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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 10h

Lankford was in the Senate when the Intelligence Committee wrote its giant report concluding that Russiagate was not a hoax, and it's criminal negligence by CNN to let him say this on air with no pushback.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Lankford: "I think now history has proven that Russiagate was a hoax. It was actually formed by James Coney and Brennan and others that were behind the scenes to push a narrative they knew at the time was false." (This is a lie -- would've been nice for Kasie Hunt to point that out.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Lankford: "I think now history has proven that Russiagate was a hoax. It was actually formed by James Coney and Brennan and others that were behind the scenes to push a narrative they knew at the time was false." (This is a lie -- would've been nice for Kasie Hunt to point that out.)

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 7h

Seriously, why are you insulting people's intelligence like this. There is very obviously a massive excluded middle between "bland Ivy League corporate automaton" and "still has large Nazi tattoo." There's nothing wrong with having found him appealing. He was! But it's over and this is silly

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 7h

Jfc the Pod Save guys are all such chodes

John @johnlk.bsky.social · 8h

Is it going to come out that Graham Platner was hooking these guys up with the really good coke?

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h

"How do you expect to win back men...?"

We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

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Iain Nicol @iainnicol.com · 12h

A picture of Bernie Sanders outside, captioned “I am asking you to ignore a Nazi tattoo”. (This is a variant of the I Am Once Again Asking meme.)

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Mr. Fliptastic @symbioso.bsky.social · 7h

I was exaggerating a bit, most of the flags at mine were USA flags. But there were still tons of signs about Gaza, or Palestinian flags, etc.

There was very much a Gaza presence.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 17h

It must be noted that the president wants to kill libs in Congress. This is why he released the people who literally tried to kill all the libs in Congress from jail.

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 19h

My statement on the most recent credible death threat against me.

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Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social · 19h

Once again: no one told me when I was in grad school that becoming a historian of 20th century Europe would mean I would need to convince people that Nazis were (and are) bad.

I really thought that was a given.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11h

The New York Times describes Trump demanding his own Justice Department pay him $230 million as a "potential" ethical conflict.

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TashenuBOOOOOOste @tashenubaste.bsky.social · 9h

Not the primary point but what strikes me about this video is how these are clearly not trained law enforcement officers, or even bouncers. They're just schmucks playing machoman.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 9h

As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained.

As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters.

MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

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Mr. Fliptastic @symbioso.bsky.social · 8h

Trying to make this about wrongly targeted young men is driving me insane. This is why it's so difficult to address the issue with that demo--because the grievances are all either exaggerated or made up!

Losing my mind in a way the character limit does not allow me to express.

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Mr. Fliptastic @symbioso.bsky.social · 8h

Only the good things a candidate posts are real. The bad stuff are all shitposts.

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Mr. Fliptastic @symbioso.bsky.social · 8h

Like half the flags and signs at any given protest were about Gaza

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 8h

on to the next person a mass of social media users will become para-socially obsessed with as the Great Savior without knowing that much about

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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 8h

I'm tired of living in a two tier election system, where real candidates are forced to endlessly answer (and re-answer) hard, tricky or gotcha questions and held to a nearly super human standard

while vibe candidates are literally never held responsible and don't have to explain how they'd govern

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bblebear.bsky.social @bblebear.bsky.social · 16h

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 14h

Right: he's treating Treasury accounts like slush funds to pay military personnel, he's buying luxury jets for cabinet members with our $$, he's using state power to extort bribes to fund his stupid ballroom, and now he wants to help himself to a 9-figure sum while fed workers aren't getting paid.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

sorry, man, but this is breathtakingly, shockingly corrupt in every fucking way it can be, and an open and shut and uncomplicated case for impeachment. he didn’t even pay for these lawyers, his donors did, for fuck’s sake.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15h

ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 15h

The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 17h

SNAP and WIC funding runs out in 9 days

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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Mr. Fliptastic @symbioso.bsky.social · 15h

I know this comparison has been made before, but it does feel like people are treating this like telling a strict mom she needs to be cool and lax. Your son will like you more if you let him swear at family dinner!

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Mr. Fliptastic @symbioso.bsky.social · 15h

There's also the belief that young men are being pushed right by woke scolds, so scolding them is bad at all. Men have to be allowed to do whatever they want, otherwise you're just a mean stick-in-the mud who thinks all men are bad.

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