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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7h

If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 13h

Jesus Christ Cornell

What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
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Delayed
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Held By Carrier
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Destroyed
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 17h

“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

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

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 22h

It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22h

One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 19h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h

Holy shit this is delicious. That smarmy little smile on Schmidt’s face when he thinks he has Smith. Then the utter humiliation.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.

theintercept.com

The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michael Tracey seems to operate on the belief that there’s still someone out there who does not think he’s a total piece of shit and by God he’s going to convince them he is

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Woman accuses Idaho drag performer of exposing himself, uploads edited version of his act blurring out what she claims are his private parts. After he sues her for defamation, her appellate filings misstate and hallucinate Idaho law. Idaho Supreme Court upholds $1.1 million verdict in his favor.

reason.com

$1.1M Libel Award to Drag Performer Who Had Been Accused of Exposing Himself Upheld

Idaho Supreme Court finds false caselaw quotations, after jury found false factual assertions.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where could these men have gotten such a sense of entitlement about touching women?

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Trump On Tape: I Grab Women "By The Pu**y”

YouTube video by TDC

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It feels to me that war crimes and crimes against humanity are just happening all the time and nothing is being done about it. I'm not sure how to enforce international law, especially against nuclear powers like Russia and the US, but it could use a little help.

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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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Sage @gleaningsage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What if every mayor and member of every city council was a Mamdani type? Every governor and member of every state legislature? Every member of Congress? Every president? Like just think about that for a minute. Every elected official just doing stuff people want instead of being crappy.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's always been stupid and fake, but even more so now, that a "caravan" of migrants would be coming here, of all times, given how we are torturing and renditioning and sending them to concentration camps.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i am growing very close to convinced that Andy Beshear actually Believes in Things.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Called it again

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
x.com/AnthonyAguero/…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s not remotely hard to do this. And yet ….

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 28/09/2026

One thing the last few years should have taught us is how useless any box-office rankings are if they don’t account for inflation. Because when you do account for the value of money over time, ‘Gone With the Wind’ (1939) is #1 with over a *billion* more than ‘Endgame’ (#5).

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JCO’s fursona is a velociraptor.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It was so nice for that little time where he had no microphone.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Huh. The Daily Wire is reporting something that would be *enormous* if true, as since July the majority of all ICE arrests are people with no criminal record. I am deeply skeptical of such a massive operational change, given how the White House/DHS keep bragging about setting arrest records.

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SCOOP: ICE officers across the country were told this weekend to stop arresting non-criminals, agency sources tell @realDailyWire
Now, ICE may only arrest illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges for the time being, said the sources.
The change also ends so-called "collateral arrests,
" sources said, meaning officers who find a criminal target alongside others in the country illegally may detain only the target.

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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You can always tell when a Republican gets a new billionaire sponsor who has a single, very, very specific issue they would like the American people to hear about.

The image is a tweet from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that reads: "Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots. Lord help us."

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a book about how completely unprincipled attention hounds will always make their way to the right because they know the right will have them. The NYMag piece? I guess that’s a story about how unprincipled attention hounds deserve attention as long as they’re shitting on democrats.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 27/09/2026

This whole thread. Aka how “So you hate waffles?” isn’t just a social-media phenomenon. Context-blindness is everywhere.

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 27/09/2026

Isn’t it curious how “Sean Davis” and “particularly stupid” always fit so well in the same sentence

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are like 500 of these books and they all exist in an alternate universe where trying to win over white working class voters is a Bold Forbidden Insight rather than the guiding ideology of the entire party.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Probably time to stop calling them judges

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