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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. How has MAGA Inc. raised an unprecedented amount of money? Let’s review:
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026
A reminder that America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“No matter what they do later today or tomorrow, the justices in Washington bear at least some of the responsibility for how we got here in the first place.” Me on Missouri’s mess—and the conflicting injunctions simultaneously *barring* the state from using its 2025 map and *requiring* it to do so:
stevevladeck.com
Bonus 248: Missouri’s Massive Midterm Mess
The Supreme Court can and should put an end to the mess over which map Missouri must use in November's elections. But it’s a mess of the justices’ own making.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 09/09/2026
NEW AD: Trump admitted he doesn’t give a shit about Americans’ financial situations. Watch our latest ad, now playing during the RNC’s midterm convention:
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."
New York Times:
Trump Honors 9/11
Emergency Personnel in
Washington
President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a volunter firefighter who saved numerous people. He also added to a disputed account of his actions that day.
Sept. 8, 2026 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Going to toss a tiny pebble into the ocean here by saying this is completely insane and unacceptable and it's absolutely surreal that we tolerate it today and every day.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Screenshot of a headline and quote from the Financial Times following the 2024 election. The quote reads:

“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled… it’s a new dawn.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Unearthed footage of Ken Paxton caught on camera fleeing to Utah to go on vacation during Texas’ deadly winter storms in 2021
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My very, very best advice if you're voting by mail aligns with what many election administrators recommend. If you put your ballot in the mail, do it ASAP and check to make sure it was received. Even better is to return it to a dropbox or deliver it in person at the election office.
nytimes.com
More Mail Ballots Are Arriving Late This Year, and They’re Getting Tossed (Gift Article)
State officials say they worry about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver votes this fall. They are urging voters to mail their ballots early or use drop boxes so their votes count.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In a functioning democracy, the public would be alarmed if the president boasted that he was “able to break the court system a little bit."
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 30/08/2026
It is under-appreciated just how catastrophically bad this number is. Biden bottomed out at 32 among registered voters in 2022 when inflation was 9%. Gallup had Bush at 28% in Sept 2008 wavepolling.com/results/2026...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The grand jury report on the Florida embezzlement scheme is blood-boiling. It's clear beyond serious dispute that the current AG of Florida was part of a shameless, calculated plan to steal public funds from sick children to gift the Republican Party & his own PAC. drive.google.com/file/d/15YSC...
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Grand_Jury_Report.pdf
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 24/08/2026
When blocking laws that make it easier for people to vote, the Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that courts can't interfere with voting rules close to elections. Weirdly, now that Trump is trying to take over mail-in voting 10 weeks before the midterms, the Court has forgotten all about it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It’s weird how stays that benefit Trump are always kept in place and stays that stop him are always lifted. It’s almost as if there’s some of pattern behind legal procedure at work….
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Proust on AI, 1918. “He imagines a sort of composite of all the good books that he has read, whereas a good book is something special, something unforeseeable…”
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026
uhhhhh
 investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.3:27
a4democracy.substack.com
The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.
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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 14/08/2026
Lucid blamed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for it cutting 1,000 jobs at its Casa Grande factory, a liability for Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani, who backed the bill story via @jerodmacevoy.com
azmirror.com
In Arizona’s most competitive district, Trump’s policies collide with Ciscomani's reelection bid
The Juan Ciscomani CD6 race is shaped by Lucid layoffs and the Trump spending law he backed in Arizona’s most competitive district
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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
“My advice to companies right now is, if you don’t understand what it’s like to testify before Congress, you better learn pretty quick,” the former aide said. It's time to begin building the biggest RICO case in American history. www.notus.org/defense/defe...
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Defense Lobbyists Brace for Democrats’ Oversight Blitz
“Industry will be stuck between a rock and a hard place,” one lobbyist said.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 13/08/2026
Apart from the question of how college admissions should work. As a factual matter, the current relationship between wealth and admissions at elite universities is almost tailor-made to generate tons of hostility and criticism among the most vocal part of society. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Admissions rate at elite colleges among students with the same test scores
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/08/2026
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act. Trump vetoed it. Congress overrode his veto on a bipartisan vote. So Trump has decided to simply not enforce the law. I do not understand the role of Congress anymore. I guess they just make suggestions?
nytimes.com
Treasury Scales Back Scrutiny of U.S. Shell Companies (Gift Article)
The Trump administration will not enforce reporting requirements of the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act, which was intended to crack down on money laundering.
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yes, because it’s A GAMBLING APP, NOT A POLLING FIRM. THAT IS HOW GAMBLING WORKS. YOUR “ANALYSIS” HERE IS BASED ON PRETENDING THIS ISN’T JUST PEOPLE GAMBLING, JESUS CHRIST
Regardless of your view on who's favored, it's pretty clear Kalshi is not actually reading what those drops mean and are reacting to headline changes in raw vote totals. There's no need for this kind of oscillation
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Reminder that actual people live in DC who rely on the USAO office to prosecute crimes.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There is no such thing as a person "ineligible for birthright citizenship"
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Elections matter: A race decided by 0.22 points flipped a Democratic seat to a never-in-doubt vote for Trump's agenda. David McCormick was decisive in passing "big beautiful bill" and confirming Hegseth; he voted to protect Trump's tariffs & allow Iran war. He's a YES on Blanche.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2026
Showing up and taking the 5th is not contemptuous, it’s a constitutional right. NOT showing up at all like Jim Jordan didn’t when he was subpoenaed? THAT is contempt.
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 05/08/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just one more example of how Trump's IRS lawsuit and the "settlement" were a fraud on the court. One party to a settlement cannot unilaterally terminate portions of it on a whim, particularly the portions that were supposedly entered on behalf of the *other party.*
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
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Florida’s MAGA Attorney Threatens to Defund Catholic Schools Over Vaccine Mandate
Florida’s attorney general gave the bishops until August 7 to accept vaccine exemptions their own doctrine calls dishonest. Nearly nine in ten of the state’s Catholic school students sit downstream.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 29/07/2026
Trump's own immigration agents admit it: they were ordered to target last summer’s redistricting rally in LA. Use federal law enforcement to target political opponents. Politicize the Department of Justice. Defy court orders. That is blatant authoritarianism, ordered by Trump.
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Andrew Solender @andrewsolender.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NEW: Some House Dems are floating a formal body to give rank-and-file members more input on where & how DCCC spends after the latest primary blunder in AZ-01 "I just think more input on these decisions is better in general," Rep. Grijalva tells @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/07/23/h...
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Scoop: House Democrats want changes at the DCCC after $500,000 blunder in Arizona
"I just think more input on these decisions is better in general," said one lawmaker.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Imagine the round-the-clock outrage -- not just from Fox, but the rest of mainsteam media -- if Biden or Obama placed propagandist words into the mouths of dead soldiers just before their dignified transfer of remains.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This guy gets it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/o...
Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, took a different tack, placing Trump's misjudgments in separate categories:
There are three categories of Trump failures: disasters of mismanagement, disasters by design and disasters of greed.
What are the achievements of the second Trump presidency thus far? Persistent inflation, sluggish economic growth, an unpopular war, aggressive immigration enforcement that has outraged many and the shredding of the safety net to fund a large tax cut.
In his second term, Moynihan argued,
Trump no longer feels the need to be bound by precedent, norms or good advice. We can see this at the superficial level (the Reflecting Pool) or for issues where there are extraordinary stakes, such as the Iran war.
Trump has lost any inhibitions he had while creating a bubble where he is surrounded by yes men.
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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
i wish there had been some way to know a republican president would start an unwinnable war in the middle east that did nothing more than pad the bank accounts of him and his cronies
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is it insider trading for the president of the United States to sell access to market-moving information for money?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
To me, any Democrat who runs for President and doesn't begin by promising to fire everyone at ICE on week 1, cannot be taken seriously about anything else.
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ShagNasty @shagnasty.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Trying to imagine New York democrats treating upstate rurals the way that Mississippi republicans treat Jackson and I literally can’t. It’s unfathomable to me.
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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life kissing up to this man. And here's his eulogy:
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trump pulled Patel off a tarmac as he was taking the FBI plane to see his girlfriend sing in Chicago to order him to investigate the NYT for reporting on how, even after a $1 billion upgrade with public funds, the plane Qatar bribed Trump with is still inadequate. It's matryoshka doll corruption.
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White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting
The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.
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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 07/07/2026
The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 06/07/2026
Oh man, putting England and Norway, our palest countries, in Miami in July feels like a cruel prank
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