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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Ken Paxton, Passport Bro

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 3h

just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h

the shit Omar and Tlaib are forced to put up with is simply unspeakable and I'm frequently frustrated by how mealymouthed their backup from within their own party has been over the years like guys you can disagree over policy later, please let's deal with the HATE CRIMES first

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 3h

I look forward to Mike Johnson and other Trump Republicans commenting on what a fantastic ass Jon Husted has.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

"'If it ends up that we fall short, everyone’s gonna have this after-the-fact explanation, like, ‘Well, that was obvious, how could we win Kansas?’ But the truth is, I’m pretty bullish on Kansas.'"

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Top Senate Dem to Trump Underlings: Lawyer Up

Sen. Brian Schatz talks fundraising, oversight, and whether JD Vance has the juice to win the presidency.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3h

“Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it. That they believe what they are telling us they believe—and they will act accordingly.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

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Fascists Really Believe It

Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 3h

I have lost track of which CME this is supposed to be... but who cares! Take a look at the sharp rise in IMF. Mid-latitude auroras are possible tonight. Check your skies, charge your batteries, and keep an eye on conditions as they evolve! There's always a chance, remember!

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

It's not about placing themselves at the top. They're already at the top. It's about putting us more firmly under control. Deskilled, devalued, hyper-surveilled, desperate. That vision of fascism won't be defeated in the next two elections. It's a long fight.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

AI is basically that for the whole economy and the workings of government. It's a bleed-out of current conditions. Not all of these companies are going to make it, but the billionaires are counting on a situation in which existing social relations can no longer be reproduced. A re-ordering.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

People talk about AI not turning a profit and how it's a massive bubble—they're not wrong. But remember when Uber was willing to take tremendous losses FOR YEARS to engineer dependence and bleed out the competition?

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

And remember, all of this is happening amid the AI buildout. AI, which is not a coherent set of products and services, but rather a commercial and political project, can be understood as a full-spectrum class-war offensive. An offensive waged by one industry, which put their guy Vance in the WH.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

I am not trying to discourage anyone. I want us to orient ourselves.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

And even if they take huge losses during the midterms, we've still got a very ugly road ahead. These people will thrash about and cause tremendous harm. They will keep killing, jailing, kidnapping, and bombing. This is a long fight.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

They can lose. But it's going to be messy and dirty. And btw, the midterms are not a lock. They will pull every dirty trick in the book, and then some. We are playing the game at a disadvantage and have to win anyway. That's no easy task.

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Activists Are Preparing to Defend Elections This November

“It’s about relational organizing,” says organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

Some people, and I don't just mean Trump, have been moving through the world as though they would never face a potential consequence for any choice ever again, because they never planned on losing power. That means they think they can't afford to lose now. There are a lot of desperate moves ahead.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

The demagoguery doesn't work as well when people are paying high gas prices. The GOP is in bad shape ahead of the midterms. This is going to be a time of desperate Trumpian shenanigans because, as y'all may recall, they don't believe in fair fights and never admit to losing anything.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

Multiple things are true here. This is a fascist, authoritarian administration. It has not yet fully consolidated power. Some of its efforts to do so have been frustrated. Trump is a doddering, confused egomaniac who started an unpopular war that's costing everyday people a lot of money.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 3h

I love how his dementia is revealing his bisexuality and MAGA has NO IDEA what to do with that

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Renard Swift @swiftrenard.bsky.social · 3h

They should start with 10 packs per day.

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Renard Swift @swiftrenard.bsky.social · 3h

Orange fucker's brain is cooked

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump on voter ID: "'It's racist! That's right -- it's racist!' They come up with more shit."

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's son-in-law & his special envoy are doing business on one hand & US diplomacy on the other  Americans are sick of it, & poll after poll shows they know who's paying  More on @ms.now 👇- TN

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 4h

If life were a movie, the hero team would be in a fearsome battle to stop this creepy trillionaire villain who dreams of the end of life on Earth. Instead, we're letting him buy elections.

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Spooky Bran @beemooney.bsky.social · 4h

I noticed the highway patrol did NOT take away the person punching the protestors repeatedly in the face? Did I miss that?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 9h

Ahhhhahahahaha

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.

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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid

Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

Trump can't figure out how to control inflation or end his disastrous war, but he assures voters that Jon Husted has a nice ass.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 4h

😂😂😂

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

Judges whose orders are ignored by the Trump regime need to do more than complain from the bench. They need to throw people in jail.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 6h

A federal judge has ordered the Trump Regime to immediately stop airing $20 million dollars in taxpayer funded campaign-style tv ads, but in typical Trump fashion, he’s already violated that court order. Why Trump is so desperate to air these ads before the Midterms: youtu.be/QKnSh_lrNLI?...

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🚨Trump IGNORES Judge’s ORDER BLOCKING His Taxpayer-Funded ADS!?!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump: I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body. I looked at his ass and I looked at the whole— look at his hands.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump on Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete ... I looked at his ass"

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 4h

I know there’s so much about Trump that just goes uncovered but my god it’s crazy his open lust for his own daughter just gets… nothing

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4h

California Forever ain't about housing. It's about billionaire power. That's what I wrote in my very first article on the Network State cult in January 2024. The People of Solano County vs The Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia via @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1777...

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The People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia

If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4h

In Solano, tech billionaires gave $900 million to a guy with no real estate experience to buy up 60k acres of land in a place with no water, roads or infrastructure—but with a host of endangered species, an airbase, and a law specifically preventing this kind of project.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4h

I write about California Forever in "The Nerd Reich." It fits a pattern:billionaires trying to build private cities. We see this idea popping up in Honduras, in Greenland, in Venezuela, in Cuba, in Kazakhstan, and in the ruins of the Gaza genocide. www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...

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Trump’s Gaza Fantasy and the Network State: The Tech-Fueled Future of Privatized Sovereignty

We’re watching the rise of a new anti-democratic extremism—networked, crypto-financed, and cloaked in the language of freedom, writes Gil Duran.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 4h

Not even Gov. Gavin Newsom—who tried to help the billionaires with a last-minute bill in the legislature—could overpower the people of Solano County. This Network State city is like a data center on steroids, and the struggle to defeat it contains important lessons for the fight ahead.

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