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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Dems in disarray? James Talarico sees an opportunity. “In my faith tradition, the wilderness is where new ideas and new leaders and new movements come forth. It's a time for experimentation and self-reflection,” he tells @nikkimcr.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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James Talarico Tests the Democratic Wilderness at the Texas Border
James Talarico, the Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas, is connecting to traditionally liberal border communities disillusioned with the party.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Trump's ballroom project, and the rest of his opulent overhaul of D.C., isn't just an affront to good taste — it's deeply un-American, writes @nikkimcr.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's D.C. Redesign Is a Betrayal of America's Founding Values
Donald Trump's ballroom project, along with his plans to overhaul much of Washington, D.C., are a betrayal of America's democratic values.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
If you're wondering if Americans are paying attention, they are. If you're wondering if they like what they see in Donald Trump, they Do Not. New polls reveal how vigorously Americans hate Trump’s job performance. by @ryanbort.bsky.social @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's Polling Free Fall
Donald Trump's polling numbers have been steadily declining for the past year, especially when it comes to inflation and cost of living.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It’s coming.
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Red-Pilled Morning Show Host Stars in First Clip From The Onion's InfoWars Takeover
In exclusive first look at The Onion's InfoWars takeover, Jim Haggerty has rid himself of "corporate shackles" to helm "The Jim Haggerty Show."
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Trump read a Bible verse last night about asking God for forgiveness. Trump in 2015 on whether he has ever asked God for forgiveness: "I don't think so ... I don't bring God into that picture." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's Long, Strange Relationship With Faith
Donald Trump's attacks against Pope Leo XIV didn't come out of nowhere. They're emblematic of his strange relationship with faith and the church.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The difference between the Iraq war days when Jon Stewart warned a youngish CNN host that the reckoning was coming, and today, is that this time around Tucker Carlson cannot claim ignorance, youth, or inexperience.  My take on Tucker’s “apology” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Tucker Carlson's Trump Apology Is Too Little, Too Late
Tucker Carlson apologized for his role in getting Donald Trump elected as he criticizes the president over the Iran war.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
JD Vance in 2020: “My growing view is that too many American Catholics have failed to show proper deference to the papacy, treating the pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their whims.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Catholics in Trump's Inner Circle Have Nowhere to Hide
Donald Trump's attacks on Pope Leo XIV are making J.D. Vance and Catholics choose between their religion and their fealty to the president.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Trump: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Also Trump: "God Bless the Great People of Iran!" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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'A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight,' Warns Nobel Peace Prize Hopeful
Donald Trump escalated his threats against Iran, writing that "a whole civilization will die tonight" if the nation doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz.
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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
One of the things that is just maddeningly grotesque about the current situations in Cuba and Iran is that Trump imposes mass suffering as a means of ego gratification
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"The same country that produces pioneers who carry out 'one giant leap for mankind' produces leaders who want to bomb their fellow man 'back to the Stone Age.'" Read @macwbishop.bsky.social on Artemis II and Trump's war against Iran: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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American Greatness, American Barbarism
The Artemis II mission to the moon shows America's greatness. Donald Trump's war with Iran shows a country that is small, mean, and ugly.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/02/2026
WOW. I mentioned AND used photos from these early February C-130 flights in my @rollingstone.com story last fall about the Coast Guard using search-and-rescue planes for ICE transfers. Had no idea the misuse of resources I suggested had already happened. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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ICE Is Constantly Using Coast Guard Planes to Move Immigrants
Donald Trump’s deportation henchmen appear to have dramatically increased the use of Coast Guard aircraft to transport immigrants.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
- @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and I reported in June that Trump had been asking confidants about putting a statue of himself in the Kennedy Center or naming *parts* of it after himself www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... They’re going even further apparently. Cartoonishly culty
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself
Donald Trump’s administration is using at least $1 billion in taxpayer money and every resource it can to flatter the president.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 11/11/2025
The way Trump is handling these meetings with his top lieutenants “definitely gives off Dear Leader vibes, like what you would see with Kim Jong Un or [Vladimir] Putin." Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It was clear Sliwa would not be delivering his victory speech, and perhaps that’s why there didn’t seem to be even an ounce of anxiety amid the revelry. A dispatch from my night at Curtis Sliwa's election watch party: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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No One Was Sweating It at Curtis Sliwa's Boozy Election Night Party
Attendees at Republican Curtis Sliwa's election were unbothered that their candidate lost the New York City mayoral election to Zohran Mamdani.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
To be fair, he explicitly and publicly campaigned on this and then won www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's Closing Pitch to Voters: I Will Let You Die If You Don't Bow to My Demands
Donald Trump's first term in office proved he's not bluffing when he threatens to base life-or-death decisions based on whether people support him.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Logic isn’t necessarily going to be the weapon, it might need to be love. And then from that, you hope that they find some logic. But just yelling and berating people, done that for eight years." Read @nikkimcr.bsky.social's fantastic Q+A with Roy Wood Jr.: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Roy Wood Jr.: 'Logic Isn't the Weapon. It Might Need to Be Love'
Roy Wood Jr. talks about his book, 'The Man of Many Fathers,' doing comedy in a polarized country and what he learned in radio and on 'The Daily Show'
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
NEW: Deputy Secretary of State Landau has created a meme superhero persona for himself, as he teams up with fringe anonymous X accounts to target foreign visa holders for Charlie Kirk speech. Meet: El Quitavisas. Me @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Please read this heartbreaking story from @timdickinson.bsky.social about a mom and her four kids who were taken by CBP and disappeared, and how a lawmaker and a friend mobilized to track them down www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway
Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
My latest for @rollingstone.com digs into Trump's $30 Billion in shutdown cuts targeting Democratic states and cities with painful cuts to public transit, energy, and fundamental civil rights protections. The pain will reverberate throughout the economy. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“Things are not normal. They’re not returning to normal. There is no playbook that we are using from the past that could work in the present, and so we’ve got to stand up." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Justin J. Pearson of the 'Tennessee Three' Has Had It With 'Mediocrity' -- So He's Running for Congress
Justin J. Pearson, a member of the "Tennessee Three," has announced a campaign to primary Democrat Steve Cohen and join the U.S. House.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign. Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America
Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.
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Andrew Perez @andrewperez.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine, @swin24.bsky.social and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent. Read it here and come follow our work at @zeteo.com, where we work now! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent
Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.
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He Grew Obsessed With an AI Chatbot. Then He Vanished in the Ozarks
Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and started over. His new life unraveled in a way nobody could have predicted.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Portland is obviously personal to me. The president's fever dream of a 'War Zone' by the Willamette might be darkly funny, if the stakes for this city -- and the rest of the nation -- were not dead serious:
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Welcome to Portland, Where Trump's Fever Dream Is America's New Nightmare
Donald Trump has said federal troops are necessary to maintain order in Portland, but there is no truth to the president's fever dream about the city.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Trump has set his sights on #Alaska as a test case for his disastrous “National Energy Dominance” agenda. For @rollingstone.com, I went to Alaska and met people organizing to resist Trump’s plans. “No one is throwing up their hands and saying 'he’s won.'” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2025
NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
"He was the movies, in all of their escapist and ennobling glory." Read @davidlfear.bsky.social on Redford: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
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Robert Redford Was the Definition of a Movie Star
Redford, who died at 89, was a groundbreaking environmentalist, the patron saint of independent film, an Oscar-winning director — in short, an icon.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Lisa is the best and you should hire her (and Quincy and Lou) immediately
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Incredible get for @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @zeteo.com. I cannot express how much I am going to miss working with @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social, two of the smartest and most compassionate colleagues I've ever had
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonbern.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My biography of Justin Townes Earle will be released on January 13th, 2026, the week after what would’ve been his 44th birthday. It’s called ‘What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome’ If you’d like to support a debut author, you can pre-order here: www.hbglibrary.com/titles/jonat...
Graphic announcing the publication date of January 13, 2026 of a biography of Justin Townes Earle called 'What Do You Do When You're Lonesome'
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
gonna just keep reposting this from @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself
Donald Trump’s administration is using at least $1 billion in taxpayer money and every resource it can to flatter the president.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Typically excellent from @swin24.bsky.social and the gang
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 13/08/2025
"President Donald Trump has expanded his military campaign against the United States" It should be noted that @rollingstone.com is as much corporate media as @nytimes.com yet is able to write in plain and clear language about what's happening. No euphemisms. No laundering bad-faith morons & weirdos
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Brutal stuff from @swin24.bsky.social on the former children's hospital chaplain whose friends says he's been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Jailed by Trump's ICE, Children's Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into 'Solitary'
Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, was put in "solitary confinement" after being jailed by Donald Trump's ICE.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Concerning! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Fires Labor Stats Chief Following Weak Jobs Report
Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, following the release of a weak jobs report on Thursday.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Tax dollars at work, baby!!!!! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump White House Rages Over 'South Park' Episode, Calls Show 'Fourth-Rate'
The White House is furious at "South Park" after the show's premiere lampooned Donald Trump, depicting him in bed with Satan.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hoo boy, from me and @swin24.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Team Trump Was on 'F-cking Warpath' to Kill Story About Salacious Letter to Epstein
Donald Trump's team was desperate to kill a Wall Street Journal story about Trump writing a salacious letter to Jeffrey Epstein in the early 2000s.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“They created conditions where there were really no better options. Hundreds of people left the country in the last month.” Great reporting from @nikkimcr.bsky.social on how Trump's BFF in El Salvador has been forcing human rights advocates to flee the nation www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Human Rights Defenders Are Fleeing El Salvador as Bukele Cracks Down
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's authoritarian regime is forcing human rights defenders like the nonprofit Cristosal to flee the nation.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New from me and @swin24.bsky.social: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Inside Trump's Frantic, Failing Mission to Crush the Epstein 'MAGA Rebellion'
President Donald Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to make MAGA forget about Jeffrey Epstein. They are failing.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“Those two do not like each other,” one of the Trump administration officials adds. “It surprises me that there hasn’t been more reporting on that.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The DOJ's Epstein Memo Is Tearing the Trump Administration Apart
The Justice Department's memo on Jeffrey Epstein is causing a bitter rift among some of the most prominent figures in Donald Trump's administration.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Latest for @rollingstone.com from @ryanbort.bsky.social and me: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's Government Is a Den of Snitches, 'Freaks,' and Paranoid Tyrants
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to ask government employees to snitch about diversity practices.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Among it's myriad harms Trump's #BigBadBill adds $30 billion for ICE, enough to deploy 10,000 agents + $45 billion for construction and expansion of detention facilities and transportation. @nikkimcr.bsky.social @timdickinson.bsky.social @ryanbort.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Worst Parts of Trump and the GOP's Disastrous Tax Bill
Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is a disaster for immigrants, the environment, and the health care of millions of Americans.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Go to @rollingstone.com if you want to see the Subscribe — print and/or online — buttons, they’re all over the place on the homepage and other webpages ❤️
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
🖕 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Supreme Court Hands Trump 'GIANT WIN' in Birthright Citizenship Case
The Supreme Court ruled that lower courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions on executive orders, like Trump's attack on birthright citizenship.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
@milesklee.bsky.social x @bencollins.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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'The Onion' CEO on That Brutal 'New York Times' Op-Ed: 'Expect Us in Weird Places'
Ben Collins has overseen the comeback of a print edition of 'The Onion' over the past year and pledges that it will continue taking big swings
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Trump’s Military Parade Was a Gross (Expensive) Failure www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump's Military Birthday Parade Was a Gross Failure
Trump got the expensive military parade he wanted on his birthday, courtesy of Lockheed Martin, Palantir, and American taxpayers.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This summer double issue also includes the print version of this: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... By @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me.
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself
Donald Trump’s administration is using at least $1 billion in taxpayer money and every resource it can to flatter the president.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New from @swin24.bsky.social and me. Thank you to the "bedwetters who would rather use the failing Rolling Stones as a therapy session to anonymously pontificate their feelings to the press, rather than help the president." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Some Trump Officials Now Fear Elon's 'Burn Book'
Donald Trump and Elon Musk's falling out is worrying some administration officials considering what the billionaire has seen when the camera was off.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
new this am from @ryanbort.bsky.social and me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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'We Are Taking Away Elon's Friends'
Team Trump is pressuring people who’ve been allies to both the president and Elon Musk to pick a side in the MAGA divorce proceedings.
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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
@swin24.bsky.social, @andrewperez.bsky.social, and I dove deep into Trump's taxpayer-funded ego trip: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself
Donald Trump’s administration is using at least $1 billion in taxpayer money and every resource it can to flatter the president.
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