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Group Captain Lionel Mandrake @bbmcginty.bsky.social · 1h

This is completely antithetical to the American experiment.

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also the problem isn’t that the texts weren’t vetted it’s that they don’t prove anything besides “he booked tickets to a game”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3h

Talked to @amandalitman.bsky.social youtu.be/zjPENWrV6aM?...

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Susie & Midge w/ an extra Smidge @midgeandsusie.bsky.social · 5h

Smidge is a lean, mean, 23.4lb (10.6kg) Lambchop killing machine.

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Group Captain Lionel Mandrake @bbmcginty.bsky.social · 2h

This is exactly why Trump picked him, and he knows it. He's nitwit carnival barker who wants to create a new reality miniseries about landing a military base.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 6h

So... with that direct line to the secretary, the Office will report whenever anything happens that suggests our nation is not "blessed?" Or is not following the Bible? Or has too little testosterone? Just like the founders intended, or something?

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 6h

This would come across a lot better if he hadn’t just lost a war.

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Group Captain Lionel Mandrake @bbmcginty.bsky.social · 3h

The drunk guy at the end of the bar makes more sense than this lunatic.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 7h

Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

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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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5h

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I for one will never forgive or forget

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18h

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.com

US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 18h

A feature of post-war German democracy has been that the left has traditionally had far more of a firewall to the far left than the center right has had with the far right. The central role of anti-communism in Cold War West Germany created a structural asymmetry that has not been reckoned with.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Apparently Justice just came to this conclusion after taking the opposite position for over a decade.

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Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FATALITY

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
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Destroyed
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 13h

🧊✈️ VENEZUELA 😲⛓️ 👉 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) departs El Paso Wednesday morning, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela 🇻🇪

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Yesterday @politico.com was out with a story giving some context into the weird situation with TPS for El Salvador, which everyone expected to be terminated but is now in an unprecedented and indefinite limbo. Surprisingly, it was the White House that intervened. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

White House pumped brakes on TPS termination for 200,000 Salvadorans

DHS was set to end temporary protected status for El Salvador before the White House stepped in.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 13h

It’s insane that the media have no interest in what’s going on here.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h

I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

LEONIDAS OF THE POTOMAC HOSTS HISTORIC WORKOUT SESH

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Fetterman is garbage. He betrays the people who fought for him when he was at his lowest point - and that fight is the only reason he’s in the senate. Now he’s actively working to raise money for Republican PACs.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 13h

almost as if they are operating on the assumption that everybody else does what they (openly, on live tv, with signing ceremonies) do

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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 13h

Or the fact that it was Biden's DOJ that oversaw the prosecution of **Bob Menendez**—or launched the investigation of Eric Adams! None of that mattered. People screaming about the politicization of the DOJ under Biden continued screaming the same thing.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 14h

Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio

The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22h

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

“Opposition figures and independent analysts worry that the police could look the other way at pro-government violence on Election Day, or interfere with voting in Arab towns or liberal precincts considered hostile to Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Ben-Gvir.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/w...

nytimes.com

Heroine or Public Enemy? The Israeli Blocking Much of Netanyahu’s Agenda. (Gift Article)

Gali Baharav-Miara, Israel’s first female attorney general, has stopped many of the government’s efforts to remove constraints on its power.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 18h

Most TV is just this now.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 12h

My new piece at @nyulaw.bsky.social @democracyproject.bsky.social, "Exorcising Justice Alito's Voter Fraud Boogeyman," begins:

Emotions can cause even the smartest among us to lose perspective, and I am afraid that the usually sharp Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has let his apparent panic over phantom voter fraud cloud his judgment in some of the Court’s most recent election cases. As the Court has navigated such cases, including a recent last-minute emergency election case, the good news is that cooler heads have prevailed in rejecting Justice Alito’s analyses as contrary to both the evidence and appellate review standards. Should the Supreme Court face post-election litigation in which claims of voter fraud again play a role, Justices should again respond to Justice Alito’s boogeyman the way parents respond to a child irrationally afraid of the monster under the bed: with calmness, compassion, demonstrable evidence, and a firm grasp on reality.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 11h

"Whether he is watching too much Fox News or acting for other reasons, Justice Alito seems to be emotionally unable to rationally examine the actual evidence in the cases before him to see if they support his voter fraud arguments." democracyproject.org/posts/exorci...

democracyproject.org

Exorcising Justice Alito’s Voter Fraud Boogeyman

A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

grandpa is talking crazy about the TV again

Why does FoxNews always put Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Jessica Tarlov, and every Democrat on, saying bad things about the Republican Party and, of course, me? I actually think they get more airtime than Pro Republicans. This is why MAGA, and REAL Patriots, will never like Fox! They repeat a completely negative narrative, on and on it goes, and then we get a quick retort. It’s truly amazing that I won all three Elections. The opposition is enormous, but the fight goes on! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone in politics and media does spooky voice about high corporate taxes and high top marginal rates, and then you look up the period of history where we had that and it's called ~the golden age of capitalism~

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

This isn't surprising news. It's from Martin Peers email newsletter at The Information. What's notable how much this is showing up in the tech press.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

Sir you should rename data centers TRUMP centers. They should emit a sinister glow and a deafening screeching sound at all times. Local communities should be required to sacrifice an innocent life to them. For your glory sir. It'll help with the election

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 8h

One important policy lesson from this story is how Facebook committed blatant tax fraud in 2013 (Zuckerberg's stock options as R&D) and still hasn't been forced to pay it and thus learned that tax fraud is an acceptable business practice and so is doing it again.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8h

poor Mark was just making ends meet and had to do this

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 10h

Oh my. The aurora borealis, seen in ultraviolet light from space. Our planet, putting on a show ✨

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

big dynamic this fall

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 8h

Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...

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The New Radicals

Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 8h

This kind of elegantly illustrates exactly why genAI is garbage

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 7h

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 7h

How do you even parody this shit?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 7h

Trump goes for his perfect trifecta in this one; a barefaced lie, a large dollop of racism, and a big dose of insanity--all in one short quote.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 9h

Eric Schmitt fully deserves to be ridiculed for his embarrassing display-attacking Jack Smith But don’t let MAGA Senator Kennedy-who eagerly rushed to help Schmitt-off the hook for his own farcical performance during the same hearing The funniest thing is, these two stooges thought they had Smith

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