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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9m

yes we know about your issues with the math dude

NOTUS @notus.com · 56m

Politicians whose campaigns still owe large sums, according to October FEC filings:
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000

via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
www.notus.org/money/politi...

Deadbeat Political Campaigns Still Owe Creditors Millions

Old campaigns of also-ran politicians remain hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in debt. Will they ever pay?

www.notus.org

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Lisa Marie @lisamarietea.bsky.social · 23m

I know everyone loves the Kurt Van Houten racecar bed photo to make fun of this, and it is funny, I don't disagree, but I would 100% fuck a guy with a racecar bed before I ever fucked one with a cyber truck.

killiplaw.bsky.social @killiplaw.bsky.social · 51m

Middle aged incel gesturing at race-car bed.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

This woman is vile. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 2h

#MikeJohnson, like #MitchMcConnell, is doing ENORMOUS damage to the legitimacy of this country.
MJ can foooock off.
@democrats.org, PROTECT OUR HEALTHCARE, get the new rep seated, and #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

QUICK: Can't you seat Grijalva? AZ says this is taxation without representation

JOHNSON: Yeah, I'm shocked there's another D seeking publicity right now

Q: You haven't seated their delegation

J: It's all a farce. If Gallego and Kelly would vote to reopen the govt, we'll get this done quickly

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 5h

not enough public arguments out there about why this specific thing is a problem

Charlie Wilde 🫧 @factsimile23.bsky.social · 23h

I’m pretty sure you couldn’t teach Leaves of Grass in a Florida high school and keep your job

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 2h

Hmmmmm… what felonrapistpedo family does this remind you of??
c @hcrichardson.bsky.social #WIunion

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

1. Friends, I have a major career update. And it is bittersweet.

My time at Rolling Stone is coming to a close this week.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 3h

He didn't exactly trip. He is weak and infirm. He needs a walker or a wheelchair. I'd like to see him strapped to it, eyes forced open to all the harm he's caused America playing before him on a loop until he takes his last breath.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid," JD Vance. We checked.

By scanning public records and media reports, Mother Jones determined the ages of eight of the 11 participants in the abhorrent leaked texts from young Republicans that Politico covered on Tuesday: They appear to range from 24 to 35.

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 5h

I HATE that all the official White House socmed accounts have just become shitty propaganda channels for the felonrapistpedo potus/party.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 6h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 7h

#JDVance can't tell a child from an adult, which might be why his party is protecting PEDOPHILES.
"Mother Jones determined the ages of eight of the 11 participants in the chat: They appear to range from 24 to 35..."

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12d

People ask me all the time what they can do and broadly:

1) Organize and join protests
2) Support media that isn't backing down
3) Give to ACLU and others taking on the illegal actions in court
4) Give to food banks :(

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 17h

wow, what an absolute GARBAGE excuse for a "man". GARBAGE, "a faithful colleague", WTF is that even supposed to mean??
#GOPDefendsDomesticAbusers

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 17h

#MikeJohnson is an anti-American threat.

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 21h

Mike Johnson called us back from July 4 recess on 7/3 so he could gut Americans’ healthcare in the Big Ugly bill. Since then, he has only had the House in session for 19 of the subsequent 104 days. That’s how we ended up here.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 19h

In fairness some of the younger cohort of these people were in fact minors when they were in group chats with 30 something JD Vance

also reminder that it is verifiable fact that 30 something JD Vance was in group chats with minors and the entire political media has ignored this for years

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 18h

GENIUS.

DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 19h

The first two lines of 30 Rock

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Evan @evan.best · 19h

Should probably start carrying this with me everywhere.

Fuck off spray

Keeps fickwits away for up to 4 hours

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 19h

you should be nicer about No Kings. your mom's going

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20h

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 19h

the gop is the anti-reality party, fulllllllll on. Geezus...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance: "Because we have such a big problem with left-wing political violence, we have to train the investigatory and law enforcement powers of the govt to focus on that particular problem ... we really have to retrain the entire govt to focus on this left-wing violence problem. We are doing it."

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Jason Haas @haazah.bsky.social · 19h

Gen. Mitchell International Airport is 100% owned and operated by Milwaukee County. Likewise, 100% of its funding comes from airline passenger fees. And it has very good people running it.

Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 19h

Mitchell International Airport blocks government video from playing

wtmj.com/news/2025/1... #wipolitics #wiresist

Mitchell International Airport blocks government video from playing

MILWAUKEE --- A video by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown will not be played at Mitchell

wtmj.com

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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 19h

Absolutely. Anyone who believes in this country at all should be disgusted by this. #gopshutdown #trumpshutdown #felonrapistpedopotus #WIunion

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 19h

That picture of Patricia and Omar!

She’s the huggingest senator ever, and when she looks at you, she BEAMS, and you feel like she sees deep into your soul. You think she’s very quiet, and then she unleashes her fury upon oppressors, and you see how it’s been simmering. She’s such a force for good.

Omar Fateh @omarfatehmn.com · 20h

It means the world to me to have the support of Patricia Torres Ray. She's been a dedicated public servant, and knows what it takes to deliver results for working families. Learn about why she is ranking me first on her ballot for Mayor: www.startribune.com/omar-fateh-m...

Photo of Star Tribune article by Patricia Torres Ray with the headline "Why Omar Fateh is the best choice for Minneapolis Mayor.”

Photo of Patricia Torres Ray and Omar Fateh.

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