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DrDesert

@drdesert.bsky.social
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Retired public school administrator. Former college baseball player. Independent voter with critical thinking skills.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17h
I have one house.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h
What emerges when you take a deep breath is a picture of what we all know by now to be true. This is not a president who is committed to governing, to public service. This is a smash and grab, and we are the victims. joycevance.substack.com/p/flooding-t...
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Jack Smith kicked off his testimony on the Hill today like this: “I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring charges against President Trump.” He told senators that his...
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
here's Tueday's post: "look, you idiots — Preznit Fuckwit isn’t giving you five thousand dollars, okay?" grow a brain, why don’t you. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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look, you idiots — Preznit Fuckwit isn’t giving you five thousand dollars, okay?
grow a brain, why don’t you
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
The internet is erupting in mockery after Eric Schmitt’s spectacular Jack Smith faceplant. Now people are openly speculating: Did his team plant the glowing 2028 story AND coordinate with MAGA influencers in advance, expecting a victory lap that blew up in their faces?
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Eric Schmitt Gets Mercilessly Mocked Over ‘Planted’ Story After Jack Smith Faceplant
A glowing 2028 scoop dropped just before Schmitt’s disastrous “gotcha,” while right-wing influencers appeared ready to celebrate. After it blew up, the internet noticed.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23h
Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22h
Also, what was the alleged link between the Hawks game and Willis? Was she there?? Or was the allegation that he went to see a game in Atlanta so it must have been a secret meeting with Willis? I’m so confused on the evidentiary logic
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes, Republicans. The entire news cycle on your moronic Jack Smith hearing will now be dominated by Eric Schmitt’s basketball game buffoonery and John ‘Foghorn Leghorn’ Kennedy asking Smith about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. Brilliant job, once again by the feckless fools.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Thom Tillis: “I may be a bit of an odd duck here. But talking about weaponization, 8647 is probably not a reasonable case. One day maybe we can find someone accountable for this building being surrounded by thugs on January 6th.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So funny. Facts do not matter to these people. They’re just gonna lie their way through it in their alternate universe
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar FTW here at the end. And Jack Smith maintains his composure throughout this charade.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
The senator who mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury? He could be the most dangerous man in the US Senate. What to know about Eric Schmitt:
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Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it turns out that when Eric Schmitt thought Jack Smith snuck off for a secret meeting to conspire with Fani Willis he was actually in Maryland watching Caitlin Clark play basketball.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fox and the Trump administration are using the narrative of a new migrant “caravan” to drive attention back to border security, a rare issue where Trump and his party retain an advantage in the polls, but one whose salience has fallen. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know this is shocking, but it never seems to work out for them when Republicans bring right-wing internet conspiracies into courtrooms or committee hearings where the opposition actually gets to see their “evidence” and respond to it. They fare much better with the cultists on X.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was skeptical of this take but making up some bullshit to accuse someone of a crime in defense of Trump only for it to completely fall apart, then acting outraged and refusing to apologize for any of it really does sound like Vance VP material.
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PastaPete @pastapete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt is done for … no going back, and it will stay with him for ever. Plus he was spineless in not offering an apology. Schmitt knew he was found out a liar because his face got redder and he started shouting at everyone.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You just know Schmitt had prebooked this show along with probably Ingraham and Hannity to launch his media tour after his big gotcha moment on Jack Smith that was going to propel him to be Vance's running mate. Instead, it's the Clown Show Power Hour. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Trump’s malevolence and psychosis will be on full display right after the midterms. We’ve been here before in Nov 2020, and here we go again. The national nightmare of Trump refusing to accept defeat and dragging the country through lies, conspiracies and drama begins again.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's not on the ballot. The Republicans who enabled him are. Your vote is your answer to a simple question: do the guardrails hold, or does loyalty to one man matter more than the Constitution? Early voting opens October 7th. Vote early. Protect the Republic. #Arizona #Pinks #OneV1 #ProudBlue
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait. Which country is he talking about?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have never underestimated Trump’s lying, or his ability to spew bullshit. But he has in fact lost substantial control of his mind. And his ability to distinguish truth from lies—which was never really strong or important to him—is, at this point, de minimis.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Daily naps in public, now. Literally daily.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
from today's post: "What the fuck is this ‘let them eat cake’ bullshit from the White House?" — What thimble-brain thought this was a good idea? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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What the fuck is this ‘let them eat cake’ bullshit from the White House?
What thimble-brain thought this was a good idea?
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/09/2026
Is he serious
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t worry, racist bigoted MAGA. He’s channeling you and is with you all the way.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The White House press bans aren’t about ethics in journalism. They're about what Trump wants from the press: servile propaganda that parrots only what he and his allies say about his administration.
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Trump’s press grievances are based in their refusal to do propaganda
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump: "We have the best — I guess you could say poverty…We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We need to get a full accounting of every dollar each media company accepted of our money stolen by Trump to run his partisan political ads on their channels. Companies who accept these ads are receiving property stolen from the American people & are a disgrace for accepting them
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I never thought in a million years that the president and First Lady of the United States would be targeting me personally and trying to hurt me and my kids. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be...
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Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.
Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump's DHS promised Nevada 15,903 noncitizen voters. It didn't name one. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-maga-she...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Marge finally realizing the Republican caravan fearmongering stuff (@MarshaBlackburn loves to peddle) has always been bullshit
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We are paying for his campaign ads now. State-run media and force-fed propaganda are quickly becoming the norm.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Day 5 since Pro-Publica reported on Susan Collins corrupt operation trading campaign cash for federal contracts. What’s been her response? She’s running the Trump playbook. Claiming to be the victim of a vast conspiracy by the media and Democrats. No remorse, no apology, no accountability.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We found some more fraud, waste, and abuse. The third government-funded Trump ad has been identified by AdImpact in recent days. The latest ad is nearly identical to a video Trump posted during his 2024 presidential campaign. It shows him walking down a hallway declaring, “This is the final battle.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 2024 version ended with Trump’s campaign logo and a number to text. The new version ends with: “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
here's Sunday's post: "rogue nation, moron president" — Preznit Fuckwit is why we can’t have nice things. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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rogue nation, moron president
Preznit Fuckwit is why we can’t have nice things
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now would be a good time for @pallone.house.gov to send Fox a letter promising an investigation into why they accepted this ad and how much they got paid to run it.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people have no idea what’s happening in America right now. And, they don’t care. White House Deputy Chief of Staff post last night ⬇️
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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