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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Department Of Greedy dipshits who couldn’t run a food truck let alone an Efficient government
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Adele Sneddon @adelesneddon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Absolutely. Europe needs to get over the denial stage of grief for the US of old fast and get to the anger/acceptance/action phase without delay (skip the bargaining/depression phases) - I hope yesterday's disgusting remarks on Ukraine by Trump put a fire under leaders to act.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
how is it that he manages to look like a werewolf AND a vampire
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Utter failure to grasp what we are facing www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u... 1. People lack the framework to recognize an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order 2. The lack of elites *acting* like point 1 is true makes it illegible. Without Ds behaving as if it's a crisis, it's not a crisis.
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An Unchecked Trump Rapidly Remakes U.S. Government and Foreign Policy
The president’s swift moves underscore the confidence of an administration with a much firmer grip on the levers of government than during his first term.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.
Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 31/01/2025
@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
BREAKING: AOC blames crash on Trump / Elon “I represent LGA Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week. Air traffic controllers, already understaffed, got Trump’s “buyout” this wk with a 1 wk ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI - it’s him. And Elon too.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
if dems dont all just blame trump for this and fill the void, the voters that decide elections will think the plane crashed bc of dei
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Corruption is the most important story in the world, part 188
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
So we got a two hour long lecture today on achievement, merit and excellence from a one season reality show star and a drunk who bankrupted every organization he ever ran.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's not not his fault
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The media has failed the public on a crucial matter: the derangement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Often he is described in news reports as a vaccine skeptic, when he is far more than that. He is an extreme vaccine opponent.
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The madness of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The depth of his extremism has not been fully conveyed to the public.
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Chris Blackton @chrisblackton.me · 30/01/2025
And a note to the press- It's not "do you have any comment?" it's "EXPLAIN HOW THIS ISN'T YOUR FAULT"
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Stoned Feminist 👻 Spooky Version @ladylinds.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
NYT headline: Trumps unorthodox approach to air safety is what we need right now
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Ben Coccio @bencoccio.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“In A Gutsy Move, The Administration Shakes Up The Air Safety Industry”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025
only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Trump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee, Fires Heads Of TSA, Coast Guard
The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's cool how any other president posting "bad situation...NOT GOOD!!" about a catastrophe would have wall-to-wall press coverage about how he has to resign bc he's an illiterate caveman here by mistake, but for trump it won't even be covered at all– it would be unfair to our new god
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
this is the president of the United States in a crisis I just
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Trump is not a strong president. He is a weak president. He has authoritarian tendencies, but he’s weak. He’s mentally weak. He is vulnerable to all sorts of manipulation." On the pod, @timothynoah.bsky.social is good on why Trump's hold on power is actually fragile newrepublic.com/article/1909...
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“A Weak President”: Trump’s Chaos Strategy Implodes in Epic OMB Fiasco
As Trump backtracks on his funding freeze, the author of a new piece on his “chaos strategy” explains why this is already failing—and how it reveals him as both authoritarian and weak.
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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#facts
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The President is asking rhetorical questions about what federal government aircraft was doing, as if there's someone else who is supposed to have the answer. This is his responsibility. If he doesn't even know the answers, it's because he and his unqualified appointees are incompetent.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Just a guy watching tv and posting, with no sense that he’s personally responsible for massively disrupting most of the institutions involved and the lives of their personnel
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Mr Denmore @mrdenmore.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’m more disappointed in Albo than most. But the notion that the illiterate, racist thug and Queensland ex-cop Dutton would be a better PM is a joke. Dutton is a flake, an inch-deep cynical opportunist funded by fascists like Gina Rinehart. He needs to be kicked into the dustbin of history.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Endorse
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Dóra Papp🇭🇺 @dorapapp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In May 2023 several of my novels got wrapped in plastic in bookshops, courtesy of the child protection law in #Hungary. One of my #youngadult #books had been on the shelves for 8 years before that law. Shops are afraid of the fine, which they can get because of ONE gay side character. #booksky #art
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
no human, however media literate, can conceivably digest news at the pace it is being created by the white house
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Here’s a tip for how this all works. First they go after those they hate, then those who don’t actively support them, then those who do but are not useful for them keeping power, then those who are useful but not in the most loyal faction, then…
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I love #BlueSky. I really wish it had a Trending Australian News feed featuring independent news outlets and commentators. Could that be a thing? Maybe even an Asia-Pacific News Feed with reports from leading Asia-Pacific journals. #auspol #AusVotes2025 #JournalismMatters
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 28/01/2025
Rep. Rich McCormick defends the potential impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch.
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Republican congressman suggests some children receiving free school lunches should work at McDonald’s instead
Rep. Rich McCormick said that the freeze on federal funding would allow the government to do a top-down review of programs including free school lunches.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Maybe stop voting to confirm his nominees
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Ross Gittins today in the Nine papers #auspol
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This attitude discourages action even in the midst of emergencies so, while pretending to be on the side of many good things, it's on the side of them failing.
Naïve cynics shoot down possibilities, including the possibility of exploring the full complexity of any situation. They take aim at the less cynical, so that cynicism becomes a defensive posture and an avoidance of dissent. They recruit through brutality. If you set purity and perfection as your goals, you have an almost foolproof system according to which everything will necessarily fall short. But expecting perfection is naïve; failing to perceive value by using an impossible standard of measure is even more so. Cynics are often disappointed idealists and upholders of unrealistic standards. They are uncomfortable with victories, because victories are almost always temporary, incomplete, and compromised — but also because the openness of hope is dangerous, and in war, self-defense comes first. Naïve cynicism is absolutist; its practitioners assume that anything you don’t deplore you wholeheartedly endorse. But denouncing anything less than perfection as morally compromising means pursuing aggrandizement of the self, not engagement with a place or system or community, as the highest priority.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Anyway, congratulations to those in the media who steadfastly refuse to speak truth to power because “balance”
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
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Scunnert AF 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @skyeselkie.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
What is this shit?
Tvguide screenshot showing Channel 9 running “Trump’s Triumph: Week 1”
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@cohencidents.bsky.social @cohencidents.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
For all of those who have posted my cartoon with my signature cut off, here is the original.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
And after everything Ted Cruz has done for him
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025
This is how you do it...
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
i’ve long said you won’t find much more consistency on the right than “[slur] go home” but it’s amazing every time. the baby brain that thinks the united nations exists to control the united states, and not the other way around. it’s located *in america* guys holy shit
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bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
it’s me, the america first guy, making sure china knows its place in the world by ceding all the international organizations that america set up to maintain its hegemony
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Americans are getting a crash course on what things look like when autocrats consolidate power and why it’s hard to beat them in the ballot box when every organization controlling speech is aligned with the ruling party.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If she can do it, we can all do it.
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Bill Motz @billmotz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Can you imagine the courage it took to preach this message directly to the president? This is what a follower of Jesus looks like. (Partial transcript below.)
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1.21.25 Homily by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde
YouTube video by Washington National Cathedral
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