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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He is 100% spot on correct. Best answer to this question I’ve heard from a politician.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It feels like one of the tenets of the MAGA movement is you always have to act like you're the dumbest motherfucker alive. JD Vance has a degree in political science and philosophy from Ohio State. He has a law degree from Yale. He absolutely knows what socialism is, but he has to do this act.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Never forget: www.theguardian.com/media/2019/f...
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'Germs are not a real thing': Fox News host says he hasn't washed hands in 10 years
Pete Hegseth denies existence of germs, saying: ‘I can’t see them, therefore they’re not real’
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump's rage at Dr Annie Andrews is getting worse and his smears are getting more disgusting. Must be those GOP polls finding South Carolina close!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When she was running for governor 32 years ago she couldn’t afford health care, so she can relate to what Mainers are going through under the regime she supports and votes with 96% of the time. 🙄
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😕 🌎 🔥
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump brags that his uncle taught at MIT, trying to piggyback on his uncle’s IQ. "I believe in genetics." What he doesn’t talk about is the genetics of a closer relative, his father, who had dementia and Alzheimer's. The family built a fake office for Fred Trump to pretend he was still working.
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2026
The attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not conducted mainly by extremists or fringe militia groups. It was, according to the data, the work of normal Americans.
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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/10/2026
WIRED spoke to Pape about his book, his concerns about violence in the midterms, why it is so important to understand the attack on the Capitol, and what, if anything, gives him hope that democracy will win out. Read the full interview: www.wired.com/story/the-re...
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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans continue to prove they don’t care that Trump committed crimes and tried to end our democracy 🇺🇸
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026
The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children:
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Russia strikes apartment buildings. Ukraine strikes refineries. Trump is angry at Ukraine and calls for them publicly and privately to stop bombing refineries while saying nothing about Russia killing children.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But when Democrats say the same thing about the US under the Trump Regime they are “unpatriotic” and “hate America.” Got it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The idea that we reelected the worst President in US history when he was vowing revenge on the nation is really hard to grapple with
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/09/2026
The American age of global dominance that followed World War II was bound to end eventually, Phillips Payson O’Brien writes—“What’s shocking is how suddenly that moment has arrived”:
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The American Age Is Over
A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.
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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
terrific piece by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu for @theatlantic.com on those she rightly calls "the clan of predators currently in charge of the U.S. federal government." They are making a huge mess for us, while cleaning up for themselves. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s original plan for the triumphal arch was to allow tourists and tour groups to go up to the top where there would be an observation area. Now it is apparently going to be an area for snipers. Or is it both snipers and tour groups together?
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump saying we urgently need well stocked sniper nests overlooking the nation’s main location for political protest should ring alarm bells.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/09/2026
The White House has removed a Tetris-inspired game called “Build the Wall” from its arcade website over a copyright dispute. Kelley Greene and Emily Bressler imagine the games the White House should actually put in its arcade: theatln.tc/6LrC7fNT
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Donald Trump might yet demolish the Kennedy Center But he will never vanquish the spirit of America And whatever he destroys can-and will-be rebuilt
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The law is that “Although the WH is not required to open its doors to the news media, once it establishes press facilities for credentialed journalists, it cannot deny access based on the content of a journalist’s coverage.” That's exactly what Trump is doing. joycevance.substack.com/p/its-a-nice...
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It’s a Nice First Amendment You’ve Got There…
Mea culpa for the long post on a Saturday night, but read on and see if you don’t agree that it’s essential.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“To destroy things he can't possess or control is his essential nature.” George nails it. 

Narcissistic psychopaths even destroy people and entities when they’ve done the discarding. They can never settle. Destruction tempers their insatiable drive to feel omnipotent, invincible.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mayor of London
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don't forget: Intuit also gave $1M to Trump's inauguration. This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must end this vicious cycle.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An important read on continuity of government and on continuity of representation, on the face of a disaster, from an outsider l, terrorist, attack, by @normornstein.bsky.social with a sober declaration, that today, the attack is coming from inside the house.
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Anya @heyanyahere.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It always Ukraine who needs to do something, to withdraw somewhere, to give something up, to accept the situation and so on and so on. Russians don't need to do anything. Those damn Ukrainian warmongers, who don't want to die quietly!
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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My latest recipe on @contrariannews.org … a perfect honey whiskey Bundt with honey whiskey butter glaze. And a story of resilience thru crazy times and making pastry. Give it a read and some love. www.contrariannews.org/p/honey-whis...
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Honey Whiskey Bundt Cake
La Rentrée (the season of return and renewal)
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desertjason.bsky.social @desertjason.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's pretty similar to how @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu has described how autocracies use propaganda more to exhaust people than to convince them the government is right. "Well I don't know who to believe, so I'm not going to spend the mental energy thinking about this."
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
According to our Media & Political Elite: only violence directed at Republicans is political violence (and thus should be taken seriously & condemned by every Democrat), violence directed at Democrats is just sparkling free speech (and thus can be ignored with no need for Republican condemnation).
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11/09/2026
This is one of many times the 80-year-old president has appeared to be completely asleep on camera. But for him to do it today—in front of the families of victims on the twenty-fifth anniversary—is particularly inappropriate. trib.al/soXqJtH
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump's attacks on our civil liberties didn't come out of nowhere. The groundwork for his Orwellian surveillance state was laid by the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act. Only one Senator at the time had the foresight to see what it would unleash.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Headlines today should be: "Trump calls on his supporters to "cheat like hell" in 2026 election." Followed by: "Trump was charged with crimes for attempting to overturn the 2020 election and incited the Jan 6 terrorist attack to remain in power despite losing." But corporate media won't do that!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Disgraceful beyond belief
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm sure there's a clip of Republican Senator Ted Cruz pausing his speech to say, no, these Democratic officials should *not* be shot and I disavow and denounce the Republican in the audience who is calling for assassinations at a Republican political event.
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's what I think about Trump's pledge to give everyone $5,000 if he wins the midterms: It's as real as Trump's promise to lower costs on Day 1. Check the receipts from Groundwork for the 15 times Trump promised Americans $$$. Remember the DOGE dividend?
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In my decades of public service, I have rarely been as angry as I was the day the damning inspector general’s report was released about the EPA's response to the World Trade Center collapse. Read my new piece on the lessons of 9/11 at @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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