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Bob Drummond

@bobdrummond.bsky.social
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Retired Washington reporter, editor. Covered SCOTUS, POTUS, politics, national security and more for Bloomberg. Former DC bureau Dallas Times Herald.

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Bob Drummond @bobdrummond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them” — apocryphal quote attributed to Lenin.
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Bob Drummond @bobdrummond.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Everybody loved Dolly because Dolly loved everybody. Straight, gay, trans, white, black, brown, yellow, rich, poor — she was warm, generous and respectful toward everyone, regardless of gender, race, religion. She didn’t ban books, she gave away millions of them. Be like Dolly.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The most racist, bigoted person you've seen on your timeline who regularly calls for the government to slash funding for charitable causes: "Genuine tears for Dolly Parton passing. She stood for so much."
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
New rule: if the indictment gets a press conference, the dismissal gets one too
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The White House has become Dollar Store Caesar’s Palace. Donald Trump has always been an extraordinarily tacky man. I remember when they first showed the inside of his Trump Tower condo on “The Apprentice.” We were supposed to marvel at the luxury. I laughed at the vulgarity.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21/06/2026
As I just heard someone comment: He has actually failed at surrendering.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/06/2026
She's straightforwardly saying schools’ federal funds are at risk unless they reduce their Black student population to something Trump is more comfortable with By design, the safest way for schools to avoid suspicion is to not admit Black students at all ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Trump DOJ: Yale’s Medical School Has Way Too Many Black Students
The administration’s view is that the mere presence of students of color at Yale Medical School proves discrimination against white people.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
In another example of “everything looks like a conspiracy, when you don’t know how anything works”: Trump and co. allege that “slow counting” reveals fraud, when it’s actually a signal/side effect of the security measures that are used to both prevent fraud and ensure that legal votes are counted.
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DeepStateX @deepstatex.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thom Hartmann: “The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”…
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
look, it’s time to embarrass these people. ask them if trump could play quarterback right now for the cowboys, ask them if trump is more mortal or god, ask them if donald trump deserved an oscar for his performance in home alone 2
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We've had plenty of career politicians serve as Chief Justice -- former senators and governors, even a former president -- and yet none was such a nakedly partisan political figure in their role as Chief as John Roberts. He is a political hack and I'm glad hearing that simple truth makes him sad.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The US Supreme Court is our democracy's most powerful enemy. Because of them, dark money has poisoned our elections and wildly gerrymandered districts intended to disenfranchise people of color and city dwellers will proliferate, resulting in election outcomes that defy the will of our citizens.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 29/04/2026
“No reasonable person could believe that Comey intended to threaten the president via seashells," a DOJ official told me. "Everyone at this DOJ should be ashamed. I know I am.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Legal experts shellshocked over new Comey indictment
The Justice Department says former FBI Director James Comey threatened to kill the president. But experts told NBC News his Instagram post showing seashells assembled to read "8647" shouldn't have res...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/03/2026
Ossoff: "This is what I describe as their 'Dear Leader problem.' Bc in this admin it's unacceptable ever to contradict the president's words, & bc the president is a pathological liar, our intel officials twist themselves into knots avoid committing perjury while never contradicting the White House"
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The U.S. government is in the hands of a disturbed authoritarian who is surrounded by people who either share his delusions, are too sycophantic to confront him, or believe the president’s delusions serve just fine as a vehicle for their own zealotry and ideological extremism.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/02/2026
So, about the GOP’s argument that you need ID to prove you’re old enough to drink, so why not in order to prevent “voter fraud”? www.ms.now/opinion/save...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2026
interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring
the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s
precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of ex-
treme hypotheticals about a future where the President
“feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” Post, at
18 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.); see post, at 26, 29–30; post,
at 8–9, 10, 12, 16, 20–21 (opinion of JACKSON, J.).
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West Seattle Bike Blob @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi  atomwaffen group
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Bob Drummond @bobdrummond.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Credit where it’s due: I never expected Trump’s Justice Department to come around to the view that people have no business carrying around loaded firearms. Bravo, Ms. Pirro. Lock ‘em up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/01/2026
DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act? RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war? R: No
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New CBS News contributors: Aaron Rodgers, Roseanne Barr, Anton Chigurh, Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller (the other one), Stephen Miller (found a third one), a smokin' hot babe with huge bazongas, Walter White, Tom (not Jerry), big bucket of gravy, Budd Dwyer (deceased), Thomas Chatterton Williams.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 27/01/2026
I have nothing new to add to the commentary about this except that it breaks my heart that someone who has never covered news is in charge of CBS News. You can hear it in every vapid sentence she utters.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Crazy how Trump's lawyers have never seen anything Trump has ever said or done.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The unmistakeable message being sent to other ICE agents is "if you murder someone--even on camera in broad daylight--we will gladly cover it up for you"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/01/2026
It appears that the White House edited this image using AI
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A normal attorney who was the subject of this memorandum would walk into the ocean and never come back
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Halligan's contemptuous response didn't do her any favors—the judge basically says he would have referred her to disciplinary action if he didn't think she was too dumb to know any better
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/01/2026
I also love America and believe in its stated values. And I understand that this pronouncement lands very differently when it comes from an organization that has intentionally been overhauled in order to curry favor with a jingoistic proto-fascist who says his opponents hate the country.
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聖☆Alex Degen @adactivity.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Controversial take but I agree that if you have even center left politics you should be barefoot wearing a barrel with suspenders. You should have a wallet with a single moth and nothing else in it. You should be slicing up a single bean paper thin and eating it slowly on a trash can lid
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
Homeland Security tweet: Merry Christmas, America. We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today. But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Stunning new revelation: Epstein hung out almost exclusively with guys who had black boxes where their heads should be.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/12/2025
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/12/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The US government is now a mafia organization.
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 10/12/2025
I’ll never forget hearing Donald Trump’s racist “shithole countries” comment in a 2018 Oval Office meeting about immigration. Tom Cotton and David Perdue claimed Trump didn’t say it and accused me of lying. The truth comes out.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We have a white supremacist government determined to terrorize and disenfranchise people of color. It's obvious. We need to say it, and we need to stop it.
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Kristen Chapman @kristenchapman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
After World War II, 3 German U-boat crewmen were sentenced to death for machine-gunning Allied sailors who were clinging to life rafts after their boat was sunk. It's long been known in the military that this is a war crime. Pete Hegseth must be fired and prosecuted.
Headline: U-boat men to die for murder of Allied crews
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