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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 5h

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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Ruben Carranza @crashinator.bsky.social · 14h

Yuck, that coat.

Ruben Carranza @crashinator.bsky.social · 14h

Kristin Welker is terrible.

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Ruben Carranza @crashinator.bsky.social · 15h

Tax payers fund SNAP and the Govt. What a moron.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

He didn’t!

Trump played far more often in his first term (260+ in four years versus Obama’s 330+ over eight years) — and is playing *more often* this time around.

Term 1: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Term 2: www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

TAPPER: Obama's comments came within a day of Trump hosting a Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago while SNAP benefits are set to run out. Your response?

BESSENT: I believe President Obama played a record amount of golf of any president, so I'm not sure why he's out there throwing stones

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

Trump, Hegseth, and senior military commanders murdered 3 more people last night and the homicides near 100 people, and they expect you to take their word for it that they were transporting drugs and accept it. They murder whoever they want whenever they want.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Keystone Kash needed a distraction from the story that he took another private govt jet to watch his girlfriend sing. apnews.com/article/detr...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump Administration is basically claiming the right to kill anyone anywhere for any reason or for no reason, with no evidence provided or accountability to Congress or the American people.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s a wild claim of executive authority…It is usurping Congress’s authority over the use of military force.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump administration tells Congress war law doesn’t apply to cartel strikes

The Office of Legal Counsel told select lawmakers that the executive branch is not bound by the War Powers Resolution, which requires congressional approval for any military action that exceeds 60 day...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump showing his appreciation for his Black soldiers, by Godfrey the comedian.

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Ruben Carranza @crashinator.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of squidward from spongebob squarepants says " so delicious "

ALT: a cartoon of squidward from spongebob squarepants says " so delicious "

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Ruben Carranza @crashinator.bsky.social · 1d

This is murder.

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

14 strikes. 61 dead. “But the administration does not know their identities.” 🤷🏼 🛶 💣

theweek.com/politics/pen...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d

Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

the tone deafness is beyond parody

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Ruben Carranza @crashinator.bsky.social · 2d

Good to see our POTUS/felon is laser-focused on the important things.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

Same day. 🇺🇸

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. ticket sales for the Kennedy Center’s three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been in years, according to a Washington Post analysis ..

“.. Tens of thousands of seats have been left empty.”

@washingtonpost.com
@simsjames.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..

@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime

The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

www.miamiherald.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

FACTS about SNAP:

-35% to white people (largest share)
-90% to people born in 🇺🇸
-86% to households with kids
-70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

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Ruben Carranza @crashinator.bsky.social · 3d

Argentina First!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

BARTIROMO: You are being attacked for helping Argentina during a shutdown. What do you want to say to the Dems?

BESSENT: One of our great allies in South America, President Milei, needed a bridge to go into the election. 47m Argentinians -- we are helping them & a majority of them want free markets

Ruben Carranza @crashinator.bsky.social · 3d

In other words, people must starve for us to get what we want.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3d

As someone who has been on SNAP benefits in the past, what will happen Nov. 1 is that people will start diverting other funds towards groceries. They will choose to feed their families over making credit card payments, paying medical bills, car payments, etc. This is going to affect a lot of things.

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Elliott Vanskike @twonnet.bsky.social · 3d

Elie Mystal on why the GOP needs the illusion of a Trump third term

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Pete Hegseth just murdered more people and we have to take his word for it that they deserved it.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4d

Another illegal US maritime strike—again in the Pacific.

Against a vessel allegedly operated by an unspecified "designated terrorist organization."

Four reported fatalities—dubbed w/o ID or evidence "narco-terrorists."

There's a word for premeditated killings outside of armed conflict.

Earlier today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on yet another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Eastern Pacific.

This vessel, like all the others, was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Four male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel—and killed—during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. No U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

The Western Hemisphere is no longer a safe haven for narco-terrorists bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans. The Department of War will continue to hunt them down and eliminate them wherever they operate.

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