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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office? MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now BERMAN: So it's gone up MOORE: That is true
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 2h
Call the Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline at 844-WHOS-KEN. Learn about his record and leave him a voicemail. (It’s a real number.)
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 2h
NEW AD: Are you a data center company looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child predator looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you!
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 3h
I do think it's important to give grace to people who realize they made the wrong choice. I don't want to. but other nicer people def should do that. I dont give a shit.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19h
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h
A goose saying "what adversity?"
the same goose chasing a man yelling "what adversity was Deshaun Watson dealing with?"
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3h
Big news in the Senate battle. After pouring $30 million in NC, John Thune's GOP SuperPAC stops spending there, effectively conceding Cooper is likely to win. And they're dumping their first 7-figures in Kansas. (Note: a Dem internal found Hamilton up today.) www.semafor.com/article/10/0...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 4h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 5h
SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 2h
The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1h
989 billionaires are now worth 22% of our GDP. We have more wealth concentration than the gilded age.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17h
trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 20h
Wemby is something else, man
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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
CSPAN: “We should mention that Senator Schmitt was supposed to appear on this program with Sen. Coons but he pulled out the day after that hearing.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h
Melber: You’re saying the VP has low T. You’ve called Mike Rogers a beta. El-Sayed: I'm just saying that they like to lead on strength. Strength is about being able to stand up to the problem. The problem is Donald Trump, and you don't see much standing up to Donald Trump
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h
El-Sayed responds to JD Vance clip: Low T JD. It's always funny, man. He just brings the energy down every time you hear him talk.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump: "They came up with the word 'affordability' ... it's phony" (Note that the crowd isn't into Trump's affordability denialism at all)
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 17h
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."
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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20h
They're going to try to steal it
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h
Cornell University police in 2024 summarized hours of interviews with a woman who said she was attacked in the Chi Phi fraternity house into a document that excluded her unequivocal statement that she had been raped, documents show. A prosecutor did not pursue criminal charges based on the document.
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23h
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 23h
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 · 23h
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 · 23h
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 · 23h
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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"
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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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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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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 22h
#BREAKING U.S. District Judge April Perry is moving forward with further fact-finding regarding potential prosecutorial misconduct in the case of the "Broadview Six," with a special prosecutor still on the table.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22h
"Wow, that was really racist" from Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
JD Vance on Angie Nixon: "Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America"
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
“What a crock of sh*t!” Katie Phang torches Todd Blanche after he declares, “There’s not a prosecutor in this country that should ever, ever violate a court order,” pointing to the Trump DOJ’s documented noncompliance with court orders in her OWN Epstein files lawsuit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Ossoff on Mike Collins: "This is a congressman who called for executing immigrants by throwing them out of helicopter. He is a fanatic and Trump puppet."
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2026
The 0.1% own 15% of all the wealth while 50% are basically broke. That is how societies die. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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