"Trump is free now. His heart can sing the song he has always wanted to sing, and the American people can no longer deny that the USA is run by a Russian useful idiot or agent of influence. Personally I prefer agent of influence, because vast sums of money are also involved."

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11h ago

Free weekend out. The big story is that Donald Trump is now free to be what he always was--strong supporter of Vladimir Putin and an agent pushing for Russian victory. He no longer has to pretend he cares at all about Ukrainian dead or Russian War crimes. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

Phillips OBrien: Donald Trump is finally speaking his truth. He, and by extension the government of the United States of America, is Vladimir Putin’s friend and partner. Pure, unadulterated (and unfiltered) Russian messaging, being spoken with conviction by the President of the USA.

Weekend Update #206: Trump Is Free To Be What He Has Always Been

Russian Strikes Against Civilians; Do Ukraine And Europe Understand What They Must Do?

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If Trump were working directly for Putin this whole time, people ask, taking orders to destroy US democracy and the Western alliance, would anything look different? Yes. Trump would be more subtle about it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Exactly correct. Watching it unfold for years has been sickening. Bad, corrupt, greedy grifters brainwashing sheep for Putin.

Exactly

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h ago

Just as in the US, "Christian Nationalists" in the UK really don't care for going to church, reading the Bible, engaging in prayer, and get hysterically angry when you read to them from Christ's teachings. In short, they are nationalists, but they're not remotely Christian.

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

PSA: when Trump, @MarshaBlackburn, @BrentTaylorTN and other Republicans mock “socialism” what they’re really mocking is the idea of caring about other people

Pete Hegseth's relentless manipulation of the numbers of Americans killed and wounded in the Iran War, using the most ridiculous criteria to suppress the numbers. Why isn't this getting more attention?

Pentagon Again Increases Number of U.S. Casualties in Iran War

In an unannounced change, the Defense Department is now acknowledging troops who died or were wounded in support roles.

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Thanking the invader & villainizing the nation being bombed. You couldn’t write a russian state tv script any more shameless than this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

Nothing has ever been more real than the Trump Putin collaboration

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

I’ve said this before, Trump is Saruman without the intellect, real hair, and fashion sense.

During the Civil Rights era, NYT was always careful to encircle and restrict the circulation of racist banter, specially when it came from government actors. Today, however, headlining racist innuendo and attacks is just second nature for NYT. Their public decency standards have collapsed.

Brenden Cuni, has been identified as one of the ICE agents that was present at the shooting of Oscar Belgal in New York yesterday. He is the same POS agent that dragged a pregnant woman through the snow in Minnesota and caused her to miscarry. Some say he's the shooter. Investigate this!!!

In Alabama, three Republican elected officials have been arrested and charged with human trafficking involving children. They're all white, Evangelical Christians and pillars of the MAGA community. So the Alabama media have decided it's really no big deal. www.wkrg.com/alabama-news...

Alabama lawmaker and Satsuma school board president arrested on charges of human trafficking | WKRG.com

Video above: ‘News 5 Now’ — Top Stories from Oct. 2, 2026 UPDATE (10/5/2026 8:15 a.m.): A news release from Satsuma City Schools says Kory Wesley has resigned: Satsuma City Schools announced Sunday…

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Not to mention that we could’ve gotten plenty of diesel fuel-and cheaper, too-without helping Putin kill innocent Ukrainians. But now, the stain of their blood will forever remain on the hands of Trump and his soulless, hypocritical acolytes in the Republican party May they rot in hell

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

He knew. He intentionally stiffed them because he’s an arrogant prick who sues his OB/GYN patients. They repeatedly tried to get the bill paid. Then someone posted their pleas on social media. A bunch of us retweeted it. It went viral. ONLY THEN did this scumbag pay.

Steve Artley, Artleytoons

Absolutely insanity. How the hell can this person possibly be employed with this level of malicious lying? Unless of course that is what your network is all about. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rachel Campos-Duffy claims Ukraine has killed "a million kids on the Russian side"

We all knew this was where we were headed the day Trump was elected. And the pro-Ukraine Republicans in Congress who claim they didn’t are either lying or stupid. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump: “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president”

A vote for Michele Tafoya is a vote for Donald Trump. A vote for me is a vote to put a check on his corruption.

I don’t want an execution made public. I want the Epstein files made public.

And FEMA's down 4500 employees.

We rightly worry most about the core electoral machinery and that's holding up pretty well, but any election under Trump is still something less than free and fair. Even if it's not enough to flip the outcome, state resources and power are unambiguously being abused to favor the incumbent party.

Anthony L. Fisher@anthonylfisher.bsky.social · yesterday

ABC News' lawyer told a judge the network is tempering its election coverage because of government threats. The Trump Censorship Industrial Complex is real...and expanding.

Roger Marshall is finally shamed into paying his cookie bill.

Racism got him here and he’s clinging to it like his life ring — it’s all he’s ever had, the gateway corruption from which all others flow — and look how far it’s got him and how horribly it’s cost us.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump on Letitia James: "That disgusting Letitia dog. She's a dog."

Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.

At this point, there is no ambiguity about what just happened: Trump has stabbed the Ukrainian nation in the back in exchange for a shipment of diesel that would be a roughly 17 hour supply for the US market. It shows how easily Trump is manipulated by Putin, Xi and other dangerous dictators.

Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals