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Phatty

@phat-bat.bsky.social
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Fast walker. Basically, allergic to Earth. Savoring & shoveling. Cat magnet. Covid disabler. Pro- Democracy and rule of law. Fight AI.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h
TPUSA "described the event as a private event that was open to the public" and where some media outlets could cover it, but other reporters could not. Does that make sense? This is at a public university subject to first amendment requirements.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12h
"With this merger, the entire media space is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs, all of whom you’ve seen whispering sweet nothings into Trump’s ear. Ellison has CBS and CNN, Musk has X, Zuckerberg has his Meta empire, and Bezos let democracy die in broad daylight when he gutted WaPo."
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The Rightwing Media Machine Just Got Way More Dangerous
The right has been consolidating the media for three decades, and the left keeps sleeping through it.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h
This level of naked, open corruption is unprecedented in our history.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h
This is how slimy politicians like Marco Rubio dismiss strong reporting without disputing any of the facts: “You guys somehow walk around thinking that because some source told you something, and you reported it, it’s the gospel. It’s not the gospel, it’s not the gospel for me."
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Marco Rubio brushes off questions about Kimberly Guilfoyle pressing donor to pay credit card
US ambassador to Greece allegedly asked Trump donor to pay $100,000 American Express bill
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Don’t forget: billionaires are using their grip on social media and the news to convince us that peaceful protests don’t work, our vote doesn’t matter, and that both parties are the same. They’re spending billions on it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h
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Underwear Must Be Worn On The Outside
YouTube video by John Hawkins
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
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Phatty @phat-bat.bsky.social · 18h
In one instance he is wearing the blue tie, and in another instance he is wearing the red tie. It was blue tie night when he suggested Iran blow up the two cities and that that would be a small price to pay. On red tie night he cleaned his speech up.
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Phatty @phat-bat.bsky.social · 18h
So, to be clear, there were two separate instances where he’s suggesting Iran bomb LA and San Diego? And in the most recent instance, that is where he cleaned it up? 
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump on April 13, 2020: "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's got to be. It's total." Trump today: “I can do whatever I want, when I want.” Yet some people still think Trump isn't an existential threat to our democracy.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thanks SCOTUS
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 07/10/2026
This is a big f'n deal.
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Phatty @phat-bat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nobel Prize award recipients are being announced
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nevada Republican politician Michele Fiore, nicknamed “Lady Trump,” collected money for a memorial to 2 fallen police officers but spent it on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her of fraud. Trump pardoned her because he’s pro-criminal. Vote against all Republicans.
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‘Lady Trump’ was convicted for fraud and then pardoned by the president. The White House didn’t say why.
“Justice Interrupted”: The latest installment in MS NOW’s series examining the clemencies and pardons by Donald Trump — and the fallout from them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And they voted for him anyway 😕
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Phatty @phat-bat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nobel Prize award recipients are being announced.
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Phatty @phat-bat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How I arrived on blue sky
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Lolo Jones Shouts Giddy-Up on CBBUS2
Alt: Lolo Jones Shouts Giddy-Up on CBBUS2
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/10/2026
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It Daily
To follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/10/2026
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The trade deficit last month was $36 billion larger than the Biden average. Trump's tariffs have failed.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 06/10/2026
New: As Trump's meme coin dangled a gala dinner with the president for its top buyers, the wallet holding the creators' tokens moved ~$70M of $TRUMP to an account where it can be sold. @jeffstein.bsky.social for @washingtonsun.com
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Trump’s Meme Coin Firm Wants You to Buy. Insiders Are Preparing to Sell.
Trump personally made more than $600 million from his meme coin last year.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Deeply funny to read this one day after Trump literally said that everyone at the NYT should be arrested.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I thought Trump’s tariffs were specifically designed to dramatically reduce this number to zero.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New from me: Trump, his Cabinet, white nationalist Joe Gebbia and Big Balls came together for a special event: to unveil America.gov. What the site offers - a chatbot - and what it promises are two very different things, with lots of hard work ahead. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/americagov...
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America.gov: Branding in Search of a Product
It got a wave of positive headlines, but for people who know tech, a shrug of the shoulders
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Former DOJ official Bruce Swartz explains why Trump’s $5000 “dividend” is illegal and is not covered by immunity from prosecution.  www.justsecurity.org/159770/aucti...
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Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”
Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Maybe if Trump could speak coherently and stop trying to justify his Iran War that raised prices on thousands of things for Americans with apocalyptic fear mongering and garbled syntax he wouldn’t have to worry about being misinterpreted or taken out of context.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is such a sick, evil thing to say. Especially because he’s not saying this as a joke. Just as sick that his supporters are laughing at it
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Rep. Brendan Boyle @congressmanboyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump isn't fooling anyone with his new $5,000 check stunt. I haven't seen a dime from the DOGE or tariff checks he promised over a year ago. In fact, he's done worse than give us nothing — he's costing Americans more with his tariff taxes and Iran war.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hastert ain’t dead
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never thought i'd see the day when a US president called for a foreign nation to destroy two major American cities and people cheered.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Treason!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rabid hatred of all transgender people—including veterans!—is the point. And the Respectable Republicans™️ and Thoughtful Conservatives™️ are all on board with it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
After ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good on a Minneapolis street, Karoline Leavitt called her a "deranged, lunatic woman" who committed "domestic terrorism." Good's last words to the ICE agent who killed her were: "I'm not mad at you." The NY Times didn't mention that in its story about Leavitt.
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Karoline Leavitt Takes Shocking Swipe at ICE Shooting Victim
MAGA motormouth Karoline Leavitt joined in the Trump administration’s cacophonous chorus of victim shaming during a Fox News appearance on Monday. The White House press secretary echoed the sentiments...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Chucky Bites Woman in Horror Scene
Alt: Raving lunatic Chucky, who is Adele that came to life , Bites terrified and screaming Woman on the arm in Horror Scene
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What will the Court do to us this term? It’s already taken away Roe v. Wade, given Trump a pass from prosecution for January 6, and permitted partisan gerrymanders. How much worse can it get? This term, there are some distinctly unpleasant possibilities. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
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The Week Ahead
October 4, 2026
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Phatty @phat-bat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not me. I use them for my groceries.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A civil lawsuit. A renewed criminal investigation. And a very complicated area of the law. I’ve tried to give you the information you’ll need to understand the unfolding investigation into an alleged gang rape at a Cornell fraternity. joycevance.substack.com/p/jane-doe?r...
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Jane Doe
Jane Doe is the name by which we know the young woman who has come forward to say she was gang raped in a room at the Chi Phi fraternity house while she was a student at Cornell in 2024.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump has: -Cut protections for national monuments to open them up for mining -Pushed to open up our national forests for construction and logging -Proposed building data centers on thousands of acres of federal lands Nothing is sacred to this regime. It acts solely on behalf of the oligarchy.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A senator‘s years of service lying for a criminal don‘t protect the senator from being victimized by the criminal.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These hideous Trump ads are outright theft from the taxpayers and election misconduct at the same time. $20 million in OUR MONEY spent on Illegal ads glorifying the would-be king. And his co-conspirators told him it was OK.
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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