Roy (Batty)

Roy (Batty)

@blzerk.bsky.social

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It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

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Replying to @70sbachchan.bsky.social

512/ People should pay attention to recent escalation in the Iran War What is Iran's response function to the Trump and Netanyahu's plans for more bombing? What will Iran decide to target? Will it move from a defensive to an offensive campaign? PT on the logic of Iran's escalation.

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Remember, Republicans made George Soros an international boogeyman when he was giving Democrats a *tenth* of this Now... {crickets}

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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."

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A Russian missile strike on a public park killed a 1-year-old baby and their mother less than 48 hours ago.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Steve Witkoff to Putin: "You are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again."

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we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

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Elon Musk is a threat to democracy both here at home and abroad. He ordered the slowdown of the military version of Starlink, which the Ukrainians need in their war of survival against the Russian invaders. And then Musk lied about it on his X, the extremist sewer that was once known as Twitter.

wsj.comExclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided UkraineThe SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.

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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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Elon is spending money on this election like a guy who knows he's killed roughly half a million more children than he had at this point in 2024.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

Genuinely irresponsible propaganda for the main story about Elon Musk 2 weeks before the election in which he is the largest donor in history to be an "Elon says he will do good thing at some point in the future" story

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Did you know the Jan. 6 files are actually missing? Trump wiped the Department of Justice website of records related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Luckily we saw this coming, and downloaded all of the files before they could get to them. jan6memoryproject.org/

jan6memoryproject.orgThe January 6 Memory ProjectA public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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A good summary here of how much Meta is in the tank for Trump. And a reminder that the authoritarian threat comes not just from within the Trump administration but from its oligarchic allies. Oligarchic power is now a clear and present threat to our democracy. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

open.substack.comMeta shuts down "No Kings" account during major anti-Trump protestOn Saturday, thousands of “No Kings” events were held around the country.

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In a very real way, all of this horror goes back to our failure to really hold the Confederacy to account for their crimes against humanity. 

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social

Did we really win the Cold War? Defeat fascism? Bury the Confederacy? In retrospect, thanks to Trump, MAGA and their enablers, perhaps none of those things. My latest. Hope you’ll give it a read. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/so-as-it-t...

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SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

thehandbasket.co'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist tiesThomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

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since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42

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No corporation is gonna silence our message! ❌👑 Keep helping us amplify #NoKings today so we can drive HISTORIC early vote turnout, and overcome Trump’s election sabotage.

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Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

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President Teddy Roosevelt on "certain malefactors of great wealth," 1907. "I regard this contest as one to determine who shall rule this free country—the people through their governmental agents or a few ruthless and domineering men, whose wealth makes them peculiarly formidable..."

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What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: You said you're gonna put some of your own money into the ballroom. Are you? TRUMP: I may do that. When they run out, I'll be there, okay?

This is actually it! Cargo-cult leftism!

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact

The fact is that (imo) leftism is largely a religion of people of high social class that’s become something of a cargo cult because liberalism feels unsatisfying and rightism is alternately uncool and obviously dumb and evil

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Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this

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One year ago today, the U.S. killed Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, two Trinidadian men coming home after working on farms in Venezuela to provide for their families. They were both looking forward to being home. But, they never made it because of the Trump administration's illegal boat strikes.

theguardian.comFamilies of two men killed in Trump’s military boat strikes sue US governmentFirst-of-its kind suit filed by civil rights attorneys on behalf of families centers on 14 October strike in Caribbean Sea that killed six

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That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

ctinsider.comThe 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.

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JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

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one of the key factors in the souring of Silicon Valley culture is the whole "acceptance of failure" element... it's one thing to not let the failure of some enterprise SaaS startup hold you back, but when your startup causes children to self-harm at scale maybe that failure should stick with you

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Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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He is being tortured.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

This is a form of retaliation against someone for speaking out. He knew he would be punished, buy that punishment does not include unnecessarily strict confinement (which is barred by military law). www.military.com/air-force-ma...