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Colin Oatley

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Michigan Voter. "When the king is a liar, truth becomes treason." -- Michael Gerson.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When a rapist sticks up for other rapists it's called a professional courtesy.
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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another reason to support Abdul El-Sayed and oppose Mike Rogers in the Michigan senate election.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looks like Eric Schmitt has a new website--I guess to campaign to be JD's VP. senatorericschmitt.com
Schmitt
Schmitt: (verb) \ˈshmit\

1. A sudden and urgent gastrointestinal revolt in which the body issues an unmistakable, nonnegotiable evacuation order that causes a considerable mess and great humiliation.

2. To suffer a sudden, public, and spectacular political collapse, especially after overconfidently attempting a partisan attack.

3. To create such an avoidable mess that one’s credibility, message, and electoral prospects are left in tatters.

Example: “I ended up with that cyclosporiasis invection from tainted lettuce and I schmitted myself in the grocery store trying to buy some Pepto.”

Example: “During the hearing performance, he didn’t land a blow—he completely schmitted himself.”
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hahahahahahahaha this ad is awesome
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can't recall ever seeing anything quite like this during a Congressional hearing. And I've been in and around politics for 50 years.
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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Perfect.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Idiot MAGA senator confuses the Atlanta Hawks with the Iowa Hawkeyes, and accuses Jack Smith of perjury.
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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Brilliant!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
If you'll allow us to pat ourselves on the back a bit.
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Tim Tebow “pausing” Christian seminar promotion after our investigation
“I think the allegations are extremely serious."
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Zomney Domnitz @zomneydomnitz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
LeBron pushing people into working with a company that exists to get people addicted to gambling so it can take all their money. He might as well be selling crack.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mike Rogers couldn't be bothered to show up to the debate, but here's what I would have asked him if he wasn't such a coward:
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Mickey Lenin @thepolitburo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dear Leader was caught by photographers reviewing a demo plan for the Kennedy Center. A classic case of a toddler destroying anything he can’t have.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2026
James Talarico: "I wish our government would go after pedophiles the way they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m."
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The corruption just stinks! He’s selling US to put billions in his own pocket. Worst president in history!
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/08/2026
If the president votes by mail, then EVERY CITIZEN should be able to vote by mail.
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Nurse Ratched @nurseratched64.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump steals everything. Including unearned credit #blues
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🇺🇲🧡 god bless america 🧡🇺🇲
A president who refuses to send Aid to states that didn't vote for him, is literally an enemy of the state, and the nation
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.
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Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics
Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.
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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"The real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan" "prepare yourself to hear enormous quantities of bullshit about the Democratic party now being “taken over” by the “left” or by “democratic socialists”. Excellent opinion piece today by Robert Reich. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan | Robert Reich
We’re seeing America wake up to the tyranny that’s engulfed us
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 06/08/2026
Does this apply to the Grifter-in-Chief?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Donald Trump told reporters he feels "badly" for Max Miller, a Republican congressman accused of abusing his wife, and hopes Miller can "work it out." The only thing less surprising than a Republican politician abusing his wife is Donald Trump empathizing with the abuser.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Stephen NOSFERATU Miller Spoke These Words July 27th 2026,On Fox Noise Sean Hannity Show,And Jasmine Crockett Responded......
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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Not a good look for Haley Stevens.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/07/2026
"That's almost word for word what they told us when we were sold the war in Iraq. Remember 2003?" -- another Pete Buttigieg masterclass on Fox News. There is no Democrat better at communicating to that audience.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
NYP reports on Mamdani's success at getting criminals to self-deport from NYC. nypost.com/2026/07/23/u...
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Exclusive | Jared Kushner’s father is leaving New York City over mayor, first lady’s ‘antisemitism’
“I don’t want to pay taxes and live in a city with a blatantly antisemitic mayor and his antisemitic wife,” Charles Kushner told The Post.
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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hunter Biden sounds kinda brilliant these days.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Oh, so the suspect was a white guy then.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Trump should not be giving a national speech Thursday. He should be in prison for attempting a coup after the 2020 election and inciting the Jan 6 terrorist attack.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Todd Blanche is as evil as Jeffrey Epstein because Blanche has the power to prosecute the powerful men who raped children and trafficked women but instead he is engaged in a massive cover up to protect the rapists.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Demented old man has the power to launch a nuclear war. He is a raging threat to humankind. Please Congress- you must impeach him
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Colin Oatley @coatley.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
See my pinned post from June 2025.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Always looking for ways to drive Stephen Miller crazy.
EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check
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BREAKING: Donald Trump concedes that birthright citizenship is utterly critical for US success, pulls strings to protect Folarin Balogun!!!

Will 
@stephenm
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The United States 1957 vs. 2026: The same vibe, an innocent black girl surrounded by the same damn problem, white supremacy.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/07/2026
Weeks ago, I spoke directly with Major Jason Watson regarding his planned act of civil disobedience. What I do not hear enough people discussing is the broader constitutional strategy behind his message. 🧵
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Defender of Our Republic
Major Jason Watson Deserves an Honest Accounting
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