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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/10/2026

a sure sign that something is "highly accepted" is if you have to threaten to impose the power of the state against those who don't accept it

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Super Intelligence, please tell me which party started the Tariff war and currently controls the Senate?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026

"I don’t know what every person in that group saw or knew. But I am raising one of the others. The boy who might someday be in the room. Or holding the phone. The boy who didn’t do it. The boy who could therefore spend the rest of his life explaining that he didn’t do anything." buff.ly/z7yWbR2

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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student

“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Alito is such an unrepentant cockscab.

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Emine Yücel @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My latest: Following Wednesday's failed bid by Senate Dems to block Trump's pocket rescission, Trump WH, once again, trampled over Congress’ power of the purse. Several experts point out their use of the “pocket rescissions” loophole is more an admission of guilt than a clever trick.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Reminder: Cosplay Patton here is 0-1 in wars and he took an L to a B-level power

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026

If Third Way got there before you did, you should feel bad.

The "Jason Figured it Out" meme except instead of Jason, it's Third Way

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"

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Premillennial Decompensationalist @smollusk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Republicans are evil and want to kill and terrorize millions but Democrats are annoying and that's worse" is so incredibly predictable the mating call of people who have never had any actual problems

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“This is not a dark chapter in Cornell’s history, it’s a morbid pattern” Editorial Board at The Cornell Sun absolutely fucking your shit UP www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.

To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar: We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this guy doesn’t seem to know what insurance is

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Aaron Knight @farktal.com · 24/09/2026

Incandescent. Rage. That is the mood of the day.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm voting for the Democrats and I endorse this message.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Golden should be stripped of his committee assignments

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Dr. Rhodes 🐥💎🔱 @doctorrhodes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Time and time again.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Republicans who criticize Trump’s policies but voted to fund them are still complicit. Video: buff.ly/LvqbIlD

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's hard to believe that letting him get away with it once only encouraged him to do it again. Who could have foreseen this? Who?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

what goes unstated in this Axios brevity clauses thing is that calling Democrats "communists" sounds desperate and silly to everyone outside the hard right base of the GOP.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is an argument that we all need to be making right now. Trump has made life poorer, dirtier, and less safe. And we need to make that case bc Trump will otherwise surely do what fascists do, blame the people he has been othering for decades.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI companies sold C suites and lazy assholes on the idea that they invented magic beans but now that the magic isn't happening they're telling everyone they're actually deadly beans and only they have the antidote for the deadly beans.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Straight-up extortion seems like a losing political strategy

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Too bad he doesn't understand anything about interest rates, inflation, free markets...or reality. This whining by Grandpa Chaos only highlights his endless TACO as he bellowed that he was going to cut off trade "with some nations" unless the Fed lowered rates. Any journo going to bring it up?

Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment! If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word “Deficit” is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are “carrying” almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer. LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST! President DONALD J. TRUMP https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/117282643318690567

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.

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Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A tornado inside a hurricane inside a firestorm. Agenda-setters would allow virtually nothing else to be discussed on the natl level

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The New Yorker Jesus Christ. Anyone who had even a word to say about Hunter Biden should be dropping their jaws over this.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/09/2026

I do not think anyone has to leave twitter for bluesky but I do think everyone has to leave twitter

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/

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Aaron Knight @farktal.com · 11/09/2026

Well, at least my riding mower waited until nearly the end of the mowing season to (probably) have thrown a belt and need service? Not exactly the easy quick chore I had in mind this evening.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The credibility of anything that the president promises to do, no matter how plausible or implausible, if his party retains a majority of both chambers of Congress, should be viewed through the fact that his party currently has a majority of both chambers and hasn't done that thing

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 10/09/2026

You can tell this is a stupid con that they dont even believe themselves because a party that controls all of government would do this prior to an election, never after.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

👇🎯💯 It is vital for democracy & the rule of law for everyone to keep loudly shouting that <gestures at this & everything else> is illegal, unconstitutional, violates our international treaty commitments, etc. etc.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Trump told 9/11 families that he was rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center -- an obvious and shocking lie. Here's how the New York Times reports it. This is like reporting George Wallace's "segregation forever" speech as "Governor speaks at inauguration. Some remarks controversial."

New York Times:
Trump Honors 9/11
Emergency Personnel in
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President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to a volunter firefighter who saved numerous people. He also added to a disputed account of his actions that day.
Sept. 8, 2026 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Everyone's focusing on the possibly-dead Mitch McConnell failing to do his job in Congress, but Mike Johnson is still alive and he isn't doing his job in Congress either.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/09/2026

Turns out you really do need food inspectors after all

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Any news outlet that spent even one segment or one article on "Joe Biden is old" in 2024 should be going wall-to-wall with stories about the dementia-ravaged 80-year-old who keeps posting AI garbage and telling insanely obvious lies about himself. And yet

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This would have destroyed me as a kid. Reading was EVERYTHING. And not children’s books. Even at a young age.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?

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