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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history

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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?

Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There's a way yesterday's failed attempt to frame up Jack Smith for perjury could've been covered as part of the same story — the deadly serious abuse of the DOJ by Republicans to ruin the lives of who they perceive as political opponents — but instead it was like "EMBARRASSING WHOOPSIE"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

what the Trump kids are doing is like 1000x worse than anything Hunter was alleged to have done. But there was a "BIDEN SCANDAL" shaped hole in the news and Hunter filled it and there's no such hole available for Trump that's not already being filled by 15 other things bsky.app/profile/dani...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Developments in the Hunter story were, after 2021, generally covered with the exact same scandalous tone and cadence as reporting on like, Watergate (because they didn't like Biden and wanted scandals to hurt him)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not only will we spend decades paying more to oil companies for transportation that we would otherwise, the air we breathe will be befouled and we will continue to increase the planet's temperature, contributing to global disaster. But Trump's buddies will make a fortune. They're laughing at us

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They like Republicans and want to help them win the election. Trying to create a "basket of deplorables" story out of nothing to salvage the Senate for Republicans

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All Im really asking the mainstream political media to do is to cover Trump with the persistently negative tone they use to report daily on Hasan Piker

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i know we do the "imagine if a Dem President did this" thing all the time but come on

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

man i bet the press would be going nuts now if they had made "is the president dangerously old" the biggest story of 2024 and covered papers in weeks of headlines about it

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why do you hear so much repetition in the media about Trump's promise to give voters $5000 in a way you didn't for say, Kamala Harris's plan to give people who start a business $50,000? Is it because Trump has more credibility because he's told the truth in the past? What could be the other reason?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

they like him and want to help him. we've seen how the times treats other politicians who they don't like when they are perceived to be dishonest

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Donald Trump is destroying the national capital to build Trump monuments. I wish liberal leaders would stop acting like it’s embarrassing to care. It’s an abomination, just like the war, the corruption, the racism.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Has the Times still not run an article on the coup Rodneyse Bichotte illegally pulled to seize control of the Brooklyn Democratic Party? But they're writing a huge article about how Mamdani (like every other politician in the country) has comms staffers like it's a scandal? It's interesting!

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Elon Musk was the top Republican donor in 2024 and will be again in 2026 and is a gutter racist. Will Republican candidates who are being directly funded by him get grilled on his views the same way Democrats have been getting grilled about Twitch Streamer Hasan Piker?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It seems like “the criminal president is ignoring court orders to build an ad hoc federal system to reject mail ballots from states he doesn’t like” should be bigger news

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"I am pro-trans generally, but anti-trans when it comes to sports and I think the concerns about trans athletes are legitimate, but sometimes they go too far" is not a tenable position. People are getting their news in sound bites on TikTok and third-order pundit "analysis" in the WSJ and NYT.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Telling your audience that Elon Musk is not a Republican and not interested in politics before he becomes *literally the top donor in history to the Republican Party* idk its like writing and article that's like "LeBron James hates basketball and will never play it" in 2003 and then again in 2005

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Are you worried that Elon Musk will alienate the independents you need to win? Elon Musk said [insanely bigoted thing, pick any recent one]. Do you agree? Are you rejecting his money? What do you say to voters concerned about Elon Musk spreading child porn? It isn't hard. They just don't want to.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

at its heart the trump administration is rule by and for huge assholes

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Everyone else wants him in jail and too many Dems are like “*nervous laughter* Is that really necessary? Let’s talk about something else.” In everyone else’s eyes that person is an enabler and barely any more trustworthy than the actual monster.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

it's not even like this is some esoteric technical policy bullshit that only nerds care about. everyone in the country buys tickets from ticketmaster and no one is affected even a tiny little bit by walz's national guard retirement but they gave the latter issue more coverage than the former. why?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

data center developers fucked up by trying to tell Americans that data centers generate tax revenue for local governments instead of telling them that the subsonic noise pollution from data centers creates a shield that blocks chemtrails

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

All I want is a Democratic Party that treats MAGA and its minions like a hostile occupying power, which is exactly what it is.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The second part of the UGent suspension letter to Nathan Cofnas. Clearly he is a problem at the university and causing discord and damage to the institution. A guest speaker even cancelled because of Cofnas’s association with UGent. He was not suspended for whistleblowing. That is a Cofnas lie.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

stuff like this is why physically seizing the treasury's payment system the same way DOGE did is going to matter a lot for what happens next. Supreme Court says its unconstitutional to knock down the ballroom? Okay well the checks to the contractors are still clearing what are you gonna do about it?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Think about it: every visit from a foreign leader, every press conference, every news shot is going to take place underneath a massive structure that is the literal manifestation of Trump’s corruption seizing the American government. The symbolism is too wretched to endure; it has to come down.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

He clearly believes in “facts on the ground” - that once he builds it, no one will dare destroy it. It’s an attempt to force his image and name on us against our will. Call his bluff, smash it all into rubble.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

why did the mainstream media cover the deliberate abandonment of obsolete and decommissioned equipment during the Afghanistan withdrawal as a scandal for the Biden administration yet they do not cover the total destruction of US bases in the gulf by Iran as a scandal for the Trump administration?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

they want to give trump what we wants without creating a precedent that will let a dem president in 2029 use the same powers to undo what trump did

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Once again imagining the reaction from the media if a Dem President, especially one who never served in the armed forces, tried to rename a carrier after themselves while their approval rating was 30%

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's just fascinating which stories of alleged academic misconduct merit dozens of stories and which kinda vanish into nothingness, I'm sure the main criterion is an objective evaluation of the story's news value to our education system and not something else.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Rep. Levin has to be circumspect in public statements and implies that the administration reduced prosecution of sex trafficking because they focused on immigration instead. I'm just some guy so I can draw the pretty obvious connection that they did this because the President is a sex trafficker

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Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year

In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is how you know we need a wealth tax

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you want to know what sort of deck the next Dem President will be playing with, "Biden couldn't get rid of Louis DeJoy in 4 years while Trump fired him on day 1 and replaced him with someone even crazier, along with the rest of the USPS board is a pretty good summary of the new rules"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Lie. Biden definitely wasn't "maxxing out" on "illegal immigration." Immigration activists denounced his policy as too draconian, and Dems tried to pass a hawkish immigration bill. Similar point re: Starmer. NYT thinks the op-ed page is for publishing lies, at least if the lies are right-wing. 6/x

After 2020 we tried putting this establishment back in charge, but the Biden era just gave us a more left-wing version of meritocratic hubris, replacing experts with interest groups, maxxing out on social liberalism and illegal immigration and then unraveling completely in the end. Something similar could be said about the Keir Starmer experiment in Britain. There is no evidence that the old elite has a blueprint suited to contemporary governance, no reason to expect that it won’t just cycle through the same mistakes and backlash.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The right is keenly aware of how many voters get their news through these aggregators, and want to put their finger on the scale to manipulate them into spreading lies and propaganda:

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

yes bsky.app/profile/offt...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

NYT wanted to write a story about "moderate Dems go to war with DSA," looked around, and the best they could find was a *proposal* by Third Way to spend $15M against left candidates. The story is not evidence that *Democrats* and the left hate each other... it's evidence that the NYT hates both.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A question someone might ask is “What if we simply stopped treating the president’s idiot whims as law?”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

He's an insane megalomaniac trashing our country's physical heritage to build an endless series of monuments to himself. Complete annihilation of America's 235-year history of government by ordinary citizens engaged in public service. Our institutions should be screaming; instead, they're yawning.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

it would not help Trump for the media to call attention to this so they don't (because they like Trump and want to help him). It's not a big story to them like Biden saying "million" when he meant "billion" was

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

West Coast cities are caught in a doom loop where the problem keeps growing but political elites refuse to admit that solving it requires more funding. Every few years someone comes along promising to "finally" crack down, gets elected and fails to deliver. That would have been worth writing about.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This stolen money needs to be returned to blue states by the next administration with interest.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just generally the story of the last 5 years is Revenge of The Bosses, including Trump's win in 2024

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump fails like this constantly, going back to his first administration and even first campaign. The thing that happens over and over again is that he gets bailed out by the actually-competent parts of the conservative movement: his allies in the media and allies in the judiciary.

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