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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 6h

The Mandela Effect isn’t real. They’re changing little things on purpose to mess with you.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 6h

This is fucking obscene.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11h

i do not think the president can pardon a crime he ordered the commission of, because the order reinstantiates a conspiracy to commit to that crime

ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16h

to temper that a hair, i think people generally need to start wrapping their head around what prosecutions into a likely field of pocket pardons look like, because it's not going to be anywhere near as satisfying as you want it to be

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 12h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

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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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 10h

Why is every crime the Trump Administration commits treated like some scholarly challenge to Constitutional Law?

They literally just want to stop the Constitution from working so they can commit crimes and yet we have to sit here and pretend to take any of this shit seriously.

Absolutely unreal.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 10h

If Trump himself breaks into your house and steals your television the New York Times would say he was challenging your property rights.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 11h

Trust me I know. It’s very bad. I’d be happy if they make a huge fuss about it.

I just wish they would’ve made more of a fuss about ICE making legal green card holders lick water off the floor for sustenance and forcing them to shit in the corner of their cells.

Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 11h

I’m so jaded and cynical the first thing I thought when I saw this was, “The press will treat this like worst crime the Trump Administration has committed thus far because it threatens access.”

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12h

Some safe Dem in a +45 district needs to challenge this in court because if we don't get an actual declaration from the Court "sure, here's another way the president is actually king" then Republicans will immediately get a favorable, opposite ruling the minute a Democrat thinks they can do this too

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 12h

the thing that gets me about jd vance above all the others is that he's just evil and not stupid or ignorant. it's all just a choice.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 12h

Oh now the floodgates open on GOP staffer land

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 15h

Their plan is to develop their own personal Ukraine they can bomb and blame whenever they feel like it as an attempt to shore up domestic support.

They really do intend to stay in power forever. They’re probably going to try and psychically connect the immigration issue to it.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 15h

"We're going to use the NG, but we refuse to tell anybody outside our circle of trust when, where or why," should remove all doubt that the Trump Administration believes itself at war with majority-Democrat state governments.

This is them moving little plastic war figurines around on a big map.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 16h

Why can’t he talk about them?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 21h

“Do you want a democracy or do you want us to pay you?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 23h

Alpha Male Behavior

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 1d

“Did you watch my YouTube video bro? Don’t make fun of it either man I’m a serious content creator.”

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

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.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine a grandma discovering she has Alzheimer’s Disease. Imagine her setting up some paid subscription for this “miracle spice.”

Imagine her hopes getting up while she slowly grows more and more demented and unable to function. Imagine her family not being able to convince her it doesn’t work.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 1d

I was watching a video with ads, and one of the ads was for a “God-given miracle spice discovered by a brain research specialist that treats Alzheimer’s Disease” and it made me want to punch through a wall.

How are these people not in prison? How can such a disgusting cruelty exist?

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States is frequently speaking about how he can smell the brimstone of an encroaching Hell, and feel a faint damning heat in his soul from the lash of the inevitable flame.

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Peanut Gallery Member @pnuttgallery.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think so. I might just have one of those faces.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this idea he had. These are not serious people. He has exactly one skill and that’s selling the idea of GENIUS MAVERICK PALMER LUCKEY. He is stupid. He is still going to steal lots of your public money. He may break things that you didn’t even know were working. He is not Dr. Doom.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · May 11

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey says the US should “expand our naval base on Guantanamo Bay into Liberty City [ie, a ‘freedom city’], an American Singapore of the Caribbean.” Anduril is backed by Tech Bros Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen who support aspiring “network states” via Pronomos Capital. 1/

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

recurring gripe of mine: stop talking about these people like they’re fucking supervillains, Palmer Luckey is grifter bullshit artist who is going to steal a lot of public money in exchange for buggy vaporware, he’s not Lex Luthor. they get off when breathlessl hyperventilating about them like this.

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Sep 6

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War.

Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January.

This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey.

Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

lmfao

people are gonna lose their minds over this, but reminder that grandpa just says things

they transferred unobligated FY25 RDT&E funds into nonexistent FY26 MILPERS account in direct violation of the Constitution, that's bad enough

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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