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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6h
One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h
The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it.
JP Cooley: Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? 
JP Cooley: Damn. Thank you for saving -- but we are good. Ask Harbach. 
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump gave a bigly ballyhooed address to the nation about how China stole the 2020 election two months ago and everyone including him immediately forgot about it.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Life comes at you fast
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Let’s be very clear about what the Administration is doing. They’re taking a baseline assumption that’s part of insurance design—healthy people will be part of the system—and then inverting it to assume that real people without claims may have subsidies they didn’t apply for. But as I see it, they..
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
nytimes.com
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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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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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Does he understand that “to the victor belong the spoils” is just, like, a saying? It’s not a rule of international law or a moral principle. Pretty close to the opposite on both counts, really.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
ballsandstrikes.org
A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
President Trump is 0-2 against pools.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We could have just not done any of this.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just joining the Russian economic sphere I guess.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Evanston police confirm a U.S. citizen was briefly detained by federal agents Sunday morning near Howard and Dodge before being released The man was taken to the hospital for injuries to his head, neck and teeth after agents drove off
evanstonnow.com
Federal agents detained U.S. citizen Sunday morning - Evanston Now
Police chief says officers responded to a man with injuries to head, neck and teeth on Howard and made contact with agents involved.
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 18/09/2026
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So cool that whenever someone asks the president, "did you eat the Lindbergh baby" he's like, "no but I'd be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef…
Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Beef is $6.92/pound.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation. One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
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China: “Thank Trump”
The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The war on Iran has cost consumers more than $100 billion in fuel costs. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
wsj.com
Americans Have Spent $100 Billion More on Fuel During the Iran War
Higher gasoline and diesel prices have led many families to save less and curb spending elsewhere.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
shittiest authoritarians in world history can’t squelch dissent on the charity board of their captive performing arts center in the heart of the capital city
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Shareen, you have failed the Ms. Rachel test
Old post of mine: "I feel like as a philosophical exercise you should wake up every morning and ask yourself, "Is Miss Rachel going harder than me?"
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Queue someone at @theatlantic.com writing a piece titled, "To Unify the Country, Democrats Need to Stop Inciting Violence"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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bruffles.bsky.social @bruffles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Curious about the Venn diagram of cops worried about being recorded by smart glasses and cops lining up to use Flock.
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bruffles.bsky.social @bruffles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I’m confident media will be much more upset over Trump lying about 9/11 than Mamdani even just existing on 9/11. Definitely holding my breath.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Obviously this is a hilarious and obvious lie but it's instructive in that Trump knows he's supposed to care about this thing, and manifestly does not and cannot care about it, and so he has to put himself into the story just to make it something he can talk about. He almost died that day!
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
local12.com
Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Not one of the 122 prisons in the BOP network employs a librarian. Rather, “each designates an employee, typically the Supervisor of Education (SOE), to provide oversight of the leisure & law libraries.”
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I was wondering if Canada was making it feasible for Haitian-Americans formerly protected under TPS to come here. Very glad to see that appears to be the case. I hope we accelerate supports and streamline this process.
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Haitian TPS holders leave for Canada, taking skills and resources gained in Mass. with them - The Boston Globe
In all, more than 10,000 Haitians in the Massachusetts workforce who contributed roughly $480 million a year to the local economy are being forced out, according to an immigration policy organization.
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.
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bruffles.bsky.social @bruffles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's almost like, to him, anything he has ever done is the best way the thing has ever been done. If only we could have determined that from, say, 5 minutes of the most casual observation of the man.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 31/08/2026
Officer shoots and kills pet donkey while searching for missing person. The owners say the officer was on their property at 12:45am without their permission when the donkey, named HeeHaw, was killed.
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Donkey shot, killed in Polk County; Cedartown police officer on leave
A Cedartown police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a donkey was fatally shot in Polk County on Sunday.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Mystery solved: the Freedom Fuel Network was able to charge so little for gas because it stiffed its supplier and refused to pay for it
washingtonpost.com
Trump lauded low prices at Freedom Fuel. A supplier says some gas wasn’t paid for.
Mansfield Oil Company of Gainesville claimed in a federal lawsuit this month that it was never paid for more than a million gallons of fuel from a terminal in Pennsylvania between late May and early J...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oz is claiming that the two measles deaths in Pennsylvania might have “had another condition that was already attacking them and they happened to get measles at the same time”. This implies that 1. It’s okay if kids with comorbidities die of measles. 2. That they would have died anyway so nbd.
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Is that...is that supposed to be an argument against healthcare
Darline Graham, new Republican candidate for Senate in South Carolina, told a crowd last night that government-run health care is a terrible idea and then told everyone her parents had to work at their liquor store even if they were sick, and her mother and father died when she was 11 and 12, respectively. Apparently as an argument against healthcare.
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Cannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Orangey Snicket
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About 80% of the people who think trans women shouldn't be allowed to play sports also believe that cis women shouldn't be allowed to play sports.
7:07 AM • Aug 21, 2026
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
If you want to go to a trade school, great? Think college isn’t for you? Ok. But that’s not what this is, this is the government trying to do culture war social engineering while also staring down their noses at poor kids and preemptively deciding things like: I don’t want you as my doctor, next
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.
In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation.

When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”
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World’s Biggest Stagflation Truther @corncobanalysis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is an insane demand, no Canadian PM could say yes to it
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