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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lmaooo💤💤💤

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why would an aspiring autocrat want to support the cultivation of critical thinking?

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 24/09/2026

This is a familiar pattern that repeats itself every time Republicans get on this voter fraud kick. Another familiar pattern is Republicans who complain about voter fraud not living where their voter registration says they do.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

He's so stupid *and* fascist that he thinks "repressive" is a compliment.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

America enshittified itself in one decade. That's all it took.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You can tell we're a country of idiots by how easily we're convinced to debate the 1% of trans people who want the right to live their lives authentically and safely and don't negatively impact our lives instead of the billionaires who spend every day making our lives genuinely tangibly worse.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My family could save thousands of dollars per year by cutting off food purchases.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is what Republican economic policy has come down to: no trade with anyone.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Small potatoes have also wounded hundreds of Americans, rendered a vast swathe of our bases unusable, emptied our stockpiles of high-end strike munitions and interceptors, and are shellacking our economy. What are the big potatoes?

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Adam Miller @ajm6792.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

He failed freshman level Econ. Because he knows you won’t tell his voters that.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It would be nice if someone could explain this community note to him. Having a president with a basic understanding of how trade works doesn’t seem like a ton to ask. Meanwhile our farmers are getting crushed.

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Tony E 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @t0nye.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

EVERYTHING to him is zero sum with a winner and loser, no mutual benefit. He's a chronic loser whose super power is finding even bigger losers to hold the bag when it falls apart. As a businessman, it was the banks. As a criminal, it was his lawyers. As president, it's going to be US citizens.

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Trump has no idea how trade works. He has made comments like this for years. He thinks the U.S. government loses money when American companies import more goods than they export. In some cases the American companies are importing parts ore raw materials.

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Nick (derogatory) 🎃 @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve been served extremely well by choosing to believe Trump understands nothing. I don’t think he could pass an algebra test.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Honestly, the audacity of saying this while trying to purge the country of Haitians based on a lie he knowingly told is demonic.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Projection. It’s always projection.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

But not for a lack of trying! Just because Trump is an idiot doesn't mean he should get credit for not consolidating authoritarian power.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2026

this is just an expression of the conservative belief that it was outrageous for barack obama to try to win an election

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A genocidal maniac.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

add another to the list of Republicans saying "look, our guy is basically Hitler (complementary)"

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

/2 But I suppose Ted Cruz is the perfect example of Trumpian masculinity: someone of no character, fundamentally a coward and a lickspittle, but shit-talks real nice.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's not a good sign for your democracy when the attorney general is "not committing to doing anything in writing."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2026

"Bc the agreement is cast as settlement of debt owed to Trump, it should be treated as $1.8b of income, which triggers tax liability. At his rate, it could run into the hundreds of millions, and the IRS lookback period is 6 years. The next IRS director has the chance to do *the funniest thing* ... "

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Trump's $1.8b slush fund could turn into giant can of worms

At the very least, it'll make the midterms messy.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

He's also still using "excursion" because six weeks ago some general told him this would be a "limited military incursion" and he was too dumb to understand it. Now none of his bootlicking staffers are willing to correct him. So we all proceed as if this is normal.

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Daniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It’s so easy to scare people like this but a little numeracy goes a long way: considering about 100,000 people die in North Carolina each year it’s totally reasonable to find at least this many dead people on voter rolls even if you’re just doing normal on-time purges.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

What do those 68 cases tell us? First, it demonstrates that proven cases of noncitizen voting are incredibly rare. Even an organization engaged in a major effort to document voter fraud produced fewer than 70 proven cases of noncitizens who voted in elections in the last 40 years.
Given that over one billion votes have been
cast over that period in thousands of elections, the incidence of proven noncitizen voting is below 0.0001%.

Third, the data tells us that most cases of noncitizen voting involve lawful permanent residents-people with green cards who have been in the community for years, many who end up voting due to bad information given by government officials themselves.
The most common scenario in the cases
included in Heritage's database includes a lawful permanent resident who was encouraged by a government official to vote or falsely told that they were eligible.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

That Trump continues to believe acing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (a 10-minute screening test most commonly used for diagnosing dementia) is a significant accomplishment is damning indictment of his actual intelligence.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is what tariffs were always all about for Trump. Not about revenue, trade, domestic manufacturing, GDP - it’s about giving himself the unilateral power to decide economic winners and losers on a case by case basis, with kings and CEOs coming to him asking forbearance..

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

hey do you guys think I need a lawyer

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AuntBunny @auntbunny.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Unbelievable corruption right in front of our faces.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Getting dizzy listening to these yahoos complain that Iran is a hotbed of religious fanaticism and then turning right around and acting like religious fanatics themselves.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Impeachment is not some special exception from normal politics where you shouldn't say it unless you already have the votes in hand. You go out and plainly advocate what you think should be done, and attack those who refuse to do it, just like on anything else.

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