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Liberal wonky technologist who likes bad dad jokes. Favorite quote: "Beer is proof that G-d loves us and wants us to be happy" -- Benjamin Franklin Favorite political quote from a movie: "We're all in it together" -- Harry Tuttle in Brazil

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 4h
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 4h
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
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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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The GOP should have realized that Jack Smith has the receipts. #USDemocracy
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h
I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.
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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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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 21h
The Schmitt thing is kind of scary because it shows just how much many elected Rs genuinely believe the crazy stuff. He and his staff thought they’d pulled the red thread on The Giant Conspiracy. They were so convinced it must be real they didn’t even think to double check.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h
Sen. Eric Schmitt is an international laughingstock. He’s up for reelection in 2028, so we’ll have to work on him later.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h
Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country.
Screenshot of a Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump’s verified @realDonaldTrump account displaying a signed document titled “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.” The document outlines voluntary AI safety and oversight commitments for companies developing frontier artificial intelligence models. On the right side are signatures and company labels for leaders including Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Near the center-right, Donald J. Trump’s large signature appears above the printed title identifying him as president. The title contains a noticeable typo: instead of “President of the United States,” it reads, “President of the Unites States,” misspelling “United” as “Unites.”
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 23h
I can’t wait for this day.
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EZTempo @eztempo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Missourians has to be hanging their heads, avoiding the gaze of the Nation at their foolish & ill-prepared "gotcha" Senator, Eric Schmitt, face-planting his Big Moment with Jack Smith. No one laid a glove on the Special Prosecutor. Amateurish on the Right side of the dais, right? wapo.st/4iW4OWi
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Senator’s basketball mix-up derails ‘gotcha’ moment at Jack Smith hearing
The gaffe by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri) quickly went viral, but several prominent MAGA influencers seemed not to notice his mistake.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 23h
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23h
Lol. 😂
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No one cares about humanity until it directly affects them! Shame on this rogue SCOTUS! #Pinks ⚖️
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you joined the military recently hoping you could just do your job and serve your country without being called upon to participate in a Christian nationalist crusade against Muslims abroad or a prop in a Pete Hegseth workout video, you picked the wrong time.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Netanyahu made a trip to UAE yesterday, pleading with President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed to publicly deny Haaretz and NYT reporting that he personally warned him, 10 days before October 7, 2023, that Hamas was planning a major attack. The UAE refused. apnews.com/article/isra...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait. Which country is he talking about?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope can’t resist his pizza.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Jonathan-FL #HumanRightsForEVERYONE @amerliberal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's Eugenicist, White Supremacist, Misogynist Thiel, and Public Hangings Lonsdale. www.commondreams.org/news/joe-lon...
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Billionaire Palantir Co-Founder Pushes Return of Public Hangings as Part of 'Masculine Leadership' Initiative | Common Dreams
Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale calls for public hangings to restore "masculine leadership" in the US.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report” 9/18/26 (Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale) … 1/
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Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report
U.S. war planners were too confident in unreliable artificial intelligence tools, leading to a strike on an Iranian school, Bloomberg reported.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joe Scarborough: It’s important we now have documentation that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run ads for their political party.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm old enough to remember the US denying that this attack was successful. Starting to suspect Pete Hegseth lied to me.
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
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"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Under threats from Trump’s FCC chairman Brendan Carr, Jimmy Kimmel had to put his interview with James Tallarico on YouTube. Yet Trump is free to use taxpayer money to run political ads on Fox.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Suddenly, Democrats Have a Path to a HUGE Senate Majority #Bulwark
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Suddenly, Democrats Have a Path to a HUGE Senate Majority
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026
"The old system under which the 'third countries' had to provide guarantees that the deportees would be safe from persecution and abuse has been dismantled; all that’s required now is vague and meaningless 'assurances'." It gets worse. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 27/09/2026
"It would be more accurate to say that what the U.S. is doing to Cuba is illegal, it is indefensible, and it is indecent." Joy Gordon explains how the Trump Administration's sanctions against Cuba are resulting in starvation and misery. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sieg...
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Siege Warfare by Other Means: The U.S. Economic Measures Against Cuba
How the Trump Administration is using starvation and misery to achieve regime change in Cuba.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RepubliKKKans Are Bad For America, Vote Accordingly.......💙
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
to keep functioning, society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump seeks to label Democrats as communists, but he was the one who rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping and kissed his ass. He is clearly Putin’s comrade and buying government stakes in private companies, so why aren’t more people calling out this bullshit? #ComradeTrump
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 27/09/2026
Betrayed-feeling Trump grills GOP candidate in private phone call: report
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Betrayed-feeling Trump grills GOP candidate in private phone call: report
President Donald Trump “has picked up on the fact” that a growing number of GOP lawmakers are racing to distance themselves from him as his approval ratings hit record lows — and he gave one GOP candidate a fierce “grilling” over the phone, Zeteo reported Saturday, citing multiple administration off...
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Abbott is not only contributing to the deaths of pregnant women, he’s hiding maternal death data. Texans who think women should live will vote for a new governor. #GinaForTexas #AbbottFailsTexas
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Apparently Normal @apparentlynormal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iran can't win military, so it's fighting back by destroying the US economy. The price of diesel fuel is at an all time high. The US spends more on interest than the military. Expensive diesel means inflation, raising interest rates, causing a market crash www.youtube.com/shorts/4Yw7E...
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Iran Is Destroying the US Economy
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 26/09/2026
No amount of money or strategy reverses the curse of being associated with Donald Trump. Republicans will learn that the hard way in November. Watch Rick Wilson on MSNOW:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to revive the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for the midterms also suggests the justices may be eager to weaken one of federal law’s most important safeguards against last-minute voter purges." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In SAVE ruling, Supreme Court signals path to weaken key protection against last-minute purges
A crucial voter protection could hinge on whether the Supreme Court wants to narrow the definition of “systematic” as applied to purges. And there’s reason to fear that it does.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The constitution explicitly says that the states are in charge of national elections NOT the president! The SCOTUS has stuck its nose in where it doesn’t belong!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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