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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026

“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here.” trib.al/yiEUFkk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

the crowd goes WILD for Sebastian Gorka 🔥🔥🔥

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. How is that .. number bigger than 100%? Apparently because earlier pledges were withdrawn.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/p...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

JD Vance: "We're going after universities and corporations that reject applicants because they were born with the wrong skin color"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

time.com

Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

JD Vance: "Pee pee loans"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

JD Vance on Angie Nixon: "Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America"

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You know I’m a teacher by trade, but I can’t stand for women to have to share their most intimate horrors to try to educate men on abortion or rape. The men already know…they either don’t care, or they are already actively working on our side.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026

i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

JD Vance in Florida: "The great leaders here, including of course the governor who couldn't be with us today" 👀

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being asked to share a stage with JD is officially the GOP equivalent of testing positive for mono.

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AP: The Council of Europe said Tuesday that the US formally notified it a day earlier that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — Russia and Belarus. This comes as a surprise to no one. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

JD Vance tells a bizarre story about a drunk woman who he says came up to him at the RNC and told him how big and handsome he is

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.

44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Start out October with an American horror story about Trump's "shadow president" Russ Vought in the new episode of PAPER TRAIL, @propublica.org's podcast! Beware; contents will disturb you!💀 www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...

propublica.org

Who’s the Shadow President?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a hard time deciding which are worse. The retributive fake indictments against longtime Trump "enemies" or the ones where just a random person is picked out because of the need to retrofit reality to a latest Trump tweet/meltdown.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yikes! I always think of the years I was Hill staff as pre-ethics but I don't think 1980s staff would have even considered trying to do this kind of thing. Of course when the party's leader sets the example that anything goes, well, of course.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.

ms.now

Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.

As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ah yes “reasonable” republicans yearning for the “reaching across the aisle” days

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

democracydocket.com

🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger

Learn more.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

77 million Americans voted for national suicide in 2024. We're seeing it unfold right now: The economy vandalized, the military weakened, politicians bribed, tech run wild, immigrants terrorized, and government goon squads committing murder. Vote against all Republicans. It could be our last chance.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

Big Tech wants us to subsidize the AI takeover too. This is exactly why we need guardrails. #GuardrailsForAI

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God @thegodshow.com · 30/09/2026

Kaitlan Collins just laughed in Scott Jennings' face.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

JD Vance suggests Talarico is a pedo: "You gotta wonder -- what really motivates a man who spends so much time talking about 11-year-old drag queens?"

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pouring out a cold beer tonight for all the generals and admirals who were once again forced to sit through another lecture on manliness from No Tab Pete.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026

Trump: “We have the best economy…The only thing we don’t have is good public relations. We don’t seem to be able to get the word across that we have more people working than ever before.”

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge has denied DOJ's effort to obtain Georgia's complete, unredacted voter list, the latest in a string of more than two dozen defeats for the Trump administration in efforts to obtain state voter rolls. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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#146 in United States v. Raffensperger (N.D. Ga., 1:26-cv-00485) – CourtListener.com

ORDER. It is ORDERED that Defendant Raffensperger and Intervenor-Defendant's BVMF's Motions to Dismiss (Docs. 16, 23 ) are GRANTED IN PART as set forth in this Order. Intervenor-Defendants' Common Cau...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026

Q: “DHS is spending millions of dollars on new ads about you…Why should U.S. taxpayers pay for that?” Trump: “I’m not running for office and I don’t talk about anybody…That’s an ad for the spirit of our country. If somebody said that that’s wrong, I’ll gladly pay the money.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

big guy is looking ROUGH (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty)

Trump, fresh from his nap, looking about 14 Diet Cokes to the wind

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026

The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.

techcrunch.com

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Hegseth: "We need students of western civilization and the pillars of our republic. Leaders who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of anthems -- Athens. The power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia circa 1776."

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ivy League-ology: -Princeton has long preened on being #1 in US News rankings -DAMHIK about those rankings, as former USN editor -Most prominent Tigers on current scene are this guy, Alito, Cruz -(Yeah, Harvard has J Roberts—but also Buttigieg, KBJackson etc) -History lectures from this clown???

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Hegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026

Trump: “California’s a very crooked election system…I would’ve won California if that were an honest system. I would’ve won.”

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: Amid ongoing lawsuits seeking to revoke nationwide access to abortion drug mifepristone, AGs in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to strike down shield laws in states with abortion access.

stateline.org

Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in U.S. Supreme Court • Stateline

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New Y...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Trump on giant AI companies: "They're gonna police. They're gonna police each other. They're gonna self-police. They're gonna police themselves. It's gonna work out very well."

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Playboy @playboy.com · 30/09/2026

Seven men have been accused of raping a woman at Cornell University in 2024. South Park writer Toby Morton speaks to Playboy about why he made the viral "Cornell 7" website where he's publishing “names, photographs, documents, messages, and other information related to the case."

playboy.com

Meet The "South Park" Writer Behind the Viral "Cornell 7" Website

Cornell University has been the subject of innumerable headlines this week, as an anonymous woman’s lawsuit against the university over her alleged 2024 rape prompted New York prosecutors to reopen th...

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Men shouldn’t require a daughter, wife, girlfriend or sister before sexual violence against women becomes important to them. Women are enough. And condemning sexual assault shouldn’t qualify anyone for a medal. The bar is on the floor. Step over it."

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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Instead, the senators chose to identify with Trump,” @saletan.bsky.social writes. “Almost unanimously, they ignored or rejected Smith’s distinctions between the president and his party.”

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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad

If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.

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