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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So, let me get this straight, the US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion of their national assets, hails the billions it has already brought in and promises billions more...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Darline Graham, asked if Taiwan and the South China Sea are national security issues for the US: "I'm just gonna be honest here. I'm not that informed on national security so — but I do support the military."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"The American people might as well be on the outer bounds of our galaxy for the time it takes critical information about our own welfare to reach us via the illustrious reporters of The New York Times."

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A Legacy Media Slower Than Lincoln's Ghost

All the news that's fit to package for a book tour.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/04/2026

NEW: HOLY HELL. Remember when I asked how soon it would be before Blanche filed notice with the court that the shooting justifies the ballroom and the National Trust should drop its case?? Well late tonight, Blanche filed and INSANE motion to dissolve the court injunction. Check this out: 1/

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe. Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 07/04/2026

One of my dearest friends just texted to say “Do you want to do something this weekend?” and I love her for that.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The truth is that if democracy is to survive this era, we can no longer treat independent media as optional. It is essential, and we must do everything we can to help it thrive and grow — quickly. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/demo...

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Democracy will not survive without strong independent media

Trump and his allies are rapidly taking over our major news outlets.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

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Kirstiebird @kirstiebird.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

America 250 seems out of reach this morning.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Yes, they could become citizens. They could also thus be charged with treason.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 27/03/2026

The article above ☝️ is a reprint of a Substack post by Stephen Bryen, a former deputy under secretary of defense. Some speculation in it, but even just the bare facts are disturbing enough. weapons.substack.com/p/barksdale-... Additional reporting here: nationalinterest.org/feature/dron...

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Drone Warfare Has Come to the United States

An apparent drone swarm near a US Air Force base unveiled numerous vulnerabilities in homeland air defense.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

“Four of [Don Jr]’s portfolio companies have won contracts from the Trump [regime] this year amounting to $735 MILLION… It looks like more Trump enrichment. When the public and the private are as intertwined as they are in this [regime] it’s hard to tell the difference.” @johncassidysays.bsky.social

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The Year in Trump Cashing In

In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Sorry what? They won’t deport US citizens is a concession? What the actual F

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 15/03/2026

Legal and Operational Issues in the Strait of Hormuz: Transit Passage Under Fire Reflecting on his own professional experiences in the Strait and legal expertise, former US Navy Commander, JAGC @marknevitt.bsky.social discusses key operational and legal concerns arising in #StraitofHormuz crisis.

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Legal and Operational Issues in the Strait of Hormuz: Transit Passage Under Fire

"During my own transits through the Strait as a naval officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation, the narrow geography and proximity of Iranian territory were impossible to ignore."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026

Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Might I suggest that the U.S. Congress publicly debate, deliberate, and vote on going to war beforehand. You know, as required by the U.S. Constitution.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

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Kirstiebird @kirstiebird.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Obscene abdication of the constitutional order.

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 02/03/2026

This entire Hegseth speech is a confession to war crimes and crimes against the Constitution

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

we have a psychotic, murderous, christian nationalist as secretary of defense

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Our wars are about destroying nations!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"No stupid rules of engagement" means no Geneva Conventions or other international humanitarian laws, which the U.S. signed and supported for more than a century. Hegseth and Trump are pro-war crimes.

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Kirstiebird @kirstiebird.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A new low, even for this regime.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/03/2026

The gap between how cool he thinks he sounds and how he actually sounds would take light eight centuries to traverse.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I don't understand this coordinated response of Dems going, "Trump owes us an explanation for attacking Iran!" Do they expect his failure to provide one will produce a politically advantageous gotcha? Come on. Just say the war is stupid, wasteful and it should cease. Stop being weak and terrible.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran. Unreal.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

In answer to some queries: this is not a joke, Melania Trump actually is presiding over a UN Security Council meeting Monday, and apparently they scheduled that knowing they were going to launch an illegal war on Saturday morning

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2026

Trump points at Democrats and says, "these people are crazy. I'm telling you. They're crazy." (Note that Pete Hegseth and the rest of the cabinet are standing and cheering.)

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

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Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator

Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

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Kirstiebird @kirstiebird.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

who is the monchichi with the nostrils taking selfies?

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

And so, for jackasses like me, the steady, relentless demonstration of how wrong we were about the Court’s commitment to constitutional order has been jarring.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

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