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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is so unsurprising that the NY Times miscounted the number of Trump press secretaries to join Fox News. Leavitt makes 3, not 2: Kayleigh McEnany is a current host, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a Fox contributor between the end of her WH tenure in 2019 and her 2021 run for Arkansas gov.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23h
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
spoken like a guy found liable of sexual assault
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’re honestly still taken aback by Elon advising the Pentagon on the future of wars. Didn’t we all see how badly he failed with DOGE?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He promised to cut energy bills in half in 6 months and gas prices would be under $2. He never said he couldn’t do that because he’s “inheriting a mess.” He said he would do it & it would be easy. So he can try & blame Biden now all he wants, but he blatantly lied & is a buffoon.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNBC on the September jobs report: "A bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see two month revisions down 60,000 ... average hourly earnings -- this is a big miss. Big, big miss. We were expecting up three tenth. This comes in at one tenth."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Breaking News: The US only added 29,000 jobs in September. They were expecting 84,000. Unemployment is also up. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump says a war is not a war, therefore the War Powers Act doesn’t apply. Trump says political ads are not ads they are “public service announcements,” therefore the laws banning the use of taxpayer $ don’t apply. The gangster govt changes the meaning of words to avoid the law
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russell Brand is currently charged in the UK with 3 counts of rape, 3 counts of sex assault, and 1 count of indecent assault. He is set for trial in London in two weeks.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Welp. Republicans distancing themselves from Trump, saying it’s time to end the war. Congress introduced War Powers resolutions to force Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran. Ashley Hinson: NO Jon Husted: NO Tom Tiffany: NO They had a chance to end it, but they voted against it.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump keeps demonstrating that his press ban has nothing to do with the administration’s stated "national security" pretext. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
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Trump’s press grievances are based in their refusal to do propaganda
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge strikes down Trump’s bid to cut states’ anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions
The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/09/2026
@citizencohn.bsky.social on FDA nominee Heidi Overton: “We care what she says when she's in front of Donald Trump, and we all saw it with our own eyes. She was at that press conference when Trump was talking about the vaccine being lethal, and she said nothing, and this is the problem.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump tax is real. We’re all paying for his pointless war.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Under threats from Trump’s FCC chairman Brendan Carr, Jimmy Kimmel had to put his interview with James Tallarico on YouTube. Yet Trump is free to use taxpayer money to run political ads on Fox.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laura Ingraham and Jesse Watters have spent 2026 warning viewers about communism and socialism. Days later, they joined billionaires and Washington insiders at a state dinner honoring Xi Jinping. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/fox-hosts-...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just on time, there’s another fucking caravan. You can’t make this shit up. Anyone buying this is a complete moron
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The Chinese Communist Party got access to sensitive components of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters. The U.S. got 2 pandas.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hegseth continues to manipulate the numbers of dead and wounded in the Iran War. The tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from DOD. That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database.
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was Helsinki. I think I might have an explanation for why Putin looks so smug and Trump looks so crestfallen. In a June 24, 2018 email, Jeffrey Epstein asked Thorbjørn Jagland, former PM of Norway, to suggest to Putin that Epstein be called to gain "insight" into Trump ahead of Helsinki.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s annual financial disclosure revealed he has received two lucrative book advances and free flights from a friend while in office. n.pr/47iXxbW
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every one of these people view their positions in the government as an opportunity to cash in on multiple grifts while traveling the world and having a great time at our expense.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese media allowed at WH. American media banned in defiance of a court order.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Insanity — this is the “corporate socialism” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is talking about
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊
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Tax War Room @taxwarroom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The man setting war policy has been buying and selling oil and gas stocks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars while that war drives fuel prices to records. In any other job in America, that's a firing offense. In this White House, it's Tuesday.
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Trump's oil and gas stock trades continued during Iran war, filings show
President Trump has accused oil companies like Chevron and ExxonMobil of "making too much money." He owns shares of both.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026
CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all." TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Trump is threatening to deploy ICE at the polls. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries are suing to stop him. www.democracydocket.com/cases/federa...
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🚨 DSCC et al v. ICE et al
Learn more here.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
L - Tom Emmer in 2024 on the House subpoenaing Hunter Biden. R - Tom Emmer today on why the House shouldn’t investigate Don Jr: He’s a private citizen.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22/09/2026
They kicked people off healthcare to pay for the war. bit.ly/4AjGDr0
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Vance-led task force set to remove 750K ObamaCare enrollees, citing fraud
The Trump administration is removing close to 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage due to allegedly fraudulent enrollment, Vice President Vance announced Tuesday.  The cancel…
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
At least 22 servicemembers killed. Hundreds of U.S. bases damaged. Over $45 billion spent and counting. How much more will the American people pay for Trump's failure?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: It's official. MS NOW, CNN, and Politico have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin after Trump banned the outlets from covering the White House.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump Rule Says Habitat Destruction May Not Count as Legal Harm to Endangered Species President Donald Trump moved to make habitat destruction less likely to count as legal harm to endangered species. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-rule...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In case anyone was wondering why Trump is pushing AI so hard and doesn’t want any government regulation.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An entirely reasonable organizational response from CNN would be that they will no longer host members of the administration as long as the administration bars them from the White House
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/09/2026
KARL: Do you support Trump banning news organizations because he doesn't like what they're reporting? SCALISE: Look, Biden removed the press credentials from 400 agencies KARL: That's not true. 400 reporters who had credentials didn't reapply. They weren't banned from the WH. That did not happen.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/09/2026
Reminder: Trump regularly berates and personally insults women reporters. And I don’t remember seeing their news organizations collectively draw a line in the sand when their own journalists were being demeaned. So I guess we shouldn’t be shocked that we’re still waiting for a spine now. 🧵
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
if you’re going to invite proven liars on your program this is the only way to handle it just call them out in real time for their bullshit if you’re not prepared to do this then you’re not prepared to have them on
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even if you think you know the whole Kennedy Center story, this is enlightening and enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This right here…
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In 1960, these people were assuring you, ASSURING you JFK would allow the will of the Pope to override Congress. The playbook literally never changes.
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