Caped Jackass

Caped Jackass

@capedja.bsky.social

Nebraskan now calling Minneapolis home. I post recipes, political takes, and lots of waterfall and pet pictures. Subscribed to @racketmn.bsky.social, @tpm.bsky.social, and @Wired.com.

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Trump doesn’t find Paxton as bangable as Rogers. How is this vital information not getting more earned media?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "So I'm studying him. And I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his ass. I just wantasink. And then I looked at his feet & they were massive. I made the mistake of studying his anatomy. Maybe I should do that with Ken Paxton, but I'm not sure your body is gonna qualify."

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this is something Dems can just hammer on for the next two years televised hearings every week about Epstein, Epstein, Epstein make the drumbeat so loud the media doesn’t have a choice in covering it

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

this is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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demand justice

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.

Trump on economic problems: “There are none.” Trump on Bill Maher: In the next 10 posts, I will paint you a shit smeared word picture of how hugely I hate this man … “

Jezebel@jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

Donald Trump wrote 1,300 words about how much hate hates Bill Maher after the two had dinner. It's his single longest post ever. tinyurl.com/ydj7d3dh

Republican Vice President: Child sexual assault allegations don’t concern me. Pedocon theory has been affirmed far beyond the statistically significant threshold.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WOW -- Vance *defends* Vivek's reprehensible ad 👇 Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away. Do you think it was appropriate? JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern.

There should be a website that just lists all Republicans, in Ohio and Nationally, that haven't spoken against this ad. Put a search on it and encourage people to check who is running in their district..

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

November 17th, the Supreme Court decides 6 - 3 to not let Trump declare himself king or whatever bullshit the GOP is trying to pull. November 18th the invasion of Iran commences as Trump’s narcissism, mortally wounded, lashes out.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

Trump: We need to decide how we want to win against Iran, either in a nice way or in a not-so-nice way.

I call dibs on the reflecting pool bullshit. That should be a decent chunk of change coming my way.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump announces "fraud whistleblower incentive program" -- "Americans will now be able to go to fraud dot gov and report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities ... if you turn somebody in and you find $1 billion, we're giving a commission of 1%. That's a lot of money"

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At 5 in the morning the president and his party are focused on the really important things for every day Americans: a luxury golf course

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The Department of Interior wants to take a terrible and very unsafe golf course, and make it into a great, safe, and prestigious golf course ... They do not need an approval. Work is scheduled to begin IMMEDIATELY!"

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Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

This is a really striking tweet.

Trump wants to lower the cost of diesel fuel by a few pennies a gallon for a couple weeks and all it will cost is higher fuel prices for the foreseeable future and increased likelihood of US troop casualties.

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1. There is no such thing as a "false rumor." The word for that is a HOAX. 2. The headline misses the entire point of the hoax, which is not that he was in Ohio, but that he was in a mental health facility! are there any adults left at the new york times

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Biggest takeaway from a decade reporting on the Trump's businesses: Norms ain't laws. And laws ain’t shit unless they’re enforced quickly and proportionately.

Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com

Common Cause just told a federal judge that Trump's taxpayer funded propaganda ads ran hundreds of times after a TRO ordered an immediate halt to them. The two-page notice buff.ly/u2GESdN

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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.

Is anyone writing a new X (Formerly Twitter) Files that has sad sack FBI agents harassing Democrats and minorities while the Drinking Man shows up to boss them around with insane conspiracy theories?

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this is the good stuff, folks. get the fuck off of x and use this toolkit to tell your reps to stop pushing people towards the nazi site for nazis.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social

While people are talking X, let me talk about X OFF. Two big ideas: 1. Get everyone possible off of X, especially for the news (at least) until every vote is counted 2. Tell your elected reps and candidates to stop sending people there and go X last (at least)

Football in November is going to be so much more enjoyable without Republicans being racist as fuck during the commercial breaks. Going to be so excited to see an ad for laundry detergent.

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This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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Trump <pointing a gun at his own dick>: “The hole in my penis is very useful, it makes complete sense to add many more!”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump suggests he wants to cut off almost all trade: "We're gonna very very self-sufficient very soon"

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“And because 75% of certified public accountants or CPAs are of retirement age and will be retiring over the next few years that story [no one to fill important local finance roles] is going to be accelerated and repeated even more.” ZackforMN.com #minnesota #localmatters #vote #election2026

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This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).

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Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed on the incident said. bloom.bg/3Vad1MJ 📷️: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

Surprised that no restaurants have put slices of meatloaf on the menu (or some other cheap way to serve/stretch meat) and called them Trump Steaks while apologizing for raising prices.

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I said it at the time (and before!), but I truly believe that American voters electing Donald Trump for a second term in 2024 was the dumbest and most self-harming choice made by an electorate in the history of humanity

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HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"

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attacking your country on foreign territory

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump in Ireland lies delusionally: "We had a rigged election. As you know, it was totally rigged. Because I won three times. I didn't win twice. I won three times."

“What we are missing as a nation is shared* grief after a national tragedy previously thought unfathomable. *muslims don’t count”

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov

But that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.

Why can’t they do that now?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate...I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000."

Luckily the President and GOP know to keep their attention on the sanctity of girls’ sports as opposed to the escalating trade war they started for no reason or the the conventional war they started for no reason.

Joshua Holland@joshuaholland.bsky.social

The US destroyed 5 Iranian tankers and the Iranians launched a major attack on US bases in Jordan, possibly with cluster munitions, and tankers in Bahrain. And the Houthis attacked several Saudi oil refineries. Maybe this will be a news story in the US tomorrow. We’ll see. Oil is approaching $100.

Zero chance Trump is told about this so no one has to explain to him that shooting a world leader’s jet down is a bad idea.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

IRAN PRESIDENT TO TRAVEL TO INDIA THIS WEEK FOR BRICS SUMMIT - IRIB NEWS