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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h
Other candidate headlines: *Up Schmitt's Creek *Schmitting the Bed *Hearing Turns into a Schmittshow
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 28/09/2026
Claude making a scientific discovery
Black-and-white three-part comic. In the first scene, one simple cartoon figure holds out a small round handmade-looking object and says, “I MADE THIS.” Another figure replies, “YOU MADE THIS?” In the second scene, the second figure is shown alone holding the object. In the final scene, that figure holds it proudly and says, “I MADE THIS”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.
boltsmag.org
The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
remember its an open secret that conservatives condone rape as a disciplinary mechanism to punish recalcitrant, promiscuous, or gender nonconforming women, and endorse rape as a male proving ground or coming-of-age ritual for conservatives every rape reinscribes patriarchy and suppresses feminism
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ooh I know this one
Oregon Trail frame with wagon and the caption “you have died of dysentery”
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Asylum seeking people don’t have the freedom to work, they don’t even have the freedom to shop using cash or choose where to shop, in temp accommodation they don’t have the freedom to cook or choose their own food - honestly this headline is batshit
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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eric Cartman without the charm or feral cunning
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Canada reached a trade agreement with us, the President blew it up for no reason while threatening to annex them, and Congress didn't do squat about either. It sucks, it's objectively bad for America, but WaPo is outright lying that "spite" is driving Canada's policy. It's the only rational choice.
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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
france24.com
Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms
A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said, with more...
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember 2026 Bezos doesn’t care about quality journalism. He made WaPo opinion section Trumpier so he could get his Blue Origin government contracts - and it worked. $700 mill contract w NASA just a couple weeks ago; www.nasa.gov/news-release...
nasa.gov
NASA Selects Blue Origin as Mars Telecommunications Network Provider - NASA
NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract Tuesday to develop the agency’s Mars Telecommunications Network, a next-generation communications system that will enable
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David Mack @davidmack.pro · 17/09/2026
Trump and his goons are deliberately sabotaging every part of what made the U.S. a global leader in science, medicine, etc. Exactly as one would expect of Russian assets and enemies of our nation. As one would expect of traitors.
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Paislie Giraffe Arts @paisliegiraffe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The. Entire. Point. They are smearing shit all over our institutions. This hostile regime is as deeply anti-American as it gets.
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dickis.bsky.social @dickis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
To be fair I'd make this face too if the head of the FBI was talking at lengh about fucking dogs during a hearing about the epstein files.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Whitehouse grills Patel on Epstein 👇 WHITEHOUSE: Am I accurate in suggesting the missing 37 pages likely include FBI contemporaneous notes from interviews w/woman who said she was assaulted by Trump? PATEL: I don't know what you're referencing. We've produced 3.5m pages W: But not these 37
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump, Vance, and especially Musk have largely succeeded in eroding the norms against overt gutter racism. We don't get back on track as a society until people that act like this are driven out of public life.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13/09/2026
Ironically, the only reason this viscerally stupid column got published at all is the Times' affirmative action for conservatives.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
As well as the absolute horror of attacking civilian infrastructure like this, it’s not hard to conclude that by making entering Ukraine more dangerous, Russians are trying to prevent international visitors - politicians, journalists - who can expose Russian violence to the world from doing so
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/09/2026
$5000 midterm bribe for 330M Americans costs $1.6 Trillion GOP:¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Meanwhile: •Insulin for diabetics: $40B •Universal Pre-K: $60B •Universal 4-yr-college: $70B •SNAP for 40M Americans: $80B •Cancel all medical debt: $150B •$1.2T REMAINS GOP: HoW wE gOnNa AfForD iT? SOCIALISM COMMUNISM NOO!
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Me in 2017. The only folks who bought into the right's free speech nonsense were credulous marks or in on the scam. It was bad faith from the start, and folks who bought into it should be ashamed.
Weaponizing Free Speech
By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A journalist absolutely needs to ask Trump the precise period in which he believes Germany was great
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump and the Republican Party’s $100 billion tax on all Americans.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Biden took the short stairs up to Air Force One instead of the long stairs and it was headline news. Trump publicly fantasizes about conquering neighboring countries and their 170+ million people and the news media will hardly mention it.
Map shows an imagined USA that incudes the current country plus Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland etc.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An exhaustive study of AfD's use of its parliamentary powers of inquiry leave no doubt that it was consistently attempting to collect intelligence that would be of use to the Russians in connection with their hybrid warfare campaign targeting Germany and Europe more broadly.
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AfD może zyskać więcej niż władzę - Układ Sił
Za wynikiem wyborów w Saksonii-Anhalt kryje się mniej widoczna konsekwencja: dostęp do informacji. AfD już dziś pokazuje, że dzięki interpelacjom i zapytaniom poselskim można skłonić administrację do ujawniania bardzo szczegółowych danych, które po zestawieniu tworzą obraz wrażliwych obszarów państwa. Jeśli po wrześniowych wyborach partia znacząco zwiększy liczbę mandatów, wzrośnie również skala tego ryzyka. Z polskiej perspektywy jego wagę potęgują prorosyjska orientacja ugrupowania i nasilające się działania hybrydowe Moskwy w Niemczech.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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United for Libraries @ala-united.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's #LibraryCardSignUpMonth! For library Trustees, Friends & Foundations, this is an opportunity to show that library access = community access. Partner with your library to promote card sign-ups, reach new audiences through community orgs & support outreach efforts. bit.ly/3CL8QvE
A colorful illustration featuring musical notes, instruments, and books surrounding a gramophone. The text reads, "A library card hits all the right notes! September is Library Card Sign-up Month." Logos for ALA150 and the Library of Congress are included.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There was a lot of "Who cares if Trump shows fealty to dictators like Xi and Putin?" in Trump 1. We got the answers: Trump deferred to Xi and downplayed COVID for months too long, killing countless people, & Putin has been slaughtering civilians with the US's blessing for 18 months now. And this:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/08/2026
"It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the HHS secretary sees deaths from outbreaks of diseases we had beaten or contained, like measles and cyclosporiasis, as a form of social hygiene that kills off the weak and susceptible."
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RFK Jr.’s Toxic World
The HHS secretary uses fear of contamination to denigrate modern medicine and advance a project rooted in vulgar eugenics.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ex-CIA Marc Polymeropoulos: Russia is a terrorist state. They kill civilians in Ukraine, hunt them with drones, etc. What Russians are doing to Europe, like literally trying to bomb aircraft in Germany, that's terrorism. For God’s sake, Russia is a menace to the continent.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Much of the debris from the East Wing of the White House was dumped onto the island to be used for the course.”
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is your periodic reminder that the Supreme Court has had a Republican majority for longer than I have been alive (I am 51 years old) and only court expansion would immediately end the MAGA right's hold on the court and its use of the court to destroy democracy.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just want to say that these lunatics accused me of being a *secret CIA agent* while DataRepublican is literally working for the govt while pretending to be an ordinary influencers, & receiving leaked docs. The Trump admin is running ops, as they say, but for real. Every accusation is a confession.
Konstantin Toropin
@KToropin
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The Pentagon confirms -
"Ms. Pounds serves at the Department of War as a Special Government
Employee."
AF. AF Post •
@AFpost • Aug 21
Jennica Pounds, aka Data Republican, a Department of War employee, alleges that Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers is attempting to "entrap" Pounds by providing her with information to "leak" under the guise of offering her a
"scoop."
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Latest piece. Canada is fundamentally right in its dispute with the USA (and Americans should support them). Three things need to be grasped. Canada is right The USA is fundamentally untrustworthy Other states should do likewise. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/canada-is-...
phillipspobrien.substack.com
Canada Is Right, The USA Cannot Be Trusted
Others Must Act Like
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 19/06/2026
Yes, Hegseth might be the first “secretary of war” to lose a war — but have we considered that he imagines he’s winning the war, the one for a white Pentagon, that he cares about?
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: The Trump administration is looking to set up a consortium for anti-immigrant "independent journalism" in Europe, with the State Department envisioning "substantial involvement" in the project. www.theredoubt.net/trump-admini...
theredoubt.net
Trump administration to support 'independent journalism' in Europe with anti-immigrant focus
For-profit entities are eligible to receive $1 million from the State Department, which envisions "substantial involvement" in the project.
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Chez Andre @avezina.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If our prime Minister would post something like that he would be removed in less then a week. He would be send for a mental health evaluation. America is now allies with North Korea, no big deal.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 17/08/2026
60% of Alaska is federal land – we depend on federal employees more than almost any state. The thousands of workers who were fired managed our forests, fought for our fisheries, and supported our veterans. We need more opportunities in Alaska, not less. www.adn.com/business-eco...
adn.com
Alaska lost federal jobs at one of the highest rates among states in 2025, report finds
By the fourth quarter of 2025, Alaska’s federal civilian workforce had lost 1,607 jobs, amounting to a 10.5% loss from a year earlier, according to a state report.
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Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
In a world full of Trumps, Musks, Jenricks and “Tommy Robinson”, choose to be a Hannah Arendt.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...
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The Girl of Lemongrab @mc-hesher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Remarkable how well being Baghdad Bob forever has worked in American politics, yet continually eats shit when you're losing a war.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Two weeks, Peter. You always say two weeks.
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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It's just more Right Wing propaganda. Just one of 100s of statements to fit into the memes of See-How-Awful-Dems-Are & Dems-Hate-America. The memes are repeated incessantly, using different "examples"--many of them untrue. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/clin...
psychologytoday.com
The Brain as a Phonograph: How Imprinting Etches the Mind
From Edison to Taylor Swift, the brain is a living phonograph—recording and replaying the grooves of memory, culture, and identity.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Her opponent, Tom Tiffany, not scrutinized over his 'cancel democracy' vote in 2020.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Since the Cold War ended 50 million of the 52 million net new jobs created in America have been created under Democratic Presidents. Essentially all of them. 4/
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“One Nation, which is organized as a 501(c)(4), is not required to disclose its donors. So it is unknown who is bankrolling its fake websites or other activities.’” Note ▶️ it’s John Roberts and his fellow #scotus Republicans who unleashed this dark 💰 mayhem. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
“ANALYSIS
The Pro-Money Court: How the Roberts Supreme Court Dismantled Campaign Finance Law”
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...
thebulwark.com
What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?
Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.
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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Mainstream media have had a subtle RWng bias & party status hierarchy for generations--treating GOP as the high status emperor party, Dems as the chambermaid party--catering to emperor, praising his new clothes/MOUs--& belittling the chambermaid party for even tiny or imaginary flaws.
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Why Mainstream Media is So Right Wing Biased and How to Chang
I just did a Twitter thread a few days ago, on why mainstream media is so Right Wing biased. Rather than keep this information just on…
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