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Greg Gardner

@ggard4.bsky.social
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Retired journalist. Dog-loving husband and dad. 3.5-level tennis player. Lives in Grosse Pointe Woods, MI.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 2h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Jimmy Kimmel had his wife parody Natalie Harp on his show. She played his unhinged assistant. It was as ridiculously funny as you might imagine.😅
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Trump #TravelsWithNatalie yesterday (USA Today Networks)
pic of a smiling Ms Harp in the backseat of The Beast with Donald
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2h
DOE announced last week that it was publishing a list of foreign donors to U.S. institutions who had previously been promised confidentiality. Last night, a judge blocked the publication, citing risks of retaliation for donors from repressive regimes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 3h
why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion
Drugs Fail to Kill Woman
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Kennedy Andara @kennedyandara.bsky.social · 3h
#JobsDay numbers came in well below expectations (+29k jobs). Revisions reversed the narrative of a strong end-of-summer hiring boom (-60k fewer than reported). Trump's economy fails to deliver jobs for Americans as job growth slows, unemployment increases (4.2%), and inflation outpaces wages
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3h
So, evil is the new good? 👀
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Tech Billionaire Goes Viral For Bonkers Claim That Being Evil Can Actually Be 'Kind Of Good' In Cringey Viral Clip
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16h
Under Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h
We need to take our country back from the fascists and make it a civilized place to live.
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 18h
Anyone who reads Time's recent interview with Trump would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22h
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 18h
Is that good
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A financial revolution is under way in America. Markets are digesting the biggest-ever everything: IPO, private-funding round, private-debt deal. New markets are being created out of thin air. All this, our Schumpeter columnist argues, brings to mind a speedball, that powerful—and sometimes lethal—combination of heroin and cocaine popular among rock stars a generation ago.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 18h
@politico.com headline: "…Dems say" @politico.com article: "Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)… also told reporters that the ad spend was not under the jurisdiction of her committee but 'was taken out of funding that was supposed to be for Customs and Border Protection.'"
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 21h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19h
Worth noting that the Vice President of the United States most likely had this racist crap written into his script. Not that off the cuff racism is any less bad but Vance and his team surely planned this. So disgusting.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
* CARNEY: NEW PIPELINE TO REDUCE RELIANCE ON OIL EXPORTS TO US 🇨🇦 @bloomberg.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
“.. The rub: South Koreans didn’t agree to a specific dollar figure—or even to invest at all.” 👀 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/asia/s...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h
Everything falls into place when you realize Ellison is Kendall Roy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Angry Bondholders Flood Wall Street With Complaints on Paramount Losses
Just hours after Paramount Skydance Corp. issued $52 billion of debt to fund the biggest Hollywood buyout ever, investors were nursing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, triggering a flurry of...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
what's crazy about this premise is that local businesses in minneapolis hated the ice raids, made it clear they hated the ice raids, lost a ton of money because of the ice raids, and were generally quite sympathetic to the people telling ice to get the fuck out bsky.app/profile/will...
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 23h
The entire interior U.S. should be alarmed as Canada fast tracks a new crude oil pipeline from Alberta to Canada's West Coast that will push more of Canada's oil away from U.S. refineries that rely on it, and could negatively impact U.S. refineries.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 23h
Trump's TIME interview is wild. He can't stay on topic, can't stop rambling. The first question he gets is on AI safety, and he rambles about golf. He can't hear questions. Steven Cheung has to jump in to answer q's Trump can't. He tells the same stories over and over, but acts like they're new.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23h
And one more time, prescient JP Stevens dissent: “Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law”
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 23h
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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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gift link to Lina Khan’s op ed on regulating AI. While existing law can provide some accountability, it is absurd to think private companies can police themselves. Give Congress funds to hire real experts and legislate, just as we do with other dangerous products. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants A.I. Companies to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong? (Gift Article)
Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026
ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
According to a poll a few years ago, 18% of Americans think the 1969 moon landing was actually staged somewhere in Arizona. In a new poll, Trump’s approval on the cost of living is 17%. Which means there are more moon-landing deniers than people who think Trump is doing a good job on affordability.
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Greg Gardner @ggard4.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Ossoff on Mike Collins: "This is a congressman who called for executing immigrants by throwing them out of helicopter. He is a fanatic and Trump puppet."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.
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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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cagygibbon.bsky.social @cagygibbon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Axios was part of a coordinated Nazi effort to center Schmitt today. It’s clear the Nazis and Axios thought that Schmitts “gotcha” on Jack Smith would be national news but now they’re just left trying to explain how and why they chose to publish this 5 hours before Schmitt shit himself
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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Heather from PA @imtheresistance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday morning Axios ran a ridiculous article about Schmitt as a potential VP, in the afternoon influencers started posting without seeming to realize things went sideways, and in the evening Schmitt was praised on a podcast. It’s a map of how right wing media is deliberately used to spread lies.
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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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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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At least we get curated madness- @atrupar.com is stuck watching the whole unhinged broadcast. Coffee money incoming because watching an hour of these clips broke me.😣 We need to get you a therapist when this circus is done. Here is the link if you want to buy him a coffee ☕ buymeacoffee.com/atrupar
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Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter. Your support makes my work possible, including all the clipping I do across my social media channels.
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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I promise that Pete Hegseth doesn't know the first fucking thing about pre-rabbinical Judaism, or stoic philosophy, or the structure of the military of the Roman Republic. He's a terrified and incompetent child cosplaying like he's a big boy. Also, he's a war criminal guilt of hundreds of murders.
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God @thegodshow.com · 30/09/2026
Every single person in this cursed photograph looks like they just realized they’re going to hell.
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The Last Supper But Make It Pedo
Nightmare blunt rotation.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow! Matches my war crime subpoena list almost perfectly.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The fact that Pete Hegseth remains Defense secretary is a moral failing of our nation.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot
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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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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I miss satire.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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