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Alex Marten πŸ‡§πŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΎπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

@amarten.bsky.social

β€œPractice Relentless Decency" Tod Maffin

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Keep in mind, he spent a year living in Iraq in a noncombat role as a Public Affairs officer in 2005-6, back when he was going under the name James David Hamel, the third of his four aliases. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"

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β€œIt didn’t lower your gas prices, but I don’t care”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We took over Venezuela very successfully, and they've sent me as a gift a boatload of a million barrels of oil"

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His colleagues and friends share this grief, and the outrage over both the attempts to smear him and the lack of justice. It will come. We will not forget.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

His brother Eduardo is a fugitive living in Miami. On Sunday I drove round trip to DC from Richmond (5 hours) to cast my vote for Lula. I disagree with many of his policies, but would never vote for a mini-tRump.

Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social

If you’re a rich foreigner with disdain for democracy, welcome to the US! If you work in agriculture or construction, we’ll imprison and deport you (and maybe beat you up for good measure) Shameful. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

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If you’re a rich foreigner with disdain for democracy, welcome to the US! If you work in agriculture or construction, we’ll imprison and deport you (and maybe beat you up for good measure) Shameful. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

β€œBusinessman & politician SimΓ³n Levy,” a Trump ally, β€œclaimed on social media that a US operation was underway to ensure Bolsonaro’s security & identified [Rubio] as its alleged coordinator. Other media…picked up the claims, but none has provided independent evidence confirming Rubio’s…involvement.”

Alex Marten πŸ‡§πŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΎπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ reposted

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Since Ken Paxton was sworn in as the attorney general of Texas, he has taken about 350 trips outside the state with a taxpayer-funded security detail, including 25 to foreign countries, according to a New York Times analysis. nyti.ms/4yOQK5k

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President Trump β€œhas initiated extensive maneuvers to personally profit as a private citizen while wielding the threat of his public power,” Thomas Edsall writes.

nyti.msOpinion | Will Trump Ever Have to Face the Music?The president has initiated extensive maneuvers to personally profit as a private citizen while wielding the threat of his public power.

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Yeah but he's a jerk

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social

Oh, FFS, he's a Yale Law School graduate, he's visited the region multiple times, and he's met with dignitaries from there. Spare me the faux populism.

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Chris Stigall is running to be my next congressional Representative. He is also happy to be endorsed by MO State Representative Chad Perkins. Chad Perkins had sex with an intoxicated teenager while on duty as a police officer before being elected to the statehouse. Birds of a feather…

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By killing the VRA, John Roberts has set the stage for Black voting power to be wiped out at every level of politics. Black people in affected districts will still technically have the right to vote, but no real ability to elect candidates they support and who represent their communities.

motherjones.comJim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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"Trump's DOJ has made one thing clear. They'd rather protect Donald Trump from embarrassment than give the American people the truth about Jeffrey Epstein. Trump doesn't get to bury this." - Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA11) bluevirginia.us/2026/10/tues...

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Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA07)'s far-right-Republican opponent attacks him, predictably, for having @aoc.bsky.social come to campaign. BTW, note how said far-right-Republican keeps calling Eugene "Yevgeny?" Trying to make him appear foreign or whatever? Pathetic. bluevirginia.us/2026/10/tues...

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Healthcare is a changing topic in American politics and the GOP are being left behind.

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FITCH: β€œ.. Fixed investment is forecast to grow 4.8% in 2026 and 4.6% in 2027. Fitch expects the Federal Reserve to raise rates to 4.25% in December and maintain that rate through 2027, sustaining pressure on borrowers refinancing at higher costs.” www.fitchratings.com/research/cor...

Me worry?

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

WARREN PIES: β€œ.. Three things I don't love about the current market set up: 1) Hyperscaler credit spreads have broken above their July (Leopold Liquidation) wides (chart below). 2) Index momentum has stalled and entered a consolidation. 3) Financials/Staples ratio falling apart.”

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I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Mike Rogers believes in government of the billionaires, by the corporations, and for the special interests.

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fucking trash they only can terrorise civilians as they can’t win on battlefield just biological trash #UkrainianView

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com

🚨 BREAKING: A Russian drone struck an "Epicentr" hypermarket in Poltava, sparking a large fire and injuring a 52-year-old woman. Russian forces attacked other Epicentr retail locations across Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Vinnytsia over the last 24 hours.

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Finally, I've finished my second move in 2 months (tnx to russians). And this is what my first evening walk in ages sounded like (again, tnx to russians). Btw, my friend (whose voice you can hear) was returned in the recent POW exchange. #Ukrainianview

War Crimes!

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Elon Musk is despicable. Because he is a crazy white supremacist, he killed hundreds of thousands of people in Africa by having his DOGE teens cut aid for food and medicine. And because he is a crazy authoritarian, he has now killed Ukrainians by hindering their ability to anticipate air strikes.

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Watch Trump attack Zelensky (for Putin) β€” and try to pin high diesel prices on him πŸ€₯

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Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

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Trump doesn't pay taxes. So why should you? Trump pulled in $1.4bn from crypto grifts in 2025, plus more than $200mn from real estate, and faced a projected tax bill north of $500mn. So his company donated the "development rights" to his Jupiter, Florida golf course to a land trust, argued the

forbes.comHow Trump Turned His Golf Empire Into A Billion-Dollar Tax ShelterFor decades, the president has claimed charitable deductions on golf courses he never gave away. Now he’s pushing the scheme furtherβ€”and apparently using the presidency to get away with it.

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standing ovation for Peggy Flanagan when she endorses "ripping ICE apart"

We need to send tRump to jail. That would be accountability.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bernie Sanders: "I know conservative parents want to raise their kids to be honest, not to be bullies, not to lie and cheat all of the time. If we want to raise our kids to be honest, not to be narcissists who think the world revolves around them, then we need to hold Donald Trump accountable."

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Vivek just released a new ad with Acton’s estranged mother that cut out the part where she claimed Acton lied about living in a tent after proof came out that she did live in a tent, so basically the bitter old hag is now just saying Acton lied at 12 about being sexually abused.

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Trump is CRASHING OUT over Obama on the campaign trail

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

This supercut is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end...

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Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

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‼️ SO many myths about immigrants. ⚠️ Don't believe the hateful lies (looking at you Alberta UCP πŸ‘€) Migrants use significantly less NHS care than they effectively pay for, analysis finds www.bmj.com/content/395/... "...pay 60% more towards the NHS than the cost of healthcare they use."

bmj.comMigrants use significantly less NHS care than they effectively pay for, analysis findsMigrants are a net boon to NHS coffers, a new analysis has indicated.1 From thinktank the Nuffield Trust, the analysis found that immigrants charged the immigration health surcharge (IHS) pay 60% mor...

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Replying to @robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Photo clearly AI from looking at the non-matching shoes, and the shoelaces that don't work like normal shoelaces. Proposed community note on X says it's a parody account, and I think it likely is, but virtually impossible to tell a parody MAGA account from the real thing these days.

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You can read all about Trump's love for little girls in the House Judiciary Dems' 50-page report released this morning. He has a particular fettish for crushing their nipples as he molests them, it notes.