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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 7h

scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 10h

My local Indivisible group is calling for flags for #NoKings it's probably a good move, but MAGA spent so many years defecating on it that it feels tainted.

We need to reclaim our colors.

This Saturday
BRING FLAGS
LOTS OF FLAGS
OUR COUNTRY - OUR FLAG

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 8h

So “conservative” Reddit going on and on about Leticia James’ niece (the one living in home subject to ridiculous charges) being a misdemeanor probation fugitive from NC? I can’t find any reputable news on it. Just usual NY Post, WA Examiner etc. right wing news. Anybody verified?

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 8h

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9h

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.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 8h

Yea she’s terrible. In every way.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

It really is important to note how much Bondi is on TV and how dissimilar this is from literally any other AG, R or D.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Bondi claims that cities aiding residents hurt by immigration raids is breaking the law

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

He keeps saying this, even though Jack Smith didn't join the classified docs case until a few months after the raid.

But since he keeps doing this on Fox News, where they are on the same team, he won't get called out on it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12h

It's sad that @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social is doing the work that journalists should be doing, especially when confronting politicians who support Netanyahu, AIPAC, and Israel's genocide.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

😂

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

Me either.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

I never had FB. But I’ve heard.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

🫶

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

Today’s Young Republicans act like this in 2025. *2025!*

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 11h

They sent this man death threats by mail because he was on the cusp of breaking a white man's home run record. He used their hate mail for inspiration to go on and break that record.

It was Hank Aaron's big "f**k you" to all of those racists.🖕🏾😝

🔥☕️

people.com/sports/hank-...

Hank Aaron Used Record-Setting Hate Mail for Inspiration Before Breaking Babe Ruth Record

“If I was white, all America would be proud of me,” the baseball legend said before passing the record in 1974

people.com

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

These networks just repeat whatever lies they’re told by the felon regime. I don’t believe anything they say.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 9h

WTH. Missouri dad ordered daughter, 6, to assault another child on a school bus, authorities say www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Missouri dad ordered daughter, 6, to assault another child on a school bus, authorities say

Maurice Fox, 36, is accused of telling his child to repeatedly strike a 7-year-old. "I want her crying," he allegedly said at one point.

www.nbcnews.com

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12h

JUST IN: Kansas Young Republicans were deactivated after a Politico investigation uncovered racist messages in a group chat among young GOP members.

Chair Alex Dwyer reportedly reacted to “Great. I love Hitler” with a smiley face and heart-reacted to a message about killing political opponents

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12h

FILE UNDER: YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS SHIT UP

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12h

"The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else"

DoD sources tell Zeteo that staff there have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 11h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.

As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.

Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.

As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 13h

Looks like the Republicans are testing the waters regarding nuking the filibuster.

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Wonderful 🎃 Secret Czar 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙💛 @petczar.bsky.social · 10h

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