Thomas (he/him)

Thomas (he/him)

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Kraig Peck
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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

Of course: In the NYT, a "mean" lady boss is a bigger story than a powerful man who is a rapist.

Thomas (he/him)
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Dolores Huerta. She did all one could possibly do to make the world better.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Dolores Huerta, United Farmworkers co-founder and civil rights icon, has died, her family says.

Thomas (he/him)
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This is bigger than Ramaswamy, who will lose. This is the "perfect victim" issue. Every woman ever who says she was raped gets blowback, that she's lying or at fault or both. Even if she was a child, even if there's a criminal conviction. And that's what this is about.

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social

Amy Acton's stepfather's surviving biological daughter spoke to The Daily Mail when they knocked on her door in Ohio, while sobbing. She said: She believed Amy's story, because her father raped her sister more than once /

Thomas (he/him)
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Candace Owens casually admitting that she let a publication ghost-write all her stuff.

Berny Belvedere@bernybelvedere.bsky.social

“My writing doesn’t suck, actually, because all the times I claimed it was my writing it was actually somebody else’s.”

Thomas (he/him)
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Hegseth knows he'll be impeached. He also probably realizes that there are several GOP Sens that will vote for him. The easiest way to distance from Trump with minimal anti-Trump fallout is to blame Hegseth for the failed war.

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈@beingliberal.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth knows he facing likely impeachment after the midterms. Puck’s Leigh Ann Caldwell recently reported he's angling for Marsha Blackburn to appoint him to her Senate seat if she wins Tennessee’s governor’s race.

Thomas (he/him)
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This is a fine and critical distinction. Cassidy Hutchinson's sworn testimony took the form, X told me the story Y. We don't know if Y is true. It's disputed. But that's not dispositive ... her testimony was that X told her Y. She's not a witness to Y. 1/

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social

This was an even dumber revenge prosecution than James Comey's seashell case. Hutchison testified that someone told her that Trump tried to grab the wheel. That account could well be true. But even if it was wrong, it wasn't perjury to relay what she was told.

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Thomas (he/him)
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So the defence writes itself. If the source says, "I never told her that, and it didn't happen," but she says, "yes they fucking did say that," it's one person's word against another's, and the fact that crossing Trump gets you death threats and prosecution ... 4/

Thomas (he/him)
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means that it's very easy to believe that the source is lying to stay out of trouble, having told a story that crossed a powerful and revenge-obsessed President. A responsible prosecutor would never have brought this case, on the merits, because it's almost impossible to get a conviction. /end

Thomas (he/him)
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This is a fine and critical distinction. Cassidy Hutchinson's sworn testimony took the form, X told me the story Y. We don't know if Y is true. It's disputed. But that's not dispositive ... her testimony was that X told her Y. She's not a witness to Y. 1/

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social

This was an even dumber revenge prosecution than James Comey's seashell case. Hutchison testified that someone told her that Trump tried to grab the wheel. That account could well be true. But even if it was wrong, it wasn't perjury to relay what she was told.

Thomas (he/him)
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If Y is true, she could still be guilty, if X never told her that -- though either it would have to be a wild coincidence, or she'd have to be covering for her real source. But! 2/

Thomas (he/him)
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If Y is false, she could still be not guilty! If Y was a made-up or exaggerated story, but the witness relayed it faithfully, SHE HAS TOLD THE TRUTH. Now, remember that it's proof beyond a reasonable doubt, not by preponderance. 3/

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Joan (Knatcal) Danielson
@jed28.bsky.social

NEW INVESTIGATION of "JEREMY LEWIN, a former affiliate of Musk’s DOGE, close adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio & director of policy planning at the State Department to find out whether Lewin had the legal authority to oversee the DISMANTLING of USAID." Mediaite 🚨🇺🇲📜⚖️ VOTE💙 #Pinks

l.smartnews.comDeparting Trump Official Who Fired Thousands May Not Have Had Authority To Do So (Mediaite)AP Photo/Alex BrandonA Trump administration official who oversaw the firing of thousands of employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development announ...
Thomas (he/him)
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Predictions about who can't get the 2028 nomination at this time make some sense. Predictions about who can ... don't. Before 2016 it looked like Jeb's to lose, unless Walker outperformed which he didn't. Carter and Clinton both came out of nowhere.

Thomas (he/him)
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Harris's anti-impeachment statements (1) prove that her haste to make common cause with Republicans was no fluke (2) that the "Kamala's a cop" left were correct; and (3) means she cannot win a nomination again. That's the end of that.

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Jon Collins
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The Hennepin County Attorney's Office is charging James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with felonies for unlawful voting and ID theft for filming themselves misrepresenting their identities to election judges during the Minnesota primary as voters who were registered in the precinct.

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Peggy Stuart
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Exactly! Where is the Republican outrage over #DickPics now that the accused is one of theirs? And this one is an actual candidate, not the spouse of an aide.

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Thomas (he/him)
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The one constant is that Trump hands the fossil fuel industry EVERYTHING it wants. Venezuela's government. End to sanctions. Environmental and safety law amnesty. Iran war to constrain supply and spike prices. Every single thing. As he promised, when they funded his 2024 campaign.

Aaron Weiss (no relation)@aweiss.bsky.social

Today's methane announcement from Trump shows why the Senate permitting bill is so terribly written. It would lock in every single environmental rollback Trump can cram into the next two years. 🧵: 1/

Thomas (he/him)
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One of the unspoken policy imperatives is "keep Scotland in the Union until the fossil fuels are gone." Some want that just for the money, others think that without the revenue stream, Scotland can never leave.

Xander@xanderelliards.bsky.social

Hugely important details for Scotland in the OBR forecasts ... North Sea tax revenues projected to be 'close to zero' in five years, windfall tax expected to last 2 years longer than planned, and oil and gas output to fall 10% a year even with Rosebank www.thenational.scot/news/2667792...

thenational.scotNorth Sea oil and gas tax take will be 'close to zero' in just five years, OBR warnsTAX receipts from North Sea oil and gas will be “close to zero” in just five years’ time, according to official forecasts ...
Thomas (he/him)
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Something in the media hard-coding flags "Trump raped someone else in the '90s" as "not news" whereas a politician says a maybe-out-of-touch thing is always news.

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Thomas (he/him)
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This will be sold to civilians on the black market on Day 1.

🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social

This seems a bit concerning. The Pentagon is seeking emergency authorization to deploy Wafermine — a fast-dissolving, sublingual ketamine wafer — as a non-opioid battlefield painkiller for our troops. The manufacturer is pursuing an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA.

militarytimes.comThe Pentagon wants ketamine wafers as a battlefield medicine optionThe Pentagon awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to the Singapore-based iX Biopharma to develop a small, ketamine-packed wafer.
Thomas (he/him)
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Trump's strongest attachment in the second Regime is to producing profits for US oil companies. He literally told them to fund his campaign and he'd make them a fortune, and he admitted on the campaign trial that it worked. He would sell Ukraine to Putin in exchange for drilling rights.

Captain Haddock@realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social

Corruption in action www.ft.com/content/d703...

ft.comWashington discusses Russian deals for US oil majors in Ukraine peace talksWhite House proposes renewed postwar business ties in an effort to bring President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table

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JoeMyGod
@joemygod.bsky.social

Junior Goes Hunting With Criminal Russian Oligarch...

joemygod.comJunior Goes Hunting With Criminal Russian OligarchThe Moscow Times reports: Donald Trump Jr. spent two days this summer in a remote Mongolian hunting camp with Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman with close ties to the Kremlin, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. Kremlev was previously revealed to have partly funded Trump Jr.’s wedding on a private Caribbean island in May. U.S. President Donald Trump later said his son repaid Kremlev for those expenses after they were reported by ProPublica last month.
Thomas (he/him)
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It occurs to me that Trump's obsessive hatred of Kennedy may be inherited from the Nixon hands he's surrounded himself with: Roy Cohn, who was Nixon's attack dog before '60, and later Roger Stone, who has Nixon's face tattooed on his back.

Thomas (he/him)
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If you're a Bibi hater (and I am), this is really bad news. There can be no stable change coalition at these numbers. Eisenkot's bloc can make an agreement with Ra'am but it's not enough and can't with the Arab List. Bibi might not get to 61 but can at least force a new election.

Middle East Monitor@middleeastmonitor.bsky.social

Netanyahu’s bloc projected to secure 54 seats, Eisenkot-led bloc 49 as Israeli vote count reaches 84%

middleeastmonitor.comNetanyahu’s bloc projected to secure 54 seats, Eisenkot-led bloc 49 as Israeli vote count reaches 84%Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc was projected to win 54 seats in the 120-member Knesset, seven short of a governing majority, with 84.5% of votes counted in Israel’s parliamentary …
Thomas (he/him)
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This is someone so attached to her cult that she'll deny the Ukraine war is happening. Like, Trump himself said he would end it, but it's now convenient for his supporters to just deny it actually happened.

SPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre@stratcomcentre.bsky.social

A large percentage of the American population has fallen into an all-encompassing rabbit hole of Russian disinformation, an alternate reality, designed to keep the U.S paralyzed as a Russian-backed anti-democracy movement advances globally. A woman explains that there's no war in Ukraine.

Thomas (he/him)
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He is deep into seeking dopamine hits to soothe the narcissistic collapse. This is basically I'm so successful I can sell burgers for thousands and people will buy them. He's going to do a lot of returning to touchstones that make him feel good in the home stretch.

JoeMyGod@joemygod.bsky.social

Trump Boasts: Mar-A-Lago Hamburgers Cost $5000...

joemygod.comTrump Boasts: Mar-A-Lago Hamburgers Cost $5000The Daily Beast reports: Billionaire President Donald Trump has bizarrely joked about how expensive food is at Mar-a-Lago—even as cost-of-living concerns dominate voters’ minds. Trump, 80, told a Texas crowd that he is still standing by what is essentially a bribe to midterm voters: $5,000 for each adult citizen if Republicans keep the House and Senate. The only caveat, he said, is that the money must be spent in the United States.

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A Jean Stevenson
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Collecting these data is hard AF so I would interpret this as a lower bound. LOTS of us are charged for our behavior during pregnancy *because* we are pregnant.

Grits for Breakfast@gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social

900+ women criminally charged for their conduct during pregnancies stateline.org/2026/10/27/9...

stateline.org900+ women criminally charged for their conduct during pregnancies • StatelineIn the first three years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to an abortion in June 2022, more than 900 women faced criminal charges for conduct related to their pregnanc...

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Scott Horton
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This is highly suggestive of a senior government officer on the take. “Hegseth reported at least $3.1mn in cash, retirement investments and bitcoin in his newly released 2025 annual financial disclosure. One bank account held more than $1mn, compared with a normal $15,001–$50,000 range for an

cnbc.comPete Hegseth reports at least $3.1 million in cash, investments and bitcoinDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth reported at least $3.1 million in assets as he faces an impeachment push in Congress over his handling of the Iran war.