RMS

RMS

@russellmark.bsky.social

Art by Canmom Style #KatsuyaTerada A sword rang as it was drawn. 'Do what you will; but I will hinder it, if I may.'

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The powerful executives who cozied up to Trump didn't oops accidentally forget about pendulum swings. They either: 1) Like the fascism 2) Calculated it was here to stay, so going along was savvy 3) Saw no real downside, no consequences when the pendulum swung Crucial to show them 3 was a mistake

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

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The unfathomable corruption

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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They have nothing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Braun's answer is automatically disqualifying. It doesn't matter what the intelligence showed (we know it showed that Iran wasn't developing nuclear weapons). The president doesn't have the authority to do what he did.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 John Braun, the Republican running against Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, on whether he thinks going to war against Iran was a good idea: "So, um, ah, I have no way of knowing ... I'm not in Congress ... none of us know what drove that decision in February"

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Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)

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I was living in Mexico, teaching ESL online to Chinese children when a student led me to the identity of the man who found me on the street as a baby. But to discover who and where I came from, I had to face China, the place I was born, abandoned, and adopted from. #DVpit #A #Mem #Own #POC

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Fox News just did a long segment on this Jack Smith hearing and, you're never going to be believe this, but they didn't play any of Schmitt embarrassing himself.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Replying to @daniellarison.bsky.social

The author claims to be baffled why Rogers isn't doing more to put himself in front of voters, but the answer is obvious. Rogers doesn't want to field questions from people when he is supporting both a war and a trade war that they hate. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

bloomberg.comRogers Is Playing It Too Safe Against El-SayedMike Rogers is a promising Senate candidate with a sterling resume who could upset Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in swing-state Michigan during an otherwise discouraging midterm election cycle for the Repub...

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The Chinese Communist Party got access to sensitive components of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters. The U.S. got 2 pandas.

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Ivana Zelníčková, later Trump, was a "trusted asset" of Státní bezpečnost, the Czech equivalent of the KGB, which is why she (and later her family) could travel in and out of Communist Czechoslovakia whenever she liked. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Don Jr: "Look, I know a little something about the price that socialism extracts from its citizens. As a kid, I went behind the Iron Curtain and spent my summers with my grandparents in communist Czechoslovakia."

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Fukuyama: “Trump went to Moscow in the 1980s, while the Soviet Union still existed. He later spent tens of thousands of dollars on New York Times ads arguing that NATO caused the Cold War standoff and shouldn’t be funded.”

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Brooke Rollins: "Beef is coming down! We had about a 2 percent drop a couple of weeks ago, and that's the biggest drop in five years" (a pound of ground beef costs nearly $2 more now than it did three years ago ... )

"Funny, your record with the Cameron admin in the UK does not seem to be pro worker.Hilton, Cameron's brains behind the "big society", his ideas for the economy were leaked. Suggested ignoring regulations in order to abolish mat leave & get rid of all consumer rights leg for 9 months

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Lutnick: "The way the president is playing Iran -- there haven't been American deaths, it's really just an economic choke-out ... " (There have been 18 American deaths!)

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Hakeem Jeffries has received over $1 million in campaign funds from AIPAC PAC and its donor network across recent election cycles. He has always voted opposition to amendments aimed at cutting billions in military aid to terrorist state Israel.

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Trump’s 50% tariffs on Canadian goods just took effect—Maine is going to feel it hard. Its economy is deeply intertwined with Canada: blueberries, lobster, lumber, paper mills. These tariffs raise costs & threaten jobs across the state. Susan Collins won’t stand up to Trump and fight to stop them.