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Basset hound lover Retired social psychologist Grandma

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
this guy can barely talk, folks
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/09/2026
No president has ever gone into a midterm election as unpopular as Trump is today. Not even George W. Bush in 2006. Trump's net approval is twice as low as it was at this point in 2018. blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/no-preside...
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Democrats hit midterm high as Trump approval reaches new low
No president has gone into a midterm election this unpopular. Not even George W. Bush in 2006.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Just go to therapy, bro.
DAVID JIANG, COFOUNDER and CEO of smart glasses company Viture, tells me about how he used to yell at his kid.

His 10-year-old son played tennis. During tournaments, Jiang says he had a habit of shouting and criticizing his son’s mistakes as he played. He wanted to apply pressure to make him succeed—it was the way he’d been taught to raise kids, after all. It made sense.

But then, unprompted, his smart glasses sent him a message. The AI assistant in his company’s newest wearable had picked up on what he was doing, recognized that his behavior wasn’t helpful, and messaged him about what he should do differently. Stop shouting. Stop criticizing. Just be there, be present, and show that you support your son. That worked, Jiang says, and being called out like that has supposedly made him a better father and improved the relationship with his kid, all thanks to his yet-to-be-released Vonder AI glasses.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 22/09/2026
NEW Economist/YouGov Sep 18-21: The midterms Among likely voters, Democratic congressional candidates lead Republicans 52% to 38% — a 14-point edge, the largest of the cycle Among all registered voters the Democratic lead is 7 points (45% to 38%) yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Who is leading among registered voters and likely voters in the race for Congress in 2026."

The chart has the sub-headline: "In the elections for U.S. Congress in November, who will you vote for in the district where you live? (% of registered voters picking the Democratic candidate minus the % picking the Republican candidate)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Likely voters are U.S. adult citizens who meet two criteria: (1) They either are registered to vote or say they will be registered to vote by the November elections; and (2) They either say they will definitely vote in November or say they have already voted. The displayed question has been used since the August 14 - 17, 2026 survey. Prior surveys asked the question, "If the elections for U.S. Congress were being held today, who would you vote for in the district where you live?" Responses of "other," "not sure," "I would not vote," and "I will not vote" are not shown."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my shocked face. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Google executives are in a tizzy, wondering what they need to update today
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Starting to think they run all "Trump has lost his mind" pieces through Ai to bland them out and normalize the insanity.
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Trump Posts Map Suggesting New Mexico Be Renamed as ‘New America’ (Gift Article)
The suggestion, posted on social media, appeared to be the latest in the president’s efforts to alter geographic names.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/09/2026
The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome. trib.al/gsig50R
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How to Answer Yet Another Dumb Question About Hasan Piker
The media’s fixation on this twitch streamer few voters have heard of should not be that difficult an obstacle to overcome.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
imagine how fuckin dysfunctional that place must be on a daily basis lol
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/08/2026
Proud to announce that New York City has registered a record 4,200 New Yorkers in our doula care program.  Pregnancy and childbirth are life-changing moments. No one should be forced to navigate them alone.
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Mayor Mamdani Expands Access to Doula Care Across NYC as Citywide Initiative Surpasses 4,000 People Served
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In lieu of flowers they are asking for donations to Dolly’s Imagination Library, which she founded in honor of her illiterate parents. Every enrolled child gets a free book once a month addressed to them, regardless of need. Some 325 million books so far. donate.imaginationlibrary.com
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Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"We watched it on TV. And it's like, 'That's our son. That's Alex. And they killed him' ... trying to help someone" -- Alex Pretti's dad
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NYT: “.. The move could prevent residents from raising concerns about — or even learning about — data centers before permits are approved and construction starts.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/c...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Outside the two federal races, the Freedom Caucus far-right wing is going down in flames in Wyoming tonight. There's been a big backlash against them since they took the state house majority last cycle. Tried to defund the university, got caught taking checks literally on the floor during session.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Alrighty then.
Several videos shared with The Times show Ms. Harp sprinting across great distances to keep up with Mr. Trump’s golf cart as it putters across his course in Scotland. “I also am sorry if I was an embarrassment walking the course in Scotland,” she wrote in a letter to the president that was viewed by The Times.

The letter goes on to say: “I want things to always be right between us. I also know I’ve been distracted all week (forgetting to eat throughout the days, and even forgetting to sleep, and only catching a couple hours at a time).”

The letter concludes: “With all my heart, Natalie.”
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Ravioli Ripple 🌹 @ravioliripple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trump and Republican are losing *military families* on the military
About 200 family members packed into a banquet room at the Island Club, a catering and event center on base, demanding answers from the acting secretary of the Navy. At times, spouses of sailors on the ship were in tears asking leaders what was being done to address issues of mental health and exhaustion, the two people who attended told MS NOW.

One parent said her daughter feels that she is never going to come home and believes she is going to die on the ship. Others asserted that the Navy had not done enough to take care of the sailors as they fight this war. 

One woman questioned the mission and said she found it difficult to be proud of her sailor when she believed the military was “killing innocent civilians” and her sailor expressed guilt about what he was doing. Her comment was met with applause from the audience.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
WaPo making same claim that’s been disproven again & again. Who do they imagine these people are, willing to pay the price of abandoning home, friends, lives they’ve built. “Sorry, kids, we’re leaving the only home you’ve ever known & all our friends to pay 7% state tax instead of 8%.”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hassett would have smiled through TV hits on 9/11.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
People are criticizing me unfairly, such as for my actions and their inevitable consequences
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I still remember the moment i realized that “debanking” was just referring to banks implementing anti money laundering laws
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 30/07/2026
it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Dover, Delaware. @reuters.com / Evelyn Hockstein
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/07/2026
Anything to make healthcare more unaffordable. Trump says he will impose tariffs on generic drugs starting in August 2028 -
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Trump says he will impose tariffs on generic drugs starting in August 2028
If implemented, tariffs on generic drugs would be set at 100 percent and rise to 200 percent a year later.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
73-year war, actually. But who’s counting?
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 15/07/2026
NEW: Under questioning from Senator Ted Cruz, acting AG Todd Blanche said he would review Biden-era DOJ guidance on the Comstock Act if confirmed to the role. Comstock is an 1873 anti-obscenity law that conservatives want to use to stop the mailing of abortion pills in all 50 states @autonomynews.co
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Trump’s Attorney General Nominee Just Opened the Door to a National Abortion Ban
Under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche committed to reviewing Biden-era guidance on the Comstock Act.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Forgive me, but: Jesus H. Christ. You know, "false" would fit the headline space that is ridiculously wasted on "inaccurate."
Headline:
Trump Justifies Money Made as President With Inaccurate Claims

Subhead:
President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"The three men who were with a 52-year-old Houston man when he was fatally shot by an immigration agent earlier this week said Lorenzo Salgado Araujo never tried to run over anyone and that agents repeatedly fired into the vehicle from the side of the van" www.texastribune.org/2026/07/10/t...
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Houston ICE shooting witnesses dispute agents’ claims
The other men in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said agents fired into the vehicle unprovoked, according to a lawyer for two of the men.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
what is wrong with this person that he needs to make this his entire personality
Weirdo with a sign calling Michelle Obama a man
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I’m not sure what the vision for this event was. Honestly I doubt there WAS any vision. There’s nothing to attract locals. Nothing to attract tourists. There’s far less to do than at any of the nearby museums. You can’t spend the day here, and there’s no public programming to plan around.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Is it a windfall or massive and blatant corruption? "Monetized the presidency" is such a cursed phrase to describe Trump ripping off Americans and profiting off unethical business dealings.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As someone living with depression I have a lot of empathy for others going through it. But going though this AND voting to strip people of health care/paid leave makes you a monster. He needs to fix his heart on this issue today and come out forcefully for expanding paid medical leave.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is probably contributing more to public safety than anything else the Guard has done in dc
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
if he weren’t such a narcissist he’d wear the reading glasses he needs to able to see a simple clasp instead of turning the MoH into a choker from Claire’s
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
Trump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery -- and then ties it?
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Macron looks like he's checking for a pulse.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/06/2026
we have solar. i just looked, my bill this month is on track to be about $8. i live in virginia and this includes charging an EV.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Some historian of our times will write a whole dissertation on the endless "Trump says" / "market surges" / "then reality intrudes" cycle. News people: STOP playing your credulous part in this cycle.
Headline: Trump says US will soon sign deal with Iran — Dow surges 900 points, oil falls.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/06/2026
Randy Fine claims people are literally dumpster diving for fraudulent ballots in California 😆 cool story, bro
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Did Democrats Elect the Wrong Biden? With his camera-ready good looks and social media savvy, Hunter Biden might’ve been a two term president.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 31/05/2026
Anchor: Americans keep getting hit in the head with baseball bats. Your response? White House: We’re in frequent communication with the executives at companies that make baseball bats, and rest assured, they’re totally fine.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The NY Times, based on Neutrality Island, uses metaphor to avoid harsh realities that might annoy the people attacking democracy. That’s why, when NYT should write a headline about the wholesale theft of Black political power in the South, it prefers to refer vaguely to “political earthquakes.” 1/4🧵
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After Voting Decision, a Month of Political Earthquakes Across the South
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Whichever Bezos flak came up with “experienced an anomaly” is going to get a $100 gift card at Whole Foods.
Blue Origin rocket explodes ahead of satellite launch
The company, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, said it "experienced an anomaly" during a test ahead of a launch.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 29/05/2026
Everything this fucking regime does is one of the worst things I've ever heard of in my life.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Fox News thinks this makes sense.
U.S. forces carry out more strikes in Iran, officials explain they’re meant to “maintain the ceasefire”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/05/2026
yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
join the national guard where you can be used as a political prop by an old pedophile while you meander between whole foods and the nike store in 110 degree heat while wearing your full military kit
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