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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11h

I'm surprised they don't make the Black and Brown shackled men row the boats to South America Shoot, I hope I didn't give them an idea

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The right has been gloating that the #MeToo era ended, but we're due for a reckoning that's going to make that look like nothing by comparison.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2026

MeToo went about 1% as far as it should have gone.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congrats to the NY Times. Trump is calling for its "arrest" on the same day NYT ran a fawning story about his former press secretary, the "steely” and “nimble” Karoline Leavitt. When the Times' staff is frog-marched out of the newsroom at gunpoint, will they realize they brought it on themselves?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If we lived in a functioning democracy, major newspapers would run Page 1 editorials pleading with people to vote out the Republicans to save us from a fascist dictatorship. But most of the mainstream media have run out of bravery, if they ever had any.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.

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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026

You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whether it’s Donald Trump asking his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency or Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard on his hamburger, both men have made unusual requests

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where could these men have gotten such a sense of entitlement about touching women?

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Trump On Tape: I Grab Women "By The Pu**y”

YouTube video by TDC

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Using taxpayer money to run campaign commercials is theft. Trump mocks the law. He has turned the White House into the headquarters for his organized crime gang.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here's an excerpt -- read the whole column and tell me what you think

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 27/09/2026

babe wake up we're vaping B12s now

vegan-branded vapes that provide B12 vitamine? who even knows

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza. May peace be our future.

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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We don’t need our journalistic watchdogs to have “access” to Trump Everyone in the press room should walk out in protest … and source up.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/09/2026

Pretty wild that the US president openly and explicitly offered US citizens bribes in exchange for voting for his political party in an upcoming election and the best the establishment US media can muster is that it "invites legal questions."

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A $5,000 dividend proposal if Republicans win this fall invites legal questions

President Trump promised a monetary benefit for Americans if the midterm elections go his way. He hasn’t said exactly how such an initiative would work.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

History made

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Democrats should be targeting crypto, as a Republican constituency, with the same zeal that Republicans targeted universities for being liberal-coded. But they won’t, because it might jeopardize the crumbs that industry throws their way.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/09/2026

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trump can't run for president again, so why in the name of God does he have a political slush fund of $850M and growing -- that's he's still hoarding even as the GOP is poised to lose control of Congress? Does he have a scheme to take it with him? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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We don’t talk enough about Trump’s $850M pay-to-play slush fund | Will Bunch

Why does a POTUS barred from running again have nearly $1B in campaign funds? What will he do with the money?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

McFaul: It’s been clear from the beginning of the second Trump administration that the Putin strategy was to engage with them—Witkoff in particular—to make this about win-win economic transactions… The Russian strategy is to say, "Work with us and we will do multibillion-dollar deals with you all."

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 13/09/2026

Let’s make sure we’re electing leaders who will fight for the rights of communities that have borne the brunt of past injustice, and a future where we can all count on clean water and learn our shared history.

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The Downstream Consequences

Many lakes and streams across the country have been industrialized, polluted, or paved over; this has real consequences for community health and safety, from deadly flooding to toxic taps.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On Sept. 10, 2026, Trump led his followers in a public pledge to "cheat like hell" in the midterms. The New York Times didn't put that fact in a headline, instead sticking it in the 3rd paragraph of a story on Page 22 of its print edition.

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Please share wisely to publicize the attempts by musk to suppress votes and spread disinformation popular.info/p/the-hidden...

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Here’s Trump posting the results of the German election in which the neo-Nazi AfD did well. It’s important to understand that the U.S. Republican Party is part of a global fascist movement dedicated to persecuting minorities and stealing our freedom.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026

I think guys in my basic demographic pretty consistently underestimate how much right-wing dudes hate women.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

this how a true American celebrates the fourth, with his trophy mistress in the former mother country

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The most corrupt President in U.S. history calling in a favor from the most corrupt President of the most corrupt sports organization in the world. Surprising the whole planet wasn't sucked into this singularity of corruption.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Remember everyone: Paxton Protects Pedophiles

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Under the guise of denouncing religious bigotry, people like David Frum are in fact engaging in religious bigotry themselves. "Oh, it doesn't matter what this politician has actually done and said, he's a Muslim and you know how THEY are." Utterly vile and pathetic.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

No matter how loudly the dumbest people shout it, criticism of the state of Israel is not, in fact, "anti-Jewish messaging"

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Mentally unstable nepo babies at the highest level of government have brought America to its knees. That’s why Democrats need to nominate Jack Schlossberg for Congress.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/05/2026

Third Way and the entire Left Scolding Industry benefit, measurably & directly, from the public's sense that Democrats are hopelessly leftie hippies. They have every incentive to encourage that impression. It is contemptible.

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Ian Millhiser @imillhiser.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"Democrats are asking the GOP-dominated Supreme Court to correct the [Virginia] supreme court’s error in a gerrymandering case. That’s like hiring Osama bin Laden to rebuild the World Trade Center." www.vox.com/politics/488...

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Virginia Democrats’ irresponsible new plan to save their gerrymander

Democrats just handed the Supreme Court’s Republicans a loaded weapon.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

So Trump is talking about dropping the federal gas tax. A heroic cutting of gas prices. That’s 18.4 cents. And it will mean billions lost to the Highway Trust Fund that roads depend on. Another genius move from his reckless war adventure that will succeed in making life worse.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Donald Trump has unveiled a golden statue of himself at his Florida golf club, raising concerns about the Obamas' uppityness.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Mother's Day can be bittersweet for those whose mothers suddenly fell down a high flight of stairs after her past allegations of rape surfaced while her ex-husband was facing a new rape trial. May those moms rest in peace on their ex-husbands' golf courses. by Ivanka, Eric, & Donald Trump, Jr.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Good points in this piece from Chris Rapley: "Not once in the history of human spaceflight has an astronaut been known to tamper with their life support system... Sabotage is unthinkable – socially intolerable... We are doing to our planetary life support what no astronaut has done to theirs. "

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Why we need to treat Earth like a spaceship

Climate science is the anti-myth. Researchers have long noted that the human brain struggles with psychologically distant threats.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Goodbye Rubio Tuesday Little Marco's no street-fighting man, he's just Mr. D's beast of burden until Cuba's under his thumb. He thinks his brown sugar good looks will win over enough stupid girls to bring him satisfaction in 2028 but wild horses couldn't make me vote for the devil. by Maureen Dowd

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