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Aaron Wignall
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jlazarus.bsky.social
I'm not 100% sure that Trump came to office with the explicit personal goal of harming as many people as possible. But you sure as hell can't reject the hypothesis.
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
caffeineguru.bsky.social
I'm no political pundit but the only two times I've felt like there was a crack in the maga base, this year, have been after Epstein revelations.
brianbeutler.bsky.social Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 3d
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
Force A Referendum On The Epstein Coverup
It divides Republicans much more than "affordability" or any other economic issue.
www.offmessage.net
November 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Senator Menendez is sitting in his cell at Allenwood right now because he took a 1kg gold bar from the Egyptians, among other forms of “lobbying.”
mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 2d
"It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it." said one administration official.

How the Swiss convinced Trump to drop tariffs with gifts of a Rolex desk clock and a 1 kg gold bar.

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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jackjenkins.me
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
(RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 4) outside the embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev. Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly with his backpack as faith leaders and other protesters chant slogans at a line of police officers. A moment later, one officer can be seen walking forward, grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking. Demonstrators attempted to hold on to Woolf, who was a clerical collar, but four officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground. After turning him onto his stomach, officers proceeded to arrest Woolf, and removed him to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Maywood, Illinois. “I’ve got bruises all over my body,” Woolf, an American Baptist minister who is pastor of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told Religion News Service. He was speaking in his first interview since being released Friday afternoon after about seven hours in custody. Woolf said when he asked the arresting officers to loosen the plastic handcuffs that were causing his hands to go numb, an officer replied: “Nobody wants to talk to you — shut the f–k up.” “It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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redrockrobin.bsky.social
66% of my nephews are in marching band this year. Their program is doing a fundraiser for new uniforms and instruments. If you could spare a few bucks to help the band meet its goal it would be appreciated
A flier with a qr code to donate to Murray High Band Fundraiser. For nephew the oldest A flier for murray high band fundraiser for nephew the middle
November 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Pam Bondi—who refused to prosecute Epstein during her 8 years as Florida AG—has joined the cover-up of Trump’s involvement in the Epstein Files.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
Breaking News: Pam Bondi assigned a prosecutor to look into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to prominent Democrats including Bill Clinton, at President Trump’s urging.
Trump Live Updates: Bondi Assigns Prosecutor to Look Into Epstein’s Ties to Prominent Democrats
nyti.ms
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The Trump admin is planning to say that being from Cuba (or any other travel ban country) is a "significant negative factor" that could lead to a denial of any of several discretionary immigration benefits (like green cards).

Seriously; national origin discrimination as official government policy.
Hamed AleazizMadeleine Ngo By Hamed Aleaziz and Madeleine Ngo Reporting from Washington Nov. 14, 2025, 2:50 p.m. ET The Trump administration is planning a policy change that could make it harder for immigrants to get green cards and other approvals if they are from countries subject to the president’s travel ban, according to internal documents from the Department of Homeland Security. As part of the expected change, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services would consider what it called “country-specific factors” included in President Trump’s travel ban as “significant negative factors” when reviewing applications for many immigration requests, with certain exceptions, according to draft documents reviewed by The New York Times. The policy is still being finalized. The policy change is a major expansion of the administration’s push to crack down on immigration from countries that it says lack sufficient screening and vetting for official documents. The shift would make it more challenging for those who arrived in the country before the travel ban to remain.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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afamiglietti.bsky.social
On the one hand, this little shit is a real piece of work. On the other hand, the real scandal is not so much that Teenage Douchbags like this exist (they always have) but that we have set up a quasi-military governmental apparatus ready to take orders from them
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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adamisacson.com
What a time to have an aircraft carrier and 8 destroyers parked near Venezuela.
IMDB synopsis of “Wag the Dog” (1997): “a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal”
November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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dangoodin.bsky.social
ICYMI: 4 Conde Nast employees were illegally fired for exercising permitted speech in our workplace. Tonight, NY AG Letitia James will call out this union-busting move by our management. Please attend. Pls also sign our petition to reinstate our fired colleagues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
caffeineguru.bsky.social
Wtaf!?
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 6d
Via Crooked Media (@crooked.com) (Crooked Con November 6-7, 2025)

@repyassansari.bsky.social | Tommy Vietor (X: @TVietor08) | Ben Rhodes (X: @brhodes)
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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redrockrobin.bsky.social
Aurora from the East Humboldts near Wells Nevada
Red glow in sky with stars poking through. More red glow in the black sky with stars visible through it. Redy purple glow in the sky. Some oats are brighter than others.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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jael.bsky.social
its almost a month since lia smith, a trans woman who was in college sports until trump took office and banned her from competing, committed suicide

her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in

@nytimes.com

@washingtonpost.com

@apnews.com

@cnn.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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benwinslow.bsky.social
If you're just waking up, Utah has a new congressional map. A judge rejected the legislature's proposal in favor of a map drawn by voter-rights groups who sued. Here's your new congressional boundaries for 2026: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah
Judge picks a new congressional map in redistricting
The judge overseeing the legal battle over congressional redistricting has chosen a map that will represent Utahns.
www.fox13now.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"

Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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misoshnik.bsky.social
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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erikloomis.bsky.social
This Day in Labor History: November 11, 1942. The CIO began its annual convention. It created the Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination, an official effort to combat racial discrimination on the job within the government, at the workplace, and among its own members.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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jamellebouie.net
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
Primary everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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dansinker.com
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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atrupar.com
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski were going to buy 10 jets without engines from Spririt Airlines that Spirit didn't own.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
More broadly, officials across ICE say Noem and Lewandowski have directed them to use a $170 billion infusion of cash from Congress to launch splashy ideas that have proven ineffective or impractical. Among the examples some ICE officials have cited: A few weeks ago, the pair ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights—and for their own travel, according to people familiar with the matter. Some officials warned the pair that the effort would be prohibitively expensive compared with hiring more flight contractors, the people said. Once the officials looked into the proposal, they learned that Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn’t own the planes. The planes also don’t have engines, which would need to be purchased separately. The project has since been put on pause, though DHS recently purchased two Gulfstream jets for $200 million, according to Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee, who were notified by the department. A spokesperson for Spirit didn’t respond to a request for comment.
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM