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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11h
Klobuchar: “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.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
JUST IN: The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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The Trump administration weakens fuel efficiency standards for new cars
The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maybe Trump and Republicans can work out a compromise, count immigrants as three-fifths of a full person or something
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Trump’s Census Proposal to Exclude Some Immigrants Could Cut Seats From Red States
A Trump administration proposal to block some immigrants from the 2030 census could shift congressional seats away from Republican states, a New York Times analysis found.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What kind of person tries to make one of our Nation's greatest tragedies all about themself? #Pathetic
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That is an incidence rate of… 0.00547% The voter fraud allegations you’ve been sold are blatantly and provably false.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One easy way to tell they're not actually "the most transparent administration in history" is that this is the first time in five decades that the president and vice president didn't have their taxes audited and released to the public.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on - if your position is that the president of the United States and his family should be immune from IRS scrutiny, you’re unqualified to be the Attorney General. It’s an indictment on our entire system that 50 GOP Senators don’t agree.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“The first time Miller shared the folder, it contained private images of Miller and Ms. Moreno's daughter and left her name unredacted. At least one of those images could be considered Child Sexual Abuse Material (SAM) because the daughter's genitals appear to be visible. ...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cool, cool. We’re basically out of ATACMS and PrSM, and we used half our *global* TLAM supply… all for the Strait of Hormuz to still be closed?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"More needs to be made of this," a senior CBS News staffer tells me about the 60 Minutes story that Sharyn Alfonsi was working on about Epstein and banks that appears to have been scuttled after her firing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s latest effort to overhaul higher education.

The letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, asks schools to publicly pledge to make sweeping changes that include reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition.In contrast, the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges.


AAU’s president, Barbara Snyder, described the letter as a kind of olive branch. She told Bloomberg that the administration’s outreach opened communication channels between university leaders and the White House that have been largely shut since Trump launched his pressure campaign last year. She plans to call on member colleges to support the initiative.

“It’s critical to have a really good working partnership with the federal government,” Snyder said. “Whether your particular institution is under investigation or not, everyone understands how important that is.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/07/2026
NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yep. We could bomb Iran every day for the next 10 years and still fail to significantly change the battlefield calculus. I’m obviously no fan of the Iranian regime, but this is why I said we couldn’t win this war with air power alone, and that it was a foolish war to enter.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/07/2026
Trump on Balogun: "That wasn't even an infraction...this referee, who is a little bit suspect if you check his past. He made a call nobody could believe...he's our best player, or one of our best players. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant...yes, I asked for a review by FIFA."
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 04/07/2026
Fox host Emily Compagno is terrified that Texans love James Talarico. On Friday, she called him a "demon in human skin" and "anti-Texas." Extremist rhetoric like this is designed to keep low-information Christian traditionalists in a 24/7 state of fear. They don't bother w/positive arguments.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🚨VICTORY: Supreme Court holds that federal Election Day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterwards A huge victory for our clients and the Elias Law Group team. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court rejects GOP bid to throw out mail ballots received after Election Day, in win for voters
Read more here.
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Miami Master Photographer @m-uscle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#BradleyCooper is starring in a major #Hollywood film about #January6th directed by #SeanPenn. The officers who were beaten that day are going to have their stories told to millions of people. Justice comes in many forms. This is one of them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/06/2026
Trump threats to occupy Iran: "President Trump tells Fox News he spoke with Iranian officials overnight and said, 'You close the strait and you won't have a country.' He went on to tell these officials, 'You won't even make it back to your f**king country...we'll take over the rest of the country.'"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/06/2026
Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
How the Trump family earns from crypto
Trump crypto gains and investor losses from Nov. 2024 to April 2026

ALT5 Sigma

American Bitcoin

World Liberty Financial

$TRUMP meme coin

Trump gains

+$1.1 bln

Trump gains

+$616 mln

Trump gains

Trump gains

+$538 m

+$19 mln

-$674 mln

Investor losses

Investor losses

-$711 mln

Investor losses

-$675 mln

Investor losses

-$216 mln

How the Trump family earns

How the Trump family earns

How the Trump family earns

How the Trump family earns

At the time of the deal that created this Nasdaq-listed joint venture, partner Hut 8 Inc. bought World Liberty tokens. Eric Trump also got a stake in American Bitcoin, at no cost.

A company controlled by Donald Trump’s revocable trust is entitled to 75% of net revenue from token sales by World Liberty Financial.

Donald Trump licensed his name and image to a company called Celebration Cards LLC, which raised enormous sums selling the digital token.

The Nasdaq-listed company, recently renamed AI Financial Corp., raised money from investors to buy World Liberty Financial tokens.

Card graphic showing the crypto ventures of the Trump family, how they earned and how much they gained compared to investor losses from Nov. 2024 to April 2026.

Sources: Blockchain records, company statements and interviews
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
If you told me in 2021 after J6 that one day Trump would have a $1.776 billion slush fund of taxpayer $$ to hand out to his fellow insurrectionists who committed a heinous crime against America, I wouldn’t have believed it. But the story of Trump has always been a crime story with many accomplices.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 16/05/2026
Xbox is now XBOX
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Xbox is now XBOX
Believe it or not, Microsoft appears to be rebranding Xbox.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2026
GILLIBRAND: What is your record?! I don't want to just hear about what you don't like about the Biden administration SCOTT TURNER: During the Biden administra-- GILLIBRAND: Stop talking about Biden! Talk about your record TURNER: During the Biden administration-- GILLIBRAND: Oh my God!
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/05/2026
Rep. Mike Lawler on Rand Paul’s son drunkenly confronting him at a DC bar with an antisemitic and anti-gay tirade
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
MacFarlane: Democrats are riding this wave of momentum toward the midterms. But there are concerns that the Supreme Court and local courts could just steal it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Trump on Hantavirus: We should be fine. Reporter: Should Americans be concerned that it’s going to spread? Trump: I hope not.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"A record 55 percent of those surveyed by Gallup said their financial situation is getting worse... the highest since Gallup first asked Americans about their finances in 2001, revealing less optimism than during COVID in 2020 and the Great Recession in 2008." open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Struggling Americans Are Not Buying the Lies
The affordability crisis is real. So are the frustrations of more and more of us.
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TopCat @tiffinjames.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Yes, he should.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Second (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais. For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
If Republicans feel really strongly about getting taxpayers to pay for Trump's golden ballroom, they should go out there and hold some town halls with their constituents. They can bring photos of the chandeliers and maybe a sample of the marble for them to look at. I'm sure it'll be a big hit!
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NBA @nba.com · 28/04/2026
JAMAL CAIN THROWS IT DOWN WITH FORCE! 🤯
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/04/2026
TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?
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joysters5.bsky.social @joysters5.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org
Poster of free downloadable video books sites
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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Norma Ballingall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 @balr0g.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In a nutshell. 😊
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I’m very proud of my wife for sharing the details she did. I’m disgusted by all of it. She found herself in one of those moments where she didn’t care what she lost if it helped one other person. The reality is the truth don’t care who tells it, but she told it. Love you @allysammarco.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN
A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly de...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/04/2026
Chris Murphy: "He's not telling the truth. But if you accept even part of the Iranian statement, Donald Trump has agreed to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz. That is extraordinary and cataclysmic for the world."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The President declared our country had genocidal intent, and the argument his own supporters are making in defense of it is that the genocidal threat was merely a bargaining tactic to achieve a ceasefire deal worse than the status quo before the war he started. No part of that is acceptable.
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