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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1h

The premise here appears to be “He can’t be a king as long as I can think of additional abuses of power he hasn’t yet committed,” which is not how this works.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "We congratulate them on an apparently violent-free speech exercise ... but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open right now ... by the way, the Mall was open because President Trump hasn't closed it."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 46m

The entire Republican Party is in thrall to a 79-year-old whose behavior, if you saw it in a teenager, would cause you to believe they were emotionally unwell and would prompt intervention.

Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 3h

Precisely because it's not the biggest issue here we are sleeping on how profoundly weird the idea of dumping shit out of a fighter jet onto your political opponents is.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 44m

The whole thing as a vanity exercise to demonstrate a show of force before the No Kings events.

DOD had said that firing bombs over a highway was safe; state officials disagreed and shut down the highway, used by about 80K people daily. Turns out the state officials were right.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 2h

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1h

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 6h

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 7h

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 1h

22 arrests.
All Maga.
Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman.
I think we know who the violent ones are.
#NoKings

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 56m

BREAKING: Live munitions from a Trump-Vance “military demo” flew over I-5 and struck a CHP vehicle. The White House wanted the highway open—but Gov. Newsom shut it down for safety. That decision likely prevented injuries or worse.

We have obtained these photos:

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Andy Kroll @andykroll.bsky.social · 2d

🚨NEW: After we revealed Russ Vought's "put them in trauma" video, I spent the next year reporting on him, his influence, and his vision for America.

Yes, I got *new* recordings & videos of Vought.

Here is the story.

A @propublica.org + @newyorker.com collab: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball

Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.

www.newyorker.com

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 5h

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm.

Real life:

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 2h

The President, that bloated toddler in a suit, refuses questions from ABC because they had the temerity to fact-check him. Not suppress him fact-check. He calls it "fake news" while standing before cameras he summoned. Despots always do this: first they delegitimize the press, then they silence it.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

The furious debate over whether Meghan McCain's seemingly willful stupidity is willful or just stupidity has now ended in a draw

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Obama sharing a video of himself wearing a crown and flying a King Obama jet that dumped shit all over Americans would have been the only thing the news networks talked about for weeks.

Meanwhile, Trump doing that very thing couldn't even warrant a discussion on the Sunday shows today.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18h

Serious business here

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 4h

A court ruled in our favor and upheld New York's commonsense gun law requiring background checks on ammunition sales.

Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community. My office will continue to defend our laws and keep New Yorkers safe.

Background check law for ammo will remain in NY state

A law requiring background checks to buy ammo in New York State will stay in place.The Concealed Carry Improvement Act was enacted in July 2022.Attorney General

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

I'm old enough to remember laughing and rolling my eyes when people used to compare Boris Johnson to Trump

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2h

Like Imodium, the New York Times eliminates diarrhea

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.

Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

nyti.ms

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8h

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

When do you think Trump and Republicans will realize they drove up No Kings protest attendance by calling it a “hate America rally”?

She nails it🔥

“I am a patriot and I will not… let anyone tell me that I am not here because I love my country.”

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Lynda Carter @lyndacarter.bsky.social · 2h

Speaker Johnson, you say you’re a man of God and I believed you. You put your hand on the Bible, you swore an oath- now keep your word to God and country and swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social, the Democrat from my home state of Arizona!

Lynda Carter smiling in a teal suit and silver earrings with Adelita Grijalva also smiling in a white top and silver earrings

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MSW Media @mswmedia.com · 2d

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 3h

Large scale nonviolent demonstrations are a powerful tool and the regime is incredibly sad that they didn’t get the riots they were hoping for

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 6h

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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