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Keith A. Eddins @eugeneinoregon.bsky.social · 1h

As a UVa graduate, I was proud last Friday when it rejected Trump’s compact. But today I am ashamed of my alma mater.

Important to understand that Gov Youngkin (and likely AG Miyares) pushed the UVA Board to pressure the previous president to resign in order to get precisely to this place!

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 3h

Unclear what the “immense pressure” that UVA faced from the Trump administration, but cutting these individual deals is an absolute disaster for higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

i will never understand how 77 million Americans thought empowering this was a good idea. our country was so lucky to survive his first term and he's much worse now.

Ask former President Barack Hussein Obama whether or not he really believes that in 2020 Joe Biden got 15 Million more Votes than he did in 2012 (65.9 vs. 81 Million). Additionally, ask him why it is that Joe Biden “beat” Obama in every single Swing State with the Black Vote in 2020, even though Black Voters hate him, but in no other State? THE 2020 ELECTION WAS AN ILLEGAL SCAM/HOAX THAT THE PEOPLE OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY WILL NEVER FORGET!

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 6h

The President has taken what was a noncapital criminal offense and just declared on his own that he can murder anyone he accuses of it without any sort of trial.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7h

NYT: Strike on Alleged Drug Boat Off Colombia Expands U.S. Campaign to Pacific Ocean

The U.S. military hit another vessel that the Trump administration claimed was carrying drugs from South America, a U.S. official said.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

apple google and meta proud sponsors of the epstein ballroom

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2h

This is very good

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 2h

I think Trump is aiming to eventually demo the entire White House, here’s why:
(1) he’s already tearing down the *entire* East Wing per NBC News and others. Possibly as soon as this weekend.
(2) the ballroom is going to be so massive that the rest of the WH will not look right next to it. The

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

New, from me: until recently there was strong bipartisan consensus that a nonpartisan civil service was good and that politicization was bad. Now views are more divided, with Republicans aligning with the pro-politicization actions of Trump. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-has-...

Trump has polarized how the public views politicization

His supporters are coming to accept his way of governing

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Keith A. Eddins @eugeneinoregon.bsky.social · 10h

As a diplomat, I served in several countries where most government jobs were filled by patronage appointments. It’s a guarantee for ineffectiveness and corruption.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

On the question of politicization of public services, we don't have much data AFAIK. However, data collected in 2024 and 2025 show striking shifts.
One-third of Republicans agreed the President should be able to choose who works in any any public job in 2024, now its two-thirds.

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Keith A. Eddins @eugeneinoregon.bsky.social · 10h

This, absolutely…and that includes the Senate, which are just single-member seats elected in different cycles.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

Any serious future for democracy in America requires us to get rid of single-member districts. It is the only long-term solution to this nonsense.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10h

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...

www.washingtontimes.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

propaganda works

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15d

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2d

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 13h

The East Wing Obscenity

This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace.

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

The East Wing Obscenity

Trump's Ballroom Is a Tumor On The People's House

open.substack.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 13h

“That they’re so uptight about”

I’m guessing that if Cramer hadn’t been seated in his own office as U.S. Senator over a month after he was supposed to for no particular reason he’d have been a bit “uptight” about it as well.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Sen. Kevin Cramer on Mike Johnson: "It may be getting to be time for him to bring the House back into session, if for no other reason to start doing other legislation and perhaps to swear in the House member from Arizona that they're so uptight about."

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

Trump-Putin meeting is most likely postponed. Trump says it would be a “waste of time”. Russia doesn’t want ceasefire.
Zelenskyy said only long range weapons would force Russia to consider negotiations. Since DJT refused providing such, same as Germany did, Putin is not interested in negotiating.

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 13h

If ‘we the people’ cannot prosecute a sitting president for his duplicitous crime spree, he should not be able to sue the government of ‘we the people’ out of petty vindictiveness.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

Trump is head of the DOJ and demanding we pay him $230 million because, though guilty, he forced DOJ to drop the case, and now he is AGAIN a pathetic, whiney VICTIM. L

Every Republican needs to speak up or be asked about this by media. The grifter is grifting.

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 13h

Dear friends, when you pick up your little ones from kindergarten today hold them tight and kiss and take a moment to be grateful that your neighbor isn’t Russia, and your children don’t have to live through what Ukrainian kids do.

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Keith A. Eddins @eugeneinoregon.bsky.social · 13h

Not to mention racism and misogyny.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 13h

Trump knows only how to seek vengeance and create chaos, so expect him to double down on constitutional outrages, vulgar insults, and utter dysfunction. Whatever people voted for, this is what they have gotten.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Demolishing the Presidency

A White House teardown ordered by a reckless child is the perfect metaphor

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Keith A. Eddins @eugeneinoregon.bsky.social · 13h

Why would any country trust — and thus want to engage with — the United States right now?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Golden Age of America — I mean, China. 🤡

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 15h

Last year, it was CrowdStrike. This week, AWS. We are engineering critical social systems that are completely contingent on single points of failure. It’s designed fragility and it produces catastrophic risk—all because it’s marginally more efficient. We are foolishly careening toward disaster:

The CrowdStrike Debacle is a Warning

We have engineered social systems that are hyper-optimized, super efficient, but incredibly fragile. It's a mistake—and unless we fix it, we will careen toward much worse, utterly avoidable disasters.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Ivo Daalder @ivodaalder.bsky.social · 1d

There you have it. Putin succeeded in stopping Tomahawks and ensuring Zelenskyy had a bad meeting with Trump, all for an empty promise to meet and end the war. Trump was played. Again.

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