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Cooper Hamilton

@cooperhamilton.bsky.social
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Around for a long time now. History major, Big Red One vet, decades in high tech, retired for the last time. Twitter refugee.

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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 8m
“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation ... It’s mind-boggling.” It's not really mind-boggling at all. Trump has turned the US into one of those "shit hole countries" he always talked about. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/trum...
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Trump take tourism - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Another hearty round of applause to the Ariana Grande voters who chose Trump because he would be Good Economy Man: Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year, ...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5h
Pope Leo XIV sent a letter blessing his favorite baseball team before the Chicago White Sox brought the smoke in a playoffs-opening win over the Houston Astros. “I willingly invoke the Almighty’s abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones,” he wrote.
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Pope Leo sent a letter blessing the White Sox ahead of playoffs win
The Chicago-born pontiff sent the Chicago team the "Almighty’s abundant blessings."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8h
NEW: A nonpartisan watchdog asked a court to force the Trump administration to hand over records on its claims that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states. The request comes after Trump alleged that his administration found 278k noncitizens on the rolls.
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 4h
He's trying to do George C. Scott from Patton but is mostly doing George C. Scott from Strangelove.
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Ouranocracy @ouranocracy.bsky.social · 4h
I think it's bad for the insane Nazi Secdef to rant to the generals about how civil society is their enemey
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h
‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech – live
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‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech – live
Defense secretary summons military leaders for speech railing against diversity policies * Sign up for the Breaking News US email Rachel Leingang and Riley Messer Some of the biggest food and agriculture corporations in the US are funding a campaign that pays social media influencers to combat elements of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again platform, according to an investigation by the Guardian and Documented, an investigative watchdog and journalism project. Continue reading...
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 4h
"Nation Shocked That Darline Graham Not Stupidest Senator on Judiciary Committee" The competition is fierce, but Schmitt may retire the trophy after yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Nation Shocked That Darline Graham Not Stupidest Senator on Judiciary Committee
No one, perhaps, was more surprised at her not being the dumbest senator on display than Graham herself, who called the hearings “a big win for yours truly.”
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 7h
Eric Schmitt fully deserves to be ridiculed for his embarrassing display-attacking Jack Smith But don’t let MAGA Senator Kennedy-who eagerly rushed to help Schmitt-off the hook for his own farcical performance during the same hearing The funniest thing is, these two stooges thought they had Smith
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 8h
👇👇👇 Vote EARLY & BLUE! Up & down the ballot! 🌊 #nokings
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Marilyn Munster @heyfren.bsky.social · 9h
Wonder if Caitlin Clark is flattered that Jack Smith wanted to see her play. 🤔
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 6h
Karl Rove has a big sad on because - "The GOP has been taken over by a bunch of bigots? Say it ain’t so? How in the world could such a thing happen?" Here's a history lesson about one of the GOP's favorite sons. He's gone now, but not forgotten. digbysblog.net/2026/09/30/q...
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QOTD: Turdblossom - Digby's Hullabaloo
From the "as ye sow so shall ye reap" files: “My party is being infiltrated by people like Bo French,” Rove said. “Nick Fuentes goes to Dallas and meets with a bunch of Republican leaders. This guy is...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Trump: "You have these beautiful mouldings and florals and everything was beautiful. And you'd have a window in between and a moulding here but the moulding here was missing. Or the moulding here was falling down to the ground. It was never replaced. So you'd half a moulding and a moulding."
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 11h
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 6h
"Russian Who Funded Don Jr’s Wedding Also Funding His Divorce..." What would the Trump family do without corrupt Russians? open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Russian Who Funded Don Jr’s Wedding Also Funding His Divorce
“I wish Don Jr. the best in his new marriage,” the oligarch said. “But if it turns out like his first one, his divorce is on me.”
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Dennis …🟧🟦 @dennispr.bsky.social · 10h
Par for republican cult cunts …
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 11h
"It also asks Europe to spend its insurance to fix a U.S. political problem, at a moment when its own commercial stocks are near multiyear lows.“ Trump looking to Europe to help him out. I don't see that happening. ok, he will do something stupid instead. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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White House looking to Europe to release diesel from strategic reserves
The idea comes as high energy prices drag GOP in midterm elections.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 11h
Brent crude - more oil getting through Hormuz, but...
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This lovely meme really encapsulates everything I think of Trump. I don't know who created it, but they are an eloquent fucking genius. I'm making it my new pinned post.
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 12h
"I'm not entirely sure what Meta's end goal is, other than to figure out how to turn every single person into a perpetual data generation machine for its company." AI isn't the perpetrator here, it's Meta that has turned AI loose for its own benefit. appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Michael and Barbara Shetterly lost their 23-year-old son Matthew to an overdose in 2014. His heart was donated to Erv Basdon. Two years later, they met him and listened through a stethoscope as their son’s heart continued beating inside another man. ❤️‍🩹 🥹😭
A crying man and woman stand on either side of a larger man, holding a stethoscope to his chest.
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁
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Tedderman1🦋 @twj75.bsky.social · 21h
He wasn't kidding, he really is a shitty President.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 13h
And btw, Cornell's response to the raping of a female student is exactly how we end up with Trumps, Epstein's, and Kavanaugh's. Post Anything Here: InteractInk.com
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 12h
Kristi Noem files for divorce as criminal probe looms Trump and his minions highlight "Republican family values." An oxymoron? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Kristi Noem files for divorce as criminal probe looms
The worst couple you know is officially divorcing.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a fucking embarrassment
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 12h
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. Was always suspicious of Kermit.
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 12h
"'Sloppy' GOP Sen. Schmitt pilloried by home state paper over 'cringey' public humiliation...'Eric Schmitt couldn't possibly embarrass himself and his constituents any more than he already has...'" www.rawstory.com/eric-schmitt...
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'Sloppy' GOP Sen. Schmitt pilloried by home state paper over 'cringey' public humiliation
The editorial board of Missouri's largest newspaper joined the pile-on after Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) embarrassed himself during his interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith on national TV.S...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h
Sen. Eric Schmitt is an international laughingstock. He’s up for reelection in 2028, so we’ll have to work on him later.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rauch thinks the Mormon Church repudiated Christian nationalism. "Consider it official: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has exited the culture war, repudiated Christian nationalism, and embraced a wiser alternative: Christian constitutionalism." www.deseret.com/faith/2026/0...
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Perspective: When religion meets constitutional democracy
From the National Cathedral, President Dallin H. Oaks emphasized negotiation and coalition-building over culture war confrontation.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congo’s Ebola outbreak tops 8,000 confirmed cases as the disease remains out of control. apnews.com/article/cong...
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Congo's Ebola outbreak tops 8,000 confirmed cases as disease remains out of control
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo has surged past 8,000 as the country struggles with a shortage of health workers. The new statistics were released Sunday.
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 13h
"The Times and BBC both reported that the call from the suspect to 999, the emergency number used in Britain, came almost an hour before a female farmer alerted authorities after seeing a group of masked men and three white vans." What a cock-up! edition.cnn.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Suspect in alleged plot against British base called police before arrest, UK media report | CNN
One of the suspects in the alleged plot targeting a UK airbase used by the US military called the police shortly before they were arrested, multiple UK media outlets have reported.
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 13h
"...what was until quite recently understood to be evidence-free extremist paranoia is becoming the official policy of the United States government." Yesterday Senator Eric Smith (R-Missouri) threw himself onto the burning dumpster fire of Trump '47. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/eric...
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Eric Schmitt went on Charlie Kirk (RIP) AFTER falsely accusing Jack Smith of perjury based on a hilariously idiotic misunderstanding, to keep making the same accusation - Lawyers, Guns & Money
These people are pure scum, and should all be in prison with their God-King: Despite the flub, some right-wing commentators and outlets praised Schmitt for the exchange. Pro-Trump influencer Benny Joh...
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Cooper Hamilton @cooperhamilton.bsky.social · 13h
Remember the US military casualties belatedly and surreptitiously reported by Whiskey Pete, here's what they may have been doing that caught Iran's attention. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF0h...
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W*T*H: Did the U.S. Military Turn a Civilian Freighter into an Armed Escort?
YouTube video by What's Going on With Shipping?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 30/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt was so overzealous to try and get Jack Smith, a good and honest man who has done great work, that Schmitt embarrassed himself by accusing Smith of going to the wrong basketball game. You can't make this stuff up. And right wing media will pretend it never happened.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can’t wait for this day.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h
I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 29/09/2026
"If your prayer life is boring, then you are focusing on yourself, not on Jesus, not on the needy." #PopeFrancis
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Trump To Rename AI ‘Super Intelligence’ On All U.S. Documents theonion.com/trump-to-rename-ai-sup…
“Even the Constitution?”

Anton Pastranak, Systems Analyst
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
"Everyone knows Frodo’s the hero of Lord Of The Rings, but he’s not in this case, which—I mean, evil is a form of innovation, right?” — Peter Thiel
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Creatively Tapped-Out Peter Thiel Launches Startup Called ‘Frodo, But Evil’
BUENOS AIRES—After exhausting a significant amount of his intellectual energy in a series of company launches, a creatively tapped-out Peter Thiel announced Tuesday a new startup called “Frodo, But Ev...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
“Upon reviewing the disciplinary action we took toward the seven Chi Phi brothers who allegedly gang-raped a student for over seven hours, we have concluded that the mandated two-page minimum on essays was woefully inadequate.” — Michael Kotlikoff, Cornell president
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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My cab driver to Coachella was an Obama-Romney-Trump-Biden-Trump voter who had on a channel that played AI-generated music. He said that if Democrats vote to restrict data centers, they'll lose his vote forever.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Democrats warned that Trump would spend his term inventing criminal charges against his enemies. In reality, he's only done that to a few people and has mostly focused on killing criminal investigations into his allies and letting them out of jail. Where does he go for his apology?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
About Schmitt Bad boy businessman Eric thought he was the Jack Nicholson of the Senate, but after his questioning went sideways it looks like maybe he can't handle the truth. by Maureen Dowd
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13h
In this Ohio diner, Hawkeye still means Alan Alda. But they do know this: Senator Eric Schmitt’s staffers looked about as nervous as Radar O’Reilly after yesterday‘s basketball gaffe.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h
A passenger jet flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv signaled it was in distress on Wednesday and abruptly reversed course near the Saudi-Jordanian border. Officials of three Israeli government agencies said it appeared that the pilot and co-pilot of the FlyDubai flight had gotten into a scuffle.
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FlyDubai Flight to Tel Aviv Issues Distress Signal Before Landing in Saudi Arabia
The plane was traveling from Dubai to Israel when the pilot and co-pilot appear to have gotten into a fight, Israeli officials said.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 15h
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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