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Alan Holt

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Mostly Retired, Somewhat Curmudgeon-y

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h
It’s genuinely sad to watch. The President is so weak and incapable of negotiating a real deal that he just posts fake ones on social media and hopes people believe him, until every party involved puts out a statement calling him a liar. We’ve never seen weakness like this in the Oval Office.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1h
“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1h
Every darn word of this.👇
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 54m
We can’t compete, so we block products from American consumers. Some might say this is only fair as China provides funding and permissive regulations for its auto manufacturers. But the U.S. does the same thing - we choose to back petro-industry.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇
Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is how the new CBS keeps people from remembering that the longest serving GOP Speaker of the House ultimately went to jail for covering up child rape. Which is apparently always in season.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h
Trump just handed Putin a lifeline weeks before the midterms. Energy analysts say his Russian diesel deal won’t meaningfully lower prices. And a tanker that left Russia weeks before the announcement raises an even bigger question: How long was this in the works?
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Trump Reopens U.S. Market to Putin’s Diesel — Consumers Get Little Relief
Days after the White House invoked an emergency to ease diesel costs, Trump promised Russia new fuel sales as analysts warned the arrangement is unlikely to move prices.
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 21h
And Russia is resupplying Iran with missles and continues to provide satellite targeting information.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22h
Russia has not only provided intelligence support to Iran but, as it turns out, has also supplied missiles to the Iranians. (Bloomberg News) Americans were killed by Iranian attacks using these weapons. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
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Iran able to replenish its missiles and drones, getting arms from Russia, officials tell Bloomberg
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Since December 2024, the average American household is paying: $222 more for electricity. $758 more for gas. $211 more for groceries. $929 more for health care. $256 more on rent. $852 more for child care. $4,330 more for their mortgage. Trump's economy.
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Other people always get this wrong. You know the truth - beholden to none, ramen for one.
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FWOTUS (First worm of the US) @fwotus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“He was right!”
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Sam Kinison: Say It! Say It!
ALT: Sam Kinison: Say It! Say It!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
El-Sayed: "He called himself the 'champion of big pharma.' I don't work for them. I don't work for big insurance, who has also bought him off, I don't work for big tech, who has bought him off, I don't work for DTE, who has also bought him off, I work for the people."
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How is this any different from ISIS beheading their prisoners?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And a couple Supreme Court justices.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Robert F Kennedy Jr allegedly allowed over $800,000 in taxpayer money to go to a research project with ties to the Siberian lab behind the possible Russian plague outbreak. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
dailymail.com
Russian plague lab reportedly received research funding from RFK's HHS
The death of a worker from the lab last week caused concern worldwide and is said to have killed at least one other person since and has many curious about the Siberian lab.
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Don’t they have to make “equal time” available to Democrats if they broadcast a Trump campaign rally? I believe that is the ABC Kimmel rule from the FCC.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Drain the swamp." www.citizen.org/article/trump-casca…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
npr.org
As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
somewhere his wife is like “wait what”
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Chrysostom @chrysost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Talking of old fashioned ideas, when Crassus, one of the richest men in Rome, who’d obtained his wealth by nefarious means, launched a war without the permission of the Senate on the Parthian empire (contiguous with much of modern day Iran) they captured him and poured molten gold down his throat. 👀
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
After Mar-a-Lago party footage played, Trump acknowledged his friend, John Casablancas, brought over a bunch of his “Elite Models” for one of his parties.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Former U.S. Ambassador Asks Why Russia Isn’t on Terrorism List, “How in the World?”
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul asked on social media Monday why Russia is not listed by the U.S. Department of State as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. The three designated nations are
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please don’t share AI slop. His real shirt was already bad ass.
Jack Smith holding a beer at an outdoor concert promoting democracy.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kennedy was a Democrat with a slight drawl. Now he’s Republican Jethro Clampett. youtu.be/NjMvSe1CTDQ?...
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) in 2004 debate: "I am a Democrat." "I support Senator Kerry [for POTUS]."
YouTube video by Benedict Canyon
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He should never have to pay for a beer - ever.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/10/2026
The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. trib.al/KbxIxZV
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Based on our current standards for Presidential conduct, Nixon was framed, set up so his only option was to resign to save democracy.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Broadview 6 Were Selectively Prosecuted emptywheel.net/2026/10/03/t...
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The Broadview 6 Were Selectively Prosecuted - emptywheel
Last year, when Andrew Boutros was dropping shitty ICE cases left and right, he made the decision to keep trying until he charged Kat Abughazaleh with a felony.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They are actually for “accidentally” frying their body cameras.
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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The former PM of Israel just said very very very bluntly when asked — without even blinking — that Bibi was absolutely told about the Oct 7 attack days before because he knows this as fact. He also said that Israeli soldiers absolutely committed war crimes in Gaza. #gaza #israel #cdnpoli
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yawn.
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Alan Holt @alan-holt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m 100% sure the press will ask him about this, while quoting him verbatim.
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David Rose: That's Not Gonna Happen
ALT: David Rose: That's Not Gonna Happen
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We're gonna win big, and we've gonna shove it up their ass"
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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