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Senate Majority PAC @majoritypac.bsky.social · 8h
Adam Hoffman was charged with sexually abusing a child and was facing life in prison. Ken Paxton tried to give him a sweetheart deal with only one day served in prison. Ken Paxton is a danger to our kids and belongs nowhere near the Senate.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 8h
Jesus. Dan Osborn wants to win
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 5h
Republican attack ad: "This Democrat loves transgender surgeries for minors" Democratic attack ad: "This worthless sack of shit let a pedophile walk free and called you a stupid asshole"
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 7h
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
Mortgage rates print 7.58% @cnbc.com
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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 12h
JCO for the win.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a kind of a thing that happens when you put a fourth-tier podcaster in charge of the FBI.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lol they are really in full on panic mode if theyre breaking the "migrant carvan" glass this week
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Barak Ravid riding in with another Wallet Inspector Special
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ten-year yield blasts thru 5.25% @cnbc.com
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
we are watching our future get so much more expensive
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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New article in @leidschrift.bsky.social (in Dutch) about orphans of mixed descent in eighteenth-century Demerara and Essequibo 👇
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Analysis | A Democratic midterm rout could end up as a gift to Mr. Trump, setting him up to end his term as a pragmatic, centrist unifier—drawing upon his decades in business to deliver results for the country.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OH MY GOD WHAT A LION
Troy Jackson responded to a post that showed his texts insulting a Trump supporter with a donation link
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Setting up a Hibachi table at a job interview
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director.

Sen. Susan Collins

@SenatorCollins
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse. 
 
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.  
  
Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
 
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
 
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026
why does this guy look like what would happen if you shaved a sasquatch bald
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/09/2026
The provost of UMass (R1) literally told a group of historians this: “research” means pulling in large external grants and unless you do that, you don’t matter and get nothing internally. “Research“ is about $ and institutions support only those disciplines that bring in $ or raise it privately.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyways, this is genuinely the funniest chart in the world because it shows Jill Stein's twitter use spikes every four years and only during years where there's a federal election so if she's breaking her silence now *someone* is panicking
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Rikki Dean @rikkidean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would add to this that the whole point of an academic publications is that they are supposed to be records of things you have learned through careful scholarship. If they contain non-existent references, they are a misrepresentation of what is assumed to be the process behind the product.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Jared Hardesty @drhardesty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Weird computer perverts” is an incredible line
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fuck what you pay for gas. Fuck the cost of whatever uninspected, adulterated meat you put on your table. Fuck your displeasure in our war. Fuck your medical and nutritional benefits that we needed to spend on that war. We're Republicans and we are governing, goddammit. And we are right on point:
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it's exceedingly clear at this point that Trump is a vessel into which the median voter poured their hopes and dreams. his re-election wasn't ideological alignment, it was celebrity delusion.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Feeling incredibly grateful this morning. Thank you to everyone at the John L. Nau Center for Civil War History at UVA for making my visit this week so enjoyable. I can't think of a better way to kick off the book tour for my new bio of Robert Gould Shaw. #booksky 🗃️ uncpress.org/978146969717...
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A Glorious Fate
Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863) is best known as the heroic colonel who led the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment—one of the first regiments of Black so...
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Markwayne Mullin being such a meathead dipshit that he's ramping up a bunch of incredibly unpopular ICE operations in red states with potentially vulnerable senate seats weeks before an election is just so par for the course for one of the stupidest admins in decades
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The last thing my burrito hears
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026
Reuters' White House reporter says the 90d diesel export ban is not happening, per a White House official. The one Politico source saying "whoever talks to him last will get their way" seems 100% correct.

Jarrett Renshaw
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NEWS: A White House official tells Reuters that the Poltico report that that the administration is preparing for a 90-day diesel export ban is not accurate. Earlier today, Wright said the administration is looking at a "simpler, voluntary, cooperative fashion, without using blunt instruments that would reduce refining throughput."
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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
there are 70 million people for whom this is the biggest song in the world. they watch comedies called like "Wives of Jim" that have run for nine seasons. they're usually pretty affable in person. in 2024 they severed the fate of humanity because of egg prices
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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jaxson Dart and Donald Trump
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the dumbest thing in the world. The fraud is that people are paying for insurance and they’re… healthy?
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
remember who you're fighting for
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
in retrospect sending gas and diesel sky high in America's least dense/high-car using areas may not have been the wisest move for the GOP
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ElectionCord @electioncord.com · 21/09/2026
I'm sorry but this is hilarious. Trump's approval for the economy has gone so low it actually broke the scale on the Ipsos graph
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨 Sub-30% presidential approval alert 🚨🚨🚨
American Research Group's poll of 1,100 adults shows Trump at 29% approval, and one away from the cool sex number in disapproval.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Lukashenka: Even if we wanted to supply potash to the West, there's nothing to supply
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