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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How is this rescue package America first?

TRUMP: It's really meant to help a good financial philosophy where Argentina can be successful again

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Naturally, the only prominent Republican to address the vile comments from the Young Republicans while refusing to condemn them was JD Vance.

But that’s only because Ron Desantis hasn’t weighed in yet.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 34m

The Kremlin is upset about their boy’s Time cover photo.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Today in Politics, Bulletin 229. Hegseth having a terrible week, a message from No Kings as Republicans continue attacking it, update on airports boycotting Noem, Trump crying about his Time cover, and everything else that happened today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 229. 10/14/25

… Pete Hegseth received a stunning rebuke today from every media company that covers the Pentagon, including Fox and Newsmax, who all refused to sign the agreement to abide by his lengthy set of paran...

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 7d

Let me be clear: It’s ILLEGAL to deny federal workers back pay after a shutdown.

There’s a 2019 law that guarantees it, but Trump is once again trying to break the law.

You don’t get to punish people for doing their jobs just because you’re failing at yours.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 6h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 45m

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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jessicamullen.bsky.social @jessicamullen.bsky.social · 31m

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

Analysis: Fox News rebuke shows Trump’s attacks on First Amendment are hitting roadblocks | CNN Politics

Despite the Trump administration’s growing efforts to target disfavored speech and media coverage, the First Amendment is showing growing signs of resilience.

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jessicamullen.bsky.social @jessicamullen.bsky.social · 56m

Jack Smith speaks! www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/p...

Takeaways from former special counsel Jack Smith’s scathing review of the Trump Justice Department | CNN Politics

Former special counsel Jack Smith cited the James Comey and Eric Adams cases as examples of how DOJ is operating out of the norm in Trump’s second term.

www.cnn.com

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 7h

Let's just say it like it is, it was a pre-meditated business plan between Trump and Netanyahu….

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jessicamullen.bsky.social @jessicamullen.bsky.social · 5h

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

Why Was the President of FIFA at the Gaza Summit?

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

If anyone wonders why we call them wannabe authoritarians, here you go.

They’re now shitting on the Bill of Rights.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

“Policy says reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information the Defense Department does not explicitly authorize. Any media who does not sign by 5 p.m. Tuesday has 24 hours to turn in their media credentials and clear out.”

Absolute fucking abomination.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

There have been brave & courageous war correspondents & reporters throughout history who have uncovered fraud, corruption, abuses and worse inside DOD and the military industrial complex over decades.

Then you have useless hacks that would sign on to Hegseth’s censorship rules.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

It is a disgrace that Fox continues to put them on constantly day after day to spew their propaganda to their friends when Hegseth & Wilson are afraid to face real press and are obviously in the process of covering a lot up that they don’t want the American people to know.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

3 weeks earlier

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America?

That’s really what you are going with?

That we hate the United States of America?

Fuck you.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

It looks like every media company in American that covers the Pentagon except OAN is refusing to sign Hegseth’s ultimatum.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Isn’t this the same deal Biden and Harris brokered before they left office?

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12h

Behold the National Neckgina.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

I think this is the thing that will tank this whole case for Lindsey Halligan.

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 10h

JUST IN: Comey confirms plan to challenge legality of Trump's appointment of Lindsey Halligan as US Attorney for EDVA. Cites rulings in NJ/NV disqualifying US attorneys there. Motion coming Oct. 20. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10h

JUST IN: The 3rd Circuit *denies* a push by national GOP to reconsider ruling on misdated mail ballots in Pa.

Judge Emil Bove may have cast his first vote here in dissent of the decision -- and plans to write about it later. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 11h

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

Judge Nachmanoff has adopted Jim Comey's preferred protective order over the one the loaner AUSAs proposed (which would have required Comey have babysitters to access his own discovery).

He also included this footnote.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

A federal judge said "DHS, you cannot legally put this language into a grant." So what DHS did is... keep putting that language in grants — but with a new disclaimer saying it would only apply if the court order was struck down.

The judge was NOT happy.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 9h

Judge William Smith (W. Bush appointee): The Government has done "precisely what the ... [court's] Order forbids."

The case is Illinois v. FEMA

On Wednesday, we'll publish an updated catalogue of such judicial decisions on noncompliance with court orders at @justsecurity.org at the link below:

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

www.justsecurity.org

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