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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

CHARLIE KIRK SHOW: Dang! So you had texts from Smith's team confirming he was going to a Hawks game, and he acted dumbfounded? ERIC SCHMITT: It was the only NBA game going on in Atlanta. He claimed later he was at another game. My job is to ask the questions (All of Schmitt's "facts" were wrong!)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s like they are all running w pre-determined talking points that no one bothered to independently verify. But then again, who would have considered that Smith was watching a women’s team! Protecting women’s sports doesn’t mean attending games, or knowing the names of their teams.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AMAZING! Sean Hannity’s Twitter account is trying to frame Eric Schmitt's embarrassing screwup as a win, claiming he put Jack Smith "on the spot."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If a politician takes money from weapons manufacturers, don't be surprised when they back weapons contracts. If a politician takes money from Big Pharma, don't be surprised when they try to stop guaranteed healthcare. That's why I don't take ANY corporate money. None.

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WIRED @wired.com · 24/09/2026

Long gone is the cliché of the optimistic tech guy in flip-flops and a ratty old hoodie. The tech industry is now seen as the locus of unchecked power, making the men who work in it a whole lot harder to fancy.

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Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros

Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

Trump posted this photo on Truth Social this morning. Look close! #TravelWithNatalie

pic of Trump saluting next to Xi with the lovely Ms Harp in the background

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)

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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...

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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties

Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”– Rep. Maria Eliza Salazar It was Salazar who voted to fund the deportations that's happening now. If anyone betrayed them—it was her. Vote @erodforcongress.bsky.social eliottrodriguez.com

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hanania has gone out of his way to try and persuade the mainstream media types and readers he wants to woo that he is no longer a racist. I don’t buy that, but he is at least putting on *the act.* So it’s extremely telling that this is how he continues to talk about women, rape, and even Epstein.

This manifests in Hanania's contempt for victims of rape and trafficking and his repeated support for age-gap relationships, even those that would constitute statutory rape in many jurisdictions. When The Bulwark broke news on Monday that Gen-Z looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular had been accused of rape, Hanania sprung into action discrediting the allegations. On X, he posted
Women who claim to be sexually assaulted or raped and then continue associating with their alleged attackers deserve zero sympathy.
They re either
1) liars; or
2) making it impossible to differentiate between real and fake allegations, hurting other men and women and society as a whole
A sane legal system would take this into account and not trust such women in criminal or civil lawsuits. They should also be socially stigmatized as bad people.

It's no mistake that this is all entangled with Hanania's horrific defenses of Jeffrey Epstein and the abuses on his private island. Hanania has posted that "Hating Epstein represents the essence of antisemitism. The resentment of mediocrities, conspiracy thinking, and chud moralism."
He went so far as to baldly assert that some of the women not only had it coming but even benefited in the end from Epstein's systemic rape operation:
One of the Epstein "trafficking victims" is a prostitute who he met when she was in her twenties, who had sex with him and reported that he gave her an orgasm.
There's more evidence of Epstein being a stud than there is he's what conspiracy theorists
claim.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks

Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.

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Aaron Hall @immlawachall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ICE puts out a "Correct the Record" press release on the shooting in Austin, leads by debunking "claim" no one has made. www.dhs.gov/news/2026/09...

CLAIM: ICE refused to remove the bullet from the illegal alien’s body.

FACT: This is false. ICE does not and would not advise, nor be the authority on, a medical procedure for an illegal alien at a hospital.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Update on the condition of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez at the South Texas Ice Processing Center. He’s being taken to the hospital. He is in tremendous pain and tells us that the bullet is still inside his left side. He can’t move the left side of his body.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To my Jewish friends and neighbors who will soon be observing Yom Kippur: May you be inscribed for a good year in the book of life. I'm looking forward to continuing to work together to build a better Michigan and a better world.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We're not quite at our end-of-year push, but we're starting to look ahead at our budget for next year — & want to do it on as strong a foundation as possible. As a reminder—we're a nonprofit independent publication with no paywall. Any subscription you do is up to you: but a huge help!

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026

NEWS: The Pentagon has announced mandatory low-testosterone screenings for male troops 30 and older, including screening for symptoms such as “reduced libido, loss of spontaneous morning erections, erectile dysfunction,” and other symptoms.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...

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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets

The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

footage is making the rounds on Facebook of a canvasser wearing a Stronger Maine shirt (a super PAC that supports Susan Collins) stealing a package yesterday

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 17/09/2026

“Were you drunk?” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social goes head-to-head with Rep. Nancy Mace on Piers Morgan Uncensored about a fake AI video she shared of Trump ‘endorsing’ her. Subscribe to zeteo.com.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/09/2026

JD Vance - "Give us another chance. Give us another 2 years." What about this past 2 years would you let them do again to you and your family?

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

President Trump wants control of the midterms. Also, he made a new pledge!

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Speaking of chickens... Today is the day that I will debate...an empty podium. Because Mike Rogers is…well…

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Mike Rogers (El-Sayed's opponent) has an operative who quotes contemporaries of Nick Fuentes and was in the Young Republicans chat which praised Hitler, made racist comments and joked about gas chambers-AND backs the awful Trump policies that are crushing Americans But let's not discuss any of that

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 14/09/2026

“This is a contrast election between common sense and crazy,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said. We’re supposed to believe that a Republican candidate who, among other things, was seen goose-stepping to a Nazi marching song, *isn’t* the “crazy” one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Why Republican leaders’ support for Texas’ Brandon Herrera is impossible to defend

According to Speaker Mike Johnson, the candidate who was seen goose-stepping to a Nazi marching song isn’t the “crazy” one in the race.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026

Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

A group photo shows about 35 people, including Donald Trump Jr.; his wife, Bettina Anderson; Ivanka Trump; Jared Kushner; Tiffany Trump; and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev.

Little Pipe Cay/Lux Hospitality Bahamas; Laura Gordon Photography via Instagram; Laura Gordon Photography

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

BREAKING: Our banned interview with Kimmel generated 6 million views on YouTube.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/09/2026

Look who made the trip to Ireland! #TravelWithNatalie (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)

pic of Ms Harp wearing green with her lovely smile

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

3.3 million views already, which is significantly more than the normal audience for Kimmel on ABC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026

The people ICE abandoned on Malabo are being disappeared, DHS copy-pastes the same statement they sent me two days ago, meanwhile a new ICE jet flies overhead and expels more third-country nationals a couple hundred miles away in Cameroon. It’s too much, man.

"When an individual is no longer in ICE custody then
ICE will no longer be responsible for them. This is common sense.
"For specific questions on the agreement, we refer to the State Department."

An FR24 map showing N120LW flying past Malabo and landing in Yaoundé.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 11/09/2026

25 Years After 9/11: The Canadian Town That Became a Safe Haven. m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkxV...

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25 Years After 9/11: The Canadian Town That Became a Safe Haven

YouTube video by MS NOW

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today I'm honoring 9/11 Day by turning remembrance into action. 25 years later,,, we remember those we lost and honor the heroes who stepped up by continuing to do GOOD. If you a NYC school teacher,,, drop yo wish list and imma hook up the first 25. Join me and @911day and #UNITEFORGOOD.

Flavor Flav serving up meals at Bowery mission NYC

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/09/2026

THIS IS SERIOUS This kind of reckless demonization coming from Republicans is going to get someone killed. Listen to Ted Cruz and what he says about two of our Senate candidates, and you can hear someone in the audience say: “He should be shot.”

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

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