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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The decline in visitors travelling to the U.S. would have been much bigger without the World Cup this year (1.24 million international World Cup visitors). Without the World Cup, the decline in international visitors would have been 3+ million. bsky.app/profile/sema...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Shoshana Bee @shohanabee76.bsky.social · 14h
“What a democracy cannot—and should not—tolerate is a secretary of defense who trucks in propaganda and wants the people who serve in America’s military to be the armed instrument of his own resentments and biases.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h
Wild that he gets this coverage after he packed the Utah Supreme Court in order to try to prevent it from enforcing a referendum-passed gerrymandering ban to steal a congressional seat for the GOP (and disenfranchise his state's largest city)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
Weird, it's like all of us who kept saying this was a non-issue and Democrats should just ignore the attacks were ... right?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
TRUMP: Did you see the story about my uncle? TIME: The one who taught at MIT? TRUMP: I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.
Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers. 

What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric—
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h
This is the 59th death in ICE detention since Trump took office.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 16h
we're investing millions to make it easier to have your passports stolen before delivery follow me for more process improvement life hacks
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 15h
Boo-hoo. "Chief Justice John Roberts has spent more than 20 summers at his home on a small island off the coast of Maine, but now many of his neighbors there have backed away from him or even demonstrate against him." www.rawstory.com/john-roberts...
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Chief Justice John Roberts shunned by his neighbors as backlash over Trump rulings grows
Chief Justice John Roberts has spent more than 20 summers at his home on a small island off the coast of Maine, but now many of his neighbors there have backed away from him or even demonstrate agains...
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 20h
Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 16h
Oh so an immensely powerful man isn’t allowed to enjoy carefree vacations, just because some of his neighbors notice that he has presided over a rollback of their rights and the destruction of the constitutional order? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h
good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 18h
Historical focus on the 1930 election and the Nazi Party's (NSDAP) unexpected rise, Hitler as a lazy criminal, and what really drew conservatives to fascism (it wasn't the economy). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakt...
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 21h
If you're curious about the hero pilot of the Dubai-->Tel Aviv flight who fought the co-pilot after being stabbed, managed to open the cockpit door, & screamed to passengers & crew to take down the attacker - watch this impressive interview with Captain Machchar. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuBR...
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🎙️ Bona-Fide Banter Ep. 2 - Captain Smit Mac
YouTube video by CS Zalak Mehta
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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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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't forget the main reason DOGE shut down USAID: to stop investigations into Elon & his companies. That was DOGE's entire job- stop all 32 active investigations which Musk feared would put him in prison. Killing people was the collateral damage from saving his own ass: bsky.app/profile/robv...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A very amusing write-up of senator Eric Scmitt making an ass of himself at the Jack Smith hearing. www.wonkette.com/p/new-stupid...
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New Stupidest Republican Senator Just Dropped, Y’all. Meet Eric Schmitt.
Tommy Tuberville, relinquish your crown!
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 30/09/2026
By raking in $2.2 billion last year, President Trump made the equivalent of a presidential salary about every two hours. And he made the median American's annual income about every 10 minutes.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In a fight you are meant to hit back.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hey is the strait open yet
Six hundred of our finest warriors joined SECWAR
 for morning PT at the Pentagon ahead of his HISTORIC State of the Force address.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Reminder: Cosplay Patton here is 0-1 in wars and he took an L to a B-level power
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a pretty stunning thing to admit
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Vote for James Talarico. He has *one* house."
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth is destroying the military academies along with the military.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @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...
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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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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Harrowing flight Dubai-->Tel Aviv. Pilot stabs Captain who screams for passengers help and they take down pilot. Plane plummets from 34,000 ft to 5,000 in under 2 minutes. Passenger pilots take control of cockpit. www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
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Israel Dubai flight: Passengers tell Israeli media pilot was stabbed on diverted plane
The Saudi airport where the plane landed says the captain and first officer sustained injuries but does not say how. Both have been taken to hospital.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
maybe the least unsurprising story, given Lahn's wife has basically said she has no interest in moving to Iowa and their alleged home in-state is in the middle of nowhere.
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