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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No lies detected from Jennifer Siebel! #ResistTrump
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 26/09/2026
When Joe Biden took office, America’s allies were willing to treat the first Trump term as an aberration. That ship has sailed. The world is no longer waiting for us to come to our senses, and the trust we squandered may take a generation to rebuild if anyone still believes we are capable of it.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Make it make sense!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's not possible. In 2025, the smartest person in history took complete control of federal government IT and his "DOGE" modernized and secured everything. Right? Surely that wasn't just a data heist by a billionaire white nationalist and a bunch of 20-year-old freaks from neo-Nazi chatrooms?
nytimes.com
Hackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel Records
The compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
No lies detected from Jennifer Welch!
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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 19/09/2026
Any questions? Many thanks to snarkypoliticoguy (TT) for this accurate summary.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country who's ever been charged with substantial responsibilities." - Steve Schmidt #ResistTrump
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At the end of the day, beyond the hatefulness, he's really just a spectacularly dumb guy. Like I'm not sure he's achieved object permanence yet. He has to be reminded which hole the food goes in. His internal monologue is the sound of one hand clapping. He calls electrical sockets "finger zappers."
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
I closed my trade imbalance with the grocery store, now I just eat the money I would have spent there.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 15/09/2026
Commentary: Ohio spent 2025 building the biggest overhaul of its property tax system in decades, and it still didn't touch the part that matters most, a gap that gets harder to call an accident the longer you look at it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Ohio buried its own court ruling. Now it wants you to blame the tax bill instead. • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio spent 2025 building the biggest overhaul of its property tax system in decades, and it still didn’t touch the part that matters most, a gap that gets harder to call an accident the longer you…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔥 SEAN PENN: “VP J.D. Vance — you f*cking idiot… there’s one criminal in this 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 war (Putin), who btw is in an active war against you and me… an appetite for convenience and comfort leads to complicity and cowardice.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
She adds, "But Republicans have made it a big attack on you," which is a telling statement. Stated simply: We don't find it newsworthy either, but it's our job to use talking points from one side and parrot them back to the other side. If not, we'll be accused of bias. (Also, my boss is Bari Weiss)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ireland understood the assignment! ✊💚
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ireland understood the assignment.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Money that comes into the United States government is government revenue. It is part of the public fisc. There's not "taxpayer money" and then "extra bonus money outside the rules." It's all taxpayer money. And spending *any* of it requires Congressional authorization. 2/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026
Donald Trump and Joe Biden at 9/11 ceremonies today. Trump in DC. Biden in NYC. (REUTERS)
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 11/09/2026
Commentary: Ohio Issue 3 is a proposed constitutional amendment touted to give Ohio voters extra insurance for election security—on top of the extensive, systemic security coverage that has kept Ohio elections safe, secure, and highly accurate for decades without incident.
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Issue 3 campaign employs used car salesman tactics to duplicate rules already in Ohio law • Ohio Capital Journal
Commentary: Ohio Issue 3 is a proposed constitutional amendment touted to give Ohio voters extra insurance for election security—on top of the extensive, systemic security coverage that has kept Ohio…
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 07/09/2026
Police arrest Patrick Havas, carrying 2 pistols and a Taser, for attacking Amy Acton. Patrick’s brother Andrew donated $10K to Ramaswamy and has a criminal record for raping a 15-year-old girl. Not an immigrant. Not Black or brown. Not a drag queen. Not Trans. EVERY MAGA ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We're spending $1 billion a day on a war in Iran that Congress never authorized. That same billion could cover Medicaid for 4 million Americans for a day. Or SNAP for 9.5 million families. We don't have a money problem — we have a priorities problem. #FightTheRight
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Best Friends
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Right-size Scotus and declare their rulings void. Enforce the constitutional edict against insurrectionists holding office. Overturn all their work. Demolish their buildings. Money out of politics. Nazis out of government. Cancel all Musk contracts; seize his property for a global restitution fund.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is why I find so enervating the old centrist two-step; “Republicans are an existential threat to our democracy, and we will work together with them to find bipartisan solutions—as the voters desire” the fuck we do. We desire consequences and repercussions. We desire investigations and trials.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026
I would like to return to an era where I do not have to assume that every single statement that comes from a government spokesperson is a lie
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026
i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Not a new take. Just one worth re-emphasizing: Republicans don’t oppose government-run health care based on the notion that it won’t work. They oppose government-run health care because they know it will work. Therefore, it will work for *those* people. That’s why they politically oppose it.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
a lot of the lessons from the Trump era are "don't elect Donald Trump"
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My dad was a public school teacher; and he always said the toughest parts of the job were: 1. Having to pay for your own classroom chalk, and 2. Performing gender-reassignment surgeries during class hours w/out parents finding out.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
the one truth in america that you actually arent allowed to say is that republicans and anyone supporting trump are dumb as dog shit. like actually very stupid people who should not be in charge of anything
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Canada should rename its sewage plants after Trump.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Canada and Mexico should just rename the US to “South Canada” and "North Mexico" and call it a day.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump: tariffs don’t raise prices MAGA: yeah! tariffs don’t raise prices, dumb libs Trump: I’m going to suspend tariffs on imported beef to lower prices MAGA: suspending tariffs will lower prices, dumb libs
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New FDA guidelines recommend opening your refrigerator armed with a loaded firearm
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"How can we design a stadium that illustrates the try-hard failures of the Cleveland Browns?" "Maybe make it look like a Cybertruck?" (finger guns) "Bingo."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Trump voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary, according to local voting records — even as he continues to rail against mail-in voting with lies of fraud.
politico.com
Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida
Voting records from Palm Beach County show the president requested his ballot in late July and it was returned on Aug. 13.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 17/08/2026
The Negotiating Table by Nick Anderson
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just imagine what they are hiding from us...
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Look, they may call us enemies of the country to a violent base. They may celebrate when we’re fired or have our shows canceled or die. And, yes, they did just make us decoys for an assassination attempt. But have you considered they respond to emails in a timely fashion?” Dear God, grow a spine.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/08/2026
Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency
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Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 11/08/2026
U.S. employers shed 23,000 jobs in July, and the employment count for earlier months was revised downward by 103,000 jobs as labor shortages begin to weigh on hiring, according to new statistics released Friday by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/11/r...
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US employers shed 23K jobs in July • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. employers shed 23,000 jobs in July, and the employment count for earlier months was revised downward by 103,000 jobs as labor shortages begin to weigh on hiring, according to new statistics…
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Obama never hid in a catering cart.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is a sign of the total failure of our constitutional order that, a mere six years after we were all desperately praying for a miraculous scientific breakthrough to end the worst global pandemic in a century, that the President of the United States can do what he did today & face no consequences.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...
DO FACULTY AFFECT STUDENT PARTISANSHIP?*
Micah Y. Baum*
Joaquín Endara
Annaliese Paulson®
Abstract
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of major and sort toward ideologically similar instructors. Exploiting plausibly random variation in when instructors teach courses, we find no effect of faculty partisanship on student partisanship. Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply, leaving little room for indoctrination.
JEL Codes: 123, D72, H75
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The problem for all the people trying to fearmonger about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social exists. Y’all tried it with him too, and now NYC loves him and he’s delivering — Which is what you were really afraid of.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/08/2026
Donald Trump dodged the draft but is happy to post photos of himself in uniform while he sends our kids to die in his war.
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