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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why they don't make a lot of things an issue is beyond me. Jobs, fascism, ICE, Natalie, Russia, pedophilia, etc.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reporters need to start responding: "No, you did not inherit higher prices, Mr. Trump. And, no, you have not brought those prices down. Why are you being so brazenly dishonest to the American people? You think they never visit stores and gas stations?"
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We squander our allies, our economy, our men & women in uniform, and Trump does not even have the respect to tell US why? Too much coverage gets lost in weeds of the fiasco, but the bottom line is that this war is insane, absolutely bonkers. And everyone responsible for it should be held to account.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Curious why did Garland allow MAGA/Russian assets like Durham to operate within the department? He allowed Durham to file dishonest prosecutions and release propaganda reports in his department. Sure courts are slow, but he was a coward who hid behind that, and allowed the insurrectionists to win.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I would love to debate this woman. Imagine her citing Genesis, a book which claims her source of morality murdered every fetus, infant and child on the face of the earth, as an argument against abortion.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He bankrupted the GM Building, one of the best pieces of real estate in Manhattan. Typical Trump, his insurance company partner put up 97% of the money that was lost.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.
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Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump has no foreign policy other than bribing countries for personal gain. That's the truth, if you don't report everything through that lens you're lying to readers.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Infuriating when they claim to report what he thinks, when what they're reporting is what some lackey wants us to think he thinks.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They can go back to attacking Democrats for not fixing what Republicans broke quickly enough. "The economy added 500,000 jobs last month, fueling concerns of overheating and higher rates..."
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nobody critiqued LB better than "Slacktivist." The books are a window into the depraved worldview of dispensationalist theology. Humanity is theater for a vengeful God, peace is a trick of the devil, misuse and misinterpretation of the Bible.
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Rebecca Bennett @rebeccabennettforcongress.com · 19/09/2026
Gold Star families made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. It should go without saying that they deserve every benefit they're entitled to. What the White House is doing by not even acknowledging Americans who died in the line of duty is unacceptable.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
True, and the media fails by not asking details of how these posts are made. Does Donald type them? Does Natalie or someone else? Are they all his words or does anyone ever suggest topics? What device does he use? All important national security questions go unasked.
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel...
Just once in my life I would like to see a Democrat being interviewed by right wing media like Fox News or right wing media like every single other outlet treat their questions with the contempt they deserve. I know it's not going to fix everything or maybe even anything but how much coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think it would inspire if when asked about "boys in girls sports" or some other stupid fucking culture war distraction one of them finally said "What the fuck are you talking about man? You sound like a dumb asshole right now."

What's the worst that's going to happen the New York Times is gonna work overtime to make sure you don't get elected? They were already doing that buddy.

You simply say "Are you stupid? Do you think I am stupid? And do you think all of the people watching at home are stupid? Everyone sees through what you are doing. Using one group as a scapegoat for the very real problems everyone has – all caused by Republicans by the way – unlike this fake one you have made up. Dumb asshole."

Just go on the attack for once instead of sitting there trying to please your enemy who is in the process of trying to humiliate you.

And if you want to say something else true that almost no Democrat ever says for some reason you can top it off with a “Every single Republican in our lifetime has sought to make our lives worse in every way possible. I’d like to try to stop that.”
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Republicans attack reporters who ask them tough questions, so they don't do it. Democrats should learn after all these years.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A close family member of mine didn't vaccinate any of her kids in that period. Grew up NYC area, not a weirdo in any sense except being vulnerable to propaganda.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is how all Dems should respond to these bad faith questions!
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I bet Kushner and Witkoff have been promised a cut of whatever land they can persuade Ukraine to give up.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I always think Hassett is the stupidest, most dishonest person in the administration. Until Hegseth opens his mouth. Then RFK, Jr. finds a mic. Then Sean Duffy appears in my feed. Then Lutnick speaks. But only till Markwayne talks. Then I remember: NO ONE is a stupid and dishonest as Trump himself.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Because it's a Russian op.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Anything not reported through that lens is a lie.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This has as much chance of happening as the Mets winning the world series. The press is never going to report the truth, that everything Trump and cronies say is just meant to sound good in the minute they say it. Never an intention to convey truth or reality.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I used this analogy the other day, Trump every day acts more like Jim Jones. And he's got aides willing to kill for him.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Probably, but there should be reporting about the details. Who is doing this? What does that say about the competence of the president and so on. Not a joke, this is about national security.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In all seriousness, the press should be asking details about who is actually posting this stuff, who is thinking it up, executing it and so on. Chances Trump can physically read screens and type is negligible, so who is doing this? That there r no stories abt something so important is a huge failure
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The NYT ran an article in April raising questions about Trump’s mental status, quoting people calling him “clearly insane,” “an extremely sick person,” “unhinged,” “out of control,” “batshit crazy,” and “a genocidal lunatic.” Then they never mentioned it again. presswatchers.org/2026/04/new-...
presswatchers.org
New York Times finally reports on concerns that Trump is ‘clearly insane’ | Press Watch
That’s a big deal. But now what? It’s more than a one-day story.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The illegal boat strikes began exactly one year ago today. The boat strikes weren’t really about stopping drugs. They were about testing for compliance to see who would obey illegal orders & purge objectors. Trump was normalizing his ability to smite anyone—like the angry God of the Old Testament.🧵
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why don't you cover items of national interest, like who writes Trump’s posts? Is it Natalie? Is Mitch McConnell alive? Why is the entire cabinet in the Epstein files? Are our military bases in the Middle East destroyed? I could go on all day with important issues you are afraid to report.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Is anyone in the press going to ask Natalie if she just types whatever she's told by Trump (or whomever) or if these insane posts are her ideas? This is a serious issue of national interest and not a single question ever gets asked about it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
JD Vance’s public position, core to his vision for the country, is that JD Vance’s wife and kids aren’t real Americans, that they are by definition lesser than any white “heritage American,” and the govt should treat them and anyone like them as second class. Why wouldn’t that be a campaign issue?
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I think identification w/the GOP for white Christian women goes beyond individual issues. Liberals are demonized in evangelical churches, years/decades of this and people despise them bc they're supposed to. Liberals question doctrine, that's evil. But Trump’s so bad it's turning some from the GOP
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hegseth is systematically destroying and dismantling the greatest military force in the world. Another great day for Putin and Xi.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It genuinely breaks my brain that a third of the country can look at Trump, a guy who is basically a walking, breathing fraud and the most shameless liar in history, and somehow buy what he’s selling while he picks their pockets in broad daylight.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I was one of those kids 50 years ago (minus cargo pants). I think it's funny anyone would think or write about cross country. There's no glory in being a high school's star distance runner. But running fast distance races isn't easy!
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The sad thing is the dementia patient won't be impeached and Welker will calibrate future questions to avoid this type of criticism. Dems will spend months forced to answer questions about a random podcaster. No issues affecting the public interest will be discussed at all on the "news."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We're deep into Mad King territory here and yet there will still be people on the Sunday shows today pretending that the president isn't a mentally deranged despot
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I assume you mean after and before pictures?
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Someone should attack these idiotic questioners, gossip instead of issues that impact the public. The audience in her mind is her circle of friends, not the public.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Every election last half century the press is laser focused on some bogus accusation against Democrats while ignoring real Republican scandals. Allows them to feel tough because they're too cowardly to face GOP attacks and Dems don't fight back.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely right from a housing researcher. Right now rent stabilized apartments in NYC are seeing expenses go up and income staying flat. And rent collections are among the worst in the country in NYC. On the road to ruin.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just another thing that Democratic leaders should talk about every day but don't. Why doesn't the DNC make a chart with annual job growth blue vs red president and plaster it everywhere?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If voters do not viscerally grasp the breadth and severity of the problems Trump has caused, they may not understand the urgency and scale of what it will take to fix them. presswatchers.org/2026/08/norm...
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Normalizing Trump doesn't just fail readers — it jeopardizes our future | Press Watch
If voters aren’t sufficiently alarmed, they may not recognize the need for emergency action once he is gone. I have some suggestions.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Steve, former business journalist here, you are just about the only real journalist willing to speak the truth. Sanewashing insanity is a form of lying. I always thought my job was presenting an accurate picture of my beat to the audience, all I see these days is the Emperor's New Clothes.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Exactly, Dem leaders should hold a daily press conference to mock the daiper baby.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Any journalist who treats this as straight news should resign in shame.
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tonio5k.bsky.social @tonio5k.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
How are we going to think up 50 Trump state names in only two years?
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