Trump’s awful but it’s important to note he’d be different and potentially less harmful kinds of awful if he weren’t advised and manipulated by some of the most evil people in American history. RE:

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Mister.Nobody (@ytregaws.bsky.social)

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We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us RE:

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David Bier (@davidjbier.bsky.social)

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

I just think we should not be sending American boys 2 or 3 thousand miles away from home to do what Portland boys ought to be doing for themselves.

The way the media spins stories like this is “look how the dogged cops cleared this terrible quadruple-murder 34 years later” and not “oh by the way they totally accused and convicted the wrong guys before, oops lol” [www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/27/robert-eugene-brashers-yogurt-shop-murders/ ) [DNA testing links dead man to ...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/27/robert-eugene-brashers-yogurt-shop-murders/ )

I predict a troll two-step: this dipshit writes the column and then all the conservative outlets will run the next one bewailing how unfairly the column was treated and how the readings of it were in bad faith. RE:

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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)

I think the only surprise here is how quickly this is happening this openly. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/business/media/daily-caller-opini...

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Is DoJ‘s theory in the two counts of the indictment is that Comey lied to Congress when he said he had not “authorized someone else in the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports” about the Russia investigation of Trump, when in fact he authorized McCabe to do it? That’s a very hard case. /1

One of the things we’ll talk about is the extremely unusual case of vindictive prosecution this raises. Trump has made quite a record. RE:

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Fucking Bitch Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)

Good thing we’re recording on Friday this week

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Good thing we’re recording on Friday this week

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence. RE:

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Fucking Bitch Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian. https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreicd5nn4tx64tvy7hhwdxkkwfsenaj7gxhxxy5rwtydqbrsw3gv7zu