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Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 49m

he continues to not really find out...

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Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 50m

too bad even nazis are already forgetting that dude

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 8h

This statement from the former head of the CFPB haunts me especially with an #ai #bubble looming to burst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qhj...

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 3h

You can understand this shutdown with 3 numbers.

15M — the number of people Republicans want to kick off health care

20M — the number of people Republicans want to 2x health premiums for

0 — the number of times Republicans have called the House back to reopen the government

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3h

Right there in the Declaration of Independence:

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun…”

Right. There.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 3h

The public servants who have dedicated their careers to serving the American people love our country. And our country loves them back.

We'll keep fighting against the unnecessary pain Trump and Vought are inflicting on families. This is not the end.
www.youtube.com/shorts/v2nWk...

Don Beyer Calls Out Vought, Trump for Illegal Firings of Thousands of Public Servants

YouTube video by Congressman Don Beyer

www.youtube.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) has been on this "far right extremists taking over the Young Republicans" beat for quite a while now. The Politico story adds new facts to the story, but it's hardly a new revelation. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The War Within the Young Republican Party

At the Young Republican National Convention, far-right figures made few inroads—but they did read my Nation investigation.

www.thenation.com

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Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 3h

It's Dallas week and wow, what a weird run up!

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

This could seriously be one of the 2 or 3 biggest Presidential scandals in US history

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 3h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Whitledge @thewhittyryan.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not sure he could have stumbled into a better way to show typical Republican voters how much good Dems have done for their lives if he tried

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "The Democrats are getting killed on the shutdown, because we're closing up programs that are Democrat programs that we were opposed to. And they're never gonna come back."

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 3h

Wow. The "free speech" jizzstains are really showing their asses now. Weird @ezraklein.bsky.social has nothing to say about it. Maybe there's some abundance to grift on?

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 4h

Please, tell me again how I'm wrong when I say that the GOP isn't just racist, they're genuinely fascist when they think no one is in the room with them.

I'm not paranoid: I just understand the GOP better than the people who tell me I'm wrong. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 5h

This has been a long-held goal of the Tea Party and ALEC.

Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 6h

“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 6h

Maximum lol watching Paul Finebaum, a guy who couldn't get espn to cancel him so he could get a new gig, get angry at Matt Rhule because talent has options. Fuck Finebaum. I hope Rhule stays at Nebraska because that would be hilarious though.

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Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 6h

This is a great read!

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 6h

“People who work in New York City politics are, like, professional sickos, and we can often get pretty obsessed around drama and gossip and scoops and rumors" is the truest thing I've read anyone say about people who work in high-profile politics generally www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

How Elle Bisgaard-Church became Zohran Mamdani’s most trusted adviser

The first-time campaign manager steered him to victory in June. Now she’s focused on the likely next administration.

www.cityandstateny.com

Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 6h

That would be lovely

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Eric J Morey @ericjmorey.com · 6h

I would love it if he found himself in a jurisdiction that still jails people for not paying their debts to highlight how ridiculous that concept is and at the same time have those laws come down on someone that it wasn't intended to oppress.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 6h

“People who work in New York City politics are, like, professional sickos, and we can often get pretty obsessed around drama and gossip and scoops and rumors" is the truest thing I've read anyone say about people who work in high-profile politics generally www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

How Elle Bisgaard-Church became Zohran Mamdani’s most trusted adviser

The first-time campaign manager steered him to victory in June. Now she’s focused on the likely next administration.

www.cityandstateny.com

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Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 6h

WaPo reporters and columnists have done that... Just a stunning reduction in short term reach, though. WaPo's "salami strategy" of not firing reporters en masse made organizing harder.

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