You can call me Al

You can call me Al

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Here’s the thing: It’s not going with him after the presidency. We’re taking it from him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Newsom: "That $400m Qatari plane? That's not a $400m gift. It cost you $936m. That was what was appropriated as he's cutting food stamps and cutting your Medicaid. He put a billion dollars in the Pentagon budget to retrofit his private plane because that's going with him after the presidency ... "

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"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."

newrepublic.comTrump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt WomenAnd the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.

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NEW: Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored the voting rights of more than 66,000 people who were formerly convicted of felonies. It's a stunning reversal of the felony disenfranchisement under prior Gov. Youngkin, who restored less than 10,000 people's voting rights across his entire 4-year term.

democracydocket.comVirginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictionsThe volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.

Imagine if Biden did that.

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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Elon Musk fucked up the whole world.

Alexandra Phelan 余雪莲@alexandraphelan.bsky.social

The Ebola toll in DRC has surpassed 500 deaths. Healthcare workers are experiencing such terrible conditions and pay they’re preparing to strike. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...

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Rep. Lisa McClain: "For the people in our country who want to turn this country into a communist country -- leave. Go to Europe where they are experiencing this heat wave and they don't have air conditioning. See how well that works for you. I'm proud to be an American."

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This is only the beginning. He has no plans to leave office or allow free elections. Nor are his plans hidden—they're all unfolding in plain sight. The Insurrection never ended and the Christofascists won't stop until our democracy is gone. Choose who you'll be in this moment.

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This. He’s removing the glue that has kept us afloat and dominant for almost a hundred years. Nothing that’s happening makes team USA stronger in the short term or long term. This is pure and utter sabotage, something out of Xi’s and Putin’s dreams.

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social

"For a country whose global power depends entirely on the world's willingness to hold its debt, obey its intellectual property laws, prop up its purchasing power... and overlook its international crimes, such a complete loss of allies is an existential failure." www.patreon.com/posts/us-cos...

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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

thehandbasket.coWhistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new bookRead an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

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“Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies” #chromebook #scam

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This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

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If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."

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The U.S. Embassy in Denmark removed 44 Danish flags honoring Danish soldiers killed in Afghanistan outside the building, drawing outrage from the country’s veterans amid heightened tensions between Copenhagen and Washington. https://wapo.st/4rfbSOz

wapo.stRemoval of flags for fallen Danish soldiers at U.S. Embassy sparks backlashThere was no malicious intent in removing the flags, said a State Department spokesperson, who added that the flags had been replaced.

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Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

What could go wrong?

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Breaking WaPo: The Trump Justice Department is considering loosening a slate of gun regulations as it seeks to bolster support from ardent Second Amendment advocates. 
Some changes are expected to ease restrictions on the private sale of guns and loosening regulations around shipping firearms.

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This >>>

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social

Venezuela. Minneapolis. The J6 whitewash. And (after I wrote this) Jerome Powell It's all the same story: Trump's now-public belief that nothing can stop him beyond his own 'mind' and 'morality' But he can be stopped, by actual morality. Ours My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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There's significant evidence from state legislative term limits that they do, in fact, empower both lobbyists and state executive branches. "Disagreeing" without offering any counter-evidence is just vibes.

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Replying to @nequalone.bsky.social

Exactly. She probably thinks that by her making this video will get them to change or create legal carve outs for her and people that look like her.

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Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."

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Replying to @atrupar.com

There are definitely things that have gone down. Hope, for instance. Faith in elected officials and institutions.

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Replying to @whstancil.bsky.social

The people complaining about how the left is holding onto the past by complaining about replacing the East Wing are the same people who raise 47 kinds of hell over removing statues of old, white racists who committed treason 160 years ago because HIsTOrY.

What could go wrong?

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social

The people guarding the US nuclear stockpile are being furloughed today. Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential. edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...

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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

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Ron Johnson: "Quite honestly, by now it should be obvious to every American that it's not the Republicans that are a threat to our democracy. It's President Obama, it's President Biden."

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LAWLER: They are playing pure politics here and it has to stop COLLINS: You don't think the admin is playing politics by only canceling projects in Dem states? L: Listen, I'm in NY & I'm a Republican & obviously this project cancelation impacts my district, so it's not just Dems getting impacted