Pjeanne97

Pjeanne97

@pjeanne97.bsky.social

Procrastination expert & typo queen with a thing for dachshunds & democracy

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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“on the outskirts of Richmond, Va., the owners of an industrial warehouse emailed the Trump administration asking for their own waiver. Their wish was granted. Nine months later, the facility accidentally released a large plume of carcinogenic gas into the community.”

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

He needs to be asked this over and over. Being a sexual assault victim makes a person flawed?

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEW: Vivek Ramaswamy says Amy Acton being a victim of childhood sexual abuse makes her “flawed” while defending his ad featuring her estranged mother. “In politics sometimes it's a tough sport.”

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Abdul El-Sayed on JD Vance: "I think America is big enough for all of us. His view of America is small like him. It's about pointing to other people and making the argument that the reason *you* don't have is because of *them.*" El-Sayed came on our pod. It's good: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

newrepublic.comAbdul El-Sayed’s Viral Takedown of GOP Heckler Shows How to Fight MAGAIn an interview, El-Sayed talks about the state of the Michigan Senate race, his recent battles with JD Vance, his big moment with a GOP plant—and how it all reflects his theory of MAGA politics.

We need a whole new vocabulary to describe how assertively horrible these people are. They should be shunned from society, not able to show their faces without being shamed

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

We are documenting takes from some of the worst people imaginable over at mediamatters.org

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My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

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Mike Rogers mocks voter concerns about Social Security cuts: "Anytime you, you know, get the screwdriver in there and adjust it a little bit, the other team goes, 'Oh my God, you're trying to kill seniors. You don't care about people.'"

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Leaked audio: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers asking for officers at polling stations to intimidate voters "We called the RNC early and said hey... Let's put police officers, retired or off-duty police officers as our poll watchers in Detroit because go ahead, try to intimidate them. Please."

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Trump Admin siccing debt collectors on as many as 10 million Americans: "The Treasury Department is moving forward with plans to hire private debt collectors, possibly as soon as November... the plans are unlikely to be announced before the midterm elections" www.washingtonsun.com/economy/trum...

washingtonsun.comTrump Aides Are Getting Ready to Penalize Defaulting Student Loan BorrowersTreasury officials are seeking ways to minimize the impact on vulnerable borrowers.

Good lord

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

James Carville lost the plot… AGAIN He would rather Republicans keep control of the House than see Democrats win with a narrow majority because he’s afraid of the left. Are you fucking kidding me? So we’re all fighting to stop Trump’s fascist agenda and Carville is more worried about the DSA.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to approve the transfer of a significant batch of Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine, Ukrainian officials told the Kyiv Independent, raising suspicions that Washington is deliberately withholding the weapons.

kyivindependent.com'It's significant': Ukraine fears US is withholding allied-funded air defense supplies to pressure KyivU.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to approve the transfer of a significant batch of Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine, Ukrainian officials and military officers told the Kyiv Independ...

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Bizarre for Semafor to say CBS hasn’t become a mouthpiece for Trump in the same piece that says they’re pushing Muslim Brotherhood lies about El-Sayed and thought about pushing the mental hospital hoax about Talarico. Like what the fuck would you call that but pro Trump propaganda?

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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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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics millions for a factory that kept churning out botched artillery shells. A former Army official called it an “absolute disaster” and said the Army “should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics.” (Published August)

propublica.orgFiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made NothingGeneral Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

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Thinking about when Victor Robles was telling the Praying Mantis on his cap how many outs there were 😭

MLB@mlbbot.bsky.social

Jackson Chourio made a new friend 😭

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"Seven years ago, a political appointee in the first Trump administration approached U.S. immigration authorities with a request that alarmed career staffers: Scrub the immigration records of Rep. Ilhan Omar." Officials "ultimately determined there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing."

wapo.stTrump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.

If everyone did this we’d be in better shape. Laugh at these idiots when they lie

WATCH: Andy Harris has a crash out after his constituents laugh at him for trying to blame higher gas prices on... Democrats. "You are rude!" #MD01

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1. There is no such thing as a "false rumor." The word for that is a HOAX. 2. The headline misses the entire point of the hoax, which is not that he was in Ohio, but that he was in a mental health facility! are there any adults left at the new york times

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FIFA signed a more than seven-year lease at Trump Tower, worth about $4 million, according to two officials directly involved in the deal and documents reviewed by The New York Times. The suite mostly sits empty. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...

nytimes.comFIFA Pays Millions for Trump Tower Office Said to Be Rarely Used (Gift Article)The deal is another sign of how Gianni Infantino, the leader of soccer’s global governing body, has sought closer ties to President Trump.

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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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This is BEYOND shameful. Families in Illinois are still picking up the pieces from tornadoes, extreme wind, and floods. But only families in Indiana are getting the federal help they deserve. Donald Trump only cares about the states that voted for him.

It is wild how the GOP has convinced people that immigrants are evil as these men just post each other millions and billions of dollars while the rest of us pinch pennies

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

A rising tide lifts all yachts.

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Matthew Shepard was twenty-one years old. He was gentle and kind. On this night in 1998, he lay tied to a wooden fence for eighteen hours under the bright Wyoming stars. Not for any crime he committed. He lay there, alone and cold, simply for existing as a gay man.

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The rule is: If you have talent, you have to focus on that talent instead of offering opinions on politics. If you don’t have talent, opine away.

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