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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026

Tim Snyder: The Republicans are trying to run this midterm on the issue of communism, whereas Trump’s idols are all communists. Whether it’s North Korea, whether it’s China, whether it’s Russia... Full interview: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026

Timothy Snyder: One thing that I do worry about... is that the way we fought the Iran war was obviously out of date. We haven’t learned how to fight a modern war. With Hegseth and Trump… and their just fantastic vision of testosterone plus battleships, I just don’t think we’re going to get there.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026

Tim Snyder on Trump's fixation with Putin: If you believe in countries, the United States is a much more powerful country than Russia. But if you just believe that it’s gangster on gangster, well then sure, Putin is a much better gangster than Trump.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026

Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026

"A failing, 80-year-old sociopath, surrounded by loyalists and bitter-enders, facing the end of his rule, while the world burns. The period of maximum danger may still lie ahead of us."

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The Forces of Trumpism Are in Disarray

This is what it looks like when a movement begins to come apart.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today is World Animal Day and the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. The theme this year is “See the World Through Their Eyes.”

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Steven Hassan PhD @cultexpert.freedomofmind.com · 04/10/2026

This development in the military is deeply worrying to me. What concerns me most is the possibility of creating a religiously oriented office that could bypass the checks and balances designed to ensure all service members are protected, regardless of their beliefs. 📹 @followtheleighder

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ultimate Guide to Swimming With Manatees and Dugongs Discover where to see manatees, what they eat and why they matter www.scubadiving.com/marinelife/u...

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Ultimate Guide to Swimming With Manatees and Dugongs

<p>Where to see manatees (and dugongs), what they eat, how many species exist, best dive locations and what makes them so special.</p>

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epistemiccrisis.bsky.social @epistemiccrisis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This video is my opinion 🤓

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 02/10/2026

Trump said "I don't rule anything out" when asked about potentially invoking the Insurrection Act to place troops at polling locations (federal law makes it a crime to put armed troops at the polls). He's going to lose the midterms, he's a desperate man, and all he's got to offer is "we'll see."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

THAT SHIP HAS SAILED. Trump can’t simply talk Americans into believing the economy is working for them. Voters are living with the reality of their jobs, bills and cost of living every single day. People are no longer listening to him.

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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The cognitive dissonance of the pro-Death Pro-Lifers of MAGA: From today’s “To the Contrary” Podcast.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Trump’s second term has been a protracted demolition of his image as a populist every bit as thorough as the destruction of the East Wing.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-popu...

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Trump’s Populist Image Is Dead

That’s the price of corruption.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026

@crampell.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social react to Trump suggesting inflation could help wipe away the national debt, and what that reveals about why he wants control over the Federal Reserve. “This is an interesting little aside here that should terrify people.”

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Kurt Bardella @kurtbardella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The bottom line is Donald Trump is the GOP's biggest liability. Especially here in Texas. Especially with the Latino vote. His strongest issue in 24, immigration, is now his greatest vulnerability. Trump makes EVERYTHING about himself, now they'll all pay the price.

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Guido Rotunda @guidocaesar7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nice I always enjoy seeing you Damian & did you know it's also Croctober to

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sarah Matthews: "Three-time Trump voters that I've talked to are saying enough is enough. He has broken nearly every campaign promise…Anytime voters are reminded of him, they think of the failed economy, his failed war of choice with Iran, and this failed presidency."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sarah Matthews: "I don't recognize the party that I feel like I once belonged to. Donald Trump has remade the Republican party in his image…It seems like all of them, time and time again, just choose their loyalty to Trump over their loyalty to the American people."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sarah Matthews talks about our new video: "Everything we consume travels via truck. Truckers are on the front lines of the price increases that everyone across this country is experiencing…The price of diesel has skyrocketed over $6, and it's crushing them."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: "Elon Musk knows damn well what's going on on X. He turned Twitter from a sort of centrist political platform into a right-wing sewer, and there's all sorts of evidence he did this intentionally."

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How do you defeat a president who’s trying to sabotage the midterms? 1. Use drop boxes. 2. Vote EARLY in person. 3. If mailing in your ballot, put it in the mail AT LEAST two weeks before Election Day. 4. Vote in person on Election Day. 5. Share these instructions with everyone you know.

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Guido Rotunda @guidocaesar7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You look great Rick it's also Croctober to

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why is MAGA suddenly enthusiastic about rewriting the history of Watergate? They want to make post-Watergate anti-corruption reform laws go away. If Nixon was never corrupt, those laws were never needed, and Trump and his cronies shouldn't have to abide by them. They are planning ahead.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/10/2026

Bill Kristol: "Authoritarian governments and authoritarian movements...rewrite history, and they do so for a reason. They want to legitim[ize] what they're doing now, make it not extraordinary."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/10/2026

Bill Kristol: "Trump's approval has gone from 50%...to 37%. That's a huge drop, and it's gonna take his party down with him. And the only question is how deep it goes."

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/10/2026

I’d seen several posts like this trying to explain the strange boxy bustle that sometimes appears under Trump’s jacket, and I was skeptical (largely because I didn’t think he would be coordinated enough to use it or circumspect enough to keep quiet about it) but then I saw this.

Trump standing in the Rose Garden wearing very obvious leg braces under his trousers

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.

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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The decline in visitors travelling to the U.S. would have been much bigger without the World Cup this year (1.24 million international World Cup visitors). Without the World Cup, the decline in international visitors would have been 3+ million. bsky.app/profile/sema...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026

Florida Democrats have notched their first monthly voter registration lead Since 2021. In September 2026, Democrats added 29,633 active registrations compared to 29,140 for Republicans and 24,751 for others.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People will believe his lies about the 2020 “stolen” election or his lies about immigrants “eating cats and dogs,” but people will not believe his lies about the economy because people LIVE the economy. They know how much stuff costs. Nice try.👇

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026

@mpolymer1.bsky.social says the FBI's counterterrorism agents are very good at keeping us safe. The problem is who's giving the orders: "You have a leadership which is more worried about taking these FBI agents and chasing migrants at Home Depot."

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026

To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bigoted and stupid. The idea that the United States is at risk of falling under sharia rule is ludicrous on its face. There’s a much greater risk of Christian nationalists changing this nation for the worse. And they’re the ones using the phantom sharia threat to justify their own extreme agenda.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Despite hosting the World Cup, travel to the U.S. was DOWN this summer. We're on pace for overseas visitors to drop by 2 million from last year — down 20% from our '19 peak “We're the only major country in the world losing visitation, he told me. It's mind-boggling” www.axios.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Axios C-Suite: Even the World Cup couldn't stop America's tourism slide

"It's mind-boggling."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New episode with @stuartpstevens.bsky.social youtu.be/SSDsrx025yM?...

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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 30/09/2026

Don’t buy Trump’s “strongman” image —sailors are the ones taking the risk. bit.ly/4ypcGod Military Expert Bobby Jones discussed sending sailors into one of the world’s most sensitive waterways on the latest Anchor Watch. Subscribe to watch — only on Lincoln Square!

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter: “Republicans are about to be completely wiped out in the midterms. This is going to be a bloodbath like we haven’t seen before.”

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/09/2026

This weekend Trump ran political ads on your tax dollars. It's against the law, and it should make everyone mad.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/09/2026

Americans have paid $74.4 Billion more on gasoline & $47.5 Billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. $122 Billion of disposable income gone up in smoke because elected Republicans refuse to say "no" to Trump.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff posted this. Today Trump yucks it up at the White House with the richest men in America. Cut-rate Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette come to America.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Florida Trump Voter: "I should've voted differently. I feel hoodwinked." Q: "Why?" FL Trump voter: "Broken promises…[I expected] a good economy and no more wars. Simple."

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump voter: "I would call [Trump] a bald-faced liar. That's all I can say nicely. I've already retired from one company, and I went back to work to cover my insurance, gas, and the price of food that keeps going up…It really sucks."

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/09/2026

Most experts agree: diesel export ban MAY initially lower prices in SOME areas of the US, the south and midwest. But long term would backfire both in our national security (including alliances) and in price. Global Diesel prices would eventually skyrocket as a result and those prices would hit us

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026

Dr. Bandy Lee offers on Trump’s interactions with Xi Jinping: He will continue to be played by these leaders. He is extremely manipulable. The flip side of individuals with mental impairments like his is he would be easily manipulated and exploited and abused by those who he sees as his superior.

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