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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Can't emphasize enough that "Bring Back Public Executions" has long been a fundamental tenet of radical Christian nationalists.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 2h
This is clearly not acceptable
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AnthroBOOlogal 👻 @anthropologal.bsky.social · 15h
This should count as a Bundt 😏
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
New in PN: Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low "It’s the certainty of staggering losses that makes clear this is nothing but a festival of bribery. No one who spends millions to attend these tacky dinners expects a return. They’re just giving the president money in hopes it'll buy them favors."
publicnotice.co
Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9h
"We, the members of Trump’s cabinet, see no reason to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment simply because the president offered to let Iran obliterate two American cities. He was obviously kidding, like, “Wouldn’t it be so funny if everyone in LA was dead? Haha.'" buff.ly/9cnfYDM
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Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Offers to Let an Enemy Bomb an American City
“As we’ve said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions o...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 11h
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h
“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 20h
The handful of countries that do public executions all have horrible human rights records.
• Iran: Frequently uses public hangings (often in city squares or via mobile crane gallows) for offenses such as murder, drug crimes, and political or security charges.
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• Saudi Arabia: Regularly carries out capital punishment, historically and currently utilizing public beheadings with a sword, though practices vary by specific case and updates.
• North Korea: Known to periodically conduct public executions by firing squad or hanging for various crimes as a means of public deterrence.
Death Penalty Inform...
• Afghanistan: Reported to carry out public executions under Taliban rule.
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• Somalia: Local and regional authorities (including parts governed by Al-Shabaab or regional state courts) have occasionally carried out public executions.
Refworld +1
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21h
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
nytimes.com
Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 20h
Its telling that when Trump's allies ask for patriotic sacrifice, it's always asking working folks to pay more at the pump, more at the grocery store, more for health insurance, and never to ask their millionaire donors to pay more in taxes to pay for the pointless war Trump started (and is losing)
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 21h
Trump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency
Donald J. Trump
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The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help - and leave the rest to us!
President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 20h
It sure feels like the administration is going to pull out all the stops hoping to incite violence in the streets before the election.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who among us hasn't misstated revenue by $20,000,000,000?
ft.com
OpenAI annualised revenues $20bn less than previously signalled
AI giant recently told investors the key figure was approaching $50bn in September, far less than the $70bn that was widely reported
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Easily my favorite detail:
There was the incident that became known as "the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with
the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch
P01 during flight. She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were
integrated into the program.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Musk advocating for Quebec separatism then following it up by saying Alberta & Saskatchewan should leave too gives away this is just about dissolving Canada for being lib, but I'm glad he's too dumb to realize it undermines separatists' chances by further associating them with right-wing Americanism
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026
BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Government by Twlight Zone episode. iykyk
Billy Mumy in "It's a Good Life."Medical personnel in a plastic surgery clinic in "Eye of the Beholder."
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Katherine Eban @katherineeban.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
SCOOP in @rollingstone.com 👇 CDC has set aside new $1.6M for controversial hepatitis B vax clinical trial in Guinea-Bissau, halted earlier amid uproar over medical ethics. CDC director's office resurrected it, taking $$ from global health security funds: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The frequency of campus rapes, & their role in getting women to drop out of college, could be regarded as a 2nd stage in a process that starts by making it nearly twice as hard for qualified women to gain university admission compared to men. Excluding women from upward mobility is a policy choice.
Guardian headline about Japanese medical schools falsifying women applicants' test scores to avoid having to admit them.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 07/10/2026
NEW: Let's speak plainly about the checks and payments millions of Americans are now starting to receive: Trump is using public money to buy votes. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop
He’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort.
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
David Reyna voted for Trump. He didn't expect it to hurt his business. “We didn’t think this administration was going to crack down on undocumented workers that hard,” Reyna said. "It is completely devastating the local construction industry. It’s grinding it down to a halt.”
David Reyna, owner of Reyna Homes LLC and Riverside Building Materials, in Rio Grande City, Texas, last week. (Gabriel V. Cárdenas/For The Washington Post)
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
It is real.
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These Caffeinated Ramen Noodles Are Made to be Eaten With Just One Hand
Nippon launched Boost Noodles, Taipa-style ramen to solve the age-old problem of how you can eat ramen while also simultaneously participating in an online gaming battle all night.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A CDC campaign helped millions try to quit smoking. Under Trump, the ads went dark, and quitline operators reported fewer calls for help. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/anti-smoki...
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, the DoD just put Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on "Project Meridian," its commission to determine the future of warfare, which may just involve buying lots of Anduril products, who knows. Luckey has made over 1,000 contributions to Republicans since 2017, 23 of which were for over $100K each.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.
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Lawvers for Andrew Tate have had to admit in
court that he is not a citizen of Estonia as he
previously claimed.
Much of his wealth and status is fabricated, they
said in attempt to convince the court he and his
brother are not a flight risk if released on bail
That included his claims to seven passports.
"The Tates are engaged in several businesses
teaching men how to earn money. It is in their
interest to portray themselves on social media
as uberwealthy." 1/3
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tate brothers bail denial has lots of funny evidence. Including them boasting in social media about ignoring court dates and using multiple passports, including forged ones to jump jurisdictions “I'm untouchable because I've spent a decade spreading myself into MANY grids.” Apparently you didn't
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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In 1992 Peter Ratcliffe received this rejection from Nature. Almost 30 years later he won the Nobel Prize for the same discovery.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Baltimore Sun got the data on Maryland athletics alcohol sales and found that exactly one person got a Bud Light Seltzer at a Maryland football game last year www.baltimoresun.com/2026/10/06/m...
Only five Heineken cans were sold at Maryland baseball games.
Xfinity Center sold eight Hoop Teas.
And at SECU Stadium, among more than 105,000 alcohol sales, the records list exactly one Bud Light Seltzer can.
One.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing. At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!
Consciousness of Guilt: An Opaque and Secret Memorandum with Threats of Reprisal 13. Despite the May 12 Memo being addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the memorandum has only been distributed to select DHS and ICE officials. Furthermore, our clients have been told that the May 12 Memo must be treated with unusually strict access control for a document without any confidentiality markings. 14. To wit: one of our clients was allowed to view the memorandum only in the presence of their supervisor. They were handed the Memorandum, allowed a few minutes to review it without the ability to take notes, and were directed to hand it back. They were also informed that another employee had been reassigned for contradicting a supervisor about a different ICE policy. Our client understood their supervisor shared this piece of information as a warning that expressing disagreement with the new arrest policy could result in adverse career consequences. 15. Together, our clients are aware of multiple DHS employees who faced retaliation for expressing their concerns and/or disagreement with the May 12 Memo’s policy change, likely constituting prohibited personnel practices. One client is aware of a seasoned government instructor, tasked with teaching this new doctrine, who chose to resign rather than be forced to teach what they understood to be unlawful.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!
May 12, 2025 

 MEMORANDUM FOR: All ICE Personnel

FROM: Todd Lyons Acting Director 
SUBJECT: Utilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal 

On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 14159, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to "ensur[e] the successful enforcement of final orders of removal." 90 Fed. Reg. 8443, 8444 (Jan. 20, 2025) (E.O. 14159). Essential to the removal of aliens subject to final orders of removal is the ability to locate and arrest them. To this end, certain supervisory immigration officers within both Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) are authorized to issue an administrative warrant, Form I-205, Warrant of Removal (Form 1-205), for the arrest of an alien with a final order of removal. 8 C.F.R. § 241.2(a)(1). All U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents and deportation officers are authorized to execute Forms 1-205. 8 C.F.R. § 287.5(e)(3)(iii) - (y)

Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of the General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose. Accordingly, in light of this legal determination, ICE immigration officers may arrest and detain aliens subject to a final under of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), or a U.S.Arrow) district court judge or magistrate judge in their place of residence.23 ICE immigration officers should consider all available enforcement mechanisms, including the use of a Form 1-205 to arrest an alien in their place of residence, to achieve the requirements of E.O. 14159 in accordance with applicable law and policies. This guidance informs the use of Forms 1-205 and provides to ICE law enforcement personnel a reminder of the general limitations and exceptions that may apply when effectuating arrests in an alien's residence. General Guidelines ICE law enforcement officers receive extensive training on the legal and procedural requirements for making administrative and criminal arrests. ICE personnel must remain cognizant of all existing laws and policies pertaining to arrests when carrying out civil immigration enforcement actions. Prior to entering a residence to conduct an administrative immigration arrest pursuant to Form I-205, officers and agents must ensure the Form 1-205 is properly completed and is supported by a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the BIA, a U.S. district court, or a magistrate judge. This is essential because that order establishes probable cause. Officers and agents must also have reason to believe that the subject alien resides at and is currently located in the address where the Form I-205 is to be served.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At a marathon runtime of four hours, Alex Gibney's new documentary 'Musk' strains to cover the sweep of the oligarch's business empire and its capture of U.S. government. But the interviews with first wife Justine Wilson and latest ex Ashley St. Clair about his vindictive nature hit hardest.
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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Texas pediatrician has already paid $15k in legal fees to counter requests from Ken Paxton's office about her vaccine policy. She spoke to the NYT on background after prosecutors threatened this: "You are requested NOT to inform other entities of this request" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 05/10/2026
County and local district attorneys oversaw higher state prison admissions during election years than in other years during the height of the nation’s “tough on crime” era, according to a new study from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law.
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District attorney elections linked to more prison admissions during ‘tough on crime’ era • Ohio Capital Journal
District attorneys sent more people to state prison during election years than in other years during the height of the nation’s “tough on crime” era, according to a new study from Northwestern…
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The key to this is that when the right says this, everyone knows they mean ‘the wrong sort of people are getting something.’
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In crude Ohio rally speech, Trump says he may not help the state if Democrats win www.straitstimes.com/world/united...
straitstimes.com
In crude Ohio rally speech, Trump says he may not help the state if Democrats win
Ohio’s midterms is among eight US Senate races rated competitive. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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jackchancer.bsky.social @jackchancer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In Ohio they just repealed the state gas tax for 90 days to give trump politcal cover. To make up for the tax shortfall they're raiding the general fund. Basically weakening our future prospects to prop up trump. Pathetic isn't it?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "Husted, now that he's a senator, he's a pain in the ass. He calls me all the time. He always wants money. Think of it -- if an Amy Acton got in, I don't know anything about her ... I'm not gonna help her probably."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We're gonna win big, and we've gonna shove it up their ass"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump's audience is Ohio is totally silent as he simps for data centers and suggests opposition to them is a Chinese psyop
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "When I see that Talafreako in Texas. So he's been a vaygan all his life. He's a vaygan vaygan, I didn't even know what the hell a veygan was. A veygan is vegetables. A vaygan is eating a piece of lettuce all day long."
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