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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4h

Let's turn the clock back to Feb 27, 2026 when: - the Strait of Hormuz was open to shipping traffic - Gas avg was $2.98 - Diesel avg was $3.75 - Iran did not have a nuke - The sailors on the USS Lincoln had just 3 months left of their already 3-month long deployment

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 5h

Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 5h

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 5h

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: It's that time of year: time to launch my annual guide to November's elections! I guide you through over *650* interesting elections, & why they matter. Judges, AGs, govs, mayors, lawmakers, AGs, county & school boards—plus many (many) ballot measures. Oh, & Congress. Explore & bookmark!

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Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts

Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 9h

Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel.

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Catesby Holmes @catesby.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"This is a ginned up trans panic, brought to you by Republicans who know that if you can manipulate public opinion on the culture war issue du jour, you can distract people from the economic issues that actually matter to them: outrageous gas prices and barely affordable groceries."

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The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion

Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone.

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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 30/09/2026

There isn't a single trans woman in the WNBA. In 2024, the NCAA estimated fewer than 10 of its 510,000 athletes were trans—about 0.002%, or 1 in 51,000. Yet trans athletes are a defining culture war issue of the 2026 midterms. It's a manufactured panic, writes @angryblacklady.blacksky.app.

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The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

"The MAGA right must be defeated, not negotiated with."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

"But the problem isn’t that lots of people read the Times. The problem is that lots of liberal activists and elites are having their perspectives shaped by the Times in 2026."

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 9h

… Davis is big mad that Pike isn’t dead. Very muscular. Much Christian.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, that kind of Christianity

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 8h

A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 9h

Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h

"Had law enforcement and prosecutors engaged more thoroughly with Jane Doe’s original complaint, they might have tempered the vigilantism that would eventually tinge much of the response to the case." This is such a critical point (made by Jessica Winter via @newyorker.com)—and a lesson for others.

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How the “Cornell Seven” Rape Case Became a National Scandal

The dismal responses from both the D.A. and the university reveal a larger pattern of institutional carelessness.

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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 8h

POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

If you've willingly consumed alcohol, a NY law makes it extraordinarily difficult to prove that you were unable to consent to sex. That includes situations where a victim is slurring words or falling down. Advocates say the law was critical in a DA's decision to decline prosecution at Cornell.

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The loophole that likely doomed the Cornell rape case before it even started

Accusers who voluntarily drink have little protection under an antiquated law many see as "victim-blaming."

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 7h

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8h

President Trump's demands for Fox propaganda are getting even more bizarre and extreme.

Why does FoxNews always put Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov, and every Democrat on, saying bad things about the Republican Party and, of course, me? I actually think they get more airtime than Pro Republicans. This is why MAGA, and REAL Patriots, will never like Fox! They repeat a completely negative narrative, on and on it goes, and then we get a quick retort. It’s truly amazing that I won all three Elections. The opposition is enormous, but the fight goes on! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Schumer does not appear in Media Matters’ database of Fox News weekday appearances, which dates to August 2017.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has made at least 5 appearances on Fox weekday shows since November 2018, with the most recent airing in January of this year.
Fox’s Jessica Tarlov is the Democratic host tasked with matching up against four conservatives at once on the network’s weekday panel show, The Five. She made 2 guest appearances on other Fox shows in September; conservative co-hosts Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, and Dana Perino all have separate weekday Fox shows of their own.
In September, weekday appearances on Fox News by congressional Republicans and Trump administration officials outnumbered appearances by congressional Democratic guest appearances by 148 to 7.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Years ago, you put a fence up because people were stealing stuff. Now you put the fence up because ICE is stealing workers. “There was even a fence shortage in the summer.” — Ariel Salinas, whose Texas construction company has hit the skids due to a worker shortage www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

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Hispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump (Gift Article)

In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.

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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 10h

If you are justifiably concerned about the current crop of Republicans serving in public office, they pale in comparison to what's coming. Complete and total lunacy, detached from reality and the concerns of the people they're supposed to represent. Conspiracy theorists and bigots.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 23h

Hegseth purged all the trans and woke cybersecurity specialists aaaaaaaand

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit.

U.S. Department of Stat... • Follow
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It's a beautiful sight.
This and 250,000 visa revocations.
U.S. DEPARTMENT of STATE

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Vote: -he’s really an alien like the guy in Men in Black - he’s really an animatronic Disney robot and he’s malfunctioning -it’s a glitch in the Matrix; after all the AI generated weird anatomy we should’ve expected this -he’s really 3 Gremlins in a trenchcoat and the one on the bottom can’t see

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andalsoplusidocious @andalsoplus.bsky.social · 11h

Don't think it's mind-boggling at all

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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 01/10/2026

I spent about a month researching how to unseal an NIL deal that's been filed in federal court. When I presented it to a lawyer who works with a major outlet, he loved it. But then they decided to cut me out. So I figured I'd just share my work with everyone :) www.foiaball.com/p/cincinnati...

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Here’s how to get Brendan Sorsby’s NIL deal

A court has it filed under seal. It should be public.

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Mark Schofield @markschofield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mike Tomlin is currently giving a tour of his boutique hotel in Minecraft, which has a multipurpose conference room and an appropriate number of public restroom and I’m losing MY MIND

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 12h

If you want some backstory as to TN and lethal injection. I wrote at length in 2018 as TN sought to restart executions using a new protocol — a method it has since replaced. It’s not an exaggeration to say that when it comes to lethal injection, states have always been making it up as they go along.

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Chilling Testimony in a Tennessee Trial Exposes Lethal Injection as Court-Sanctioned Torture

The trial was a case study in the twisted legacy of Glossip v. Gross — and a chilling look at the botched executions that continue amid little controversy.

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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 19h

Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...

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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner

Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

4 years ago, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle vacated Biden’s airplane mask mandate: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Now, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle says vacating rules is likely unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I wonder what changed! Grab 1: Then Grab 2: Now

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The reality is that there are no silly culture wars happening in America. There are equality wars and justice wars and fairness wars. Democrats should try to win those wars—and the elections that involve them." 💯

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11h

"A liberalism that forcefully confronts authoritarianism, oligarchy, climate change, and the numerous other enormous challenges that we face will almost certainly be one that is less attuned to the views of America's most influential paper." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11h

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too

The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Colorado GOP nominee for governor, Victor Marx, laughs as he recounts a violent fight with his wife: "I remember grabbing her, slamming her into our front door. She bent over and started crying."

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22h

Here‘s your reminder that Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home early so they wouldn’t have to vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment before the midterms. Republicans were terrified that they’d have to face voters and explain why they were covering for a racist, sexist, war-losing piece of crap.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guy trying to convince me to use AI cognitively declining in real time with each new AI ASSisted comment.

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