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@meada.bsky.social

2 cats and a dog. Soon-to-be recovering lawyer. Los Angeles born/raised/still (for whatever its worth). Xitter refugee. "Tramps like us... " (IYKYK) DMs = "unfollow".

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"The cost of many everyday items would have declined last year and early this year without President Donald Trump’s tariffs, according to the New York Federal Reserve." Hey, Democrats!! The NY Fed just wrote your political ad copy for you... www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...

cnbc.comInflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed saysTariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.

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URGENT! 🚨 🚨 Vote by mail ballots in NC are being rejected because people forgot to seal the inner envelope. I’ll tell you what’s going on and how to fix it. Please spread this video everywhere.

Succinct. ⤵️

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social

Amy Acton's mother is a degenerate criminal who went on the lam with her rapist husband and abandoned her children. Who cares what she thinks of the daughter she hasn't seen in decades?

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Great ad

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

Grand Ole PEDOPHILE Party

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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NEW: A federal judge limited aggressive DHS field operations targeting alleged noncitizen accused of registering to vote in nine states, ruling the efforts amount to "ongoing intimidation." The judge found that agents' "target lists" were likely rife with errors. https://demdock.com/4A8zOIb

democracydocket.comJudge limits DHS voter intimidation efforts targeting alleged noncitizens in nine statesThe operation ordered a series of field interviews and stops that targeted alleged noncitizens accused of registering to vote.

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A highlight of this is how trump keeps saying i don’t say this about a lot of guys but he does. All the time. Hes constantly calling other guys Hot including the former Al Qaeda president of Syria

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Two thoughts: This false, despicable ad is proof that Vivek Ramaswamy knows he is about to lose to Amy Acton. No mother who loves her daughter would do this. Her complicity reveals her.

Wonder if Darline Graham will be asked about this on the campaign trail... ??

Jesse Eisinger@jeisinger.bsky.social

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

Narrator: "People were, in fact, NOT acting like we're in a boom. We were not in a boom."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hassett: "If economic polls were correct, then people wouldn't be taking trips to nice hotels, they wouldn't be flying, they wouldn't be buying cars, they wouldn't be doing all the things they do when they're feeling good about the economy... people are acting like we're in a boom. We are in a boom"

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

theguardian.comMichigan heckler the son of Republican adviser paid for ‘influencer marketing’ against El-SayedTimmy Teepell’s firm paid $250,000 by America Next, which has been trying to gin up ‘organic’ opposition to El-Sayed

Welp, we know JD, James David Bowman or whoever this guy is like to make stuff up. So here he is... again. www.yahoo.com/news/jd-vanc...

yahoo.comJD Vance admits to making up crazy stories to get press attention and says he'll continue doing itDonald Trump’s running mate said he makes stuff up during a CNN interview.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

Also, the VP suggests maybe the Texas Senate candidate is a pedo. No evidence, and maybe not a strong card for the Epstein administration to play. bsky.app/profile/atru...

"... since January of last year." Gee, what happened in January 2025? Could it be the second inauguration of Putin's best asset?

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski: basically calling Trump a liar. “The US no longer finances this war since January of last year. In other words, for more than a year and a half. The US has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it. Europe.”

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Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski: basically calling Trump a liar. “The US no longer finances this war since January of last year. In other words, for more than a year and a half. The US has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it. Europe.”

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Susan Collins hasn't changed? From 1997 - 2016 she voted with the GOP on party line votes 59% of the time. In 2017 she voted with Trump 90% of the time. In 2025 she voted with him 95%. So many media folks desperate to make the pickle Collins finds herself in someone else's fault. #MEpolitics

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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.

OMG. RICO!! Somewhere Popehat is getting a bat-signal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Markwayne Mullin reveals that the Trump admin is trying to build a RICO case against Ilhan Omar: "There was conspiracy to deceive the American govt, and therefore everything else that came in with it could then be looked at as the same case ... the statute of limitations on things, they don't apply"

Very charitable to describe as a "mistake".

M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social

Agree With Former Ambassador To Russia, Michael McFaul.......

The idiot who cannot order donuts like a normal person should shut his pie hole and take his racist dog-whistle and shove it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance calls El-Sayed "a little weasel who should shut his mouth and show a little gratitude"

Clinton won Minnesota in 2016 by 45K votes. Biden won Minnesota in 2020 by 230K votes. Harris won Minnesota in 2024 by 146K votes. Do not believe anything this man says. His mind is swiss cheese.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump lies: "I won Minnesota 3 times. But they didn't give me the victory. I do great in Minnesota. I call it iron country. Best stuff in the world. They're a very dishonest state. When I lost Minnesota, people in Minnesota cried. I think I'm gonna go there."

Must be talking about George Santos, whose fraud conviction was pardoned by JD's boss.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "You can't make this up. He invented a totally fictitious background for himself!"

Stagflation is the combination of high inflation, stagnant economic growth, and elevated unemployment.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social

Real wages are falling, and have been falling for months.

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The Federal Reserve confirms what we’ve known all along: Trump’s stupid tariffs are directly responsible for soaring prices. And Republicans haven’t done a damn thing to stop him. Their mess. Their failed economic policies.

cnbc.comInflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed saysTariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.

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This report from the New York Federal Reserve just found that without Trump’s tariffs, the cost of many everyday items would have gone DOWN in the last year. Instead, as we all know, prices have shot up. Trump is choosing to make your life more expensive.

cnbc.comInflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed saysTariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation in 67 categories of goods by February 2026, researchers at the New York Federal Reserve found.

In case you were wondering why folks' confidence in the economy is worse than "prices" (of groceries, gas, everything) would suggest.

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social

Real wages are falling, and have been falling for months.

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Replying to @larrytenney.bsky.social

John Glenn strongly supported and campaigned heavily for Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) during his 1968 presidential campaign. He was with RFK at Disneyland and in LA when Kennedy was assassinated. Glenn was a pall bearer at RFK’s burial at Arlington Cemetery. John Glenn wasn’t a “conservative” Vivek!

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Zacharia: "I am looking forward to walking in & working for President Trump. This job is not about me, it's about him... his policies are the most effective, most exciting. He's the most energetic, intense president we've ever seen. When I was there yesterday he showed me where the ballroom will be"