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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 6h
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 16h
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15h
i approve of dems doing more swearing
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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
inquirer.com
We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 27/09/2026
"Obama tried to freeze Fox out" is a complete lie and it's incredible that Jake Tapper feels the need to both-sides this
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 27/09/2026
new biggest crypto hack of the year just dropped
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Musk showers GOP with cash while defending racism in court www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Musk showers GOP with cash while defending racism in court
Multibillionaire Elon Musk’s political action committee is increasing its spending on House and Senate races as part of his attempt to help Republicans hold on to their majorities in the House and…
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
"china is charging their cars in less time than it takes you to fill up your F-150" is the kind of banal jingoism i always assumed would get us finally kicking it up a notch on serious infrastructure buildout but we were a lot more directly addicted to gasoline in addition to racism than i thought
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But, as I wrote in my newsletter, these 8th circuit judges should actually be impeached. We simply can’t have “a judicial system” if Republican judges are going to literally defy the *Republican* Supreme Court just to try to give the GOP one more House seat.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wait for it . . .
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 25/09/2026
Incredible scenes from Meta. Apparently you can prompt inject their Muse agent into giving you a root shell on the box it's running on by roleplaying that you are actually the Muse agent itself.
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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
Attached: 1 image Not only confirming this, its extremely easy. Almost no prompt injection resistance lmao
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's absolutely insane to be doing this kind of "Why I've gone MAGA" coverage at a time where Trump is basically less popular than any president in history at this point in their term. Completely out of touch with the average American. Bubbled elite nonsense.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i am simply asking democrats to treat the supreme court as the ideological political opponent that it is
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On a national database to purge legitimate voters, a lower court followed the Constitution and the facts, and once again the Supreme Court majority decided Trump’s anti-democracy scheming take precedence. Unsigned opinion, no vote count released. Guilty conscience. (But of course did it anyway.)
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
I love the straightforward refusal by establishment DC political outlets to acknowledge that corruption is a thing
semafor.com
View: White House is isolated in brushing off AI safety
President Donald Trump’s call to leave AI “exactly where it is” contrasts even with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
Your tax dollars should pay for health care and schools. Not political ads for Trump. Pull it down.
spokesman.com
Patty Murray demands White House stop airing taxpayer-funded Trump ad
WASHINGTON – Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, the top Democrat on the Senate committee responsible for federal spending, demanded Thursday that the White House stop airing a taxpayer-funded TV a...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Instead of saying, "US Supreme Court lets Trump…" as if SCOTUS speaks with one voice, the media should specify who voted for this. In this case, it's the six conservative justices.
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US Supreme Court lets Trump deploy voter database ahead of midterms
Ruling boosts the president’s efforts to overhaul election rules before the November vote
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hilarious thing for Donald Trump’s stenographer who works at the newspaper that put WMD lies on page one to say
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build
NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"I would like people to take Trump up on his challenge: Vote like Trump is on the top of the ticket." Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart says that what's opening door to rural gains is not just prices, but also this administration's corruption and self-dealing. On the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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buvezcocacola @buvezcocacola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seen in Virginia
A bumper sticker reads
I HEAR MIGRANT CHILDREN ALSO HAVE HEARTBEATS
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
> @deadline.com $PSKY deadline.com/2026/09/davi...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
$ORCL
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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rivers mccown @riversmccown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man, Amazon Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats is so cool. I get a spotlight on Kyle Pitts as they're not throwing at him and I can see him not getting the ball on every snap. Transformative.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
a fake crisis that was uncritically accepted and promoted by the Most Serious Journalists in the country
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
actually its both you are a racist AND a nazi
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Man this shit is embarassing
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's not just the money that's corrupted our politics. It’s a moral corruption — the cynical indifference of powerful people.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the only good confederate is a dead one
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
more like this please. thanks. every member of congress has a nationwide tv network sitting in their phone. use it.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump attacked Venezuela and Iran. He launched a murder campaign in the Caribbean. He demanded territory from Greenland and threatens the sovereignty of Canada. In his first term, he escalated with Iran, among other things. Yeah, calling that “isolationist” is absurd. But I guess it sounds better.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
if you don't know your own address it's because you specifically don't have to know it. people that detached from reality shouldn't be in a position to drive social policy for those of us living in reality
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026
"eXtReMiSm on bOth eNdS oF thE poLitIcAl spEctRUm"
calfkicker.com
Bill Burr: “The Left Got Really Into It At The End Of The Last Decade, And Now We’re Paying The Price”
In a conversation on The Rolling Stone Interview, comedian Bill Burr talked about his evolving perspective on political division in America. During the podcast, Burr stated that he was developing…
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What is the downside for Republicans in ignoring the law? The courts don’t actually do anything. The Democrats don’t do anything. The mainstream media acts like THE FUCKING LAW is just a differing opinion. No downside at all.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026
if anybody needs me I'll be over here getting hot and horny mental health advice from my meta AI Tamagotchi in a country too corrupt to regulate data brokers
zuckerberg in ugly glasses holding their new AI toy in front of a cartoon avatar for Muse, their new agentic AI agent
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yep. Said it at the time -- Harris's people should have been touting the Biden administration's anti-enshittification policies every day of the campaign.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
White House is violating court’s order with impunity, and CNN, MSNOW, and Politico are heading back to court. DOJ’s options are to admit incompetence or confess contempt of a court order and the rule of law.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry, but these people are stupid. It’s a smart-in-a-narrow-area-therefore-I-know-everything type of stupid. Their money, power, and new Pascal’s Wager has many afraid to call them stupid, but this is very stupid. I hereby predict that humanity will exist in 2031. Throw it in my face if I’m wrong.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some CNN staffers were still barred from entering the White House this morning following a judge’s ruling blocking Trump’s ban on multiple outlets
huffpost.com
Some CNN Staffers Still Unable To Enter WH Following Court Ruling
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