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Sen. Eric Schmitt expressed no remorse for falsely accusing Jack Smith of lying to Congress about attending a basketball game as a guise to investigate Trump. “He has lied before to Congress,” the Missouri Republican said.

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Eric Schmitt defends mix-up that led to viral gaffe during Jack Smith's hearing

“I didn’t know he was a Caitlin Clark fan. Now we know," said the Missouri Republican.

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 22h

Happiest of Happy Book Days to @civilwarmemory.bsky.social! I read this book and blurbed it, and HIGHLY recommend it.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22h

omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1h

In 2007 when the Hold Steady was a "buzz band," Craig Finn took time out to recall Sept-October 1984, when as a newly minteed teenager (and "loser," per bullies at his Edina school) he became a fan of Minneapolis bands—Replacements, Hüsker Dü, Soul Asylum, Otto's Chemical Lounge, Outcry, Rifle Sport

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'I was no longer a loser'

Today Craig Finn is in the Hold Steady, this year's buzz band. But in 1984 he was a bullied, unhappy kid - until he found a group that showed him music could make a difference.

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Sam Feldman @srfeld.bsky.social · 2h

I'm a fan of efficient writing but this is in fact too much to fit into one sentence.

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Horrible Goose Cultist @panicmoon.bsky.social · 3h

It reminds me of when Glee used Jonathan Coulton's acoustic guitar version of Baby Got Back and denied it, not realizing that his version changes the line "Mix-a-lot's in trouble" to "Johnny C's in trouble". It should be noted that no one on Glee could plausibly be referred to as "Johnny C".

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 1h

Thank god for Chris Geidner and @lawdorknews.bsky.social

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Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 1h

Devo performing "Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin')” live in a 1978 concert. From their Brian Eno-produced debut album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekwl...

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DEVO - Sloppy - live 1978

YouTube video by Alain From France

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5h

What do authoritarians do when they are about to lose an election? I survey the big picture before the midterms - and investigate the struggle between authoritarian escalation and democratic resilience since the Trumpists took power. My new piece, for @blaetter.bsky.social:

blaetter.de

Autoritäre Eskalation oder demokratische Erneuerung: Die USA vor den Midterms

Die bevorstehenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA am 3. November sind ein wichtiger Stresstest für die US-Demokratie. Vieles hängt davon ab, inwieweit die Amerikaner für ihre Republik und deren Regeln eins...

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David J. Loehr @djl.bsky.social · 7h

But that's the thing. AI won't surprise you, it can't. It can only assume based on your input. It's good enough to surprise these doofuses because they have very pedestrian tastes. They're more interested in the magic trick than the music.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 6h

Schmitt's staff may have set their boss up for a big day around his big moment. But, to echo another famous conspiracy theorist, the intel on this wasn't 100%.

talkingpointsmemo.com

5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury

By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen...

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Vita Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 7h

These fools think people wanted isolated, hyper individual lives/experience when art (visual, textual, music, etc) is about connection and communication between people.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 7h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 6h

Giving kids "personalized" books with their own names in the story was a mistake.

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 15h

Last month-ish, the Menswear Guy recommended using the Dritz Snag Nab-It for clothing snags. I have owned it for less than 3 hours, and I have already fixed 2 ties and 2 sweaters. I am not a shill, but I AM a complete convert.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FATALITY

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h

wut

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Here's a point people don't get so l'Il repeat it.
COLLEGE IS FREE IN THE US.
The government pays for your college. After you graduate and start working, you incur a tax obligation to support the program that provides free college to others.
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Just make university free.
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John A. Farrell @biographer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Little Rock: the Communist Eisenhower. The EPA and China: the Communist Nixon. Extending the Voting Rights Act, Tax Reform: the Communist Reagan. Saving and improving Social Security: the Communists Ike, Nixon, Reagan. Disabilities Act: the Communist Bush. Aid to Africa : the Communist W.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what if I simply abandoned my email inbox and walked into the woods

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says

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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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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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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 29/09/2026

I wrote about the end of the MAGA makeover, the aesthetic normalization of bigotry, and the mall store selling fascist sweatshirts to teenage girls. New for @theflytrapmedia.com!!

theflytrapmedia.com

The 'MAGA Makeover' is Over, and Its Replacement is (Even More) Terrifying

Fascists are using fashion to normalize radical perspectives and groups into normie society.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026

if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...

axios.com

Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the past week reminds me of this @lopatto.bsky.social piece about *just how much* of the past several years has been shaped by powerful men dismantling the court of public opinion, because it was the last court they might face any consequences in

theverge.com

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Much of our sitting government is in office because it ignored rape or committed rape. At times, it seems like a job requirement. Much of our media has learned to ask evidentiary standards of survivors that they’d never hold a powerful man to.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

Is President Trump mentioned repeatedly in the Epstein case files?

Yes. Official materials say President Trump's name appears in the released Epstein-related files. A mention is not proof of a crime.

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Gabriel Urbina @gabrielurbina.com · 10/09/2026

THE HARBINGERS Created by me Produced by Eleanor Hyde Directed and Sound Designed by @euripidesredux.bsky.social An Audacious Machine Creative Production Season 2 begins TODAY with Episode 17: The Perfect Opening Line Here's everything you need to know.

Over an image of seven shadows on the ground:
THE HARBINGERS
Season 2

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(Jennifer Gonnerman’s 1994 piece in The Baffler, “Selling Katie Roiphe” goes into a lot more detail about the role of media in shaping Roiphe as a public figure) thebaffler.com/salvos/the-s...

thebaffler.com

The Selling of Katie Roiphe

It was the beginning of the nineties and the New York Times needed a woman. Not just any woman, though. It needed a smart and sassy one. Someone who could buttress the paper’s sagging image.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they like rape and rapists, is the thing.

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Jamie Gump, pushing the acceptable boundaries of hubris @jamiegump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was showing beautifully tonight: still plenty of acidity and fresh berry fruit. Lots of tertiary notes on the nose, and the color was pale brick. 100% would recommend drinking more 37 year old wine!

A bottle of 1989 Silver Oak Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (when the abv of Cali Cab was only 13.2%!)

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Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*Trigger Warning*As hideous as the Cornell 7 case is, it's even more horrifying that the man who orchestrated it was the supposed friend of the victim, and he texted an *invitation* to this 7-hour gang rape to a group text and not a single member of that chat did anything to intervene.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One year ago this past weekend, @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I launched Black & White & Read All Over, our public scholarly website. One year ago today, Biscuits came home with us. Obviously one of those things is most important, so I'll start this week's blog thread with the site's page for her. +

blackwhiteandread.com

Biscuits – Black and White and Read All Over

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Starting with today's post on how & where the site started--why we left Substack, why we created our own site rather than using another platform, & why all of that depended & still deeply depends on all of y'all. blackwhiteandread.com/september-28...

blackwhiteandread.com

September 28, 2026: One Year of B&W&RAO: Why We Did It – Black and White and Read All Over

[Just over a year ago, Vaughn finalized and we launched this new public scholarly website, Black & White & Read All Over. There’s a lot about the site and what it has brought out of and added to our w...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In a multi-racial and religiously pluralistic democracy like the US has at least claimed to be since WWII, there's no such thing as "the Indian Question" or "the Jewish Question" unless one is a racist or a theocrat.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Talking about "the Indian Question," like Texas Republican Bo French's racist tweet, is intended to suggest that multi-racial democracy is "a problem," rather than a centerpiece of the post-WWII American political tradition. FWIW, Chris Rufo's wife is an immigrant from Thailand.

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Like body-cams exposed criminals, social media is exposing how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners. It's everywhere and far worse than any of us could imagine.
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