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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Sep 19

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 18

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · May 9

Ok, I might be a fan hahaha.

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Apr 27

Hey, @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social which episode was it where you spoke about responding vs. reacting? I'd love some help finding that, I'd like to send it to a friend. 🙏🏻

John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Apr 18

Princess! 😏

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Apr 18

In 2022 I interviewed Guantanamo survivor Mansoor Adayfi @mansooradayfi441.bsky.social as well as former US Counterintelligence officer Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social.

This link should work even if you don't have a Substack account.

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In 2002 Mansoor Adayfi, then 18 years old, was sold to the CIA by Afghani drug lords, tortured in secret prisons, and shipped to Guantanamo. In 2022 I was honored to let Mansoor tell his story. I als...

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Mar 24

Oooh, I'm famous—that's me and my Ugo Messenger bag!! And that bag is some of the best money I've ever spent. 🥰

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Mar 8

This was the best part of my day. 😌

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · Mar 4

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · Mar 5

Though administration officials have consistently said the people being sent to #Guantánamo are the “worst of the worst,” 51 of the 178 were considered to be non-criminal, meaning they had committed no crime other than being present in the United States unlawfully. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Trump administration rethinking Guantánamo immigrant detention plan amid cost issues and power struggles

Trump still wants to use the base for detention, but a scaled-down version is the likeliest outcome, sources said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Feb 22

Listen to @radiofreetom.bsky.social!

"Now that Trump has captured the intelligence services, the Justice Department, and the FBI, the military is the last piece he needs to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government."

A Friday-Night Massacre at the Pentagon

Trump’s purge started with his firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top Navy officer, and the vice chief of the Air Force.

www.theatlantic.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Feb 17

What a disgrace.

Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them.

*This* is how democracy dies.

Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order

The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause. The group …

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Feb 18

Well said. ☺️

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Feb 18

I smell a trip to Maxwell's in the air... 🙂

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · Feb 17

Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for
Black youth.
"Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Feb 16

You cannot possibly be accepting this trash, can you? What's next, 'I only hit you because I love you!"?

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Feb 16

jherlig.substack.com/p/the-mornin... A little piece on me encountering a Nazi salute in public.

John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Feb 14

I ♡ her so much. 🔥 🔥 🔥

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Feb 14

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”

Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Feb 14

Tom Homan says he sent an email to the Deputy AG asking if AOC is crossing the line by providing webinars to undocumented immigrants: I’m not an attorney… maybe AOC is going to be in trouble now

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Feb 14

Ugo — boat show ✔️
Hat — boat show ✔️
Polarized clip-ons — boat show ✔️
Bracelet — boat show ✔️

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John Herlig @jherlig.bsky.social · Feb 14

Dear god they keep finding new lows. Or maybe they are new highs?—of coupdom.

Please read this. Please?

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Feb 13

This letter is almost psychotic.

Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · Feb 13

Here's the letter from Bove accepting her resignation

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Feb 12

Crockett: While he was stopping money… somehow the only money that didn’t stop was the money going to his organization. I don’t know you can have him be watchdog as well as the guy living off of the government. If you want to talk about government welfare, it looks like Elon Musk