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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I’ve listened to the @thebulwark.com since it’s inception I figured I’d wanna hear what our Republican friends that created this mess had to say They pretty regularly complained about Trump and briefly touch on some Republicans, but never seem to just say the reason we’re here is because

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Congrats everyone, we now have 35% tariffs on Canada for no apparent reason

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

What happened in Kerr county is the direct result of the voters of Kerr county. Period. Dems believe in science, climate change and that government is supposed to fund human safety infrastructure projects. The Kerr county voters and council believed only in owning the libs. That’s it.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

“When I asked Solheim [American Moment’s co-founder] if [American Moment] had received any money from Peter Thiel, the enigmatic conservative megadonor, he grinned and declined to comment.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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The Brash Group of Young Conservatives Getting Ready for the Next Trump Administration

The GOP needs foot soldiers, not just cabinet secretaries. American Moment is making sure they’re ready for January 2025.

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My whole adult life I’ve heard Rep saying shrinking the gov Of course, while enriching themselves /blowing the deficit thr the roof. just put that first lie aside for a minute They expanded the gov homeland, security, larger than any other time now they’re using it as a private police force

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

So this ice thing had a budget of $8 billion and now it’s up to 45+ billion with 45 billion just for detention centers How do we survive without this before? And we need to spend that much money when they just blew the deficit through the roof.

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

over many days of listening to this Texas flood story. I finally got information that that area of Texas far from being the poor people story. Its the most concentrated amount of millionaires in TX The reason no flood warning system is they were too cheap to spend on their community Got it

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

For everyone that wanders around and says this is all just a Trump era thing The Roberts court was created over a decade ago. Citizens united was put in place explicitly to create this environment This is all Republican This is not Maga. That’s the shitty storefront they’re using.

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Six months into America electing a complete trader who tried to overturn our country The same people who are such vile assholes they put him back in office because they thought it would benefit them personally This is all Republicans Every single one of them www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

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As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

So the anti-tax party had no problem with their asshole cult leader putting 50% tax on everything without any legislation around it Multimillionaires eat the same amount of food, struggling people do, and yet the percentage of their income for that food is…x100000000 dif

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

To avoid conflicts, I wouldn't even let Obama refinance his family home when I was his ethics czar Now Trump is hoovering in hundreds of millions in violation of the law! That's a threat to our national security as I discussed @msnbc.com

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

When have Republicans ever passed any legislation that helps people instead of pretend pretending they think people are ripping them off when the fact is the people ripping them off are the people Republicans have given tax breaks too and pretty much bent over for the last 45 years for

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Love it, Mr. richest man in the world, douche bag, ketamine piss pants Had liberals eating out of his hand and corporate government welfare showered on him is now pissed off everyone in the country Because he’s a fucking asshole It’s all about him and his wealth Fuck this South African asshole

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Seeing as Republicans are in locked up with a dictator asshole, who goes golfing during a national tragedy He blames governors for natural disasters. Is he gonna blame mr wheelchair? Hey Abbott, the reason you even have a fucking ramp to go up is because of democratic efforts over years

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

As Texas officials point to the National Weather Service failing to predict the amount of rain that caused this tragedy, it’s fair to wonder if the cuts made to the dept that many warned about played a role here. (Now add FEMA cuts & hospital closures)

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Trump just shot our democracy on fifth Avenue

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My entire adult life I had to hear these Reagan conservatives gutting our government services claiming they are deficit hawks only to blow up the deficit and reward their rich For 45 years this has been going on But the northeast grifter Conman has super sized it the Republican Party has fked us

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Lincoln P. @lpoldervaart.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Hopefully this puts to bed a whole lot of misconceptions. Like Republicans being good people, fiscally responsible people, people of faith, and that they're policies are for the working people and their families.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/07/2025

This is not in the bill. Just a total lie.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2025

yes, those medicaid recipients should just inherit their father's business and then sell it for a fortune, like sen. mullin did

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2025

NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Citizens United was a ruling about whether a cable paid TV network could show a political movie 90 days before an election The movie was about Hillary Clinton The court didn’t decide and when they came back to decide, they decided that all corporations have power to spend unlimited $$$

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 29/06/2025

Really?? Nothing put democracy at risk more than his disgraceful, false Citizens United decision. First, he bought the obvious lie that unlimited funding would be transparent; then when the falsity became indisputable, he refused to correct. ZERO cred here. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’

The retired Reagan appointee joined a forum on threats to judges and the rule of law.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

It's incredible that neither the president nor VP was here. The politicization of all facets of American life is coming from the White House. No other American president would have failed to pay their respects. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend

After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Attacking Iran fits with Trump’s desire to divert attention from his failures at home: his losses in the courts, his unpopular budget bill, millions of people protesting against his authoritarianism. When he feels humiliated, he gets reckless. Understand what's going on.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 21/06/2025

Today’s GOP doesn’t want votes, it wants power. That’s why they gerrymander, purge voters, and pack courts. It’s not about democracy—it’s about dominance. If we don’t call it what it is—minority rule enforced by fear—we’re sleepwalking into tyranny.

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Every Republican podcast crying about the Trump administration. The next thing out of their mouth is what are the Democrats doing? Guess what assholes they aren’t controlling either houses of Congress and what Congress is doing is absolutely nothing That would be the R Party doing nothing

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

For all these podcasting, never Trump is moaning on and on they never pick up on the fact that we had a surplus of jobs that wouldn’t be filled so all of South America came running across the border and we got out of the bottleneck faster than Europe Do you not remember this?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

“.. the overlapping timeline of that decision with his meetings with Senate staff and the White House Counsel’s Office has not previously been reported.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I wonder when our plutocrat New York Times will make a headline about ice running out of money because they squandered it on Christy gnomes stupidity The shit matters You better start chipping away at this fucking asshole Republican Party Because the idiots that watch Fox have zero idea

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Looking forward to the day we ripped down those fucking flag poles at the White House Those fucking things will be destroyed Everything about this asshole is destroying our country from within And every Republican is completely culpable Every fucking republican

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Review by US House Judiciary Cmte Democrats: "Thanks to President Trump's pardons, these convicted criminals now get to keep $1.3 billion in ill-gotten gains they stole from their victims and American taxpayers" www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-...

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Trump's pardons cost victims and taxpayers $1.3 billion, House Judiciary Committee Democrats' review says

President Trump's acts of clemency often release criminals with "no further fines, restitution, probation or other conditions."

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A hugely important point: this is the most inexperienced natsec team in history and they're loyalists who will not stop Trump's final decision. We love to complain about elites, who can make terrible mistakes. But elites, including advisers, are a *vital* source of constraint on elected leaders. 1/

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Musk erased every agency that investigated his illegal and disastrous behavior Award of himself billion dollars worth of contracts Left us with his assholes that have ripped everything apart, including the consumer financial protection bureau which Does save you money, buddies Fuck Republicans

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Just because stupid douche bag, Elon isn’t in the White House doesn’t mean his doge bullshit didn’t fuck our country up beyond Repair And his little assholes are still firing people and destroying our agencies and basically taking everything and handing it to Theil palemtir Don’t get distracted

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

When journalists which I hope are more intelligent than they appear translate, a absolute bumbling idiot reptile Who is making announcements on events where we know for a fact, he does not read or listen to any intelligence reports we have to understand what he thinks an exercise in stupidity

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Conflicts with Israel has been in the background my entire life I can’t tell you how many times I had to memorize the name of a Israeli leader follow whatever they’re saying and doing And then it all just goes to hell and we start over again,

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Billion-dollar corporations that paid a LOWER tax rate than undocumented immigrants in 2022: 💰Bank of America 💰Exxon Mobil 💰AT&T 💰Netflix 💰Target 💰Walgreens 💰Delta Airlines 💰Tesla

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/06/2025

President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S. investigation of the MS-13 gang. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social & Sebastian Rotella

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“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”

President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a…

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Republicans, could you find a more vile and corrupt puppet asshole to nominate three times in a row It’s the Republican party my friends never forget this If you’re saying Trump this and Trump You better fucking say the Republican Party in the same breath It’s all of them not fucking joking

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

And there it is. The Minnesota assassin who shot Democratic lawmakers “voted for Donald Trump and was a strong Trump supporter,” according to his best friend.

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Hal Cragin @halcragin.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The Republican Party has initiated the launch sequence of fascism No, I’m not joking

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