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Posting about this and that and the other thing from the Desert Southwest and the serene shores of the pond at the Motley Moose.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 10/10/2026
Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats sued the Trump administration Wednesday for using taxpayer money on campaign-style television ads promoting President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump sued for using taxpayer money on campaign-style ads ahead of midterms
While Trump himself is not on the ballot this year, Democrats argued the taxpayer-funded ad campaign is part of an effort to bolster Republicans as they struggle to keep control of Congress.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
my theory that ive been pushing since 2016 is a lot of mainstream journalists, who are overwhelmingly white, have parents and grandparents who voted for trump. instead of admitting that mom and dad and gramps and meemaw are idiot racists, we've spent the last decade pretending they arent.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
John Kennedy is a literal Rhodes Scholar who then ran for office as a Republican & now talks like a man named Earl who steals chickens.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
people acting like trump is some kind of departure from reagan and bush are part of the problem
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"You should be allowed to kill your children" is a bedrock conservative principle.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
goddamn that feels good to hear
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/09/2026
Trump's DOJ suffered yet another bruising defeat in its crusade to collect states' private voter data, this time in Vermont. “Indeed, the United States has provided no factual basis for its demand,” U.S. District Judge Mary Kay Lanthier wrote: demdock.com/4AqSy6D
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meet Rep. Bryan Steil, whos keeping the GOP thing way in the downlow and seems to want to send some message of deep bluenesss.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A college administrator calls the cops on a student reporter A college QB laughs at an AI video of his coach slapping a woman journalist The president lunges at a Black woman reporter who dares question him It's past time to fight back against anti-media violence www.inquirer.com/opinion/viol...
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Violence toward journalists is a symptom of a terminally ill U.S. democracy | Will Bunch
From Trump’s unhinged outbursts to calling the cops on a student journalist, a free press dies in tandem with the American Experiment.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Folks in Georgia are lucky to have a fighter like @ossoff.bsky.social who is standing up to this Administration’s corruption and fighting to lower costs for families. And after talking to so many of them, I know they’ll do everything they can to re-elect him and help us take back the Senate.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026
"Privately" being the key word here. The world's most pathetic, contemptible collection of cowards.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You might be wondering, hey, is it bad that this young American man was obsessed with a white supremacist nation that ceased to exist decades before he was even born? Well, remember that Dylann Roof wore a jacket with a Rhodesian flag on it and posted his racist manifesto to "lastrhodesian.com"
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’ll put this here for the younger people because it’s one of those pieces of 9/11 lore that sounds false but is true: While most flights remained grounded throughout the United States after 9/11, the White House allowed the bin Laden family to fly out of the country.
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White House Approved Departure of Saudis After Sept. 11, Ex-Aide Says (Gift Article)
Richard Clarke, who ran White House crisis team after Sept 11 terror attacks, says top White House officials personally approved evacuation of dozens of influential Saudis, including relatives of Osam...
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 11/09/2026
Now, with the midterms looming, Republicans are rolling out a new message to seniors. Senate candidate Mike Collins said:“[Old people need to] get off Social Security [and] get back into the workforce.”
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Good news, there's a simple fix to get people to stop calling you that.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 09/09/2026
State officials and elected leaders who once championed tax exemption deals with the executives of companies like Amazon, Google and Meta for the development of data centers in their states are now having second thoughts.
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States Second Guess Tax Breaks for Data Centers As American Uproar Spreads
Rethinking a Deal With the Devil State officials and elected leaders who...
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
👇🏼👇🏼 #SCOTUS #Missouri
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/09/2026
the president is now blacklisting companies by fiat. tell me more about how left-wing communism is the biggest threat to the country.
NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough! Over 50% of their revenue comes from the United States — They live off American Buyers, American Companies, American Airports, and American Service — All while Canada blocks our GREAT American Banks, and Companies, throughout the U.S.A. They even blocked Gulfstream Aerospace from doing business in Canada — Completely unjust and unfair! That Era is OVER! If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a “piggybank.” BUY AMERICAN. FLY ON AMERICAN AIRLINERS. ENJOY AMERICAN LIQUOR AND BEVERAGES. SAIL ON LAKE AMERICA. AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"But, Mister Trump, you're surely not going to issue a bunch of arbitrary punitive tariffs that will decimate the economic position of Kansas farmers, right? Right?"
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW: The Supreme Court will choose soon whether Trump can illegally take over elections. Election law expert Rick Hasen said it’s an “easy” question and Trump should lose. And yet. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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The Supreme Court will choose soon whether Trump can illegally take over elections
Election law expert Rick Hasen said it’s an “easy” question and Trump should lose. Also: A New York health care provider folded to Trump’s anti-trans aims. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Consumer sentiment is at its lowest in 70 years of survey data. That's lower than during wars, financial crises, and a pandemic. The economy isn't the whole story here. Faith in how Washington is running policy is at an all-time low, and it's hard to blame people. youtu.be/h0LB9PEiZ3o
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
a brave American stepped forward to disclose damning evidence of wrongdoing at the core of Trump’s effort to disrupt mail-in voting and rig the election. The courage required to bring such vital information to the public (and to the federal court in advance of Thursday’s hearing) is breathtaking.
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Undaunted
First amendment heroes
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 04/09/2026
NEW: Seven faith leaders were arrested in Vermont this morning while blocking entrances to a building that houses a group ICE uses to target its efforts. Two clergy were physically carried out as they were arrested. religionnews.com/2026/09/04/s...
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Seven Vermont clergy arrested while protesting ICE targeting center
(RNS) — 'I think it is imperative on me, as a faith leader, to proclaim that human beings are not targets and that God is a God of justice and of love,’ said the Rev. Rebecca Girrell, a United Methodi...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Brett Meiselas on Data Centers: I think this is yet another example of Donald Trump choosing the 20 side of an 80/20 issue and going to that and showing that he's a president of the billionaires for the billionaires, by the billionaires, his own people be damned.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
There should be an annual boat race from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I recall being in awe that they pulled this off.
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/09/2026
A city in Oklahoma tried to charge a farmer more than $17,000 to fulfill a public records request for information related to a proposed data center and the farmer’s arrest at a city council meeting. Now, the State’s AG has stepped in and told the city to drop the fees.
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Oklahoma Tells City It Can't Charge $17,125.44 for a Records Request Related to Data Center Arrest
The the city tried to charge a farmer more than $17,000 for bodycam footage and records related to his arrest at a city council meeting.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To complain about Apple's decison go here: www.apple.com/feedback/map...
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Mike Johnson: Meet mirror.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 02/09/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/09/2026
If there's one thing that is genuinely easy to accomplish in US politics, it is getting the pack of slavering morons that is the Republican base to hate someone or something new. You just gotta point and say "we hate this now." They *love* hating shit. Canadians? Sure!
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Luckily for the GOP, Cuban-Americans won't be an important voting bloc in the Novem... ...wait, I'm getting something in my earpiece
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Changing the law surrounding third-country removals is a must-do change when we get to that point.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"Billion dollar ballroom" is a phrase that should be in every Democrat's stump speech until November.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Supreme Court demolishes separation of powers to facilitate the illegal demolition of the White House www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/supr...
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Supreme Court demolishes separation of powers to facilitate the illegal demolition of the White House - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Five of the Supreme Court’s Republicans — Roberts couldn’t stomach this one — have once again abused the shadow docket, this time allowing Trump’s reconstruction of the East Wing to continue. The orde...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Any Democrat elected must vow to tear down the monstrous, hideoous Trump ballroom
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 31/08/2026
Hennepin Cty Atty to @qjurecic.bsky.social: “Somebody can commit a crime in one state and flee to another state, and depending on what the political views or whims are of the governor in that state, that person may not go back to face those charges. How can that be a standard that we can live with?”
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The Fight Between Texas and Minnesota Should Never Have Got This Far
A legal battle over one ICE agent’s future is a sign of serious strain between red and blue America.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My man looks like the mayor from SPIN CITY joined the Waffen SS
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/08/2026
You know Google Maps is going to go with this shit and rename it on the map just like they did with the Gulf of Mexico.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 26/08/2026
Our proud union sister, Dolly Parton ✊ www.thenation.com/article/economy/d…
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Dolly Parton Was a Proud Union Sister
Organized labor is celebrating the life and legacy of an artist who championed working women and carried a union card for almost 60 years.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Let's check in on Michigan and nevermind
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: In a victory for the White House, the Supreme Court allowed Trump's sweeping attack on mail voting to go forward, bringing him one step closer to implementing the order before the midterms. While the decision lifted a block that applied to some states, a nationwide block still remains.
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