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Scott Russell Smith
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Scott Smith is the author of “On Compost: A Year in the Life of a Suburban Garden."
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vanhollen.senate.gov
This is pure, unabashed bigotry.

If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party.

But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence.

A stain on our Congress.
January 19, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
Where are the discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment? Where are the cabinet members and senators confronting this dangerous reality? Are these cowards and sycophants going to just stand by if and when he pursues war with Europe?
stevenbeschloss.bsky.social Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d
Gosh, if only there were a constitutional mechanism for removing a president who is mentally ill and unfit to hold office.
January 19, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
“Give me a Nobel Peace Prize or I’m gonna invade sovereign territory and completely demolish age-old alliances” is fucking insane babble.

The man needs to be removed from office. He’s completely unfit. It is so dark that the GOP Congress won’t do shit.

The whole party needs to be unraveled.
January 19, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
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#Justice4ReneeNicoleGood ⚖️
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
BRENNAN: Tell me about the officer, Jonathan Ross

KRISTI NOEM: Don't say his name! I mean, for heaven's sake, we shouldn't have people continue to dox law enforcement

BRENNAN: His name is public

NOEM: I know, but that doesn't mean it should continue to be said
January 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Putin is pleased.
January 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Can we subpoena pardon attorney Ed Martin? Jump up and down? Scream and yell? Anything?
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Do any Republicans in Congress care about Trump grabbing oil from Venezuela, handing it off to his megadonors to sell on the international market to whoever, depositing the proceeds in foreign bank accounts, then spending the money however he sees fit with no input from Congress?
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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silverknyaz.bsky.social
Schumer needs to be defeated as leader in January 2027.

There is real rancor in the caucus with him; this is an achievable goal.

Call your senators, ask your candidates - do not support Schumer for leader.
murshedz.bsky.social Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 4d
Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon.

The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
Schumer Remarks and Talkers on Democrats’ Plans to Address the Affordability Crisis as Trump and Republicans Send Costs Skyrocketing and Create Chaos in the Economy Unlike Republicans, Democrats are laser-focused on lowering costs for the American people and will roll out precisely how a Democratic majority will lower costs for everyday Americans, starting today with housing. Today, Leader Schumer rolled out a new housing agenda, Opportunity Starts at Home – Democrats’ new vision to tackle the housing crisis and lower housing costs for every single American. For millions of Americans, owning a home is the most important part of the American dream, it builds equity and a future for Americans. But the median price of a home is up 55% since Covid, and rent is up by one-third. The average American homebuyer is now 40 years old, a record high. Donald Trump’s tariffs have raised construction costs by $17,500 per home. He’s proposed 50-year mortgages, an idea so unserious it was ridiculed by everyone, left, right, and center. Trump is launching a criminal investigation against the Chair of the Federal Reserve, making it more likely interest rates will go up and stay up. The only decent idea Trump has floated on housing he stole from Democrats – calling for an end to institutional investors buying up homes. Every Democrat voted to get it done last year, but Congressional Republicans blocked it. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture offered the administration’s solution to grocery costs, which boils down to “eat less and spend less.” The Trump administration is filled with a bunch of out-of-touch people living in a bubble. And this is what Trump’s so-called Golden Age looks like – get by with less, and stop complaining about affordability. A Democratic majority will tackle the housing affordability crisis by working to reduce rent, boost homeownership, stop predatory corporations, supercharge construction, and provide housing security for all Americans. Democrat…
January 16, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
No idea. Drinking whiskey in the Senate cloakroom, I presume. Smoking cigars with lobbyists. On a fundraising call with someone from Silicon Valley. Something like that.
dermann51.bsky.social DerMann51 @dermann51.bsky.social · 4d
WHERE are the fucking Democrats?!?!
January 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Excellent point.
Screenshot of an X post by ‘evan loves worf’ that quotes another post from ‘Home of the Brave’ about Rogan calling it ‘ugly’ to watch someone shoot a U.S. citizen. The embedded video thumbnail shows a bald man in a patterned hoodie speaking into a microphone in a studio with a large ‘JOE ROGAN’ sign behind him.
January 15, 2026 at 7:00 PM
scottcole73.bsky.social
Yes, we’re laughing at you, @nytimes.com. Let’s hear what the day-drinkers have to say in East Bumf*ck!
elainealimonti.bsky.social elaine @elainealimonti.bsky.social · 5d
Thought @nytpitchbot.bsky.social had outdone itself, but no, it’s real: NYTimes sent four reporters to a town 150 miles from Minneapolis to interview a group of folks at the Ye Olde Pickle Factory bar while they drink beer at 10am and watch The Price Is Right and share deep political thoughts.
One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
scottcole73.bsky.social
I am so sick of this @nytimes.com genre. The Grey Old Lady is just embarrassing herself at this point
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d
ye olde pickle factory

this reads like a parody of itself
January 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid.

And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d
relevant to the debate over whether we should keep funding DHS without reforms and accountability for how out of control their spending is
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
New article! On life, death, and the rampage of ICE.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...
A Shining Mausoleum on a Hill
Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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esqueer.net
What a fucking clown.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
Flashbangs burn hotter then lava.

They've caused serious burns, severed hands, and even killed.

*That's* what ICE just tossed into a car full of kids.

Here's our investigation from 2015, by @juliaangwin.com:

www.propublica.org/article/flas...
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.
Our Detroit staff has received reports from Ford workers that the President's body odor was "like bad breath mixed with feces -- I can't describe it, but I'll never forget it"
January 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
January 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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crampell.bsky.social
“You guys gotta stop obstructing us,” one immigration agent said. Then, referring to Renee Good: “That’s why that lesbian b*tch is dead.”
minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/13/i...
January 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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flcog1rl.bsky.social
And they love the power, the cruelty, & feeling superior to others.
January 13, 2026 at 9:58 PM
scottcole73.bsky.social
Hope you can read this: open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
How It Stops, How It Ends
UPDATE: A generous donor has asked I make this post public.
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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notalawyer.bsky.social
The Republican Party as it is currently constructed is less of a traditional party than it is a vessel through which the Nick Shirley’s and Jonathan Ross’s of the world can materialize their various bigotries. If you are a hate-filled right-wing dipshit, you can now call the institutional power of the conservative political movement to your back. It was only a few weeks ago that we saw an Oklahoma University student escalate her failing grade to an issue of national import. To his followers, this has always been the promise of Trump. Whatever bitterness you harbor in the recesses of your heart, you can hold it forward and be embraced. But these days it’s more than just social acceptance. You can enact vengeance on your chosen enemies in the real world. There’s an audience for your fearmongering and a protectorate for your prejudice.
January 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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protecttruth.bsky.social
Has anyone seen Jeffries or Schumer at a protest or rally this weekend?

In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?

The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
January 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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andycraig.bsky.social
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9d
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
January 10, 2026 at 7:34 PM