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Wendy McRoberts @wendy-mc.bsky.social · 5h

It’s glorious! Texas GOP is in trouble now. No bots for Paxton is showing already.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Truly insane post from The Federalist, which includes the recommendation that the government pressure tech companies to limit access to BlueSky because of the reaction to Kirk's death thefederalist.com/2025/09/15/w...

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Question: When in the actual fuck, as a country, did we decide that our government gets to demand that we mourn someone in some particular way?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad. Or wasn't, until now.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/09/2025

The story about Trump ordering the removal of references to slavery from national Parks is being censored on here by the moderation service because it wrongly labeled the photo of an enslaved person with scars from being whipped on their back as "self harm."

Alt text: A screenshot of a social media post by Kara Swisher. The post shares a Washington Post article titled “National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars,” with the subtext: “The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks.” The image preview shows a historic photograph of an enslaved man’s back covered in deep scars from whipping. The post caption reads: “Truly Orwellian.” The interface shows icons for replies, retweets, and likes.

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 16/09/2025

Scapegoating trans and nonbinary folks is right out of the authoritarian playbook to gain and consolidate power. Here’s how to fight back against the scapegoating to protect our communities and defeat the authoritarian threat. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/protecting…

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Wendy McRoberts @wendy-mc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Huh. Sadly that makes me wonder if he was becoming more controversial because it made him more popular? I hope not.

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Wendy McRoberts @wendy-mc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I heard the kid isn’t talking and is in a special unit. Suicidal?

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Wendy McRoberts @wendy-mc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Never heard of transtifa and I’m a loud mouth Mama Bear. This is terrifying.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

“But several things can be true at the same time: (1) Political violence is never acceptable and needs to be condemned. (2) Political violence must not be the pretext for silencing political speech. (3) It’s more important than ever to push back against autocracy…” open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Now Is Not the Moment to Fall Silent

Call Fascism, "fascism". And hate, "hate".

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15/09/2025

State AGs have released a video saying that they "will do whatever it takes" to protect trans people in their states. While the message is admirable, they need to take the one step they have not yet: Sue the hospitals that capitulate to Trump, violating state law.

youtube.com

"We Have Your Back:" A Message to Trans Students from State Attorneys General

YouTube video by National Women's Law Center

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2025

Empires decline all the time, for all kinds of reasons, but our present moment will be remembered in history books for the sheer volume of *voluntary & pointless self-imposed damage*. We're systematically dismantling what made us great, for no reason! Genuinely, with no rationale! It's wild.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2025

"We're going to go after the NGO Networks" JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15/09/2025

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a right-wing extremist, right-wing extremist groups wouldn’t be marching to honor him.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2025

They're turning this into their Reichstag fire and they're openly admitting it.

On Monday, two senior administration officials, who spoke anonymously to describe the internal planning, said that cabinet secretaries and federal department heads were working to identify organizations that funded or supported violence against conservatives. The goal, they said, was to categorize left-wing activity that led to violence as domestic terrorism, an escalation that critics said could lay the groundwork for crushing anti-conservative dissent more broadly.

Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Mr. Kirk’s podcast, “The Charlie Kirk Show,” to lay out their plans.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

New shirts available. "Hateful words lead to hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions." All proceeds will go to Holocaust survivor-led, digital campaign, #ItStartedWithWords. cottonbureau.com/p/2K3RYG/shi...

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Hateful by Matthew Dowd

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2025

You're watching the death of democracy in real time. Fascism isn't coming, it is here. If you survive it, you will be forever asked by future generations what you did in these moments. Were you speaking out against it or quietly hoping it will just go away on its own.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/09/2025

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

As @shannonrwatts.bsky.social pointed out, where's the Democrats Leadership's response to JD Vance and the Trump Administration essentially declaring war on the majority of America? Debunking all his lies? Calling out right-wing terror? Anything? Anything at all? Bueller...Bueller?

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It’s telling that it’s mainly cis, straight, able-bodied people crying, “How dare someone lose their life over politics!” That reaction shows they’ve never had skin in the game. For them, politics is abstract. For the rest of us, politics is survival—how we navigate the world just to stay alive.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Calling it now: almost all the coming crackdown on progressive groups will be focused on those that provide funding, resources, research, knowledge, or assistance of other kinds to Democratic candidates, voters, and institutions focused on winning the midterm elections. An authoritarian crackdown.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 15/09/2025

Siri what is a mistrial

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

Stone, 45, said he lost his government contracting job abruptly in July and had been hoping to find another position in the Washington, D.C. area. But so far, he has not been able to do so.

"I pressed ahead with the campaign, expecting it to be a short-term issue," Stone said in an email to the Prince William Times. "But now that our family budget is tight due to no income, I have to do what's best for my family and take the job I'm offered."

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 11/09/2025

Remember when Trump campaigned about costs? And instead decided to be a tin-pot tyrant and corrupt self-dealer. Costs worsen.

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Exclusive | Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years

Insurers say that the rising premiums are driven by growing healthcare costs.

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Tom Moore @thmoore.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Don’t ever let the Trump Administration tell you they support the First Amendment. This is a shocking violation. The United States Government has no authority to tell people in this country what to say or not say.

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State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau posted the warning on Thursday.

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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 11/09/2025

Ah yes, lets punish a nation for following their laws. JFC Rubio is a pathetic fuck.

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

NEW @motherjones.com: Pardoned J6ers are using Kirk's killing to call for civil war Stewart Rhodes will rebuild Oath Keepers; Proud Boys call for "retribution"; & ex-insurrectionists are coming "out of retirement." Experts fear they could incite others to violence. W/ @kieraevebutler.bsky.social:

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Pardoned insurrectionists are using Charlie Kirk’s death to call for civil war

“Charlie Kirk's assassination pulled me out of retirement. More work must be done.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

So the Trump administration *did* intervene to make sure that an Israeli pedophile fled American law enforcement. Protecting people who molest children appears to be the only thing this administration really cares about--other than pretending Donald wasn't totally shellacked by Putin in Alaska.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Russian tanks are now flying the American flag. Disgraceful.

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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The quickest way out is to come out as trans and request immediate administrative leave pending separation. Bypasses UCMJ, the courts seem on upholding this, and the heads of these state guards and the DOD are champing at the bit to go after trans service members.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Why does he keep saying he’s ended six wars? What the hell is he talking about?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2025

GLENN: You look fabulous in that suit TRUMP: That's the one that attacked you last time ZELENSKYY: I remember that. You're in the same suit. I changed mine.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2025

Trump to Zelenskyy: "During the war you can't have elections? So let me just see -- three and a half years from me, if we happen to be in a way with somebody, no more elections. That's good."

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/08/2025

Friday: Trump says Putin claims voting by mail cannot be fair and it's how the 2020 was purportedly "rigged" against him Today: Trump announces executive order to ban mail voting and also voting machines Also today: Newsmax pays Dominion $67 million to avoid trial for lying about voting machines

Aaron Rupar O @atrupar.com
Trump: "Vladimir Putin said something- one of the most interesting things. He said 'your election was rigged because you have mail in voting. It's impossible to have mail in voting & have honest elections.' He said that to me because we talked about 2020. He said, 'you won that election by so much'"
FOX
NEWS
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP
FOLLOWING HIS MEETING WITH PUTIN
BREAKING NEWS
August 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonald Trump
I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we're at it, Highly
"Inaccurate," Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.
Remember, the States are merely an "agent" for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them, FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY, to do. With their HORRIBLE Radical Left policies, like Open Borders, Men Playing in Women's Sports, Transgender and "WOKE" for everyone, and so much more, Democrats are virtually Unelectable without using this completely disproven Mail-In SCAM. ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS. I, AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL TO BRING HONESTY AND INTEGRITY BACK TO OUR ELECTIONS. THE MAIL-IN BALLOT HOAX, USING VOTING MACHINES THAT ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER, MUST END, NOW!!! REMEMBER, WITHOUT FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS, AND STRONG AND POWERFUL BORDERS, YOU DON'T HAVE EVEN A SEMBLANCE OF A COUNTRY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage
UPDATED AUGUST 18, 2025 • 11:52 AM ET
By Maddy Lauria

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Defending his D.C. actions, Trump says that someone — suggests a Democrat — called him up and told him, "My wife and I went out for dinner for the first time in four years." Trump continues, "[A]nd I did that in four days." I know it's constant, but this man just lies nonstop.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

i don't often listen to him live because it's such obvious mush, but, my god, he's a brain-damaged fool

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Andy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The most telling thing to come from this bonkers presser is Trump saying he has to call Putin as soon as the summit is over. Look, I get it, the boss wants an immediate update...

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

One step away from if you end elections you're not going to have any Democrats get elected Giving the whole vote suppression game away

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 18/08/2025

Here’s that one moment in the Oval Office meeting just now that I hope doesn’t come back to haunt Americans.

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Wendy McRoberts @wendy-mc.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This press conference is unreal. He’s unraveling hard. Wait until he find out even Russia has mail in voting. Maybe he’ll learn Putin is TELLING him he’s playing him for a fool.

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Wendy McRoberts @wendy-mc.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Mama bears aren’t afraid to SPEAK UP. DO IT OR FUCK OFF, the time for political jockeying is OVER! Sincerely, “low information, Chardonnay sipping, suburban housewife problem” in RED HAT HELL TEXAS! Feel free to quote me on this bullshit pussification of STANDING UP!

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