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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

that's why i just don't think he's worth responding to anymore. he's a professional rage-baiter. that's what he does.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

*stokes anger* *pooh-poohs anger^

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 1h

This is a community note for the ages.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

The most Republican thing ever is to claim you suddenly care about affordability by giving a speech at a yacht club.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

"I would say Donald Trump is probably at this point in his term the least popular Republican president since Herbert Hoover" -- Enten details how Trump is down 20 points of approval in Kansas relative to his first term

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

And yet, there is a 0% chance that Collins will go near him or allow herself to be photographed with him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

You couldn't have scripted a more fitting endgame for the Republican Party than the cult members desperately trying to distance themselves from the cult leader, with the cult leader being too narcissistic to let them go and dragging them down with his sweaty smothering embrace

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 12h

We will never again be a democracy if we don't get the big money out of American politics. There should not be any higher priority. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/one-priori...

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One Priority Above All Others

We Must Drain the Poison Out of Our Body Politic If There Is to Be a Better World After Trump

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 11h

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h

What will the Court do to us this term? It’s already taken away Roe v. Wade, given Trump a pass from prosecution for January 6, and permitted partisan gerrymanders. How much worse can it get? This term, there are some distinctly unpleasant possibilities. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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The Week Ahead

October 4, 2026

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

As bad as Ken Paxton is now on corruption, policy, hyper-partisanship, character, personal life, divisiveness, dishonesty, slavish loyalty to Trump - he will be 10 times worse as a US Senator.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

the other thing is that this is a totally incoherent and arbitrary standard for deciding who has rights and who doesn't. you could say the same, for instance, of alito's vision of inviolate "religious liberty" or expansive gun rights.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

what an asshole

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12h

a monstrously wicked man

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure if the point of Angela Paxton’s video was to cause people to search Angela Paxton’s name only to find out that she helped facilitate Ken Paxton’s corruption for many years before ultimately filing to divorce him on “biblical grounds”, but that’s what happened.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 13h

Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15h

Got political mail? Go to paidforby.info For federal races, you'll immediately get detailed information about who is behind the mail and their donors. And all uploaded mail will be reviewed by an independent journalist. (It also works for ads on TV and YouTube.)

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Who paid for this?

Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12h

It was a pleasure to be welcomed into these sukkot, in a beautiful tradition rooted in gratitude, gathering, humility and community.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12h

Last week, I was invited into the homes of Jewish New Yorkers across the city to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani stands in a sukkah with Brad Landwr under warm lights and strings of pomegranates.

Mayor Mamdani and Asm Claire Valdez and Sen Jabari Brisport join New Yorkers for Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani visits New Yorkers for Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani sits in a sukkah with New Yorkers.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

yeah that’s the extra depressing part, the thought that if we actually managed to jail Trump for Jan 6, 2024 might have still gone the way it did on the basis of “Biden old and Trump did nothing wrong” deeply unpleasant scenario to consider

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

social media will be the death of us all

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h

Public vulgarity and lewdness are Trump's signature on the campaign trail. These are well recognized as signs of advanced senile dementia.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

I really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Will Bunch: The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it. And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head. www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...

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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch

A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 17h

I remember the global condemnation when the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas...

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Buddhas of Bamiyan - Wikipedia

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 19h

Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

Iran destroyed naval base in Bahrain, we just withdrew (under an agreement Biden made) from Iraq, and now Whiskey Pete has cut and run from the UK. But sure, we're winning the war.

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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 21h

4 men in plain clothes kidnap a woman—they claim to be ICE. Woman's name is Angel Zhao. She lives in Huntington Beach, California—originally Shanghai, China.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h

Trump is holding the G7 at his own golf resort so he can shovel more money from the US treasury into his private pocket, and collect from other governments, too. This time no one says a word about it, even though everyone thinks it's record-breaking corruption and sleaze.

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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits

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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15h

Rahm Emanuel should focus on shutting up and going away.

NBC: Rahm Emanuel says Democrats should focus on ethics reforms rather than impeaching Trump

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools

According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

Federal immigration goons use their vehicles to confront a crowd of demonstrators protesting ICE in Tacoma, in what eyewitnesses say was an attempt by the suspected Feds to intimidate them. You can see the crowd stand their ground, and the goons drive off.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump administration is creating an abundance of material that future filmmakers can use to portray the United States a villain—if, indeed, future filmmakers are *allowed* to make such honest films.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20h

"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 13h

Why are we not allowed to judge the character of the voters who want this?

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”

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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies

The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

The first thing that his son will do is free his father and go on a revenge campaign against everyone involved in holding his father accountable. Somehow, Brazil saw what the US went through with Trump 2 and decided, what if we elected Trump Jr instead.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

It's only the first round but I can't believe Brazil did everything right going after Jair Bolsanaro over his attempted coup only to be on the verge of electing his corrupt dipshit son.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 16h

Hassett lies a dozen times in this clip

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