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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah he was trying to make a "yall ugly" joke but oops did the classic the enemy is simultaneously too strong and too weak fascism thing

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has a very simple worldview: the Presidency is not a public office, it is his property. He can use it to satisfy his personal or partisan whims, or to enrich himself.

So here, he threatens to reorganize an international competition, cohosted by Mexico and Canada, to settle a vendetta.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pam Bondi repeatedly claims that finding one missing child "makes it all worthwhile" when it comes to military occupations of American cities and adds that "Pritzker should be begging Donald Trump to come in."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pam Bondi claims Trump "absolutely has the right" to invoke the Insurrection Act

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

AG Bondi: "We're gonna get to the funding of antifa, we're gonna get to the root of antifa, and we're gonna find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

HANNITY: Antifa is working against the American people. What would that be called?

BONDI: It would be called organized crime. And that's what they're doing ... they are no different than MS-13

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 5h

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6h

I saw some references to a study showing fewer young people were trans. The author is "Director of the Centre for Heterodox Social Science" who recently published "The Third Awokening: A 12-Point Plan for Rolling Back Progressive Extremism."

His "science" has the credibility of a wet fart.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 9h

The "study" is by Eric Kaufman, a DeSantis supporter who left his post at the University of London citing "cancel culture." He believes that trans identity is a social contagion.

Here's what he believes his study proves.

Executive Summary
• After surging in the 2010s and 20s, trans and queer identities are in decline among young Americans
• The transgender share among university students peaked in 2023 and has almost halved since, from
nearly 7 percent to under 4 percent
• The share of students identifying as not heterosexual fell by around 10 points in the same period
• The decline in non-heterosexual share is concentrated in the queer or other sexual categories (i.e.
pansexual, asexual) and, to a lesser extent, bisexuality
• Today’s freshmen are less BTQ+ than seniors, suggesting that decline will continue
• The decline in BTQ+ identification does not appear to be connected to lower social media use, religious
revival, a shift to the political right or lower support for woke ideology
• There is evidence that improved mental health has reduced BTQ+ identification

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 7h

Stop making me agree with David Brooks.

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WIRED @wired.com · 7h

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 9h

Who were the 6 people the Administration just killed without due process?

Were they children?

Were they victims of human trafficking?

WE DON’T KNOW—they refuse to show proof.

No one made Trump judge, jury & executioner. This is a gross violation of international human rights.

Trump Administration Strikes Another Boat It Says Was Trafficking Drugs

The president said that six were killed in the latest military action off the coast of Venezuela.

www.wsj.com

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 7h

You too! We just…never stop missing our moms. Occasionally she’ll grant me a dream cameo appearance and it’s always such a relief to see her again.

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 7h

FFS

Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 7h

It’s ok, you seem like a nice person anyway. 😁😁

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 7h

My mom was on my mind all day before I realized it was her birthday. She started out a fairly stereotypical 1950s housewife, but by the time I was growing up in the 80s, she’d seen through that shit and told me to just be who I was, wherever that took me.

A beautiful lady with upswept hair, circa 1948

My mom in her early 50s, in her nursing uniform, holding 7 year old me, in my swimsuit the way kids just wear swimsuits.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "They have the devil's ideology. They become violent on the left."

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 8h

This made me cackle. It is truly the central question of our time.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

it’s illegal, but, also, this didn’t happen, and if someone *did* tell him this, they were lying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

"For decades, federal policy treated houses of worship as 'sensitive locations,' places enforcement was to avoid unless absolutely necessary. That protection ended in 2025, when ICE and Border Patrol were authorized to conduct arrests around churches and religious services." /1

Trump: Religious Freedom for Me but Not for Thee

His administration wrapped itself in faith while making worship a risk for others.

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Jayne, I suspect @eyegah.bsky.social · 8h

He must understand, on some level, how delusional that is? Right?

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9h

Trump said he'd focus on the “worst of the worst," but he's mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who's lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community.

Cruel.

I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she's finally home.

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after 5 months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

www.thebanner.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 9h

Breaking news: The U.S. military killed six alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Venezuela, President Trump said, raising further questions about his legal authority to use lethal force against vessels suspected of transporting illicit narcotics.

U.S. kills 6 alleged drug smugglers in new strike off Venezuela, Trump says

The operation follows Senate Republicans’ narrow defeat of a measure that aimed to prevent the administration’s actions on legal grounds.

wapo.st

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