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🤡 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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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if I was DNC comms I'd play the exact same ad with a voice over of a trump impersonator crying and snorting and saying 'please love me please its not my fault please i swear' with the tagline 'paid for by reality'

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@joshtpm.bsky.social Has anyone suggested to key GOP Senators the one-simple-trick to winning the 2028 election? 1. Impeach & convict Vance; 2. Impeach & convict Trump; 3. Blame everything that happened on President Hakeem Jeffries & hope for another case of American amnesia.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/09/2026

Posting something to share in a DM, ignore

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@taniel.bsky.social @gelliottmorris.com I’m a nobody but please humor me. What are the chances that 2/3 or 3/4 of state legislatures could be controlled by democrats after the election? Impossible due to voting cycles, exceedingly unlikely due to partisan mix, or possible in a huge blue wave?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

JD Vance speaks to dozens of people today in Iowa (via REUTERS)

pic of the crowd at the Vance rally today showing lots of empty space in a small gym with empty seats too while JD speaks

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 18/09/2026

Fire is invented.

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Sam Dykstra @samdykstramilb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Xander Bogaerts has a shot at hitting for the reverse cycle after homering in his first at-bat, tripling in his second and knocking a ground-rule double in his third. The Padres-Rockies game is only in the fourth inning.

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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 17/09/2026

I'm running for him.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Jason Dove Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This parody is just… *chef’s kiss*

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/09/2026

Trump has only declared victory in the Iran war once this month. Concerning.

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

News flash: global miles driven by gasoline-powered cars likely peaked last year. With the spike in gasoline prices this year, and the longer term trend in rising electric vehicle sales accelerating, there's going to be decreasing gasoline demand going forward. (Data via Gemini)

Table showing miles driven in the US and outside US by gasoline and electric vehicles. Rising from 11 Trillion gas miles in 2010 to 14 Trillion by 2019. Since then gas miles are flat. Electric miles up from 0.2 Trillion in 2019 to 2.1 Trillion in 2026.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

clearly in great spirits after Trumpapalooza

video still of a red-faced Trump barking at a woman reporter

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

MAGA got a huge return on gaslighting the elite into treating Trump's <2 percent popular vote plurality as a permanent repudiation of liberalism. The midterms represent an opportunity to propound an inverse but true narrative of American rejection of MAGA. But Dems have to frame it that way first.

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How To Undo The Great Lie Of 2024

Trump’s second election wasn’t a verdict for all time, but the coming midterms might be one.

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It’s 2026. Why are people sending 12MB PDF attachments that contain about 1kb of information that’s already included in the email?

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Probably the median GOP Senator in every respect. Rotten to the core. Here’s one abusing the law to cause new mothers to be arrested. Not sure if that’s better or worse than so many of his brethren breaking the law. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

@netflix.com the ad load on movies is getting out of control. Close to 10 commercial breaks for 9-to-5 is not a long movie. This is a bad experience.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c... 2/

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hey @joshtpm.bsky.social did you write that whole article just to use this one line? “There’s a reason this story — the big AI data center metastory — has the whole country electrified.” Be honest. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...

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Is the Data Center Backlash Just NIMBY Run Amok?

In response to my post about this data center backlash outside of...

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This @nytimes.com article borders on malpractice, about JD Vance's attempts to bridge the gap between the anti-Semites in his party and the blank check for Likud faction. First, the Times describes that group as "Jewish conservatives" at best and often just wrongly as Jews.

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The GOP plan is to only deliver mail-in voting ballots to areas that lean Republican. They are going to get shellacked in two months, and they are trying to ramp up the cheating. Vote every Republican out of office and never let them wield this kind of abusive power again.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 31/08/2026

🚨New working paper alert!🚨 Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have grown rapidly. Who uses them? Do they improve kids' skills? BU econ PhD student Samuel Nitkin and I provide answers in: "Kumon Up: Private Tutoring Centers and Student Achievement" www.nber.org/papers/w35671 1/?

Private tutoring chains like Kumon and Sylvan have expanded rapidly in recent decades.
Combining data on business locations, household spending, and district test scores, we study who
uses these centers and how they affect academic skills. Nearly half of tutoring users are from the top
income decile, with Asian and White households five and two times as likely to purchase tutoring as
Black and Hispanic households. A staggered differences-in-differences design shows the opening
of a district's first chain center raises district-wide math and reading scores by 0.02-0.03 standard
deviations, at a much lower cost than public spending typically producing similar gains. Math
effects are largest for White and Asian students, so that center entry widens racial achievement
gaps, though less so in more racially integrated districts. These private investments help their
users, deepen educational inequality, and shape outcomes by which state accountability systems
and families judge schools.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hey Google, Facebook, Amazon and the rest of Big Tech. You know right from wrong, but every chance you have had to stand against power, you have chosen evil to advance your own interests. Your power will wane and we’ll remember how you sided against the powerless when you could have stood up.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Of Haiti’s nearly 12 million people, more than half need humanitarian assistance because of surging gang violence. Meanwhile, nearly 1.5 million people have been forced to abandon their homes because of gang violence." 2/ www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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ICE sends second deportation flight to Haiti in a week. There are kids aboard

Last month, U.S. officials warned Haitian authorities to expect an increase in deportations following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow President Donald Trump to end Haiti’s Temporary Protecte...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026

If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026

Because if you didn't say a word about DOGE eliminating every federal grant with any element that Grok thought had anything to do with LGBTQ health, climate change, health disparities, and most of all DEI? I don't think you give a shit about academic freedom. I think you're just a racist.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2026

It's scary to accept this, but know that the vast majority of people believe that AI is the next big thing because a bunch of rich/powerful people spent a lot of money, and the media repeated their plans as if they were already complete because spent so much money.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/08/2026

The biggest mistake that people made about the AI bubble is assuming that the rich and powerful are smart, better-informed or somehow intellectually superior. Yes, they'd absolutely spend all this money without really knowing if it would work! Everyone around them said it would

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Alex Guseman @alexguseman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Come be my colleague! We are hiring a structural biologist. I have thoroughly enjoyed starting my career here and both department(s) are full of exceptional scientists. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04589

apol-recruit.ucsd.edu

Assistant Professor in Structural Biochemistry

University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My best effort Blossom game! Exactly 350 points, among the 1% of players that achieved that mark. I think that’s the best I can possibly do. www.merriam-webster.com/games/blosso...

350 points to get Blossom mega boss, something only 1% of players achieved.

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Almost certainly my rarest no-mistake solution. #Connections Puzzle #1165 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Skill 95/99 Uniqueness 1 in 2,801

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Evan Manvel @evanmanvel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of my favorite trivia notes: for one hour each year, clocks in parts of Florida and Oregon are at the same time. (When Western panhandle FL Central Time sets clocks back, and SE Oregon Mountain Time hasn't yet done the same).

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Climate.us @climate.us · 11/08/2026

We've corrected an error in last week's Lake Powell graphic (wrong axis scale + a timing mistake on seasonal peaks) and simplified the chart design. The core finding is unchanged: record-low lake levels. See the updated post at Climate.us: buff.ly/vMyell3 🌍️🧪 #LakePowell #MegaDrought #ClimateChange

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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/06/2026

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/08/2026

when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"

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jakerome @jakerome.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@rsnstats.com with that home run, Jaren Duran has gone over the Mendoza Line! Love his energy and clutch hitting. Turn it back on.

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Eric Lee @ericleeacts.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Hi there. Take a breath. Look up. Look around you. Feel yourself, your body, in the world. In time. In space. It is amazing that you exist. That you are here. I’m glad you’re here. I love you.🥰

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

After Max Miller’s statement, Bernie Moreno finally issues a statement denouncing Miller, saying he needs psychological help and should not be in Congress.

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Dwight McCabe @dwightmc.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There's a clear tie between high Trump voting counties and high Covid deaths. @charlesgaba.com showed counties in the top 10% of the population that voted for Trump had a 2.7 times higher death rate during Covid compared to the lowest 10% (ie deep blue counties) Trump caused 785,000 more deaths.

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