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@crispymainer.bsky.social

oligarch/theocrat/rain/demented orange fascist/GOP bootlickers hater, fam/Celts/Pats/TV/yak fishin/movies/Aussie/forward progress/contradiction lover, chill until I’m not

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“I agree!” shouted James Donald Bowman, James David Hamel, JD Vance, Rafael Cruz, Kashyap Pramod Patel, Nimrata Randhawa, Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal, Anna Paulina Mayerhofer-Gamberzky-Luna, and Richard Lynn Myers (Rick Scott) to Donald J. Drumpf.

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I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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Yeah, what the well-heeled pundits are missing — which is wild, because it's been a decade! — is that the kitschiness is the point. Fascists LOVE kitsch. I wrote about this in 2019. Bad, corny taste is how they reassure themselves they are the herrenvolk. www.salon.com/2019/12/25/h...

salon.comHallmark movies are fascist propaganda - Salon.comForget "Triumph of the Will" — the most insidious authoritarian propaganda comes in the form of schmaltz

i come from Cheesecake Factory people and let me assure you, people who LIKE the Cheesecake Factory do not consider it "fancy"

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I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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Hello, I would like my $4,000,000, preferably stuffed into a bag from a Cava restaurant.

Vince D. Monroy@vincedmonroy.bsky.social

Trump: “Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!”

She’s as craven as every other Republican colleague, and more duplicitous. I hope we only have a few months left of her bullshit before she’s dispatched to the dustbin of history.

Steve Collins@stevecollinsyji.bsky.social

One of the saddest developments of this year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Maine has been watching Susan Collins, a senator once renowned for civility and decency, embrace the Maine Wire’s sickening racism and vulgar politics. www.pressherald.com/2026/10/26/s...

Leaving Twitter the day Musk acquired it was a no-regrets decision. Today would be another fine day to abandon that toxic dump.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Elon Musk aggressively pushes Twitter subscribers to switch from "chronological" to "algorithmic" feeds. Once this choice is made, the subscriber will find his account instantly flooded with right-wing political propaganda that reflects the thinking of Elon Musk, a Nature study has concluded. Musk's

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Vance is in Ohio to support the Ramaswamy campaign, which is in hot water for an ad in which they promote a woman who sided with her husband after he was arrested for raping her 12-year-old daughter. For his intro song, they chose ... Jerry Lee Lewis, who famously married his 13-year-old cousin.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

LMAO JD Vance's speech in Ohio is off to a great start

This is just incredible

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

US Republicans have so many murders on their hands.

Jay in Kyiv@jayinkyiv.bsky.social

Among the children murdered by Russians yesterday due to the White House having cut Ukraine's ability to take down Russia's jet drones, 11-year-old Arina Koval. Her mother Lilia and brother Artem were also targeted in a public park in Kharkiv, but survived, now fighting for their lives in hospital

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Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

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. . . for reelection. I think it ought to be. It's part of the MAGA right's broader pattern of excusing and glorifying violence against protesters, activists, and political opponents. If you agree, I hope you'll help amplify Whitney Mitchell's message. Should have this up on most platforms soon.

radleybalko.substack.comHer fiancé and caretaker was murdered by a far-right extremist. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned the killer. My interview with Whitney Mitchell.For my new podcast, The Watch With Radley Balko, Mitchell and I discuss Abbott, the coming election, and the legacy of Garrett Foster, her late fiancé

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Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

The thing about being a Republican is that not only is bigotry your only go-to but it’s also fucking repetitive and boring. I know it is moral rot most of all but it’s so rote to spend the last 7-plus decade saying “im white, im scared of the different” over and over. Get a hobby assholes.

JFC I cannot imagine the shit we haven’t heard anything about yet

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.

Great closing argument. I hope every Dem candidate repurposes this and commits to breaking these criminal and enabling Republicans thru every path available to them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"

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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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We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like.

Chad Finn@chadfinn.bsky.social

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like.

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Troy Jackson: "Elon Musk is running ads for you. In fact, they're running ads in Portland, Oregon, for you. But you also got an ad where you use a Teamster official saying that he supports you. He's asked you for a cease and desist."

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Trump had people arrested to cover up his incompetence. An impeachable offense for any other president. For Trump, probably just about the 17th worst thing he did that week.

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You have to appreciate the fact that these idiots always make these comments and never realize the context and facts.

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SUSAN COLLINS: My heart goes out to the family of the man who was shot in Biddeford. My Duran Guerrero TROY JACKSON: Well the man's name was Johan Sebastián Guerrero. That was his name.

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🚨Holy crap! Ken Paxton partied on New Year’s Eve 2024 in Dubai with his girlfriend and two U.S. fugitives (Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail) charged in healthcare fraud/embezzlement schemes. Ahmed, a major donor, gave about $190,000 to Paxton’s campaign — including after his indictment.

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You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

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This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

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Trump is a coward. Zelensky is a warrior. Trump is a pathological liar. Zelensky is a truth teller. Trump is a scoundrel. Zelensky is a hero. Trump kisses Putin’s ass. Zelensky is kicking Putin’s ass. Trump is a traitor to the free world. Zelensky is defending the free world.

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This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

As Mainers prep to vote, don’t forget that Susan Collins voted to hand your borrowed billions to ICE so they can wear these gloves at your next local protest. Perhaps someone in your family will experience this immediate pain.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Recently unearthed records show that, in one set of trials carried out by the US Army, the electric shock gloves caused “overwhelmingly immediate” pain to soldiers in a mock forced cell extraction scenario, who then reported that “just seeing the glove” frightened them into obedience.

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“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)

propublica.orgAfter Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

And Collins feels us Mainers should be thanking her for that crumb. Shes an out of touch huckster that thinks her constituents are fools. Let’s show her just how wrong she is.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."

Dozens of criminal acts by the President and his hoard of grubby rumpswabs, every feckin day

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...

Every one of these filthy criminals is compromised either by T or Putin. That includes the President, who will lick Putin’s boots daily to avoid the kompromat from being exposed. The post-death stories are going to be endless.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.