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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 21h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I continue to hate that the “computer-illiterate elderly people falling prey to computer-oriented scams” demographic seems to include every American politician.

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Danny Page @danny.page · 25/09/2026

"turns out we need to have windows that open" - the company with the highest market cap in the world, for some reason

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In term 1, Trump took a strong economy he inherited from Obama, threw in some tax cuts, didn’t mess with it much, & took credit for it. In term 2, Trump decided that he wanted to completely reshape the economy according to his own dumbass beliefs and now we’re Trump University.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 18/09/2026

all these fucking idiots were like "man i'm just tired of the status quo in washington and think we need to blow up the system and trump is the bomb" and now that it's all blown up they're like "oh, this sucks actually"

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

😂 congrats to JPMorgan's commodities team for being merely six months behind the typical Bluesky poster

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026

There's really no complicated explanation for this, or any kind of grand theory. It's just Econ 101 and he flat out does not understand it because he's an idiot.

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 15/09/2026

Truly incredible to watch a man with the emotional maturity of a three year old be the president of the United States. This is the pettiest, most unnecessary shit I’ve literally ever seen. He’s genuinely one of the most despicable people to ever live. I seriously hate him.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026

the supreme court has ruled 6-3 that all toys everywhere belong to our special boy in the white house

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alito and Thomas have the clearest judicial philosophy possible: If a Democratic president does it, it's tyranny. If a Republican president does it, it's legal.

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If there was ever a case for justified civil asset forfeiture it is Trump and his extended family.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The best argument for why the Trumps aren't corrupt is that they're happy to accept gifts from people who think they're buying influence when in fact they're all snakes who don't pay their debts.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ESPN spent all of the last 3 months screaming about how the Rams are going undefeated because this is the most dominant team they'd ever seen and currently the Rams margin of defeat after 1 game in 2026 is 2X greater than the Seahawks margin of defeat added across every game they played in 2025

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DrawPlayDave @thedrawplay.com · 11/09/2026

Drake Maye shoots, bam! www.thedrawplay.com/comic/drake-...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Awful decision by Maye, but man—shoutout to Josh Jobe and Nehemiah Pritchett. Legion of whom balled the f out tonight.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/09/2026

Quite incredible that the richest man on earth who has legitimately done all sorts of things from paying people to vote and purchasing media in order to twist it to his will is... claiming that Soros (who is not nearly as wealthy) has done the very things Musk absolutely does.

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 07/09/2026

FIELDER/HOLMES is FROST/NIXON for a certain breed of ageing millenial. Couldn't be more excited. youtu.be/GGJSRFWALTI?...

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You Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One way to understand Trump's trade views: In his private business, Trump got used to not paying for things—stiffing the granite-countertop contractor, or chandelier salesman—but still got the products anyway. So maybe he thinks America should just be getting the world's goods for free, too.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Trump thinks that if you pay somebody $10 for a burrito than you have lost the $10, like it has been stolen from you. He's not pretending; this is literally the basis of his trade policy

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you.

Milo Yiannopoulos: "I didn't really understand the physical reality of how institutionalized the brutality is in America. The manner in which they arrest you, they put you in manacles, everybody is arrested like an MS 13 gang member.
It was physically degrading. It was frightening. I don't think I've ever been frightened like that before. I was weeping like an old woman for an hour. I wouldn't wish it on anyone."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2026

if this happens, the democratic president should ignore the stay and keep tearing down the buildling

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 31/08/2026

I’m curious, if “eggs expensive under Biden” was newsworthy, how come “Trump intentionally caused every single fucking thing to be heinously expensive” isn’t a story?

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The renaming of this lake is so dumb and petty and should not be the focus of the news right now but … I cannot overstate enough just how sad and pathetic this update is for Google

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Actual adult people who work in the mainstream press talk to this guy and take him seriously. He's a white supremacist, yes, but he's also just a premium sexless dork.

Richard Hanania: The point of a game like Grand Theft Auto is to identify with the character.

By making a female character, the new game will be promoting autogynephilia.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, and if they make her bisexual then the game won’t necessarily be unhealthy.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

rokos basilisk except its just future humans looking back and remembering all the creators who worked with ai and then still not to supporting them

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is correct, but also another reason why Democrats have to lean into accountability and oversight as hard as possible when they retake Congress. It's not just about punishing criminals. It's about making it clear to the country the depth of the damage done to ready them for the repairs.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

the outcome of a school basketball game hinges on what is not in the rule book

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2026

it is in fact just the media, which has devoted more attention to this than it has to the fact that multiple republican lawmakers are dealing with “we hired nazis” scandals and that the “we hired nazis” problem extends to the white house

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

How it started… how it’s going

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Turns out stoking the flames of fascism as a flamboyantly gay noncitizen doesn't work out long-term, cannot believe it

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m so confused by this graphic. Is Trump implying that Iran did 9/11? Also, that sign says “Mission Not Accomplished 2001-2021.” Does Trump know who was president from 2017-2021?

Collage image posted by Trump that shows George W. Bush on one side with a sign that says “mission not accomplished 2001-2021” and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the other side with a sign that says “Mission Accomplished 2026”

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 27/08/2026

Awed by this DOJ filing in the "can Trump put his name on the Kennedy Center" litigation in which the DOJ lawyer uses the phrase "conflicts of interest" to refer to, like, the fact that parties to a case have different goals. Borderline illiterate stuff. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An order blocking the Board from appropriately recognizing President Trump will cause
donors to flee, financial contributions to dry up, and structural rehabilitation to stop. There will
simply not be the expertise or funding necessary to rebuild and renovate this decimated structure.
The Trump Administration is ready to go but, without it, the Kennedy Center cannot be saved.
There are many conflicts of interest having to do with the Kennedy Center, and it would be a shame
if those conflicts of interest would destroy the very thing that we are all trying to save. In short,
without appropriate recognition, the Kennedy Center will be back where it was at the beginning
— A financially insolvent facility, housed in a decrepit, dilapidated, crumbling building, that is
bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, and continues to race toward physical and
financial ruin.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

THEY'RE NOT EVEN THE ONES DOING THE DRAMA

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yet another off-the-wall DOJ court filing: warning that the Kennedy Center might need to be demolished unless Trump's name is inscribed -- twice -- on the building & the entire site is named for him. Of course, it's signed only by Trump political appointees. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...

In June, the Board unanimously voted—Democrat Representative Joyce Beatty included— to recognize the President. Next, on August 13, the Board voted, by an overwhelming majority to take three specific actions in order to recognize and acknowledge President Trump.
In fact, though Congresswoman Beatty voted against the August 13 measure, she explicitly stated that she had “no objection” to one component of it—re-naming the Center’s grounds after President Trump to honor the work he is doing to save the Kennedy Center.
Without those efforts, the Center will deteriorate further into an unsafe, decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down, with a determination to follow on what to build on the site, such as a large outdoor amphitheater overlooking the Potomac River that has been proposed, by some, for many years. Such a replacement will fail to adequately honor President John F. Kennedy, but would be simpler and more economical to build, operate, and maintain.
Nevertheless, Beatty, seemingly motivated by a partisan end to ensure the Kennedy Center does not succeed under President Trump’s leadership, now asks this Court to prohibit those three crucial and plainly lawful initiatives adopted by the Board in order to recognize the Trump Administration’s unique contribution to the Center’s viability: (1) adding the inscription “renovated and restored by President Donald J. Trump” on the front of the building under the Center’s name; (2) adding the phrase “endowed by The Trump Kennedy Center Fund” (which is already in existence, and ready to go!), under the first inscription; and, (3) naming the site that contains the Center the “President Donald J. Trump Plaza.”

See Dellinger v. Bessent, 768 F. Supp. 3d 30, 32 (D.D.C. 2025) (“While Rule 65(b)(2) is silent on the timeline for temporary restraining orders entered with notice, it is generally accepted that the standard fourteen days followed by a fourteen-day extension for good cause applies to a TRO entered with notice as well.”).
CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, this Court should deny Beatty’s motion for a permanent injunction.
Dated: August 24, 2026 Respectfully submitted,
BRETT A. SHUMATE
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division
ERIC J. HAMILTON
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
/s/ Brantley T. Mayers
BRANTLEY T. MAYERS
Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20530
Telephone: (202) 890-9874
brantley.t.mayers@usdoj.gov

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

can't believe that Donald Trump, the President Who Betrays Everybody, would betray me

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026

i do think a lot of mainstreamers have missed the ball on how musk has moved past "rich guy with funny opinions on race science" and into "literally just a nazi"

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

its so funny to me that the AI industry spent the last few years promising cancer cures and miracle drugs and is now like How can we get people to like us? uhhh cure cancer, bitch. right now. cure cancer before you steal my job.

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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

to use basketball as a metaphor, what happened to Yglesias is he stopped being able to get to the rim and has compensated by pulling up from further and further away

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The median American voter, voted for it be 2019 again and for Trump to make them rich, under the very mistaken belief that Worse Things Aren't Possible, and quite literally everyone is paying for it

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