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"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not

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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 9h

Washington Post: “‘Sir, we think the Oval Office should be taken down, and we’ll build a new one, sir,’” said Trump, quoting a Secret Service official. “I said, ‘My ass, you can’t build a new one. This is a special place.’” bsky.app/profile/coal...

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Rebecca Bennett @rebeccabennettforcongress.com · 9h

It's simple. Trump got us into a reckless war with Iran without a plan, goal, or exit strategy. Tom Kean Jr. is going right along with him.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 14h

All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Normalcy bias is all that's keeping Pete Hegseth from being universally recognized as a mass murderer.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"If Warren G. Harding had kept his hands off Teapot Dome, gas would be under two dollars a gallon."

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stewardish.bsky.social @stewardish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If the left is responsible for stopping 15 year olds from saying dumb shit while the right isn’t even responsible for what the literal President says, humanity is fucked. Sometimes people are wrong on the internet.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is remarkable

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Jam-Covered Corgi 💻📊✡️ @ellenb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That is such a great metaphor.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A quick vocab lesson for the president: if you buy something from me, then we have a "trade deficit". It doesn't mean you got ripped off. It doesn't mean it's unfair. All it means is you ended up with more stuff and I ended up with more cash. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJqtzkwYQE

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 29/09/2026

I will never, ever forget that during the pandemic the government just direct deposited money into parents' checking accounts without anyone filing any extra paperwork. It cut child poverty in half. Then a year later Congress just let it expire.

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Adrienne Massanari @adriennemassanari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The invisible labor (often performed by women and marginalized folks) that keeps organizations afloat remains hidden and uncompensated. But those musing about AI's "transformation" of work have probably always benefited from this kind of labor in all parts of their life and don't see it as work.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

GATES: “.. I almost can’t believe you’re asking that.” @ezraklein.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Page One. @wsj.com

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

on the whole, men answered #MeToo with #NotMe even some of the men who were MeTooing up a storm, as it turned out

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

just laser focused on what voters care about

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new Democratic Congress needs to investigate this hateful man.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What Kevin said. And public media (which can be housed at universities- esp regional publics)!

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s just amazing how easy and straightforward it is to do reporting like this

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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/09/2026

Trump is facing fierce criticism over taxpayer-funded TV ads that aired just five weeks before the midterm elections. Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, said the commercials are an “abuse of power” that could amount to “an impeachable offense.”

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Trump Government-Funded Political Ads Could Be Grounds for Impeachment, Former WH Ethics Lawyer Says

The White House maintains that the pro-Trump ads paid for by the government are merely “public service announcements.”…

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026

YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With regard to the overt and jaw-dropping use of public money to manufacture and broadcast Trump politicals ads, I'm just spitballing here, but maybe, perhaps, if the U.S. Supreme Court didn't give the president blanket immunity from prosecution for crimes he wouldn't feel so comfortable criming.

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One NJ7 ❌️👑 @onenj7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rep Tom Kean Jr is claiming credit for pushing the Gateway Tunnel project ahead. In fact, Democratic officials in NJ and NY fought the Trump administration in court to get the federal money flowing again - while Tom gave only lip service. #NJ07 #VoteKeanOut

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One NJ7 ❌️👑 @onenj7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rep Tom Kean Jr said in tonight's debate that he opposes turning a Roxbury warehouse into an ICE jail. Really Tom? Well, that's news, since you did nothing while state and local officials worked to block it. #VoteKeanOut #NJ07

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 28/09/2026

In the debate tonight Kean claimed that trump is using the tariff power appropriately. #CD7

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Rebecca Bennett @rebeccabennettforcongress.com · 28/09/2026

Tom Kean Jr. voted three times to continue the war with Iran. I’ll work to bring our servicemembers home and lower your costs at the gas station.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s not remotely hard to do this. And yet ….

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Rebecca Bennett @rebeccabennettforcongress.com · 28/09/2026

Debate is live now! Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5HM...

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NJ-7 Congressional District Debate

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Odd, that Donald Trump has latched onto things being done/built to protect "national security" when Donald Trump, a man who is said to have sold *highly* classified documents, is currently the nation's biggest security threat.

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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 27/09/2026

Will Bunch is why I subscribe to the Philly Inquirer. Here he calls out the media for (once again) sane washing Trump, in probably the most egregious case of all – his profoundly and dangerously unhinged speech to the UN last week. It's a 5-alarm fire folks. But you wouldn't know it reading the NYT.

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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Again, we can debate what we call the regime under which we now live. But it's not "democracy," there's no such thing as "free & fair elections" where this is allowed, & a constitutional order in which these things keep happening & they do not end a presidency is not really a "republic" of laws.

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 27/09/2026

Reminder #CD7

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And certainly not nearly as consequential for women’s safety and education than trans girls and women getting to play sports /s

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One reason the far right authoritarian party is s obsessed with voter fraud is because so many of its elected officials do not legally reside where they say they do

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How is not using a product you purchased fraud?

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J. Smith @jooltman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“…if the last two years have confirmed anything, it’s that the logic of collective resistance is sound. Not only is the immediate price for bucking Trump small; it actually works.” More please, from institutions, business leaders, and of course voters!

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Speaking as a professor of public policy who studies housing policy: Trump take house.

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