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Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · 4h ago

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth wanted Gen. Dwight Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it. The Pentagon denied us access to take photos, but we obtained some anyway. A story in global affairs: wapo.st/3WF2YQo

Celebrating Eat a Pretzel Day with Hitchcock

A positive sign? "Trump merchandise stores are closing: 'He has peaked'" www.npr.org/2026/10/22/n...

Trump merchandise stores are closing: 'He has peaked'

At least four Trump merchandise stores have closed this year. Store owners say with Trump in his final term, there isn't as much to fire up his consumer fan base and sales have softened.

npr.org

“There’s so much at stake in Ohio. It’s a cliché to say that about every election, but in the 2026 midterms, voters are about to decide whether the House and Senate will be able to rein in at least some of Trump’s violent fascist rapacity. It’s not an exaggeration to say…

Zeteo@zeteo.com · yesterday

😠 🗳️ The ‘Ugliest’ Midterms Race Just Got a Lot Meaner. Here’s Why You Should Pay Attention So much is at stake in Ohio. It’s not just about control of the state and the Senate, but about who we are. Read today's 'First Draft' by @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/the-uglies...

Yes! This 👇🏻👇🏻

He wasn’t clearing his throat. It wasn’t a belch or a cough. He didn’t say “excuse me”—not that he would ever think he needed to excuse himself. He’s just falling apart in real time and none of his people are doing anything about it.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 16h ago

Trump makes an indescribable sound effect: "I'd say 90% of the reason I took the governor-- EUHHH"

Let’s just recall that she is talking about a twelve-year-old.

This man is 4 quarts shy of a gallon.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

Trump: "Impersonization sche--- the schemes that they use for impersonization"

From the man who brought you mutilization, now comes impersonization.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

Trump: "Impersonization sche--- the schemes that they use for impersonization"

Buying a 5TB external hard drive in April was already painfully expensive, but things have only gotten worse several months later.

JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social · 19h ago

This is kind of an incredible figure. Via @deanbaker13.bsky.social. cepr.net/publications...

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

New: someone made a CashApp account in her name. She spent three nights in jail and now faces up to 6 years in prison Amanda Smith was arrested because a scam led to a CashApp account in her name. But she says she didn't make it, and the data doesn't line up www.404media.co/amanda-smith...

Someone Opened a CashApp In Her Name. She Faces Years in Prison

Amanda Smith spent three nights in jail after a Facebook Marketplace scam led to a CashApp account in her name. She says she didn't make it.

404media.co

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

Brad Lander’s a real one. ✌️🫒🍉 abc7ny.com/post/ny-10-c...

Brad Lander freed after IDF detention in West Bank during olive harvest

rad Lander says he has been released from IDF custody after being detained during an olive harvest in the West Bank. The Democratic nominee for New York's 10th Congressional District says dozens of vo...

abc7ny.com

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4w ago

Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

Absolute masterclass in how to get the "parents whose adult children don't speak to them" demographic.

This is one of the most vile things a campaign has done through its official channels. Actually shocking behavior. Ramaswamy is terminally online in the same way a lot of younger Republican staffers are. Dude is untethered from normal human behavior.

Mitchell Epner@mitchellepner.bsky.social · 2d ago

Step 1: Learn your opponent has been estranged from her mother since she was 12. Step 2: Read your opponent's public allegations that the cause of the estrangement was sexual abuse by the stepfather. Step 3: Film commercial with estranged mother. Step 4: When it blows up, say this:

Gas was under a $4/gallon average during the entire Obama presidency. Right now under Trump it's above $4/gallon for the 4th month this year. www.macrotrends.net/3591/us-gaso...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "We just extinguished a nuclear bomb from the worst country in the world, and our gas prices -- it's a small thing to pay -- our gas prices are lower than under Obama." (Iran never had a nuke and gas prices are not lower than they were 10 years ago)

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d ago

Republican lawmakers are incensed about Trump's dismissal of Ukraine — and powerless to stop him. That frustration hit a new peak on Monday as they sought to address Trump’s decision to purchase Russian diesel, waive sanctions on Moscow, and potentially stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine.

In case you had any remaining doubts that Trump and his ilk are full of abusers, this latest instance of animal cruelty should confirm it. Who dumps fish into a chlorinated pool?!? www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-golf-c...

MAGA's Golf Club Activity Branded 'Gruesome' as Fish Were Dumped Into Chlorinated Pool for Kids to Catch

Footage appearing to show live fish placed in a chlorinated children's pool at Trump's Virginia golf club has prompted widespread online criticism, though their fate remains unclear.

ibtimes.co.uk

if this were true, aren't rich immigrants coming to the US and throwing their money around, like, the ideal kind of immigrants?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)

Well that's yet another horrible thing for them to do 💀

AJL22@ajl22.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨 🚨🚨PASS IT ON🚨🚨 Education Department Is About To SEIZE Student Loan Borrowers’ WAGES And BENEFITS. TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW BECAUSE THEY WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY & YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PAY BILLS OR BUY GROCERIES! www.forbes.com/sites/adammi...

"A spokesperson for the company said: "While we appreciate the medieval spirit, safety must always come first."" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our bikes are 'not for jousting,' says Lime after Hackney duel

Footage emerged on social media of hundreds of people gathered in east London to watch a bike joust.

bbc.com

actually it seems to me like that in particular would have been worth trying

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

JD Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

These workers are harvesting carrots piece rate in the Tehachapi region. "Julia" says, "Our group is paid $3.05 per box. There are 24 bunches of 7 carrots in each box. At the end of the day we are paid equal amounts depending on the number of boxes the group produces." #WeFeedYou

1. “We got Greenland” - Does he think the U.S. owns it now? 2. The guy who apparently doesn’t have enough things to do as President, who delays every court case and regularly stiffs his contractors, is going to personally arbitrate all the cases on his snitch line so people can get money fast? 🤨

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

Why do Trump and other Republicans keep accusing people of being paid protestors? Because Republicans will literally pay people to protest.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Sure it did. Just like how the Trump administration sorta happened to stop sharing information with Ukraine-so they no longer get warnings about impending Russian ballistic missile attacks-and more innocent civilians die These bastards have morphed from callous thugs to full blown war criminals

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4d ago

A stuttering Marco Rubio: “Nobody ordered that Starlink speed to be slowed down. It sorta happened.”