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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 21/05/2026
Here is a Mitch McConnell with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Steny Hoyer, huddled in a secure room in the Capitol on Jan 6, on speakerphone with the Pentagon begging for help from screaming mob. The Pentagon was not immediately helpful.
House and Senate leaders on speakerphone with the pentagon begging for help on January 6
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Alex Zank @alexzank.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 31/03/2026
When Bondi took over, the DOJ declined to prosecute a staggering 23,000 criminal cases, including those stemming from yearslong investigations into charges of terrorism, white collar crime and drugs. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
propublica.org
Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/03/2026
It’s about time someone said it out loud on a national news show. Major Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.) — on Trump’s interest in putting boots on the ground: “We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 03/03/2026
A shortage of large passenger charter planes due to DHS paying 10x the usual rates to ferry kidnapped migrants is threatening NCAA Tournament travel plans
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
There aren’t anywhere remotely close to 100 million aliens in the US, undocumented or naturalized.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 28/12/2025
four loko killed ZERO PEOPLE and they banned it, but ChatGPT is out here killing people who just want help with school and they get billions of dollars
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The Post was around 50% as deranged in its de Blasio coverage, but he didn’t come into office with the massive outside force that Mamdani is bringing. Gonna be a test of the paper’s influence; it beats him up every second but he’s got a posse saying “shut the fuck up.”
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chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social @chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Did they just try to set up a pop-tart villain arc?
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This student effectively killed this TA’s career and likely feels not a lick of shame about it
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.
chicago.suntimes.com
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This has to be one of the greatest runs any director has ever experienced.
Rob Reiner filmography between 1984 and 1992, which includes This Is Spinal Tap, The Sure Thing, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery and A Few Good Men.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Just a reminder that one of the January 6ers Trump pardoned was arrested last month for threatening to murder Jeffries. Another was sentenced to life this year for plotting to murder the officials who prosecuted him.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/11/2025
I was curious about this number. Here it is.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Weird, it's almost like most of the pundits are all hanging out at a white supremacist's social club for angry incels and having their sense of what's "real" wildly distorted.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas (a Democrat who is the chamber's president pro tempore) just tweeted this:
Remember when Republicans drew Virginia's Congressional map so Black people were packed into one district and said we should be grateful they gave our community this district. NOW they can have one district and see how much they love it.
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chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social @chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Virginia is a bluer state than New Jersey. This is just a fact.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Kimmel didn’t even really say anything negative about Kirk. He noted the cynical and almost giddy exploitation of the killing by right-wing propagandists, absolutely accurately, and in gentler terms than I would have used.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You cannot claim the left’s speech is inflammatory when yours is.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Jobless claims 263k — highest since June 2023. Ten year falls to 4.00% @cnbc.com
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Beginning to think this is not actually about efficiency
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chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social @chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Tired of winning yet?
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chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social @chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
They pulled a “Playmakers” on Kaepernick.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 06/08/2025
NYT reporting that the President is talking to Cuomo about the NYC mayoral campaign, to which I can only respond: masterful gambit sir!
Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor Race
By Nicholas Fandos, Jeremy W. Peters, Maggie Haberman and Katherine Rosman
(New York Times) -- The possibility that the president will seek to intercede could inject an element of unpredictability into an already fractious contest.
President Trump may have moved out of New York City, but he has privately discussed whether to intercede in its fractious race for mayor to try to stop Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, according to eight people briefed on the discussions.
In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has quizzed a Republican congressman and New York businessmen about who in the crowded field of candidates, which includes Mayor Eric Adams and former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, has the best chance of beating Mr. Mamdani, the leftist front-runner.
The president has been briefed by Mark Penn, a pollster who has worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president and decades-long friend of Mr. Trump, on a range of polling that showed Mr. Cuomo could still be competitive as an independent candidate. Both men have pushed Mr. Cuomo as the best candidate despite his loss in the Democratic primary, including in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. One of Mr. Penn’s firms did extensive work for a pro-Cuomo super PAC in the primary.
And in a previously undisclosed call in recent weeks, Mr. Trump spoke about the race directly with Mr. Cuomo, an old associate and foil, according to three people briefed on the call, who were not authorized to discuss it.
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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Remember when Trump suggested we just stop testing for SARS-CoV-2 near the start of the pandemic, as then cases would remain low? Now he's demanding economic data only be positive.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/08/2025
the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.
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chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social @chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I see Trump has moved on from talking about fictional serial murderers.
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Daily Stories @dailynewsstories.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Released on a $3,000 bond Narciso Barranco is still wearing the same clothes now covered in blood stains after being severely beaten by ICE almost 3 weeks ago. The Barranco family is taking their father directly to a physician.
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chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social @chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit says wow that was racist in yellow letters
ALT: a man in a suit says wow that was racist in yellow letters
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Also this.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/07/2025
The media made a HUGE deal out of "basket of deplorables" and "cling to their guns or religion." But, of course, it will totally ignore Trump saying he hates Democrats: "I hate them. I believe they hate their country."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Anyone still quibbling that this isn't fascism?
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chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social @chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
See, the crime here is that she did it the old fashioned way and just took the money. Had she created a meme coin or threatened funding unless they donated to a nonexistent library, that would be fine.
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Cheryl @cherylnix.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In St Joe County, #Indiana, members of our county council are trying to stop solar farm development while approving DATA CENTERS which are energy VAMPIRES. This anti-renewable energy push is brought to you by the fossil fuel industry.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas. So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget? The answer is: you.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
For all their obsessive poll-watching, a lot of Dems in DC don't seem to realize that the longstanding AIPAC tactic of conflating "Israeli government policies" with "Jewish people," so that criticism of the former is necessarily hate for the latter, no longer works among the Dem base.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"Democrats" in this story are Larry Summers and the founder of Third Way. That's it. This is either poor journalism or malicious journalism.
apnews.com
Democrats fret about national fallout after Mamdani stuns in New York City
The stunning success of Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, in the race for New York City mayor has exposed the fiery divisions plaguing the Democratic Party as it struggles to repair ...
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
this is the senator heading up the dems' senate election committee btw
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/06/2025
MAGAs: Why won’t Muslims just assimilate to our country!?! Muslims: [Get elected to office] MAGAs: …Wait not like that
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The New York Times reports Jonathan Braun—a violent felon with ties to Jared Kushner, whose sentence Trump commuted—has been sent back to prison after new charges, including assaulting a 3-year-old. In court, he ranted about his lawyer and flipped off spectators. His fifth arrest.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 27/06/2025
DO NOT LOOK AWAY ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court
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ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.
A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...
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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“you come up with a mean nickname to call this guy on TV?” “sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked”
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chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social @chrisjbrinkman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Everyone in this situation has incentive to lie for different reasons, but starting to wonder if the people leaking the “we barely damaged their program” story yesterday were trying to use that to justify more strikes.
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