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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Donald Trump has spent his entire life in the public eye and knows exactly how to communicate his thoughts. He meant what he said. People need to stop buying into Trump's allies spinning his words.

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Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic candidate running against Tom Cotton, on Morning Joe: "I'll tell you -- over the 450 days that I've been on the campaign trail, not once have I been asked about daylight savings time. Arkansas are talking about gas prices and grocery prices and healthcare."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Michael Cohen's word is as untrustworthy as Trump's.

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notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He's and his regime are the greatest threat to our national security.

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TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is my honor and privilege to announce that President @barackobama.bsky.social is joining us on the trail in Detroit on Saturday, October 24. Get. Ready.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 5h

Here’s Journey’s Jonathan Cain, his wife, Trump’s spiritual advisor and kleptomaniac Paula White, and recently deceased Jim Bakker. I’ve stopped believin’.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

I never played the “Yes he said it but here’s what he really meant” game. He’s a grown-ass adult who has spent his entire life in the public eye and knows how to communicate his thoughts. He meant exactly what he said. People need to stop making excuses for him.

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White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3h

And while I'm at it: The 21 US states, with a total of 42 senators, whose population *all together* is the same as Calif's, with its two Senators. Big GOP skew among those 42 Senators: 26 R vs 16 Dem/Indep.

Map of the 21 states whose populations all together add up to California's.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18h

Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.

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David Ory @davidory.bsky.social · 3h

The harm from increased prices is real, but this monster doesn’t care about that nor anything else to do with others than himself, his family and ultra-wealthy and powerful allies. Note: I’ve already commented elsewhere on his treasonous remarks re LA and SD being taken out.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4h

Put another way, here are 10 states whose populations *all combined* equal LA County's. And of course they have 20 Senators, or 10x as many as Calif as a whole. (Interestingly, the 20 smallest-state Sens split 10/10, GOP vs Dem+Indep.)

Map listing ten states whose population together is same as LA County. They are: Alaska, both Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Delaware, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Trump has such contempt for the voters of South Carolina that he elevated someone utterly unqualified for senate who knows absolutely nothing about anything connected to the job who reads scripts given to her by MAGA handlers while calling the qualified Democrat names and slurs.

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David Ory @davidory.bsky.social · 3h

Putin’s puppet has his own puppets.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 7h

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

incredible this will get little to no coverage

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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Megyn Kelly: "...this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one."

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Megyn Kelly on Cornell's Jane Doe: "I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs."

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 14h

As empty and irredeemable as a person can be.

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At one of this Nazi rallies today, the orange felon encouraged Iran to attack Los Angeles and San Diego whilst his cult cheered him on for that treasonous statement. I’ll say it again, he belongs in a jail cell, not in the bulldozed White House. To hell with everyone who gave this monster power.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Republicans are very good at twisting the meaning of words. We paid into it therefore we are entitled to receive the benefit.

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A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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As if it weren’t embarrassing enough currently to be from this country. Just so happy I renewed mine last year.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 15h

You forgot his honorific “Spineless Coward”.

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About 40% of all containerized waterborne imports into the US come through Southern California. 1 out of every 9 people living in the United States lives in California. So this mother-effer, is suggesting to our enemies to take out 2 huge cities in our most populous state! WTF! #impeach

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 16h

Introducing the President of the United States... Yes, you heard right! He just offered up Los Angeles & San Diego for annihilation! Insanity! Approximately 60% of the U.S. Pacific Fleet is based out of the San Diego! California accounts for approximately 15% of the total U.S. economy! Vote blue!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert died this morning. For 16 years, while he was a coach and government teacher at Yorkville High School in Yorkville, Illinois, Hastert sexually abused at least four boys (and likely more). (thread)

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

BREAKING: The Trump White House has blocked Politico from accessing Air Force One on Monday to carry out its pool responsibilities.

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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One

The news outlet was supposed to travel with the president to Nebraska on Monday.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not sure if the point of Angela Paxton’s video was to cause people to search Angela Paxton’s name only to find out that she helped facilitate Ken Paxton’s corruption for many years before ultimately filing to divorce him on “biblical grounds”, but that’s what happened.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Were we a healthy country it would be period. But then we wouldn’t have elected this monster, though, would we?

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“Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies… ex British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide…Simon Andriesz was previously a managing director at Wall St firm where Lutnick was CEO…” www.thebanker.com/content/0228...

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How very authoritarian of them.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22h

Putting his name on other’s accomplishments is his super power.

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This admin is hiding the full number and extent of soldiers' injuries. Plus soldiers and family members have told the AP that failure to recognize the seriousness of injuries, a poor plan to get the wounded to hospitals and red tape has hindered follow-up care. apnews.com/article/iran...

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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them

Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.

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He’s not a pathological liar like you. He’s not a rapist like you. He’s not an insurrectionist like you. He’s not a felon like you. He’s not a pedophile like you. He’s not a racist like you. He’s not a misogynist like you. He’s not a narcissist like you. He’s not a psychopath like you.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22h

The felon Donald J. Trump is the greatest threat to national security this country is currently facing.

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JUST IN: Trump trying to re-delay argument in repeatedly delayed 11th Circuit appeal on release of Jack Smith's Mar-a-Lago docs report. Lawyers for Trump's ex-co-defendants say they have scheduling conflicts with Nov. 2, urge Jan. 2027. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Joint Motion for Continuance of Oral Argument – #93 in Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Uni. v. USA (11th Cir., 26-10674) – CourtListener.com

TIME SENSITIVE MOTION to continue Oral Argument. filed by Donald J. Trump. Motion is Opposed. [93] [26-10674] (ECF: Kendra Wharton)

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