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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: A pardoned January 6 rioter was charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries

MIKE JOHNSON: Terrible. That's the first I've heard of that. I don't know anything about it.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 3h

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

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MAGA Focker @maga-focker.bsky.social · 2h

King Don The 1st Felon has started construction of FukingThem Palace. The treasonous King of America has just declared that he will NOT LEAVE OFFICE. His kingdom will prevent election losses with Kings Guard units deployed to multiple cities. Guess who is financing all of this? WTF? WTF?

#NoKings

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 2h

Now, Donald Trump is literally tearing down portions of the WH and historical aspects like Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden.

I guess when you shit in a diaper as a grown man who claims to be an "alpha male," the bitterness and self-hate eat you up, and you demolish things you know others cherish.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

Legal experts are sounding the alarm on a shocking federal appeals court ruling that all but permitted President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon. They warn that, if upheld, the order would give Trump unbridled power to use the military domestically

‘Dangerous and Legally Flawed’: Experts Slam Trump Judges’ Green Light for Portland Military Takeover - Democracy Docket

Legal experts are sounding the alarm on a shocking federal appeals court ruling that all but permitted President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon.

www.democracydocket.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

#TrumpHatesOurHealthCare
Regular Americans don’t give a shit about a clean CR. They care that they can afford their insurance premiums.

NEW POLL…

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 5h

Trump doesn’t “love America.” He loves watching Americans suffer.
He ripped healthcare from sick kids and veterans, and called it “fiscal discipline.”
That’s not leadership — it’s sadism in a suit.

#TrumpHatesOurHealthCare

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 3h

Trump posted a clip about prosecuting Obama, lied about a summit with Putin, took a foreign made excavator to the East Wing of the White House while he dined with GOP Senators on a paved over Rose Garden a month into a government shutdown but tell me again how Biden was old.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 3h

The House speaker has refused to swear in newly elected congresswoman Adelita Grijalva, who would be the deciding vote on a petition to release the files.

Mike Johnson Won’t Block House From Releasing Epstein Files, He Says—But Also Won’t Swear In Lawmaker To Be Decisive Vote

The House speaker has refused to swear in newly elected congresswoman Adelita Grijalva, who would be the deciding vote on a petition to release the files.

www.forbes.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2h

Quick question. Why does literally everything require you to have an account.

Everything.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 5h

A new Supreme Court case could turn the National Guard into Trump’s personal army

www.vox.com

A new Supreme Court case could turn the National Guard into Trump’s personal army

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

NEW: Jack Smith has responded to Chuck Grassley and the Senate Judiciary, and it's 🔥🔥🔥

Jack Smith reminds Chuck Grassley:

1. Toll records aren't wiretaps
2. Trump's DOJ got toll records on Schiff and Swallwell and 43 congressional staffers
3. Hur got toll records in the Biden investigation 1/

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Swavay Deboner @mr-swavay.bsky.social · 2h

Time for a Motion to Vacate!
Who has the balls to make it happen? Who do you think the next speaker should be?

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Marlena (#felon47 is NOT my President) ❌👑 @ohpleeznotagain.bsky.social · 5h

#ProudBlue

I find it very suspect that the demolition didn’t happen until AFTER the #NoKings protest which took place on Saturday (10/18/2025) and began tearing down walls of the People’s House on Monday, 10/20/2025.

Fucking convict takes pleasure in breaking down the country any way he can.

Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 6h

It wasn't enough to run our Constitution through a shredder & weaponize our military against citizens. Without approval, Trump is now tearing down the walls of the White House - the PEOPLE's House!

His hatred and lack of respect for this nation have no bounds.

www.npr.org/2025/10/20/g...

The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom

Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, ...

www.npr.org

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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 2h

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 2h

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7h

"Young 'conservatives' have no conception of conservatism outside of the MAGA movement... They are utterly untethered to reasonable discourse...in a perpetual, hateful adolescence."

- Peter Rothpletz, with his first 'First Draft' newsletter for Zeteo:

🐢 Teenage Mutant Nazi Turtles

Peter Rothpletz on the GOP's latest racist group chat scandal, Trump demolishing the White House, Fox comparing Portland to Gaza, and the latest in Sudan.

zeteo.com

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4h

ICE is stockpiling weapons. It’s disappeared 170+ citizens. It’s gassed cops, arrested vets and shot priests in the head. It’s the personal army of a rogue POTUS—a fascist ex-con and rapist—and it’s masked, armed, nameless, faceless and insignia-less. It’s intended use is exactly what we fear it is.

Suspect ‘gravely wounded’ and US marshal injured in Los Angeles immigration enforcement incident | CNN

A suspect was “gravely wounded” and a US marshal assisting with an immigration enforcement operation was injured early Tuesday in Los Angeles, a law enforcement source tells CNN.

www.cnn.com

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✨🦋𝓢𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓛𝓐 🦋✨ @sheilaharris.bsky.social · 3h

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4h

If you see an ICE agent, know that they’re governed by no laws, have no red lines, don’t follow the Constitution, and can’t be stopped.

They’re going to do whatever they feel like.

They are American Gestapo—literally. They’re the federal stormtroopers the right wing spent 100 years worrying about.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 4h

Trump’s ‘clownishly crude’ crusade doomed to end in catastrophe: column

www.rawstory.com

Trump’s ‘clownishly crude’ crusade doomed to end in catastrophe: column

twp.ai

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 4h

Why is Trump protecting other pedophiles in the #EpsteinFiles?

Because they likely have evidence incriminating Trump as an insurance policy.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

DHS just got caught telling multiple lies about federal agents shooting a US citizen multiple times

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 12h

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime

He was released by authorities in the South American nation.

www.politico.com

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