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Democracy prevails so long as we continually strive for it 🇺🇸 Always seeking a more perfect union and golf game. Esq. MA-CT. CT-TN-MA-MI-CT. ⚓️ ⬇️ 🇨🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h
Anyway, I'm sure she is just operating in the best interests of the United States when she is using her position of Ambassador to Greece to push countries to work with a specific oil and gas lobbyist who has been attending her official meetings. www.tmz.com/2026/09/26/k...
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Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle's Hunky Gatekeeper Is Paid Gas Lobbyist
Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle has been seen quite a bit with Christos Marafatsos ... and his inclusion at official meetings is raising some eyebrows.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h
When you offer a bare bones, factual description of what Guilfoyle has been up to, it sounds absolutely insane. But here we are: America's government under the Trumps. People of Greece, if you are listening, we are sorry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
Here is what happened: the former girlfriend of the President’s son asked an aspiring Republican politician for $100,000 to settle her credit card bill right before her Senate confirmation for an Ambassadorship, which she seems to have been awarded as a break-up present from the Trump family. (The son has since married, with the celebrations partially financed by a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin). She had previously received $300,000 from the donor for what seem to be largely unfulfilled promises of political favors.

As Ambassador to Greece, she has been pushing other countries to do business with an oil-and-gas lobbyist who has been attending her official meetings, and suggesting that the US could bring down the Greek government any time they wanted.
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a pound of flax @oatsmemento.bsky.social · 16h
real “is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy” hours
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Greg Pinelo @gregpinelo.bsky.social · 10h
The more he campaigns, the better.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 10h
So after the White House spokespersons tried to justify his inexplicable remarks, saying that he wasn't calling for Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego, Trump *doubles down* Literally daring them to bomb the California cities
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 11h
Demented. And worsening.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
“.. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would. trib.al/GzSDmbC
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Trump Is Still Airing Campaign Ads With Your Money by the Way
The president hasn’t stopped those taxpayer-funded advertisements, despite promising he would.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10h
I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h
lol
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 12h
We need to go back to a time when being an English professor could get you a job as a university president and then commissioner of baseball.
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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 12h
This is gross. They’re going to let children get Hepatitis instead of giving them a cheap, safe, and effective vaccine. What happened to local authorities being wise to how unethical this is?
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 12h
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 16h
🚨 100+ Kansas Republicans just launched Republicans for Hamilton, a statewide coalition backing Adam for U.S. Senate. The list includes former governors Bill Graves and Mike Hayden, a former Senate President, a former House Majority Leader, and Roger Marshall’s primary opponent.
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K Wilde @flowerchildob1.bsky.social · 11h
It'll surely be quite a doozy of a plan, given it's taken over 10 years to come up with it.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11h
"The president is no more or less unwell than the time he suggested bleaching our lungs to kill COVID, or the time he fantasized about getting away with shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue." buff.ly/iCtE1RE
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Relax, We Can’t Invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment Every Time a President Offers to Let an Enemy Bomb an American City
“As we’ve said before, the bar for removal under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment is quite high. One little remark about approving the deaths of tens of millions o...
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h
Trump's greatest hits tour. You'll love this one. It is a classic
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leemarvinoswald.bsky.social @leemarvinoswald.bsky.social · 16h
"Today, everyone knows Trump is to blame. He imposed unilateral tariffs. He started and lost a war. He tells his voters they’ll have their data centers and like them...transforming frustrated-but-loyal supporters into opponents who regret their votes."
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 20h
The difference is hubris. The recasting of the public as peasants. We're not living through an economic crisis, at least not yet. Voters are rebelling because the bad things unfolding—worse though they could be—are happening on the whims of a tyrant. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...
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The Anti-Tyranny Backlash
These people think we owe them gratitude and votes in exchange for bribes and false promises, while they they govern like they answer to no one. That’s precisely why they’re losing.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 11h
“I can do whatever I want if I want,” he said during an Oval Office event on Wednesday.
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Trump Pats Himself On The Back For Not Doing 'Bad Things' To Obama, Clinton, Biden
“I can do whatever I want if I want,” he said during an Oval Office event on Wednesday.
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YIMBYs Against Ezra Klein @orko.bsky.social · 11h
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 11h
LOL that incredibly tortured NYT article trying to claim that Trump wasn't actually talking about nuking San Diego and LA is right up there with the "Elon Musk's politics are a mysterious enigma nobody will ever be able to comprehend" thing
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No Escalators @noescalators.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Some tweets are too perfect to be lost to the other site. @davidjroth.bsky.social
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 11h
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 16h
Wynn's Law remains undefeated.
Contrapoints saying "They don't want victory, they don't want power, they want to endlessly 'critique' power."
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
29. No one knows how bad it's going to get, but Republicans under Trump could face the same fate that Republicans faced under Herbert Hoover. Majorities already associate Trump's name with incompetence, greed and corruption. By 2028, that opinion could be unanimous.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
More on the president's brilliant plan here:
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Operation: Albatross
As the midterm elections draw near, it seems ever likelier that we're finally going to witness a reckoning for Republicans. For nearly two years now, Republican members of the House and Senate have t...
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 16h
The House is not a continuing body like the Senate. It reconstitutes entirely after the election. No rules or leadership carry over to the next session except only to the extent that the next session affirmatively chooses to readopt rules or leadership
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 16h
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 22h
"'All of this connects to Epstein,' Rothkopf said. 'Donald Trump’s defense of the Cornell kids is because the accusations against them sound like the accusations against Trump that have been made in multiple cases, but are particularly still out there associated with the Epstein files.'"
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 16h
At a certain point you gotta be willing to just say these are basically crazy people that nothing you can do will make happy, man. Like I’m sorry but if you’re protesting Mamdani over this people should just ignore you.
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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 16h
Merriam-Webster 
factoid
noun
fac·​toid ˈfak-ˌtȯid 
Synonyms of factoid
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: an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print
2
: a briefly stated and usually trivial fact
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 16h
more business owners need to be like this
Coldstuff Ice-cream • Follow

I swear to God. STOP YELLING AT MY FUCKING EMPLOYEES. They are children. This job, for most of them is their first. They are going to make mistakes. They aren't in charge of anything. This can all be fixed with a smile and a polite attitude. It's ice cream for crying out loud. Grow up and act your age.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16h
"[N]otwithstanding the fact that Trump's supporters have already tried to name all sort of things after him, he seems to realize or at least anticipate that all of that will melt away as soon as he and the hammer he can bring down on people are gone." — @joshtpm.bsky.social
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Trump Rages, Rages Against the Dying of the Light
This is the weekly, free edition of The Backchannel. If you’d like...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18h
The clear message of Republicans is that this country is owned by white people and everyone else is renting.
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Bobert @bobertonbluesky.bsky.social · 16h
I don't even know what to say. This is horrifying. We all need to wake up and really look at our country with clear eyes. We have a cultural movement and a political party here which glorifies rape & rapists, and we have to push back with EVERYTHING we have. This must end. NOW.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16h
This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15h
When he’s never held accountable, THIS happens. I can’t wait for him to learn that isn’t true. (Also—doesn’t it sound like something a spoiled little kid would say? Like, literally?)
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Catlos @catloslosyboy.bsky.social · 17h
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 23h
Yes, he walks the talk and has been racially abused since his election. And I only saw one journalist talk about the precipitating state violence of underfunding and understaffing schools. Ruth Gilmore Wilson's concept of "organized abandonment" is useful here and almost everywhere now.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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‘Racist ideology lodges itself amid austerity politics’: newly elected French mayor on tackling far right
Bally Bagayoko, who was targeted by racist abuse after winning Saint-Denis mayorship, vows to tackle inequality to stem deepening divisions
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
It's kind of hard to piss on your voters & tell them it's raining when all they have to do is look up & can see your pants down & that you are in desperate need of a wax ESPECIALLY in the format of a debate. That was an ass whoopin if I ever saw one.
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
When Republicans debate, they have to not only insist everything is fine, they have to defend the moves the Trump administration made which has led to widespread anger at the party itself. Something they're not creative or good enough liars to do.
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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Not that this is news to anyone, but I watched this debate and well...let's just say that the GOP will likely tell candidates to not debate Dems like they did in 2021 & this debate will likely be why. If they haven't outright done so already considering how Paxton is ducking Talarico.
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WBUR @wbur.org · 07/10/2026
Arthur Read is 30! The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.
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The iconic Arthur Read made his TV debut 30 years ago
The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
12. That majorities are losing faith in Donald Trump is one thing. That they are getting increasingly angry in reaction to his continued lying is another. The rage is building such that the backlash may not be limited to him but also include the political project that brought him.
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