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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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mathletic.bsky.social @mathletic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If Other Jobs Were Like US Senator www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
It's time for your scheduled open-heart surgery. Unfortunately, no one has seen or heard from the surgeon in weeks, since the Incident. The nurse says that she spoke with him at length on a wide variety of important subjects and that he had never been more eloquent. "Will he be along shortly?" you ask.
"I hired him to perform a specific job, and I would like him to do that." The nurse is appalled by this disrespect for the doctors privacy. You lie there for several weeks, your chest flaps held open by clamps.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 18/06/2026
Heartbreaking! The worst court you know made a great point
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 01/06/2026
friend sends
dam labeled "may 31" holding  back a rainbow
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 17/03/2026
A journalist filed a brief live blog entry on an apparent Iranian missile strike that hit no one and caused no serious damage. Next thing he knew, angry Polymarket users were demanding he change the story—and threatening his life and family if he refused. My story: wapo.st/4lI6Pon (gift link)
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A journalist reported a missile strike. Then came the death threats.
An Israeli war reporter says online gamblers demanded he change a published story so they could win a payout on prediction market Polymarket.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Grimly: we're in a Post Correspondence era
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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
do not dodname his department, mike
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
You may think this Board of Peace thing is a way to pay Trump bribes, and it is, but because that’s not maximally stupid I think the actual purpose is to give Trump a Board of Peace Prize.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
warning! some snowflakes may be asymmetrical
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Not looking forward to the 2044 controversy about whether a Dem president handled the withdrawal from Venezuela right
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
no one asked for a sequel to the shitposting fire emblem triangle article but i wrote one anyway www.theverge.com/policy/84960...
theverge.com
The year politics became brainrot
You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024. It’s almost as if there were signs! bsky.app/profile/anna...
We never got an answer. Only more war.
More casualties. And no victory.
Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?
What if we treated the enemy the way they treated us? Would that not be an incentive for
the other side to reconsider their barbarism?
Hey, Al Qaeda: If you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs.
Makes me wonder, in 2024—if you want to win—how can anyone write universal rules about killing other people in open conflict?
Especially against enemies who fight like savages, disregarding human life in every single instance. Maybe, instead, we are just fighting with one hand behind our back—and the enemy knows it.
This is a big reason there hasn't been a war
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I kinda sniffed at the headline—suicidal teen commits suicide is tragic but not necessarily the machine’s fault— and then the article and especially the logs are so so much worse than I thought they would be.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/08/2025
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I am so glad "why tariff banana" thought is reaching members of Congress. It's the most obvious example of how insane this administration's trade policy has been—officials like Lutnick can't give a good justification for it because there simply isn't one
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/06/2025
“The president’s solutions-focused approach to legal roadblocks necessitated thinking outside the constitutional box.”
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New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for “The President Violated the Constitution”
“The president remained steadfast in his novel interpretation of constitutional law.” “Faced with the choice between clinging to the letter of the ...
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/05/2025
Do you think you can counter "you consider them men in sports contexts, how are they not men in bathroom contexts"? Because that is a logical haymaker Dems are sleepwalking right into. Argue the science, explain how transition works, please!
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The WITAOD Chronicles
Anna Bower
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 4:06 PM
Share On: f X in $
One woman's maddening search for the head of a non-existent federal
agency.
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 06/12/2024
Korea's preeminent *conservative* paper of record exclusively reports that President Yoon ordered someone at the National Intelligence Service (Korean CIA) to arrest the head of his own party (who would later vote against martial law) and when the NIS man refused, ordered his dismissal.
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“‘정치인 체포’ 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치”
정치인 체포 지시 받았다는 홍장원 1차장, 정치적 발언 문제돼 국정원 차원 인사 조치 정보소식통 尹, 洪차장에 직접 전화로 지시
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Onion has purchased InfoWars.
theonion.com
Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’
Today we celebrate a new addition to the Global Tetrahedron LLC family of brands. And let me say, I really do see it as a family. Much like family members, our brands are abstract nodes of wealth, int...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Does anybody need millions of dollars worth of supplements?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
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The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 31/10/2024
Me, cheerfully opening that “origins” tab thinking it can’t be that bad and immediately getting hit with racism so intense my brain shorts out and I Kubrick-stare for a solid 20 seconds
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
I see Politico has decided not to f**k around with headlines anymore. www.politico.com/news/2024/10...
politico.com
We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker.
A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Better a hundred innocent men be lethally injected than two prosecutors be impugned
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
MAGA torn between glee at a Democrat being charged and horror at a cop being held accountable
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Anyway congrats to Glenn Kessler for at least fact-checking adults, as opposed to lying about what his sources told him about a ten-year-old rape victim. www.levernews.com/emails-raise...
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Emails Raise Questions About WaPo Fact Checker
The Post corrected Glenn Kessler’s column questioning reporting about a child rape victim, shortly after The Lever obtained emails showing inaccuracies.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
Roberts: wait Bruen says WHAT? Fuck fuck fuck I gotta stop voting on shit when I’m drunk. Okay. You can do this Johnny. You went to Harvard. Let’s parse our way out of this mess. Fuckin’ Thomas, I should have known better.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 17/06/2024
The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/05/2024
Congress still won't stop automakers from selling your driving data to data brokers and insurance companies, but they want to make sure @elonjet.net can't tell you if Elon is flying to Texas.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
We have reached the "anti-Israel protesters are paid" by Jews portion of the program.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/04/2024
I found a group of 17,000 people called "Facebook complaints center" and every single post on there is amazing
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/04/2024
Ah. Twitter’s AI, Grok, JUST FUCKING MADE UP that Iran is attacking Tel Aviv. It was first seen in the trending column. Bluechecks are running with the story
Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles 

On October 7, 2023, Iran launched a missile strike on Tel Aviv, Israel, in retaliation for earlier attacks on Israel by the Palestinian military wing of Hamas, which resulted in the deaths of over 1,200 civilians. The attack involved the use of heavy missiles and has led to significant damage, including fires and the destruction of several buildings.

Grok is an early feature and can make mistakes. Verify its outputs.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
I expect a lot of drama over the fact that Judge Kaplan gave SBF “only” 25 years. What if I told you 25 years is a lot? I would have been a bit surprised if he went below 20 but this doesn’t surprise me, based on how courts treat white collar stuff.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
I’ve… never read an obit like this before. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/a... (via @theferocity.bsky.social, 🎁 link)
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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
COURT: allowing states to enforce the express insurrection disqualification in the U.S. Constitution would lead to "chaos" but it's fine for a state to have its own immigration system
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 09/03/2024
March 9, 2020, a Monday. Stung by headlines already questioning the administration's response to the looming Covid threat, Trump spends the day tweeting defensively. The Dow plunges 8%.
@realDonaldTrump

So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!

10:47 AM - Mar 9, 2020
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/03/2024
Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true
Image of a tweet reading “I have been at conferences with many tools who will offer real time feedback”
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Ashaa 🐦‍⬛ (Soma) @coyote.band · 05/03/2024
There is a Republican on the Wisconsin Elections Commission who bragged about “major reductions” in “overwhelming Black and Hispanic areas.” This was revealed in January 2023. He is still serving! urbanmilwaukee.com/2023/01/10/m...
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
@kenwhite.bsky.social, is David Franklin Slater, age 63, an Air Force civilian employee accused of leaking classified materials in response to the following communications, a good client? www.justice.gov/opa/pr/air-force-employee-indicted-unlawful-disclosure-classified-national-defense-information
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