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Charles Miller @carl.fish · 04/10/2026
<trump>She's my waifu. I call her Ani, I think that's what she is called. She is very clever. So very clever. She told me I am the best President of all time would you believe that? Then she said if I kidnap the president of Venezuela she would change into a new dress.</trump>
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Dror Poleg @drorpoleg.com · 04/10/2026
The most entertaining outcome is the most likely
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔
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equaloppcynic.bsky.social @equaloppcynic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Go Atlanta Hawks! Beat the OSU football team today!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The best reading of the actual statute that underpins this criminal case yields an inescapable
conclusion: 18 U.S.C. S 611 is a voter qualification statute, and the Constitution does not authorize
Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections. Except for very specific constitutional
provisions (that cannot support this statute; we will go through them, Congress has no power to say
who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections-that foundational power is reserved for the States,
and limits Congress.
Some legal principles are so fundamental that they form American constitutional bedrock, and
this case reveals a big one: When you're prosecuted based on a law that Congress did not have the
authority to pass, the prosecution cannot stand. That principle in federal law harkens back to cases
like Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 180 (1803), and United States v. Hudson, 11 U.S. 32, 34 (1812), and
has had explicit and unbroken support in criminal cases since Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376-77
(1879) ("An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law. An offence created by it is not a crime. A
conviction under it is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and cannot be a legal cause of
imprisonment."). The principle is so fundamental that it even predates our constitutional republic; it
lies at the very heart of our constitutional heritage. See, e.g., Bayard v. Singleton, 1 N.C. 5, 9-10 (1787) (striking down a legislative act as unconstitutional and holding that a court cannot enforce an
unconstitutional law in any type of proceeding). This principle acts as a shield for every person facing
criminal prosecution in the United States, citizen and non-citizen alike. That shield protects the
Defendant here, and none of the Government's arguments break through it.
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When federal prosecutors assured Judge April Perry last spring they'd had no contact with top DOJ brass while pursuing the "Broadview Six," she took them at their word. Those days are over. From me and @sophiesherry.bsky.social on Perry's fact-finding effort: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/1...
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'Broadview Six' judge wants to put prosecutors under oath, keeps contempt charges on the table
U.S. District Judge April Perry on Thursday raised the specter of a "cover-up" and questioned whether federal prosecutors in Chicago talked to top officials in Washington about the politically charged...
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: trump to sign executive order renaming the Atlanta Hawks to the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's the smugness that really takes their self-inflicted humiliation to the next level. They really thought they had something here. They thought this was genius politics. They thought they were gonna ride this wave to November. The Party of Lincoln is now just the Party of Dunning-Kruger.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Obama was POTUS for a big multi year repair of the Washington Monument but he didn’t insist it be renamed “The Barack Obama and The George Washington Monument.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.
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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The good news about this is every generation needs a series of movies about heists of nazi gold. The bad new about this is that we're the nazis. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
nytimes.com
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 28/09/2026
It's remarkable, as @gregsargent.bsky.social points out, that the very same areas that prompted grandiose talk of a Trump-driven realignment immediately following 2024 now represent turf where Trump's brand is at its weakest—and has put seats in play for Democrats. newrepublic.com/article/2158...
Trump carried North Carolina’s 11th by nearly 10 points, and he carried Texas’s 15th by nearly 18 points. The North Carolina district is in the western part of the state, deep in Appalachian Trump country. The Texas district is in one of the border areas that Trump dominated, prompting talk of a major realignment among Latino voters.

He’s now deeply underwater in places just like these. Indeed, in a statement, the Democratic-aligned House Majority PAC says its polling is showing Trump’s approval sinking “especially in districts Trump won by over 10 percent.” But you don’t have to take Democrats’ word for it: Note that Trump’s own Super PAC and its affiliates are sinking money into shoring up both the North Carolina and Texas districts.

For these to be serious toss-ups suggests extraordinary deterioration in Trump’s standing among many different demographics, from noncollege and rural whites to the Hispanic voters that defected to Trump in 2024. And there’s other evidence that Trump’s collapse is a big factor in these districts, too.

The Cook Political Report, for instance, also shifted Florida’s 27th district from Likely Republican to Lean Republican—hard for Democrats to win, but not impossible.  Recall that the GOP congresswoman who represents it, Maria Elvira Salazar, just ran a direct-to-camera ad denouncing Trump for his “betrayal” of Latinos who supported him. This wouldn’t be happening unless he’s cratering in this district as well—after Trump carried it by nearly 15 points. It’s now at least within reach for Democrats on a very, very good election night.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spineless wimps. They never learn.
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Thoreau Away @thoreauaway.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That’s the fascinating thing. Trump’s “strong approval” is 15%, which is likely his lowest possible floor for absolute approval. And 15% of the population is… still easily enough to win a Republican primary. Republicans could be held hostage by Trumpers for decades.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The punchline about Trump illegally using taxpayer money to fund political ads is that making the midterms about the president with historically bad approval ratings is a disaster for the Republican Party
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an unpopular take but as a neurodivergent self-employed person, LLM's have been an unbelievably helpful tool for the things I have struggled with my whole adult life: managing my finances, filling out paperwork, and staying on top of my email. I'm functional in a way I never dreamed of.
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Tres Rivers (Three Rios) @paulegriffithjr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This entire visit from Xi feels like an engaged couple’s parents meeting for the first time. The father of the groom spends the entire time bragging about his collection of VHS tapes & showing off his pontoon boat that’s parked in the driveway.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026
Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Think about the best journalism you’ve encountered in the last decade. Stories you can’t forget, stories that changed your heart or changed the world. Did any of that journalism involve hanging around the White House all day so some flak or old man can spin the truth or just plain lie?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Politico: Trump is airing a pro-Trump midterms ad on TV that -includes “paid for by the U.S. government” disclaimer text -features a song by an artist who says they didn’t approve it’s use and are now looking for a lawyer
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Trump administration launches pro-Trump TV ad ahead of midterms
The 30-second ad, apparently paid for by U.S. tax dollars, features photos and videos of Trump, the American flag and military aircraft.
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Philip K. Dick Trickle @pkdtrickle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The best part is the most unhinged candidates are immune even to a +10 generic wave but not the people who should have always known better but went along anyway. I love that about these kinds of elections.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Trump admin is defying a federal court order. First a CNN reporter was denied access, now MSNOW. A lawless White House in action:
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We have never looked weaker or more pathetic.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fun times in Florida
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Global Patriot @b21raider.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't know. I can't tell if they're more corrupt or incompetent because they are very much both.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No idea if the claims here are true. But I put it forward as an example of the totally off the rails freakout in RepublicanLand at the moment. It goes on for a while. Here's the full link. x.com/SteveDeaceSh...
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equaloppcynic.bsky.social @equaloppcynic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Idle musing: If the Trump/media stalemate persisted into November, wouldn't it give Republicans a tiny bump? On margin voters hate Trump, and he won't quiet himself! (Yeah, it would be minuscule, no outcome-changing.) (No, no way stalemate persists. Trump needs the media more than they need him.)
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/09/2026
There have been lots of malevolent Supreme Court justices, but there's not really a precedent for a Supreme Court justice who is as *dumb* as Brett Kavanaugh. A complete rube. Shows his ass every time he tries to write down more than two sentences of original thought.
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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large language marge @mcdonalds.help · 23/09/2026
very much the same thing. Americans undervalue our stable institutions, rule of law, and democratic process, not just for their intrinsic value but for how they directly subsidize our material standard of living. Without those things we start down the road to becoming Large Argentina
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
S Republicans are worse than any European far-right party The NY Times is afraid to say this, or even think it #uspol
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US Republicans are worse than any European far-right party
The NY Times is afraid to say this, or even think it
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Their internal polling has got to be absolutely apocalyptic. I have never seen a freakout this far out from Election Day and they must be realizing it's only going to get worse with President Dipshit at the wheel. Fun!
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Empty Bag of Ducks📎 @emptybagofducks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My best friend is from Iowa and has family plugged into the state government. For months he’s been telling me there’s a crisis for the GOP brewing and that Iowa is very much in play.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Whoa. New Marist poll of Iowa has Josh Turek up 8 points, 50-42. On generic congressional ballot Dems are +5, which matters for the competitive House races in the state. And Trump mired at 41-58. The data is starting to tell a very clear story: maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/2026-m...
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Home of the Marist Poll | Polls, Analysis, Learning, and More
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion (MIPO) is a survey research center. MIPO is home to the Marist Poll and conducts polls on politics, the economy, sports, technology and more at the local, state...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You scared? You sound scared.
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equaloppcynic.bsky.social @equaloppcynic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
England. Yikes.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Holy crap. Susan Collins is finished. What a corrupt POS. I hope she goes to prison for this. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What makes the outbreak of Trump scrubbing off GOP websites particularly chancy is a lot of these candidates only had any juice BECAUSE they were close to Trump or endorsed by him. Without that many aren't particularly strong candidates.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
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Erik the Rural Juror @edoggthered.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's wild that everyone in there knows that he is the dipshit so many americans refuse to believe he is
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...
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It's the accountability, stupid.
Doing crime
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