John R. Lamb

John R. Lamb

@johnrlamb.bsky.social

Newshound in exile. Greenhorn craftsman. Industrious garden gnome. Hand-rake maestro.

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Replying to @out5p0ken.bsky.social

Wowzers. Those who used to flee used to go to Russia. America is the new home for tyrants and despots that lose elections now I guess.

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JD Vance wants us to think Alaska voters are too "busy" to read the word "incumbent" when they vote.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Why shouldn't Alaskans find it insulting that the administration is suggesting they can't read the word 'incumbent' on their ballot and know to vote for Sen. Sullivan? JD VANCE: People are busy. People have lives. People have jobs.

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There is no human on earth more easily or predictably baited than this man.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

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Replying to @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Trump must be so pissed to be standing there watching someone else spewing the racism before he has a chance to.

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He should go all in on this closing message I think it’s working

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on data centers: "I say let them come in ... you should really be cool on data centers because you can make a fortune with the data centers" (Note the total silence of the crowd during this rant!)

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Looks like he’s reading the words directly from the teleprompter. Which would indicate he’s not ad-libbing that line. Which would indicate that the aide who wrote it in must want the GOP to lose this fall. (Also did he call it the “Hormone Strait?”)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

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Trump detests the free enterprise system. He believes in a Soviet-style command economy with total government control. He favors foreign trade based on bribery. He opposes competition. That's why, when a foreign country like Taiwan manufactures a product, Trump says they're "stealing" our business.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Look, if we had smart presidents, the Taiwan problem with China wouldn't exist. Nobody would care. They stole our chip business. All of it. 100 percent."

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this is total gobbledygook? the process to decide who should be certified as the winner is the election, and there is no federal law that says the courts get to decide who that is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Blanche on CBS says his suit against Alaska is "asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law and if necessary to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be certified as the winner." (So, the voters won't get to decide. Got it.)

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Me coming home from kindergarten

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."

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Just dripping with vile racism. This is so despicable. People need to vote so hard they sprain their voting finger.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you call somebody from that part of the world 'Mohammed,' you're about 65% sure to get it right. So if you have any problem with names, just call the guy Mohammed, you'll probably be right."

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🚨BREAKING: A top federal prosecutor in Texas began the first day of early voting with a stark message to voters: “If you violate federal election law, I will hunt you down and prosecute you. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. We’ll see you out at the polls.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com‘I will hunt you down’: U.S. attorney baselessly threatens voters as polls open in TexasHe also threatened local election officials with criminal prosecution.

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Excuse me? Tuberville is a Confederate traitor and pro-Kremlin stooge.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

Tuberville: "Zelensky will play hardball, but you know what? He's not even a player in the game. Putin, President Trump, and the people on our side will make the final decision about Ukraine's future."

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Replying to @atrupar.com

One might mistake this for statesmanship, were it not so remarkably similar to the methods of a traveling fortune-teller.

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Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

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Hazardous trees? This is the most Lorax situation ever.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Burgum doesn't answer a question on Fox about whether green fees for the DC public golf course will go up after Trump's redesign, and says the administration is "getting rid of hazardous trees"

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Dictator Move of the Day.

Charles Ornstein@charlesornstein.bsky.social

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. 😳

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Exactly 10 years ago today: Hillary Clinton said Vladimir Putin would rather have "a puppet as president of the United States.” She absolutely nailed it. 🔨

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Come ON!!! How many times has Elon Musk said things that turn out to be hooey

CNN@cnn.com

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ

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Every American media outlet should study, and seek to emulate, how the BBC has responded to another baseless lawsuit filed by Trump et al. A few days ago, a judge threatened Trump with sanctions for refusing to sit for a deposition by BBC lawyers. Could you imagine CBS doing this?

Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com

BREAKING The BBC subpoenaed Jack Smith for a deposition to defend itself against Trump's defamation lawsuit. Smith didn't object to the subpoena. Team Trump opposes. buff.ly/cf6GaG2

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I wonder why wealthy celebrities who promote gambling think they'll live richer lives by making a lot of people poorer.

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The portion of Lesley Stahl's story where she both sides the "rigging claim" with an Obama clip felt forced. I wonder if we will learn more about how and why it was inserted there.

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Imagine if 2 weeks before the 2010 election Obama was fixated on new basketball courts he wants to install at a rec center in Anacostia.

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First, sabotage Ukraine. Next, act mystified about how it happened.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

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

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Right - "I apologize for violating the policy" does not provide any more confidence about her judgment.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Yeah, the problem with the tweet *wasn’t* that it violated “CBS News standards.”

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Who could have predicted heavy traffic on the No Kings Instagram account on the day of their biggest event since March?

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It’s the cowardice that gets me. Every damn time.

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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Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions REMAIN in Ukraine, crippling interceptor drones and military operations. He says Ukraine has evidence the restrictions are DELIBERATE after testing Starlink systems in the EU, where they worked perfectly at speeds that cause connections to fail inside Ukraine.

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This is a hostage video

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Yikes. In a desperate-sounding video, CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper insists the Strait of Hormuz is “controlled by the United States… not Iran” and “open for business,” despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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It was the greatest five days of my life and I can’t believe how much we accomplished in the less-than-a-week between my hiring and firing.