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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

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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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not to mention: Who was the president in 2008? Were they perceived as handling the economy well, or did they do such a terrible job that the opposing party won the presidency in a landslide, plus the only Senate supermajority this century?

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminds me of David Perdue’s flailing in 2020—the “TOTALLY EXONERATED, NO WRONGDOING” ads and skipping the runoff debate were so clearly the move of a campaign that didn’t expect a real contest

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s a form of fandom pioneered by Marvel and “Star Wars” fanboys and Swifties: People want to have their favorite thing be both the most popular thing *and* an underdog. They want to win the cultural battle and still get to be aggrieved as if they had lost.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

One of the big drivers of the Choosin Texas discourse is that it’s no longer enough for people to accept something exists and be okay with that, you have to actively affirm its greatness. Saying you don’t like it is the greatest sin of all. You gotta grow up if that’s how you’re gonna act.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Woke up today to see that we're all getting yelled at for not having heard of some popular country song and folks, if we're listing popular songs I've never heard, we're going to be here for literal years. Not every demographic quirk is a "liberal silo."

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 27/09/2026

"Obama tried to freeze Fox out" is a complete lie and it's incredible that Jake Tapper feels the need to both-sides this

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of like seven reasons I don't understand certain Dems trying to human sacrifice trans people is: What in the past 25 years of American politics makes you think the Give An Inch, Take a Mile Party is going to accept anything short of utter capitulation on all issues?

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Same as pieces analyzing declining trust in the press, or medical institutions, or government writ large: Whatever problems they have, the biggest root cause is a sustained propaganda campaign against them

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Quite recently, the notion that this constitutes enough of an “emergency” to merit a shadow docket ruling would’ve been unthinkable

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have no idea if she has any interest in it but I think a Rhiannon Giddens musical would be awesome

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dear lord these people are losers

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Remember the spy balloon? Or the hay they made out of the mistakenly retained classified documents having been found in an office in [gasp] Chinatown?

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I actually think that “I will let this politician get away with programs I like less because I think they’re so good on other fronts” is a pretty reasonable take, I just think people need to admit that a) that’s their take, and b) it’s not a generalizable strategy, neither of which people ever admit

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026

They are just so committed to the sanctity of women’s sports.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If someone posted this about a Jewish Senator, it would be rightly condemned as anti-semitism. El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan, but because he is Muslim he is perpetually foreign and under suspicion.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trying to remember the last time it felt like the world was unsuccessfully trying to push something on me as hard at it is with Stavros Halkias

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All Im really asking the mainstream political media to do is to cover Trump with the persistently negative tone they use to report daily on Hasan Piker

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Part of what makes it fun is the at he clearly knows certain tropes (e.g., shooting at the locks) specifically from video games and yet somehow either he keeps screwing it up or it’s the exact wrong move for the specific moment

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The whole founding purpose of the White House Correspondents Association was that they'd all walk out if a president tried to do exactly this.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I legitimately appreciate when a horror movie is pretty up-front about “yeah this guy’s in over his head in his normal life, no way can he handle this situation”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

remembering again when Jake Tapper loudly stuck up for Fox News when the Obama administration moved their chair in the briefing room to the second row

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To be clear, while I don’t think this is widespread among Dems or reason to help Republicans win by not voting or voting third party, it’s abhorrent and unacceptable language and should be condemned universally by Dems.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, many, MANY of these stories bank on the ability to quote “Democratic strategists” without clarifying whether it’s somebody actually important and influential or some barnacle at a consulting firm you’ve never heard of

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Job #1 is to win. There’s no such thing as an honorable loss. Sorry!

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Is there one (1) conspiracy theory this man does not believe? Like, is Bobby also looking for the lizard king's castle at the heart of Hollow Earth?!?!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

the midterms are just one grand exercise in the american electorate finally coming around to the single most accurate political axiom of the past decade: orange man bad

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is just “nobody I know voted for Nixon” except completely unironic (unlike the original quote, which was a self-effacing acknowledgment of being out of touch)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026

this is a stupid decision by Hasan if he actually cares about getting the people he supports elected you can think this is true and you can still consider optics enough not to go on “the Axios show” and make sure AES gets to spend the whole next week being asked about it at every event

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

God, this is just so incredibly infuriating

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A decade ago, if you aimed to predict Supreme Court decisions, which has proven a better heuristic? 1) Follow legal text and precedent according to a logically consistent judicial philosophy 2) Ignore or distort law to maximize GOP/right-wing power while mitigating risks of future court expansion

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026

ah yes, firsthand experience: a thing Mr Rogers did decades ago, and a thing I made up in my head about Ms Rachel doing

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sonnybunch.bsky.social @sonnybunch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Real people are going to suffer because Donald Trump would rather shut the Kennedy Center down than allow it to operate without his name garishly plastered on its side. It's practically the definition of malignant narcissism. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-day-and-...

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A Day, and a Nation, at the Kennedy Center

From Tchaikovsky to redneck humor: the arts in Trump’s America.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s wild you’re expected to celebrate SCOTUS not allowing the president to dismantle a voting method used by tens of millions at the 11th hour — and also, at the same time, it absolutely is a big deal and couldn’t be taken for granted.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 15/09/2026

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Others have said this but it’s truly insane that Brett Kavanaugh, lover of the major questions doctrine, thinks there’s a good chance USPS can use a vague grant of authority over mail processing to radically alter absentee voting procedures in all 50 states without congressional approval. Come on.

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m surprised it took this long for something like this to happen

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family"

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Don’t worry, as soon as a Democrat takes office, the media will care extremely deeply about questions like how policies are financed to the twelfth decimal

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Jeremy Venook @jvenook.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When your entire political ideology is just knee-jerk rejecting liberals and/or Democrats, it can lead to some very weird positions

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Let us break the law or we’ll shoot this dog” essentially

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Feel like they’re in a panic after the Odyssey and will say this about literally every big entertainment release until something bombs and they can go see see see

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Nicole Wilkins @nvw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Allowing the most transphobic person to win an election will not convince anyone that being transphobic is a political loser.

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