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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

So what if you just want to serve your country in the military now and don’t want Christian nationalism shoved down your throat and pushed on you by military leadership? I guess you are out of luck. Because that was our military for the entire history of the country until now.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 29m

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

“A pattern has been established since Trump entered the White House for his second term that indicates a strategy to cripple how the US operates to such a degree that whoever comes next will find it impossible to repair.”

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Scorched Earth

How Trump plans to break America so it can’t be repaired

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 15h

It’s AI not SI.

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Carolyn Herz @cherzvt.bsky.social · 18h

This right here. Wake up people

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

> @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/p...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

Laugh at Eric Schmitt and Co. for Hawkeyes/Hawks, sure. Their screw up is funny and they deserve the mockery. But also, this was the GOP and allied media geared up to defend a coup attempt with lies and jail a prosecutor because he tried to enforce the law against a criminal. How far we've fallen.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 19h

I've seen lefty people on multiple websites sharing stuff by people who use the term "ZOG" seriously, it is endemic and it is very, very bad

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

CNN: “.. Turns out that one of the things it’s reasonably good at is debunking Trump’s own lies.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Data centers are gonna be very popular”🤔 Trump again makes it clear his loyalty is to the tech oligarchs (who enrich him and his family), not to regular Americans

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Eric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...

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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
BREAKING NEWS
GOR SENATOR'S PERJURY CLAIM AGAINST SMITH FAILS IN HAWKS-HAWKEYES MOUP
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A fuckup so dumb even NYT homepage/headline writers have no choice but to describe it accurately

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perhaps not the biggest problem with this... but defunding the IRS and then giving a subset of the population an incentive not to file is really fiscally stupid. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/b...

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Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens

The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Today on House Hunters, Ken Paxton is shopping for a new house. Will he buy the three-story luxury lodge in Oklahoma? The condos at a wellness resort in Utah? The ocean-view property in Hawaii? (Spoiler alert: He won’t take one — he’ll take 15.)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh my God, this just keeps getting better.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want you to imagine Harry Truman doing this with the Manhattan project scientists

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 29/09/2026

The damage of Trump's economic and foreign policy decisions will take decades, if not generations, to repair.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The entire conspiracy theory fell apart because they are all fucking ignorant, but that didn't stop Eric Schmitt from taking a victory tour with all the podcast bro interviews he already arranged--because these guys view themselves as content creators first and foremost and legislators way second.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s your reminder that Jon Husted has taken 10x more money from an Epstein co-conspirator than any other sitting Senator. No wonder he voted against releasing the Epstein files.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The legendary defenders of women's sports don't know the difference between Caitlin Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes and the Atlanta Hawks. Just putting that one out there.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you ever feel the need to make people laugh but can't think of a good joke, just say the words "Senator Eric Schmitt"

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

Darline Nordone (Graham) is an idiot. Gaslighting cooze using her late brother’s name to gain sympathy. I have no sympathy. She’s lying about the law. JACK: “Your brother was a patriot and would have likely been a witness in our case.”

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thom Tillis suggests the 8647 investigation is not a good use of time. "I also think if you look at some of the facts, the facts are what they are. Who precisely was responsible for every member of the US Senate to be in this building while thugs injured police officers."

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

Thom Tillis: “I may be a bit of an odd duck here. But talking about weaponization, 8647 is probably not a reasonable case. One day maybe we can find someone accountable for this building being surrounded by thugs on January 6th.”

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Texas, do you have a plan to vote? Just six days remain to update your registration or register to vote in this election. Make a plan to vote & share this graphic with two friends to help us build the movement we need to take back Texas.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)

photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

RBADVISERS: “.. For those who don’t think the world is changing, LT Treasury returns are now negative for the 1st time in 40+ years.”

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

Republicans don’t care about the people who beat Capitol police and threatened officials on January 6. They only care about their toll records. Even though none of them were charged. Why a bunch of assholes.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1. NEWS Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces a municipal strategy to combat antisemitism. “Antisemitism is real, and it is growing. Here in NYC, while our Jewish neighbors make up only 12% of the pop, NYPD statistics show antisemitic hate crimes account for more than half of all confirmed hate crimes..

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Worth noting that Ravi Ruia, the Indian billionaire behind the Iowa steel plant Trump touted yesterday as bringing back American industry, has massive funding from Russian state companies. Here he is on the Kremlin website talking with Putin about it. en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59216

Ravi Ruia: Your Excellency, friends here. My name is Ravi Ruia, I am the co-founder of the Essar Group in India, along with my brother Shashi Ruia. Your Excellency, we are involved with Essar Group in different businesses. We are in the oil refining and exploration business, in spill manufacturing, power generation, port infrastructure, metals and mining. Our total revenues are around $15 billion a year. Your Excellency, in the last two years, with active cooperation and assistance of VTB Bank, we have been instrumental in bringing in a large investment from the state-owned oil company Rosneft into India, which has given access to Russia to a very large market in India of over 1.25 billion people. It is a total investment of almost $13 billion, which is the largest investment ever made by a Russian private company into the Indian private sector.
And it has given a big, major outlet for potentially Russian crude into India and access to over 4,000 to 5,000 filling gas stations in India where our product will be directly given to Indian consumers. Your Excellency, we are also looking at how else we can bring in more Russian investment into India, which would add to the growth of both Indian market and access to Indian population as well as add to Russian export. For instance, in the power generation sector, India genuinely believes that there is large potential for Russian power equipment to come into India as the Indian power generation is growing. This is the background of our group.
We are now looking at, Your Excellency. My question to you, Your Excellency, is the economic growth in India is at 1.5 percent. And now that the oil price has recovered, what measures do you envisage to take it to a sustainable high level of 3 percent? Thank you.

Andrei Kostin: Do you mean in Russia?
Ravi Ruia: Yes, in Russia.
Vladimir Putin: First of all, I would like to say that we have really good constructive relations with India, thanks also to our friendly personal ties with Prime Minister Modi, who is a serious politician and a really reliable partner.
It is largely thanks to his efforts that we are moving our relations forward in many fields. Yet we are not satisfied with the current state of our relations. It is beyond the capabilities of both India and Russia. We can increase the volume of our trade and economic ties and mutual
investments manifold, yes, many times over.
One of the investment projects you have mentioned is, indeed, the largest foreign investment in the history of the Indian economy - the acquisition by Rosneft, if l am not mistaken, of a stake worth $12 billion in one of India's largest oil refineries. I hope it is not the last investment of this kind.

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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026

CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."

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Surveillance Finds a Way

CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whoah, buddy, I did not need to be threatened in the back of an alley this morning, while watching C-Span.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

please let Ken keep talking

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/09/2026

The fact that a guy who once called Joe Biden a "great national nightmare" is now a slam-dunk judicial nominee is a pretty tidy illustration of how openly partisan judicial nominations are for the Trump White House. They want Republicans who will do what Mister Trump wants, and they sure found one.

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Trump Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”

Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you put Republicans in charge of the presidency, they blame Congress for their failures. If they also control Congress, they blame the courts. If they control the courts, they blame their state. If they control their state, they blame a secret shadowy deep state, NGOs & media.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Step 1: "Tether’s stablecoin has become a primary means of payment for the Iranian regime and a tool for funding terrorist proxy organizations such as Hezbollah..." Step 2: Now google Howard Lutnick and Tether www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

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Exclusive | Senate Investigation Finds Rampant Use of Tether’s Stablecoin by Iranian Regime

Wallets sanctioned over Iran ties overwhelmingly dealt in Tether’s USDT stablecoin, according to Senate Democrats.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not making it up: Just boarded a Southwest flight and as I passed the cockpit, pilot and copilot were telling a flight attendant about being furries. Regrettably for the intellectual powerhouse that is the U.S. senator from Alabama, in the next breath they started laughing and called him an idiot.

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Even a couple Front Row Joes, the most ardent Trump fans who for years followed him from rally to rally, are disenchanted. "A fraud and a liar," says one who now favors impeachment. "He can't be trusted," says another. Dasha Burns @wsteaks.bsky.social @adamwren.bsky.social www.politico.com/playbook

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Playbook

The unofficial guide to official Washington, every morning and weekday afternoons.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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