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Slogging through the chaos, cruelty and incompetence in these utterly stupid times.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 16/09/2026
NEW: House to leave Washington early until the midterm elections, punting a vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to November.
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House to leave early, punting Hegseth impeachment vote until after November elections
House Republican leaders cancelled votes planned for Thursday. Members won’t return to Washington until Nov. 9.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tech oligarchs could really set the example for the common folk by simply building their mansions right next to their data centers and then live in them with their families.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
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VT Commons @vtcommons.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump hates Western Europe because of a deep sense of his own cultural and social inferiority. He is ignorant, vulgar, unrefined, loutish, ill-mannered, and monolingual. Western Europeans remind him of that just by standing next to him.
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Ed Kwok @ed-kwok.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The size of the Boreal Forest in Canada.... it can't be raked....hot dry weather and changing winds from climate change have screwed everything up
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/07/2026
If Andy Beshear doesn’t call for a special election before August 3rd and force Mitch McConnell to prove he can speak in a video, then Andy Beshear becomes the new Merrick Garland. I’m sorry but I make the rules.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The 2026 Republican message: Shut up or we’ll kill more of you.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Never lose sight of the utter stupidity of Trump whining that anytime he or a Republican loses, it was rigged, yet any time or a Republican wins, there's nothing wrong with the election.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What I'll be watching tonight instead of listening to the never ending lies from the WH about "rigged" elections:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Elsewhere, less tactful conservatives expressed directly what the dissenting justices chose to do in euphemism. Stephen Miller, who runs immigration policy for the Trump administration, told Fox News that “we have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel.” He went on: “They can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?” Miller’s long-standing view is that what ruined America was the repeal of eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions that had banned immigration from Asia and Africa and from nations in Europe deemed to be composed of lesser white races.

There is very little difference between Miller’s position—if you come from a “Third World nation,” you are inferior—and that of antebellum Democrats and the opponents of the Fourteenth Amendment at the time it was adopted: American citizenship is degraded by having to share it with the biologically inferior. The justices are elite lawyers with the ability to obfuscate this project and ignore its aims, but the rest of us need not pretend. To put it bluntly, Miller’s objection, as articulated here, is not to birthright citizenship. It is to the idea that “all men are created equal.”
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Keep The Republic 🏳️‍🌈 @keeptherepublic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
At least they're not hiding their corruption. Go big or go home.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What are the odds of TWO master orators married to one another? Listening to them speak was uplifting, inspirational and exhilarating. A reminder of another, better time when leaders spoke to our better angels & offered hope & optimism rather than divisive vulgarisms. #ChangeIsComingNovember3rd
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
One of the most consistent elements of this administration is its contempt for the groups it purports to represent. “Working class” =/= “asshole”
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Holy shit this cartoon.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
And the people cried out: "We demand a golden ballroom"
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fetterman had a column defending himself and it's not worth thinking about but worth noting how, after all the blather about "work across the aisle," his first example of that is... undoing Trump's illegal freeze of PA transportation grants awarded under Biden. But Dems are the unreasonable ones. 🙄
My party cannot simply be the opposite of whatever President Donald Trump says. The president could come out for ice cream and lazy Sundays, and my party would suddenly hate them. Such pointless pile-ons and attacks are unproductive. The American people want us to work together to find solutions on issues they and our country face.I refuse to cave on my conscience because Pennsylvania deserves someone who is honest and can work across the aisle.

Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and I worked together to unfreeze $1 billion in federal funding for transportation projects across Pennsylvania.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: "We need more religion in politics." [Pope uses religion to criticize Trump.] CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: "Keep your religion out of our politics!!!"
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If Hungary can get rid of its autocrat, so can America anntelnaes.substack.com/p/viktor-orb...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/04/2026
more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
the Artemis mission is what I believe in and want to see more of in the world. smart, kind experts working together for knowledge and discovery.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/04/2026
Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Why a surprise inspection? Because the last time they inspected this facility they had to give 7 days notice; and ICE moved almost everyone out of the facility before they got there, then filled it up again when they left. azmirror.com/2026/04/09/i...
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ICE moved detainees out of an overcrowded Mesa facility before congressional oversight visit
A Mesa ICE facility built for 157 people held nearly 800 in a single day, with some detainees staying up to 18 days
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/04/2026
Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
DONALD TRUMP: "Well, the war didn't go so great, but did you notice? Nobody is talking about Epstein anymore." MELANIA TRUMP: "On it!"
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025. In 2010, the number was barely 10,000. In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric. The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Cartoon by Bill Bramhall
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2026
shot, chaser
Lutnick last March: "In the 4th quarter of 2025, this economy is gonna be humming"Fox Business reports about GDP number for 4th quarter 2025 being revised down
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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 09/04/2026
Cat in the Summer Meadow, Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939).
Painting of a tabby cat in a summer meadow. Surrounded by dandelions and other flowers.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It says a lot about Republicans that they’ll make draft registration automatic and mandatory, but not voter registration.
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Cindy 📎🇨🇦⚢🏳️‍🌈 @bilbow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Vatican was so alarmed by Pentagon’s warning that Pope Leo cancelled plans to visit the U.S. this year, reported Hale, who noted that “many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.” #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/208820/...
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Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump
It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
1984 calendar meme with the lady saying "the empire is at war with Persia and the Pope" and the calendar says January 1054
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The starkest of contrasts in today's timeline.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Now Ron Wyden:
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Vice President is overseas campaigning for a dictator, because I guess there’s nothing going on here that warrants his attention.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In a shocking twist, impunity has emboldened a narcissist to descend into full megalomania
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