Tony

Tony

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The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms in order to protect girls from sexual predators are now calling a child rape victim, whose mother lost custody due to that abuse, a liar. loathsome

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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Huge co-sign from Trump on Ramaswamy's shockingly vile ad just now. It has to feel amazing, if you're running as an abusive predator, to get this kind of endorsement from the number one abusive predator in the game.

😂

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance announces that Nick Shirley will get "a financial reward" for what he did in Minnesota and then adds, "to Americans across the country -- your tax dollars are being stolen"

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Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."

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“The French never rioted or burned things down before!” (I mean, if anything, this shows that immigrants have assimilated to French history and culture).

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Those of you familiar with him know that Mike Davis is one of the genuinely fascist players in the MAGA legal world. Here he is first lying about what Slotkin said and then threatening her with assassination. A product of the corruption and rot of the conservative legal movement.

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For years people were like "Wait what, James Carville is married to a notable Republican? How could that relationship possibly work?" and in 2026 the answer to that question is pretty obvious.

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social

"I would rather have the Republicans keep the house." - James Carville

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I remember how some companies refuse incentives based on school property tax breaks because it is unethical to impoverish our school systems. The Stars have no such ethical compunctions. Amazing this is legal. www.dallasnews.com/news/article...

dallasnews.comPlano ISD to contribute up to $250 million to Dallas Stars arena fundingPlano’s school district is joining the city in helping fund a proposed arena for the Dallas Stars at The Shops at Willow Bend site.

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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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I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

apnews.comFederal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources sayFederal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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the men that guy is talking about calls the men who buy books gay but they buy the audio book for 'release your inner caveman' so they can find a wife who doesn't consider herself human.

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There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Bernie Madoff pales in comparison

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

New in PN: Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low "It’s the certainty of staggering losses that makes clear this is nothing but a festival of bribery. No one who spends millions to attend these tacky dinners expects a return. They’re just giving the president money in hopes it'll buy them favors."

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This guy's got one note, and that note is "I got called 'gay' once by a girl I had a crush on in high school."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "What a big surprise that young men were not interested in joining the Defense Department when the advertisements were about My Two Mommies."

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I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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This is preposterous as it is monstrous Pike survived the execution procedure and now her lawyers, unable to reach the governor or state AG office, are rushing an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court in their *car* seeking an order to get her medical care

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

The Tennessean: Christa Pike still alive after administered drugs, attorneys say www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

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I took graduate-level seminars as a senior and made it through law school and I did the reading. But, brother, 30 years later and I'd simply walk into the sea if I had to work half this hard again. Everyone's trying to break higher education, but it's everything to an advanced society. Go students.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

I'm due to teach our 20th c. US history graduate seminar this spring, and while I don't have the new one worked up yet, here's what I taught last time around. (And I'm sorry, I can't alt-text these as they're much too long.) Part 1:

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among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca

Failing up ..."Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare. A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.

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After the "send me" verse in Isaiah, a guy is told to proclaim the total destruction of his own stupid country. (That might sound so apt that it's confessional or whatever, but these guys don't know anything about all that. They don't read. They just think it sounds cool)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me."

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Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"

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His entire personality is Dumbass High School Football Coach in an 80s Sex Comedy.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

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Who even is the constituency for Gavin Newsom? The sliver of people who like neoliberalism but find Trump gauche? Like come on, that's the Morning Joe crew & their friends. That's not a serious political voting block. We're fighting fascists. We need real warriors who understand the assignment.

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

This is not great

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generic ballot isn't looking for republicans, but here's the good news for them: they're not running any generic republicans. every House candidate is a guy named "Chud Ferguson" who built a local wage-theft business into a diversified crypto empire and whose top issue is girls high school sports.

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Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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The guy who helped kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran’s tour was charged with soliciting prostitution, got those charges dropped with the help of Epstein’s lawyer, is a longtime friend of Trump, has taken NFL players on propaganda trips to Israel, and received a special $1 million award from Netanyahu.

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trump has the temerity to talk about how the White House was in bad shape when he got there while my city looks like this

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social

The '86 47' was painted over around June 14. Three months later, it looks like the feds have ripped up all the sod over towards the Washington Monument. Meanwhile, the Reflecting Pool is again empty

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Yikes, if this is accurate, its basically the owner class using their power to shut down dissent. The Patriots Robert Kraft told Sheerhan his concert would be cancelled if Mackelmore stayed on the your, and that other stadium owners would follow suit.

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social

Banned: Macklemore's powerful statement deserves reading. www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...

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very tough to tell with these people whether they are genuinely this stupid or merely think that all of us are this stupid

The New Republic@newrepublic.com

NEW: Trump Jr.’s new wife says “dear friend” Umar Kremlev—an oligarch in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle—just paid for a “fun weekend with friends” that happened to turn into their wedding.