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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 20h
I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hope you'll read this from @edwardluce.bsky.social about what DC post election will be like. I hope Dems will take in the implicit warning that disunity or lack of resolve could lead to a waste of the next two years and more damage to the country from Trump. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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A Republican midterm defeat will not be an earthquake
Democrats are likely to make gains in Congress but divided government is unlikely to derail Trump’s agenda
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE THROWING PUNCHES. TRUMP’S FASCIST AMERICA. ICE beat a U.S. citizen and intimidated witnesses. Know your rights: PAXIS.app Record safely. Preserve evidence. Demand accountability. Keep PAXIS free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
By tradition, American presidents don’t make the 12-mile trip to the base to greet a foreign leader. Now Trump waits at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president. From @jonlemire.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Deferential President
Not long ago, President Trump could claim that he ran the world. Now he’s waiting at the bottom of a set of airline steps for the Chinese president.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026
Embarrassment on the world stage
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22/09/2026
I wrote about Democrats being pathetic losers on antitrust, media reform, and fighting right wing propaganda.
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Feckless Dems Wimp Out On Paramount Merger
Every single time Democrats have an opportunity to demonstrate they're serious about media reform, they trip over their own assholes.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An FBI investigation into Susan Collins' pay-to-play racket was shut down on Trump's orders. Probe: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen Susan Collins (R-ME) and a top donor, records and emails show. Confession: The donor, an ex-
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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drb-3-25.bsky.social @drb-3-25.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
it's JD's first day at standing school (Kent Nishimura/Pool via Getty)
pic of JD standing while talking to reporters on an airport tarmac looking off balance and a bit like 3 kids in a suit
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Today at 12:30, Wilber called his wife to tell her that he had been shot,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said in an earlier interview late Sunday. “And he was yelling in agony, and the call cut off. That was all she knew.”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
poor little fellas are gonna be the saddest theyve ever been to vote straight republican midterm ticket
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good. The media, which has mostly catered to, and tried to make nice with, the fascist in the White House (who stomps all over the First Amendment at every turn) might finally be growing a pair.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the way. I know it’s a delicate balance between covering legitimate public interest stories and First Amendment concerns, but it’s about time the press showed some balls.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This weekend, US troops “were loading bombs onto warplanes” for a new front in the war. “The wave of attacks was just about to begin.” And then, just like that [snaps fingers], Trump changed his mind. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Gets Caught in a Dilemma Over a Saudi Plea for Military Help (Gift Article)
The president vacillated but decided on Sunday not to join Saudi Arabia, for now, in joint strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. But he also needs the kingdom’s cooperation in his war against Iran.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Monumental Obsession
The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/09/2026
"It's absolutely inflationary. If Joe Biden had proposed that, conservatives would've been all against it" -- GOP Sen. Cassidy on Trump's $5k checks
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/09/2026
KARL: Do you support Trump banning news organizations because he doesn't like what they're reporting? SCALISE: Look, Biden removed the press credentials from 400 agencies KARL: That's not true. 400 reporters who had credentials didn't reapply. They weren't banned from the WH. That did not happen.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Illegal. He’s waging a one Man war against the Constitutiom. And the truth. Trump says CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned — and more could follow www.axios.com/2026/09/18/t...
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Trump says CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned — and more could follow
His post leaves the ban's exact scope unclear.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Surely the rest of the media will show solidarity and refuse to cover the WH until he reverses course? Right? Right?
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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I loved it when the majority of the population understood (and cared) that getting vaccinated was a gift to ourselves and to our community members. The platform given to anti-vaxxers’ opinion-based evidence-making is infuriating…and clearly deadly.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey White House Correspondents' Association -- is *this enough?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
oh...this is bad
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026
I think it would be nice if journalists could more clearly inform the public that there will be no useful AI regulation coming because Congress is too corrupt to function We're still waiting for even basic internet privacy laws 30 years down the road
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The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With Trump unleashing insane tirades against regulating AI, Obama just urged Dems to adopt a comprehensive position on it, warning that failure to act now will be "dangerous." Trump's malevolence has given Dems a big opening. They should seize on it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2154...
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The Real Reason Obama’s Harsh Warning to Dems About AI Is So Unnerving
Most Democrats have more or less the right position on AI. But their arguments are way too narrow to dramatize the real stakes. They should aim higher.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I thought living in the stupidest time in history would have been more fun.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MAGA, MAGA.👇
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*
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drb-3-25.bsky.social @drb-3-25.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Greed and power.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Even those of us who switched to EVs still buy products and services that are impacted by gas prices. No one is immune from this. Trump owns this.
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 16/09/2026
Today was the day. It was the first time my newly minted elementary schooler came home and informed me he had done his first active shooter lockdown drill. (He did not use the words “active shooter”). He reported it so matter of factly. But all I could think about is how these shouldn’t be facts.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Banning superintelligence and recursive self-improvement prevents BOTH existential risk and human disempowerment. By just improving and refining the raw intelligence we have now, [we will have] an incredible century of medical & scientific & engineering progress." open.substack.com/pub/erikhoel...
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Humanity’s Flight 93 Moment
It’s time to ban smart machines making smarter machines
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump is a toxic waste dump of the worst of human character. His greed, corruption, ego, stupidity, arrogance, cruelty, prejudice, and active contempt for virtue, the law and people are manifest daily in ways that are destroying our institutions and our country. And he is getting worse daily.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A formula for disaster born of ignorance and corruption.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey folks: I’ll bet you feel REALLY represented now. They’re going home to serve themselves. NOT us. The ultimate accountability dodge. Elections are accountability. Let’s prove it.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We stole it.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump is trying to blackmail the Kennedy Center into putting his name on it. They should refuse. Remember Kipling's warning about paying the Danegeld. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown
The only appropriate option is to refuse to accede to his demands.
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