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Our constitutionally protected free press failed the American people and will blame everyone but themselves for the consequences.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
The Nevada Republican sported V-shaped emblems that signified a valor award next to a Bronze Star. Flippo never received a Bronze Star for valor.
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David Flippo blamed staff for exaggerating his military record. His own hat tells a different story.
The Nevada Republican sported V-shaped emblems that signify a valor award next to a Bronze Star. Flippo never received a Bronze Star for valor.
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People are saying that @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social protects rapists in New York. www.nbcnewyork.com/investigatio...
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Bill to reform NY's rape law has support of 60% of the Assembly. One man is blocking it.
Advocates for sex crime survivors say they are losing patience with Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly. Heastie wields considerable power in Albany and with two days left in the legi...
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How is anything less than 100% accuracy either useful or “beautiful” when it comes to a math problem?
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They are not trump judges, not Fed Soc, not originalist judges. They are Leonard Leo extremist Catholic judges. How often have they ruled against Leonard Leo track #1 far right Catholicism, or Leonard Leo track #2 anti New Deal, federal regulation Koch oil? www.newsweek.com/supreme-cour...
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Supreme Court Justice most "disloyal" to Donald Trump as new term starts
The court opens its new term Monday as Trump says he regrets all three picks. Here are the justices who have broken with him most.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/10/2026
great speech. FDR had Stephen Miller and his blustering bullshit dead to rights 90 years ago www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
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Address at the Annual Dinner of White House Correspondents' Association | The American Presidency Project
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People are saying that @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social protects rapists in New York. www.nbcnewyork.com/investigatio...
nbcnewyork.com
Bill to reform NY's rape law has support of 60% of the Assembly. One man is blocking it.
Advocates for sex crime survivors say they are losing patience with Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly. Heastie wields considerable power in Albany and with two days left in the legi...
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Asya @asya999.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.nbcnewyork.com/investigatio...
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Bill to reform NY's rape law has support of 60% of the Assembly. One man is blocking it.
Advocates for sex crime survivors say they are losing patience with Carl Heastie, Speaker of the New York State Assembly. Heastie wields considerable power in Albany and with two days left in the legi...
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Michael Tracey is forcing himself back into the news cycle discourse in his own predictably disgusting ways, so here’s a link to the longform biographical episode we put out about him earlier this year with @robertsilverman.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
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110: Who the Hell is Michael Tracey? feat. Bobby Silverman
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · June 1 · 2h 31m
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In nearly every country, women worry about walking alone via @not-ship.com www.not-ship.com/safe-streets...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America doesn’t have a polarization problem America has a right-wing extremism problem
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"
Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LMFAO the official America.gov AI website uses a Chinese open source model
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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's cool that the American political system gave ultimate control of the nuclear football to a senile pedophile twice, including a popular vote win after a failed coup attempt. Anyway, you should be our ally.
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Pete Hegseth announced Project Meridian that will decide the future of the military will be led by one draft dodging war hawk and two war-profiteers who hold billions of dollars in Defense contracts What could possibly go wrong ?
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Hegseth Calls Up Draft-Dodger, 83, to Chart Military’s Future
The Republican former House speaker was once called a “war wimp.”
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Shawn Schillberg @shawnst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vanity Fair is no Teen Vogue.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well there goes any credibility this guy had left
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
When I started to be driven mad by rightwing gaslighting, I wished a wizard would make copious green smoke emerge from the mouth and nose of people whenever they were telling lies. Then I realized nothing would change. FOX News would call it "truth fog" and we'd be off to the races.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dude saw a clip from PATTON once and wanted to cosplay like that.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All those used bookstores that are getting bulk orders from AI book-shredding companies have a golden opportunity to do some data poisoning, I'm just saying
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The source for many of Brian Fitzpatrick's attack ads is a former Bucks County Courier Times reporter and guest at Fitzpatrick's wedding this summer. He's also a convicted turtle trafficker.
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The source of Brian Fitzpatrick’s campaign ad attack fodder: A guest at his own wedding
Self-published articles from a longtime ally are showing up in the vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican’s attack ads.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, well, maybe Fani Willis went to Maryland, ever think of that?
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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 30/09/2026
The NYTimes scans crowd footage and finds Jack Smith at the Hawkeye game. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
Photo of fuzzy photo of crowd in near-outside seats.  A white man with a beard is circled. The text in the photo is:

College Park, Md.
Feb. 3, 2024
The New York Times analyzed footage from the game and identified Smith in the crowd.
Fox Sports
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All this used to be fields @solveforgenx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just invented the Gotchme Question
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Actually you did vote for this, dipshit
Erick Erickson: Talked to a friend whose business has been hit hard by diesel and tariffs. He vented, "I voted for him, but I didn't vote for this." Real frustration out there.
1:16 PM • 9/29/26 • 5.5K Views
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again, political cartoonists tell the truth by keeping things simple.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Today on House Hunters, Ken Paxton is shopping for a new house. Will he buy the three-story luxury lodge in Oklahoma? The condos at a wellness resort in Utah? The ocean-view property in Hawaii? (Spoiler alert: He won’t take one — he’ll take 15.)
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 29/09/2026
Constantly thinking about how Dana Rubinstein was one of the better reporters on the MTA and transit and now she spends her time writing hit pieces on Mamdani for The Times. This framing is uncomfortably anti-Semitic, tying in the safety of NYC Jews with discussing Israeli, for some reason.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aside from toeing the party line, these senators really hate Jack Smith because they're viscerally opposed to the idea of prosecuting politicians. They are committed to their own elite impunity above and beyond whatever they think of Trump. Thus their obsession with the phone records non-issue.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026
I asked America.gov whether Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist and it responded: basically, yes so that clears that up at least
Andrea's prompt for America.gov reads "is donald trump an adjudicated rapist" and the bot response is:

In civil litigation brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, a federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, awarding damages.

Regarding the specific legal term:

The jury did not find him liable for "rape" under the narrow legal definition used in New York penal law at the time, but instead found him liable for "sexual abuse".
The presiding judge later clarified in post-trial rulings that the jury's verdict established that Trump had forcibly sexually assaulted and digitally penetrated her, which meets common understandings of rape even though it did not match the specific statutory elements required for that charge under New York criminal law.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russell Brand is currently charged in the UK with 3 counts of rape, 3 counts of sex assault, and 1 count of indecent assault. He is set for trial in London in two weeks.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Long Lead @longlead.com · 29/09/2026
Long Lead and Magnum Photos's feature BORDER LINE WAR, about the reality of neighboring Russia during its increasing hostilities to the West, has been selected as a finalist for TWO Lovie Awards. Vote for it to win, today: bit.ly/BorderLineWa... bit.ly/BorderLineWa...
Graphic with text on the left: 2026 LOVIE AWARDS VOTE BORDER LINE WAR Best Use of Photography Best Individual Editorial Feature and gold Lovie Award Trophy on the right
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Choose the bear.
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good week to rewatch Promising Young Woman www.imdb.com/title/tt9620...
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 29/09/2026
A camera captures the moment a Shahed drone falls down after being intercepted by Ukrainian air defenses. These air defenses are protecting innocent civilians from the russian air threats that target them. Help us get more of them — help save more lives: u24.gov.ua/sky-defense?...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Daniel Kimmage @dkimmage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congress should investigate the purge that shut down my former office at the State Department, which fought information manipulation by Russia, China, and terrorist organizations. thehill.com/opinion/nati...
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We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…
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