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Wait... what!? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
They allowed Trump to remain exposed for the photo and Trump cared more about getting his shoes back than about being "shot". It's always seemed off to me. Then there's the "shot off" ear that healed overnight with no scar whatsoever now.
I remember that guy. In the Butler video, he looks right at the camera as if waiting for a signal that the photographer has what he needs. Then Trump makes what looks like a signal to exit stage right and they all move.
Sounds like a motive.
This is the way.
Must be nice to not have oligarchs on your Supreme Court.
I trust what this guy says and nothing that Trump says. I'm subscribed to him on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQJ4...
I actually get a lot of breaking news right here on Bluesky which I verify by checking other sources I trust. Some of those are right here too including Meidas, MSW media (Allison Gill), George Conway, Aaron Rupar and others.
Best quote I've seen posted: "I don't support what happened to Charlie Kirk, but Charlie Kirk supported it."
Mainstream media's Charlie Kirk narrative: Sure, he believed LGBTQ people should be stoned to death, black people are inferior and unqualified, women are only meant to serve men, 10 year old girls should be forced to give birth. But he meant well.
I saw someone repost the best quote I've seen so far on Charlie Kirk: "I don't support what happened to Charlie Kirk but Charlie Kirk supported it"
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
I'm not buying it and neither is this guy who I subscribe to on YT. He seems to have a good bead on what's happening with Russia and Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQJ4...
REPORTER: What's your reaction to Russia's drone incursion into Poland? TRUMP: It could've been a mistake
Me either, but I make exceptions for Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow. I don't get cable, but I listen to their podcasts. I look at CNN online for breaking news, but ignore their opinions.
I'm an Iowa refugee, free these past 40+ years. I know there are blue dots there and I hope between them and the fed up MAGA farmers, the tide will turn. One seat there has already gone Dem.
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Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
Exactly. It's ok too I think to be horrified and opposed to violence and murder without feeling especially sorry for the victim in this case. I do feel for his wife and kids though.
I just saw a comment that said "I don't support what happened to Charlie, but Charlie supported what happened to Charlie." THAT ... that's what I've been trying to put into words.
One sows what one reaps and Kirk sowed a lot of hate. He was a modern day George C. Wallace in many respects and the hate caught up with both of them. It's ok to be horrified by murder and not at all sad about the victim. Sympathies to his family.
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Given the revisionist bullshit I have to say set the record straight about Charlie Kirk.
I still remember...
Ernst is just a standard MAGA hypocrite as Charlie Kirk was. What did she have to say about the Minnesota representative and her husband who were murdered in an act of political violence? Crickets. F**k her and good riddance. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
Iowa has apparently had enough of Ernst and Gov. Kim Reynolds and rightly so. Neither is running for re-election, so they must see the handwriting on the wall.
The WH will undoubtedly want to pick the handwriting expert and it will be a Ronny Jackson type, that I can tell you.
BOLDUAN: The White House says it would support a professional handwriting expert review that birthday book page that allegedly was made by Trump. The WH continues to say it was not. SWALWELL: I have two eyes. You have two eyes. Anyone who looks at that letter knows whose signature that was.
Russia sending drones into Poland and NATO responding is so yesterday's news.
Is anyone at the FBI working domestic anti-terrorism these days or are they preoccupied with picking up brown laborers at Home Depots and construction sites? Has Trump federalized the Utah National Guard and deployed Marines there yet? Kirk is no hero. One reaps what one sows.
So they havenβt caught the guy and you donβt have a ton of leads? Maybe sending all your federal law enforcement agents to help ICE and dismantling the JTTF and firing the head FBI field office for political reasons wasnβt the best idea.
Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"
I practiced criminal law for 29 years in a jurisdiction that had all Republican sheriffs, police chiefs, AGs, judges, & governors. And there were LOTS of violent repeat offenders of different ages & races who committed lots of horrible crimes for different reasons or no reason.
The coverup isnβt working. Everybody knows the signature in the Epstein birthday book belongs to the lifelong criminal who was best friends with the child rapist.
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Must be God's plan for farmers, right?
Yea these oligarchs will be swooping in & buying the land on the cheap.
Let's hope it's not another "What the Constitution meant to say" shadow docket rulings where the infamous six just make shit up. www.huffpost.com
Hand are too big, but still well done!
Why anyone thought Trump, who filed for bankruptcy six times, and thinks you need ID to buy groceries was going to fix the economy, is beyond me. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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Wow, talk shows online. Nutlick too. The internet is amazing!
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This!
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... We're supposed to believe that someone else made that drawing and forged Trump's signature on it 20 some years ago so it could be used against him now? He denied drawing the Sharpie line on the hurricane map too.
I hope one or more of Epstein's surviving victims or Murdoch's lawyers depose Maxwell under oath so she can be asked if Trump provided that drawing and "I don't recall" won't be an acceptable answer.
Rep. Garcia: Trump is now walking into his own lie. First he says that it doesn't exist. We've proven that wrong. Now the White House is trying to play clean up and say it's not his signature. Again, that's being proven to be a complete lie. So the question to Trump is, what are you hiding?
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Someone else drew the Sharpie line on the hurricane map too. Couldn't possibly have been Trump because he can't draw, right?
Sure and someone else drew the Sharpie line on the hurricane map. Couldn't have been Trump.
Number 3 is usually "I had an absolute right to do it", but that doesn't fly as well with raping children.
Not the first time (link below). I just watched a documentary on the making of the movie "Three Days of the Condor". Apparently the CIA closely monitored production when the script came too close to the reality of what they'd been doing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_SE...
Does anyone really believe they won't be scrubbed by Chairman Gomer and Moses Johnson?
BREAKING: The Epstein Estate has given House Oversight the birthday book and other documents. These have NOT been scrubbed by Pam Bondi and the DoJ or Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
In light of todayβs SCOTUS decision, every person of color with an accent in the US should probably carry proof of citizenship with them at all times - while working and everywhere they go. If you donβt want to be in a detention facility awaiting a friend or relative to bring it.
When I raped and then defamed her, it was within the scope of my official presidential duties, therefore I enjoy immunity, even though I wasn't president when I raped her or when I defamed her. F**king unreal that he finds lawyers willing to argue such nonsense. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
He brought Kennedy on board to debase the family. Same reason he paved over Jackieβs Rose Garden and gutted the Kennedy Center. RFK Jr goes along because he and former his law firm stand to make millions from suing over vaccines.
The two worst cover-ups in American presidential history.
A new Banksy has appeared on the walls of the Royal Courts of Justice but has already been covered up, I doubt to protect it but to stop it being seen and embarrassing the Judiciary and Starmer.
Surprise morons! He doesn't need to buy your votes anymore and he always thought you were just a bunch of dumb hick rubes.
Honest to God, I don't know what the idiots who voted for him expected. Midwest farmers now facing ruin certainly knew from his first term when he destroyed the China market for soy that took decades to build what he was. Maybe they thought he would continue to pay them to fail.
Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, a "Teflon Don." But in truth he's becoming an increasingly weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2000...
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know." - Groucho Marx
This from the f**king hypocrite who just announced that he would give the nation's highest civilian honor to an indicted, disbarred, disgraced insurrectionist and allow another insurrectionist to be buried at Arlington with full military honors.
Proving yet again what a small, petty, whiny, pathetic loser he is.
Boo f**king hoo. He killed the China market for soy that took decades to build in his last term. China gets soy from Brazil now. Fool me once, fool me twice. Dumb.
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"I better use some Tic Tacs, just in case I start kissing her. I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
Alternate headline: Johnson Lied.
"You know, like everything else, grass has a life. Do you know that? Grass has a life. You know, we have a life, and grass has a life."
Iowa gets about 63% of its electricity from wind farms and has some of the lowest electric rates in the nation, 24/7. Iowa, are you tired of being lied to yet? Your senator Joni Ernst and governor Kim Reynolds seem to think the game is up and aren't running for reelection
Carville is past his "best used by" date.
Posse Comitatus doesnβt apply to unfederalized guard. Those are different rules - including article IV and EMAC. Steve Vladeck and I discuss here: substack.com/@muellershew...
Claiming credit isn't the same as being given credit. The Republicans in Congress who all voted against it are doing the same thing. They're all repulsive, lying scoundrels. 86 them in 26.
Trump destroyed the China market for soy that took decades to build in his first term. China buys soy from Brazil now. Now the Canadian potash they need for fertilizer is sky high due to his tariffs.
It's not much of a further stretch to think he had something to do with Epstein's suspicious death, especially since the Trump DOJ is lying about it and put out an edited video. He died on Trump and Bill Barr's watch and Barr reportedly had some exposure also.
The version I heard is that Trump became concerned with the leverage Epstein had over him with their shared "island secrets" and ratted him out to the FBI.
Happy Saturday, yβall.
I'm from Iowa and drove past those wind farms when I used to visit family. They're a boon to Iowans, but a bane to the fossil fuel industry. Republicans are in their hip pockets. It's no wonder that Iowans are finally beginning to see through the GOP's lies.
To think that Trump was shocked, SHOCKED to learn what Epstein was up to is to disbelieve all of Trump's accusers who have come forward at their own risk. Anyone who believes anything Johnson says is a fool.
The version of this I read that I prefer to believe is that Trump began to fear the leverage Epstein had over him because of their shared island secrets and set him up. Not much of a stretch from that to believe Trump had something to do with his suspicious death. www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...
This may be the single most reckless and stupid thing Trump has done so far. There was a reason the name was changed in the nuclear age after WWII in part to assure the world that America would never strike first. Hick-seth says "We're going on offense". www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Our government is every bit as corrupt as Putin's Russia, paid for by oligarchs. It's almost impossible for anyone to be elected in our current system unless they're accepting bribes.
It became the US policy after the use of nuclear weapons in WWII to never strike first because the next world war would be the end of everything, hence the name change. Trump renaming it to the War Department along with Hegseth's comment that "we're going on the offensive" kept me up last night.
Four years ago, I tested for COVID. I'd had dinner with someone with cancer the night before. Thanks to the vaccine, I did not give that dinner companion COVID. And I only ran a low-grade fever for a few days. Fuck that idiot RFK Jr. and the equally stupid buffoon who hired him.
Trump once told George Stephanopoulos that only rats talk to the FBI when asked if he'd report a foreign offer for election help. He went on to say that he thought he'd probably accept the help and of course he did and he has.
He talked about making detained immigrants fight each other for a chance to remain here. These people are psychopaths.
"People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once." "You go into a new home, you turn on the faucet; no water comes out. People stand in the shower for 15 minutes with no water." People actually voted for this nonsense.