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Amistad Freedom Fighter

@amistad97.bsky.social
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Former senior USG foreign affairs officer — Hill, State, Intel, think tanks. Rising up to defend democracy, human rights, rule of law. Non-partisan truth-telling.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis calls Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick “nuttier than squirrel shit.”
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Listen to Willie 🎶🇺🇸
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🔵real opposition🇺🇸🇪🇸🇺🇦🦋 @amapola85.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump using exoskeleton? Why is this not everywhere?
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
MAINE – Senator Bernie Sanders is joining Troy Jackson in Bangor, Lewiston, and Biddeford on the Solidarity Forever Tour! ✊ Working people built this state. Let’s come together, get fired up, and send a fighter for working Mainers to the U.S. Senate.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Hill reviewed the texts from which Eric Schmitt invented his conspiracy. They never mentioned the Hawks OR the Hawkeyes. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names
Text messages obtained by The Hill show former special counsel Jack Smith’s staff didn’t reference any basketball team names, adding to the confusion around why Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) errantly a…
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 4,000 Texans showed up for James Talarico in Ken Paxton's home county 👀
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, what was the alleged link between the Hawks game and Willis? Was she there?? Or was the allegation that he went to see a game in Atlanta so it must have been a secret meeting with Willis? I’m so confused on the evidentiary logic
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
The internet is erupting in mockery after Eric Schmitt’s spectacular Jack Smith faceplant. Now people are openly speculating: Did his team plant the glowing 2028 story AND coordinate with MAGA influencers in advance, expecting a victory lap that blew up in their faces?
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Eric Schmitt Gets Mercilessly Mocked Over ‘Planted’ Story After Jack Smith Faceplant
A glowing 2028 scoop dropped just before Schmitt’s disastrous “gotcha,” while right-wing influencers appeared ready to celebrate. After it blew up, the internet noticed.
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I didnt know it gets funnier than a whole ass United States Senator accusing a man of being at a Hawks game in ATL when he was at a Hawkeyes game in MD, BUT... He let every media outlet know he had a big moment coming so they all saw him clown himself and watched Amy Klobuchar clean up the pieces.
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kaypeapod.bsky.social @kaypeapod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who wore it better? bsky.app/profile/mout...
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The kicker is you can tell it would never even dawn on this Republican senator or his staff that a man might want to go to a women’s sporting event. But protect women’s sports or something!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Merrick Garland hadn't dithered for so long, Jack Smith could have made this case to a jury. And secured a conviction. If a Democrat ever wins back the White House, he or she will be tempted to appoint a Merrick-clone as AG: Don't focus on the past! ♦️Note to Dems: No more Merricks.
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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll revise that grade: It's a D-plus. At best: -There has NOT been "tension" between Trump & the press: Trump unconstitutionally banned press outlets from the WH. -A judge did NOT "restore" access: He ordered Trump to obey the law, and Trump refused. ♦️It's NOT "complicated." It's just illegal.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 25/09/2026
The Trump administration said it had identified 185 noncitizens on Nevada's voter rolls — but Nevada checked the names and says every one of them is a U.S. citizen.
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Trump admin's voter fraud claim hits embarrassing snag after state fact-checks names
The Trump administration said it had identified 185 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter rolls — but Nevada checked the names and says every one of them is a U.S. citizen. “Our records indicate that they were citizens,” Nevada Deputy Attorney General said in a letter obtained by The New York Times. “You ha...
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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And the key difference between him and most politicians: ♦️Very few (American) politicians are familiar with Thucydides (or Graham Allison). ♦️But as soon as the term "Thucydides Trap" started appearing in public discourse (esp by a visiting Chinese premier) most would have asked staff to explain it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If they deserve to be impeached — and so many of them do — then the House should impeach them. Maybe the Senate won‘t convict but it’s still worth the effort to remind people that laws still exist and that Democrats still defend it. Also, as noted here, make ‘em sweat.
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Norman Brewer @nbrew24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Listen as Rubio, Cruz, Graham, Haley and many others warned early on that Trump is a delusional, power hungry narcissist and a threat to democracy. They all rolled over, but had it right the first time. Resist Trump's dangerous domestic terrorism and repost!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
According to Danish diplomats, Trump sought US control over the process of natural resource licensing and land use planning across Greenland. The answer was "no." Instead the US got precisely what the US has always had in terms of base rights and SOFA. The deal is a big nothing burger.
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Amistad Freedom Fighter @amistad97.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FadenSonnen — a bit of Europe/german beer garden right here in Charles Village Baltimore.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Massie and Khanna announced they had secured commitments for 218 signatures for the second petition: Epstein Files Transparency Act II, 2026. Mike Johnson sent the House into a pre-election recess, shortening the calendar, with the House’s return expected after the midterms, around early November.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 19/09/2026
Former Trump White House Lawyer Warns, ‘He Is Gonna Become Increasingly Desperate’
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Former Trump White House Lawyer Warns, ‘He Is Gonna Become Increasingly Desperate’
Ty Cobb, a former White House lawyer who served in President Donald Trump's first administration, warned that Trump will "become increasingly desperate" as the midterms inch closer.  The post Former Trump White House Lawyer Warns, ‘He Is Gonna Become Increasingly Desperate’ first appeared on Mediaite.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026
The Trump administration’s policy on deporting immigrants to third countries is unlawful, a federal appeals court ruled, a decision that could halt a program that has already sent thousands of people to countries that are not their own.
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Appeals court says Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy is unlawful
The decision marks a major setback for the administration, which has removed tens of thousands of unauthorized immigrants to countries where they are not citizens.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 NEWS: Ken Paxton kept taking money from a longtime political ally accused by at least eight men of sexual abuse, even after the allegations became public. The disturbing ties span more than a decade. Receipts below.
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Paxton Kept Close to Alleged Child Abuser Long After the Allegations Surfaced, Taking Money From Him
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent more than a decade cultivating a political alliance with Paul Pressler, the once-revered Southern Baptist power
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Mary Feeney @mkfeeney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the base assumption that there are two political perspectives in our society and lectures to students should represent them by balanced halves is a wild starting point. Fantastic writing by these students!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
He’s got a point!
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Actually, this is NOT the way (functional) policymaking works. I was a part of the process for the first decade of the Afghanistan war, so I saw it first-hand. ♦️The Pentagon sometimes declines to provide necessary info to Congress. But if it is stonewalling the VP, that's not normal. Or functional.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Brad and I are celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary today, September 14, 2026, in New York City. Brad and I were married on Sept 14, 2008, at the Democracy Forum of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Indeed, it's far worse than that... Trump is running up a tab of many millions in taxpayer funds for purposes of promoting his own golf course. And the proper word for that is *corrupt.*
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Amistad Freedom Fighter @amistad97.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Aide fired for “complete lack of judgement.” As if posting nazi images was his mistake. No. Aide should be fired for being a Nazi loving fascist. Republican Campaign Aide Is Fired Over Nazi Photo www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/u...
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Republican Campaign Aide Is Fired Over Nazi Photo
Senator Jon Husted, running in a high-stakes race in Ohio, dismissed his political director because of social media activity displaying a “complete lack” of judgment, a spokeswoman said.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A true hero 💔👇
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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Primark pyjamas never disappoint, and this autumn, the collection is further proving that point as bargain hunting shoppers are rushing to their nearest store to get their hands on them before they completely sell out.
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Primark shoppers rush to buy new 'cosy' autumn PJs they need
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Mark Stout, Ph.D from Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The next thing I immediately think of was actually several days later: a televised benefit concert by a variety of artists. They all played sad songs EXCEPT Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played “I Won’t Back Down.” They did a toned-down version of it but Tom’s voice had a snarl in it as I recall.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jon Husted’s Ohio Senate campaign just fired its political director after WaPo revealed he participated in this batallion that’s a replica of Hitler’s personal guard & used Nazi soldiers as his profile pic. This is grotesque—Republicans need to explain why Nazis keep finding a home in their ranks.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Biden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Also, when does Donald Trump and Jeanine Pirro and everyone else publicly apologize to those they falsely smeared, arrested, and charged as vandals? People should be calling for Pirro to resign at the very least.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hope folks realize this Bab al-Mandab situation will be much worse than the Strait of Hormuz if it’s not sorted out quickly. And it doesn’t currently look like it will be sorted out quickly.
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Amistad Freedom Fighter @amistad97.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Swan, Haberman, and Entous should be ashamed of this story, which uncritically spouts Vance’s self-serving narrative. Pathetic ass-kissing. Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War
Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.
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Amistad Freedom Fighter @amistad97.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NYT: “We want to be a propaganda tool for the Vice President and his Presidential ambitions.” Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War
Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.
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K. Moore 🦋📚🎼 @mynahleague.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don’t get it, Republicans control the house and senate now, why wait to pass a bill that sends a 5K check for all adults? Tomorrow will do. Trump lies, he knows there is no way republicans can or will pass such a bill. Also if inflation is bad now, it will be worse after a 1.35T stimulus.
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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yep.
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Fact-checking Trump's promise to give Americans $2,000 payments from tariff dividends
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump promised Americans $2,000 each from the "trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue he said his administration has collected.
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Amistad Freedom Fighter @amistad97.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wordle 1,908 3/6 🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜ 🟧🟧🟧⬜🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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