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Born a human being. Nothing much has changed since then. Breathing. Want a pony. Also, fuck Trump.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
After the midterms there is nothing to hold Trump back from sending troops into Iran, even if dems win he has that asinine 60 day window they all created years ago to bypass their own laws.
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Politico: Pentagon "Alarmed" At Elon Musk's New Role - Joe.My.God.
Politico reports: Pentagon officials warn that Pete Hegseth’s plan for a pair of billionaire defense contractors to help steer the military’s future will produce conflicts of interest that threaten th...
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bartleby1701.bsky.social @bartleby1701.bsky.social · 23h
And yet he complains about Powell and the Fed reno....
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
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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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not “mind-boggling.” Trump has made our once-beloved country an unwelcoming place and an unsafe place for foreign visitors.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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NPR @npr.org · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies. n.pr/46UKiy3
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How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.
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bartleby1701.bsky.social @bartleby1701.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Barf.
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bartleby1701.bsky.social @bartleby1701.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fuck this shit! WTF????
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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GOP Nominee Called For Publicly Executing Obama - Joe.My.God.
CNN reports: Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football ga...
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I love Henry Miller so much I named a person after him.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just the racism, Texas GOP leader Bo French also advocates summary execution of leading Democrats (specifically including President Obama) and the establishment of concentration camps for political foes. CNN has the receipts. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We have never looked weaker or more pathetic.
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Proud Bureaucrat @peeinian420.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think a lot about the grant quote during the battle of the wilderness when some general came to tell him that Lee was attacking and he said (paraphrased) “will you shut the fuck up and just fight him, he’s not magic” and I think Dems would do well to internalize that against republicans
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A point I make here is: Why do you think Trump/Miller are letting in Afrikaners? Not because they care about those people. It's the larger message it sends the world: It’s now US doctrine that the only humanitarian victims who merit our concern are the imagined victims of anti-white persecution.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With Dem House, defunding Office of Remigration and defunding 3rd-country deportations are on the table. Also: Haul officials who oversee it all before Congress. “Removing individuals to countries where they have no ties is unconscionable,” Rep Lois Frankel says. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It should be painfully obvious to everyone by now that Republicans don’t want to talk about the terrible economy, affordability or their latest war.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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patfromthestix @patfromthestix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He’s almost destroyed it all.
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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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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boasting of an illegal war and the war crime of pillage.
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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
While the U.S. is getting their asses handed to them by Iran and our stock piles of munitions are depleted, Pete Hegseth is worried that every man in the military isn’t waking up with a hard enough boner. That’s interesting.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What’s it going to take for mainstream media to say loudly and clearly that Trump is building a dictatorship? If not now, when?
NYT: Trump says he has banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
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Derek Johnson @derekjjohnson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
House GOP telling on themselves
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey White House Correspondents' Association -- is *this enough?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2026
NEW: Hegseth and Trump are lying about how many troops have been killed in their war. The DoD website says 14. The actual number is 23 or 24 according to multiple DOD officials 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Joe Rogan suddenly acting like he was an innocent bystander for years and had no idea what Trump was all about until now and did nothing to help get him elected is pretty weak and pathetic. Just own it.
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JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Today: Activists To Link Hands Around Kennedy Center - Joe.My.God.
The Washington Blade reports: An organization called Hands Off the Arts has announced it is holding a protest on Friday, Sept. 18, in which between 400 and 800 participants are expected to create a “h...
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don’t tell me you care about drug smuggling when you just had the pardoned dark-web-drug-king-pin as your keynote speaker.
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This is Insane
Don’t tell me you care about drug smuggling when you just had the p...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you are a network or cable news anchor who, in 2026, asked a Democratic guest about Hasan Piker but didn't ask a Republican guest about Lorenzo Sewell, then you have failed at your job. You have failed at journalism and balance. It's that simple.
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The media’s Hasan Piker obsession is letting Republican Mike Rogers off the hook | Mehdi Hasan
Mike Rogers isn’t merely campaigning alongside a controversial supporter. His campaign put an extremist on its faith leadership team
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Are we allowed to know where all the money is from the oil we’ve plundered from Venezuela? Where is it? How much is it? Has any of it been spent? Who has profited from it? Can we get a full accounting or is that too much to ask? I realize Republicans in Congress don’t care.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
* EXCLUSIVE -- CHINA HAS PRIVATELY ASKED IRAN TO USE ITS INFLUENCE TO HELP REIN IN YEMEN'S HOUTHIS AFTER SAUDI APPEAL TO BEIJING, THREE IRANIAN SOURCES SAY @reuters.com
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White: Eight of Ken Paxton’s assistants turned him into the FBI for fraud... They sued and won $6 million. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He’s a criminal.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The worst human being to ever occupy the office. Just reprehensible scum.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.
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