paulad.bsky.social

paulad.bsky.social

@paulad.bsky.social

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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

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Wall Street has no business in the exam room. That's the idea behind my Stop Corporate Takeovers of Physicians Act. You deserve doctors who put your interests first—and not corporate profits.

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Again, it's not just that this is appalling and indecent. It's that it reveals someone inhabiting a moral universe where even the concept of decency is so unfathomable and alien that it doesn't even occur to you to attempt a half-assed impression of how someone who isn't human garbage might react.

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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Some content back up BUT NO administrative access for No Kings organizers Does Meta not think we are paying attention? Pro-democracy state AG's, legislatures & regulators should be all over investigating this--& so should a new pro-democracy Congress THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: Meta pulled down the main No Kings Instagram accounts. We demand answers for why this happened during our National Day of Action Meanwhile, millions are mobilizing—they cannot silence us Follow for updates: @ACLU.org , @MoveOn.org , @publiccitizen.bsky.social & @Indivisible.org -TN

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I am sure free speech champion Elon Musk and all the other free speech champions in MAGA land will denounce this.

Alex Gibney@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

paulad.bsky.social reposted

Ah, yes. Who could ever forget when wind energy took down… China, Germany, France, Sweden, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands. This demented fuckopotamus is such an imbecile.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Every country that's using windmills has gone bankrupt"

paulad.bsky.social reposted

If Meta suspended the account at the request of or under pressure from the admin, that would be “jawboning” — and a 1A violation. This was exactly what the MAGA states argued wrt the Hunter Biden story and COVID minsinfo. The purpose of the investigation would be to find out if that happened

Mike Masnick@masnick.com

People demanding Zuck be hauled before Congress to explain why No Kings insta was suspended... how would you feel if MAGA GOP hauled MSNow execs to explain why they covered Trump the way they do? Both are editorial choices protected by the First Amendment. If this annoys you...

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Troy Jackson: "She is the chair of appropriations. If she wants to stop the war, she could cut the funding off for the war, but she's not she is not willing to do that because Donald Trump wants this."

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Troy Jackson: "Sen. Collins says that she voted against it 9 times, but she didn't have the votes. Well, that sounds like then we probably ought to have Democrats in charge of the Senate so we have the votes to stop this war and hold Donald Trump in check. It sounds like Republicans won't do that."

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Replying to @factpostnews.bsky.social

Just a note, several of those soldiers appear to be women he wants to boot from the military for "not being as fit as the men and unable to compete with them."

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"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)

paulad.bsky.social reposted

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

propublica.orgProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption ProbeProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.

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Texas mothers are dying, and instead of giving us answers, Abbott’s administration is hiding that data. Texans deserve the truth. They deserve transparency. And our state officials have a legal obligation to give it to them. I’m demanding the report be released immediately.

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I told ya she did it.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

ProPublica: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. After Trump returned to office, the investigation died.

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Read to the end of the article for a 👀 cliffhanger

ProPublica@propublica.org

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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We fucking told them this would happen and they didn’t care. The more dead women the better.

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We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick claims Talarico "pretends" to be a pastor

paulad.bsky.social reposted

You know who really did show up? Canadian police officers, firefighters, and medical personnel came to NYC, on and off duty, traveling independently or in groups to stand with Americans and help shoulder the enormous burden of recovery and cleanup at Ground Zero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Those closest to the orange criminal-in-charge know him best. They know he is a liar and a cheat. Why don't others realize this. I suppose that they cannot admit being duped by a conman. SMH.