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@thorgi56.bsky.social
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Dad, grand dad, doggie dad. Strives to follow smart people and learn stuff in order to make some sense of what’s going on in the world.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
Do you know how hard it is to lose the war if you're the United States? It's about as unlikely as bankrupting a casino.
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
OBJECTION! Requires actual congressional oversight or a functional DOJ.
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Office - Nailed It
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is f’d up!
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 06/10/2026
Featuring a cameo by @peoplesfabric.bsky.social
Screenshot of arrest video on propublica site:

Journalist Steve Held said he was filming federal agents making an arrest when the agents grabbed him. He reported in a lawsuit last year that he was tackled, thrown to the ground, handcuffed and taken into ICE’s Broadview Processing Center in Illinois. He was released hours later without charges.
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mini-Me's Sarcastic "Right..." Reaction
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Always appreciate it when a Democrat talks like a normal person. What I also want to hear from @ossoff.bsky.social is his plan for accountability for all the crime-doers. To echo @vermontgmg.bsky.social make criming criminal again.
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Free demon blasters to the first 100 people through the doors”
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22/09/2026
Byron Donalds removed every mention of Trump and his endorsement from his website. What happened ;/
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Chickens Chasing in Dirt Field
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The abject failure of current congressional oversight in real time…🤦‍♂️
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
3.3 million views already, which is significantly more than the normal audience for Kimmel on ABC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yes, the Army Secretary’s resignation is a big deal. Maybe bigger is that this leaves the Army with NO congress-approved civilian or military leaders. Danger: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Exclusive | Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth
With Dan Driscoll’s departure, the Army will lack top Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 01/09/2026
‘A rise in real yields of this size has, in the past, consistently pulled money out of risk and ended the cycle. This time it has not — at least yet. That is a sign not of a permanently higher plateau in profits but of the extraordinary way the boom was being paid for.’ www.ft.com/content/b189...
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How to understand the current puzzle in bonds and equities
Like every bubble, the important point is how the AI boom is being financed
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE: A bombshell whistleblower complaint, submitted to Sen. Richard Blumenthal's office, reveals that the U.S. Postal Service allegedly kept building a new system to restrict mail-in ballots even after federal courts ordered it to stop it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySb4...
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BREAKING: Whistleblower Exposes Trump's Secret USPS Plan to Reject Thousands of Ballots at Once
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/09/2026
🎥 NEW: Marc Elias is breaking down two major allegations from a bombshell whistleblower complaint 👇 1️⃣ USPS defied court orders while developing its new mail ballot portal. 2️⃣ The system is designed so that if just one ballot in a batch of thousands can't be verified, the entire batch gets rejected.
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BREAKING: Whistleblower Exposes Trump's Secret USPS Plan to Reject Thousands of Ballots at Once
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/08/2026
BREAKING: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll RESIGNS. Driscoll is the guy Buria told to approve certain firings because "Trump won't want to stand next to Black female officers." The Army now has ZERO Senate-confirmed civilian or military leaders. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Exclusive | Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth
Dan Driscoll had a close relationship with ousted Army chief of staff.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
While most obsess over shiny object stuff (Lake America, etc), consequential action of this sort get less attention
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Smart money says “new private company” = run by Trump family.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As expected, the suspension of voters in Texas was very carefully crafted to target Democratic voters in major Democratic centers. This is how the Texas GOP controls the state: by insuring that it has the lowest levels of voter participation in the entire developed world.
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Texas Has Suspended More Than 1 Million Voters Ahead of Senate Race
If you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it.
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Seems fair…
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is, bar none, the stupidest fuckung thing I’ve ever heard. And the idea that there’s nobody in the chain of command - civilian or military - with enough courage to say so is a disgrace.
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Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences
The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
As I have been showing, this entire fraudulent Fraud Task Force is an attempt to defund (and criminalize) Blue States and distract from Trump's far bigger corruption. The director for it, Scott Brady, is the guy who criminally framed Joe Biden.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You know how self-imagined libertarian millionaires like to pretend they could privatize everything, including the Fire Department? The tech billionaire Trump put in charge of Natural Resources shows how that goes. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked agency staff last month to escalate the amount of aircraft at a seven-acre fire that had started near his mega-ranch in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest, according to two Forest Service officials familiar with the matter.

Boren, a tech billionaire and Trump appointee, oversees about 200 million acres of national forest and public land. He also owns thousands of acres in Idaho, including the 480-acre Hell Roaring Ranch situated within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. And before his current role, Boren has clashed with the Forest Service numerous times over the years.

On July 12, what began as an unattended campfire grew into the Cabin Creek Fire, which spread to a few acres on a ridge in the Sawtooth Forest. While at his ranch, Boren called Forest Service officials in the Sawtooth Forest at the regional level and national operations in Washington multiple times to question why there weren’t more aircraft battling the fire, according to one Forest Service official with knowledge of the situation. This official, who like several others interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, said Boren asked when more assets would arrive. Two other agency officials said he called those offices, including at least once in the middle of the night.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
the Trump administration is objectively pro-sexual abuse and domestic violence
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Never forget that Trump purged NSC’s top Iran expert last year bc Laura Loomer told him to.
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Waiting for video tape from My Pillow Guy…🙄
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
For decades, Democrats did Republicans a favor no one thanked them for. They blocked cuts like this before red-state voters ever felt them. That era is over. This time the bill passed, and the pain must land on the cynical Republicans who voted for it.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Anthropic's CEO says AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Victorian bootmakers suggest a different possibility. A story about sewing machines, economics, and why history can help us think more clearly about AI. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-victo...
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What Bootmakers Can Teach Us About AI
Anthropic's CEO warns AI could erase half of entry-level jobs. Victorian England suggests a different possibility.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Predictably, the collapse of local news is leaving a gap being filled by propaganda in news drag. open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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Senate Republicans launch network of fake news sites
One Nation, the Senate GOP's primary dark money group, is producing propaganda masquerading as journalism.
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Spit Coffee
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The lack of self-awareness is off the charts.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
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Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Trump family said they were “debanked” for political reasons after Jan. 6—and used that to justify going hard into crypto. Turns out Capital One flagged them for money laundering. And then Blanche wrote the memo shielding the Trump family from IRS audits? Hm.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
From Trump on down, they all lied.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...
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We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism
It’s all there in a new CNN poll, and it’s heartening to see: Large majorities are sick of Donald Trump’s vanity, venality, and megalomania.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Lmao this is as close as you'll get to "everything that guy just said was bullshit" from the chief economist at JP Morgan talking about the Fed chair
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Would be nice if there were consequences public officials for lying…
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Obviously hasn’t read job description
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Brandon @ Crucible of Thought (@crucible_of_thought) on Threads
I'm a former Navy flight test engineer who worked with F-18 pilots for 35 years, including Top Gun and Naval Test Pilot School pilots (the "best of the best"). Let me explain why this Blue Angels mane...
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Accurate
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
One thing I really like about Ossoff is his seriousness. He's genuinely disgusted here, not merely camera-disgusted.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/07/2026
Reminder: As DNI, Gabbard commissioned two reports from firms who examined voting machines. Both reports say there was no voter fraud in 2020. Trump is blocking the release of those reports. Gabbard briefed the White House. She no longer works at DNI.
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🤔…
🤔 Wondering if they’re connected…
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Pinocchio's Nose Grows
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thorgi56.bsky.social @thorgi56.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Nailed it 👇🏼
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus. 1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen. 2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus. 3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
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MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections
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