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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h

Shorter Mike Johnson:

Beating up a woman isn’t “really serious.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Definitely Danny @semperwry.bsky.social · 1h

This is good because if a trump-type has enough artistic literacy for this to make them mad, then they have enough artistic literacy to understand that vandalizing or destroying it would just make them look worse.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol.

Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 18h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 8h

Another republican administration, another war of choice for oil in....(checks notes)...Venezuela?

Is that what this is about?

Or is this a psychotic billionaire Mar a Lago pal's idea?🤷‍♀️

LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 8h

🐸There's an antifa frog in all of us! 😁🐸

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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 8h

Don't threaten me with a good time Moses Johnson.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 14h

Dozens of reporters turned in their access badges and left the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to Trump’s authoritarian new government restrictions on their work.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the sea...

apnews.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 11h

He has no idea how things work.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 18h

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The Haunting of RandBall's Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · 15h

Of all the things that didn't happen below, Eric Trump having four friends is the one that didn't happen the most.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."

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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 15h

Aren't we supposed to surrender another export too? I mean they got our soybean export market...anything else we can give them?

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 20h

The 110-year-old building, one of seven libraries deemed a San Francisco landmark, will re-open in the spring of 2026, said Andrew Sohn, a Public Works architect and the project’s manager.

Good news: Mission branch library set to reopen by spring

The construction at the Mission library is on track to be finalized around March, and its re-opening is set for the spring.

buff.ly

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 21h

Your regular reminder that the best survey evidence we have shows that the young “alt right” is far and away the epicenter of antisemitic attitudes in America

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21h

“I was a fairly conventional hippie.” The actor Tim Curry talks about taking LSD on the Eiffel Tower, going to Studio 54 in the 1970s, and the making of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

Tim Curry Does the Time Warp

The actor and singer discusses the origins of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” his relationship with David Bowie, and the joy of working with Miss Piggy.

www.newyorker.com

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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 21h

(Raises hand from the back row.)

Um, does the GOP plan on auditing communications in/btwn these groups to enforce behavioral standards they claim to follow?

They seem to like policing our speech so why not their own? 🤷‍♂️

Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

The Young Republicans worship the same ideologies as the old Republicans. We should only be surprised that this leaked, not that it was happening in the first place.

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

The Young Republicans worship the same ideologies as the old Republicans. We should only be surprised that this leaked, not that it was happening in the first place.

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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 21h

Translation: Keep yer poison in your own hemisphere.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

Boom! Who’s winning the shutdown debate? THE ACA.

More Republicans than Democrats use the ACA marketplace. So the GOP’s base is relying on the same program their party is causing premiums to skyrocket.

45% of ACA marketplace enrollees are Republicans, and most live in GOP-held districts.

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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 21h

To be preceded with the wink and finger-guns...

"There's my guy!"

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Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking of becoming the “where’s my hug” guy in prison

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LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 23h

When has someone shot at ICE?

Am I missing something?

LPDOak, CA @lpdoak.bsky.social · 23h

Maybe it should be mentioned that these are the type of guys that attacked college administrators demanding Charlie Kirk be able to hold one of his "debates" on campus.

Which was used to hype the event and cast the college as anti-free speech.