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[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2h

So how much of a role do we think AI search played in Hawkeyegate

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 2h

20 million taxpayer dollars on “Love Me” ads.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 2h

So… Republicans set up this Jack Smith hearing because they thought they had this incredible gotcha… but even if Smith had been at a Hawks game, this is pretty weak sauce. Who OK’d this? Are they really in so much of a bubble they didn’t realize this would crash?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Even if a federal prosecutor was watching the Atlanta Hawks and not the Iowa Hawkeyes, I still think crime should be treated as illegal, and coup attempts should be treated as bad.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

yes, this is a perfect example. Vance wants to subsidize Conservative-Approved Family Forms by snatching money away from single parents. they just cannot help themselves bsky.app/profile/thom...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13h

Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 14h

It’s always the same people, wrong time after time; they never suffer any consequences, they keep their cushy paychecks and keep getting opportunities to opine more in the media. And that is why Americans are turning away from “establishment media” to… Twitch streamers.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 15h

This is quite good. I think the woman at the end speaks for all of us.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 15h

It’s exceptional how the administration that is the most focused than any in history on projecting an image via memes and posting has completely failed to sell anyone other than the truest believers on anything they do. There’s a lesson there about the role of those things in comms.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Look having the entire roster of FBI agents leak isn't a front-page newsworthy security failure meriting front page coverage the same way having some of your emails to Anthony Weiner's wife be discovered on Anthony Weiner's laptop was

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

like I hope it's obvious by now that all the "MeToo went too far!" bleating is because it got rapists in trouble and they don't think rapists should get in trouble.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they like rape and rapists, is the thing.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes the fact that we, as a society, obviously posess all the wealth necessary to not only fix the chronic problems but also have everyone live a life of comfort and plenty, and only don't do that so like, car dealership owners can buy a 60 foot boat instead of a 40 foot boat — bad for the vibes!

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who does Rahm think he’s fooling? This guy has always been too clever by half.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about how existing as a woman means knowing you could be the victim of sexual violence at any moment, all while knowing there's a high likelihood no one will believe it even happened if you come forward.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My take on “Choosin’ Texas” is that the new Libel song kicks ass. youtu.be/Py2fMdFm85Y?...

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Libel – Father Time

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh boy — I should post more about music, less about politics for a change…

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My good friend Julie Rozansky. 😉

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More on ERIC, an election verification system Republicans demanded, and then abandoned when it wasn’t generating the evidence of fraud they wanted via @michaelmechanic.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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States already have a good way to ensure election integrity—and MAGA hates it

The rejection of ERIC by GOP officials has, ironically, undermined their own voting systems.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 24/09/2026

i find it enjoyable that the admin keeps doing things which can be defined as “and US farmers and ranchers? fuck you, specifically”

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 22/09/2026

I'm sorry, but this pin is amazing and I desperately want one. Or maybe 10. To hand out to people.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026

"the Saudis and the other Gulf emirates are Trump’s guys. They’re supposed to be top oligarchic players in the new Trumpian, regional, spheres-of-influence world. But they’re getting hosed too." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thing...

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Things Fall Apart (in the Middle East): The Donald Trump Story

One of the key arguments for a great power — other than...

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah, DEI complaints are always "Too many minorities in sight! Back to the sidelines and the corners with ye!"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And so NYC’s Jameis era begins.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unfortunate juxtaposition over at ESPN.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Was watching college football and saw an anti-El-Sayed ad come on with “his own words.” And honestly nothing they had sounded remotely inflammatory. I’m wondering if the R strategists just think everyone hates Muslims as much as they do.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Whoa… um, are they still Republicans is they think capitalism is broken?

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My daughter likes this song called “lush life” by Zara Larson and her voice reminded me a bit of Nelly Furtado. I put on “say it right” to see if my daughter would like it and man I really have to give it up for Timbaland’s production. That sounds incredible.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...

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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God forbid you have oil heating.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The “grand strategy” is Trump wants attention.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Losing access to the White House means reporters might have to do more work than scribbling down what White House communications director and human thumb Steven Cheung whispers in their ears. God forbid.

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well, that sounds like something worth listening to. @getmusic.bsky.social getmusic.fm/r/libel-the-...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

NAZA isn’t exculpatory. It’s a hollow CYA for the Israeli government. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...

Part of what makes "NAZA" so devastating is the way it shows that mere indifference to civilian deaths can shade into deliberate mass killing. To Israel's defenders, after all, the fact that the military puts limits on acceptable collateral damage shows that it's not trying to kill as many people as possible and thus can't be genocidal. The Israeli journalist Ariel Oseran argued, for example, that the very word NAZA is exculpatory, writing, "If Israel's specific objective were to destroy the Palestinian population, Palestinian deaths would not be categorized as collateral damage; they would be the intended goal."

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Libel @libeltheband.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This move will backfire as reporters will be forced to actually do reporting rather than Trump stenography.

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