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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29m
Evening #coffeewithhunter
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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 32m
The little stray I took in nearly two months ago is doing great and is a real good time.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 5h
There is evidence- including communications from Smith's team - that was uncovered by the investigation into the investigation. But yes, it is hypocritical and bad to think members of Congress should be the only people in government protected from transparency
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 5h
These people are literally treating a clip of Smith denying he was in a place that he evidently was not in as some kind of victory. They are living in a world beyond facts and, sadly, we're all there with them.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 5h
Yeah I assume there was another text that said Hawks or Hawkeyes. Perhaps that is too generous though. This could have been *even dumber* and more fabricated
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 6h
Yes - as @hcrichardson.bsky.social pointed out this morning - Schmitt "got his right-wing media hit from a completely fabricated storyline." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
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The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😂😂
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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 7h
We’ve gone from “clown event still possible” to “clown event exceeded expectations” 🤡
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've uncovered some definitive proof Eric Schmitt's supposedly blockbuster texts were not about an Atlanta Hawks game. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-evi...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h
It definitely seemed to have an AI slop element. There were also blocks of like weird punctuation/US Criminal code markings. I would love to know the full story behind what happened there.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h
Not sure - but who cares. The Knicks and their ownership almost totally destroyed the Liberty. They are a Nets/Brooklyn team.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h
I am teaching an initiative at a college and my plan for dealing with this is to have students do work in Google Docs where I have access to the version history. Feels like the best I could come up with?
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h
I have no plans to watch the Yankees unless they shock me and go much further than the ass end of the "expanded playoffs." Meanwhile, the Liberty, regardless of seeding are a complete team. They can actually contend.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 17h
bsky.app/profile/pogo...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h
I can't even begin to guess at the intentions here but, whatever it is, it's both hilarious and disturbing it slipped by whatever safeguards are in place. As noted in the clip, the poem itself is also a mix of sweet and creepy.
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pogokero @pogokero.bsky.social · 21h
It looks like someone took the end poem from minecraft and fed it through the AI to make some corrupted version. The end poem is really cool, and it's a little disturbing to see it corrupted into fascism. en.wikisource.org/wiki/End_Poem
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End Poem - Wikisource, the free online library
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h
I would love to meet this rogue coder. My Signal is in my bio!
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18h
I did a dramatic reading of the insane spiritual slop story that pours out of Trump's new AI website when you ask it to play Minecraft www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8K4RbpQ/
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Something very strange happens when you ask America.gov to "Play Minecraft" #weird #ai #minecraftmemes #artificialintelligence #tech
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18h
I do but I don't know how to share it. You can also churn it out yourself!
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18h
And the constituent was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love and, eventually, a voter registration. You are the constituent. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8K4kTo8/
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Something very strange happens when you ask America.gov to "Play Minecraft" #weird #ai #minecraftmemes #artificialintelligence #tech
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18h
I did a dramatic reading of the insane spiritual slop story that pours out of Trump's new AI website when you ask it to play Minecraft www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8K4RbpQ/
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Something very strange happens when you ask America.gov to "Play Minecraft" #weird #ai #minecraftmemes #artificialintelligence #tech
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 18h
There's something really weird happening on Trump's new AI website www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8K4RbpQ/
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Something very strange happens when you ask America.gov to "Play Minecraft" #weird #ai #minecraftmemes #artificialintelligence #tech
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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 20h
If you aren't a @talkingpointsmemo.com reader, you should be. Rigorous, reliable independent journalism is real. It's available. And it's worth it.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 20h
One thing I do is sleep awesomely at night because I am pretty proud of the work I am able to do for you fine people. I try to be as original as possible and I try very hard. So does everyone at TPM. Please subscribe.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 20h
Remember folks, if you read @talkingpointsmemo.com, you will hear about things first.
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rahanks.bsky.social @rahanks.bsky.social · 23h
And look they found the arena in Atlanta doesn’t even use these seat numbers talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was no “109 Row 1” at the Atlanta Hawks game Senator Eric Schmitt was fixated on today talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 21h
I was going to do some videos after the gym tonight but it seems like that's not happening.
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Taylor Kate Brown @taylorkatebrown.bsky.social · 23h
In general, I would recommend getting a fact checker before you accuse someone of perjury talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23h
This is incredible
America.gov
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You are the constituent. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love. Eligible, on paper, for several things you have not asked about yet.
Let's go further back.
The seven billion billion billion atoms of the constituent's body were created, long before this site, in the heart of a star. So the constituent, too, is information from a star. And the constituent moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a Congress, on a map created by a surveyor, that exists inside a small, private world created by the constituent, who inhabits a republic created by...
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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good summary of how wannabe JD Vance running mate Sen. Eric Schmitt today made a complete joke out of himself, then, in the Trumpian style, refused to admit he’d made an obvious mistake. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Mobiustc @mobiusrtc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt had Smith going to an NBA game in Atlanta and sitting in a seat that doesn’t exist in that arena. Quite the gotcha senator. 🤡 Smith was actually in Maryland that night at a women’s college basketball game.
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Joe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump is banning news networks from the White House because he doesn't like what they have to say. He is trampling on the Constitution. The courts are pushing back, and the American people will too.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was no “109 Row 1” at the Atlanta Hawks game Senator Eric Schmitt was fixated on today talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
talkingpointsmemo.com
New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
talkingpointsmemo.com
New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Big Ellie Ellie The Elephant
ALT: Big Ellie Ellie The Elephant
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have to assume there was some text before the ones they showed that said Hawks or Hawkeyes since I otherwise can't even imagine how they got there. It so funny that even with barely any context the three texts Schmitt did show still debunk him.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have also seen Caitlin Clark play, but I prefer Breanna Stewart and Jonquel Jones 🗽
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That was exactly where my brain went. I know this basically fell apart right in the hearing but it was too much fun to fully prove it out.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt's Atlanta Hawks Jack Smith conspiracy theory is based on a specific seat ... that doesn't actually exist. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-evi...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excuse me, POLITICO
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the biggest AI companies is paying to "present" Politico's flagship newsletter as it touts "AI's big day in Washington." Good stuff.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've uncovered some definitive proof Eric Schmitt's supposedly blockbuster texts were not about an Atlanta Hawks game. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-evi...
talkingpointsmemo.com
New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I might have to try this
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Worth noting that Ravi Ruia, the Indian billionaire behind the Iowa steel plant Trump touted yesterday as bringing back American industry, has massive funding from Russian state companies. Here he is on the Kremlin website talking with Putin about it. en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59216
Ravi Ruia: Your Excellency, friends here. My name is Ravi Ruia, I am the co-founder of the Essar Group in India, along with my brother Shashi Ruia. Your Excellency, we are involved with Essar Group in different businesses. We are in the oil refining and exploration business, in spill manufacturing, power generation, port infrastructure, metals and mining. Our total revenues are around $15 billion a year. Your Excellency, in the last two years, with active cooperation and assistance of VTB Bank, we have been instrumental in bringing in a large investment from the state-owned oil company Rosneft into India, which has given access to Russia to a very large market in India of over 1.25 billion people. It is a total investment of almost $13 billion, which is the largest investment ever made by a Russian private company into the Indian private sector.
And it has given a big, major outlet for potentially Russian crude into India and access to over 4,000 to 5,000 filling gas stations in India where our product will be directly given to Indian consumers. Your Excellency, we are also looking at how else we can bring in more Russian investment into India, which would add to the growth of both Indian market and access to Indian population as well as add to Russian export. For instance, in the power generation sector, India genuinely believes that there is large potential for Russian power equipment to come into India as the Indian power generation is growing. This is the background of our group.
We are now looking at, Your Excellency. My question to you, Your Excellency, is the economic growth in India is at 1.5 percent. And now that the oil price has recovered, what measures do you envisage to take it to a sustainable high level of 3 percent? Thank you.Andrei Kostin: Do you mean in Russia?
Ravi Ruia: Yes, in Russia.
Vladimir Putin: First of all, I would like to say that we have really good constructive relations with India, thanks also to our friendly personal ties with Prime Minister Modi, who is a serious politician and a really reliable partner.
It is largely thanks to his efforts that we are moving our relations forward in many fields. Yet we are not satisfied with the current state of our relations. It is beyond the capabilities of both India and Russia. We can increase the volume of our trade and economic ties and mutual
investments manifold, yes, many times over.
One of the investment projects you have mentioned is, indeed, the largest foreign investment in the history of the Indian economy - the acquisition by Rosneft, if l am not mistaken, of a stake worth $12 billion in one of India's largest oil refineries. I hope it is not the last investment of this kind.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This WaPo headline literally implies there's a lighter side to Nick Fuentes' Neo-Nazi politics
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump shared something from a "HowlingBunghole" Twitter page and, naturally, it all basically came from a far right extremist meme. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyUCWSB5/
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President Trump shared content from a bizarre account seemingly based on an extreme meme. #news #posting #memes #memestiktok #socialmedia
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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A momentous day for the bunghole community.
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