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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 5h

It’s cool the president of the United States had a stroke and they covered it up!

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7h

Also, what was the alleged link between the Hawks game and Willis? Was she there?? Or was the allegation that he went to see a game in Atlanta so it must have been a secret meeting with Willis? I’m so confused on the evidentiary logic

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Patrick Meyers @pmeyers7.bsky.social · 12h

What are the odds Schmitt's team placed this article with Axios, with the intent to use today's "bombshell" line of questioning as a springboard for said buzz (and then promptly stepping on the world's largest rake on live TV). Helluva way to introduce yourself to the country!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.

BillielsTheOne 9/20/26 “Rufo? The dude who earnestly repeated the lie about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield? He believes in colorblind equality?”

Conor Friedersdorf • 9/20/26

“I'd missed his involvement in that and agree that, whatever it says about his beliefs, it reflects badly on him.”

@josephgfrancis, 9/21/26
“just incredible how people paid to write about politics for major publications can be more ignorant than random twitter users who didn't have to search hard to find this”

Conor Friedersdorf, 9/21/26 “Maybe I saw it and forgot. Or maybe I wasn't on X that week. You people are unbelievable--as if anyone has perfect recollection of every post relevant to something they do a quick x post about. Of course the hive mind of X collectively recalls more things than I do individually.”

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 10h

speaking of closing tax loopholes, if the IRS was able to collect all taxes owed since 2000 it could mean today's national debt would be $8 trillion lighter some new fiscal analysis from yours truly, link below

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...

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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 6h

just a reminder that Schmitt hired the guy who was too much of a Nazi for Ron DeSantis

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• This article is more than 2 months old
Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
Jason Wilson
Fri 6 Jun 2025 08.00 EDT

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 9h

this is an argument against, like, basically every public utility. "what if someone like trump runs the municipal water system??" I am sorry, the only answer is to make sure that dumb shit doesn't happen

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 9h

I react very poorly when any proposed policy or plan is met with "but what if someone like Trump gets hold of it?? then it would be not good, but very bad" because there really is no law or institution that can work when a population is willing to elect the stupidest, worst asshole alive

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 8h

I think a not too insignificant amount of Trump voters really did buy the whole “he will not start wars” schtick

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h

By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h

#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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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8h

weird who gets a response in 11 minutes and who gets one in 6-9 months!

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

judging just by what i have seen in brief snaps on the TL today, republicans are catastrophically unprepared for what’s going to be coming at them

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 11h

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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The Florida Trib @thefloridatrib.bsky.social · 8h

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is plowing ahead with officially designating a leading Muslim civil rights nonprofit and more than 100 other groups as “domestic terrorist organizations,” in a move critics say is unprecedented and unconstitutional. floridatrib.org/2026/09/29/d...

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DeSantis exercises ‘unprecedented’ power to label groups ‘domestic terrorists’

Gov. DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet voted to advance the terrorist designations Tuesday, approving the proposal in just over 30 seconds and with no discussion.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 9h

For once, Ken Paxton is being honest: if it weren't for our broken campaign finance system, he'd have no shot. #UnrigWashington candidate @jamestalarico.bsky.social is running to reform our system and fight for Texans. Ken Paxton can't say the same. #TXSEN

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mallow @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 8h

holy shit lmfao

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 12h

Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵Democrats: 53% 🔴Republicans: 38% YouGov / Sept 28, 2026

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Schmitt concocts an elaborate conspiracy all based on the premise that Smith must’ve been in ATL on a certain date because he was at a “Hawks” game that day but it wasn’t the Atlanta Hawks it was the Iowa Hawkeyes. His big gotcha moment made him look like a complete fool. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 16h

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Daily naps in public, now. Literally daily.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Jack Smith has to respond to several questions from Republican Sen. John Kennedy with this: "I'm not going to talk about my family here today."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h

Klobuchar eviscerates Schmitt: "For a U.S. Senator to have false information and imply based on a confusion … and imply you're in another city that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia and then call you a dirt bag is something that deserves an apology."

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13h

Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Mamdani in response to Kimmel asking him to send Trump a selfie of the two of them: "I love you, but I love housing more"

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 14h

It’s just indescribable how Trump went all in on trying to overthrow the elected government with multiple simultaneous treasonous schemes and walked away free

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 14h

Bold move for Republicans to remind everyone just before the election. But I'm sure Trump will have a very calm and rational, "reasonable people can disagree" reaction.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It is often weakened by attacks on the institutions in the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January of 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Melody Kay Young @melodykayyoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“For more than two months, our mom has cried every night wondering who killed her husband, lifelong partner, and our father. When a government agent shoots someone, the least they can do is take responsibility...ICE has hidden the killer and tried to drag our father’s good name through the mud.”

texastribune.org

ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the country was being run this bad by a Democrat, Corporate Media would be running 1 hour specials every night about how the economy is 💩 and asking “Why won’t the President just resign.”

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.

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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At least 6 babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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