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Rich Westerman

@zookarama.bsky.social
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Geezer, animal fan, political junkee, I miss the Parrot Room

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 22/12/2025
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
So the sources “risked their lives” to speak with 60 Minutes about this concentration camp we’re sending random people to, and Bari killed the story because the Trump administration refused an interview. Am I missing something??
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
As long as Bari remains in charge no one should be considering CBS as a credible, fair and balanced news network.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Link to my story
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BREAKING: 60 Minutes Correspondent Says Trump Story Was Spiked For Political Reasons
In an email to her colleagues, Sharyn Alfonsi said that CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss spiked a story about the Trump administration and El Salvador prisons for political reasons.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
An alleged violation of the “spirit and the letter of the law” Partial release of Epstein files further fuels controversy ===> www.youtube.com/shorts/IWS1r...
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“Violation of the spirit & letter of the law” - Release of Epstein files further fuels controversy
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
5/ hahahaha and still more
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Okay first this is extremely funny and just as predictable. Notable, can you Imagine what you’d have to get in a segment on CECOT to think wow, Trump comes out of this torture gulag thing looking pretty good! lol. Predictable, stupid, absurd.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
lol
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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
For too long, our country has expected care to happen for free or for pennies on the dollar. That is morally wrong and economically stupid. Investing in care is a strategic move to grow our population and economy. It’s time we change how we value our care providers.
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Rich Westerman @zookarama.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Imagine the job of tr*mp's handlers today. "No, you can't post that about Rob Reiner." "You can't post that either!" He's gonna post it anyway.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Everyone knows Hakeem Jeffries is poised to waltz into the speakership. What this piece presupposes is: maybe he shouldn’t? www.offmessage.net/p/crisis-of-...
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Crisis Of Confidence
Hakeem Jeffries will almost certainly become House speaker. Should he, though?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Feverishly working on this
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
He gets very aroused talking about this sort of thing. The more lurid the better.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/12/2025
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on MTG's break with Trump: "The Democrats immediately start hand-wringing in some weird internecine conversation about, 'do we welcome her into the tent? What do we do?' And I'm like, What are you talking about? What insane planet do you live on?!"
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The Epstein Scandal Is The Biggest Political Cover-Up In Modern History I appeared on Piers Morgan's show today with MAGA hacks who, for the first time, couldn't spin, lie, or shamelessly obfuscate for Trump, b/c they know he's in the Epstein Files, & he's stuck. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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The Epstein Scandal Is The Biggest Political Cover-Up In Modern History
I appeared on Piers Morgan show today with MAGA hacks who, for the first time, couldn't spin, lie, or shamelessly obfuscate for Trump, because they know he's in the Epstein Files, and he's stuck.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The question everyone is asking right now is this: NYT had deep access into all of this in real time and reported none of it. Why? In consequence, no NYT reporting on this subject is trustworthy.
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After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
"The New York Police Department said Saturday afternoon that it had not made any protest-related arrests. The D.C. police also said Saturday afternoon that it had made no protest-related arrests."
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Loved joining the 49th Ward Democrats, @stephanieskora.bsky.social and Kelly Cassidy's petitioning event today at Jarvis Square Tavern after No Kings! Only a few more weeks to sign those petitions, get out there and support local candidates you want to see on the ballot 🗳️
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Rich Westerman @zookarama.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In deep red Kankakee County, IL.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Seems important that the Speaker of the House does not even try to dispute that the president is unwell.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 02/10/2025
“A lot of folks on your side are *too*”: so Johnson agrees that the president of the United States is unwell? Quite an admission, Mr. Speaker.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2025
Rieckhoff: A vet on CNN said we haven’t fought to win in 20 years. I said, I was fighting to win. You were fighting to win. Kander: That shit pisses me off. Rieckhoff: He said he meant the generals. Which one? It’s boogeymen—and now cosplay warriors who never served join ICE to bully immigrants.
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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Three weeks ago, NOVA elected @jameswalkinshaw.bsky.social and sent a message to the country: Virginia won’t settle for the MAGA Republican agenda anymore. On November 4th, the rest of the Commonwealth will join them by electing Democrats up and down the ballot. Virginia, let's do this.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
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Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamaggie.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The best of “are we doing this right, MAGA?”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
It is objectively extremely alarming that the top officials of a presidential administration unabashedly ascribe to ultra-radical white nationalist and authoritarian ideas, but our political class can’t find a way to metabolize that fact without sounding partisan, so it’s treated as a curiosity
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Again, if you actually pay attention to the kind of material that Vance and Miller and their neo-Nazi toadies interact with online it is extremely obvious why they’re invading DC. But our press has consistently decided the implications are too alarming and so they must pretend not to see it
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
And I thought his traitorous betrayal in 2018 in Helsinki was a sickening disgrace. Trump always finds a way to top himself.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/08/2025
laura loomer serving as president along with stephen miller and russell vought
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Hoagie assault guy, if convicted, will be punished more strongly than J6 folks who beat police officers with poles and other objects and are now walking free (and probably joining CBP)
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“I heard [Maxwell] tell another inmate that she had dirt on Trump and that it was going to get her a pardon from Biden. I guess Biden's camp just didn't want to go down that route.”
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Kimberley @kims-sky.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Is he leaving? Crime in DC Hits 30 Year Low!
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Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low
Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) a...
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Check the report the FBI release just 5 days ago. bsky.app/profile/plai...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
This Iranian man is an absolute angel. He feeds street dogs every day and gives them so much love. I wish Iran weren’t cut off from the global finance system, I would send him money every day. IG: abas_toosi
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
STOP TALKING ABOUT EPSTEIN!!
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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Jesse Wells is really the best we have right now and it's not even close. He has taken protest singing to a whole new level just when we need it. bsky.app/profile/mazo...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
He refused to even answer a question about it. Said it wasn’t important and attacked the reporter.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/07/2025
There are consequences for cynically peddling conspiracy theories to the rubes.
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MAGA World’s Mega Meltdown Over Latest Epstein Flop
The online right wants the attorney general fired after being told that the disgraced sex trafficker did not, in fact, have a client list.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Trump regime ICE forces brutally attacked a man who screamed for help at a Walmart in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Walmart staff removed the witness filming, the employees were collaborating with ICE in covering up the incident. #3E #StopICE
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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
🚨The GOP provision to DEFUND Planned Parenthood is staying in the Big Ugly bill. Clinics will shutter. Women will lose access to cancer screenings, birth control, and basic care. I will be forcing a vote to try to strip it out. Fight like hell. We need to kill this bill.
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Courtney Heard 🇨🇦 @godlessmom.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
What the heck is an athesit?
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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The President of the United States is personally enriching himself from his office by selling watches, crypto currency, and now ... perfume. Because there is no bottom to this saga of spontaneous national combustion.
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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can spread the word?
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/06/2025
Huge congratulations to the Pod Save Guys, the Abundance Guys and all the Democratic pundits who suddenly discovered Mamdani and started saying nice things about him less than 36 hours ago as soon as the Polymarket odds shifted - this victory is all you guys, great work
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