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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 10m

This is an underrated point, I think. It’s been asymmetrically distributed across the federal workforce but places like the FBI, they’ve fired people simply for doing the jobs assigned to them, when they happen to be redressing Republican wrongdoing. One of the most corrosive things of all this.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20m

I've obtained new data showing that in 3 House districts in South Texas, big majorities of Latinos are swinging hard against Trump on immigration. This is where the "multiracial working-class realignment" behind Trump restrictionism was said to be happening. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 40m

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

newrepublic.com

In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 1h

“Does he agree that the triple lock is simply not affordable?” - Tom Tugendhat, shadow foreign secretary, in the commons last year. H/T Tali Fraser on X The extent to which Burnham’s triple lock position will unsettle the Conservatives is underappreciated 1/...

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I am interested to hear the hon. Gentleman using the figure of £70 billion, and I agree with him. He knows that £30 billion of that results from the rise in the triple lock, so does he agree that the triple lock is simply not affordable?

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 1h

What the ACTUAL fuck?!

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 22h

Starting to think it’s part of CNN’s social media strategy to keep doing this extraordinarily dumb take (“90% of people who tell us they like to eat apples also enjoy apple cider”) as a way to get the president’s attention and thus more clicks. Harry knows better

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 1h

God they really cannot hide how thirsty they are for a Republican win, can they?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

there are a lot of hardcore Rs who understand that he’s doing kayfabe and just saying words and there are a bunch of independent types who are learning in real time that it was kayfabe

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

I think there was, unfortunately, real reason to doubt the polls when donald trump personally was on the ballot polling without him on the ballot has been basically fine, and it is telling us we are standing on the edge of the apocalypse (complimentary) run through the tape, but believe

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 9h

You know, it’s actually kind of thrilling, watching someone commit career suicide in just a couple of minutes.

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Red Sox Nation Stats @rsnstats.com · 10h

For #RedSox, Payton Tolle is the youngest Game 1 postseason starter since 1920. The oldest ever was the great Tim Wakefield, who started 2004 World Series Game 1 vs #Cardinals. Wakefield was 38 years, 82 days old on the day of that game.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h

One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 10h

When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 10h

Name a tv show from before 1980.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 11h

On Sept. 1, Dems had a 6-point lead on the generic congressional ballot, per @fiftyplusone.news' aggregate. Today, it's D+8. fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 14h

The Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15h

Zuckerberg looking down at his watch at :59 while Trump rambles about ICE

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I need to stress something else: top party operatives and trump aligned pollsters were thinking he and his party were definitely screwed this year ***BEFORE*** he launched the war on Iran. Some of them were warning *then* that he’d lose the election to BIDEN if it were held in early 2026

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

please let Ken keep talking

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Guy whose business model is giving loaded handguns to monkeys, announces that he is worried about all the rogue monkeys that keep shooting people

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026

i am not sure an ad that says "paid for by the U.S. government" is going to have the effect the president wants it to have...

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 28/09/2026

The deal was, once Biden was out of office, I would never have to hear the names "Jake Sullivan" or "Brett McGurk" again. I would like to speak with a manager, please and thank you 🙄

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bluesky's originally envisioned user base was *literally* meant to be all the sex pests at the Silicon Valley orgies @faineg.com has been talking about. Jack Dorsey *left* when trans people showed up instead of the expected Harry Potter sex cultists.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026

scenes from Trumplandia -- Howard Lutnick furiously glazes Trump while Trump naps (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Lutnick praises Trump while Trump sits in front of him with his eyes closed

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

dude you can’t address the entire nation just to announce a steel mill in iowa we can smell the flop sweat from here

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 28/09/2026

The economic stat with the remarkable property that it only matters when there's a Democrat in the White House

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026

I think Trump should keep bringing politicians from red states that are suddenly in play to the oval office and forcing them to talk about how great he is let's get Ken Paxton in here

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is so weird. I was JUST at the grocery store this morning and I thought, "You know what would fix these prices? A new steel mill in Iowa that might be running by 2030." Our prayers are answered! www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

wsj.com

Exclusive | Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project

The announcement comes as the president is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 28/09/2026

It sure would be funny if someone had a supercut of MTG yelling about a caravan.

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 28/09/2026

I will be AFK next week, touching grass and riding my bike

Combined route maps for a 7-day ride from Mt Airy, NC to the Outer Banks

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s pretty funny because there’s actually no possible way to cancel her: she’s been wrong about everything possible and people repeatedly point that out but she still has a job writing the same warmed-over culture war tripe every week as a columnist at WaPo. She’s proof cancel culture isn’t real.

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 28/09/2026

Battle Beyond the Stars A Roger Corman B-movie Seven Samurai In Space adaptation featuring Jon Boy Walton and Hannibal Smith from the A Team

Movie poster for Battle Beyond the Stars

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listen sweatie, you're in a bubble of people who have heard the canonical version of Killing In The Name, and this means the US midterms will shock you

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listen sweatie, just admit you are in a bubble of people who don't listen to brass band covers of Rage Against the Machine, and this is why the midterm elections will surprise you

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 28/09/2026

Sorry, Carrie, the GOP aren't going to be in the majority and you're unlikely to go to DC (NV-01 is rated "Likely Dem" by Cook)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026

“don’t elect a guy who will wipe his ass with the rule of law” is an insufficient guardrail here, the electorate has demonstrated it cannot be trusted with that task

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

stress is bad cat is good I choose cat

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 27/09/2026

this story describes cult dynamics amongst a group of people who are all deeply unqualified for their jobs and an executive who is grossly incompetent and unfit for his position

politico.com

Serving at his pleasure: What it’s like to be in Trump’s Cabinet

What it’s like to be in Donald Trump’s Cabinet.

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