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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The @brendannyhan.bsky.social “What would you say if you saw it happening in another country?” question, answered. Again.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Here is Trump's "policy" about investigative steps before an election: 1. If you are a Republican, there is never a time when such steps are permitted. 2. If you are a Democrat, there is never a time when such steps are forbidden. If legacy media is suggesting anything else, they are lying.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
PSA: when Trump, @MarshaBlackburn, @BrentTaylorTN and other Republicans mock “socialism” what they’re really mocking is the idea of caring about other people
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The people who screamed that children would be emotionally scarred by hearing a drag queen read “Jack and the Beanstalk” are OK with those same children watching Pete Hegseth’s livestream of a man getting his brains blown out by a bunch of guns.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
PEAK DELUSION.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
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Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 09/10/2026
i think the administration’s midterm strategy of deploying thoroughly unlikable and unpleasant pieces of shit to races they’re losing that they should be winning is going great, and they should keep it up, real face of the party shit going on here
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Oh, that’s right. They take their weird book literally. Though I’m pretty sure they wear clothes made from two kinds of thread and touch pigs.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 09/10/2026
“His words are dangerous and incite hostility” seems like it’d more applicable to Trump calling on Minnesotans to “fight back” against their Somali-American neighbors.
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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Guess which other narcissistic, mentally unstable authoritarian leader called for an arch and a ballroom to be built as grand monuments to his glory. I'm sure it's just a coincidence . . .
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Don't download the Trump app. Everything he does is underhanded and dishonest.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A hilarious summary
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Aside from the blatant illegality here, you’ll get this right after your tariff dividend, your freedom dividend, Trump’s health care plan, and your $2 gas
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
People have to take the rhetoric at the GOP convention seriously. The anti-trans, anti-immigrant hate isn't just words. It's is what the GOP is running on. Hatred of the "other". They really, actually want concentration camps. And for women not to have the vote. They say it and they mean it.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump falsely attaching himself to 9/11 is like attaching his name to the Kennedy Center: he lifts his leg to mark his territory on our honored dead.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We’ve assumed for a long time that our groceries are safe, that food inspectors are on alert, and that it would be foolish, reckless, or just downright dumb to eliminate government workers whose job it is to keep us from eating contaminated or bacteria-laden food. All those assumptions are gone now.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Imagine if every story abt DHS' hunt for election fraud included, as boilerplate, "instances of INDIVIDUAL voter fraud are rare, but Donald Trump was charged w/election fraud in 2023, Elon Musk is being sued for election fraud, & GA says Musk broke election law." edition.cnn.com/2026/08/31/p...
Still, the administration has touted alleged election fraud arrests. Last week, the Justice Department announced that a Honduran national who was legally living in the United States had been arrested and charged with fraudulently registering to vote and falsely claiming to be a US citizen.

“Today’s arrest is the first of many to come,” First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli said in a statement.

Mullin, meanwhile, has positioned himself as a leading enforcer of Trump’s voter-fraud crackdown. Earlier this summer, his department announced an audit of public voter rolls had identified more than 250,000 registered noncitizens in just four states: California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada.

“One thing that I love about numbers, and I love about facts, is they don’t lie,” Mullin told reporters at the time, warning that election officials who fail to secure the midterms could face fines or even jail time.

But the numbers have, thus far, proved far less definitive than DHS initially suggested. The department publicly claimed it had found nearly 16,000 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter rolls. But behind closed doors, the department acknowledged to the state’s top election officials that it had “confirmed” just 185 of them, according to internal records reviewed by CNN. Another 6,200 were labeled “higher confidence matches” — but still required further vetting.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Milo just didn’t want it to happen to him
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remember if you’ve ever heard a Republican claim they’re actually ok with immigration but just want all the immigrants to do it legally, they were lying
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s quite possible that allowing these people to amass these fortunes destroys incentive for them to improve themselves. I’ve not seen any of them improve. This one certainly hasn’t.
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
He hit every single buzzword on the right wing panic bingo card in under 30 seconds flat.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Trump promised to balance the budget. Musk projected $2 trillion in savings. This year, the deficit grew by 18% — with $200 billion of that due to refunds of his illegal tariffs. My @nytimes.com Chart
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
These are the armbands with the stars on them in case you didn’t know.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/08/2026
Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.
AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule
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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The job of covering the data-center debacle—& the public uprising against them—has fallen largely to local, independent news outlets. Here, the Kentucky Lantern, a member of the non-profit States Newsroom network, exposes the many harms of letting outside business interests dictate local builds...
kentuckylantern.com
The data center fight in Kentucky is about democracy • Kentucky Lantern
When the trickle of interest in data centers became a flood, and when the proposals swelled from small data centers to massive hyperscale complexes, concerned Kentuckians began speaking out.
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We're in the 6th month of a 4-week war that we won in 2 days over a weapons program that was obliterated last year.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
oh is it caravan season again it always comes around so fast
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Gosh, can you imagine someone sharing sensitive military info with journalists? Say, via Signal?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NEW EPISODE: Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin just gave away the game. His 15-word slip exposes the real goal of Trump's voter ID push. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZn4...
youtube.com
Your Driver's License Won't Pass Trump's Voter ID Test
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
EXCELLENT QUESTION.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Folks seem surprised that Trump would lie about election interference while simultaneously releasing documents that prove he was lying. When you have followers who will regurgitate whatever you say regardless of the evidence, the truth doesn’t actually matter.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026
to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 05/07/2026
One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Step 1: Brag that Trump was fixing something Obama screwed up Step 2: Pursue most corrupt solution possible Step 3: As a result, badly fuck up Step 4: Loudly squeal that someone else sabotaged you, so as to dodge blame Whether it's the reflecting pool or Iran, Trump's con is the same.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Trump’s name ripped off the Kennedy Center — but not before they put up scaffolding AND a massive curtain to shield the public from watching. Peak petty. Peak fragile. Peak humiliation. #FragileTrump #KennedyCenter
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
And all those "how DARE the people in the Biden administration not be forthright and honest with us about Biden's real mental state???" seem pretty quiet about asking the same of the people in the Trump administration, no?
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