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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The President has decided that in order to make ground beef cheaper, he will cut tariffs on ground beef. And I'm wondering if he could generalize from this one product to other products, and perhaps concede that tariffs raise prices on American consumers.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well, it looks like Trump fell through the floor. "32% approve ... while 58% disapprove. That's down from 38% approval in June and marks the lowest job approval rating Quinnipiac has ever recorded for Trump, surpassing his previous low of 34% in May." www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
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Quinnipiac poll finds Trump approval at record low as voters continue to sour on Iran war, economy
Support among Republicans also slipped, with Trump's approval falling from 85% in June to 76% in July.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“.. four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ‘Zero dollars have been deposited,’ one said.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5ba3...
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
One of the top headlines of the day.
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 07/04/2026
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I simply can’t believe Congress and the cabinet are sitting around, totally fine with what is absolutely demented behavior from the president.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/03/2026
new Fox News polling: "Trump’s 59% disapproval is the highest of either term"
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Fox News Poll: Sour voters say Washington is out of touch
A new national poll finds Trump's disapproval hits a second-term high of 59%, with his inflation approval sinking to 28% as voter pessimism grows.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
GOP Senators John Kennedy and Ted Cruz devised this off-ramp, Kennedy says on Fox: "Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. ‘No deals with the Democrats.’ It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal."
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 23/03/2026
Wow. Shocking news: Trump lied. (From NY Times)
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.
Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.  

The law is clear.  Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. 

And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.

The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. 

It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.

When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong.  It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media.  And we can’t allow that to happen.

Time for change!

Trump "Truth":

Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The worst part is that Trump admitted Friday that Russia is helping Iran “a little bit” and that’s hasn’t stopped everything.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
An obscure methodological tweak -- a change in the source of data on the price of legal services -- resulted in meaningfully lower monthly PCE inflation in January. That's prompting questions about why the change was made and why it wasn't disclosed publicly. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b... #EconSky
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Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I think “war of choice” implies too much forethought. War of impulse? War of cluelessness? War of transient ischemic attacks?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran
The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Mullin: Trump ended eight wars Hunt: He started this one Mullin: This isn’t a war Hunt: The Secretary of Defense, who calls himself the Secretary of War, said today, this is a war ht: @acyn.bsky.social
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
“Shingles doesn’t care.”
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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Americans remember Iraq and Afghanistan
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Fercripesake @ocripes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Even George W. Bush spent months lying to the American people that Iraq had WMD's and had Congress vote in support of Iraq war. Trump didn't even make the case for war in any way. That is because Trump believes he is like Putin and can do whatever he wants.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/01/2026
Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/01/2026
A reminder how ICE treats priests.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026
New in PN: Trump's long-awaited healthcare "plan" is a joke "Is it great? No. Is it a plan? Not really. It is, however, in its combination of stupidity, ideological derangement, and unseriousness, a near-perfect expression of Trump and his party."
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Trump's long-awaited healthcare "plan" is a joke
He can barely bring himself to pretend he cares.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The absolute accuracy of this.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026
this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
We are open: please wait for us to unlock the door. Thank you for your understanding
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Plus one.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/01/2026
Poland failed to win the Hitler team over
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We are becoming numb to the delusional thinking that defines this administration and its policies.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Kristi Noem, herself, supplied the method used to ID the agent. She said he "been dragged by a vehicle” in an earlier incident. @startribune.com reporters, who know their way around court records, quickly unearthed his name and confirmed his identity.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Mayor Jacob Frey: “There’s little I can say again that will make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community, for our city, and I have a message for ICE — To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis” I wish more officials would abandon decorum when situations are truly egregious
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey speaks at a press conference
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Pentagon cuts Sen. Mark Kelly's military retirement pay over a video where the retired Navy captain urged service members not to obey unlawful orders: cnn.it/3YlYAnh
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026
Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I think this is actually an important point. Trumpism is the completion of the Reagan Revolution by whatever means necessary.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/01/2026
Comer: "You're gonna see the Trump administration continue to freeze funds until Democrat governors do like what the Republican governors are doing: they're complying with the federal government, with the Trump administration."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Steve Bannon is apparently worried that Trump’s speech was “too intense” for the normies outside his base
Washington Post: Former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon, covering the speech on his "War Room" online talk show, pointed out that this address was seen by prime time network TV viewers, not just the president's base.
Bannon posed the question: "Was this too intense for a broadcast audience?"
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/12/2025
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
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Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
No, this is great. It means the drug companies will pay YOU when you pick up your meds. Who's not for this?
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If your grandfather acted like this, you would wait for him to fall asleep and then take away the car keys.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
He's making a list and bombing them twice.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 30/11/2025
An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Republicans are going to laugh at Democrats and do nothing on healthcare. They will continue helping Trump fulfill Project 2025. Dems learn nothing.
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a black and white drawing of charlie brown and lucy brown from the peanuts comic strip
ALT: a black and white drawing of charlie brown and lucy brown from the peanuts comic strip
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/11/2025
dawg they’re live laugh loving the white house. president homegoods
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Meanwhile, Mike Johnson is still refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Grijalva. How do you think voters are gonna like that in 2026? I hope Senate Democrats and House Democrats are paying attention tonight. Don’t budge an inch for these guys.
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