Andy Herum

Andy Herum

@chiconh.bsky.social

Pragmatic never-Trumper. We'll be lucky if this democracy survives through 2028. 🫘🇺🇦 No DM's

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Replying to @mcuban.bsky.social

The problem is that we're told we're American, we can do anything, but somehow we can't do something every other 1st world country can do? As a society, we're at the "stop giving me excuses point". The rich are getting richer and the rest of us are struggling. The tipping point is now.

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Trump: "Let's all get behind Michele Tafoya in MN. She's running a great race. Don't allow them to play with the Votes after the race is over. The Federal Govt will be watching closely. The only way she can lose is if they cheat. We can't allow that to happen, because I won MN three times ... "

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

newrepublic.comTrump’s Vile Prosecution of Ilhan Omar Is About to Run Into a WallIf they retake the House, Democrats will have plenty of ways to act against Trump’s corrupt prosecutions. Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin say they’re going to use them.

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Reassuring.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Your ambassador to Turkey just said that 'absolutely, there could a strike on Iran this weekend.' Have you gone back on holding off until after the midterms? TRUMP: If that's the case, I don't know anything about it

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SEXTON: What has the Trump administration been working on to help people pay their bills? SCOTT BESSENT: The Biden administration ...

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Of all the architectural destruction Trump is doing to DC, this is the one I feel is the most abhorrent. (cartoon from 2025)

@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social

This is insane. What an obscene monstrosity.

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This is insane. What an obscene monstrosity.

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

And shows how Trump's arch would change the view of the Lincoln Memorial from Arlington House (the Custis-Lee Mansion). 3/3

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In the MAGA mind, Trump's vicious abuse of female reporters is simply of a piece with the rape ad itself: It's all a bet that MAGA misogyny and depravity are still political winners. Flagged by @atrupar.com:

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

The deeper reason Trump, Vance, and Ramaswamy are backing the vile rape ad is they think MAGA politics—the cruelty, the depravity, the viciousness—is still ascendant. They think doing this esesentially puts Trump on the ballot. Me and @jimswift.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

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Trump: "If you don't want communists controlling the US Senate, which is between JAIIIIIIT"

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So we finally got some media companies to write stories about Trump’s weird obsession with men’s bodies, when do we get the obvious cognitive decline stories? 2029?

Trump creating his own October surprise for the Dems...

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Haaretz reports Hegseth went to Israel, met with Netanyahu, and now we’re gonna strike Iran again... (Right before elections in both countries)🤔 How long are Republicans going to run cover for this destructive, deadly nonsense that is costing us all so much? @MarshaBlackburn

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NEWS: A federal judge has ordered Trump to testify UNDER OATH by December 11 in his own $10 BILLION defamation lawsuit against the BBC—or face sanctions, including possible dismissal of the case.

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Sarah Matthews reacts to JD Vance suddenly claiming he doesn't want to get in the middle of the controversy over Vivek Ramaswamy's vile attack ad against Amy Acton. Funny, because he had no problem defending it yesterday. Roll the tape.

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AOC: "Not only did Susan Collins pave the way for women...to have their lives endangered through defunding. But she also did it by supporting Brett Kavanaugh...Susan Collins...in a unique position to protect every woman in America, decided to declare open season on us instead."

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OHIO: “This Big Beautiful Bill didn’t help me in the least… I’m walking a lot more… I’m on a fixed income and it doesn’t stretch anymore…” Ohioans say Trump’s pointless war is driving up gas and food prices, and some are going back to work just to afford to eat.

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Trump has a new scheme to bribe farmers in swing states with welfare checks of taxpayer money because fuel has gone up so much because of his war. But only money for them, not for anyone else in the country. No, we have to keep paying higher prices AND we pay Trump’s voters.

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So the United States Secretary of State doesn’t know anything about global warfare satellites besides what he reads in the paper?

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

A stuttering Marco Rubio: “Nobody ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down. It sorta happened.”

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There was never a lot of integrity within the Republican party in the first place But whatever there was is looooooong gone

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WELKER: You urged Congress to pass this law in Sen. Graham's memory. Do you agree with President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russia? LANKFORD: He is choosing the American people first is what he's doing

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Trump: "My decision on Russia is simple... Russia is doing very little, if anything, to help Iran, compared to what they could be doing ... Zelenskyy is using refineries as a target, knowing attacks are seriously hurting ... He could have made better deal 2 years ago. His country is in shambles ..."

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Replying to @meidastouch.com

Ukraine actually STOPPED hitting refineries after Trump announced his fake ceasefire, as a show of good faith. Russia kept attacking anyway. And Trump claims Russia is doing “very little” to help Iran, even though multiple officials have testified that Russia is actively helping Iran. 2/2

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Trump is siding with Russia. Again. He’s attacking Zelenskyy for striking Russian oil refineries, while Russia has been relentlessly bombing Ukraine’s energy grid and civilian targets. 1/

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Ossoff: "I have no interest in running for president in 2028, and to be very frank, with just 16 days before the polls close, I want to urge everybody out there to remain focused on the task at hand. The Trump admin is out of control, they've lied us into war, they've sent prices skyrocketing ... "

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JD Vance says he has “never seen” corruption from president The $1.776B slush fund, 30,000 stock trades, & the 1.4B in crypto revenue say otherwise! The American people know better & that it is costing them I explain on @MS.Now 👇

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JD Vance takes a question from a man whose wife was an American who died in an Iranian air strike in March. He says "there's a failure in the leadership" and asks Vance "how is this administration gonna start holding those leaders accountable for the deaths of the soldiers that we honor and love?"