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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn't leave a paper trail.
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 9h
Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 52m
oh okay then
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
Guilfoyle also offered to help her mark get favorable treatment from the government, including getting his IRS problems quashed. No dice, but it did result in this great line: “I have paid you $300,000 over the years. As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker."
She also sold her connection with the Trumps to help Deters solve his tax problems. When Republican Congressman Billy Long was confirmed as head of the IRS, Guilfoyle reached out saying: “Don Jr. and I are very close with Eric Deters and his wife and I know he sent you a letter. I am hoping I know how busy you are that you could give some time and attention to it.”

Deters was unhappy with progress, and sent a memo saying: “I have paid you $300,000 over the years. As of this memo, I have not received one favor. I am not naive or a sucker. I need results.”

When you pay someone $300,000, you expect some favors! That’s how bribes work!

She would later text that the IRS Commissioner had responded to her, but that did not seem to be enough to encourage her mark to hand over another $100,000.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some more simple morning Doga❤️ IG: @my_aussie_gal www.instagram.com/my_aussie_ga...
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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m still not sure exactly HOW conservatives in this country ended up being broadly in favor of child molestation, but it’s so apparent, and so appalling, that they ARE.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Starship Troopers: Carl Jenkins - It's Afraid
Alt: Starship Troopers: Carl Jenkins - It's Afraid
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New Yorker cartoon by Bob Mankoff: man in suit talking on the phone. “No, Thursday’s out. How about never — is never good for you?”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
8/ Amanda Trebach, a nurse and member of an immigrant advocacy group, was detained in California while filming and protesting immigration enforcement operations. Trebach says she was held for almost 36 hours without access to a phone call or a lawyer.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
2/ Federal agents have detained at least 70 children and teens who are American citizens. Some were handcuffed or zip-tied. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.
At least 70 U.S. citizen children detained, some of whom were handcuffed
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
further advancements in small government and individual freedom and personal liberty
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Brian Young @brianyoungan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Forever, there's been this weird idea that if the GOP can build a coalition that includes the racists and minorities, they will really be tough to beat. And, I guess! But shockingly, that coalition can't hold
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
a competitive texas is like a vicksburg level defeat for the GOP
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
but he did not
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
it is actually worth reading the entire op ed. it is Alito condescendingly explaining that yes, his “originalism” is made up bullshit that is *superior* for being made up bullshit apple.news/ACn4mQ2uDS7C...
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Opinion | Justice Samuel Alito: Even Originalists Make Mistakes — The Wall Street Journal
An interpretive method disciplines the decision-making process, but it doesn’t free judges of the need to exercise judgment.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"oh those bank laws" 😏😉
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
and that wasn’t good enough if you were hoping to not live under fascism
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026
Katie Phang: "Todd Blanche wants to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people. He wants to allow the existing redactions and withholdings to stand as a matter of law. He's saying what he has done is legally sufficient. And I am here to say, hell no, it is not."
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"to everything, churn, churn, churn there is a season churn, churn, churn"
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
hey, good point there
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
President of Cornponetown
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
no hell hot enough www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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mikeeoj.bsky.social @mikeeoj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"if you hurt people enough,they will potentially eventually abandon you. You cannot just keep hurting them over and over again and expect loyalty.That does eventually matter." Alan Elrod, who wrote a great piece for Liberal Currents titled "The Future of the Republican Party after Trump is in Texas"
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we’re doomed
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Area Man Falls Asleep in Horse Barn
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 04/10/2026
"We don't die when the body starts to end. Because what we leave is a message, which is left and this will survive us." - Rita Levi-Montalcini, awarded the Nobel Prize 40 years ago for her discovery of growth factors. She was the longest-living laureate, passing away at the age of 103 years.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, just to review. In roughly seven months the US has had to abandon all bases in the Middle East, flee from a British base, the petrodollar system that is the foundation for hegemony has collapsed, and we’re facing historical energy and food crises. Great work. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/p...
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US removes all Air Force bombers from UK base following new threat | CNN Politics
The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a person familiar, days after the British government arrested a number...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
13. (Yesterday, the Post reported that Trump is paying for those vanity ads with money that the Congress intended for "border security upgrades, efforts to combat drug trafficking and memorials for officers killed in the line of duty.") www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Raskin: “Once we get through this nightmare, the rest of our careers will have to be devoted to reviving American progress and building institutions that endure and succeed. That is going to be the work of the rest of our lives.” Free link:
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How Democrats hope to reverse Trump’s changes to the presidency
As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.
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Heatherjoy Klein @hjklovesanimals.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u....
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Friends: Ross Says 'But I Didn't Want To'
ALT: Friends: Ross Says 'But I Didn't Want To'
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
agreed; this is most important, immediate impeachment
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
$1,000 to fill a truck. And folks wonder why I have questions about restarting a war in Iran. #AngieForFlorida
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Culture Of Truth @cultureoftruth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"grok, create me a candidate more awkward than Donald Trump!" [ computing... ] "got it"
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sir Jacob William Rees-Mogging.
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