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Father, grandfather, retired publisher, learner: train the mind and open the heart.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1h
I know there's much tee-hee-ing going on. But the key thing to remember is that Trump named as press secretary a person who championed the bonkers Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories. Now that's crazy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h
Decades ago they joked that there was no more dangerous place to stand in Washington DC than right between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera. But for some reason this schmuck can’t work up a press release for a Democratic member of Congress being persecuted by the president.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h
Reporter Heidi Levine has been hospitalized after the attack. trib.al/jFDXNDK
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Washington Post Journalist Hospitalized After Israeli Settler Attack
The settlers also robbed reporter Heidi Levine after attacking her.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h
Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. wapo.st/4yt6dHY
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 6h
Stuff like this is why the Canadian political establishment is (correctly, IMO) assuming that Democrats can NOT be trusted to return the bilateral relationship to the status quo ante going forward.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9h
Me: "Do you regret [hosting Netanyahu]?" Neera Tanden: "I wish we did not host him" Mehdi: "Because at the time you emailed John Podesta saying Jonathan Lavine at Bain Capital 'is joining our board. So Netanyahu was worth it.' Smiley emoji." Neera: "I don't remember that."
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 19h
Big Streaming doesn't want you to know that Kanopy is kind of like Amazon Prime Video except that you have to pay for Prime and Kanopy is free. Oh also Prime shows ads even though you pay for it and Kanopy doesn't show ads even though you don't pay for it. Oh and Bezos doesn't get Kanopy's data.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h
This morning I re-watched my video argument with the NY Times' Patrick Healy, and it's clear that the Times believes if it says explicity that the Trump regime is assaulting democracy, that would undermine its work to investigate how the regime is assaulting democracy. What an absurd position.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h
Man whose entire political career was handed to him on a platter by oligarch backers talks about gratitude
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h
NEW: Over and over, judges have rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for turning over state voter rolls. “Clearly, this demand is devoid of any factual basis,” one judge wrote.
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How Judges Eviscerated Trump’s DOJ Voter Data Lawsuits — ProPublica
Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and Washington, D.C., to demand their unredacted voter rolls. The vast majority of cases have been thrown out.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 8h
Right wing media focused on trying to link Abdul El-Sayed to terrorism via family members thousands of miles away in Egypt. Meanwhile on Jan, 6, MAGA waged the largest terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11 led by Donald Trump. MAGA is the biggest terrorist movement on US soil!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h
What the fuck kind of false equivalency is this? Biden stumbled and stuttered in his speech, but he was never remotely as incoherent as this mentally scrambled dementia patient.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h
Thank God the judges -- even Trump's own appointees -- are refusing to go along with what Trump's funhouse mirror of a Civil Rights Division is demanding.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h
Remember that everything Trump says is a lie and the opposite is often true. Trump frequently claims he “rebuilt” the U.S. military. That’s the tell. He’s recklessly depleted U.S. munitions and interceptors. And once again, he’s trying to blame Biden.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
When you see all these corrupt, ridiculously unqualified and incompetent Trump officials in action, realize that it is only possible because Republicans have the majority in the senate and voted to confirm them. The only way to stop it is to take that majority away.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 8h
In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org
jan6memoryproject.org
The January 6 Memory Project
A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h
I'm begging @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social to run against Musk. He's an unpopular and creepy white nationalist asshole billionaire whose approval rating in most polls is 20 points underwater. You can mock Paxton for needing to be bailed out *and* mock the puppet master pulling his strings.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 19h
Man who criticizes legitimate investigations of his unlawful and unconstitutional conduct as "weaponization of government" threatens to weaponize government to punish his political opponents for imaginary wrongdoing
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 19h
This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time. (But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 17h
Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 23h
Don’t overlook that she’s being interviewed by a Nazi
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h
I do worry about Maine, MI and (less) Minn. But this "watch me burst the bubble of delusional libs" tone is ridiculous. No one ever thought these races would be easy w/either moderate or prog nominee. And letting Third Way masquerade as disinterested observer while getting in this shot is a choice.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 23h
@gregsargent.bsky.social nailed it on the self-interested centrists NYT & other DC beltway media types know they can ALWAYS count on Third Way to trash Dem candidates - especially Dems who beat their chosen centrists in primaries despite being vastly outspent
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h
The way JD Vance says this, he is acting as if Abdul El-Sayed is an immigrant who should "show a little gratitude to the country that gave him everything." Once again, it should be pointed out that El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan.
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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“He’s using ‘gay’ as a slur, and equating being gay with child molestation. Calling it anything other than outright homophobia is again lowering the bar for the Trump regime.” www.signorile.com/p/jd-vance-i...
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JD Vance is now trafficking in homophobic smears
He’s using “gay” as a slur, and equating being gay with child molestation. Calling it anything other than outright homophobia is again lowering the bar for the Trump regime.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
As catastrophically bad as you may think she is as a press secretary, this week's QAA podcast reveals that she's a QAnon true-believing lunatic ("Look how many times Trump took a sip of bottled water in the press conference, he's sending out a message") and actually far worse than you imagine.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/10/2026
Trump’s White House ballroom is funded by lobbyists, billionaires, and pardon recipient wannabes. trib.al/jgQsNaF
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We Now Have a List of Trump’s Ballroom Donors—and It Reeks
Trump’s White House ballroom is funded by lobbyists, billionaires, and pardon recipient wannabes.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/10/2026
Seen others highlight this point. Worth noting that 74% of GOP identifies "corruption in govt" as a serious concern — suggesting that a lot of this is not about Trump but about "deep state"/"swamp" etc.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"I intentionally call him by the wrong name because it just sounds more racist, see?"
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Just a wild guess, but I'll bet the constant talk among certain commentators about the parties' relative "brand" problems is suddenly going to go quiet now.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
which reporter will ask the new press secretary about this $72 billion trump made on the tiktok i want to hear the explanation lol
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"Read the Details From the ‘Unhinged’ Tantrum of Bari Weiss’s Pro-Israel Foreign Chief" CBS News foreign editor Shayndi Raice explained exactly why Netanyahu was removed from an Oct. 7 script. You also won’t believe what she said about the Palestinian death toll in Gaza.
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Read the Details From the ‘Unhinged’ Tantrum of Bari Weiss’s Pro-Israel Foreign Chief
CBS News foreign editor Shayndi Raice explained exactly why Netanyahu was removed from an Oct. 7 script. You also won’t believe what she said about the Palestinian death toll in Gaza.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It's not "strikingly juvenile" and it's not a "personal broadside." It's hate speech. The Vice President is trying to get people to vote against a Democrat by implying that he's gay and/or a pedophile and/or a fetishist. Take it seriously. It is on a par with every other kind of hate speech.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/10/2026
Israel's foremost natsec think tank says Israel's new doctrine rests on these principles 1. Jewish supremacy over democracy. 2. Peace is illusory 3. No such thing as an independent Arab state 4. War is key to security 5. The US is declining, Israel does not need it 6. Settlement is key to security.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
REMINDER: The highest Diesel price ever in US history was $6.5276. That didn't come under Biden. It was under Trump on Sept 22, 2026. This is 100% Trump and GOP's fault. Send a message on Nov 3 by ending GOP's tyranny over our federal government!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Hard to believe that empowering a pack of crooks and psychos isn’t working out.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15/10/2026
I found some clues as to which of these guys might be the less professional one. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/10/2026
"Trump’s overall job approval is 36%, his lowest ever in a Fox News survey for either term"
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Fox News Poll: Cost-of-living concerns weigh on GOP in midterms
A Fox News survey finds Trump's approval on inflation hitting a new low of 22% as six in 10 voters say cost of living is their top economic worry.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Some Pizzagate-level shit right here. An armed fucknut is gonna burst into a school, looking for the mutilzation room.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
While we don’t have a smoking gun yet, there is reason to believe that earlier this year the Trump admin ordered USCIS to arbitrarily cap the number of immigrants who can become citizens each month. Backlogs in the naturalization process are now skyrocketing.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 15/10/2026
The Times using “critics say” in every other paragraph of this piece is cowardly. Like writing a weather story and using “observers say” to point out that it’s raining.” Journalism-lite. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u...
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
can't consult the Public Integrity Section if the Public Integrity Section doesn't exist www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
A government official said Monday that the Justice Department adhered to the 60-day rule in executing the search by first consulting the Public Integrity Section, as required in instances in which the timing of an investigation could be called into question. Attorney General Todd Blanche signed off on carrying out the warrant, said the official, who like others in this report spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The Trump administration has effectively dismantled the Public Integrity Section and often cuts the office out of politically sensitive investigations.guy tapping head meme
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"‘Secretary of Cuck’: How Marco Rubio Learned to Love Waging Trump’s War on the World" Rubio was once a supposedly reasonable Republican, even the GOP’s ‘savior.’ Now he’s Donald Trump’s ‘Narco Rubio’ and overseeing a level of violence his staffers are terrified to question internally. From Zeteo:
zeteo.com
‘Secretary of Cuck’: How Marco Rubio Learned to Love Waging Trump’s War on the World
Rubio was once a supposedly reasonable Republican, even the GOP’s ‘savior.’ Now he’s Donald Trump’s ‘Narco Rubio’ and overseeing a level of violence his staffers are terrified to question internally.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/10/2026
"Days later came Trump’s war on Iran, which was perfectly timed to twist the knife Trump had already placed in Detroit’s back. Just as he ripped out a huge chunk of legacy automakers’ EV production, he suddenly made EVs more attractive than ever." prospect.org/2026/10/15/t...
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Trump’s Great Gift to Chinese Automakers - The American Prospect
First, he took away GM and Ford’s EV subsidies. Then he drastically jacked up the price of gas and diesel.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/10/2026
A reminder that in the 10 years I worked at WaPo, every single news item Dylan Byers wrote about the place contained “facts” I knew to be false. Bro’s entire career is built on single-source stenography of rumors an owner or c-suite chucklehead heard from afar. “Lickspittle” is underselling it.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A bunch of Democrats are responding to bigoted Republican attacks in exactly the wrong way, both morally and strategically. There’s a better way, and it starts with attacking Republicans. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...
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This is what “weak and wrong” looks like
A virus of moral cowardice is spreading among Democrats, and it’s not even smart politics.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
"A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project.... Tech giants Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million....Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project."
wapo.st
Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/10/2026
Donors of $333 million to the ballroom include "contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions, government contracts and, in one case, a pardon for a family member." From @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/4yiUDPx
wapo.st
Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.
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