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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 34m

i think people sometimes overstate the likelihood of america’s credibility being lost forever; forever is a very long time. but i think the next dem AG will need to commit effort and resources to investigating the full truth of the second admin and prosecuting them accordingly, starting with rubio.

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 9h

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 24m

if it happens while he’s in office, there is going to be an absolutely mad scramble for control of the autopen for about 48 hours while they try to keep it quiet

Grover’s Bathtub @groversbathtub.bsky.social · 27m

My wife is convinced that everyone will be pardoned, but I think that Trump is selfish and transactional enough that it will be a select few.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 1d

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

I think we can lay the groundwork to win this. @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an interview with the folks who won Build Public Renewables in New York, lessons there worth checking out

hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 9h

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 1h

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 8h

Anytime you ask “why did the Times cover it this way?” or whatever corporate media it is, remember that influential moderates are the tool of the wealth class and are there to normalize whatever the wealthy want and create doubt regarding reform and change.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 1h

She was legally declared a victim of a crime in a court of law, she was not an "accuser," she was a VICTIM

NBC: NEW ALLEGATIONS FROM EPSTEIN ACCUSER MEMOIRE

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Dave, Aspiring Peasant @aspiringpeasant.com · 5h

This could potentially read like snark, but he's *so* close to unlocking something *so* important here.

This exchange *could* serve as a Rosetta Stone for his reclamation to humanity, but, alas, Twitter cannot be that vehicle.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 7h

I take no pleasure in this but going to a different city with your dumb buddies and getting badly injured because you antagonized a bunch of strangers and fell down twice chasing the 110lb teenager who stole your sunglasses actually is North Jersey Excellence, of a sort.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

Good thing the military isn't woke anymore and is willing to take the fight to our enemies, like Colombian fisherman and Interstate 5.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 6h

Yeah this is legit much worse than the deplorables thing (which was also bad) and the only reason they’re not talking about it is that it’s too gross, which is really just yet another strategic deployment of the “decorum” defense that helps him and hurts everyone else still playing by the dead rules

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 7h

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.

Coast Guard Reportedly Spent $172 Million On Private Jets For Kristi Noem’s Use

The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.

www.forbes.com

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

I think it's kind of nasty and reductive to refer to mature women who marched today as "wine moms and grandmas," even when it's said in admiration or support

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 1d

During the '17 Women's March, I tweeted "I marched today for women because when I needed them most to, women marched for me." Gay rights, feminism, abortion, anti-war, pro-education, conservation, clean water, against drunk driving, etc. Women have always been at the forefront of resistance & change

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 1h

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI 😈

www.thedailybeast.com/white-houses...

White House’s Bluesky Debut Epically Backfires With Immediate Trolling

The White House has joined the left-leaning social media site—and has been made thoroughly unwelcome.

www.thedailybeast.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

I would change my identity after this. You'd never see me again

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 13h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7h

Little wins + joys are more important than ever right now.

Like everything is bad, but my little orange cat has decided that between my legs is the safest place to sleep / purr for hours. And that is good, despite the horrors.

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Cora Dean @c-anemone-d.bsky.social · 7h

I cannot tell you how many parents and SPED teachers and professionals in red states I interacted with in the months leading up to and after the election who were like, “oh no don’t freak out, there won’t be any difference and my guys will never make cuts to special education!” The sheer delusion.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

Trump’s attempt to gut special education office has some conservative parents on edge

The president called the layoffs a part of cuts to “Democrat programs,” but children across the nation would be impacted.

19thnews.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

Trump’s attempt to gut special education office has some conservative parents on edge

The president called the layoffs a part of cuts to “Democrat programs,” but children across the nation would be impacted.

19thnews.org

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

what trump brought to the republican party, more than maybe any other thing, was contempt for virtue, and he’s demanded that republicans abandon any virtue they might have once had.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever makes this specific frog costume has got to be having the best month of their life

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 1h

The infrastructure of our government is being removed from beneath us, but other than that, I'm okay.

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