The Taffinator
@thetaffinator.bsky.social
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Trump is a rapist.
It wasn't just women. It was little girls.
The president of the United States is a man who regularly statutorily raped young girls.
Bondi knows it. Republicans know it.
It's why they released a cache of blacked-out pages, hundreds and hundreds of them.
#CoverUp
It wasn't just women. It was little girls.
The president of the United States is a man who regularly statutorily raped young girls.
Bondi knows it. Republicans know it.
It's why they released a cache of blacked-out pages, hundreds and hundreds of them.
#CoverUp
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Trump is a rapist.
It wasn't just women. It was little girls.
The president of the United States is a man who regularly statutorily raped young girls.
Bondi knows it. Republicans know it.
It's why they released a cache of blacked-out pages, hundreds and hundreds of them.
#CoverUp
It wasn't just women. It was little girls.
The president of the United States is a man who regularly statutorily raped young girls.
Bondi knows it. Republicans know it.
It's why they released a cache of blacked-out pages, hundreds and hundreds of them.
#CoverUp
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“The United States of America had boats in Greenland in 1725,” said President Goodbrain
Trump: We need Greenland for national protection. They have a very small population. They say Denmark, but Denmark has no military protection. They say that Denmark was there 300 years ago with a boat—well, we were there with boats too I’m sure.
December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“The United States of America had boats in Greenland in 1725,” said President Goodbrain
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It goes on and on, from slaughter on Bondi Beach to deadly attacks on synagogues, some organized by groups, some lone-wolf attacks.
However we got here, this is where we are: Nazi-like hunting of Jews.
Silence is acceptance.
#StandUpToJewishHatred🟦 - please.
www.algemeiner.com/2025/10/03/b...
However we got here, this is where we are: Nazi-like hunting of Jews.
Silence is acceptance.
#StandUpToJewishHatred🟦 - please.
www.algemeiner.com/2025/10/03/b...
British Authorities Allowed Antisemitism to Fester. Now Two Jews Are Dead in Manchester.
People react near the scene, after an attack in which a car was driven at pedestrians and stabbings were reported …
www.algemeiner.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It goes on and on, from slaughter on Bondi Beach to deadly attacks on synagogues, some organized by groups, some lone-wolf attacks.
However we got here, this is where we are: Nazi-like hunting of Jews.
Silence is acceptance.
#StandUpToJewishHatred🟦 - please.
www.algemeiner.com/2025/10/03/b...
However we got here, this is where we are: Nazi-like hunting of Jews.
Silence is acceptance.
#StandUpToJewishHatred🟦 - please.
www.algemeiner.com/2025/10/03/b...
People. I’m begging you. If you haven’t yet had the flu shot, get it ASAP!!
I got mine in September before they released a new mixture to address a new strain. I believe the flu I currently have is the new strain & it is not fucking around. I’m on my 2nd dose of tamiflu but I feel NO BETTER.
#flu
I got mine in September before they released a new mixture to address a new strain. I believe the flu I currently have is the new strain & it is not fucking around. I’m on my 2nd dose of tamiflu but I feel NO BETTER.
#flu
December 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
People. I’m begging you. If you haven’t yet had the flu shot, get it ASAP!!
I got mine in September before they released a new mixture to address a new strain. I believe the flu I currently have is the new strain & it is not fucking around. I’m on my 2nd dose of tamiflu but I feel NO BETTER.
#flu
I got mine in September before they released a new mixture to address a new strain. I believe the flu I currently have is the new strain & it is not fucking around. I’m on my 2nd dose of tamiflu but I feel NO BETTER.
#flu
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Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
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WHAT IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Again, this is why you simply can't take Mark Kelly seriously (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), and yet another reason why Elissa Slotkin (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) cannot be anywhere near the future of the Democratic Party.
Again, this is why you simply can't take Mark Kelly seriously (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), and yet another reason why Elissa Slotkin (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) cannot be anywhere near the future of the Democratic Party.
16 Democratic senators joined Republicans in confirming a close ally of Elon Musk as head of NASA:
Baldwin
Cantwell
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Baldwin
Cantwell
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
WHAT IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Again, this is why you simply can't take Mark Kelly seriously (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), and yet another reason why Elissa Slotkin (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) cannot be anywhere near the future of the Democratic Party.
Again, this is why you simply can't take Mark Kelly seriously (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), and yet another reason why Elissa Slotkin (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) cannot be anywhere near the future of the Democratic Party.
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It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
1/
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
1/
December 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
1/
Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'
None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.
1/
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
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Republicans broke records this year by shutting down the government for the longest period ever, all to ensure healthcare costs would skyrocket for working families across the country. 🧵
Key ACA tax credits likely to expire after House speaker blocks vote
Democrats in the House back a last-ditch effort to extend Obamacare subsidies, which relies on a tactic recently used for the Jeffrey Epstein files bill.
www.cnbc.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Republicans broke records this year by shutting down the government for the longest period ever, all to ensure healthcare costs would skyrocket for working families across the country. 🧵
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very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
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historically, people have answered this with "national economy bad, but i'm doing alright" or such. the fact they're now saying "ii'm going bad" is, uh, not great
"How would you rate..."
National Economy:
Poor/Fair: 65%
Excellent/Good: 29%
Personal Finances:
Poor/Fair: 66%
Excellent/Good: 29%
Local Economy:
Poor/Fair: 58%
Excellent/Good: 37%
Clarity / Dec 11, 2025
National Economy:
Poor/Fair: 65%
Excellent/Good: 29%
Personal Finances:
Poor/Fair: 66%
Excellent/Good: 29%
Local Economy:
Poor/Fair: 58%
Excellent/Good: 37%
Clarity / Dec 11, 2025
December 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
historically, people have answered this with "national economy bad, but i'm doing alright" or such. the fact they're now saying "ii'm going bad" is, uh, not great
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I think many folks don't know this 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I think many folks don't know this 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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This is Nazi shit
Vance: "Why have rents gone down for 4 consecutive months? Because we're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the USA. Those criminals, those gang members, those people that are taking homes that ought by right go the people in this room. It's simple economics."
December 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is Nazi shit
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Best Twitter riposte of the day. Leavitt really is a junior high school level Goebbels.
December 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Best Twitter riposte of the day. Leavitt really is a junior high school level Goebbels.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected bipartisan demands to release Pentagon footage of an airstrike that killed survivors of a first attack on an alleged drug boat.
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “Every senator is entitled to see it.”
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “Every senator is entitled to see it.”
Hegseth says he won’t release full boat strike video
The Pentagon chief also sidestepped a request for the House and Senate to view the Sept. 2 "double-tap" attack.
politi.co
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected bipartisan demands to release Pentagon footage of an airstrike that killed survivors of a first attack on an alleged drug boat.
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “Every senator is entitled to see it.”
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, “Every senator is entitled to see it.”
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I didn't think it was possible for his Rob Reiner post to be the second most repulsive thing he said today. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Trump on Brown University: You would really have to ask the school about that because this was a school problem. They had their own guards, their own police, their own everything but you would have to ask that question to the school and not to the FBI.
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I didn't think it was possible for his Rob Reiner post to be the second most repulsive thing he said today. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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“Tens of millions of Americans are going to see their health insurance costs spike through the roof… on December 31st, and Trump and the Republicans apparently still have no plan at all for how to fix the disaster they just created on that subject.”
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“Tens of millions of Americans are going to see their health insurance costs spike through the roof… on December 31st, and Trump and the Republicans apparently still have no plan at all for how to fix the disaster they just created on that subject.”
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What a fucking coward baby dipshit you have to be to just open your window and indiscriminately spray pepper spray out into the air. You’re too terrified to get out of your car. I hope it floated back into their faces.
Minnesotans face off against ICE as they target Somalis.
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What a fucking coward baby dipshit you have to be to just open your window and indiscriminately spray pepper spray out into the air. You’re too terrified to get out of your car. I hope it floated back into their faces.
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Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is choosing—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism.
A year of hell for immigrants
In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is choosing—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism.
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NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @elfreth.house.gov
This needs to happen ASAP. Might be a good idea to at least start stirring up interest NOW in preparation.
#scotus
This needs to happen ASAP. Might be a good idea to at least start stirring up interest NOW in preparation.
#scotus
There is no question about it: Alito, Thomas, Roberts, and the three Trump Supreme Court appointees are all GOP partisan hacks.
Pass term limits. Expand the court. Enact an enforceable code of ethics.
We must keep pushing Democrats to enact court reform.
Pass term limits. Expand the court. Enact an enforceable code of ethics.
We must keep pushing Democrats to enact court reform.
How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @elfreth.house.gov
This needs to happen ASAP. Might be a good idea to at least start stirring up interest NOW in preparation.
#scotus
This needs to happen ASAP. Might be a good idea to at least start stirring up interest NOW in preparation.
#scotus