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Ultra Deep State @deportelon.bsky.social · 4h

You’re not imagining it. They are literally Jacobites.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04...

Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets

They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.

www.vanityfair.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING

“The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.”

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h

Surely Antifa’s Tier One special forces staged a covert raid on this congressional office. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: A federal judge just temporarily blocked the Trump admin's plans to lay off thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown — siding with unions, which have argued that the dismissals were illegal.

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Ultra Deep State @deportelon.bsky.social · 10h

My light blue township has almost no Sherrill signs, and maybe three or four Jan 6th Jack signs per block. It makes me nervous, but I try to remember that for the most part, the Trumpers are loud about their politics here, and my side of the aisle tends to low key it.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 12h

Section 2 of the 15th Amendment explicitly delegates to Congress the right to decide how to enforce Black voting rights. That's what the text says. And that's the original intent of the framers.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10h

Trump wants to DOUBLE Argentina's bailout to $40 billion to save his political ally.

Yet he is doing nothing to prevent 15 million Americans from losing their health care and 20 million from seeing a doubling in their premiums.

Is this what Trump means by America first?

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Ultra Deep State @deportelon.bsky.social · 10h

I called my congressman. His office didn’t give a shit and had no interest in reclaiming the power of the purse. Congress serves the Fuhrer at his pleasure.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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Ultra Deep State @deportelon.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck Trump’s brownshirts

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

The last people who said this here were American colonial merchants who remained loyal to King George III. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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WIRED @wired.com · 13h

“People are scared," asks one federal worker. “Is WIRED hiring?” jokes another.

Federal Workers Are Being Used as Pawns in the Shutdown

“People are scared," asks one federal worker. “Is WIRED hiring?” jokes another.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Axios @axios.com · 14h

The most expensive political ad campaign of the year is being run by the Department of Homeland Security, spending at least $51 million on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border.

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

www.axios.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13h

My memory is quite the opposite. “No kings” has actually worked out really well for the American economy for centuries.

It’s the arrival of a would-be king that has shut everything down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Ultra Deep State @deportelon.bsky.social · 14h

I guess Poland needs to give Trump a plane like Qatar.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry, Warsaw.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Bessent: "All I hear from the Europeans is that Putin is coming to Warsaw. There are very few things in life I am sure about. I am sure he's not coming to Boston."

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Ultra Deep State @deportelon.bsky.social · 14h

This ass clown Bessent makes Steve Mnuchin look like Salmon P Chase.

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Ultra Deep State @deportelon.bsky.social · 14h

We had huge national protests in April and June, yet the fascism continued unabated. It’s odd that the neo-Nazis are so focused on Saturday. I assume they’re stirring fever dreams in their ecosystem for Trump to cite when invoking the insurrection act afterwards. All part of the dictator’s playbook.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

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Ultra Deep State @deportelon.bsky.social · 1d

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 1d

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

I am a few days late to John Oliver's piece on the Free Press and its portent for CBS News.

But if you have a free half hour, you really ought to watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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