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Kilgore Trout

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h
The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.
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Captain Jack of NAFO @h60seahawktx.bsky.social · 18h
Please, PLEASE, for the sake of our Republic, those who know the truth about the Epstein Files SAY AND DO SOMETHING before it is too late. I don’t want to live in a nazified America.
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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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glscienze.bsky.social @glscienze.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good catch, didn’t know that.
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If a Dem loses a close race in one of those GOP-run states, I don’t wsnt to see thrm just concede. Bring on the lawyers and challenge it. You know they’re cheating.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 30/09/2026
He’s obviously removing all anti-trump leaders ahead of a ‘national emergency’ so they can halt elections and seize permanent control.
Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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vaqueandconfusing.bsky.social @vaqueandconfusing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This used to be a good school. Who stole her credit cards? How do you justify the call to a gang of frat boys trying to get in on the action. She resigned. Yes indeed, we were all told not to go to bars. What are boys told? I just got a text that our bros have a nude women in dorm room. Damn
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽
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Democracy USA @oilgaschemicals.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey Texans... Rapepublicans have been carelessly running your state for over 20 years.. Isn't it time for a change Talarico is not a criminal seeking office to continue to commit crimes with your tax dollars. Ken Paxton is... TIME FOR A CHANGE...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot by ICE 10 days ago. The bullet is still lodged in his back. He’s been forced to sleep on the floor and hasn’t been given medication, according to his attorney. Now DHS is claiming he assaulted an agent. Can we trust anything DHS says given its track record?
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Andrew Engelson @andyengelson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seriously, all public golf courses in Seattle need to be converted to parks and affordable housing towers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: trump to sign executive order renaming the Atlanta Hawks to the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet?
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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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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Aquarius Elayne @elayne1948.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Blaming the entire City of NY because some bond holders live here is absolutely ridiculous on its face. Try placing the blame on the federal government where blame for the serious water shortage should reside not NYC.
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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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Raphaël Ambrosius Costeau @firewalkercosteau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As long as you’re a Republican. Cough the wrong way when you’re a Democrat and they do stupid fuckin bullshit like this
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nonplussed12.bsky.social @nonplussed12.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unfortunately, there is never a price to pay for anything. Infidelity, rape, child abuse, extortion, theft...... nothing matters.
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The Devil @iamdevil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For “not being a dictator”, he sure does a lot of things a dictator would do.
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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guess the point is that Roger Marshall wants to keep this story in the news cycle as long as possible. Nice work.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Reporting fake loans to the Federal Election Commission is illegal. The main advantage of doing so is that it can make a campaign appear stronger than it actually is.
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The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress
David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pathetic Weak Sauce 😡
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Cory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Think hard on this when you vote on Tuesday 3 November.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Governor Tony Evers @govevers.wisconsin.gov · 26/09/2026
We’ve fought to support Wisconsin’s family farms and agricultural producers during my time as governor, and now, we're in the top 10 for exports. We cannot let Republicans’ reckless trade wars and tariff taxes jeopardize our progress. vernonreporter.com/governors-of...
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Governor’s office says Wisconsin reached top 10 in agricultural exports, warns tariffs could threaten growth – VernonReporter
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Jim Witkins @jimwitkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wisconsin. They’re begging you to fire them. They’re looking you in the face and saying, we don’t give a shit about what you want. We’re siding with trump. That’s a complete failure. Do not vote for Van Orden or Tom Tiffany or any of the trump is my guy republicans. Fire them all. 🗳️🌊
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MaPauvreTete @dan-d-land.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m sure republicans will become very concerned at how much latitude and power a president has once a Dem is in office just as the Republican controlled legislature of Wisconsin was when a Dem became governor so they stripped the office of some powers.
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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Under new maps, Democrats shrunk the GOP's majority in the State Assembly from a near-supermajority to a 54-45 margin. Now, if Democrats can flip 5 more seats, they can win a majority for only the second time in 30 years. My preview, on every race: www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/2026-elect...
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2026 Election Mega-Preview: The Wisconsin State Assembly
Republicans have controlled the State Assembly for 30 of the past 32 years, and for the last 16 years in a row. Is this the election where Democrats finally break the cycle?
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cynical-skeptic.bsky.social @cynical-skeptic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Back in Trumps first term he touted a Foxconn plant in Wisconsin that was to employee 13,000 but today only has about 1,000 employees. Foxconn was to invest $10 billion in it but ended up putting less than $750 million. Trump promises are lies and pipe dreams.
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Exclusive | Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project
The announcement comes as the president is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
WATCH: “When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?” WISCONSIN Republicans Grothman & Fitzgerald run into tough town hall crowds also 👇🏽👀
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
37 more wounded troops. Added quietly. No explanation. Here's the No B.S. truth: when anyone (a vendor, a CEO, a government) revises the numbers without telling you why, the silence IS the message. 861 wounded. Their families deserve the full story.
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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russian state media threatens Lithuania with “short” special military operation www.byteseu.com/2403872 Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency has threatened Lithuania with what it described as “another short special military operation”. The agency published a column by Alexander …
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Russian state media threatens Lithuania with "short" special military operation - Bytes Europe
Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency has threatened Lithuania with what it described as “another short special military operation”.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
At least 79 kids have been harmed by tear gas or pepper spray during Trump’s immigration crackdown. In most cases, they were going about their days when officers shot chemical munitions near their homes and schools and into their cars. (Published May)
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Kids Are Being Harmed by Tear Gas, Pepper Spray Under Trump. There Could Be Long-Term Consequences.
In several cities, judges have chastised federal immigration officers, saying they used excessive force. One former DHS leader called ProPublica’s findings a “bright red flag.”
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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