bonste.bsky.social

bonste.bsky.social

@bonste.bsky.social

Just trying to keep up!

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"

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This 20-second moment in time is what’s galling to me. Murkowski acts blindsided that she’s actually getting called out. What did she expect to happen? Anyway, she ain’t seen nothing yet.

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NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

propublica.orgKristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political DonationsA dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

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I invited Dr. Oz to keep his promise to join me in Eastern Oregon so the Trump administration could answer to Oregonians about its plans to gut Medicaid. He was a no show. Trump officials are hiding from the American people because there's no excuse for ripping away health care, and they know it.

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Any corporate executive who signs off on a bribe to Trump should be prepared to explain their crimes in front of Congress and to the public when Democrats retake power

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Tammy Duckworth is a badass. Always has been.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."

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Ted Cruz: This isn't a "gotcha moment," you whiny little baby. It's one of the rare instances when someone in the media calls you out on your ignorant, smarmy, blustering BS, you lying fraud.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.” Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

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Replying to @hellgatenyc.com

"In the room where I was detained, there were posters on the wall... it said in English, 'Are you detained and separated from your children?' ... We are normalizing family separation, we are normalizing due process rights violations, we are normalizing the destruction of constitutional democracy."

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he’s just completely vacuous. he talks in television sound-bytes and clearly does not think about a word coming out of his mouth

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

HEGSETH: We wore a patch on our shoulder that said ISAF -- International Security Assistance Force. And you know what the joke was? That is stood for 'I saw Americans fighting.' COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died

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🔥 “You’re on the wrong side of history. You should be standing here with us… you took an oath to the constitution, not the fascists in the White House— he’s laughing at you… You’re tough behind your masks & fatigues, but how do you feel on the inside?” 🇺🇸

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ha ha fuck you TODD

Marco Foster@marcofoster.bsky.social

Awww you guys - the Acting Director of ICE is really upset that we keep accurately refering them the American Gestapo and calling out their kidnappings. Keep up the good work everyone!!!

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A teacher breaks down after ICE causes multiple schools to lockdown during graduation ceremonies and parents to flee for their lives. Only the soulless aren’t hurting from what is happening in our country. This is affecting all of us.

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Baldwin: Are you going to allocate all of the funding congress appropriated for students in schools in Wisconsin and across the country this year? McMahon:

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As Israel and the U.S. hold ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, Israelis take to the streets to demand that Netanyahu take action to end the war. “I say that Israel is now a complete copy of what happened in Germany,” said one protester.

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🔥🔥🔥

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why. SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes

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Billy Long is from central casting. Can’t be real. Wow.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status? BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?! LONG: I can read the statute and I did WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!

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Thank you for your service @raskin.house.gov.

Rep. Jamie Raskin@raskin.house.gov

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

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Replying to @davmicrot.bsky.social

Also, yelling at Democrats about Biden’s age when (1) Trump has obvious mental failing (2) We are in midst of fascist regime, is absolutely insane, an abomination. What a terrible indictment every reference to Biden’s age is to the failed state of corporate media.

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My Saturday PSA: Joe Biden isn’t the president anymore. Instead, we’ve got a mentally deranged and ethically compromised old man with the nuclear codes trespassing in the Oval Office. Stop talking about Joe Biden. Start talking about the Convicted Felon, Donald Trump.

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The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.

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🧵 Masha Gessen, who lived under Russia’s secret police, is sounding the alarm: the U.S. is now echoing those same authoritarian patterns. Raids, surveillance, fear tactics—it’s not theoretical anymore. We are watching a police state take root in real time. #OnYourSide @mashagessen.bsky.social

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"Efficiency" means making things work better, not just cutting all spending. As Elon Musk and his fellow Trump stooges are just learning now, you don't make government more efficient by eliminating all essential personnel and functions. They 100% own the stunning decline in air safety.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

As Newark Liberty International Airport struggled with technological disruptions and staffing shortages, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned on Sunday that more U.S. airports could face similar disruptions this summer.

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MURPHY: You've read the SCOTUS decision. Does it not require you to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia? NOEM: The Trump admin is complying with all court orders M: You're a defendant in the case!... the discussion ends when SCOTUS rules 9-0... that is incredibly chilling for balance of powers

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man i gotta say i think it's bad that a thin-skinned conspiracy theorist now runs the fbi

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Patel gets mad at Patty Murray and says he's "not gonna tolerate" her line of questioning

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Too shitty for Piers Morgan is very shitty indeed.

Based Sonic the Hedgehog@sonic.bsky.social

Piers Morgan is a POS but man is this interview wild - based on the way her tone changes I don't think she realized the implications of what she said until after she said it. If you look closely you can see her realize she is absolutely cooked in real time.

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Maybe Trump will both want to and remember to pardon the many individuals who have crimed in his first months. But maybe he won’t. These folks are taking quite a risk.

Jesse Eisinger@jeisinger.bsky.social

DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...