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observerbs.bsky.social @observerbs.bsky.social · 49m

Feel better soon

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1h

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 51m

Trump kept his business interests

Then used public office to enrich himself

From foreign money to crypto schemes

I call it what it is: corruption—& the most corrupt presidency in modern history

I explain on ABC Australia's Chasing Trump’s Billions 👇 - TN www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

trust fund brunchlords are not allowed to fail

it's a big club

and you ain't in it

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

This morning, the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could represent a fatal blow to the load-bearing pillar of American multi-racial democracy:

The 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Voting rights are on the Supreme Court’s chopping block

Wednesday's case pits fanciful claims of racial harmony against the reality of ongoing discrimination.

www.motherjones.com

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Lawrence lsrael @lawrenceisrael.bsky.social · 1h

#RIBBIT

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observerbs.bsky.social @observerbs.bsky.social · 58m

Thanks for this. Many folks don't have a knowledge base about stuff they talk about works.

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 12h

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Joan Resnick Ehrlich @jremmc.bsky.social · 1h

Thread

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Maxim Dorky, the Delaware Decapitator @maxim-dorky.bsky.social · 1h

Here's my view about Platner: Politics on all sides has been warped by "I don't want some polished elitist in a suit; I want a Regular Joe" since at least the 1992 election (see "you could grab a beer with him", for example), and it's never worked out as well as the Regular Joe lovers expect.

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Lisa Mikolajczyk ✡️ 🟦🏴‍☠️ @lisamikolajczyk.bsky.social · 1h

This is actually President Biden’s peace plan that Hamas accepted over a year ago but Netanyahu refused to accept then because he wanted to help Trump win the election. Trump told him not to accept it then.

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Abbi Lichtenstein @abbij1961.bsky.social · 17h

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h

Democrats shouldn't let go of these Young Republican messages.

Have the right-wing defend it. The VP, JD Vance, already has, and the talking points have been delivered to the MAGA base.

They keep deflecting and doing both sides, but nothing is comparable.

Just keep it in the news.

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observerbs.bsky.social @observerbs.bsky.social · 8h

Knowledge fight will be a banger.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

we aren’t going to beat these motherfuckers by being cool and detached about it, we are going to beat them by getting every working grandma and every nurse soccer mom and every shift supervisor football dad out in the fucking streets and all of us being there with them in arms

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

we have the rest of this week to rally every fucking person all of us knows to hit the streets, i have ten people i am bringing out, repost this with better numbers than mine, you competitive people, beat my numbers

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 28d

Robert Redford in all the President’s Men, talking on the phone while Dustin Hoffman is hunched over in the background

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 21h

Guy taking off a mask of Hitler to reveal underneath he’s actually Hitler

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20h

ICE Kidnaps Autistic Boy During Bathroom Break: ‘Proof They're Not Going After Criminals’

ICE is kidnapping innocent people. Anyone helping this administration hurt people is complicit. His mother couldn't find him for six days!
thenerdstash.com/ice-kidnaps-...

ICE Secretly 'Kidnaps' Autistic Houston Boy During Bathroom Break: 'Proof That ICE Isn’t Going After Criminals'

ICE grabbed a random Houston boy with autism while he was going to the bathroom and didn't bother informing his parents for almost a week.

thenerdstash.com

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observerbs.bsky.social @observerbs.bsky.social · 8h

"United We Ribbit, Divided We Croak" is brilliant.

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Chelsea Hensley @chelseabigbang.bsky.social · 9h

Young Republicans are between the ages of 18 and

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

Vance, miserable liar that he is, referred to these bigoted, Nazi-flavored Young Republican posts as a "college group chat."

But most of the quoted in the Politico article are GROWN ADULTS with JOBS.

ADULT REPUBLICANS RUNNING A REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

Filth.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 9h

Spot on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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observerbs.bsky.social @observerbs.bsky.social · 8h

Trump will announce he's overruling them.