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Jonathan Larsen

@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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Journalist. jonathanlarsen.substack.com and thefuckingnews.substack.com Ex-MSNBC (Up, Countdown), ex-CNN (AC 360), ex-ABCNews

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 18h
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 15h
LOL, the State Department has seen this. The Wall Street Journal reached out to the State Department prior to publishing the Guilfoyle story yesterday.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A chiropractor adjusted a giraffe's neck and jaw to ease her chewing troubles, and Gerry loved every second of the treatment.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
‘We have to suck it up’: Ken Paxton privately suggests cutting federal benefit programs to reduce national deficit "Around 3/4 of mandatory federal spending went toward Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the most recent fiscal year, according to CBO" www.texastribune.org/2026/10/08/k...
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Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio
In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I wonder if men realize what the experience is like of being someone who was raped having to read about rape, the details of rape, every new rape, men justifying rape, universities complicit in rape, a democratic candidate being raped, day after day after day.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Diana Fletcher @dicoach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look how easy it is to frame this issue! This handsome writer did it and he’s not very smart www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
IDK about you guys, but I use Wikipedia multiple times a day, every day, and I value them highly. Even if you're tight, it's worth it to give at least the minimum. =================== I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's almost as if commodity futures markets aren't doing what they're supposed to do...
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Gas Prices Really Are Trump's Fault, Just Not for the Reason People Think
Energy Secretary Wright blamed traders for the oil spike, but didn't address why they're able to cause price spikes
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
The ICE Air Operations official handbook allows minors as young as 13 to be shackled on ICE flights. We don’t know this girl/young woman’s age, but if she is over 18, it probably isn’t by much. I don’t know how those flight “guards” sleep at night.
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Diana Fletcher @dicoach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
reportedly sending all the U.S. bombers, as recently as Sunday, back home to America where they’re safe except from gas prices." @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/agopalypse...
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aGOPalypse Nov
Republican prophesy foretells trials and tribulations for America but only after thou votest
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Melinda🗽🇺🇸 @melindajean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Including a list of the additional hell that will be coming “after the midterms” Maybe AI will kill us all by then, and we won’t notice. Reporting by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/audio-agop...
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AUDIO: aGOPalypse Nov
The Fucking News for Oct. 5, 2026
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My God.
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): No one will even consider the possibility that this woman made a decision to get it on with four men total, not seven, and enjoyed it because — I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs. She has a whole video online talking about her cankles. And she possibly enjoyed being admired. This is how women make these mistakes. Admired, wanted, some women even foolishly say loved by these guys at Cornell. But this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one.

I'm not trying to be insulting. I'm just trying to tell you the narrative that is likely to have occurred here, in my opinion. And why can't we account for that possibility? That the girl who was never the most sought after suddenly had four guys who wanted to have sex with her. And she counted this, yeah, in her inebriated state, as a win and liked the feeling of being sexy and desired and wanted. It happens. Sorry, it does. And that's why she kept saying yes. 

Why do we have to go right to she's a victim? Even she took weeks to get there. It wasn't until they told her she couldn't go to the party. We all know that. Right? This is so disempowering to all of womankind, to all of us, to our daughters. We are capable of making decisions. She made the decision to drink and then show up at a fraternity house at 11 o'clock.
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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 05/10/2026
His self-rehab tour is absolutely galling. And it's revealing that the media is uncritically and enthusiastically enabling it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 🏳️‍🌈 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨 Trump says he might resume the Iran War that he won after it’s too late for voters to do anything about it. White House also plans war on vestigial reproductive autonomy to start in the 2026 campaign’s 4th trimester. ICE killed almost twice as many people as last year. @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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aGOPalypse Nov
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If Alito made them his friends in the first place, presumably he valued their judgment. Maybe give that some thought. To the folks who were friends with Samuel Alito, I'm sorry you were that lonely. To the folks who dropped him, I'm glad you weren't that lonely.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thank you. Adding to TFN's resources for Taking Action...
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Melinda🗽🇺🇸 @melindajean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Schmitt’s shmokes-person” 😜😂🤣 May Schmitt be a punchline for eternity 🙏 Reporting by independent journalist @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/audio-what...
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AUDIO: What NEW Shit Everyone Got Wrong about Jack Smith Attacker Eric Schmitt
The Fucking News for Oct. 2, 2026
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social for calling on the legal profession to step up to protect elections Our democracy needs you! If you are a lawyer with some time to give, join the good fight w/ @wetheaction.bsky.social👇
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Which of these invaluable identities should we choose? Genius: Neither!
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Lisa Satsun ☮️💜🤷🏻‍♀️ - at your service! @lisasatsun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Important piece of this puzzle @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/what-new-s...
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What NEW Shit Everyone Got Wrong about Jack Smith Attacker Eric Schmitt
Missouri senator defending false attack on former special prosecutor with new lies, also ignored by corporate media
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Diana Fletcher @dicoach.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Linsay Rousseau aka The Rogue Voice @linsayrousseau.com · 02/10/2026
Pete Hegseth put Elon Musk & the Anduril guy in charge of planning America's future wars, then launched a 4-star command to buy killer robots. His reason: the Pentagon has "obvious biases." So he asked 2 Pentagon contractors. Plus an Office of Religious Affairs. Kudos to @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"...a meme until further notice..."
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Atheists United @atheistsunited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So far in 2026, we’ve given out 43,916 lbs of food, impacting over 4,217 people! The stereotype is that atheists just sit around angry at religion all day. The reality is we're in our communities constantly trying to improve peoples live.
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Diana Fletcher @dicoach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Automakers don’t want to have to retool yet again when Trump hydroplanes off this mortal coil and a new president makes cars kill humanity a little more slowly again." thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/trump-rele... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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Trump Releases Emissions Even Worse than His Own
New rule would increase emission limits for U.S. cars
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
X is blocking the Brazilian Catholic Bishops' Conference account as polling shows Catholics backing Lula. The Church has denounced outside interference in the election
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Diana Fletcher @dicoach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
false justifications for war. Note that at no point, apparently, did anyone pick up the phone to #Beijing. In other words, the Pentagon may have almost brought about the End of Days bcuz they were out of minutes." @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not to be that nerd, but, no.
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Lisa Satsun ☮️💜🤷🏻‍♀️ - at your service! @lisasatsun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very helpful info for the deep blue team!! via TFN🙂 @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/senate-rac...
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Senate Races
There are 35 Senate races this year; here are some of the ones most closely contested
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Diana Fletcher @dicoach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Senate Races @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/senate-rac...
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Senate Races
There are 35 Senate races this year; here are some of the ones most closely contested
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I suspect that this "ignorance" about Rich Kids, as much as anything else, is what prevents truly Leftist politics from taking hold in this country. There really is no danger of a "slippery slope towards socialism," despite what you may have heard.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Aunt Beatles
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As gross as performative masculinity is, the upside of Paxton trying to make Talarico seem effeminate or whatever… …is how much worse Paxton now looks running from him.
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Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 🏳️‍🌈 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 Iran’s foreign minister said Thursday that if the U.S. does not agree to continue the war, Iran might have no choice but to open the Strait of Hormuz, end hostilities, and resume all-out diplomatic talks on Iranian nuclear power. @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social #TheFuckingNews
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U.S. on Alert against Possible Iran Peace Deal
Iran threat to open Strait of Hormuz could jeopardize U.S. war
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Diana Fletcher @dicoach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The order, issued by a Trump-appointed judge, means Trump will have to admit these unwanted people against Trump’s will the way teen pageant contestants and E. Jean Carroll did." thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/trump-to-l... @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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Trump to Lower Diesel Prices by Raising Diesel Prices
Trump reportedly is or isn’t planning mandatory or voluntary cuts of diesel exports to bring down or raise record prices
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you.
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Linsay Rousseau aka The Rogue Voice @linsayrousseau.com · 24/09/2026
JD Vance just kicked 750,000 people off Obamacare. Dr. Oz's red flags: they never filed a claim, and the government tried "telexing" them. And the "Biden-era" fraud case they showed off? It started in August 2018. Under Trump. Great reporting by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was told the hackers looking for waste, fraud, and abuse finished last year.
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
…se puede.
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SiriusXM Progress @siriusxmprog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‼️On Today's @msignorile.bsky.social Show‼️ @amandamarcotte.bsky.social of @salon.com @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social of The F***ing News @digby56.bsky.social of @salon.com 🔊Listen Here: Signorile.com 📞Join the Conversation: (866) 997-4748
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Dennis "dejay" Koch @dennisjkoch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE Disappears More than 15,000 People Also vanished, their ability to fight for their rights @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social #ICE #USA #Trump #uspoli thefuckingnews.substack.com/p/ice-disapp...
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ICE Disappears More than 15,000 People
Also vanished, their ability to fight for their rights
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He ain’t wrong.
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Tim Murphy @tmurp1953.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump’s self aggrandizing “arch” - if it’s actually built - should be dismantled Berlin Wall style, with hammers and chisels. Could be a helluva fund raiser for worthy causes if done right!
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