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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 14h

The renewed political smear campaign against Jack Smith comes as GOP faces massive losses in midterms. It is a distraction and a lie. Smith did his job as a prosecutor — investigated the facts, found evidence of crimes that could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and filed charges.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 13h

REMINDER: There are now ONLY 33 DAYS until the Nov 3 midterm. This is the most important election in the life of our Republic. Our freedoms and our democracy hang in the balance! Check your registration and make a plan to VOTE EARLY!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.

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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When pools reflected less than 2 years ago!

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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 23h

Now is the moment for us to reach down and pick up the power we have as citizens and rebuke these abuses so decisively that no president will try anything like this again for centuries.

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Nashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 22h

Christa Pike, who was supposed to be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years, is still alive after the state tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday. TDOC officials refused to comment after the state’s second failed execution this year. nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/30/c...

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Christa Pike survives botched lethal injection attempt - Nashville Banner

Tennessee attempted to execute Christa Pike for a 1995 murder, but the lethal injection failed. Pike survives and was moved to a medical facility.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 21h

Breaking: "Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing all executions this year after Christa Pike survived two deadly doses of pentobarbital." Calls for a 3rd party review of Pike's botched execution. Tennessee had planned to kill another person on Dec. 3.

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Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 21h

Meanwhile, earlier today Pete Hegseth bragged about how he fired 20% of the country’s generals, weeding out the ones he and Trump find disloyal to their agenda And while I hope to G-d these things aren’t related, I’m terrified that they are

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 22h

Anyone who doesn’t see that this is part of a long term plan-not for the midterms, really, but for 2028 and beyond Isn’t paying attention

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📌NEWS: Pete Hegseth said that the Pentagon is eliminating 1 in 5 generals and admirals. 📌NOTE: Authoritarian regimes eliminate military leaders who they believe aren't loyal to the regime. 📌UPSHOT: This is a very concerning development in the GOP's ongoing attack on America and her Democracy.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

Who could have ever guessed that a guy with a Deus Vult tattoo who wrote a book entitled American Crusade in 2020 would do such a thing?

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17h

No one expected the American Inquisition

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Hegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026

THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before

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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An extremely important oped, as destroying separation of church and state is central to the Catholic Integralist believers on Supreme Court. Secular democracy is heresy. Note Leonard Leo and his Becket Fund NGO are primary in this SCOTUS erosion of democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

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Opinion | Religion Is the Roberts Court’s Unfinished Business (Gift Article)

This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

G.O.P. Nominee in Texas Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.

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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him (Gift Article)

Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I see a different dynamic: Several times over the past twenty months the Trumpists seemed poised to vanquish the democratic opposition and break through whatever obstacles the constitutional order was still placing in their path – but then were unable to force that next step.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How we interpret the past 20 months of Trumpism in power shapes our expectations regarding the midterm elections. Has the country been irresistibly marching towards a Trump dictatorship? Will this be just another step in that direction? I don’t think so.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:

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Autoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den Midterms

Die bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 29/09/2026

Where do we stand on litigation regarding this? Scoop: Trump's hand-picked, taxpayer-funded ads about to ramp up www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...

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Scoop: Trump's hand-picked, taxpayer-funded ads about to ramp up

President Trump is personally selecting which government-funded ads his administration is airing.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Election "President Trump has routinely—and falsely—claimed that he won the 2020 election. But the new AI-powered America.gov website, which Trump unveiled Tuesday to great fanfare, says otherwise." variety.com/2026/digital...

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White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Election

Donald Trump has routinely claimed that he won the 2020 election. But the new AI-powered website America.gov, which Trump unveiled on Tuesday to great fanfare, says otherwise.

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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW: Supreme Court allows Trump to continue with "third country" deportations without limits imposed by lower courts that would allow people a "meaningful opportunity" to raise objections. Liberal justices dissent. Court also to hear oral arguments in December. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘third country’ deportation policy

This is the second time the court has rejected lower court rulings that immigrants must be able to object before being sent to countries to which they have no previous connection.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I don't think you know we have this stuff." —Sen. Eric Schmitt, with one of the most ridiculous, embarrassing self-owns ever caught on tape

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The camera cut to Katie Britt right after Eric Schmitt’s attack on Jack Smith turned out to be bogus. Schmitt claimed Jack Smith attended an Atlanta Hawks game in Atlanta. However, the texts were actually about the Iowa Hawkeyes playing Maryland in Maryland.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…

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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.

After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How embarrassing 😳

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Maine Newsroom @mainenewsroom.com · 29/09/2026

9/29 Mainer-slash-historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social on the best way Mainers can influence the Senate election, speaking at a campaign event for Troy Jackson at USM in Portland Monday evening #maine #MEpolitics

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Mamdani in response to Kimmel asking him to send Trump a selfie of the two of them: "I love you, but I love housing more"

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

GOP senators and House members up for election complaining now about Trump’s actions in Iran and with deportation are laughable. You had your chance to stand up for what’s right and you did the opposite.

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 29/09/2026

Republican candidates in Kentucky, Florida, everywhere are scrubbing photos of Trump off their own campaign websites while he's still president. Nancy Mace called it a bloodbath they all know is coming. He built a party on fear and loyalty, and it turns out fear has a shelf life.

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The Republicans Are Bolting From Trump

A president who demanded loyalty is no longer getting it.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PUTIN'S ENVOY DMITRIEV HAD MEETINGS WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF US DEPARTMENTS OF TREASURY, ENERGY IN WASHINGTON, SOURCES SAY.

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