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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19h

And on it went, with Hegseth spinning one bad idea after another, and managing to insult any number of Americans in the process. A bad idea hamster www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy

His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

a woman standing next to Trump is now offering one of the more angry-sounding prayers I've ever heard

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump on Canada: "They act like they're totally innocent. They're not. They were very bad. But now they're being taught a little lesson. In fact, we just named a certain lake Lake America. Lake Ontario is now named nake -- and it actually passed"

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The law and order party, folks

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The White House again denies access to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico despite court ruling. (visual essay from 2025)

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Marc Wing @6-rue-d-alsace.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Trump and sons are making lots of money” by Ann Telnaes on Bluesky and Open Windows. “and the American people are paying for it” Please support Editorial Cartoonists, whenever possible directly, whose work is shown on Bluesky. This #EditorialCartoon was found on Open Windows.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026

Quite the shot of Trump disembarking from Marine One last night. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 22/09/2026

Isn’t it chyronic.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

JD Vance: "I just called them the fart left. I promise that was an accident."

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump’s Monumental Obsession

The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very special InfoWars product announcement coming later today, just in time for RiotFest. I can guarantee it'll make your bones feel spicy and make your blood seem hot.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/09/2026

Get started on today’s Rabbithole with this question from @radiofreetom.bsky.social’s article on what may be behind Trump's trade war with Canada. theatln.tc/cpIaIIkm

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026

look at how bored the people behind Vance are as he pushes rank homophobia and tells terrible jokes

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026

Trump, while meeting veterans and touring the Medal of Honor Museum, can be heard ranting on a hot mic about his fake foreign investment numbers

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Haaretz: A week and a half before October 7, 2023 UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes.

In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas’ leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel.

Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his surprise, however, the prime minister reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu said that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank area, and he reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/09/2026

“Firing or forcing out everyone else in the Pentagon will not make Pete Hegseth into the secretary of defense America and its men and women in uniform need,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/bOK7f3J3

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026

President Trump, never one to pinch pennies on anything shiny and new, has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on pet construction projects around Washington, D.C. They’re not going well.

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 28/08/2026

Veterans and military families already KNOW how this ends. A war nobody has authorized is a burden our service members & families carry every single day. It's time for Republicans to give a shit about our troops and stand up to Trump and Hegseth. We need to bring them home. #OperationEpicFailure

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2026

Trump ranting and raving like a lunatic on a land line phone to astronauts on the space station is an SNL cold open

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026

Howard Lutnick just demonstrated why he's called Nutlick during one of the pathetically sycophantic press conferences of all time. Here's a supercut:

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😳 Nutlick performs one of the most pathetic pressers of all time 😳

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 25/08/2026

"The Trump administration is, for the first time, threatening the demolition of the Kennedy Center if the arts institution isn’t allowed to follow its plans for the site, including adding President Donald Trump’s name to the front of the building."

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Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations

The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Deleting this bc of Pinto's retraction.

Basically, Trump told Canada it should be the colony of a empire in the throes of suicide.

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Bluesky Elder
The USA demanded Canada's capitulation as if it had lost a war.

PSA: I am sorry I tweeted this without verifying the source last night. I mistakenly assumed that it was sourced from the Saskatchewan premier’s official account. It is an unofficial summary circulating online that has first few items that were cited by PM Carney yesterday,rest are unconfirmed/false

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Bluesky Elder
What led to breakdown of US-Canada trade talks?

Carney says It wasn't just one thing but the cumulative set of unreasonable US demands.

Conservative Premier of Saskatchewan Scott Moe backs up Carney.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

BREAKING: In unusual 9PM Friday Federal Register filing, Postal Service finalizes regulation to deny delivery of mail-in ballots not matching addresses in database BUT says won't implement 'til court orders are lifted. #SCOTUS still quiet. Doc: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

OMFG, this quote. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Natalie Harp is the Executive Exclusive Senior Advisor to Donald Trump so …

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Do not let Trump gaslight you. He already has a massive secret underground command center under the White House that was built in 2010. Here are the details about the existing doomsday bunker built after 9/11: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The multilevel bunker
In fact, it was built because of lessons learned after the 9/11 attacks.
Ronald Kessler, who wrote about the
construction in his 2018 book, "The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game," spoke with The Washington Post by phone on Monday to describe the project.
"After that attack, the national security people recognized that that just is not going to cut it," Kessler said, referring to the old facility. "That's just not sufficient."
"The idea was, before that, that if there were a nuclear attack or something - biological, radiological attack - that the White House staff and the president's people could be evacuated to some remote location at Wes Virginia or Pennsylvania," he continued. (But then they realized after the 9/11 attack that they could never leave Washington, certainly by vehicle, because all the roads were clogged. It would take too long. And even by helicopter, it would take - it would be very risky, given that the country was under attack. So they came up with this scheme to create a totally separate facility, an underground bunker under the North Lawn.

In 2010, the General Services Administration began a large project outside the section of the White House where the Oval Office and offices of the president's senior advisers are located. The GSA insisted that the work was meant to replace existing infrastructure at the White House, but the scale and secrecy of the project belied that.
'The GSA went to great lengths to keep the work secret," the Associated Press reported in 2012, when construction neared completion, "not only putting up the fence around the excavation site but ordering subcontractors not to talk to anyone and to tape over company info on trucks pulling into the White House gates.
"It's a bunker, right?" The Post's Christian Davenport wrote in 2011. "It's gotta be a bunker."

According to Kessler, it was.
"What it consists of is five stories deep into the ground with its own air supply and food supply," he said, noting that few details are known. "It is sealed off from the aboveground area so that if there were, for example, a nuclear attack, the radiation would not penetrate into this bunker, which has very thick concrete walls and that sort of thing."
The purpose is to serve as a command center and living quarters for the president and staff members. The air supply is self-contained, Kessler said, and the facility is stocked with enough food to last for months.
When Trump arrived at the White House in 2017, he and a few select officials were given a tour of the facility, which remains unstaffed, a sort of subterranean "break glass in case of emergency"

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Scaling back the exercise is, of course, an insane decision, which does nothing but hurt an ally, and tempt an adversary to think—correctly—that American leadership is feckless." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump Will Make South Korea Pay For His Iran Humiliation

His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.

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Diane Aurelia Burton @daburton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

@radiofreetom.bsky.social, excellent discussion of the departure from Turkey. The Beatles reference was a lovely touch!

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What’s Bucket List Hitler focused on today?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/07/2026

this Pirro press conference is completely beyond parody, like a deleted scene from Idiocracy. listen to this shit

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Trump’s Golden Parachute @anntelnaes.bsky.social on SUBSTACK substack.com/pub/anntelnaes

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John in the Mountains of Madden @mathletesfoot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

this is how the deep state got alex jones

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 29/07/2026

In which defense attorneys for the Olympic canoeist facing felony Reflecting Pool charges has to explain to newbie assistant U.S. attorney how 6(e) grand jury rules work!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026

Trump: "Let's get rid of Daylight Saving time stuff, okay? We have a bill in. Hopefully the Senate is gonna approve that one. It's called the weave. But I had a father ... "

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Marc Wing @6-rue-d-alsace.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“Jordan checks another box on Trump's retribution list” by Ann Telnaes on Bluesky and Open Windows. “All of Trump’s minions really should be wearing mobster costumes” Please support Editorial Cartoonists, directly, whose work is shown on Bluesky. This #EditorialCartoon was found on Open Windows.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Hasn’t he bombed enough

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Pete Hegseth, Macho money man, wants $80 billion more for Iran war" Link to story: thehill.com/policy/defense/5982033-emergency-funding-military-leaders-iran-war-senate-hearing/ @anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Not a Moderate Democrat @gottastory.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

You owe it to yourself to grab an iced coffee and read Noel’s latest essay. Take your time. Let it envelop you.

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