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Trump: "Trump: "If the Democrats win, you will end up in a 1929-style economic depression. We will have a disaster on our hands. Had I lost the election, had we had Kamala win, I believe our country would be destroyed. If the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pocket."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4h

This was supposed to be a rally in support of these dudes, but apparently this is the only shoutout they got bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h

Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not to repeat the obvious, but this is literally lawless behavior that makes a mockery of the Constitution and judicial system, should result in contempt prosecution for anyone involved, and disbarment of any lawyers

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

“actually your household is doing fine” has never worked as a political message even in cases where it’s true so I highly encourage trump to keep using this argument

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OPERATION: ALBATROSS is off to a roaring start.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

Trump on global warming: "That didn't work out because the planet got cooler. In fact, you know the ice that was melting? It right now just set a record. It's the biggest ice cube that's ever been in the history of the world ... they're doing the scam with data centers, by the way."

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of course, of course: "Korea Disputes Trump’s Claim It Agreed to Invest in Alaska LNG" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hardly a surprise Hegseth is saying this stuff so publicly now, when one of the Pentagon influencers has: • Called women a "pestilence" • Praised dictators like Pinochet and Franco • Said only people with children should be allowed vote www.wired.com/story/a-pent...

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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 01/10/2026

Ban states are asking the Supreme Court to be able to extradite abortion providers to face criminal charges. Fugitive Slave Act 2: Electric Booglagoo

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This would be the equivalent of sports coverage devoting itself to reporting on gambling markets instead of the game. Because real reporting on real stories is hard.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What makes the current dynamic unsustainable is that the rule of law, appearance of propriety, and good governance are all really important. It cannot be the case, however, that only one political party values those things over an extended period of time. There needs to be one set of rules.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is the thing about AI that I love so much. Think of all the morons you know (many on this site!) using and swearing by this tech that can change the output depending on who is controlling the AI. And those dumbasses still believe it should be used for anything regarding data!

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.

Screenshot from New York Times article: "Meta is already in one sizable dispute with the I.R.S. over this tax break, for using it to subsidize its chief executive’s multibillion-dollar pay package. In 2013, Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense because he helped invent new software, such as Facebook’s News Feed. The I.R.S. is trying to claw back the company’s resulting $355 million in tax savings, court filings show."

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What this looks like in SEC filings. Companies love the research tax credit -- it's the second biggest corporate tax break in America -- but Meta really loves it.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.

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

The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure

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Ironic Star Wars Moment

Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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CaitBrie @caitbrie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every day at some point (or at a few points) I ask myself “what stupid moronic embarrassing untrue thing has Drumpf said today?” And then I come on this site and go to @atrupar.com to catch up.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026

All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026

Trump on Canada: "Everything we have, we don't need. And they have to treat our country with respect."

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow, good luck with this, Roger. I didn't have her arrested for owning me $50. I had her arrested for not showing up to court when I sued her for $50. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/28/r...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Alternative hed: A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns. This Time, You Paid For It.

A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government The ad, which experts said could break federal law, shows President Trump vowing to "expel the warmongers" from the government, even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Diesel at record high prices and why no trucker convoy in DC?

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Really shameful behavior from Cornell, and I wonder how many of the guys here just have well-connected parents. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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

Doesn't fit The Narrative™️, doesn't get the coverage

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This should be next to the definition of gaslighting as an example. This kind of "control" that "you want" is at the core of AI, and it is all that is wrong with it.

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

Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder of that time you were all over the news just because you were horribly incompetent in your national security job

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Network solidarity against Trump's attack on the 1st Amendment lasted less than one week. Pathetic. On the bright side for CNN, moving forward Bari Weiss can make changes to ensure there is no more friction with the White House. Support independent media. demdock.com/4w6emld

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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

White House announced it is breaking the law again.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everybody keeps telling me what a genius this guy is and all of his wisdom just boiled down to "But evil makes the trains run on time, right?"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“If you’re evil you’re actually kind of good. Because you’re at least getting something done.”🤔 Y’all aren’t alarmed enough about what MAGA tech billionaire (Trump donor, J.D. Vance’s pimp, Epstein’s buddy) Peter Thiel is doing to our country.

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Michael Mishak @mjmishak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Online sportsbooks say they do not want business from problem gamblers. So @propublica.org's Jake Pearson spent 10 weeks on DraftKings testing how the company would react to someone displaying all the hallmarks of a compulsive bettor. Spoiler: It made him a VIP. www.propublica.org/article/draf...

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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.

Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Agree with Greg‘s general point. But let me ask the hard question about moral hazard: if the likes of Zuck or Jensen (or Dartmouth or Paul Weiss) pay no price for having kowtowed to Trump, won’t they end up looking smart for having done so? And if we want to curb this moral hazard, what must we do?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Send this to every university President in the country.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Iran would like to open the Hormuz Strait, but the US controls the Hormuz Strait so it's a bad deal. Got it.

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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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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It gets talked about as gas prices and that obviously boosts it, but the Iran war in and of itself was insanely unpopular from the start, simply as a war, because voters actually do strongly hate the whole idea of yet another dumb stupid costly never-ending bloody quagmire war in the Middle East.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great message for the last 5 weeks of the campaign.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

X is owned by the GOP's largest donor and the platform's algorithm forces everyone on the site to see all of his Tweets. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.

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