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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 6h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
“The backlash against A.I. is a backlash against unchecked inequality”
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 14h
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 23h
Morning Kitten
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 21h
Geometry applied at its best Original post
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"Trump even took aim at his favorite show, Fox & Friends, on Sunday for choosing not to cover the less-than-bursting event."
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"The Times wrote that Trump’s dismal turnout in Ohio was part of a wider trend of waning enthusiasm for the president’s speaking events, which have come to feel less like pep rallies and “more like a farewell tour.”
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"Trump held a rally at a 4,500-person capacity high school gymnasium in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday. By the time he finished speaking, several areas of an upper deck had completely emptied out, The New York Times reported." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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At Trump’s Rallies, a Familiar Mix of Rituals and a Plea to ‘Please Pretend’ (Gift Article)
President Trump is doggedly lending his support to Republican candidates facing a rough midterm season. He is the same campaigner he has always been, but his crowds have changed.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"President Donald Trump had a petty meltdown on social media Monday after news outlets reported on the light attendance at his weekend rally in Ohio.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
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Trump Throws Full-Fledged Tantrum Over Reports on His Latest Rally
Donald Trump insisted his Ohio event was “packed.” Photos show otherwise.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"which helps show that the first year of Trump’s current term was the worst for American job growth since the Great Recession, and the second year of his current is the second worst."
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
" ... The problem for Hassett and his boss, however, is that the larger trends actually paint an even worse picture. I put together an additional chart showing job growth by year, spanning January through September, ...
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"At that point, host Jake Tapper reminded his guest that the government hard data showed anemic job growth in September."
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"On CNN’s “\'State of the Union,' Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council and the top economist in the White House, argued that Americans should believe 'the government hard data' instead of recent polls.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"To contextualize the data, I put together this chart to show month-to-month totals since the 2020 election. The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s."
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"All told, the U.S. economy has added 728,000 jobs over Trump’s 21-month second term. Over the previous 21 months, the economy added nearly 3.18 million jobs.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"In fact, according to the latest figures, the economy lost jobs in July, marking the sixth time since last summer that job growth in the U.S. turned negative — something that did not happen at any point during Joe Biden’s presidency.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"Making matters worse, wage growth continued to cool over the summer, failing to keep pace with the inflation rate, and job totals from July and August were revised down.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest report, the last round of data before the midterm elections, showed the economy added just 29,000 jobs in September as the unemployment rate inched higher to 4.2%.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"These are certainly sentiments that might soothe the president’s ego, but on Friday morning, reality intervened once again:
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"'We’re doing an extremely poor job of promotion and an extremely great job of running the country,' Trump said on Wednesday. He added a day later, 'The only thing we’re doing badly at is public relations.'
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"The first was the president’s stated belief that the economic status quo is so amazing that it deserves to be seen as the single greatest economy in the history of the United States. The Republican’s second point was that his only problem relates to public relations.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"With public opinion polls showing broad public dissatisfaction with the economy, Donald Trump spent last week emphasizing two points." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Job numbers make clear that Trump has a reality problem, not a public relations problem
To date, the White House hasn’t even tried to explain why the job market worsened after the president’s second term began.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
Original source: www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/p...
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
“It features a brother and sister-in-law of Giuffre, who died by suicide last year, speaking directly to camera and criticizing Crank for not meeting with them while lawmakers were considering votes to release files related to the late sex offender.”
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
“The advertisement was released in support of Democratic candidate Jessica Killin, who is facing incumbent Republican Rep. Jeff Crank in Colorado’s 5th Congressional District.”
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
“The campaign arm working to elect House Democrats released a political advertisement on Monday featuring the family of Virginia Giuffre, who was the first victim of Jeffrey Epstein to go public with allegations of abuse." politicalwire.com/2026/10/05/d...
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Democrats Release Ad Featuring Family of Epstein Victim
"The campaign arm working to elect House Democrats released a political advertisement on Monday featuring the family of Virginia Giuffre, who was the first victim of Jeffrey Epstein to go public with…
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
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Deb Haaland Leads in New Mexico Governor’s Race
A new KOB 4/SurveyUSA poll in New Mexico finds Deb Haaland (D) leading Gregg Hull (R) in the governor's race, 47% to 41%.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
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Beccara Leads Hilton in California Governor’s Race
A new Public Policy Institute of California/Independent Voter Project poll in California finds Xavier Beccara (D) leading Steve Hilton (R) in the governor's race, 48% to 38%.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11h
Blanche wants @katiephang.bsky.social Epstein suit tossed as a "generalized grievance" Too many Americans want the files, so nobody gets them? Katie's job is to share things with the public, that's the opposite of a generalized grievance Release the files!
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Katie Phang: "Todd Blanche wants to continue to hide the Epstein files from the American people. He wants to allow the e
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 8h
The world needs more libraries like this Original post
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details. Each of those outlets declined to step in."
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"After deciding this weekend to block Politico from riding on Air Force One, White House staffers called numerous outlets to ask one to fill the primary print slot for the out-of-town pool rotation, ...
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"The pool is a cost-sharing mechanism: One news organization takes reliable notes on behalf of many news organizations and distributes the information for all to use.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"The print pool historically travels everywhere with the president, sending updates to journalists for wire services, newspapers and other publications.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"The White House has blocked Politico from traveling aboard the president’s plane for his planned trip to Nebraska on Monday, a spokesman for the outlet confirmed in an email. The decision means that Politico will not be able to fulfill its pool duties.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"President Donald Trump’s Air Force One trip Monday will not have a primary print outlet responsible for sharing updates about his activities — the first time in recent memory that the president will travel without a primary print pool reporter." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One trip, cannot secure replacement
President Donald Trump will travel without a primary print pool reporter for the first time in recent memory.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
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Trump's Economic Meltdown Is the Ultimate Self-own
Presidents don't typically create the economies attached to their name. Donald Trump is not typical, and the affordability crisis is his own doing.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
“Trump is the only president in our lifetimes to be placed at the helm of a fundamentally seaworthy economy and immediately chart a course for the nearest field of icebergs.”
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"Unlike any president since at least Woodrow Wilson a century ago, Trump actually has created his very own economic hellscape, by embarking on a series of radical steps that no one asked for and that only the most boneheaded ideologues would have advised.”
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
“At least that’s how it was before Trump’s second term, which in this way — as in so many other ways that it’s become almost cliché to say it — marks a departure from everything we’ve seen before.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
"All of these presidents confronted painful recessions, but they had about as much control over the events that triggered those recessions as they might have had over an asteroid hurtling toward Earth.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
“Economies are subject to external shocks that have nothing to do with a president’s domestic policy… ." politicalwire.com/2026/10/05/t...
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Trump’s Economic Meltdown Is the Ultimate Self-Own
Matt Bai: "Economies are subject to external shocks that have nothing to do with a president’s domestic policy... All of these presidents confronted painful recessions, but they had about as much…
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 6h
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Troy Jackson Has the Edge in Maine’s Senate Race
A new Maine People's Resource Center poll in Maine finds Troy Jackson (D) leading Susan Collins (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 49% to 47%.
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 15h
[1/2] No wonder Trump kept his grand bargains with Big Pharma a secret. They’re just agreements to protect pharma profits with tariff tax exemptions and higher prices for consumers everywhere. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Secret contracts reveal undisclosed terms in Trump’s drug-pricing deals
Agreements with Pfizer and Eli Lilly include tariff protections, overseas pricing inducements and broad confidentiality clauses.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 7h
Yup🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 7h
"But shifts this large don’t happen in a vacuum. It’s yet another sign that Republicans are heading into November with an electorate heavily against them."
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 7h
"Party identification isn’t the same thing as a vote. And midterm turnout will ultimately matter far more.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 7h
"So in less than two years, the political environment has swung a remarkable 15 points toward Democrats.
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