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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Marco Rubio has a meltdown when asked about Kimberly Guilfoyle: "I'm not playing this game ... you guys are not gonna be our only source of information in the world. I'm sorry to tell you that. No... I don't even know if what you're reporting is true." (It's true! The Journal has her text messages!)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
Dark. The people (Republicans) who did the right thing to protect our country on 1/6 are now being punished. A clear message to anyone who stands against what they have planned next. We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h
The terrible crime of responding to a legal subpoena, facing questions under oath, and answering truthfully about a violent attack on the United States.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h
This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterm vote. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
Tim Snyder: The term that I came up with… is superpower suicide. I just can’t see an example of a major country losing so much power so quickly as the United States under Trump. We’ve encouraged our enemies and we’ve made our allies not trust us.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me
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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.
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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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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jeez. He's even still lying about the number of NBA games on 2/3/24. That's one of the easiest things to fact check in this whole mess: there were six games, not one. www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_...
Sat, Feb 3, 2024	6:00p	Brooklyn Nets	136	Philadelphia 76ers	121	Box Score		20,673	2:11	Wells Fargo Center	
Sat, Feb 3, 2024	7:30p	Golden State Warriors	134	Atlanta Hawks	141	Box Score	OT	17,600	2:31	State Farm Arena	
Sat, Feb 3, 2024	8:00p	Sacramento Kings	123	Chicago Bulls	115	Box Score		21,579	2:14	United Center	
Sat, Feb 3, 2024	8:30p	Milwaukee Bucks	129	Dallas Mavericks	117	Box Score		20,377	2:18	American Airlines Center	
Sat, Feb 3, 2024	8:30p	Los Angeles Lakers	113	New York Knicks	105	Box Score		19,812	2:18	Madison Square Garden (IV)	
Sat, Feb 3, 2024	8:30p	Cleveland Cavaliers
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re all counting on them following through after the midterms.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even as profits soar, corporate tax payments are down 25% this year thanks to Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. One of the main beneficiaries? Big Tech — which is using the tax breaks to help fuel its AI boom as it spends a fortune on the midterm elections. Remember this...
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lorilei01.bsky.social @lorilei01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't recall him raising any concerns about losing the race to China when Trump approved the sale of Nvidia AI chips to Beijing.
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alan51972.bsky.social @alan51972.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump is warning of a "final battle" against Democrats, who he calls "communists, Marxists, and fascists". He is using OUR taxpayer dollars to fund these ads calling us Democrats "the enemy". This is illegal and unconstitutional, like everything else he does. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
Lol Ben Shapiro’s “news” org tried to do DHS a favor pretending the “worst of the worst” lie had been reimposed, and DHS went out of its way to knock that down. “No one is off the table.” Show this to everyone you know.
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Major League Baseball has approached the Trump administration about hosting a game at a national park, officials from the White House and MLB confirmed Saturday." And the administration is looking at Grand Teton National Park. Really. Who with MLB? I want a name. 👉 www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a huge win for Missouri voters, the Supreme Court again rejected Republicans' bid to reinstate their congressional gerrymander for the midterms. The ruling ensures voting in the state will not be disrupted this fall.
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In a win for voters, Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s gerrymandered map for midterms
The Supreme Court’s ruling, which is a victory for pro-voting groups, comes after Missouri has already sent ballots for the upcoming election to overseas and absentee voters.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
frigging hypocrite and spineless... Ohio voters know what to do
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE quietly expanded its enforcement operations across the country as arrests increased and the agency faced new scrutiny over how it is spending billions of dollars allocated for detention. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the nationwide shift in ICE operations, what a new GAO report found about....
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Trump’s ICE Expanded Across America — Now We Know How Far | The Kinzinger Report Podcast
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social react to a taxpayer-funded TV ad praising Trump, complete with “Love Me” playing over footage of the president. “This is just pure cult propaganda paid for by us.”
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Administration officials are circulating a list of government sites that could have Trump’s name affixed to them... One landmark that has emerged in the discussions among administration officials has raised eyebrows: Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865."
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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RevMelanieNOLA @revmelanienola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At 10 years old, Smithsonian's Black museum is undaunted amid pressure from Trump administration apnews.com/article/afri...
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At 10 years old, Smithsonian's Black museum is undaunted amid pressure from Trump administration
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will celebrate its 10-year anniversary with packed exhibits, sold-out galas and high-profile panels.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ICE shot Wilber Perez in the back. Now, Wilber can’t move the left side of his body. How does paralyzing a DoorDash driver make anyone more safe?
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/09/2026
I don't say this lightly, but Pete Hegseth deserves to be impeached. I understand just how serious a vote to impeach is from experience, and I still believe impeaching him is the right thing to do. The Iran war. The purge of senior ranks. The boat strikes. The case is overwhelming. (Link below)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Donald is so monumentally stupid, he doesn't understand that the press is boycotting *the White House* in solidarity with other outlets that were banned from the White House. CNN never said they wouldn't cover *other* things, like speeches at the UN where he might be speaking. What an idiot.
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BTW, this is just pure tin-pot dictator shit. There’s no nuance here, no 4D chess. This is purely the stuff of rogue nations that are threatening to become terrorist states.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/09/2026
And there you have it. Trump in the 20s.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I asked the White House, the Pentagon and other officials this morning — is this real? A military complex in the middle of a traffic roundabout? Really?
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why do we keep talking about this and the bunker (disguised as a "ballroom") like it's some funny excess and not actions being taken by the same president who has already used violence to hold onto power before
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration is pursuing a multipronged strategy to quash those it perceives as its ideological opponents. Part of it involves using expansive authorities meant to combat foreign terrorist groups against U.S. civil society. bit.ly/4Ak6MWP
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Trump Administration Linking Its Domestic Enemies to Foreign Terrorists
Falsely claiming that U.S. citizens and groups have ties to international terrorism could let the government turn tools intended to combat the likes of ISIS against its perceived foes at home.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1. This is a naked attack on press freedom by a president who hates it. 2. There are limits to the president's ability to carry out this threat thanks to the First Amendment. 3. It's also a threat to the "Other Fake News Media Outlets" who can face similar punishment based on their reporting.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Damn, this is good.
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