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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h
Fun facts: Chris Rufo’s grandmother was an Italian immigrant who, I’ve heard from a reliable source, never learned to speak English fluently. Rufo’s wife meanwhile is an immigrant from Thailand. And the director of the Manhattan Institute who employs him? The son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 5h
Another reason to move quickly to pour concrete and demap streets. This is silly nonsense.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 21h
we've kinda just accepted that there's no moral or intellectual standard here—they can just say stuff
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nixon was pardoned already. This is an effort to rehabilitate him as the victim, and his investigators as villains.
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 23h
I used to think (like 10 years ago) that there was some line they’d cross where the political press would start talking about their racism as a matter of fact, not opinion. But there was no line. I still can’t believe it.
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New York City has recorded the fewest murders through September since before 1960, Baltimore since 1962, Philadelphia and Detroit since 1964, Oakland since 1967, and New Orleans since 1969.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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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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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This aligns exactly with what we know about noncitizen voting; it is extremely rare (9 noncitizen votes in MN out of 3,253,920 in the 2024 election, or 0.0002%), and when it occurs it’s most often green card holders who were mistakenly told they could vote (none of these people are undocumented).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
just a reminder that Schmitt hired the guy who was too much of a Nazi for Ron DeSantis
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• This article is more than 2 months old
Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
Jason Wilson
Fri 6 Jun 2025 08.00 EDT
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
I may need to go get my tinfoil hat, but I really think there was a big right wing campaign ready to go based on the assumption that Schmitt was going to pull a splashy gotcha moment. The Axios story and all of these right wingers immediately crowing that Smith got got. And then not following up.
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Patrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What are the odds Schmitt's team placed this article with Axios, with the intent to use today's "bombshell" line of questioning as a springboard for said buzz (and then promptly stepping on the world's largest rake on live TV). Helluva way to introduce yourself to the country!
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 29/09/2026
Interesting details on how the Iowa steel deal got done. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Mesabi executives have leaned on a Trump-world insider as the company has sought to expand its footprint in the United States. The company hired Jason Miller, a longtime Trump adviser, as its lobbyist, paying him at least $240,000 through his company SHW Partners, according to lobbying disclosure records. The government of India also hired Mr. Miller’s company, paying $150,000 per month for “strategic counsel, tactical planning and government relations assistance on policy matters before the U.S. government,” according to federal filings under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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Roberta Ecks @robertaecks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fuck the GOP.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
dude you can’t address the entire nation just to announce a steel mill in iowa we can smell the flop sweat from here
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Andy Kaczynski @kfile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A new CNN KFile investigation finds two past accounts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French calling for public executions of government officials, Obama, Adam Schiff, and more. Repeatedly asked Texas GOP, Paxton, Abbott campaigns if they stood by him and got no response. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AfD bans Stolpersteine: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Her car has received 9 school speed zone tickets (5 in four months!) and has been ticketed for parking at a hydrant twice. Oh, and it's registered in Pennsylvania so she's most likely committing insurance fraud. Detective work by @phantomrooster.bsky.social and @vitaminsteve.com
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Free Press has been pushing this lady since the election. they published six of her "why I left the Democrats" pieces since then, three since this May.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026
Having déjà vu to “Roe v. Wade is settled precedent” coming from the mouths of Supreme Court nominees
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How are people like this?
In Maine, 12 percent of voters who said they preferred Democrats to control the Senate also said they planned to support Ms. Collins
— a split that helped explain her lead.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/09/2026
Court orders aren’t something you “defy,” they’re something you violate
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 24/09/2026
the wallet inspection attack surface in the national media is huge
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
This isn't about fraud. It's about kicking people off their health insurance which will drive up prices for everyone. The GOP health care plan is—and has always been—to destroy Obamacare.
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Vance’s Task Force Strips 750,000 ACA Enrollments Over Accusations of Fraud
Some insurance brokers will also be suspended over accusations that they erroneously enrolled the individuals.
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Administration officials are circulating a list of government sites that could have Trump’s name affixed to them... One landmark that has emerged in the discussions among administration officials has raised eyebrows: Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865."
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Peter W. @kinographer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is this same group up in arms about Ideal deliveries constantly blocking the bus lane? @fdny.bsky.social personal cars obstructing the sidewalk on St John’s? Uhauls parked in crosswalk? etc
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Parker @parkertron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Standing up in front of the UN and croaking to the victor the spoils. The grotesque insanity of the Trump presidency.
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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a central (and often ignored) point about the vibecession. It wasn't "econometrics (economy good) loses to personal experience (bad)." It was "personal experience (economy good) loses to perceptions about the broader situation (bad)"
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22/09/2026
if what’s alleged in this story is true, not only should collins lose, she should also go to prison
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"As an elder, this feels like Nazi Germany in 1933. What are you gonna do next? Kill me because I’m elderly?” This is a real thing a person said about a plan to reroute a bus and make it safer for people to bike. People are not okay.
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Exclusive | Hipster NYC neighborhoods to get gentrified transit makeover at cost of seniors: ‘Feels like Nazi Germany’
“It’s like people of a certain age are no longer welcome in Brooklyn.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Yu-Ming Liou @yumingliou.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You gotta stop (at the city limits). Your English too fluent. Your job too bougie. Your cocktail too craft. They’ll Hukou you.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"the United States is desperately sourcing critical fertilizer supplies from a dictator halfway across the globe rather than from Saskatchewan because I am a stubborn and corrupt fool" what a win this is for America
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Golden should be stripped of his committee assignments
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The courts should block this. If they don't, we should tear it down on the very first day of the next administration. If possible, Trump should be made to watch the demolition. This, the ballroom, whatever he does to the Kennedy Center and all of the rest. Erase it all. Full damnatio memoriae.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The future tense of the headline (“will pay him back”) conflicts with the past tense that the president used (“I hear he’s paid him back”). The story doesn’t tell us whether the Times attempted to confirm whether Don Jr. has done this or plans to do so. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/u...
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Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party
The president said his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., had decided to return the money, but defended the gift worth hundreds of thousands of dollars as “totally allowed.”
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