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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4h
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 5h
I am downright sick of this President attacking the millions of patriotic Americans who live in "blue" states and cities. We are ALL Americans and this type of rhetoric is divisive and sickening. What a disgrace.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Isn’t this guy our Vice President’s favorite public intellectual? I mean, I understand this isn’t Hasan Piker-level antisemitism, but “I openly endorse the views of the guy openly endorsing Hitler” seems like it merits, I dunno, a newspaper story or something
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
trickle down doesnt work and the mainstream media has supported it for almost 50 years
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 05/10/2026
An uncanny ability to be wrong in every possible domain.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fascism, neo- or otherwise, isn't like an oppressive hereditary monarch. We're dealing with a mass movement. Anti-democracy, anti-rights, anti-liberal. In numerous countries, with considerable transnational solidarity. For example, this crowd wasn't reluctantly forced into it. They're ecstatic.
Trump 2024 rally with the crowd waving "Mass Deportation Now!" signs and smiling.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're a blue state NIMBY, you ride with Donald Trump and Sam Alito. End of story
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just saw the weird Trump campaign ad on TV for the first time and I really want to talk to whoever said they should put “Paid for by the U.S. Government” at the bottom. It’s timed so perfectly to evoke revulsion - “My money? For *this*?
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The use of "tries" in the headline seems particularly loaded.
Biden Appears to Insult Trump Supporters as 'Garbage, but Quickly
Tries to Clarify In a posting on social media, President Biden said he was talking
about racist language, not Trump supporters.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This kind of talk has always seemed to impress certain segments of the political class, but now that he’s imploding, they look like gullible suckers. He’s just a lout, nothing more. He insults people because he isn’t smart enough for anything else. He’ll become more loutish as he circles the drain.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh yeah that’s the good stuff
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Prosecutions are gonna be an extra uphill climb given that he plans on just preemptively pardoning a slate of people and officials so it falls to local and state prosecutors where federal pardons don’t just cut it, but they’re made v difficult in those situations. However, some prosecutors…
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The indoor arena that he spoke at on Friday was a fraction of the size of the football stadium he once spoke in… and still the place was not full. Some upper sections were almost completely empty.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
In Alabama, Trump Relives His Glory Days (This Time With Some Empty Seats)
The Deep South was the birthplace of the mega MAGA rally. How do people on the Gulf feel about President Trump now?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
May this vile fucking man never, ever know another moment of peace.
nytimes.com
John Roberts and His Island
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Heck of a picture.
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A picture of Trump's likeness on the Heritage Foundation building (located next to a gas station) in DC in May.
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty)
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The Great Pumpkinsquatch - Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fox News really giving Trump the middle finger here with this graphic (remember, the only reason Ken Paxton is the GOP nominee is Trump ordered GOP voters to choose him instead of Cornyn)
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
huffpost.com
The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A fav thing well connected Republican strategists have told me lately is they fear a “reverse Bradley effect” is happening in Ohio that could cost them the governors race
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 02/10/2026
Greatest trick the Union ever pulled was sending the world's single greatest grifter into the heart of the neo-Confederacy's reactionary conservative establishment.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In some ways, the biggest difference between me and a person who is "successfull in media" is this clip right here. Thompson is summoning every ounce of her strength to sit there and listen to sports praise of a sexual predator. I'd... lose my shit and get fired.
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Zach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just to be clear: If this was Joe Biden, Alex Thompson would've already had 18 different stories on Axios, posted 50+ times on X, and done at least 5 hits on CNN.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My newsletter is up. Eric Schmitt should be mocked and John Roberts should be hounded and I will not be persuaded otherwise. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Eric Schmitt Deserves to Be Mocked Forever
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent relives the senator’s glorious face plant. Plus: whyt John Roberts’s also deserves our mockery.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When job growth was 5-10x this per month under Joe Biden, we were having a nonstop National Conversation™️ about the imminent recession & being told that only the unemployed cared about jobs, but everyone cared about inflation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/10/2026
an Atlantic political columnist "not understanding" that Chris Rufo is a virulent bigot and far right propagandist is very on brand keep up the good work, brunchlords
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the funniest thing about the "we don't trust the media" people is that they will trust literally anyone else. like, if you have an image and text, they'll buy it. shaking keys at babies type logic.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
people acting like trump is some kind of departure from reagan and bush are part of the problem
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the ratings on fox news actually dropped during trump's convention www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Trump’s midterm convention was a ratings dud, even on Fox
The ratings stand in stark contrast with the president’s claims about viewership.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution. SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
lawdork.com
After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botches the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holding a big well -publicized launch or groundbreaking for a speculative project you haven't actually raised the money for yet is one of the oldest tricks in the real estate grifter book and the supposedly savvy US political press falls for it over and over when it's Trump. Years and years of this
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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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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth makes a bigoted, unhinged rant and this is how axios covers it up
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
His entire business model hinges on hoovering up public money and then turning around to use some of that money to promote white supremacy which somehow brings in more public money.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
among other things, musk is the #1 donor to the Republican Party in 2024 and 2026, now appointed to a board where he can steers contracts to his businesses. Bought and sold. Thieves.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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.
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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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