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Southwest Florida Man

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 9h
The loud parts even louder www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/the-...
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The loud parts even louder - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Imminent electoral apocalypse certainly isn’t making Donald Trump less racist: Trump is desperately trying to incite a riot before the election so he can declare an emergency [image or embed] — Laura ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social : “ABOLISH ICE”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
Endlessly corrupt. He does nothing that doesn’t benefit him personally. Ever.
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Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order | CNN Business
Right before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 15h
Yes but of you ask people who approve of trump, 100% of them approve
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This needs to happen 👇
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Only in a government run by Trump and a State Dept run by Rubio can an unqualified grifter like Kim Guilfoyle remain Ambassador to Greece after all the scandals that have come out just in the last week. But she obviously has A LOT of dirt on the president’s son, so tough to fire.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/10/2026
Oil prices jump on tanker attack and slowing flows through Strait of Hormuz ft.trib.al/ZN3YMl3
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Oil prices jump on tanker attack and slowing flows through Strait of Hormuz
Transit through vital waterway rose close to 90% of prewar levels last month but has since fallen sharply
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...
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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe
Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People really, realy hate Trump looting the taxpayers to pay for shitty campaign ads www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/coun...
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Counterproductive authoritarianism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Donald Trump narrowly winning two presidential elections in conditions highly favorable to the out party may suggest the conclusion that playing dirty is always good politics, but I don’t think that t...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LOL that incredibly tortured NYT article trying to claim that Trump wasn't actually talking about nuking San Diego and LA is right up there with the "Elon Musk's politics are a mysterious enigma nobody will ever be able to comprehend" thing
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes. Sep. 11, 2023
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who could’ve have foreseen Kim Guilfoyle would go on a grifting and crime spree after Trump named her as Ambassador to Greece to get her out of the country after Junior hooked up with a younger woman?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just another day in the Presidency as directed by Fellini.
Trump nodding, Susan Dell emoting.
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Akilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump called for Iran to bomb Los Angeles & San Diego. A congressional candidate was raped while fixing her campaign signs. The right constantly calls for violence against the left but the mainstream media will call it out. They cared more about Hillary’s emails and Hunter’s laptop.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is impeachable. The president can't do whatever he wants.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026
a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
As the religious right gained prominence starting in the 70s, the religious left grew quieter. But this year, a surprising number of ministers and religious professionals are running as Democrats.
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Christian nationalism's grip on American faith is finally breaking
I helped build the religious right. After ICE killings, I saw what could replace it.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026
In the authoritarian mind, society is deeply and intrinsically hierarchical. Either they're above you, or you're above them. Either they have the liberty, or you have the liberty. You can't both have it.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know enough math to do economics, but I'm not otherwise a mathematician. The one thing I've always heard from speaking to pure mathematicians is the inherent sense of wonder and awe they have in seeing the natural beauty of equations fall together. Apparently all these new AI proofs aren't that.
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bmaz @bmaz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh, do tell.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/10/2026
Wrongly indicted, charges dropped, and now we learn prosecutors allegedly knew the Reflecting Pool renovation was failing and they charged David Hearn anyway. I hope he sues their asses off.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m loving the “well akshually he didn’t REALLY mean let Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego” excuses today. Cool. Explain the assholes in the crowd who thought it was fucking hilarious. Deplorables wasn’t strong enough.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anyway, this was what I covered today from this morning: www.lawdork.com/p/oil-compan...
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Oil companies face a skeptical SCOTUS in their effort to stop Boulder’s climate change lawsuit
With Justice Alito recused, eight justices questioned if they should be hearing the case and pushed back on Suncor Energy and Exxon Mobil’s broad constitutional arguments.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That Hemingway quote about hunting men is alarmingly common in police culture. I've seen it on police union merch and on t-shirts and other swag at SWAT competitions and policing conferences.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
WATCH: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica revealed the existence of the case for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Southwest Florida Man @swflman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
is it possible to use AI to create a website that tracks all of the GOP members that are pedophiles? it is impossible to keep track of
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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