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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 1h

"I am outraged (that you found my flag and are calling me out)"

"I am as surprised as you are (that there's a snitch in the office)"

"I condemn it in the strongest terms (and will fire the leaker as soon as I figure out who the heck it is)"

"Again, I am outraged (that I got caught)"

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Politico @politico.com · 2h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2h

Judge Immergut in Portland National Guard case says she intends to extend her order blocking any Guard deployments into the city for another two weeks

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Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 2h

NEWS: Judge Illston grants labor unions request for a temporary restraining order, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with the Reductions in Force that began during the shutdown.

"As of right now the TRO is in effect."

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 2h

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved

A presentation shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

www.wired.com/story/a-plan...

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved

A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

www.wired.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 4h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 4h

If SCOTUS overturns a key provision in the Voting Rights Act, it could cement Republican control of the House for decades.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Plausible outcome of overturning the VRA.

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 4h

I saw it on stocktwits a few weeks back.

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 4h

This is still kicking around? LOL I saw this a few weeks back where they went after every Quantum computing company over their 'headquarters' google pics.

My favorite responses was "Wait until they hear how Apple and Amazon started in garages"

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 5h

J.D. Vance says it's OK to joke about gas chambers, rape, and "watermelon people", but if you quote Charlie Kirk you'll get your VISA revoked

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 5h

Details emerge on resignation of U.S. Attorney in WDVA. Trump and his henchmen are destroying DOJ from the inside out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

The departures of Todd Gilbert and his deputy in the Western District of Virginia show the pressure being brought on prosecutors to pursue the president’s perceived foes.

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 7h

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?

www.salon.com

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 6h

The reporter is from Canada, you wouldn't know her.

Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 7h

We don't care that she was sleeping with him, we care she was writing GLOWING things about a person she was in an intimate & personal relationship with. She was literally sane-washing him repeatedly while not disclosing she had a personal relationship with the subject of her breathless puff pieces.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

There is a bunch of unprecedented stuff about this shutdown - turning public resources like airports or govt employees into partisan tools, the blatant lying about what is happening - but the worst is using the shutdown to engage in ideological targeting. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

Trump has been quite upfront about using the shutdown as an opportunity to engage in score-settling. When asked about the first wave of layoffs, Trump said “It will be Democrat-oriented...They should be Democrat-oriented.” When warning about a second wave of layoffs he left no doubt: “we’re closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we’re opposed to. And they’re never going to come back, in many cases…We’re not closing up Republican programs.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 23h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Les C 🪕 @fightalways.bsky.social · 7h

When you see ICE raids in school pick up lines ask yourself why, why would they do this. The answer is fear. Our government wants you to be fearful and submissive. We pay taxes for this? It has to end now!

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 8h

Wouldn’t read her obituary, nevermind anything that celebrates her “year in exile”

Cannot think of a less interesting subject to waste words on right now.

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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 8h

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h

BESSENT: ONE TIME PRICE ADJUSTMENT FROM TARIFFS IS NOT INFLATIONARY

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 17h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 8h

As of now it’s here. Sick stuff from a government that pretends to fight antisemitism:

www.facebook.com/share/r/1Pqu...

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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