Rick Middleton

Rick Middleton

@rickmcopy.bsky.social

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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social

Obviously this is a hilarious and obvious lie but it's instructive in that Trump knows he's supposed to care about this thing, and manifestly does not and cannot care about it, and so he has to put himself into the story just to make it something he can talk about. He almost died that day!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on 9/11: "I just thank my people. I was building a big building in New York & I took the whole crew down there right after this happened & they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me... we thought it was coming down on top of us... two fireman lifted me up and started running with me"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

phoenixnewtimes.comInsurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soilBefore the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

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The New Republic
@newrepublic.com

President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR

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Paul Rosenberg
@paulrosenberg.bsky.social

Every elected Dem should do this. Absolute #FloodTheZone with mockery of Trump. The more folks do it, the more ludicrously it oh-so-rightly appears to be.

Bob Geiger@bobgeiger.bsky.social

Governor Gavin Newsom's press office expertly trolling the bullshit "prizes" being given to President Piggy.

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Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf
@revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

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SarahBCalif
@sarahbca.bsky.social

It actually fully grosses me out & makes me livid when I see Democratic leaders in the House or Senate say: “In the interest of bipartisanship” Bipartisanship has left the building! Believing in bipartisanship is how we got here. Not being strong & partisan is our greatest weakness.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

DOKOUPIL: Republicans says what you're really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for illegal aliens. I know that's not strictly true-- ELIZABETH WARREN: Excuse me, not strictly true? It is a flat out lie!

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.