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Producer @allinwithchris.bsky.social. Posts are probably somebody else's fault. Stumbling as I fall from grace. @bjgunts on the other sites.

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B.J. Gunts @bjgunts.bsky.social · 11m
Dril: issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 1h
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 13h
Straight up: As a woman in football, this sucks to listen to. This week in particular.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How did the Democrats lose the messaging war to Trump on the Trump-Russia scandal? I tell that story in a new article for The New Republic that's drawn from my new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Check out the book at HowRussiaWon.com.
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How Trump Won the Russia Messaging War—and How the Democrats Lost It
When Robert Mueller found no smoking gun on collusion, Democrats largely turned to other matters. But Trump and his backers never stopped pushing their lies.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's Judge Edelman's full ruling dismissing *with prejudice* the case against Reflecting Pool defendant David Hearn because "no crime had been committed." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Order dismissing case with prejudice United States v. David Hearn (2026 CF2 010237)
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Unsurprisingly, Richard Hanania is doing rape apology coverage of the Cornell case with fellow wretch Michael Tracey
Richard Hanania @RichardHanania
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Watch me discuss the Cornell rape controversy with Michael Tracey.
I think the lesson of this is that women do not want to have casual sex with men they don't know well.
They'll end up hating themselves, being hated by other women, and even seen with contempt by the men involved. This is why these situations turn bad.
Maybe she was assaulted, maybe not, either way it was a terrible decision to make.
Women need to be told the truth.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 01/10/2026
Tennessee officials were unable to complete the execution of Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday night. Reporters said Pike could be heard snoring before they were escorted away.
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Tennessee unable to complete Christa Pike’s execution after hours of uncertainty
Reporters said Pike could be heard snoring before they were escorted away. Prison officials offered no immediate explanation of what happened.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MS NOW reports Judiciary staff warned Sen. Eric Schmitt that the Jack Smith texts obtained by the DOJ were "unvetted," according to a source with direct knowledge of the conversation. Schmitt used the texts anyway.
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MS NOW report reveals WARNING behind Schmitt’s botched Jack Smith ‘gotcha’
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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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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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You really have to watch this interview. The superintendent says that "concerns were passed on to me about the play." Who passed those concerns on? He won't say! What were the concerns? "You'd have to ask them." But who is them? He won't say!
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2026
An interim superintendent bans the musical “Flashdance,” adapted for a younger audience, from being performed at Watertown High School in Wisconsin, citing concerns "passed on" to him.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.”
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the original action at the Supreme Court, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama — lacking all sense of irony or knowledge of history — accuse New York, Massachusetts, and California of "one of the most serious interstate aggressions in our Nation’s history" because of their abortion shield laws.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 30/09/2026
Sarah Huckabee Sanders's ad depicting a white man on welfare has conservatives screaming "Make the cast more diverse!"
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This aligns exactly with what we know about noncitizen voting; it is extremely rare (9 noncitizen votes in MN out of 3,253,920 in the 2024 election, or 0.0002%), and when it occurs it’s most often green card holders who were mistakenly told they could vote (none of these people are undocumented).
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"the patriotic cowboys are in..."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1. DOGE dividend. 2. Tariff dividend. 3. Midterms dividend. 4. Data center dividend.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
Meta is using its A.I. data centers to exploit a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation, according to an exclusive report by The New York Times. The company’s own accountants recognize that the strategy is on shaky legal ground. nyti.ms/3VlavDw
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I didn’t believe it at first, either. (via David Sacks)
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 30/09/2026
You've probably interacted with an LLM, the AI programs behind everything from ChatGPT to customer service chats. But as LLMs become widespread, it's important to remember their limitations, faults, and dangers. And while they produce human-like writing, LLMs are not human.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Local newspapers are dying, and I don’t think we’re prepared for a world without them…” tulsaflyer.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Battle in McCurtain County at the center of new Peacock documentary
McCurtain County Sheriff’s officials wanted a family-run newspaper dead — literally. A new Peacock documentary explores the years-long battle and what it means for press freedoms.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
really worth watching the whole thing play out...
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Chris looks askance as a map shows the location of the Hawks game on February 3, 2024 and the location of the Hawkeyes game on February 3, 2024
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
COLUMBIA, MD 21044-3592
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: MD-03
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing stuff here
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Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

Yes
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
genuinely useless to give this number without defining A) what run rate means and B) what period it refers to
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just re-upping this for no obvious reason www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/b...
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With A.I. Riches at Stake, Pressures Mount to Share the Wealth
Policymakers around the country are maneuvering to ensure that tech giants aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve watched this ten times bsky.app/profile/noth...
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joke about non-consensual contact right out of the gate at the MAHA Summit's "Reform in CMS" panel from moderator Russell Brand, the comedian who has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of rape and sexual assault for which he will stand trial in London next month. Dr. Oz slaps his knee. MAHA!
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AMAZING! Sean Hannity’s Twitter account is trying to frame Eric Schmitt's embarrassing screwup as a win, claiming he put Jack Smith "on the spot."
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOLD UP. A US Senator just royally f*cked up on live TV in a crucial hearing. This isn't a 'misunderstanding.' This was a high stakes political ploy to set a perjury trap for Jack Smith and it failed miserably. Say that. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
Live Updates: Jack Smith, Who Charged Trump, Testifies in Combative Hearing

Republicans have called for the former special counsel to be criminally prosecuted. One Republican senator accused Mr. Smith of perjury, though the accusation appeared to be based on a misunderstanding.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The author of this ill-timed, two-graph beat-sweetener is none other than Axios's co-founder, Jim VandeHei
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
> @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Published today!
AXIOS: "SCHMITT IS DRAWING BUZZ AS A POSSIBLE VANCE VP IN 2028"
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Sen. Eric Schmitt exposed Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan. Schmitt's erroneous effort to catch Smith in a lie resulted in Smith confirming he went to see Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes play the Terrapins in Maryland in 2023. w/ Chris Marquette www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt pins down Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan
It appeared that the Missouri Republican misinterpreted a text message reference to the "hawks."
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Ben Koo @bkoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truly amazing content. Thought he had cracked the case, and this was his moment. When Smith denies it, he claims perjury. It's pointed out multiple times that his whole conspiracy is based on him not realizing "Hawkeyes" ≠ Atlanta Hawks, and he STILL blusters belligerently.
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