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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ouch. This @contrariannews.org review of the new 60 Minutes hits all the low lights: "undeniable puff piece masquerading as a major scoop" "showing signs of a rightward shift" "did not exactly break new ground" And this about Ross Douthat is fire: open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
With a face made for radio and a voice made for print, Douthat looked undeniably out of his element at 60 Minutes. Perched precariously on a stool, his hands folded between his legs, Douthat read a script from a teleprompter that (ironically) sounded like it had been written by ChatGPT. His brief but cringy debut is further evidence that Bari Weiss might have a knack for churning out “anti-woke” hot takes that appeal to the Sun Valley crowd, but she fundamentally misunderstands television.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 15/09/2026
Here's the video that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tried so hard to hide of him vacationing with his mistress in London that he allegedly lunged at an American tourist who recorded it. Share!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I cannot overemphasize that Trump Jr is actively being bribed by a literal babystealer:
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Jlou @wehearvoices.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
These are ICE agents! Pardoned insurrectionists doing heinous crimes under the blood red Trump flag! #ArrestICE #Voices4Victory #DV1 #Pinks #SheShed
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. Now, two unvaccinated people have died from measles. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Goodnight 🌙 Enjoy some high MAGA IQ 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And just like that, the most damning Epstein files completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/08/2026
NEW: The Trump administration tried to manufacture an anti-Biden exposé. Instead, its chosen influencer panicked, accused the deep state of entrapment, and exposed the whole information-laundering operation. www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-propa...
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A MAGA Propaganda Circular Firing Squad
How leaking to a prominent pro-Trump influencer prompted accusations of entrapment and deep-state conspiracy.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Again, Canada bitch-slaps the rancid pussy.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"It was unbelievable," De La Hoya said. "Golf is a gentleman's sport. You don't lie about your score; you don't lie about moving your ball. It goes to show what we're dealing with." Rick Reilly also claims the president would kick opponents' balls into sand traps. www.rawstory.com/trumpo-golf-...
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Trump busted by boxing legend for cheating at golf: 'Don't lie about moving your ball'
Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya had nothing good to say about a round of golf with President Donald Trump, accusing him of cheating in multiple ways.According to a report from the Daily Mail, De La Hoy...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Stephen Marche: Canada accurately sees Trump's America as a pseudo-democratic fiscal basketcase of a nation, whose only apparent foreign policy objective has become domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity.
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Opinion | Canada Said No to America. It Will Reverberate Far Beyond Its Borders.
Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/08/2026
Natalie Harp built her public identity around a story of illness, persecution, and salvation by Trump. Parts of that story appear false or impossible to corroborate. And now, in Trump's inner circle, she's looped in even on "sensitive foreign policy matters." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-and-...
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Trump and Natalie: A F*cked-Up Love Story
The weirdest relationship ever just got weirder.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/08/2026
MAKE YOUR PLAN TO VOTE NOW. SCOTUS just allowed the Trump admin to move forward, for now, w/major new restrictions on mail voting ahead of midterms. The order requires states to provide voter lists to the feds & could restrict USPS from delivering mail ballots to voters who aren’t on those lists.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/08/2026
Franklin Graham helped Trump smear and destroy USAID. His own organization was quickly exempted from the funding freeze. Now it is receiving almost twice as much government money as before. Funny how that worked out. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-new...
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Trump’s New Foreign Aid Plan Is a Handout to the Religious Right
It’s MAGA patronage for right-wing evangelicals masquerading as foreign policy.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🔥 CHARLES BLOW: “The company Trump keeps is dictators, Jeffrey Epstein, criminals— for you guys to have the GALL to talk about guilt by association!” caroline downey tried the hasan piker fearmongering bullshit again, and Charles was ready. (From @acyn.bsky.social )
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Never let them forget: They hunted the vice president to kill him. They built a gallows on the Capitol lawn. They assaulted police officers with flagpoles and bear spray, and they tried to seize the presidency for Donald Trump.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/08/2026
Traditionally, taking a case to the Supreme Court means there’s a dispute among different judges’ rulings. When it comes to the DOJ’s voter roll crusade, there is no dispute: the department has overstepped its legal authority. "All of the judges are saying the same thing," Marc Elias says.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/08/2026
Natalie Harp boards Marine One to travel with Trump today (Anna Moneymaker/Getty)
pic of Natalie getting on the chopper
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 19/08/2026
The Trump administration isn't content with dismantling federal support for vaccines. Now it's coming for state vaccine laws, too. www.thebulwark.com/p/make-measl...
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Make Measles Great Again
Trump’s war on vaccines is coming to a kindergarten near you.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is the right-wing, coordinated defense and freakout prompted by ONE Ossoff line against Natalie Harper. Go on OFFENSE.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/08/2026
A ton of money. Privacy. Safe food. These are only a few of the things that Elon Musk and DOGE's nonsense has cost us as a nation.
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Elon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortune
A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/08/2026
Insane that this has been normalized and is probably not even gonna crack the news.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
so Mark Walter, who was at the White House recently, is under investigation by the Trump administration and just so happened to abruptly sell one of America’s premier sports franchises to the brother of Trump’s son in law 🤔
The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to American businessman Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for a record breaking price over $12 billion, multiple sources told ESPN.

Kushner and Iger were involved in the expansion process in Las Vegas, but a stunning turn, they pivoted to make an aggressive offer to buy the Lakers from Mark Walter, who had purchased a controlling interest in the team from the Buss family last year.
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"It's not that simple" is often used in place of "He's completely full of shit!" or "He's a total fascist!"
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God @thegodshow.com · 12/08/2026
Well said, Doctor! 🙇‍♂️
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Oh jeez. NYT changed their original headline (left) to the less interesting one (right)
Trump Hid in a Catering Container to Sneak Out of Turkey Amid Threats
Officials are said to have used the container to transport President Trump to a secret military flight out of the country after the NATO summit last month.
2 MIN READTrump Said to Have Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid
Threats
President Trump hid in an airport catering cart and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New Mexico says DOJ promised to share Epstein evidence when the fed’l investigation ended. Instead, the state says DOJ withheld it—making it harder to investigate what happened at Zorro Ranch. That’s not how this normally works. So why is it happening? joycevance.substack.com/p/zorro-ranc...
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Zorro Ranch, Jeffrey Epstein, and Donald Trump's Justice Department
Last week, New Mexico’s Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued DOJ for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that he says the Justice Department has been withholding.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Wow. I wrote about this at length in my book on logistics, I never thought any politician would do anything about it. For decades companies of every kind have used subcontracting to dodge responsibility for their workers.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This situation appears to involve deception, prejudice, and significant corruption. It warrants prominent coverage in the news.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Need to see Pritzker or someone announce they're sending National Guardsmen to Blanche's house. He can't really object, right, what's the risk?
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The bar is getting so low, I’d settle for a president who can tell the truth and stay awake.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
TRUMP WILL HATE IT IF YOU RE-POST THIS!
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Cassidy long ago showed us that hypocrite oath was far more important to him that the Hippocratic oath.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 10/08/2026
Author and Guardian columnist @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social argues that Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk are powerful men who claim to embody the good life, yet "all radiate misery, resentment, whininess."
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Way back in 2017, I wrote about how Trump’s real estate business model was fueled by money-laundering. And I very much hoped Mueller would get to the bottom of it. He didn't. But now in the wake of the Capital One thing, we should be talking about this anew. presswatchers.org/trumps-world...
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Trump’s world of luxury real estate is fueled by money-laundering | Press Watch
By Dan Froomkin August 31, 2017 (Adapted from an article originally published by the American Constitution Society.) The ultra-high-end real estate business, where Donald Trump made a lot of his money...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
holy shit Trump is OUT
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Andy Ostroy @andyostroy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is why Trump and his pathetic sycophants are always posting photos of him younger, leaner, more fit, and looking like a warrior or Marvel superhero. Because the real thing is disgusting…
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“documents and interviews establish how a first-time contractor was paid millions of dollars to apply a novel solution designed by a golf club manager to a national landmark…’It’s like asking the museum guard to restore a painting in the Met.’” (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/u...
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How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington (Gift Article)
A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How the hell is Ken Paxton able to afford a $1.6 million luxury home in Oklahoma on a government salary of $153K—with a private chef, masseuse, and housekeeping no less. And it’s just one of 8 luxury properties he owns outside of Texas. Bribes? Kickbacks? What do you think? 🤨
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 05/08/2026
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
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David Ellison can’t be trusted with CNN
We've already seen how Ellison has wrecked CBS. Don't fall for his PR push on CNN.
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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Once upon a time. Vive la France 🇫🇷 Once upon a time. The French people knew what to do. This photo is detested by him. C’est la vie. Don’t let this dick pic disappear.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
They are doing nonstop war from every angle. It will take a grand scale longtime effort of fighting back to keep it from working
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A major bank closing 300 Trump bank accounts because they were flagged for potential money laundering should be a far bigger story…
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Is the President Laundering Money?
A major bank closing 300 Trump bank accounts because they were flag...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
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