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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Darline Nordone (Graham) is an idiot. Gaslighting cooze using her late brother’s name to gain sympathy. I have no sympathy. She’s lying about the law. JACK: “Your brother was a patriot and would have likely been a witness in our case.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
Ted Cruz: “You signed subpoenas like you signed Denny’s menus.” What the fuck does that even mean?
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 12h
Jack Smith adopting the sort of bewildered deadpan affect of Coach Beard in 'Ted Lasso' throughout this clip might be the comic performance of the year
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses? JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
John Kennedy keeps asking Jack Smith questions about his wife. Smith repeatedly tells him he's not going to talk about his family.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13h
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h
mein gott!
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 12h
Many have been more than once
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 14h
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
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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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 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 · 13h
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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Notable that these moves involve usurpations of Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Could be good reasons that this sort of presidential unilateralism is illegal. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
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The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher
The president’s own agenda has helped undermine promises to fix the economy and get the deficit under control.
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Threads?!!
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Macaco Chico Comendo Um Caldeirão De Strogonoff @vvieiravitor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
56. steven flow
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Texas is now allowing anyone to use tax-free dyed diesel on-road. Typically tax-free dyed diesel is for off-road use only (farms, equipment, etc). Texas is also asking EPA to waive rules on ULSD. However, allowing more sulfur will likely lead to engine damage on newer vehicles.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Oliver lists off just some of Ken Paxton’s scandals: “Paxton spent nearly 9 years under indictment for securities fraud... He was also accused of bribery and abuse of office by eight of his own top deputies... But wait, because I'm still not done.”
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 28/09/2026
All the coverage of Talarico's supposed "problems" with Black Tx Dems are anecdotes and vibes. Polling now shows him 20 points (20!) ahead of Beto *and Allred* with Black voters, so the metric is "enthusiasm," ignoring Black Dems' reliability at the polls. www.tpr.org/government-p...
from https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2026-07-09/talarico-polling-stronger-with-texas-black-voters-than-expected-but-enthusiasm-questions-remain

In the end, though, it may simply come down to party loyalty. Blank
said history suggests Democratic support among Black voters tends
to consolidate as Election Day approaches.
"In all of that polling that we've looked at, over many election cycles,
the share of Black voters who support the Democratic candidate
tends to go up the closer we get to Election Day," he said.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Paxton just criticized Dems for rejecting an immigration deal Trump offered up in his first term because, he says, they wanted to hurt Trump politically. I think he may be mixing up, intentionally or not, Trump rejecting a bipartisan immigration deal to hurt Biden politically.
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This sounds less like a rhetorical and more like wishful thinking tbh
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
3. Jay Feely: “Girls are so emotional that to go out and play their best, they have to be right emotionally. You know, whereas guys, like, we can fight in the locker room… it doesn’t matter.”
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Article on how Conservative Texas mom’s are pissed off over the schools and it’s giving Hinojosa an opening with them 19thnews.org/2026/09/cons...
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Conservative moms are fed up over Texas schools. For Gina Hinojosa, it’s an opening.
Democrat Gina Hinojosa is a mom who got into politics because of education, an issue that’s helping give Texas its most competitive governor’s race in years.
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BUT DO WE??
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense
Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What the adults were doing I have no idea, this had mostly changed by the time I was one
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really do mean it when I say we used to just spin around until we fell over. We used to do underwater somersaults and see who could do the most before coming up for air
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my theory at this point is that "third spaces" is the "kitchen table issues" of this mini-discourse. its a term that evokes diffuse associations without actually saying anything
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Texas. No one knew each other or socialized at all. We speculated that the heat had something to do with that, everyone stayed indoors. The neighborhood was so silent. It was weird
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The things people did in those third spaces is pretty diffuse. Literally just hanging out with neighbors. Up in a Boston suburb my brothers literally hung out on a particular street corner regularly. Cookouts, 4th of July kids would set off firecrackers. That was our main takeaway when we moved to
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you name him Will Stancil jw
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational
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Joanne @goaskalis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And those ideas are not hula hoops
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So the long-observed tendency of groups of people to collapse into hysterias and manias, to swing wildly between feverish ideas, has reemerged — but at a massive scale, a scale previously almost impossible because the spread of ideas required structures that could filter out the madness.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...
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An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself
An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mike Johnson says AI companies should regulate themselves: "We do not need a moratorium. We do not need to jump in and hyper regulate this because we'll lose the race to China. The innovation is important to continue."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strong headline in this editorial in the Marietta Journal in Ohio Ohio is grappling with a 3rd measles outbreak
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think some Dems might sneak by in a wave year election running these anti-trans ads that abandon an entire section of the population, but they won't be able to outrun it with Democratic voters longterm. The more time goes on, the more likely they are to know a trans person. A permanent duncecap.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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