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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21h
BRETT KAVANAUGH: "Can you explain exactly how the consent would work?" Just saying... if *I* were Brett Kavanaugh, *I* WOULDN'T ASK A QUESTION SHOWING THAT I WAS CONFUSED HOW CONSENT WORKS! But maybe that's just me.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Making of the Perfect Martini, Guy Buffet, Lithography, 2000.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?
Getty pic of Xi and TrumpTrump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's faceoriginal pic image of MonicaTrump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
A while back when SCOTUS ordered Trump to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, Roberts said “courts must show due regard and deference” to him on national security matters. Since then, he’s used it to justify everything from the ballroom to the arch, mass deportation, boat strikes, and now this.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ok now we gotta know the specifics, sorry, this has gone from being "well that's weird" to "this is about one particular person who fucked a goat"
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Trump claims that Michael Cohen "has just fully RECANTED his testimony" against the president, who was convicted of 34 felonies and held liable for bank fraud. Except that he hasn't. Cohen hasn't taken back any of it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
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For Trump’s Former Fixer, a Tortured Path From ‘Rat’ to Reconciliation
The president has made peace with Michael D. Cohen, his onetime lawyer who turned against him. But contrary to Mr. Trump’s claims, Mr. Cohen has not recanted the testimony that helped convict his form...
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 04/09/2026
HHS is canceling infant mortality and postpartum grants to focus instead on research related to what the department says are “root causes” like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction. www.notus.org/health-science/hhs-ca…
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HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/08/2026
Whoa! Pentagon officials are warning of Navy payroll shortfalls after funds meant for service member pay were raided to help cover war costs. 📌 An official says they had to use “imaginative” workarounds to avoid the shortfall.
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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A massive flash flood in the Himalayan border areas of Nepal and ‌China's Tibet. Initial report say it may have been caused by a glacial lake rupture.
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Cosmo Catalano - How The Race Was Won® @howtheracewaswon.com · 23/08/2026
I spent a long time detailing the crummy analysis in US cycling coverage. But honestly, missing the sport's weird little quirks hurts a little bit more: howtheracewaswon.com/reels/2026-0...
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Little Quirks Like This Podium Mix-Up Are What Make New Cycling Fans
Is this Ultra-Critical Bike Racing Analysis™? No. But is it the sort of weird quirk that creates bike racing fans? Absolutely. (I now promise not to complain about Peacock’s coverage again for at le...
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Well whatta you know? Speed cameras in Oakland reduced speeding by about 80% on the treated corridors, essentially the same result as the speed cameras in San Francisco. Seems like a pretty successful policy, if you ask me.
Where speeding fell most along Oakland camera corridors
Share of drivers traveling 11 mph or more over the speed limit in summer 2024 and summer 2026, showing percentage-point (pp.) change
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
GAO finds 96% of DOGE’s claimed savings on federal grants cannot be verified federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-news...
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GAO finds 96% of DOGE’s claimed savings on federal grants cannot be verified | Federal News Network
Some savings that DOGE posted on its “wall of receipts” website were already being phased out before DOGE was established.
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Dr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Separating the MMR into separate vaccines was Wakefield’s grift when he authored his fraudulent paper that the MMR caused autism. #DrainTheSwamp www.theguardian.com/society/2010...
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Andrew Wakefield found 'irresponsible' by GMC over MMR vaccine scare
Doctor's research triggered a furore and was direct cause of slump in take-up of MMR, which has led to outbreaks of measles in some parts of the country
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Shola Hoon @sholahoon.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“As Trump has blown $1.8 billion on construction projects, he’s also been busy profiting off the presidency through stock purchases that reek of insider trading, foreign licensing deals, crypto sales, and even the stocking of Trump wine and cider in stores run by the Coast Guard.” Absurdly corrupt.
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A town sign seen through a train window.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
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olivianicolai.bsky.social @olivianicolai.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Remember during Covid when they relaxed open container laws so you could grab a cocktail and walk around and it was completely fine and the world did not end
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The FDA has announced that 1.6 million eggs have been contaminated with salmonella, forcing a nationwide recall. Last year, the Trump administration scrapped regulations to limit salmonella and laid off hundreds of food safety inspection workers.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
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Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My favorite moviegoing experience of 2023 was seeing Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron. a row ahead of us, about an hour and a half into the film, a little boy asked his dad, "What's happening?" and his dad said, with utter sincerity: "I don't know"
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Virginia @hatfield.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Matt Damon Sings 'Scotty Doesn't Know' in Eurotrip
Alt: Matt Damon Sings 'Scotty Doesn't Know' in Eurotrip
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The sooner the inherent contradiction between the captialism of the petty bourgeoisie and the system's true masters is brought to the fore, the sooner the contradictions resolve--resulting in the demise of the Old and the New born it its place! Chipotle for the Revolution! --Marx (plausibly)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/07/2026
"In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out 3 other strikes Those attacks injured dozens of service members and damaged several helicopters. But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes."
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Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War (Gift Article)
Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/07/2026
Glad to see this policy, for which I've been stumping relentlessly for a year, popping up in the real world!
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New Jersey law will let data centers pay for home energy upgrades
In a first, the state could speed up data centers’ grid connection if they bankroll energy-saving residential tech like heat pumps and batteries.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 17/07/2026
Trump's declassified election intelligence pretty clearly shows that China *could have,* but didn't, meddle in the 2020 election to help Biden win. But that Russia *did* meddle to help Trump win.
Table showing that Russia and Iran targeted and manipulated election processes, but that China took "preliminary or preparatory steps, with or without specific intent."

Intelligence dated August 19, 2020CIA memo: "However, we assess at this
time China probably judges the risk of being caught interfering in the US election outweighs any
potential gains."
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved back to Alabama www.al.com/news/2026/06...
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Tuberville voted in Florida after tax records say he moved to Alabama
Tuberville claimed Alabama residency in August 2018. He and his wife voted in Florida three months later.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.
“That is a lie,” wrote Jose Trinidad Rojas, 51, in a handwritten statement. “It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over … there were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle. They were on the sides.”

Balderas-Ibarra spoke to Rojas, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, 43, and the shooting victim’s brother, Victor Salgado, 44, and said he heard the same story from each as he interviewed them separately. The men are not being housed together, the attorney said. All three are undocumented Mexican immigrants who are now facing removal proceedings.

“All of them reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van,” Balderas-Ibarra said. “They came in and started shooting from the sides.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2026
NEWS: Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa Ashley Hinson says her family can barely afford groceries. Her disclosures say she’s worth up to $7M richer since taking office. And the “all my stocks are sold” claim? Also false. The receipts 👇
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Ashley Hinson Says She Feels Americans' Financial Pain Despite Being a Millionaire
Hinson called herself a "working mom" while making millions on the stock market
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A new court filing suggests that Border Patrol lied about the basis of a traffic stop that led to the shooting of a US citizen, a German tourist, and a Border Patrol agent. Only when cases go to court do we find out about DHS lies and its unlawful tactics come to light.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
They’ve said this about nearly everyone they’ve shot in a moving car, and they’ve lied nearly every time.
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useless username @uselessusername.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Back in my day, we had little coins called pennies. "Give me five pennies for a nickel," we'd say. On one side was a picture of Abe Lincoln and on the other side was another, smaller, picture of Lincoln.
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Jeff Boone @jeffreyboone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Already true in Iowa, same mechanism (GOP legislature mandate) www.kcrg.com/2026/06/03/c...
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Courses will be required at University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom
University of Iowa Students will now be required to take classes from the new Center for Intellectual Freedom in order to graduate.
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/06/2026
GREAT NEWS: I've figured out a way to blame an outside vendor for a work project I've procrastinated on solving
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/06/2026
get smoked idiot
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
The described cocktail in a coupe glass.  It's very algae lookin
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“.. A trainee in his sixth week of basic training died after falling ill on Friday and being taken to Brooke Army Medical Center, the Air Force said in a news release.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
you know this guy absolutely, positively knows this shit inside and out because he looks like the pooliest pool guy whoever pooled
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Elder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I have to say it again, this is insane, it's white-suits-and-nets insane. They need missles to defend themselves from the UNITED STATES, says THE UNITED STATES SENATOR??
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
THEY'RE SO SHINY YOU CAN SEE A REFLECTION OF YOURSELF NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD GROCERIES!
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
shout out as always to Mildred Loving, a real one. web.archive.org/web/20080514...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/06/2026
US ATTORNEY ESSAYLI: Is there enough fraud to sway an election? We don't know CUOMO: No ESSAYLI: You can't say 'no.' You haven't done an investigation CUOMO: I've covered elections for 30 years. You know how many cases of widespread fraud I covered? One! And it was the Trump administration
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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 09/06/2026
So one thing I’d like to see from a politician is saying “we should make people follow laws again” instead of “here’s why I hate trans people bipartisanly” or “I like sports and beer”
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