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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Democratic Underground cartoon
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 10h
Dear God, this is horrendous.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The President of the United States inviting Iran to "take out" two major American cities should receive as much coverage as a President of the United States having a bad debate.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/10/2026
*stokes anger* *pooh-poohs anger^
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Omg…did you read the ProPublica reporting on private schools?
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
Trump's human binky made the trip to Alabama with him #TravelWithNatalie (Brendan Smialowski/Getty)
pic of Ms Harp on AF1
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hahahahahahahaha this ad is awesome
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love the laser focus on eliminating wasteful government spending.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
they all knew this was coming! look at them collapse. if you cant laugh at this woman's misfortune that she is not able to smear a good man's name on behalf of a bad one, my account is not for you. bsky.app/profile/solo...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If only we could make it a resignation.
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So 3/4 of the states will be ratifying it, I imagine?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
a nice moment outside the White House today between Natalie and Donald #GrowlAtNatalie (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
Trump scowls and points at something on the ground while the lovely Ms Harp smiles at him like she always does ❤️
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just feel like if Kash Patel had gotten drunk at a luxury private club just a few more times, this never would have happened. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
WELKER: Did President Xi actually commit to stop China's support of Iran with this war? MIKE WALTZ: They've had, uh, good, strong, and I think fulsome conversations about that support, but I'll leave that to the president to detail (So, no!)
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Brian Poindexter For Congress @poindexterforcongress.com · 26/09/2026
Health care you can afford. Gas prices that don’t break the bank. Wages that keep up with prices. A secure retirement for everyone who works hard. That’s why I’m running.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director.

Sen. Susan Collins

@SenatorCollins
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse. 
 
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.  
  
Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
 
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
 
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tater tot hotdish, but yes, point taken.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Will every Republican running for office be asked to disavow this Nazi supporter?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 25/09/2026
As the White House tries to play people for fools, claiming Trump’s new taxpayer-financed propaganda ad is a “public service announcement,” Dems are taking a hard line: “This is the sort of government propaganda one might expect in North Korea,” they said, calling the ad “utterly illegal.”
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White House pretends its taxpayer-financed propaganda is a ‘public service announcement’
Key congressional Democrats called the pro-Trump ad “an egregious and utterly illegal misuse of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Man this shit is embarassing
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hurting the president’s feelings isn’t a national security threat Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gosh, if only there were some kind of professional organization for White House journalists that existed to advocate for the First Amendment and defend the freedom of the press. They could organize together as a united front against Trump's censorship. That would be something.
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thank you, DC patriots.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm not the first to observe this, but I think you could probably see Roger Marshall's teeth/veneers from space.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have a trade deficit with woman who used to own my house. I paid her thousands of dollars for her home and she paid me nothing. Now, all I have is a house worth thousand of dollars. I could have saved those thousands of dollars if I lived on a bench in the park. It's just simple Economics.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Something old, something new / Something borrowed and something GRU"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Mister Trump, there are still some MAGA voters who are stubbornly standing by you. Can you say something to alienate them too?"
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the internals must be great
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kmpasley.bsky.social @kmpasley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You're not the sharpest tool in the canvassing shed if you don't know a Ring doorbell is recording you.
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