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All this used to be fields @solveforgenx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just invented the Gotchme Question
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you know how hard it is to piss off C-SPAN? They’re the Mister Rogers of the news business!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Donald Trump admits what DOJ and most of the legacy media refuse to. The U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot rule was a partisan effort to help the GOP. SCOTUS' decision was, in his words: "a big loss for Republicans."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
TV footage shows that Donald Trump spent 9/11 boasting that he now had the tallest building in lower Manhattan. Trump himself says he was at the World Trade Center, lifted out of the rubble by firefighters. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Remember when Kristen Welker would always ask every Republican guest to repudiate the statements of Nick Fuentes, Jack Posobiec, Benny Johnson, or other MAGA racists? Neither do I.
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Eric Budd @ericmbudd.com · 04/09/2026
Republicans are why you can't refinance your mortgage
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Every day that the mainstream media don't report loudly and urgently that the president is insane is a day in which they're committing journalistic malpractice.
Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be “hotter” than ever before! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
biggest political development of the week. clear signal the party is going for court expansion. now our job is to give them the trifecta to make it happen
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remember how they would drag their feet for months when it had the effect of keeping Trump from prosecution. But this? Emergency ballroom.
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Chief Justice Roberts backs Trump’s urgent bid to allow ballroom construction for now
A federal appellate panel ruled against Trump over dissent from a judge he appointed to the bench. His administration asked the justices to intervene.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It’s going to be amazing in the last scene of this movie when she talks to her handler in fluent Russian, just like in No Way Out www.ms.now/news/trump-a...
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Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year
The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The guest of honor at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries is always ready to meet the moment, as long as the moment calls for saying something weaker than British taco sauce
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Remember when the New York Times made Claudine Gay resign over a plagarism smear campaign by Chris Rufo that found no real examples of plagarism? I do.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Too bad that the New York Times' Eric Lipton doesn't realize how embarrassing this post is. No, Eric, I don't find it "surprising" that you prioritize access over honesty.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
this guy’s personal wealth is roughly the gdp of portugal. he could personally cover healthcare of every person living in the state of illinois for a year and still be one of the tenth richest people alive. he’d be just as rich as he was two years ago.
techcrunch.com
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax | TechCrunch
California's Prop 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state's billionaires.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Such courage! Standing up to fascism...wait, I'm sorry. I'm being handed a piece of paper explaining this is Cassidy standing up for, not to, fascism and pretending he's some sort of fucking hero for the ages who will stand strong.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
chicago.suntimes.com
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The fact that Blanche refused to terminate the slush fund in writing for Trump’s criminal cronies as well as his IRS immunity deal proves that his testimony at his confirmation hearing that these things were “dead” was always a lie. They were dead only until he got confirmed.
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Socially liberal, fecally conservative
Annabunny@BUNNIMODER

the pedophile class has mandated you shit yourself to death because they saved $15 a year cutting research, also, please ignore the 350 billion for operation epic chungus

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NBC 7 San Diego
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A San Diego infectious disease doctor says it's probably best to stay away from fresh produce for the next week or so, even if you wash it. A fecal parasite illness, known as cyclosporiasis, has now reached California. NBC 7's Shandel
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The thing about a lot of these Washpost Opinion writers is that they aren’t just flaccid thinkers or mediocre writers, but they can also be really terrible human beings
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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026
hey, speaking of British history, how's that been working out for UK Labour? after all, they've put your plan in action
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Trump is determined to destroy every alliance the U.S. has. It's national suicide. Putin and Xi are pleased.
cbc.ca
Trump's new 50% tariff to hit even CUSMA-compliant goods | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will impose tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of Canadian exports, a dramatic ramping up of his trade war against his northern neigh...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fellow Americans, behold the United States President, opining with all the maturity, dignity and splendor of his high office:
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Esprit de l'escalier @jeofree.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I think I'll pitch this: Bob wants to send a message to Alice, but he must survive a gauntlet of algorithmic assassins. Can his superpower of infinite entropy outpace the villain’s ability to decrypt reality before the handshake is complete?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Don't take my word for it, listen to this Fox News segment" I am begging the establishment centrists to please, please, please shut the fuck up. You're worried about your sinecures and pretending the party itself is in danger. It's not. Shut. The fuck. Up.
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Esprit de l'escalier @jeofree.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"I'm not going to answer that question" (30 seconds later) "I answered that question" I wonder who they think sees this as clever or having wiggled out of the question. And the answer is well it would have to be someone unbelievably stupid, so bingo, that's the only person they're auditioning for
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Republican senators are not going to block lying fascist Todd Blanche from becoming attorney general. If they were decent people, they wouldn't be Republicans.
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Esprit de l'escalier @jeofree.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Falklands War today, American War of Independence on Sunday!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
What I'll remember most about Senator Graham is how he sent my friends to die in an unnecessary war in Iraq
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/07/2026
Maybe we should remember Lindsey Graham the way Fox News is remembering him this morning. For his rabid defense of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. Never forget: Graham’s speech helped push Kavanaugh across the finish line and onto the Supreme Court.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71
Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.Over his Senate career, Mr. Graham led two influential committees, Judiciary and Budget.

As head of the Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also played a critical role during the 2016 fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, aiding in Republicans’ success in blocking the pick.More broadly, Mr. Graham was instrumental in advancing Mr. Trump’s effort to reshape the federal judiciary.
During his tenure at the helm of the committee, the Senate confirmed more than 200 federal judges, including Ms. Barrett, cementing one of the defining conservative judicial legacies of the Trump era.As chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Graham played a central role in translating Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda into legislation. He oversaw the budget resolution that allowed Republicans to advance much of the president’s sweeping tax, immigration and spending package without support from Senate Democrats.

The effort required months of negotiations among warring factions within his party before the tax package became law last year. Mr. Graham, along with Republican leaders and the Trump administration, embraced budget reconciliation as the party’s primary vehicle for enacting Mr. Trump’s agenda at a time when Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Those efforts became a defining accomplishment of Mr. Trump’s return to Washington with a Republican-controlled legislature, and highlighted not only the growing influence of Mr. Graham within his party but also his transformation from Trump critic into a steadfast and outspoken ally.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
He fell asleep in a meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, referred to Iran as the "Islamic Republic of Japan", TikTok as "Tic Tac", President Zelensky as "President Putin" & once again demanded the U.S. be given control of Greenland. He's much less dangerous while sleeping than when he's awake. 💤
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I just need you to find 5 goals
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This bizarre @newrepublic.com piece accuses me of being a proponent of American exceptionalism and someone who refuses to challenge the basic myths of American history and, uh, that is certainly a take?
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How Historians Took Over Liberal Punditry
The hottest resistance talking aheads during Trump 2.0 are academics. What happened?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
By his own admission, he had no idea what a red card was, but he knew -- better than the ref, better than FIFA -- that what Balogun did did not meet the standards for getting a red card, which, again, he had never heard of before. This is like watching JD lecture the pope, but more corrupt.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Billions of people look forward to the World Cup and Donald Trump is tainting it for the entire world. It's disgusting. It's devaluing the USMT and their honest accomplishments in this tournament.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Better version bsky.app/profile/curr...
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Turns out “America 250” was a temperature forecast
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
apparently they told people to go to the department of commerce for shelter but the doors are locked, and ngl that’s a good bit. say what you will about the big guy, but he hates his supporters as much as we do
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Esprit de l'escalier @jeofree.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trext of the Presidential message to America July 4 2026: IMMEDIATE EVACUATION
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Fast Casual TBogg+ @tbogg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Genius….
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Guy who taped his mouth shut to show how he had been silenced after getting pushback for his decisions fires officials who disagreed with him.
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It’s now beyond question: Ezra Klein is just another mediocre white man with a free pass.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Dems now only have to sweep the 4 toss-ups (and win all Lean-D or better) to get to 51. Huge change since a year ago. Obviously no sure thing - they're toss-ups! - but yet another indication that the Senate majority has gone from impossibly uphill for Dems to 50/50.
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