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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Faced with outrage over his use of taxpayer money for campaign ads, Trump now says he’ll use his PAC money. Will he pay back the money from ads that already ran? I want proof of what he says, because he’s a lying criminal.

Trump: The Radical Left is upset with the fact that I am taking Ads, which I consider to be a positive promotion for our Great U.S.A., and paying for them with U.S.A. money. This is a rather standard thing to do but, rather than doing that, although nothing will make them happy, I have decided to do the Patriotic Ads, among others, and pay for them myself, and with money I raised for MAGA, Inc. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The New York Times asks the RNC for crowd sizes for Trump's events. Rather than provide numbers, the RNC issues a meaningless statement, and the NYT prints it! Why would the RNC answer a reporter’s questions when the NYT is willingly to reprint Republican propaganda instead?

Natalie Baldassarre, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, responded to a request for crowd sizes at each event by saying on Sunday that the rallies were “drawing some of our highest ticket demands to date,” adding that “our Republican candidates will continue to build off this momentum and drive voters to the polls as we approach Election Day.”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rahm Emanuel should focus on shutting up and going away.

NBC: Rahm Emanuel says Democrats should focus on ethics reforms rather than impeaching Trump

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The NY Times says it’s “not clear“ why Trump is using taxpayer funds and not money from his super PAC for his self-glorifying ads. But it’s clear to me. It’s because HE‘S A CROOK.

It was not clear why taxpayer funds, and not money from the super PAC, were used for the spots.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another story on Fox's website complains about a bad call against one of Clark and Cunningham's teammates after a rough play. Yes, there are collisions and bad calls in the WNBA playoffs. But it's obvious that this is a story on Fox because the player is white and plays for Fox's favorite team.

Fox headline: Fever player violently slammed to ground, but refs' next call had fans fuming

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fox News talks a lot about the WNBA, but it’s not because it likes to see talented female athletes putting the ball in the hoop. To Fox, women’s sports is good for 2 things: 1. To agitate for white grievance. 2. To foment anti-trans hate. (This is No. 1, but there’s a lot of No. 2 on Fox as well.)

Fox headline: Sports media celebrates Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham losing in the playoffs.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s a political description, not a simple epithet.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After Eric Schmitt lied and was corrected at the Jack Smith hearing, the NY Times called it a “misunderstanding.” This might be fair if Schmitt had a record of honesty (he doesn’t) and if Schmitt didn’t repeat the same lie after the hearing (he did). What the hell is the NY Times doing?

Devlin Barrett and Charlie Savage
Reporting from Washington
Jack Smith, who as special counsel twice charged Donald J. Trump with criminal offenses after his first term, defended his actions in testimony before Congress on Tuesday, as a Republican senator accused him of perjury based on what appeared to be the lawmaker’s misunderstanding about a basketball game involving the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More proof that MAGA is a cult detached from reality: Only 28% of self-identified MAGA voters think daily expenses have gotten less affordable under Trump. 37% actually think things are more affordable!

Politico poll Trump’s MAGA loyalists don’t think he has an affordability problem

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The mainstream media are trying to force-feed us Rahm Emanuel as If they’re parents who cooked a bunch of cauliflower and are pissed that their kids won’t eat it.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump posts that his arch will be a "military complex" for drones and snipers. Really. 4 possibilities: 1. He's using national security as an argument for the arch, as he did with the ballroom. 2. He's prepping Fortress DC for when he refuses to leave office. 3. He's insane. 4. All of the above.

At the strong request of the United States Military, and for National Security purposes, I have agreed to convert the magnificent Triumphal Arch, planned since the Civil War Era many years ago, at the Receptive Circle adjoining the Arlington Memorial Bridge, into a top grade Military Complex/Triumphal Arch, to house, store, and have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas, and additionally have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage. There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World. Out of the 59 top cities and Capitals, Washington, D.C., IS THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT HAVE A TRIUMPHAL ARCH, but it will now and, by far, the greatest of them all! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fox News is Islamophobic garbage. This “report” is leading their website.

Fox News: “Americans complain their neighborhood is quietly turning into a Muslim haven.”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here’s another “Trump Says …” headline in the New York Times. Headlines like this translate to: “World’s Biggest Liar Says Something.” Not exactly news.

Trump Says His Son Will Pay Back Russian Businessman for Wedding Party

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The gasoline price hike since the start of Trump's illegal war with Iran has reached $1.50 a gallon. Gas cost $2.98 a gallon before the war. It's $4.48 now.

AAA gas price tracker: https://gasprices.aaa.com/

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The president of the White House Correspondents’ Association is Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich. She’s married to a Republican congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick. Expecting the WHCA to forcefully fight Trump’s ban on CNN, MSNOW and Politico is like expecting your goldfish to cook your dinner.

People mag photo of Heinrich and Fitzpatrick

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cats urinate on things to mark their territory. So does Donald Trump.

AP: Trump defends bid to put his name on Kennedy Center

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What’s it going to take for mainstream media to say loudly and clearly that Trump is building a dictatorship? If not now, when?

NYT: Trump says he has banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Are journalists going to ask Republican candidates why they're accepting campaign help from white supremacist Elon Musk? Or is racist rhetoric about ethnic cleansing considered normal now?

Photo of Musk giving a salute that looks like the Nazi salute

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Five months ago, the president of the United States posted: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards.” The Iranians didn't open the fuckin' strait then and they still haven't. Every day it becomes more obvious which country is run by a crazy bastard.

Trump's April 5, 2026, post on Truth Social:
"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell -- JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The NY Times is in “but her emails” mode regarding Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. Relentless and unfair. Where’s the big story about a Republican megadonor who is a white supremacist? Maybe NYT has heard of him. His name‘s Elon Musk.

NYT headline: A provocative streamer creates headaches for El-Sayed in key Senate race

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

With dopey economic theories like the ones he’s posting today, it’s a wonder Trump is a rich guy. Of course, he got that way because his father gave him $400 million, he has a longtime practice of stiffing creditors, and he monetizes the White House with corrupt crypto schemes.

Trump on Truth Social:
Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the Best Credit in the World — BY FAR. Our Country is BOOMING with new Investment! If we stopped Trading with every country that we have a Deficit with, which is most of them, we would make, at least, 1.5 Trillion Dollars a year. The word “Deficit” is nothing more than a fancy word for LOSS. We are “carrying” almost every country in the World, and that cannot go on any longer. LOWER THE INTEREST RATES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND FAST! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The average price of a gallon of regular gas was $2.98 before Republicans started the Iran war. It’s $4.37 now – 47% higher. If you have a car with, say, a 14-gallon tank, you’re paying nearly $20 more every time you fill your tank. Vote against all Republicans.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Someone remind the New York Times that it was just 2 years ago when the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity so he can commit crimes whenever he feels like it. Unpack the court. We need 13 justices – and term limits.

NYT headline: "in Fits and Starts, the Supreme Court Stands Up to Trump."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fox News goes after our favorite “online lefty” Aaron Rupar because the right wing would rather hype a minor social media skirmish than talk about high gas prices, Trump’s crypto scams and the illegal war with Iran. @atrupar.com

Fox: White House leaves online lefty crying foul after leveling him for attack on female aide

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) President Trump promoted new, unconfirmed accusations to suit his political narrative.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) The assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an improvisational departure from the normal course of American politics.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Bernie Madoff’s investment strategy was overly optimistic.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Humans landed on the moon, according to reports.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Charles Manson took the concept of family to uncomfortable extremes.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Germany’s vision of a more robust national footprint was in tension with Poland’s border.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) The 1929 stock market crash induced some traders to depart their high-rise offices without waiting for the elevators.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Young men from northern and southern U.S. states engaged in unpleasant disagreements over the South’s labor policies.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) Spanish visitors’ treatment of the Aztecs pushed the boundaries of guest decorum.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(🧵History as reported by the NYT Euphemism Desk) The philosopher Socrates demonstrated rare cooperation with authorities by making hemlock his beverage of choice.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I wonder if the NY Times has a Euphemism Desk to soften its stories. Trump lawlessness is an “expansive interpretation of presidential power”? A Trump-UAE crypto scheme “blurred the line between foreign policy and private enterprise.” This thread imagines history as written by NYT’s Euphemism Desk.🧵

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trump doesn’t care what happens to the human race as long as he gets to die rich.

Trump downplays the need to check AI development and says he doesn’t want to cede edge to China

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hardly any industries are mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. But the journalism industry is. This confers a special obligation on members of the press to warn the public of threats to their freedom and well-being. But the journalism profession is largely failing at that duty right now.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Weird lead in the NY Times. Instead of saying Trump was lying when he claimed this week that prices were "way, way down," NYT seems to suggest that the nation only found out that the economy was bad on Friday, after Trump's upbeat remarks.

Tony Romm story in NYT:
With less than two months until the midterm elections, President Trump commenced a final push this week to preserve his Republican majority in Congress, arguing that the United States under G.O.P. control had brought prices “way, way down.”

But for many families and businesses, the economy appeared to be on far shakier footing by Friday. Fuel prices soared, mortgage costs climbed and inflation registered uncomfortably high, testing the public’s patience with Mr. Trump’s frequent assurances that the country is on the right track.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Republican Party is a magnet for child molesters.

Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

MAGA is looking more like Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple every day.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The NY Times casts Democratic warnings about Trump’s fascism as a “political tactic.” That conforms with NYT’s policy of minimizing the fact that Trump actually is a fascist.

Of course, Mr. Trump didn’t invent fear as a political tactic. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson stoked worries of nuclear annihilation in a famous 1964 campaign ad. In 1988, worries about crime, with racial overtones, were pushed by President George H.W. Bush. And the past three Democratic presidential nominees have rallied their voters by casting Mr. Trump as a dire threat to democracy that could lead the country into fascism.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The NY Times means “principles,” not “principals,“ here, right? This story has been online for more than 4 hours.

As they took the stage at the party’s unusual midterm gathering in Dallas on Wednesday night, amid growing Republican anxiety about the midterm elections, speaker after speaker focused on what they characterized as an urgent threat to American life: a Democratic Party they claimed had veered beyond its traditional liberal principals into a dangerous, un-American ideology.

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

Odd how similar your post is to my post from a day earlier. Remarkable coincidence.

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

This guy stole my post from yesterday.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What‘s the example of perfect casting?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On Nov. 21, 1922, in the NY Times' first story about an up-and-coming politician named Adolf Hitler, the Times said "Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded." Yes, really. We should remember that when news media dismiss Trump's insane rhetoric. Take. It. Seriously.

"But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semite propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Biden took the short stairs up to Air Force One instead of the long stairs and it was headline news. Trump publicly fantasizes about conquering neighboring countries and their 170+ million people and the news media will hardly mention it.

Map shows an imagined USA that incudes the current country plus Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland etc.

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