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Grift, meet gravity.
This is how to cover this. NPR did a spot on the award and said nothing about 2020 and Giuliani’s lies.
Now let’s see him walk a golf course.
One of my pet peeves. NYT and others keep calling him a vaccine skeptic not a vaccine opponent.
This is delusional.
The plan is completely illegal; it’s openly in violation of black letter law. Nevertheless, the Trump admin is trying to claim that the budget bill effectively amended the law; even though it was a budget bill, and cannot by definition amend the law.
Nice to see a worthy notable win the day on Bluesky.
Republicans had a chance to protect public health. Instead they chose to put a dishonest quack in charge of it. They own the nightmares to come.
How many lies can you fit into one sentence?
Fascism-plus.
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We survived another year…but it seems to me that the clock is ticking faster and faster.
Do the firms that paid the tariffs get interest on top of the refund? Could Trump’s tariffs end up costing the United States billions?
Thank you, Trump voters.
More Republican rigging.
This was a power grab. Pure and simple. Normally, Congress would step in and complain. But now the Republicans are a cult, not a political party. This is an important front in the fight against authoritarianism.
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“What worries me the most is we’re not going to know the degree that we’re suffering. We’re not, because the CDC is losing its capacity to do adequate surveillance across the country.”
@annamerlan.bsky.social asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts. Not only did they straight up ignore the question, they said this as a rebuttal. P.S. Merlan claims that 67 is a GROSS undercount. 🤭
![“DHS will continue using every tool at its disposal to keep the American people informed as our agents work to Make America Safe Again,” the statement began. “Unfortunately, the American people can no longer rely on journalists like Anna Merlin [sic], who has tweeted the F-word 67 times in her illustrious career at (checks notes)… Jezebel and Mother Jones; to give them the clear unvarnished truth on the work our brave agents are doing on a daily basis. Until Mother Jones returns to relevancy (unlikely), and becomes a neutral arbiter, DHS will continue cutting through the lies, mistruths, and half-quotes to keep Americans informed.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qobvnkudcv3zlaklxxjduqoi/bafkreignoajtz4tbub437xdmyh3ixpymkw6vgbrn4vp2doo26kt2vqwc3m@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Vance has taken eight vacations during those 200 days
Wtf.
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“The most transparent administration in history” refuses to say who’s behind their batshit social media.
The proposed indictment didn’t cut the mustard.
Trump is no friend of the Jews.
Imagine celebrating this.
The end of the republic?
“You are the peace president.” Tell that to the dead, injured, and displaced of Gaza.
Stalin could only have dreamed of having such toadies.
Kim Jong Un is jealous.
I’m wondering how Politico might have covered German politics in 1933. Any ideas?
Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) ought to challenge Trump to an arm-wrestling match.
After almost a decade of this sort of BS from Trump, I’m surprised that America’s not tired of it and that his approval ratings are not lower than his already historic lows.
Why are MAGAites such wimps? Several times a week thousands show up at Camden Field for O’s games. Fells Point is always crowded. The city’s great Italian restaurants are always busy. It’s not that scary. Trump is weak.
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This nonsense again! He's really in some kind of dementia loop.
Maybe not so casually?
Small man, big poster.
They want to kill people.
Stuck in the 1980s.
A sign of desperation?
Can he quote one?
The cruelty is really the point.
Are the troops and state police thugs roaming the Epcot Center?
I spent years walking past the Library of Congress on a daily basis. Never saw any crime there. Not even an overdue book. This is absurd.
Expect more of this—with Trump emboldening attacks on universities.
It was all just to bring the Japanese to the table.
Genie: "You have three wishes." Trump: "I want law enforcement abolished." Genie: "Granted, You have no wishes left." Trump: "You said I have three wishes. I only used one!" Genie: "So arrest me."
The White House and DHS seem to be claiming any undocumented Latin American guy arrested by ICE in DC has "suspected gang ties" without any evidence for the accusation. That's not new for them, but it's strikingly racist, slanderous shit from the US government. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
MAGA is a death cult.
See the 1980s: Greed is good.
History repeats?
Vance can’t be this ignorant, can he? WWII was not ended with a negotiation. Germany and Japan were dictatorial and genicidal regimes that had to be crushed by the military might of the US and Russia. FDR did not sit down and negotiate with Hitler.
Remember 24 hours? What a joke. Trump can’t end the war because he’s unwilling to put pressure on Putin, a murderous tyrant and war criminal who helped him get elected in 2016 and whom he treated as a statesman and BFF.
Such a credible witness. What are the odds that the Trump Justice Department would prosecute her for lying about that?
It’s Stalinism, comrade.
It’s a ”troubling” mix.
I anxiously await a Kent State-like event.
Deplorable.
We will put implants in your brain that make you want to procreate. That's almost as good as soylent green!
The Bolton raid is about fear. Cross Trump at your peril. The biggest love in his life is revenge.
Send in the troops!
Are these guys dense? Newsom is not trying to “mimic” Trump. He’s making fun of him.
It’s a Soviet-like purge.
Why anti-democratic representation is good for democracy.
A Banksy-like poster of Sandwich Guy is popping up around D.C. “When somebody writes the history of this period, that will definitely be one of the iconic images that comes out of it,” said one expert who specializes in graffiti and street art.
Yesterday, a man, a very important man, came up to me and said, “Sir, thank you for giving us a Golden Age. No one thought it could be done.”
He’s a pathological liar.
They just lie.
So what was all that about ending the war in 24 hours?
"We were given no reason as to why." Israel just denied this doctor from entering Gaza with food and baby formula.
Don’t tell the anti-woke crowd.
This is so Soviet-ish.
Law and order.
nOt A cUlT.
January 6 still happened. Capitulation.
This one made me laugh. So…thank you.
Unless there is a reason for Putin to end the war, he won’t end the war
See my previous post....Imagine saying you feel warmly about a war criminal and dictator who bombs civilian, murders political opponents, crushes democracy, and kidnaps children. This is pathological. It also ought to be front and center in any media coverage of Trump and the war in Ukraine.
It's clear that Trump is either a total Putin symp or unable to comprehend reality. Ukraine did not "take on" Russia. It was brutally & illegally invaded by a war criminal dictator who has bombed civilian targets, seized land, and kidnapped children. Why does he keep blaming Zelensky and not Putin?
Actually, if you went to someone's house for an important meeting crucial to world peace and then they showed you this display, what would you think?
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Narcissism much?
Recent photo of MAGA thanking law enforcement in DC
This guy can’t not lie.
I think she is lying.
They whine about the weaponization of law-enforcement and then they publicly acknowledge doing just that.
When murderous fascists wave the US flag, something has gone wrong.
Putin told Trump that mail-in voting is bad, and that’s why he’s doing this now. I’m not making this up.
And in August!
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This is how fascism comes.
It is so wild to me that we had a terrorist attack on the CDC and it just blended into the rest of the political violence.
(This was Hannity’s assessment of Joe Biden’s 2021 meeting with the Russian leader, in Geneva.) Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social 2/2 www.status.news/p/trump-puti...
You forgot: One applauded for the other.
Great. More online crime, terrorism, and intelligence operations aimed at the US.
Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours…and Putin increased the intensity of his attacks.
Worth keeping this in mind.
Earlier this week, Trump promised "very severe consequences" if Putin did not agree to a ceasefire. Now, he's abandoning the idea altogether.
This is what a police state looks like—with masked secret police serving a political agenda not legitimate law enforcement needs.