its own mad king? because he sure seems super fucking horny to mow us all down.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27d

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database.

Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away.

The cruelty is the point.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Sep 14

Every time I read an editorial in the Washington Post in which the geniuses over there predict how someone will act in office, I remember this.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 12

Maybe putting a podcaster and a Mar-a-Lago groupie in charge of the FBI wasn’t the best plan.

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manly_stanly @chroniquee.bsky.social · Sep 11

Derrick Van Orden represents a heavily gerrymandered district and doesn't feel any political pressure to change his dangerous rhetoric.

This is what total lack of any accountability looks like. Looking at you, Wisconsin Supreme Court. Make the maps fair again!

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WisDems @wisdems.org · Sep 11

Derrick Van Orden is calling for "gloves off" violence. Since the horrific murder yesterday he has sent out nearly 100 tweets inviting a civil war and encouraging violence against Democrats and the media. And his fellow Republicans are refusing to tell him to stop.
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Wisconsin Rep. Derrick Van Orden says Democrats, media are 'culpable' in Charlie Kirk assassination

The Wisconsin Congressman's flurry of tweets about Democrats came before authorities identified a suspect in Kirk's killing.

www.jsonline.com

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manly_stanly @chroniquee.bsky.social · Sep 11

If he was a Republican he would have been re-elected in a landslide and serving another six year term.

Might even have had a chance at the presidency if he committed a few dozen more felonies and trafficked children.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Sep 11

So MSNBC reportedly fired Matthew Dowd tonight just hours after Jesse Watters called for his "immediate" termination over his Charlie Kirk shooting comments.

Meanwhile, Watters said he's going to "avenge" Kirk's death because "they are at war with us" -- and he'll face no repercussions from Fox.

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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