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When Musk took over Twitter, the Guardian asked me for a piece. I wrote about how Musk, Trump and Putin would form an anti-democratic alliance and it would take popular civil resistance to topple them. They didn’t publish the piece. Anyway:

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

Trump: “Obama said, "You can have your own doctor." Nobody's seen their doctor. “A couple of people saw their doctor recently. After 20 years, they saw their doctor. Their doctor aged, so they didn't recognise the doctor. “You can't have your own doctor. They lied to you.”

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Balthazar Crazy in Straight Jacket

Alt: Crazy in Straight Jacket

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21h

Anyway, good case study here. You can be as evil as you want, you can kill as many people as is possible, you can shove churro ladies into vans then off to black sites in countries they've never even heard of, but if you can't do the performance of fascism — that's when you're in real trouble.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 21h

it's possible she did more interviews about doing press conferences badly than press conferences

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 20h

Remembering Katie Zacharia White House Press Secretary Monday - Friday

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

TELEGRAPH: Trump & Musk conspired to throttle Starlink and make Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian attacks — then Musk tried to blame only Trump. Putin wins again, as usual. Russia was never a hoax. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

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Bensmummy33 🤕 @bensmom33.bsky.social · 17h

Imagine that you were just fired by this guy for not being an effective communicator.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/10/2026

an extra silver lining if paxton goes down in flames: $160M of elon's money set directly on fire

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I hereby propose that Vance is short for Grievance. JD Grievance, vp of grifting and grudges.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/10/2026

Trump sounds genuinely upset that Putin didn't defeat Ukraine in one day, which he insists Russia could've done had their generals not taken "a wrong turn"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/10/2026

aside from the terrible answer the thing that really stands out about this clip is that susan collins sounds visibly old - maybe not quite at the level that biden was in that first debate but in a noticeable way that I think any of us who have or have had aging relatives will recognize

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

of american life. the same indignities you and i have had to endure all our lives. they broke him. they made him a nazi who is married to a person of color. a man who, as a matter of public policy, hates his own children. he is one of the weakest creatures you will ever lay eyes on. finish him

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

to be jd vance means you ate so much shit -- just legendary amounts of shit -- that one day, teary eyed with rage, you shook your fists at the godless sky and swore you would never again be in a position to be humiliated again. it means you were so fundamentally broken by the every day indignities

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

this is how you have to treat these guys. with genuine contempt. your genuine contempt makes their smarmy fake contempt look weak and inauthentic. it immediately exposes their game. these guys are just losers who have sworn revenge for every humiliation. humiliate them again

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

their whole bullying schtick only works when the response is spluttering and harrumphing and well i never-ing. "why did you think anyone here cares what your doughy buckeye ass thinks" just makes him look like the soft handed hedge fund pallid loser he is

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Snarky Panda @snarkypanda.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

candidates like this are the future of the democratic party

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

📌Yet another Republican president tanked the economy and started a senseless war in the Middle East. THAT is their brand.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026

3) this is yet another instance of Vance treating a native-born but nonwhite American as if they are foreign born. 4) it is vance who should be greatful that anyone ever bothered to treat him like he might do some good in the world (they were wrong of course)

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

"While local resistance to Flock Safety automated license plate readers has swept the nation — including vandalism of cameras, cities canceling contracts, and a recent national week of action organized by the group DeFlock — the Fusus software has continued to spread." truthout.org/articles/as-...

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As Resistance to Flock Cameras Grows, Another Surveillance Network Is Spreading

Fusus software is being used in at least 324 US communities, with nearly 624,000 cameras connected to a Fusus network.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

FWIW, DOJ just filed a (bogus) lawsuit against California for violating 18 U.S.C. § 611. But two weeks ago, a Florida judge found the 40-year-old statute unconstitutional! The power to ban noncitizens from voting “is reserved for the States,” he wrote. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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#64 in United States v. Cox (S.D. Fla., 0:25-cr-60249) – CourtListener.com

ORDER granting 30, 47 Motion as to Chelsea Michelle Ann Cox.The Information 1 is DISMISSED. Closing Case for Defendant. Signed by Judge David S. Leibowitz on 10/1/2026. (DSL) (Entered: 10/01/2026)

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

everyone wants to live in a good neighborhood without being a good neighbor

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You love to see it. Corruption IS the message.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

📌BREAKING NEWS FOR THE IDIOTS IN MSM: The Trump agenda has not been a failure. He has troops & masked gunmen in our streets, has surrendered to Putin, wrecked our govt., spent lavishly on himself & made his family hundreds of millions of dollars. That was ALWAYS his agenda. Try reporting THAT.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Republican Senator Thom Tillis demands a Pentagon investigation after US-controlled Starshield systems failed during Russian attacks on Ukraine, disrupting drone defences. Elon Musk says the US military and ultimately Trump control restrictions. Who ordered the outage remains unknown.

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Senator who regrets confirming Hegseth demands Pentagon investigation into Ukraine Starshield outage

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Nine FBI agents who were fired for their work on the Trump classified documents case are suing the bureau and director Kash Patel for what they say was unlawful retribution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/10/2026

This is highway robbery thanks to Republicans. Have you received your estimated plan cost for 2027? If so, please reply with details you're willing to share.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting to the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Everything being Connected: “The cost of defending peace today can be far smaller than the price of restoring it tomorrow.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In a bonus edition of my Stop the Presses newsletter, I describe how the New York Times invited me to do a video for the NYT website to air my grievances about the Times' sanewashing of Trump's fascist behavior. I was surprised to be asked, but I gave it to them straight.

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The New York Times invited me to point out its failures

My video interview is on the NYT website. I denounced their normalization of fascism.

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Jake Schlachter ❌👑 @jakeschlachter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trump responds to resistance when it comes from people his coalition needs to keep. Remember this, we'll need it soon.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

So this guy bribes a governor to kill an investigation into his bank, gets convicted, and his daughter bribes Trump to get him pardoned. With any other president, impeachment. With Trump, not even a headline. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom

The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I hated insisting back in 2023 that people should understand the weird cult logics of Silicon Valley, such as longtermism. People were like, Kelly, what is this shit? Why are you talking about it? This moment is why. I suggest revisiting this convo I had with @xriskology.bsky.social back then.

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Bizarre and Dangerous Utopian Ideology Has Quietly Taken Hold of Tech World

“It's shaping our world right now,” says philosopher and historian Émile P. Torres.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Imagine having the resources to change the world and deciding that what you wanted to do with it is usher in the Fourth Reich and cover the earth in clankers.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

BREAKING: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint over the outrageous raid on Ilhan Omar's home Officials can't use criminal power to affect an election. This is the textbook case @democracydefendersfund.org & @rwpusa.bsky.social👇

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

They SEIZED HER PHONE???? This would be a constitutional crisis if we had three operating branches of government, instead of all three doing whatever Trump wants.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The question is how far he'll get, not if he'll try.

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Jake Schlachter ❌👑 @jakeschlachter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"... && if I am in the truth-telling business..." I think one of your propositions does not hold, and that perhaps more than anything is why we are where we are.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/10/2026

I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I wonder if the NY Times will mention Trump’s mockery of the idea of giving Congress a say in government actions. And if the NYT does, which of these 2 euphemisms will get re-used: “Trump’s ever-shifting relationship with the Constitution” or his “expansive interpretation of presidential power”?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When Trump calls for violence, he's not being figurative or fanciful. He actually wants his enemies to be shot. What happened to Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero was the natural outcome of regime policy. More will die until the tyrant is stopped.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/10/2026

They both did it.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is illegal and (a) it’s not even close to defensible and (b) shouldn’t be tolerated.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump Is sending a 600-strong battalion from the 10th Mountain Division to Panama for, allegedly, a campaign against drug cartels, NYT reports.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If Trump and Musk succeed in putting a knife into the ribs of Ukraine, it will be a permanent stain on the U.S. and a reminder that no country should ever trust us again.

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Ukraine’s Vulnerability Grows as Starlink Is Restricted and Russia Escalates (Gift Article)

A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

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