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Trying to keep elite grifter politicians, journalist, the rest of their class honest or at least letting people know when they are not honest. DMs open for tips. elitegrifters.substack.com elite-grifters-shop.fourthwall.com

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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 18h
Hasan Piker on Mayor Mamdani: "I think he's done a fairly decent job uh so far."
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 19h
Post on DSA's magagine: "The question has become urgent as the far-right spreads across the world, along with its agenda of economic liberalization" Isn't the far-right pretty big on more state control of the economy these days? Trump took a stake in Intel, for example.
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Brazil Faces a Crucial Choice on Oct. 4 - Democratic Left
A member of Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) discusses their alliance with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s Workers’ Party (PT) to beat the far right — and the stakes riding on the defeat of Tru...
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The military doesn’t decide who we go to war with kthxbye
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 20h
Cenk Uygur: 'So if Israel tells the British government, you are to lie about these people and pretend they're from Iran and they pretend that they're terrorists, the British government goes, "Yes, sir. Of course, sir, right away, sir. [...] We work for you loyally. We serve you." Come on. Really?'
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 20h
Tucker Carlson: "yeah I guess I'm just a secret Nazi. Um, I'm actually not a secret Nazi." Emma Vigeland's ears pricked up for a moment.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 21h
Is Peggy Flanagan's tie really a bandanna?
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 21h
Is Paula Poundstone big in Minnesota?
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Internet Contrarian @internetcontrarian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We said be more WELLstone not POUNDstone
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 22h
DSA: "Florida Senate nominee Angie Nixon, a DSA member representing Jacksonville who defeated a well-funded centrist in the August primary, said recently that “this is not about three letters,” referring to GOP criticism about her party affiliation." The DSA is a political party now?
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Democrats Run From The Word ‘Socialism,’ Voters Warm  To It - Democratic Left
Sixty candidates and some sitting U.S. Congress members signed a pledge saying “we are capitalist, not socialist.”
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 23h
While the far-left claims the likes of progressive House Democrats that support Bernie Sanders policies are centrists, here's someone who actually describes themself as centrist. A three-time Trump voter. apnews.com/article/trum...
Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.

“Something has to change politically in this country,” said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist. “Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.”
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 23h
Two expensive private college graduate journalists thinking that an Ivy League grad criticizing the editor of Vanity Fair, who is also an Ivy League graduate, "reveals SO MUCH about legacy media," actually reveals something else. The most out of touch people are the media now.
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this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media 1/2
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 23h
Bernie 2028?
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Bernie 2028?
A prominent Bernie Bro posted about another Sanders run, other Bros are getting criticism from the far-left, and more from this week.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 23h
Ben Collins posts a throwback photo from when a billionaire, Mark Cuban, was helping him out as a teenager. That's a different billionaire than the one that bought The Onion for him. Meanwhile, Kat Abughazaleh claimed to be against the billionaires when she was running for Congress.
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Getting absolutely massacred in every group chat I'm in for the crime of being the most important person who has ever lived, and also for wearing khaki JNCOs when I was 13. 3/3
Lindsay Adler: i like that ben got kara swisher but ashley padilla got bob odenkirk


me: *wins the Nobel peace prize* everyone in my life: “was the grink there”
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(a picture of me wearing JNCOs when I was 12)
⁨Lindsey Adler⁩: were the jncs there


me: Goddamn it
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Go figure that Democrats and even the far-left, including Mehdi Hasan himself, putting distance between themselves and Hasan Piker limited Republicans ability to tie Democrats to Piker.
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Gaslighting Mehdi Hassan Claims Hasan Piker Isn’t Part of Abdul El-Sayed’s Campaign
Hassan, who wrote a book about winning every argument, could be called Mr. Whataboutism.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is behind a paywall, of course.
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New from me: What do Never Trump Republicans want and are they experts at defeating the GOP they helped create?

We don't have to speculate. They've already said it - they want neocons to take over the Democratic Party & they don't want blame when Democrats adopt their agenda & then lose. 1/2
It’s Not A Bulwark. It’s A Plot.
The former GOP operatives behind The Bulwark helped sell Democrats a losing strategy. Now they’re positioning themselves to shape the party’s 2028 nominee.
www.levernews.com
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At a recent townhall, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she "had well over $20 million spent against me in my time in Congress." She didn't mention she has spent more than three times as much, $66 million.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Town Hall Featured Her Making Highly Misleading Claims About Herself
AOC pretends that her father wasn’t a white collar professional and that she doesn’t outspend her political opponents.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Over a year ago the Bernie Bro running the Nebraska Democratic Party, Jane Kleeb, said a top goal was registering 10,000 more Democrats in the state. Since then, Democratic registrations have dropped by 1,063. In a period that should be good for Democrats.
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Under Bernie Bro's Leadership, Nebraska Democratic Voter Registration is Down
Second longest serving Democratic party state head Jane Kleeb is overseeing shrinking Nebraska Democratic Party.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'AOC claimed “I came from a working-class background. My mom cleaned houses um and I saw the kinds of people that showed up to help us.” She somehow forgot that her father was an architect and small business owner that made enough money for her family to own homes both in NYC and a wealthy suburb.'
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Town Hall Featured Her Making Highly Misleading Claims About Herself
AOC pretends that her father wasn’t a white collar professional and that she doesn’t outspend her political opponents.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lmfao i know the very first person here from high school and he’s a Yale legacy who posts all day about how YIMBYs are fascists, cities are bad, and that we should abolish the police instead of building more housing in rich neighborhoods
mountain_laurel @IsaacBarleyc... • 1d I couldn't disagree more strongly and I work for one!
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Cities are good, smash like if you agree.
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•mountain_laurel @IsaacBarl... .2h ... i am a socialist. i think that the way to fight against racist rich ppl (lets say ppl who live in soho) is to work within popular movements to fight evictions, abolish the police, and empower the poor to design the city they want. Or to key the rich's cars and tag their walls
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mountain_laurel @IsaacBarl.. .2h ...
Seems more effective than livetweeting a dumb meeting and stanning some luxury skyscraper developmentwild _rover @IsaacBarleycorn • Mar 11
You are a fascist
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Max Ghenis @MaxGhenis • Mar 10
Replying to @DARosenthal
Building housing is what slows displacement, no nativist policies needed scribd.com/document/38585...
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 02/10/2026
Well, well, well.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On Dan Osborn's to-do list: "Actually enforce the laws on the books." He's running for the Senate, not for attorney general or some other similar position. Does he not know what the job entails or does he assume others don't?
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A post on the DSA's "magazine" passive-aggressively criticizes Mayor Mamdani over Israel.
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“You Are Wanted for Genocide!” - Democratic Left
Thousands of New Yorkers protest Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JD Vance: "Angie Nixon calls herself a socialist, I think the right response is to say then get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America." She actually joined the DSA and later said she was using them.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the Pod Save bros found someone on the far-left they don't like. It's David Sirota.
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Two years ago @davidsirota asked me to get coffee and lamented that he was too mean/personal on Twitter & now that he was a business owner with paperwork he agreed with some of the centrist's points. A year later we published him in the @BulwarkOnline happily. Some plot ! 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️
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Jon Favreau
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He’s an extremely bad faith, dishonest actor and thinks people are too dumb to notice. Many stories like yours!
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Town Hall Featured Her Making Highly Misleading Claims About Herself
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Town Hall Featured Her Making Highly Misleading Claims About Herself
AOC pretends that her father wasn’t a white collar professional and that she doesn’t outspend her political opponents.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hasan Piker complains that Mayor Mamdani isn't spending his time defending him. The level of narcissism from Piker is incredible.
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Why Democrats Should Be Most Worried About Troy Jackson (And It’s Not the Consultants)” Spoiler: it’s his time serving in a state legislative majority My @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest: washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/29/t...
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Why Democrats Should Be Most Worried About Troy Jackson (And It’s Not the Consultants)
Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee, Troy Jackson, has a weakness in today’s throw-the-bums-out environment: a long record in state government.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Normally the far-left claims that candidates are taking positions the far-left don't like because of donors. But Ryan Grim claimed that Troy Jackson's consultants were using donors to get Jackson to change his position on Gaza. They likely were actually worried he would say something problematic.
To establish leverage for moderating Jackson on Gaza, as Traister’s piece acutely explains, the consultants have sought to bring in donor dollars from pro-Israel sources. In the last three weeks, documents reviewed by Drop Site reveal Jackson’s campaign has held at least three fundraisers with prominent Democratic fundraisers with favorable views of Israel’s military actions in the Middle East. The consultants appear to believe that by surrounding Jackson with big donors who have a sympathetic view of Israel, they will be able to pressure Jackson into moderating his public statements on the genocide in Gaza. “They have told him to stop saying genocide, moved him to blocking offensive only, and his answers are pissing off voters,” said one source familiar with the guidance.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where can this ad been seen?
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'One ad from Ohio Republican Max Miller opens up with a clip of his general election opponent Poindexter embracing Sanders during a rally from the primary. A narrator calls Poindexter a “socialist,” and then the ad shows an Ohio man named Marty. “Bernie — he belongs in a nuthouse,” Marty says.'
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Democrats say Sanders needs to step up in midterm fight. His allies say he’s doing more than most. | CNN Politics
Bernie Sanders has spent the last decade growing his political movement by muscling left-wing hopefuls through Democrat-on-Democrat primary fights across the country.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Max Miller ad four years ago: "and was just married to my wife Emily"
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Multiple House candidates that won [Bernie] Sanders’ coveted endorsement, too, have directly asked his team for more financial support, according to another source familiar with the conversations."
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Democrats say Sanders needs to step up in midterm fight. His allies say he’s doing more than most. | CNN Politics
Bernie Sanders has spent the last decade growing his political movement by muscling left-wing hopefuls through Democrat-on-Democrat primary fights across the country.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Republicans are currently on track to outspend Democrats $43 million to $24 million on advertising in the final five weeks of the Michigan Senate race, according to AdImpact."
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Democrats say Sanders needs to step up in midterm fight. His allies say he’s doing more than most. | CNN Politics
Bernie Sanders has spent the last decade growing his political movement by muscling left-wing hopefuls through Democrat-on-Democrat primary fights across the country.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Counterpoint, Ben Collins wouldn't be willing to serve in the military.
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Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.
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Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You should probably disclose that your husband is a felon because he engaged in a bombing campaign, a bank robbery spree, and was involved in the killing a cop, when complaining about people daring to using the word "felon" negatively.
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Wife of Terrorist and Bank Robber Complains That Troy Jackson Isn’t Saying “Genocide” Forcefully Enough
She also would like people to stop using the word “felon” pejoratively.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guns don't kill people, ChatGPT kills people, seems like a bad message from the left.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Climate Defiance harassing random people who manage a building that Palantir has an office in.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you actually read the Free Beacon post, what has happened since then doesn't dispute it. Ben Collins just found a new sugar daddy, a billionaire, to buy a business for him. freebeacon.com/men-of-the-y...
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Three years ago, the Free Beacon ironically named me man of the year on their website. "Don’t give up Ben, you have a whole lot of nothing to look forward to," they wrote.

This year, I was on a TIME100 list.

I would take this moment to tell them how they can suck me: from the back. Thank you. 1/2As of this writing, Ben has not filed a story in 78 days. Before then, he published a roughly 400 word piece entitled "Fake Picture of Explosion at Pentagon Spooks Twitter" in May.  In total, Collins only wrote four stories where his name was the only bylined author (another of which was called "Cat and Dog Torture Videos Litter Twitter, Adding to Concerns About Moderation"—the Free Beacon could not confirm any sightings of these videos).

We’re told Ben is still employed at NBC, although none of his colleagues we spoke with seemed to have any idea what he does other than cry on Twitter all day. But the joke’s on them: Ben is still getting paid.

At some point this year Ben’s beat changed from "disinformation" to "investigations." So far he hasn’t broken the next Pentagon Papers, but his liberal sugar daddies at Comcast Corporation don’t seem to mind.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ben Collins got a billionaire to buy The Onion for him, instead of them buying food. This isn't a lack of self-awareness, he knows he won't get pushback from his audience for stuff like this.
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Got aggregated by a rightwing clip site. Sorry for saying the coolest shit of all time.
VIDEO - Ben Collins Slams ‘Delusional CEOs Standing Around’ Trump and Spending Money on AI: ‘We Could Be Spending This Money on Food’  
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Democratic lawmaker described as Sanders’ “deeply cynical” comments, arguing he has campaign money of his own available to spend if he’s so concerned'
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Dems push back on Sanders’ comments that ‘a few’ want El-Sayed to lose
After Bernie Sanders said some Democrats are hoping Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed loses this fall, select party leaders are once again airing their frustration with the independent senator.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How was New York "specifically targeted" by legislation that is having the same effect across the country?
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hasan Piker spoke at the University of Texas yesterday, with a photo of him in a "PRESS" vest behind him.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The explanation for Hasan Piker doing something like this is almost certainly that he is a massive narcissist. But if he were a normie Dem, the far-left would likely claim it was because he makes his money through billionaire Jeff Bezos' Amazon.
Attorney General Ken Paxton
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James Talarico is bought and paid for by the Democratic Socialists. And if he wins, they'll cash in at YOUR expense: raising your taxes and making life more expensive to pay for their radical agenda. 

Texas can't afford Talarico.
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Hasan Piker campaigning for James Talarico:

“After James Talarico wins... we have to remind him that... we are the force that allowed him to win this seat of power.”
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No slogan about how to pay for the other slogans.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wife of Terrorist and Bank Robber Complains That Troy Jackson Isn’t Saying “Genocide” Forcefully Enough
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Wife of Terrorist and Bank Robber Complains That Troy Jackson Isn’t Saying “Genocide” Forcefully Enough
She also would like people to stop using the word “felon” pejoratively.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Actual journalists covering this make no mention of AI, but do say that "Schmitt’s staff came to the Republican staff asking for material showing a connection between Smith’s investigation [...] and Willis’ probe into whether Trump sought to manipulate the Georgia election results."
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Elite Grifters @elitegrifters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"In a later piece, [a co-chair of the Cornell Young DSA] complained about the cost of the school, comparing it to another private university, Johns Hopkins University, that is lavishly funded by a billionaire."
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More Perfect Union Deletes Footage of DSA “River to the Sea” Chant at Event With AOC
DSA members attend a “capitalist institution that prioritizes billionaires and profit over students” instead of a public university. Why?
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the dumbest scumbags on the left are now attacking zohran for *combatting antisemitism* Zohran derangement syndrome is real and applies to the alt-left just as much as the alt right
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I'm not criticizing Zohran for doing this because I understand he has to deal with a very toxic political reality. Politics is a different game.
But to me launching a "Strategy to Combat
Antisemitism" in a time of the Gaza genocide is akin to a
"Strategy to Combat Anti-Whiteness" at the height of South African apartheid. That's not even a fair analogy:
Israel and its apologists do infinitely more to both fabricate and encourage anti-Semitism.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani O
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The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism...
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 30/09/2026
NYT Slams ‘Activists and Partisans’ Fuming Paper Didn’t Label Plane Takeover a Hijacking
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NYT Slams ‘Activists and Partisans’ Fuming Paper Didn’t Label Plane Takeover a Hijacking
The New York Times lashed out against "activists and partisans" who responded to their social media post that referenced an "altercation" on FlyDubai 1073. The post NYT Slams ‘Activists and Partisans’ Fuming Paper Didn’t Label Plane Takeover a Hijacking first appeared on Mediaite.
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