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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 3h

Sounds like Zelenskyy has put out a ***proposal*** and that Trump has, without getting any sort of response from Russia, declared to be a complete and total victory. Strongly suspect Trump's "end-zone victory dance" will come to an abrupt halt pretty soon! www.ms.now/news/trump-z...

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Trump claims Russia and Ukraine agree to ‘energy ceasefire’ after Zelenskyy response

The Ukrainian president floated a proposal for new elections in his country if Russia agrees to a 60-day ceasefire. Shortly after, Trump said both countries agreed to an energy ceasefire.

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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 23h

15/10 would definitely watch

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 11h

“The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming attack on mifepristone” so as to, of course, get through their anti-abortion agenda AFTER the midterm election is safely over! talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

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Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug

A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming...

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 11h

Trump very angry that Ukraine continues to hit oil refineries. Talks a bunch of #$%@ about how Zelenskyy could have made a deal. Interesting statement: “And I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president.” crooksandliars.com/2026/10/he-d...

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‘He Damn Well Better Stop!’: Trump Rages At Zelensky Over Oil Refinery Strikes

Trump threw a fit and demanded the Ukrainians "get a new president" after Zelensky ignored his demands to stop striking Russian oil refineries.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 11h

Popular Georgian singer Nutsa Buzaladze was once proud to be considered a member of the Georgian Dream Party. Now if she's referred to as a member of that party, she threatens to sue! Trump's latest phone call... prawn-agenda.blogspot.com/2026/10/day-...

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Day 1688 War in Ukraine

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fox News is pro-Putin propaganda. Absolutely shameless.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New Press Secretary Katie “Zacharia is a perfect fit for the MAGA movement.” Remember when several former national security and former military people warned military members not to obey illegal orders? She says their action “rises to the level of insurrection.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Trump’s new propaganda princess is worse than you’d expect

The White House announced Friday that right-wing commentator Katie Zacharia will serve as the new press secretary.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Senator Tom Cotton is comfortably ahead in his race to reelection, but the numbers are very different then they were just two years ago! Cotton's race is FAR closer than it was then! talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cotto...

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Cotton Heaving as He Races toward November

I need to start these kinds of posts by saying: No. I...

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

... casualties. That's exactly what Trump is suggesting with this diesel fuel deal. What does Ukraine think of the deal between the US and Russia?

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

About the worst thing I ever heard about arms sales, about the most immoral arms salespeople, were the ones who sold to both sides. Who keep the war going for their own profit and couldn't care less about the... www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Trump claims he’s reached a deal with Putin to buy Russian diesel

The president has created a scandalous dynamic in which the administration will provide resources to both sides of an ongoing and devastating war.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers has the stench of “loser” all around him! Think and hope Abdul El-Sayed's going to win this one! crooksandliars.com/2026/10/roge...

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Rogers' Racist Attack On El-Sayed Backfires Spectacularly

Mike Rogers went full-on racist during the debate after being called out for supporting Trump's insane war against Iran.

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Gene Gonzales @genegonzales.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

MAN-THING #1, from Marvel Comics, was released on this date in 1973. Cover date January 1974. #man-thing #marvelcomics #ink #commission #patreon

Ink illustration of Marvel's Man-Thing wading in swamp water with bare trees behind him.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think its Congress' fault. They allowed the Trump Administration too much of a free hand.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Aww! A true heroine passes! “She ultimately led a team of 100 engineers that designed the software to guide NASA’s Apollo missions.” balloon-juice.com/2026/10/08/a...

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Absolutely revolting! The United States slips further into barbarism. I remember Nidal Hasan and his killing of 13 people in 2009. Does he deserve death? Sure he does, but we're supposed to be better than that! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Hegseth thinks a firing squad execution is entertainment

Calling it a “no-brainer,” the defense secretary couldn’t contain his eagerness to see former Army Maj. Nidal Hasan executed.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

/3 Believe me, Republicans spent pretty much all of 2014 trying to smear Clinton with it. Fetterman needs to simply leave office. He has NO business representing Pennsylvania!

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

/2 ... lax or derelict. That's why the issue faded well before the election. There was simply nothing scandalous about the reactions of any member of the Obama Administration.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I looked into Benghazi well before the 2016 election. Senator Fetterman is absolutely full of $%#@!!! Obama, Clinton and everybody else connected with that awful event did the best they could. Absolutely no one was... dunning-kruger-times.com/john-fetterm...

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John Fetterman says He Believes Hillary Clinton should be in Prison

Senator John Fetterman says he believes Hillary Clinton should be in prison. "If not for Benghazi, then for Uranium One," Fetterman told Jake Tapper, who looked visibly upset. "And if not for those, t...

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The blogger goes over a lot of history I had forgotten. The idea that Trump restrained himself from arresting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is just nonsense. The REAL reason they weren't arrested was that they hadn't done anything wrong! www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Trump scrambles to rewrite recent history on his efforts against Obama, Biden and Clinton

The president might be eager to brag about his perceived magnanimity, but he’s asking us to forget what we all saw with our own eyes.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's all about money for these guys. Russia, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are highly interested in reopening the Nord Stream pipeline. Germany and the wider EU are not interested. Theories of making peace through business deals are as old as capitalism itself. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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EXCLUSIVE: US, Russia explore gas sale to Europe amid Ukraine war, say sources

Top Russian and US officials, including Special Envoy Jared Kushner, have held talks about bringing a US investor into the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered gas to Germany before Russia invaded Ukr...

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ukraine isn’t just a war. Ukraine is also this🇺🇦❤️ #ukraine #war #ukrainian #ukrainians #ukrainiangirl

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

South African judge Navi Pillay - who headed a UN commission that last year found Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza - has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee hailed her as "one of the most respected international jurists of our time."

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Finally, someone asked him to define socialism &, of course, he can't actually define it. None of this is socialism. These are things that irritate the VP of a Thousand Names because he's an unreconstructed racist, antisemite, homophobe, transphobe, Islamophobe, anti-AAPI, xenophobe, etc.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

... positive consequence, after his first term and almost half of the second term. He's accomplished nothing that any of his fans can hold up with pride.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Blogger thinks Trump realizes he'll never get the love of the American people that he thought he'd get from the beginning of his first term. I see it as Trump realizes he's done nothing of consequence, certainly nothing of... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Huh! And after Trump made such a big deal about trade deficits being such important economic indicators. They AREN'T important indicators, but Trump has SOLD them as hugely important! “The trade deficit is now larger than at any time during Joe Biden’s presidency.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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As U.S. trade deficit widens, Trump’s economic agenda is failing on his own terms

The president put shrinking the trade deficit high on his economic to-do list. There’s fresh evidence he’s failing by own standards.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ehh, hoo yah to that. AS LONG AS he doesn't do anything to the ORIGINAL Camp David. He also shouldn't spend any taxpayer money. As long as he leaves the original untouched, future presidents can ignore his wannabe replacement and keep using the original. crooksandliars.com/2026/10/now-...

Presidents shaking hands at Camp David, Sadat, Carter, Begin.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Heh! Speaker "Jebus" (Jeebus?) Johnson walks us through the "horror" of a Democratic victory in November, though personally I'd prefer that Democrats begin with Trump subordinates like Vought or Hegseth. crooksandliars.com/2026/10/jebu...

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Jebus Johnson Foretells Of A Good Time Had By All If Dems Win

Speaker of Tongues Jebus Johnson guaranteed that the Democrats will impeach Trump if they win in November.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... reversed, not because there was a public demand to do so, nor because of any scientific discoveries, but simply because the Supreme Court had an anti-choice majority at the time.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion that reversed Roe v. Wade after it had been in effect for 49 years. He tries to reassure people that the Supreme Court would not come after same-sex marriage next, but Roe was... www.ms.now/deadline-whi...

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Alito’s Dobbs defense fails to confront the reality of reversing Roe

In an interview, the justice called the interest in maintaining abortion rights “abstract.” The Dobbs dissenters explained why that’s not true.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... makes the same claim, reporters ask for evidence, he claims one of them is reporting “fake news” and walks away. youtu.be/2buVoeBjK1M

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Trump CRASHES OUT and Walks Off Meet The Press Interview

YouTube video by Reflect Politics

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Reminds me of the interview of Trump by Kristin Welker of Meet The Press. He spoke of voter fraud, she pointed out there was no evidence for what he was claiming, he walked off the set. Here, he... crooksandliars.com/2026/10/trum...

crooksandliars.com

Trump Stomps Off In Rage As Shouts Of 'Evidence!' Overwhelm His Voter Fraud Claim

President Donald Trump cut off reporters and walked away after they repeatedly demanded evidence for his claim of widespread mail-in voting fraud in California.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... reduce costs and, surprise surprise, amazingly enough, it went too far and USAGM cannot effectively perform its mission! The US has lost influence to Russia, China, Iran and other authoritarian governments because there was no coherent plan to the reductions.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is, well, about as predictable as the sun rising in the east. Two months after Trump took office, the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which included Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Network, were given orders to... www.ms.now/opinion/voic...

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Opinion | Why these authoritarian regimes have reason to thank Kari Lake

Muhammad Tahir: Trump dismantled Voice of America before he knew what it actually did

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

... elections since 2002. It is of course, massively hypocritical for the US to say that other nations need to have their elections monitored, but the US is exempt.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow! Try as might, I just can't come up with a single legitimate reason for the Trump Administration to refuse observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to observe the 2026 midterm election! The OSCE has been observing US... www.ms.now/news/trump-m...

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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cool stuff! Fellow goes around the world, asking people if they can show him their favorite dance moves! balloon-juice.com/2026/10/06/l...

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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Donald Trump has lost his mind. He thinks the destruction of American cities is “a small price to pay” for his reckless war. And not a peep from GOP leadership.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Very happy to see that Trump's casual comment that the US could lose two large California cities and that wouldn't be a big deal getting some pushback! crooksandliars.com/2026/10/whit...

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Anastasiia Mamotiuk is a disabled Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Russians in 2022. Authorities were in touch with her via secret communications (she consistently expressed the desire to be returned home to... prawn-agenda.blogspot.com/2026/10/day-...

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Day 1683 War in Ukraine

Anastasiia Mamotiuk is a disabled Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Russians in 2022. Authorities were in touch with her via secret commu...

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

... democratic government without it. Trump and Vought have been trying hard to seize that power for themselves with the active acquiescence of the Republican House and Senate.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As I said, if any subordinate of Trump's should be impeached, my nomination is for Russell Vought to be our first target. The power of directing the government to spend money on particular items goes all the way back to the Magna Carta of 1215. Can't have a truly... www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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White House takes radical new steps to wrest the power of the purse from Congress

As one observer put it, Team Trump’s efforts to control federal spending “subvert the basic structure of the American system.”

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

VP Vance compares the ads the Trump Administration put out that glorify Trump to the ads that the Obama Administration put out explaining the ACA/Obamacare. No, they're not in any way alike! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Watch Vance’s jaw-dropping defense of Trump’s propaganda ads

Vance is trying to compare Trump’s propaganda ads to Obama’s promotion for the Affordable Care Act.

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

... possible targets the Iranians could hit anyway. “Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”

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Rich Gardner @rlgardner190.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely astonishing! That an American President would suggest that a foreign country could nuke American cities! Iran is of course, many, many years away from launching an ICBM, but he suggested... www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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