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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12h

Much like after the 2020 election, Trump’s attempts to manipulate his way to victory will depend on whether or not he can get enough people in enough positions of influence to go along with his schemes. We must not help him by perpetuating the Trumpist assertions of inevitability.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

also - I would bet $1m that it didn't remotely occur to the staffers in the "we need to protect women in sports" party to check the women's NCAA schedule for that date. f these losers

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Ralf W @raflw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This brief smirk at second 24 in the above video says to me that Schmitt actually believed that those three text messages on the posterboard were incriminating. "Whoo! Gotcha," end smirk. What a total buffoon! There's no mention of what game, city, anything in those three texts. Nana. Zilch.

Sen Schmitt (R - backwater MO), briefly smirks right as he says "So it's your testimony..." as if he's springing a perfect trap.

But the trap is from ACME, and Schmitt is the Coyote in the cartoon.

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Andre 🇨🇦 @iamcdn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

three losers who thought they had their moment to shine

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LOL, he had a smug look on his face the whole time like he had caught Smith red-handed and then got smacked by Klobuchar and couldn't handle it. Love it.

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Chris @cgillespie62.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"you can criticize my questions during your time" Scmitt says, then blows a gasket when Klobuchar does just that and shows what a dirtbag he is.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Waschesalon Grammy Campaign Manager @reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Roger Marshall fervently believes that if he just explains how much the pregnant woman owed and how many times she'd been dragged into court for being poor, people would agree with his decision to have her arrested. this is what you call a candidate quality issue

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026

2. The ad "frames" the arrest on the $50 instead of her "total" debts to Marshall...of $3,600 at 18% interest. Holy crap. Marshall was charging her 18% INTEREST??? Yeah, I'd call that "preying on low-income families."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158...

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rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love this for them so much, they deserve each other.

Melania and Donald Trump, looking equally miserable together.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“‘So what you’re saying is the 15,000 number has not been vetted?” asked C. Murphy Hebert, the chief deputy in the Nevada secretary of state’s office. “I probably wouldn’t use the sentence, ‘It hasn’t been vetted,’” replied Kimberley Vogt, an official w/Homeland Security.” DEEPLY UNSERIOUS PEOPLE

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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zemiron @zemir0n.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's crazy how I never learned in school that the existence of the Fugitive Slave Act alone totally discredits the idea that the South actually principlely cared about state's rights.

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Susan Collins accepted bribes. also the last line of this piece 👀👀👀

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On top of everything else, this does the extremely weird bullshit of pretending all minorities are one thing and then straight white men are the other thing. "So yeah, we have straight white guys, who should get at least half, and then EVERY SINGLE OTHER THING"

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think I’d feel better about Ai if there was one non-freak CEO.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like, really: we're 46 days to election day, prices for gas/diesel and plenty of other stuff is going up daily, people are super pissed about that and Trumps response is "good news on the Greenland front!"

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💙RiehlAlice💙 @riehlalice.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Before Trump we were secure and gas prices were lower.

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

hahahahahahahahahahahaha oooh my sides 🤣

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

yes Michigan will love this sir please ban fishing

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Do you know how strong your need for racial purity and gender roles that never actually existed gotta be for you to vote for a man who openly says “If I can’t put my name on JOHN FITZGERALD DEAD PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S BUILDING, shut the whole shit down”???

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In upside-down world, Justice Alito blames "the plaintiff States and the courts" for causing the late timing of USPS' attempt to interfere in mail voting by suing to stop it. Unmentioned by Alito: USPS issued the rule in violation of an injunction. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Second, the plaintiff States and the courts bear a substantial share of the blame for the rule’s timing. In April, the plaintiff States sued to challenge the President’s internal directive to subordinates mandating a rulemaking. For months, this litigation cast a cloud over the Government’s ability to issue a final rule. The District Court entered several injunctions months later prohibiting the Government from undertaking that rulemaking. Not only was the Government subject to months of premature litigation and a series of injunctions that this Court later determined were likely issued without jurisdiction, the Government had to wait nearly another full month for this Court to issue its decision so holding. Indeed, this Court spent from late July to the end of August drafting nearly 40 pages of opinions, including two dissents, despite the Government’s public notice that it would not publish a final rule while subject to the injunctions, see 91 Fed. Reg. 44880, and its representation that it had a strong interest in issuing its rule in early- to mid-August to allow time to implement it. The plaintiff States cannot claim the timing of the rule tilts the equities

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Tonight’s Supreme Court ruling is a victory for the millions of American citizens who rely on mail voting. The Trump administration tried to use the postal service to interfere in our elections: it failed. 1/2

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

STOP THROWING IT TO WILLIAMS JESUS GOD

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

being a Lions fan is honestly self harm

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Dear Detroit Lions: you are not contractually required to deliver your fans a heart attack for EVERY game

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

*whispers* ok but there's still time to blow it 🫣

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Jahmyr Gibbs is impossibly good holy shit 💙🤍🦁

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

LaPorta with the slutty little mustache

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

and we're back to being the victim of bullshit calls 😤

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Angela Benander @abenander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

sorry but Detroit deserves to benefit from some weird calls for once

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Woody Guthrie penned "This Land Is Your Land" 86 years ago in 1940, in response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." It was among the first songs to be chosen by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Recording Registry.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On 9/3 a USPS official in sworn declaration "anticipated" that the "portal" for uploading state voter lists would be ready for "voluntary use "sometime" this week. This week is over and no portal, meaning USPS must reject ALL mail ballots if rule in effect. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Status of the Portal
3. The Postal Service has designed a portal that election officials, or their designees (Ballot Portal Users), will be able to use to provide their lists to the Postal Service of voters who are mailed ballots for Federal elections. Those lists will include the voter’s names and
addresses along with Intelligent Mail barcode information on the outgoing and return
ballot envelopes ballot mailers prepared. We continue to make refinements to the Portal, including consideration of changes needed in light of the TRO. We anticipate being in a position to make the Portal available to users for voluntary use by sometime next week.

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