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Craig Prentiss

@cprentiss.bsky.social
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Religious studies prof, compulsive movie watcher, Fulbright alumn, recovering doomscroller

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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you're widely seen as batshit crazy, you're never held accountable. But if you're seen as having the capacity to reason, you would almost certainly pay a price. My guess is that in two news cycles at most, the press will move on to the next impeachable offense www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To be fair, the ads are basically a funeral for the American Republic
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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Next time you’re struggling to pay for gas or groceries, remember this image.
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MAGA loves to screaming about the threat of "Communism". And, yet, everyone showed up for real Communist Dictator China’s Xi Jinping. It's that funny... #TrumpsCorruptCongress www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-hos...
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Fox News Hosts Who Slam Communism Race to Dictator’s Dinner
The hosts blew off their Fox News shows for some Xi time.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A few days ago someone armed with multiple weapons attacked a Democratic gubernatorial candidate
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
When Pete Hegseth polled top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during military operations, he bet they’d back his view that the program was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” officials told ProPublica. Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's been a long time since I've been so pleasantly shocked! www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
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Missouri Supreme Court blocks gerrymandered map in major loss for Republicans
The unanimous decision found that Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was wrong to reject a campaign seeking to strike down the map.
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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My one hope for Pete Hegseth is that his chidren grow up to see him for exactly what he is.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.
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Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms
Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you are wondering how bar-shit crazy Texas is these days: the University of Houston removed almost half of its courses to comply with state censorship laws.
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UH removes over 45% of courses from its ‘core’ curriculum to comply with SB 37 | Houston Public Media
Some of the classes removed from UH’s core curriculum include those discussing race and gender, such as Introduction to LGBT Studies, Women and Gender in Arabic Literature, and Intro to Global Climate...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is introducing a Western civilisation course in military-family schools that distorts history by closely equating Western civilisation with Christianity, portraying Islam as unusually violent, and downplaying Christian violence such as the Crusades, AP reports.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey remember when the media and gop freaked out when bill clinton spoke to the attorney general for five seconds?
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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Missouri trouncing two awful Constitutional amendments by a 4 to 1 margin that Republican legislative leaders tried to shove down our throats with a well-financed campaign of lies is a rare hopeful sign in this neck of the woods.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It seems Emily Wilson is more than welcome to craft a film script herself. I do cringe when academics (or authors of novels) critique scripts as though the parameters of the medium don't put severe restrictions on the nuances they value. Opinions are fine, but I feel it reveals some cluelessness.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
There it is. RFK Jr’s son, “Finn” Kennedy recently launched his own investment fund focused on AI in healthcare. It should surprise no one that he worked at 8VC—the investment fund launched by Peter Thiel’s Palantir co-founder (Joe Lonsdale)—in 2025. 4/24/26 … 1/ www.facebook.com/financialtim...
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US health secretary's son launches investment fund tied to health movement
Child of Robert F Kennedy Jr seeks $100mn in capital raise...
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/07/2026
Off the top of my head there are more Republican ex-legislators in prison right now for child sexual abuse then there are trans girls playing high school sports
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Hunter Biden art sale update:
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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
With 60 million Americans watching the World Cup final between Spain and Argentina, which is roughly double that of a World Series game 7 or an NBA Championship, why do we persist in the narrative the U.S. is still "warming up" to the sport. Only the NFL tops interest in the WC.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/07/2026
It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
FEC Schedule A itemized receipt, line C. Contributor: Taylor Fresh Foods Inc, 911-B Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93902. Date of receipt: 03/26/2025. Transaction ID: SA17.4550. Amount of receipt this period: $1,000,000.00. Marked "Memo Item" and labeled "NON-CONTRIBUTION." Receipt-for boxes (Primary/General/Other) are blank. Aggregate year-to-date: $1,000,000.00.
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Pathetic. They are trying to get Trump to move off to the side but he can't help himself.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's big document release tonight, supposedly meant to prove China stole the 2020 election, includes this classified intel graphic making clear that Russia was the only country trying to meddle in American voting systems.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oops
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Note the date
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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The demons of Super Bowl 51 continue to haunt that place
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups
Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough
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Kurt Weldon @kurtweldon.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Nor will anyone who has actually read the Declaration of Independence.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/06/2026
March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/06/2026
The reason that he’s paying Iran 300 million is fake news is because it’s 300 billion.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/06/2026
Welcome to FIFA World Cup Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven ​hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad ‌early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/06/2026
Don't plan to come to the US for the World Cup. Trump will deny you entry last minute and cost you thousands. Especially if he thinks your country was mean to him. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Scotland fans 'heartbroken' as travel permits to World Cup withdrawn last minute
People travelling to the World Cup have had their ESTA applications changed from approved to "travel not authorised".
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Bless his heart www.al.com/news/2026/06...
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Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved to Alabama
Tuberville claimed Alabama residency in August 2018. He and his wife voted in Florida three months later.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 31/05/2026
Literally impeach him just for this.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/05/2026
Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family
Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.
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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
When Steve Bannon promised to deconstruct the administrative state he promised to make everyone sick
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
While the country was occupied with King Charles' visit, Trump abruptly dismissed the entire board National Science Foundation board, informing each of its 22 seated members by email they had been 'terminated, effective immediately.' He becomes more dangerous and reckless with each passing moment.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026
OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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"In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis.

When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Here's why it's good to make a deal and hand Iran $20 billion but it was bad when Obama did a deal and gave them $1.7 billion of their frozen assets" - headlines from the near future www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/p...
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Trump administration considers unfreezing $20 billion in Iranian assets as peace talks ramp up | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is considering unfreezing $20 billion in Iranian assets as part of ongoing negotiations with Tehran, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2026
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
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Craig Prentiss @cprentiss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Sitting in a crowded movie theater and the audience literally begins to Boo after an advertisement for Claude AI. I'm fascinated by the continued insistence that this is what the people want.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Pfizer has ended its large Phase III Trial of an updated COVID19 vaccine. They were not able to enroll enough people to meet their goal. A major problem is the FDA’s wholly unreasonable demand that people with chronic conditions, who benefit most from the vaccine, not be allowed to participate.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New story out this morning from the Washington Examiner saying that it's an open secret inside the Border Patrol that the current Border Patrol Chief has bragged for decades about going to Thailand and Colombia to sleep with a bunch of sex workers. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...
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Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents
Banks "bragged" to colleagues while in his previous management role at the patrol about paying for sex with prostitutes while traveling over a decade.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
wish SCOTUS would examine "a well regulated militia" with the granularity they are debating "domicile"
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#NoKings NYC made History today 💙🍎
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