Vint of John

Vint of John

@vintjohn.bsky.social

Occupational Health and Safety professional. Lutheran. Minnesotan working to get back there. I miss Wellstone. Vaccines are science. Science is real. Climate change is science. Fishing and hunting are fun. Gun owner.

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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Ukraine losing access to Starshield raises serious concerns for our national security—like who controls critical capabilities the U.S. government has spent billions to procure & how decisions to restrict them are made. I'm demanding answers from the Department of Defense & SpaceX

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Nine FBI agents investigated the classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago. Kash Patel fired all nine. He told Congress it followed "internal investigations." Their lawsuit says there weren't any. Someone's lying to Congress, and I’d bet it’s not the agents.

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Haven’t seen as yet any Australian political reporters ask Albanese, Marles or Wong why Australia is all in with a defence alliance with a country supporting Russia

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"Trump’s actual purpose was plainly not to increase US diesel supplies, or otherwise lower prices, but rather to make clear his intention to definitively change sides & become Russia’s wartime ally — & to undermine the sanctions regime against Russia the US worked so hard to implement over 5 years."

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Replying to @schiff.senate.gov

National security decisions should be made in our national security interests, and not based on the personal whim of an unstable executive.

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Trump calls on Minnesota to elect "a very talented Republican who happens to be running" (the name he's looking for is Michele Tafoya)

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The E15 policy might seem obscure, but let’s not miss the forest for the trees: At his latest campaign rally, Trump told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes how they vote in the Senate race. How is this not a scandal? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowTrump takes transactional politics to a new level at latest campaign rallyTrump effectively told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes an election result, which is every bit as remarkable as it sounds.

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Trump: "The kind of that money that has been stolen is trillions from this country by crooked politicians"

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Ossoff: "Maybe you saw that Donald Trump was in Dalton yesterday, oblivious to the collapse of his presidency. A crowd smaller than this one enduring two hours of senile babbling while the price of oil hit its 5 month high"

What an ass.

Kylie Cheung@kylietcheung.bsky.social

incredibly fucking juvenile/weird and you have to wonder if he'll regret it when, in the coming years, he has 0 political future because all the MAGA groypers he's trying to appeal to will be calling *him* fat, gay, and calling his family racial slurs

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Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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Uh, who’s going to tell him?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "I'm very popular. I really am…I'm really popular. I mean, CNN just did a poll. I'm at 99%, the highest ever, in the Republican Party. I'm popular. I'm very popular."

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Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early."

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Think of what is possible in 25 days: Democrats can flip the House, win back the Senate, and end Trump’s agenda. That can only happen if you vote. Make your plan to vote on or before November 3: IWillVote.com

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It is never just one case gone wrong. There are always so many other survivors who were mistreated before any of these stories make it into the public eye.

Andrea González-Ramírez@andreagonram.bsky.social

"My assailant was found responsible for my sexual assault ... His punishment? He received a 'written reprimand,' was ordered to write a 'reflection paper,' and was placed on behavioral probation until he graduated two months later." Must-read by a Cornell grad: www.thecut.com/article/i-wa...

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Replying to @atrupar.com

Tom Emmer, the House Whip, called Somali-Americans 'enemy combatants' and said round them up. Not a foreign army. His own constituents. That is war language aimed at American citizens. Say the quiet part, Tom. We hear it fine.

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Replying to @atrupar.com

There are more criminals in the White House right now than there are criminal Somali-Americans. There are more criminals in the White House right now than there are all ICE concentration camps or those being deported. More criminals have been pardoned by IQ47 than both of the groups I mentioned. 

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I'll never get past the surreal absurdity of an 80 year old man who has made a 50 year old gay anthem (to everyone but the guy who sang it) his theme.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump has some sort of large contraption around his waist again today that makes him look vaguely like a centaur while he stands

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PATHETIC: Speaker Johnson and his caucus of cowardly Republicans canceled their last day of work before an eight-week recess to avoid voting on impeaching Pete Hegseth until after the midterms. Make sure to send them a letter in support of Hegseth's impeachment here: bit.ly/4iyfx9o

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I'm sure Brendan Carr will be right on this

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb

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REPORTER: “Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you think it's fraud?” TRUMP: “I'd rather have them vote in person, but they can vote by mail if they want. But there is a lot of cheating in vote by mail.” REPORTER: “There's no evidence.” TRUMP: “You are fake news.”