Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 8hCommunity Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌 1078154514495
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This part 10141511154
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 9hI don’t think the ad is especially helpful to Paxton (hey, the wife I cheated on says if she can vote for a scumbag, you can, too). But it’s more than fair to investigate whether her support for him is a chit in their divorce settlement negotiations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...nytimes.comAs She Divorces Ken Paxton, His Wife Urges Texans to Vote for HimIn a new ad, Angela Paxton tells voters to focus on the “whole team,” not “individual players.” 1421340
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10hBut ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker 762005403
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 15h"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR 12561130
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 15h“you’re not an ai influencer” is both an extremely funny attempted putdown for a pope and also just factually incorrect 2018839
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16hWe are now, without a doubt, the greatest kleptocracy the world has ever known. By virtue of Donald Trump and the Republican Party promising to hate and abuse those people a nation of angry rubes wants to hate and abuse, they have lifted the national wallet and handed it back to the rubes, empty. 23886265
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine. 462218778
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Time interview with Trump is a master class in subjecting yourself to a stream of lies, lunacy, and insults with no correcting him, no calling out his crazy shit, nothing to show for it, nothing accomplished. It’s enabling, not journalism. They should die of shame. time.com/article/2026...time.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections. 33583146
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026More primary voters voted for Flannigan than voters for all Republicans put together. Make of that what you will but it’s true. 1203
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I also think about Elon saying Biden's DOJ wouldn't prosecute Sam Bankman-Fried because he was a Dem donor... followed by Biden's DOJ nailing SBF, who now posts about how awesome Trump is so he can get a pardon. 9839139
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026almost as if they are operating on the assumption that everybody else does what they (openly, on live tv, with signing ceremonies) do 22830102
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Or the fact that it was Biden's DOJ that oversaw the prosecution of **Bob Menendez**—or launched the investigation of Eric Adams! None of that mattered. People screaming about the politicization of the DOJ under Biden continued screaming the same thing. 1237459
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz 854308470
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026also not getting enough attention: these texts are between one of the lawyers on Jack Smith's team and a US Marshall tasked with keeping people fueled by Republican conspiracy theories from murdering Jack Smith in public because he tried to prosecute the president for crimes that he did 6504101
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Even if he‘d proved Smith was in Atlanta — hell, even if he’d proved Smith met with Willis — so what? Two prosecutors looking into Trump‘s crimes shared notes? What a scandal. 1236621
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social I think says, we need to bring back shame (and consequences) 1434
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026it's really telling though that missouri dude's response is to complain about procedure, try to talk over klobuchar, get red-faced and yell, and refuse to back down. 714519
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I got ten bucks on bad staff work from an incompetent staff that is just marinating in right wing cesspools. 2244
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Which is why I am curious to know where his committee staff went to law school 161
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I hope we get some real reporting on how this came to happen. Did Schmitt know it was a lie, but believe that Smith somehow wouldn’t be able to disprove it on the spot? Or was it that he really just jumped the gun in the most idiotic possible way? What was with them yanking away that placard? Etc. 79845115
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Look at his face when he thinks he's just got him lol 3059680
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NYT Stylebook: "While the term 'fuck-up' is often the most accurate term, we prefer the use of 'misunderstanding' or 'misperception.'" 129928
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's one thing to be so incredibly incompetent as Eric Schmitt that your dramatic "GOTCHA" moment falls apart in real time. It is quite another thing to be so incredibly dishonest as Eric Schmitt that you then go on a right-wing show and pretend it didn't happen. "My job is to ask the questions."😜 39336901041
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦J @vertigo700.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Part of this comedy is also Schmitt's own prejudices on display for not thinking it was possible Smith would be watching women's basketball. It just was obvious to him that it had to be Hawks instead of Hawkeyes. 0276
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 29/09/2026As a Gopher fan, I know the difference between the Hawks and the Hawkeyes. 71712115
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026tell me you flunked geometry without telling me you flunked geometry 34794111
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game. 597199223153
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.” 823873674
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026More evidence for my conspiracy theory. (See also all the right wingers on Twitter growing about Schmitt’s big victory.) bsky.app/profile/atru... 4655
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Schmitt 100% told a bunch of MAGA influencers and political reporters that he was going to get Smith to perjure himself 622521
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Is it too conspiratorial to wonder if there was some kind of link between this story appearing just before Schmitt pulled what he thought was going to be a big splashy gotcha moment that would elevate him to a national profile? 2938859
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The MAGA Moron Brigade is on the case! 2321485225
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty) 99395332447
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes. 1252794542
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026Jack Smith adopting the sort of bewildered deadpan affect of Coach Beard in 'Ted Lasso' throughout this clip might be the comic performance of the year 281067131
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Maybe US Senators should have staffers who aren't imbeciles if they want to accuse people of perjury based on nonsense conspiracy theories, I don't know. 531093169
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You say Hawks, I say Hawkeyes, let's call the whole thing off. 5585
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦seospider @seospider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a former Hill staffer I can only imagine what it is going to be like when Schmidt gets back to the office. Nothing worse than making your boss look like an idiot in such a public way. 7869
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026the left has gotten sports, in its entirety, in the national divorce this is why bluesky is the official app of sports 282546329
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Seriously though. If a Senator accuses a sworn witness of perjury for saying he wasn’t at a particular game in Atlanta, and then it turns out he wasn’t at that game in Atlanta but actually in Maryland (700 miles away), then I suggest there should be a penalty beyond general mocking and derision. 1130261
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to. 633232985
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020 19466721843
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 29/09/2026In an era of sneering cynics, where being on the take and sucking up to power is often considered normal, be Jack Smith. Stand up for the republic and the Constitution, even at personal risk. 1526
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 29/09/2026A brave hero, who took real risks to defend democracy and the American Constitution. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 211422
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning. 2013485539
Reposted by MNPacMan 🇲🇽🇨🇦🇺🇦David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Look at Kennedy holding this insane crackpot bullshit poster up for Schmitt, like a chump. 1210421
