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Robert Scannell
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Husband, father and grandfather, proud Californian, true blue joyful warrior!
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I spent the entire Biden presidency warning idiotic establishment Senate Dems and Biden who opposed getting rid of the filibuster that Trump and the GOP would come back to power and do it themselves. I hate to say I told you so but… I fucking told you so.
Trump: “…BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE STONE COLD “CRAZY,” THE CHOICE IS CLEAR — INITIATE THE “NUCLEAR OPTION,” GET RID OF THE FILIBUSTER AND, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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"Are you enjoying my favor, or suffering my displeasure?" is the only real throughline in Donald Trump's approach to "governing."

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/totally-br...
Totally Brazen. Comically Corrupt. Painfully Dumb.
Trump’s mask-off economic doctrine is on full display: Riches for friends, pain for enemies. Is it any wonder business leaders are falling in line?
www.thebulwark.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Sometimes the symbolism feels like it’s just too obvious; too much on the nose.

Trump is vandalizing the White House to build his gaudy Liberace-on-steroids ballroom, using cash from his serial shakedowns of the rich and spineless.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Vandalizing the White House
And other tales of Trump 2.0
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.
Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech
The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.
n.pr
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Trump, who last year vowed to exact "retribution" against perceived enemies, gets what he demanded, an indictment of Comey, even though federal prosecutors concluded there was no case. Devlin Barrett @glennthrush.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Grand Jury Indicts Longtime Trump Target, Former F.B.I. Director James Comey
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Just imagine the kind of shitty person who wants to take these down. A sign about not crushing the natural plants? About how the place has been special to people for centuries?

Small, cruel people who want to make everyone live in their small, cruel world.
These two signs have been removed from Acadia National Park (Passamaquoddy and Penobscot territory).

I am not okay.

Source: open.substack.com/pub/barharbo...
September 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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LONDON MAYOR: “.. I think Donald Trump has shown he is racist, he is sexist, he is misogynistic and he's Islamophobic.”

@nbcnews.com
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September 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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September 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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W
CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
September 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:
He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group.

There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi.

He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Accurate
September 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This diseased, broken traitor Trump is so vain he thinks "hate speech" means speech from people who hate HIM

It so he's going to be suing 65% of the country. What a grotesque, despised creature he is
September 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Truth bomb‼️

This man should be the one speaking on college campuses…

“They’re planning for us to turn on each other and make this culture war a civil war. I am begging you, please, for the love of God, for the love of our neighbors… do not take the bait.”

Watch
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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September 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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A lot of folks might not fully appreciate just how frequently Trump accuses Democrats and other Americans he doesn’t like of being, in his words, "evil people," whom he considers worthy of his "hatred" tinyurl.com/w82st8u2
Fox News' Lawrence Jones: "No side owns political violence; both sides have participated in this. But there is one side that continues to say that the other side is evil and hateful."

Trump has called Democrats the "enemies from within," and Jones' colleague Harris Faulkner said Hillary was"evil."
September 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Trump apparently on the verge of political unilateral intervention in Chicago with massive Federal law enforcement and possibly military formations. No coordination with state authorities. The face of a rolling suppression of American values.
September 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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“The president’s commissioning of the U.S. military to kill alleged drug smugglers adds a terrifying dimension to this misuse of the armed forces for law enforcement purposes.”

thehill.com/opinion/judi...
thehill.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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"This is all the same project: attacking the government and re-engineering it to serve as a weapon against the American people. It’s the greatest act of civilizational self-mutilation since the First World War."
The CDC. The Fed. The FBI. The National Guard. Do you get it now?
Trump is waging war against the American government. When he’s done, he’ll use his government to wage war against Americans.
www.thebulwark.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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I lost my step dad Ian to prostate cancer and I deeply encourage everyone who has a prostate to get regularly checked, thanks for the important reminder Rick <3
‪It's Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and I’m asking our community of travelers to help me spread the word: the earlier prostate cancer is found, the better your chances are of beating it.

Visit cancer.org/getscreened to learn more from @acscan.bsky.social & find a screening location near you.
September 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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"Trump is a professional huckster and profoundly lazy man. So instead of tending to his promises to working Americans, he entered office pursuing his own bizarre obsessions. He then proceeded to devise a series of Potemkin village-like distractions calculated to divert the nation’s attention."
Potemkin village populism
Trump thinks he's fooling the public, but he's only deceiving himself.
www.publicnotice.co
September 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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China just conducted the largest military display in history. Impressive cutting edge technology. The old peasant PLA is gone. Trump has destroyed our Pacific and NATO alliances and trust. Policy by adolescent whim. Tariffs killing our friends.
September 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Formula 1's new American team lands two veteran drivers in Sergio Pérez and Valtteri Bottas

Cadillac F1 taps the two proven race winners, showing that it is prioritizing experience in its inaugural lineup as it prepares to join the sport in 2026.

www.nbcnews.com/sports/formu...
Formula 1's new American team lands two veteran drivers in Pérez and Bottas
The move by Cadillac F1 to tap the two proven race winners shows that the team is prioritizing experience in its driver lineup as it prepares to join the sport in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms.

It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.
This is gibberish
August 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM