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Marching closer and closer to “your opinions are illegal.” Notice the use of “canons” instead of “law.” I’m no legal expert, but this sure seems like an absolute waste of time by the DoJ, amounting to squat. But the Trump administration knows that. It’s about intimidation, isn’t it?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13h

It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 7h

christ this infuriates me. ACA bridged the gap between my divorce (with loss of spousal benefits) and medicare eligibility. without it, I would not have had access to health care for eight years.

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump administration is quietly rewriting the rules to make it harder to qualify for Social Security disability benefits. That is not reform. That is a backdoor cut to Americans who already paid into the system their whole working lives. #GOPWarOnHealthcare x.com/OccupyDemocr...

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Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) on X

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 12h

Ihor Romanenko, former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stated that following his conversation with Putin, Trump blocked the transfer of 3,000 air-to-surface missiles to Ukraine intended for targeting ballistic missile launchers.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 Eric Fritz is CEO of Anovaeon, company running a new ICE deportation facility for unaccompanied kids about to open in Alexandria, Louisiana. Fritz: “This project over here is not a detention center,” he emphasized. 'It’s a staging center for families who are voluntarily departing this country.”

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 15h

Israel... Isn't part of NYC...

A NYT article titled "Mamdani announces plan to fight antisemitism, without discussing Israel"

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 18h

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 19h

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social breaks down how a GOP senator tried to use a supposed Atlanta Hawks game to prove Jack Smith secretly colluded with Trump prosecutors—only to learn the texts were about the Iowa Hawkeyes game he attended 700 miles away in Maryland.

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'COMPLETE DOOFUS': GOP’s Jack Smith ‘smoking gun’ CRUMBLES over Caitlin Clark game

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 19h

Donald Trump is lost. He has no idea what he’s doing at any time, but he’s gotten so far by extreme bullshitting it’s all he can do. And he’s surrounded himself with groveling sycophants and sadistic racist psychos, so there’s nobody to step in and be a fucking grown-up about any of this.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22h

Watch this, but then read the next post

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 23h

A man shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Texas earlier this month made his initial appearance in court today, after federal prosecutors charged him with assaulting an officer. New @ms.now

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Federal prosecutors charge Venezuelan man shot by ICE with assaulting an officer

Wilber Rafael Garces-Perez could face 20 years in prison for his driver’s side mirror allegedly striking an ICE agent before he was shot.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23h

What's fun about this whole contretemps and why it's worth watching again is how smirky Schmitt starts out - this is going to be his big moment – and how honest a puzzled Smith comes off, and how sharp Klobuchar was to quickly figure out the basic mistake. And then how pissy Schmitt gets at her.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Btw if you read this and immediately thought “well not all men”… pause for a second. The men I trust are the ones who read what I just wrote and choose to listen, to empathize, to ask questions to better understand. They know they are not the men I am angry about and they don’t need say so.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 23h

If any fucker ever says “SI” to me I’m going to insist they are talking about Sports Illustrated.

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John Maen @johnmaen.bsky.social · 23h

“We’re gonna go down to, the capitol!” same energy, bro. a shiny promise that he’ll inevitably squirm out of after he gets what he wants; in this case votes in the midterms.

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John Maen @johnmaen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The wealthy will never, ever, support anything like UBI, or what this tube of festering privilege calls “universal high income.” It will never be a thing under the current trajectory of our social structure. If billionaires were supporting programs like healthcare, education, clean water or energy

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.

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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SEN. SCHMITT: You said "if anyone orders merlot I'm leaving" JACK SMITH: I uh (checking notes) I do not recall SCHMITT: You said "I am not drinking any fucking merlot." Why were you in wine country? SEN. KLOBUCHAR: My colleague from Missouri is confusing Mr. Smith with Paul Giamatti.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW: OpenAI just got hit with the first-known lawsuit over the Hugging Face hack its agents carried out over the summer. @lhn.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/openai...

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OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack

A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not, and attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The bozos in question.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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John Maen @johnmaen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This could potentially backfire for this administration. This administration is powered, in large part, by Christian nationalist ideology. Trumps penchant for greed, corruption, deceit etc. is often overlooked by these conservatives because he has thrown them a bone on social issues like Roe, the

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit denies Trump and lawyers’ request to stay the sanctions order in Trump v. IRS pending Trump and lawyers’ appeal of the sanctions order. Notably, the panel is unanimous and included a Trump appointee (Newsom). Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-irs-...

Before JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges.
BY THE COURT:
The appellants, some of whom were the plaintiffs below, move for an order staying aspects of the district court's post-judg-ment sanctions order pending appeal. After review of the record and the parties' briefing, we deny the motion.!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up

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John Maen @johnmaen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two guys who only play Madden in coach mode.

two bumbling weasels realizing their work is shoddy and lame

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's difficult to show an alternate rationale when the settlement gave the President and his family benefits (including future non-prosecution) that were wholly unrelated to the nature of the claim.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”

Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.

Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.

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John Maen @johnmaen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It sure seems like a whole of what Donald Trump does is a gift to Putin, one way or another.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026

Indian firm building $15bn Trump-announced steel mill has deep Russia ties aje.news/z5fe87

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

See, it’s funny because he’s been accused of rape.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When Schmitt was Missouri's AG he brought a lawsuit to stop student debt cancellation. The basic facts that lawsuit was based on were false. Getting the facts wrong is Schmitt's special skill, but when SCOTUS is politically motivated to do something the facts & law don't matter.

A screenshot of the headline from this article: https://newrepublic.com/article/172337/case-against-student-debt-relief

The headline reads "The Lie at the Heart of the States' Case Against Student Debt Relief: A new investigation has found that the numbers submitted by the plaintiffs simply don't add up." by Tori Otten May 2, 2023 in the New Republic

A screenshot of a headline from this article: https://prospect.org/2023/05/03/2023-05-03-fake-plaintiff-fake-harm-fake-case/

The headline reads: "Fake Plaintiff, Fake Harm, Fake Case: The Supreme Court is poised to unwind a fair number of legal principles to make sure student debtors don't get a break" by David Dayen for The American Prospect May 3, 2023

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

like even if he got the facts right it was all just bull shit and they were all obviously ready to try and manufacture a news cycle stealing nontroversy using this catnip for chuds with an assist from mainstream media. its just all become so freaking tiring, we have actual issues in this country

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 29/09/2026

"I just wish I could prove Jack Smith was at a Hawks game!" *monkey's paw curls*

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026

The senator who mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury? He could be the most dangerous man in the US Senate. What to know about Eric Schmitt:

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Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?

Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.

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

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reposting this with alt text: Near as I can tell, you can't see a home Atlanta Hawks game from section 109 row 1 - the rows in section 109 are lettered not numbered. Not the case for the DC-area UMD Terps, who Catlin Clark put 38 on during the Feb 3 game. Their 109 has numbered rows.

Atlanta Hawks seating chart shows Section 109 has lettered rows

UMD seating chart shows Section 109 has numbered rows.

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