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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h
1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20h
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h
The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm not sure if @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social have issued a statement on this yet, but they should publicly announce that if Russ Vought tries to fuck with the election in any way they will fire him out of a cannon when they take power.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
New York's economy grew by 4% in Q2 — more than any other state. Want to get your business off the ground? Hire only the best? There's one place to do it: New York. www.newsweek.com/new-york-lea...
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Map shows which state economies are growing and shrinking ahead of midterms
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Democrats gotta stop thinking that impeachment is about *winning* a conviction. It is about stop the behavior: funny thing is Ukraine still gets the money!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I will never get over how incredibly stupid this is. Do they not know what risk pools are? Do they not know what insurance is???
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think I'm in love with Kevin 😻 #Caturday
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sen. Mark Kelly on Nicolle today: "This is what happens when the country elects a reality TV star as President. He doesn't think he's governing a country. He thinks he's running a production. And when the production starts failing and the ratings go down, he throws the press out of the White House."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One aspect of living in a personalist form of government is that people no longer expect the laws or norms to protect them. If the king is rumored to be thinking of demolishing a believed institution, people assume they must defend it in person
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When the White House Correspondent’ Association made Trump the guest of honor at its dinner, it was telling him it was willing to take any abuse he chose to inflict.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The U.S. government isn't regulating big business. Big business is regulating the U.S. government.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wake up babe new Iran hostage crisis just dropped
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 16/09/2026
Here is the reality. We have the votes to impeach Pete Hegseth tomorrow. Mike Johnson knows it, we know it. So he’s sending us all home to avoid the vote. www.cnn.com/2026/09/16/p...
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House to adjourn early, stave off Hegseth impeachment vote | CNN Politics
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday announced he is sending members home from Washington early for their seven-week campaigning recess ahead of the midterm elections, a move that will stave off a vote o...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Weekend at Mitchies. bsky.app/profile/jami...
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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wonder how many spare parts the US Army has for their Strykers? Which are made in Ontario.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
there is no presidential candidate jon ossoff unless keisha lance bottoms is elected governor of georgia. why? we can’t afford to lose that senate vote, so he would need a democratic governor to replace him with a democrat.
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Tom Hilton @tvhilton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The point that never seems to make its way into Nader discourse is that his vote share was greater than Bush’s margin in NH as well as FL. Had Gore won in NH, FL wouldn’t have mattered.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why do people only supposedly get the $5,000 if Republicans win in November? Republicans control everything and have for 2 years. Why didn’t they do it before? Why don’t they come back into session tomorrow and pass it right now? Because it’s all a lie, like everything else.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excellent, disturbing reporting from Sarah Kliff. Seems like, among other horrifying things, this lawsuit abuser left a placenta in a woman and then charged her twice to remove it.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The cuts of meat covered by Trump’s proclamation aren’t fresh sirloins, rib eyes, and filets. They’re lean beef trimmings that will be added to fattier American cuts to make ground beef. They’re small chunks of frozen meat that could have been kept in cold storage overseas for years.“
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What they should have written: The Trump administration is developing an arguably illegal plan to take money from a fund that Congress established to help working parents afford quality child care and give it to married couples with a stay-at-home spouse instead.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"The consequence for those agents can’t be that they simply return to their hometowns & go about their business. There has to be some sort of reckoning with the harm they caused before they get a chance to even think about return to polite society. You can’t live in community with people like that."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
seriously, the public has no sense of the scale of the budget. just straight up tell people that they cut health care to pay for the arch
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026
Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Write it on the blackboard a thousand times: they will have to demolish the ballroom, the arch and so forth. They will have to make a show of it. You will get the usual sons of bitches saying we don’t do that in this country. We do now. That is not emotion, it’s politics. To do less is dereliction.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This monstrosity near Arlington National Cemetery is a disgrace and a litmus test for me in 2028 primary. Maybe for others too. If no pledge to tear it down, then cross off list for consideration.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2026
how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me
pic of printed out paper Mapquest directions mounted to rearview mirror
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you understand that other people experience well-known problems only when you yourself experience those same problems, you haven’t discovered empathy. Everyone else has discovered you’re a sociopath.
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NEW — The GOP is making their midterm convention entirely about Trump, calling it “Trump-a-palooza.” So we’re parking all 3.5 million Epstein files outside of the event so folks don’t forget who he really is. They want confetti. We’re bringing the paper.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
People are falling for the DSA vs Establishment trap again. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2016 and 2024? It’s the establishment’s job to build a coalition that can win EVERYWHERE. In some places, that means ultra-progressive. In others, it means establishment. The tent is big enough for all of us.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
To be clear everyone involved in this should go to prison. This is not some petty "but the golf course was so nice beforehand" shit, this is "you are in open and flagrant violation of the law in that you lied to the court about your intentions and timelines" territory people.com/dozens-trees...
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Dozens of Trees Quietly Toppled in D.C. Without Court Approval Ahead of Trump’s New Golf Course Makeover: Report
Over 60 trees were removed at East Potomac Golf Links before official approval for renovations was granted, the Washington Post reported Friday, Aug. 26. Preservationists argue the plans violate a law...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
MS NOW: Troops fighting against Iran and alleged drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law. Orgs that help service members leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. strikes against alleged drug boats and inside Iran.
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Troops fighting against Iran and drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law
Organizations that help service members apply to leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. military strikes against alleged drug boats and targets...
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/08/2026
Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.
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Patric Reynolds @patricjreynolds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The man stands like a centaur getting a prostate exam.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/08/2026
There will be a lot of well meaning people who will tell you to temper your hate in the coming years
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/08/2026
This letter has everything: fear, devotion, self-abasement, sleep deprivation, and a desperate need for approval. The only thing missing is a lock of hair taped to the bottom.
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You probably don’t even need ICE tribunals to put all those guys in jail, you just have to clear up the rape kit backlog
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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Trump sends Cabinet and staff as target decoy on Air Force 1. If he had flown secretly to UK and then revealed himself on tv news …the threat would have disappeared to the poorly protected Qatari plane. Stupid. Cowardly action.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“it costs less money than what we’re doing now” is the only answer we need to push normies towards universal healthcare
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The company that literally began as an online bookstore is now in the business of destroying old and rare books.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So we have partisan political police in the middle of a work day attending a political rally in uniform. Looks like Nuremberg in 1936.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A new study found that Medicare for All would save 114,000 lives a year & reduce healthcare spending by over $1 TRILLION. Families would no longer have to choose between paying household bills or seeing a doctor. Medicare for All is the right answer to our broken healthcare system.
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