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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10h

Trump's taxpayer-funded ad campaign and false promises that he'll write everyone a $5,000 check are transparently desperate. These tactics have sadly worked for him in the past. Finally, polls show Americans are wising up to his idiotic con job. www.salon.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Trump can't trick Americans into loving him

Voters aren’t falling for Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads and phony promises to pay them $5,000

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h

joe biden is the most powerful president in american history, able to control world events from his home in delaware, far away from the trappings of the presidency. biden, god emperor, manipulator of markets and media. bow before his grace, first of his name.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 8h

These guys are so convinced of their own conspiracy theories… and somehow see no contradiction in their “weaponization of government” allegations.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18h

When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 8h

"When we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped." - Ken Paxton, surreptitiously taped at a donor meeting, according to the New York Times

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

I don't find the Schmitt Senate fiasco remotely funny. It's just McCarthyism but more incompetent. It's appalling, & a constitutional order that can't end this level of unserious lying & extremist nonsense isn't worth saving. We need massive institutional reform to make sure it never happens again.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/08/2026

PENNSYLVANIA: Trump is on the ballot this November. His name is Scott Perry.

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LiL'Silver @officiallilsilver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm telling you this as a former Congressman who was tasked with investigating him for his involvement with the deadly January 6th insurrection, so I hope you'll hear me out: Scott Perry is not someone we can trust.

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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 10h

HOLY PA-01 SCOOP IN POLITICO!! Brian Fitzpatrick's awful ads seem to show a bunch of news headlines. But those deceptive quotes didn't come from actual news reports - they were written by one of his wedding guests, a felon who was once on the payroll of his own campaign, who self-published them!

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The source of Brian Fitzpatrick’s campaign ad attack fodder: A guest at his own wedding

Self-published articles from a longtime ally are showing up in the vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican’s attack ads.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 11h

Amazing photo but the headline here is, imo, needlessly indirect, and it surprises me that Senator Schmitt, the person responsible for the embarrassing ”Hawks-Hawkeyes mix-up,” isn’t mentioned by name in the headline.

Why Caitlin Clark was at the center of a Hawks-Hawkeyes mix-up during Senate argument.

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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 10h

NEW from me - Obama is pushing the prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidates to do more on AI -- and he's not the only one. But worries about being hit by campaign spending and the changing politics have most staying pretty quiet and undefined www.cnn.com/2026/09/30/p...

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Exclusive: Barack Obama’s hidden hand shaping Democrats’ AI debate | CNN Politics

The former president is pushing 2028 Democratic hopefuls to develop specific plans for how to tackle AI — but some of them are wary of antagonizing the industry.

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Jon Pennington @jonpennington.bsky.social · 9h

Sure, let's listen to the ghoul who committed the biggest Medicare fraud of all time & got away with it.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 10h

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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Sandy-O @sandy-o.bsky.social · 10h

When the authar says that people think girls are so much harder to raise than boys . . . well, that's because few actually bother properly raising boys.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 10h

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...

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A Survivor’s Education

A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 20h

Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19h

Time for this classic again.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20h

Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20h

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 21h

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 22h

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

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Too young to legally consent to sign a contract. But old enough to consent away where they want to live to be shipped someplace random by a government that hates them. In a just world, Hollad would need to annex half of Belgium to find room for the expanded Hague prison thus all calls for.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After Eric Schmitt lied and was corrected at the Jack Smith hearing, the NY Times called it a “misunderstanding.” This might be fair if Schmitt had a record of honesty (he doesn’t) and if Schmitt didn’t repeat the same lie after the hearing (he did). What the hell is the NY Times doing?

Devlin Barrett and Charlie Savage
Reporting from Washington
Jack Smith, who as special counsel twice charged Donald J. Trump with criminal offenses after his first term, defended his actions in testimony before Congress on Tuesday, as a Republican senator accused him of perjury based on what appeared to be the lawmaker’s misunderstanding about a basketball game involving the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the media would have a collective orgasm over a Democrat Not Knowing Sports

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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News for 38 Year Olds @newsfor38yearolds.com · 29/09/2026

Mamdani releases plan to combat antisemitism in New York amid concerns over his criticism of Israel PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/mamda… Subscribe →

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Mamdani releases plan to combat antisemitism in New York amid concerns over his criticism of Israel

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, seriously, what the fuck is this?

The top of the Google results when I went looking to see just what Mamdani's tweet that mentioned the Talmud actually said (a search for "mamdani talmud"). This top search reasult appears to link to Mamdani's Twitter account ("NYCMayor" on "X"), then has a truncated header ("Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on ...") and then it has a vile lying antisemitic screed that ABSOLUTELY DID NOT COME FROM MAMDANI and I can only assume is some typical-for-Elon's-Nazi-website antisemitism someone wrote *about* Mamadani's post, but it's presented in the Google search results as if it's from Mamdani.

(text of the screed below, if you want to read it)
The Talmud teaches that the best of Gentiles should be killed, Jesus is boiling in excrement, and that non-Jewish souls are inferior and impure.
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Mamdani's post, linked from that vile preview, in full (but a screenshot, so it doesn't include the video). Text below:

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

Together, we will ensure Jewish New Yorkers are safe and celebrated. We will invest in their protection, their history, and their future.

Our safety and our thriving are tied together.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m da communist poster who pays Elon musk for x verification. I’m building communism by paying Elon musk to post on his Nazi website that produces AI generated CSAM.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But maybe he doesn't do this. Maybe its just a cosmic coincidence that these sort of wrecker posts constantly filter to the top there, driven by organic demand for this message that just happened to start around late 2022. Maybe Elon has too much integrity to put his finger on the scale.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't know what the X algorithm looks like on the inside but I do know if I were Elon Musk this is exactly the kind of sentiment I'd filter for (trivially easy to do even before AI) and show to left-wing users of the site (again trivially easy to ID even before AI)

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nicki Minaj isn’t a U.S. citizen, so she can’t even vote herself. For a network that pushed false claims about noncitizens voting, you’d think they’d mention that. If this is about getting Black women to vote red, I’m here to tell you that black women are smarter than all of us.

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BanmarNJ @banmarnj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falters A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falters (Gift Article)

A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Missouri Republicans really want to run the midterms on a racist MAGA map. Last Monday, the 8th Circuit said yes. On Friday, SCOTUS was like 'wtf, man' and smacked down the 8th Circuit for ignoring TWO prior orders requiring use of the non-racist map. The ruling ended up helping Black voters. 👀

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is connected to the Schmitt debacle from earlier - the Republican Party now talks only to itself using language that only they employ, everyone else is expected to follow along or have the power of the state come down on them

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

He's the richest man in history and he still kisses the ring

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