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The Venerable Bede

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“All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.” “I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.”

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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 15h
The New Man theory, in somewhat different wrapping…
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 15h
In the Trumpist era, people have to look to their local governments as a counter to a mob boss federal branch.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Birds of a feather…
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow. In new ad, Mike Rogers runs away from Trump's trade war with Canada, declaring: "Canada is not our enemy." Confirms reporting in the piece/thread below on Midwesterners seeing interdependence with Canada as a good thing, repudiating right wing nationalism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=klJO...
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AD: We Need to End The Tariff War — Now
YouTube video by MikeRogers
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Never. Never, ever. Never let these monsters and cowards back away from what they’ve done.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Axiom washing their hands.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😍😍😍
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Even if, in the worst case scenario, Republicans retain control of Congress, Americans will NEVER see that money!
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump, who has long denounced mail-in voting and sought for months to restrict it because, he claims, it is "inherently corrupt," urges Republicans to vote by mail. @timbalk.bsky.social Evan Gorelick www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Trump, Critic of Voting by Mail, Urges Republicans to Do It in Midterms
It was the latest mixed messaging from President Trump, who regularly votes by mail, but has made baseless claims that the practice is “inherently corrupt.”
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
100% pure, unadulterated BS
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
(qutoed in Woodward and Bernstein's “The Final Days,” p. 462)
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With the Village People in the background
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Washington Monument, which Donald will likely soon insist also bear his name…
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hard to disagree with this.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In a moment of radical self-parody, he proclaimed: “The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in—with testosterone testing on top.” charliesykes.substack.com/p/day-one-im...
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Day One: Impeach Pete Hegseth
“No fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos.” But Musk.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
A deep dive into the Baltic states' extensive preparations for a Russian invasion, from @isaacstanbecker who tracks "the emergence of a new order, in which Ukraine matters as much to the security of Europe as the United States" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Baltic States Prepare for War
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But what about, no fringe-nuts?
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hope the right people in the military would refuse to carry out illegal or immoral orders
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news. This was always a bad idea.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rank has its privileges
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let’s remember that Sen. Eric Schmitt is a white nationalist who employs other white nationalists while spreading white nationalist/racist conspiracy theories. missouriindependent.com/2025/09/15/m... White supremacists never fail to demonstrate how they’re inferior:
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What the hell is this, Perry Mason at the carnival? This is some of the worst goddamn lawyering I ever saw. Schmitt is a lawyer!
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The case at Cornell is the kind of higher ed issue in which the DOJ or DOE *should* open a Title IX investigation. In a normal world that’s whst would happen. Instead, we are in the upside down world where you won’t hear a peep from this administration
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is no logic; they’re playing to Trump and his (remaining) hardcore base.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump would throw this whole country under the bus, and everyone in it if he thought it would be of benefit to him. Period, Full Stop
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
True, but with all respects to Canada, that’s a low bar to clear.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To state the obvious, most Americans don’t regard Canada as one of the worst countries in the world. But, fortunately, most Americans don’t see the world through Donald Trump’s eyes…
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😍😍😍
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Understandable why Paul Ryan, for example, now classifies himself as a “classical liberal”, by which he means essentially an old style conservative. Which is far removed from Trumpism…
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kool-Aid…
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👍
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tell them about the very close biochemical and physical relationship between your chickens and T-Rex…
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No way in hell…
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This week, on It's Happening Here, Tom Joscelyn and I discuss Trump's dismissal of AI warnings and rejection of global safeguards, and why treating AI risk as a hoax now seems to be US government policy. And why this is remarkably foolish, reckless and dangerous. open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...
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Trump is Gambling with America’s AI Future
Plus: The president beclowns himself at the United Nations.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The Chinese Communist Party got access to sensitive components of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters. The U.S. got 2 pandas.
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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A salutary tale in How It Happens - institutions actively grant fascism the power it craves before it really holds that power. It happened last time, it happened this time and it will happen next time, whenever and wherever that is. In the meantime, let’s hope the US escapes before it’s too late.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well sir, since you were elected to the presidency twice, even though you only served part of your second term, you are probably ineligible to run again…….But take it to SCOTUS!
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David Springer @davidpspringer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Charlie Sykes (with whom for years I disagreed with politically) continuing to display the Midwestern sensibilities and reasoning that SHOULD inspire the quiet hardworking (no-longer) reluctant middle to finally rise up and slap these MAGA wackos BACK TO THE HOLE from whence they crawled.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can tell you what Xi thinks of the Orange Chicken here
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the examples of expertise you allude to in your book…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🤷‍♂️
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica."
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love it!
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The Venerable Bede @venerablebede-the.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Los desaparecidos…
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