Bacchus

Bacchus

@bacchus666.bsky.social

Father. Husband. Patriot. Enjoyer of cats, carpentry, and literature. Liberal.

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Give these cats a follow. You'll never meet a smarter, nicer, better armed group of people.

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Abdul punches back and doesn't take shit. He isn't a weak centrist nothing. People want fighters.

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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(Reuters) - US President Donald Trump on Sunday escalated ​his invective against Norway, calling it a "shit house country" and ‌saying Norwegian immigrants were not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee .. had not awarded him a Peace ​Prize. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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This is straight Klan stuff. He's talking like a badly xeroxed neo-Nazi flyer someone stuffed in your mailbox back in 1975.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

The man’s a bigot, plain and simple. Example number honest-to-God-I’ve-lost-count of why he is unfit for the Office of President.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says El-Sayed is a jihadist and shouldn’t be allowed to serve in the Senate

This.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

This is maga. Punching women is apparently OK.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Video footage, Sheriff Greene said, clearly showed a woman being punched in the face. ‘I know what people saw, and if I saw that video, too, I’d be like, ‘My God, why didn’t the police do anything?’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

Abuse of the pardon. This administration is corrupt to the core.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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This is taxpayer-funded research data and info that belongs to the public and is not this administration’s to erase.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

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JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

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Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com

Here is a video overview of the NYT investigation @maxinejoselow.bsky.social and I did that examines how President Trump moved first to grant pollution passes to chemical plants. Then former petrochemical lobbyists he appointed moved to make these waivers permanent www.nytimes.com/video/climat...

nytimes.comVideo: How Trump Rolled Back Limits on Toxic Air PollutionOur investigative reporter Eric Lipton explains how corporate interests took power inside the Environmental Protection Agency, and then helped President Trump undo regulations meant to protect million...

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Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com

During this investigation, we traveled to locations around the United States where President Trump has moved to ease pollution rules, including to Port Neches, Tx. where there is a middle school a few blocks from the chemical plant considered by the EPA the largest cancer threat nationwide.

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Hegseth: We are banning reporters from the Pentagon. Washpost: We have exclusive photos of the historic Dwight Eisenhower globe that was damaged in Hegseth's zeal to move it out of storage and into his office. Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/3WF2YQo

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Glad to see CNN reporting on this. @jimacosta.bsky.social and I raised concerns about DHS potentially using a military-grade “heat ray.” After 20+ years in national security, I find this deeply troubling. A weapon designed to inflict intense pain. Against civilians? Why does DHS need this?

cnn.comPentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for potential use at border | CNN PoliticsThe Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potentially use it in operations at the southern US border, according to ...

Exactly.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social

The main story of the GOP over the past decade is the takeover of the party establishment by people who actually believe the nonsense they formerly deployed to rile up the rubes without actually buying into it themselves.

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Wildly out of touch. Voters want to see their candidates confident and willing to fight, not meekly taking the bait and retreating to whatever won’t offend a moderate Republican

Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social

‘Not an Appealing Quality!’ Democrats on CNN Panel Rip Abdul El-Sayed Over ‘Cockiness’ The same pundits who tell female candidates to "smile more" now tell the Muslim Senate candidate to be more respectful to the white bigot who smears them with lies. #STFU www.mediaite.com/media/news/n...

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Your all-too-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress think this is just fine.

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social

Read this paragraph. It is corruption on an unprecedented scale. A whole industry of selling presidential power. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

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Abdul El-Sayed is not, in fact, "from that part of the world." He was born in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. He's an American, no matter how much it makes the bigots cry

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you call somebody from that part of the world 'Mohammed,' you're about 65% sure to get it right. So if you have any problem with names, just call the guy Mohammed, you'll probably be right."

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Death by malicious negligence is a defining characteristic of concentration camps

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

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You can argue that it didn't make a difference but for the past decade-plus Russia has seen its political fortunes aligned with Donald Trump's and acted accordingly.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

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This is exactly the right approach — openly mock the bigots as small-minded and cowardly and weak and proudly embrace diversity as a sign of our strength and success

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.

Yep, the amazing economy (thanks to me!) is just right around the corner!! Also, I have this amazing beach-front property in Arizona to sell you…

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says a good economy is just a year away: "Those plants are gonna be opening in a year, and when they open you're gonna see numbers that nobody has seen before"

Republican anti-trans hysteria is out of control. The fear mongering and lies are just off the charts.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "We have 5 states where your child goes off to school as Tim and comes back as Tammy 3 or 4 days later. It's true. And teachers make a decision. 'Goodbye Timmy I love you so much, I'll see you later.' And you say, 'Where's my son? My son is in the hospital.' Can you imagine?"

1000% Voting is the absolute minimum requirement of living in a functioning democratic form of government.

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Going to do a survey of my friends in the field to see if it’s OK to call myself a doctor

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Zacharia: "A lot of the misinformation, miscommunication is around the fact that I labeled myself a lawyer. I consulted for a long time many people in the field -- 'Is it ok if I label myself a lawyer?' -- and they said, 'Absolutely. You can call yourself a lawyer. You have a JD'"

It seems even some Trump supporters are beginning to believe their own lying eyes.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Almost all told me they are angry about Trump’s decision to start a war and spend millions of dollars ornamenting a capital city they will never see.” @theatlantic.com #Arizona www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Imagine that Now do a story on wtf is wrong with that other 24%.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

WSJ’s Greg Ip with a great piece about how voters — when it comes right down to it — don’t like being bought. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

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🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

nytimes.comVideo: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About TrumpIn this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...

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It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.

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Yep.

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social

It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.

This.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

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some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "They want to cut your children. It's unbelievable what they do. Your son leaves as Jimmy and comes home in three days as Janet, and they don't even ask you. They can take your child out of school and do whatever the hell they want. Minnesota is one of those states."

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Ok so like I’ve been thinking about this with Vance and Gillis both: it’s not just that the jokes are offensive (though that’s the most important point)…it’s that they’re lazy. Like you have the option of a solid joke/burn if you want and you opt for “lol gay.”

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

JD Vance makes a homophobic attack and the @nytimes.com is too afraid to report the truth

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This is illegal and (a) it’s not even close to defensible and (b) shouldn’t be tolerated.

Brad Johnson@climatebrad.hillheat.com

Military patrolling the Columbia Heights ballot box at 6:44 pm "It's a public sidewalk" the lead soldier said when reminded of the law. Photo by self

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We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.