Spiked Doormat

Spiked Doormat

@spikeddoormat.bsky.social

No need to follow. I'll eventually piss you off anyways, whether I mean to or not. No boosts please, don't want be an influencer. Hypocrisy is a Republican virtue. Murc's Law is the opiate of the American masses.

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If you want to get rid of Schumer and Jeffries that badly, you need two things. 1) A list of Democrats qualified to take over their jobs. and 2) From the first list, a second list of qualified people who WANT to take over from Schumer and Jeffries.

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Rep. Joey Arrington over a graphic showing diesel at $6.35: "Thank God we have a commander in chief that's willing to do things that aren't in his political interest"

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NEW: For over a year, staff at Oklahoma’s regulatory agency built a case against the oil company with the state’s highest number of oil field pollution incidents and violations. Instead of punishing the company, officials let it restart operations. with @readfrontier.bsky.social

propublica.orgThis Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It.Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders ch...

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Elon Musk has spent more on politics in two years than George Soros has in his entire life. Now he’s trying to buy Ken Paxton a Senate seat because he knows how easy it is to bribe that scumbag. It’s up to Texans to tell Musk their state isn’t for sale.

Which Donniegula shut down, and thus probably why Lazy Susan has a tiny jaundiced hand buried inside her crotch.

ProPublica@propublica.org

WATCH: A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg

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The Babylon Bee guy is mad that his friend has been arrested by ICE over a technicality. But here’s his normal view on ICE deportations:

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But at least they didn’t go to public school and get transitioned

ProPublica@propublica.org

Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions. State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.

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USPS workers’ greatest concern about Trump’s mail voting plan was a requirement that they reject ballots for an array of reasons. “That’s not what we do. We deliver mail. We don’t decide what goes and what doesn’t.”

propublica.orgThe Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In VotingProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...

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Whether it's Elon Musk cutting off the Starlink access that protects Ukrainians from Russian missiles or Ukraine cutting off Russian bot servers that give Elon his X likes and retweets, both sides have escalated a deadly feud.

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The “something” in question was the workers themselves deciding by 1966 that they no longer wanted New Dealer welfare capitalism if it meant black Americans would benefit from it while anti-war protesters were free to burn the flag

Waldo@waldo42.bsky.social

Something happened in the 70's that crystallized politics (and many other topics) into a new set of assumptions and priors. It gave rise to Reaganism and completely crushed New Deal Socialism; Dems that eventually reemerged were and still are centrists scared of their own shadows.

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It feels abundantly clear that what a lot of leftists want Democrats to do is pass a "Even if Republicans get a majority they still can't do things" law, and refuse to accept democracy literally Does Not Work That Way while still remaining a democracy.

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This is what happens when you teach your children that Trump is someone to admire

The lawsuit alleges the boys who shared the nude photos also had a public Instagram page where they discussed which of their teachers were the “loosest” and used racist language. One message read, “If [male student’s name] wasn’t dating [female student’s name], I would have raped her already.”

When the Secretary of "War" is a drunken Cornell fratboy who wants the U.S. military to be like Russian Orcs.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Iran wasn't running out of firepower. It was holding back. Now vessels are being sunk, missile tests are accelerating, and the scale of attacks is expanding dramatically. What we're witnessing should terrify Trump's war planners.

If Ukraine is ruled by Nazis like so many MAGAts and tankies claim, why is Bentdick Elonold trying to get them killed and conquered instead of trying to help out fellow "Nazis"? 🤔

When the party is the personality cult of a child rapist, there's no real thought involved with mocking a victim of child rape.

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social

This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

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Trump throwing a democratic Taiwan to the communist Chinese wolves The only commie-lover around here is Trump

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Look, if we had smart presidents, the Taiwan problem with China wouldn't exist. Nobody would care. They stole our chip business. All of it. 100 percent."

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Reminder: Trump and Netanyahu ready to reignite war with Iran days before Israel's election. Netanyahu wants a war to save his political career, with Trump willing to explode global gas prices again, kill more Iranian civilians and put US troops, allied countries in harm's way to help him.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

US and Israel have drawn up plans for renewed strikes on Iran. Netanyahu pushed Trump to resume the war before elections, but Trump resisted. The planned three-day offensive would target Iran energy and weapons infrastructure. Iran warns of a wider war.

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So move over, my friend Larry David: somebody pulled the ashes of Bill Maher's career out of the fireplace and somehow re-burned them anew. His new friend Trump, dinner with whom he keeps boasting about, just had Bill for dessert Sleep with Trump, get fleeced

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I was surprised when Bolsonaro came out ahead in the first round of voting. It felt like Lula had it in the bag I think a lot of Brazilians felt the same and didn’t bother to go to the polls. The first round shook people up. This time they showed up Americans, take note: Vote!!!

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Catholic Bishops, from a church notorious for raping children without consent, prays with a president also notorious for raping children without consent, get touchy about the White House posting a video of the event [checks notes] without consent.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Christopher Hale: Archbishop Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee apologized on Sunday for praying over President Trump in the Oval Office last week, and he accused the White House of posting video of the prayer without the bishops’ consent

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Trump: "I will be a dictator on day one!" MAGA: "Why can't you take a joke?" Obama: "The White House looks like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheese Cake Factory." MAGA: "Arrrrrrrggggggghhhhh!"

Hobbling the state's own rebuilding because racism is candy to these people.

Francesca D'Annunzio@francescadnunz.bsky.social

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

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Obama: "Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office"