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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3h

Our federal government has the stupidest goddamn rules. Why should one person have the power to prevent an elected official from taking office? And Mike Johnson violates his oath every friggin’ day, so it’s not like it means anything.

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 5h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3h

I swear, I’d fuckin’ sit there with a big cigar, laughing like DeNiro in the movie theater in Cape Fear. And walk out backwards flipping Hegseth off.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

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.

zeteo.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 10h

I say crazy shit in texts all the time, but I live by one rule: Never write anything anywhere unless you are ready for the entire world to see it. Of course, I'm also not a Nazi or a racist so it's a little easier for me.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘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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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 10h

Stupidest trade war ever.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

“We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution.”

Trump: I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don't need to purchase it from China.
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10/14/25, 12:37 PM

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 11h

As a Jew, I feel qualified to say that this is a fucking dumb take.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 11h

If God needs "saving," then he's a pretty bullshit deity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 12h

My long-held dream of a scabby hobo Alex Jones needing to offer one-buck blow jobs on a filthy Austin corner in order to make enough to eat is closer to coming true.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

@apnews.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 15h

Gotta say, in a pinch, stuck on a desert island, I'd fuck that neck.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 16h

And go to rallies where you live. Sure, DC, NYC, and LA will be great, but you want your town to represent, too.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 18h

Goddamn, this whiny little bitch.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19h

lol

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump

Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t fucking do this. Just don’t.

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1d

New for Rude Pundit Patreon subscribers at $1 a month and up:
Trump's "Compact" with Universities Is a Threat to the Existence of Higher Education www.patreon.com/posts/141047...

Trump's "Compact" with Universities Is a Threat to the Existence of Higher Education | The Rude Pundit

www.patreon.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, this whole thing seems more designed to give Trump a win, however fleeting, that he can use to brag how he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

On a simple human level, this is a day to be celebrated. But, as Israeli analyst and former diplomat Alon Pinkas wrote at TNR last week (trib.al/KuC5ntb), there’s a strong chance Netanyahu will bide his time and find an occasion to blow this peace deal up. trib.al/ceiWSTS

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched it, too. It was almost triggering because I've known so many people in academia, men and women, just like her and all just clearly and absolutely full of shit.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Finally watched John Oliver on Bari Weiss. That felt cathartically personal.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1d

A jerk off, if you will.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

wild hand jerking during Trump's handshake photo op with Orban

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 1d

It’s creepy as fuck to have a president talking about whether he’ll go to Heaven or Hell. Like I can imagine at some point he decides “Fuck it. I know I’m Hell-bound, so may as well kill whoever I want.”

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump:

"I’m being a little cute - I don’t think there’s anything going to get me in heaven,okay?..But I’ve made life a lot better for a lot of people.You know,as an example,had the election of 2020 not been rigged, you would have millions of people living, just in Russia, Ukraine alone."

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats Can Control the Narrative on Immigration rudepundit.blogspot.com/2025/10/demo...

Democrats Can Control the Narrative on Immigration

Politics and sometimes culture from a rude liberal in blog form.

rudepundit.blogspot.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 2d

Was gonna post something that annoyed me about last night's SNL, and then, halfway through, I got bored and didn't care and was angry that I was wasting my time before giving up, which is pretty much like watching SNL now.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 2d

Stop calling for resignations and start calling for arrests.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 2d

Good argument here for staying the hell off Twitter. For me, yes, the Nazis and Weird Elon drove me away. But it also became unbearably ugly in an aesthetic sense. It just looks like shit and that adds to how depressing it is to use. It felt like being in a tasteless dudebro’s living room.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3d

If this bullshit is the best they could come up with to go after Letitia James, she must be ridiculously clean.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3d

Adios, Diane Keaton, who was sublime in drama and able to swing with the big hitters in comedy. You'll hear all about her greatest films, but, for me, she was at her devastating best in Shoot the Moon and insanely hilarious in Manhattan Murder Mystery.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3d

The Joffrey vibe there is intense.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3d

We’re already at the Anne Frank stage of things. It will get much worse if it can’t be stopped.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 4d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3d

This is how you do it, Democrats. You don’t turn against those who need your support. You do everything you can to help them. Also, extra props for not hiding the dark parts of NYC’s history. Goddamn, Mamdani is so good at this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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