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voters: don't be misled about Mike Johnson's travel schedule! That Is How They Get You!!

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1h

As we reported earlier this week, the mysterious foundation run by SpaceXAI’s top lawyer that actually employs feds who work for an agency within the office of the president that’s building AI websites has applied for at least one H-1B visa for a “member of the technical staff.”

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

the president demanding that one of the primary engines of the country’s economy — thousands of companies, trillions of dollars — rename their core products to suit his whim is tinpot dictatorship shit, and the only reason it doesn’t feel like it is because no one is listening to him

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 1h

Justine Musk and Ashley St. Clair are my heroes. Thanks to my mutual since before that word existed, the great @melissaryan.bsky.social, for letting me go off on a subject of utmost importance: The Democratic Party needs to be as brave as the women of Musk.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 54m

Trump is increasingly brazen in politicizing federal disaster relief, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and elections. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. Or as one governor put it yesterday, it’s “complete and total bulls---.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about politicizing disaster aid

The president’s latest move was so brazen that the governor of Wisconsin called Trump’s announcement “complete and total bulls---.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 57m

A New Confederacy but run entirely by mediocre slobs.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

She has obviously decided to tamper in US domestic politics on the side of the Republican Party despite being screwed over and sold out by Trump, and should be treated as a foreign Republican operative by Democrats moving forward.

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Collins professes it is just a coincidence all these extremists keep showing up around him, but his multiple jokes about "Pinochet Air" have me doubting that.

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Still More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collins’ Orbit

How Many of These Guys Are There? The latest report about far-right...

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 5h

Finally figured out where Donald Trump got all of his ideas about the presidency...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 4h

Very much agree with this. The Trump admin has purposefully attacked mail in voting from multiple directions and continues to make threats of law enforcement at voting sites… their goal is to create confusion, distrust, and fear… to suppress votes.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 5h

Easily my favorite detail:

There was the incident that became known as "the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with
the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch
P01 during flight. She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were
integrated into the program.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 3h

6/ Read the full special report: isw.pub/UkraineDisru...

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 3h

SPECIAL REPORT: Ukrainian forces have defeated the 2026 Russian campaign to seize Donetsk Oblast. 🧵(1/6) Read more: isw.pub/UkraineDisru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Chalian: "Look at Donald Trump's approval rating in the Buckeye State. He is down to 36%, 28 points underwater."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

"Because his two terms were non-consecutive and he remained in the political spotlight throughout Biden’s term, Trump has polluted the national discourse for *more than 11 years*. His act is profoundly old." — @schaller67.bsky.social

publicnotice.co

Trump faces his worst bankruptcy yet

His political capital is gone and the repo man is on the way.

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 3h

Unbelievably stupid. Lisa Su was a small child when she came to Queens from Taiwan, her father was a statistician who worked for City government in NYC …probably one of the accountants described here by Vance as being debarred

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 3h

This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3h

This made me laugh this week.

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 3h

The missing pages of the Das Kapital have been found

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h

It also helps if someone is going to give Republicans $250 million in campaign cash.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 3h

so...eugenics

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 2h

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 2h

Between "college newspaper staff" and "Substack guy with a ton of Twitter followers" I definitely know who's more likely to style themselves as guardians of Serious Journalism

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 2h

A new report from CBS News adds quite a bit more detail to the level of influence and control that Miller exerts over the Trump DOJ.

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New Details Emerge On Stephen Miller’s Meddling at the Trump DOJ

The Tip of the Politicization Spear Since the dawn of Trump II,...

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 13h

Remember that a blue wave might not crash evenly across all areas. In fact I believe it will wash further ashore in red states than in blue. Polling hints at an anti-incumbency drag, regardless of party. So to blue state Dems: Do NOT get complacent and assume easy victories in your elections.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h

Note how in all of this, Vance's comments are suffused with the rhetoric of 1930s Nazi eugenics, including the "elite human being" (in German, Herrenmensch or Übermensch). Straight from Curtis Yarvin, and Elon Musk, by the way. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Deters: "Kimberly Guilfoyle is a grifter. Kimberly Guilfoyle I have no doubt has done this to more than me. She's doing it right now in Greece. I know Corey Lewandowski did this stuff. I know Kristi Noem did this stuff."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Eric Deters: "They're getting rich ... the Trumps are in the open! They're all -- Jared Kushner, $3 billion fund from Saudi Arabia after he negotiates the Abraham Accords."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

“As much as $5 million in SpaceX two days before he signed a sweeping policy aimed at expanding US commercial space transportation.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

National Republicans just pulled nearly $2 million of spending out of the Georgia Senate race, per Dem source who shared ad-tracking data with me. The source believes some of it might get redeployed to South Carolina. Another sign of the times.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 3h

Systematically destroying US hegemony in higher-education may feel like "owning the libs" but (1) Education is massive export for US (2) Best & brightest from around world stay in US and start businesses here (3) Higher-education is key employer & medical life-line in many *Republican* states.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3h

the nerds have taken over ms now

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 3h

the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be

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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 3h

Who wrote this on p.58 of his autobiography? (Hint: he’s a beardo weirdo.) “You can walk through a [rural] town where 30 percent of the young men work fewer than twenty hours a week and find not a single person aware of his own laziness.”

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h

You can't fake aura like this

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

an interesting list. everyone's got their elections to watch this. and this includes some of the standbys. but what's different is the focus on stuff close to wired's reporting, races turning on data centers, doge vets, etc. www.wired.com/story/wireds...

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WIRED’s Midterms Races to Watch

From data centers to Elon Musk funding to the AI lobby, the 2026 midterms are the most WIRED elections yet. These are the candidates we're following closely.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Trump has moved the ethical line" drives me crazy. It pretends there are no other actors with agency in 🇺🇸 politics or the media. You could have treated this as a nonstop five-alarm scandal & crisis for democracy. You didn't do that. You did for EMAIL & BIDEN OLD. Other choices were right there.

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An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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wargen @funeralpig.bsky.social · 22h

got fired from the future crimes division after i accidentally dropped my ice cream cone into the precog's tank and killed one of them

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 15h

Demented. And worsening.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 16h

The media's dilemma: should we cover that a guy contemplating how to dispose of Jews is cited by the VP as an intellectual influence or write another piece about vague connections between Democrats and Hassan Piker? 🤔

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

The Russians are barbarians and should be treated as such, not as people to negotiate new business deals with to benefit corrupt oligarchs in the US.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16h

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind

The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.

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