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Eshala

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
FOX NEWS: You said in the beginning of the war that 'Iran presents an imminent threat and must not have a nuclear weapon,' and then more recently you said 'the Iran war needs to end to bring costs down.' So which is it? MIKE ROGERS: Well, all of those are true
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 28/09/2026
In the lead up to the midterms, the Trump admin is undertaking an anti-democratic effort to use the authority of the executive branch to illegally engage in politics and tip the scales for preferred states and candidates. We’re demanding accountability.
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 13h
🛑 NEW: Reports of 'plague' in Irkutsk, Russia have set off a wave of speculation and anxiety. To help combat misinformation, we have setup a live tracker to continuously assess new claims. As of right now: reports have LOW credibility. Read more here. irkutsk.america2.news
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The Irkutsk Plague Report — live credibility tracker
What is confirmed, what is not, and who is spreading which claims about the reported plague death in Irkutsk, Russia.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
RAJU: Is it worth it for your constituents to pay higher prices bc of war in Iran? MACKENZIE: Fuel prices were sky high under Biden. Now they're starting to come down R: Diesel is about $3 higher than it was at the beginning of war M: When refineries are blown up in Russia because of Ukraine ...
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 13h
Reagan really did a number on white America with his "Black welfare queen driving a Cadillac," and now they CANNOT believe it was BS then and still. www.rawstory.com/arkansas-wel...
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MAGA's frothing demands for a Black 'welfare queen' ad collapse under red state's own data
Conservatives who blasted Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for casting a white man as her Medicaid freeloader ran into a problem, as a new report pulled her own state's numbers.About 60% of people...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Chris Wright: "We're in a crisis right now with a shortage of diesel because of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This piece from @soraya.press gave me a lot to think about. (Still sort of processing) sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/33-underst...
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33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain
From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Partially unsealed court filings show that ICE has been putting photos of people observing their activities into a Palantir-built database as well as tracking and intimidating them. @regret.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the details:
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She’s a fifth generation Floridian. The racism is all they’ve got.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
JD Vance suggests Talarico is a pedo: "You gotta wonder -- what really motivates a man who spends so much time talking about 11-year-old drag queens?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Q: DHS is spending millions on new ads about you. Your critics say they might violate federal propaganda laws. Why should taxpayers pay for that? TRUMP: I'm not running for office. So when I'm taking about making America great, that's an ad for the spirit of our country. I'm promoting the country.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, having a totally normal day: “Lord, here I am. Send me. Send me to fight the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump will not be held accountable for his illegal commercials. But it is still important that we recognize the commercials as illegal. There. Are. FOUR. Lights. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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PSA: Trump Continues To Commit Crimes
While the president is unlikely to face any consequences for his patently illegal, taxpayer-funded ads, it’s essential to remember he should.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "We have now I think under construction probably 97 car plants"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1. DOGE dividend. 2. Tariff dividend. 3. Midterms dividend. 4. Data center dividend.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026
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Eshala @eshala.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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A BlueSky thread by Annie Waldman on Skyview
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some n...
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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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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 30/09/2026
Come to see Eric Schmitt try to chuckle his way through his obvious humiliation. Stay to watch Amy Klobuchar dunk on Eric Schmitt for a *2nd* time today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Eshala @eshala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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A BlueSky thread by Leilani (she/her) on Skyview
CN: sexual assault, child abuse, abuse of alcohol Another week, another
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mike Johnson says opposition to data centers "is a Chinese psyop. I really believe that. That's not a conspiracy theory."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: Former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, who joined the FBI as 'co-deputy director' work alongside then-Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is stepping aside. Bailey was overseeing election-related matters at the FBI.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Multiple ICE agents aggressively tackled a man to the ground Wednesday night in Naples, Florida, in an arrest that quickly spiraled out of control. During the struggle, they broke his ribs then pointed a weapon at onlookers. Status Coup's Phillip Hawkins breaks it all down.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When historians look back on Trump's foreign policy in a century, I bet these are their verdict on his most famous policies: The support of Russia--the most evil. The pillaging of Venezuela--the most corrupt. The decision to go to war with Iran--the most incompetent.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
NEWSNATION: Gas is $4.47. Diesel is $6.50. Mortgage rates are above 7%. Inflation is at 3.4% while earnings are lower. How are you making the case that that is the golden age? RNC CHAIR JOE GRUTERS: Biden left us an absolute disaster. We just gotta give him more time NN: Is that really the pitch?
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hell getting colder every day.
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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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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026
NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding, is tied to a group accused of abducting Ukrainian children and was honored by Vladimir Putin a month before the wedding. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
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Russian Who Helped Pay for Trump Jr.’s Wedding Tied to Group Accused of Abducting Ukrainian Children
Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding, is tied to a group accused of abducting Ukrainian children and was honored by Vladimir Putin a month before the wedding.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🧵🧵🧵Here's a thread with 10 questions the news media should ask Republicans at their “Trumpapalooza” convention in Dallas this Wednesday and Thursday. 1. Did you avoid driving to Dallas because gas is too expensive, or did you avoid flying because airfares are up so much?
Photo of Republicans at a past convention
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The right-wing organizing around the Lindsay Clancy trial is growing and it’s frightening. A lot of people overlook these culture wars revolving around women’s issues, because, well, they’re women’s issues. But the right doesn’t. It’s how they regained such a massive cultural foothold.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026
New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."
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Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think more people in US should be paying attention to this... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...
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Opinion | Something Alarming Is About to Happen in Germany (Gift Article)
The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump says the US would “save” $90 billion by cutting off trade with Canada 🥴
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries” — Trump’s bonkers view of trade is that you become wealthy by not engaging in commerce
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
WOW: This lifelong Republican says he’s finally had enough. The reason? AI data centers. “I’ve been a Republican my entire voting life. And I’ve been given the finger by my party.”
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