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@bootsified.bsky.social

Delivering the mail since 2024. Seattleite since 2023. Making the web since 1997. Playing bass since 1983. Dying since 1969. 15th All-Time Greatest ZAXXON Player. Seattle, WA. www.boots.dev

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@bootsified.bsky.social

For the record, I am an American and a patriot, therefore I am whole-heartedly anti-fascism. If "AnTiFa" were an actual thing, I would probably join in a heartbeat. That isn't a controversial stance. What IS a controversial stance? Americans who think anti-fasctists are the enemy. Check yourself.

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Stephen Nuñez
@socio-steve.bsky.social

Anyway damn everyone who over the last 10 years tried to gaslight us into believing that we were not seeing what we were obviously seeing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Libya, Hemen, Haiti, Somalia -- remember what I called them? Shit house countries."

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline
@babadooknukem.bsky.social

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

They're weirdly pressing two kinds of white supremacist lies at once -- some non-white immigrants are poverty-wracked criminals who are eating our dogs and cats, but other non-white immigrants are rich elites who are buying up mansions and flying first class. Pick a fucking lane, you clowns.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)

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@bootsified.bsky.social

Holy shit.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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Rob Sheridan
@rob-sheridan.com

Congrats once again to all the politicians, journalists, artists, celebrities, and brands who STILL prop up this man’s right-wing propaganda platform every day by using it as an official communication channel.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

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@bootsified.bsky.social

Definitely NOT something a president should be responsible for. This is insanity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Sometimes there's a dispute about who turned them in and who is supposed to get what and when. So I am going to do something which I think people will like - I will be the arbitrator of all of these decisions. I'll determine whether the person is deserving ... there's nothing in this for me"

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Zeteo
@zeteo.com

“It's funny how little we reflect on the fact that we assassinated the leader of a country.” From killing its Supreme Leader to breaking nuclear agreements, @rhodesben.bsky.social argues that Iran has no incentive to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. anymore. zeteo.com/p/why-on-ear...

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@bootsified.bsky.social

And this just scratches the surface

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

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Micah
@rincewind.run

washington dc is not trump’s personal property and must be given statehood to prevent this kind of abuse in the future

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

This design appears to completely eliminate the much-beloved loop road and public park at Hains Point, and cut down the cherry trees which line the road. The park is a public space used by tens of thousands of Washingtonians and heavily visited by tourists. /photos not my own.

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@bootsified.bsky.social

So, the city has no say in this?!? WTF?!?

Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social

As others have written this golf course is also a large public park w/roads, parking, and bike lanes. It is a top destination for the region's cyclists. My son used to train there. All that will be gone, and the public will lose access unless golfing. No city would ever propose a plan like this.

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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ron Johnson blames US for Putin invading Ukraine: "The way we treated Russia after we won the Cold War, how we pushed them. I'm not defending Putin, but we said we were not gonna move NATO one inch to the east. We brought it right to their doorstep basically. What did we think Putin was gonna do?"

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Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman.bsky.social

1,000 years from now, teachers will struggle to explain to their students how at this time in history, we found literally the most despicable human being in America and made him the most powerful person in the world

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."

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Gerard
@groverxv.bsky.social

Replying to @conorsen.bsky.social

Citizen’s United continues to be the most egregious SCOTUS decision of this century.

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Joyce White Vance
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

A Republican PAC spent nearly $25,000 running ads to help Sen. Susan Collins in Portland. Wrong Portland. They’re inept at everything. Portland, Oregon, that is. Not Portland, Maine. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

nbcnews.comGOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in OregonAn outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.
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@bootsified.bsky.social

Dear lord

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"

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Ilhan Omar
@ilhanmn.bsky.social

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social

With all due respect, this is precisely what is wrong with the federal courts today. They should not be doing "everything humanly possible to give the government the benefit of the doubt."

Molly Roberts@mollyroberts.bsky.social

"More than being upset and furious right now, I am just beyond disappointed in the government. I have done everything humanly possible to give the government the benefit of the doubt in this case. I have done it repeatedly. I have done it for months."

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James Talarico
@jamestalarico.bsky.social

Here are the details: literally any time, any place, any network.

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

Fox host: President Trump said you all should have a debate… Is that in the works? Are you requesting one with him? Ken Paxton (lying): Oh well, no, look... We can never quite work out the details.

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Asha Rangappa
@asharangappa.bsky.social

I guess we know what the “quo” is for the “quid” of Russia ostensibly supplying diesel to the U.S.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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darth™️
@darthbluesky.bsky.social

did i have to double check the date on this story i had to double check the date on this story

Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social

Reuters: “The Republican president filed his appeal after a federal judge threw out ‌the case and imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions against Trump and one of his lawyers for bringing a ‘frivolous’ suit.”

reuters.comTrump takes suit against Hillary Clinton over 2016 election to Supreme CourtPresident Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Friday to revive his dismissed lawsuit against his 2016 Democratic rival Hillary Clinton accusing her of conspiring along with former ​FBI Director...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@mayor.nyc.gov

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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@bootsified.bsky.social

NARRATOR: JD Vance did not know the meaning of socialism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

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FINALLY white American men have someone in government looking out for them

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

I've retitled this piece "The Arrest is Yet to Come" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

donmoynihan.substack.com“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's AmericaKimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump

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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me

So artificial things are bad, you say.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
@ryanjreilly.com

NEW: Olympic canoeist who went through "nightmare" Reflecting Pool case is pushing two government watchdogs to probe "incompetence and wrongdoing."

nbcnews.comFormer Olympic canoeist asks government watchdogs to probe ‘nightmare’ Reflecting Pool caseThe Trump administration’s “sprint” to charge Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn, his attorneys wrote, “mirrored the rushed renovation itself.”