SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist ties

Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.

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Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · yesterday

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

Seems relevant to that flood of journalists who in the last few weeks announced publicly that it was okay to return to X, that the platform had gotten better, and the worst aspects of it had been minimized. This is what you have endorsed.

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 2d ago

On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...

TikTok suspended the account for Alex Gibney’s film Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg just suspended No Kings Day’s official instagram account. The peasants are revolting and the broligarchy is fucking terrified.

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 2d ago

Bleecker Street, the film distributor overseeing the theatrical release of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk, was informed on Friday that the film's TikTok account was subject to "permanent suspension." tinyurl.com/4yd9997x

Trump: "This guy is a jihadist. Mohammed El-Sayed. He said 'my name is not Mohammed.' I said, 'I'm the President of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want.'"

Trump says a good economy is just a year away: "Those plants are gonna be opening in a year, and when they open you're gonna see numbers that nobody has seen before"

Trump: "Every country that's using windmills has gone bankrupt"

Trump: "I said, 'Let's go and join the president for lunch at Mar-a-Lago and we'll buy one hamburger and a small dessert. That'll take up about $5,000.'"

You remember that opioid crisis you had in Kentucky? Well I’m about to kick off Oxy 2.0!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump: "If the Republicans win, the Department of War will be investing $100 million in the pharmaceutical company Anthea to revitalize a gigantic drug manufacturing facility in Winchester, Kentucky"

Trump: "You know how much money we're taking out of Venezuela? Hundreds of billions of dollars we're taking out of Venezuela"

Trump: "If the Republicans win, the Department of War will be investing $100 million in the pharmaceutical company Anthea to revitalize a gigantic drug manufacturing facility in Winchester, Kentucky"

Trump: "I don't need to do this. I already won. Somebody said 'good luck with the election.' I said, 'No, I already won.' I don't need to do this."

Trump: "They have the transgender mutilization of your child. Timmy goes out, goes to school, comes back four days later as Sarah. It's true! I think we have five or six states where they can actually just do that, and they do it. They're sick people."

Trump: "Talafreako. He's a vegetarian. My wife corrected me. I was calling it veygan. I know nothing about that. I don't like eating a piece of celery for dinner. I don't like, 'I'll have a piece of lettuce.'"

Trump: "Remember Rush Limbaugh? He used to go Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Barack HUSSEIN. He'd scream out Hussein."

Trump: "When I did the excursion to the beautiful Islamic Republic of Iran and we beat the shit out of them"

Trump: "Their wife likes them much more, or their husband. They get much more turned on by the fact the husband has a better job. They become almost violent in their love."

Trump: "The poverty rate has just reached its highest, best number"

Trump: "My daughter in law -- Laaaaaara"

Lincoln: “This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom” Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you” Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Trump: "I examined his ass"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump on Jon Husted: "I examined his ass"

Trump: "He was rich, heavy, and old. That is a perfect covid victim."

It’s adorable that he thinks he has any sway over Canada

Canada on track to become a top-three holder of U.S. government debt, surpassing China

Chinese transfers of U.S. treasuries into Canadian accounts could be playing key role in growth, experts say

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump: "I do not want to lose as your representative $90 billion for the privilege of allowing Canada to have a healthcare system and other things that they shouldn't be having"

Trump: "I do not want to lose as your representative $90 billion for the privilege of allowing Canada to have a healthcare system and other things that they shouldn't be having"

Trump: 'I called Google, Google Maps. They wouldn't have taken my call in the first term. Now they kiss my ass."

Trump claims that renaming the Gulf of Mexico is "a form of payment" for his border wall

Trump: "A failed senator. I guess, Jared Brown." (The name he's looking for is Sherrod Brown)

Trump claims that Jon Husted has picked up "9 or 10 points" since he started talking about his rockin' bod

Acosta: Have you seen the golden horses? They painted a horse's ass gold. And speaking of asses… Donald Trump was at this rally and he's talking about this guy's ass… I don’t think Natalie Harp has anything to worry about.