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Merlin&Abu

@merlin-abu.bsky.social
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Basic human decency and empathy matter. Truth matters. Rationality and Reason matter. Right matters. Enlightenment values, including social and scientific progress, must prevail. 💡🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🌈

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ItsAlwaysSomethin’ @itsalwayssomethin.bsky.social · 6h
Don’t omit Senator Foghorn Leghorn from LA who asked penetrating questions like“ Do you believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy”. This is what MAGA sent to Washington to “represent” us?
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bearded-ginger.bsky.social @bearded-ginger.bsky.social · 7h
It truly blows my mind how simple of a check it would of been to do just a LITTLE research to find out this wasn’t true… these are the dumb a$$s running this country
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Merlin&Abu @merlin-abu.bsky.social · 5h
Hey look everybody. It’s #SenatorFoghorn looking all indignant over an idiotic “gotcha” that was totally factually botched by MAGA incompetents. All in bootlicking service to poopy pants. 🤣🤣🤣
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PictureTheSouth @picturethesouth.bsky.social · 8h
Senator Bullschmitt from this day forward.
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My Two Bits @mybits.bsky.social · 7h
Look at the dirtbag Schmitt with a smug look on his face. It is funny that all these GOP assholes without balls get like pitbulls when they are trying to defend Felon Don. What a bunch of ass-kissing cowards.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h
That cocky, misplaced look of smug success on Senator Eric Schmitt’s face—moments before everything came crashing down around him because he’s so carelessly incompetent.
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Andre 🇨🇦 @iamcdn.bsky.social · 11h
Andrew has already started the blame game
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h
Benny Johnson took Russian money to spread his right-wing lies. He claims he was duped. So is he spreading right-wing lies for free now?
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Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say
The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h
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?
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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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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 7h
Expand the Supreme Court www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Third-Country Deportations For Now
The decision allows the administration to continue removing immigrants to countries they’re not from and have never been to.
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Merlin&Abu @merlin-abu.bsky.social · 22h
Was reminded of this particular ICE depravity.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Why do we wait for those carrying the batons to confess when our bruised bodies tell the whole truth?" - Mohammed El-Kurd
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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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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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No one except the soulless criminal who's president of the U.S. would say Canada is "one of the worst countries in the entire world." Trump uses China as a good example and Canada as a bad example because he loves dictators and wants to be one.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Adam Hoffman was convicted of raping his friend's young son. He should be in jail, but Paxton used his power to get him on a misdemeanor. That means he only served for 60 days, didn't have to register as a sex offender in Texas, and then left the state.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s indeed possible to write a headline that says “Trump lies again.” It doesn’t violate any rule of journalism or shatter the laws of nature. it just tells the truth.
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Mannwich @mannwich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fuck off Turd Blossom. He contributed to it all.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In a Cornell University fraternity house and in the empty silence of phone screens, Jane Doe was being given the message that so many of our daughters hear every single day from their politicians, pastors, fathers, and peers: you just don’t f*ckin’ matter. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/cornells-j...
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Cornell’s Jane Doe Needed One Good Man In That House And That Group Chat. She Would Find None.
Warning: this piece includes references to sexual assault, as well as words many may find offensive.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JUST FILED: Sitting behind her desk in central North Carolina, Amy Beros warned me: “It’s really hard for people in the United States to understand the scale……” of what’s about to unfold macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University takes rape so seriously that seven #ChiPhi fraternity rapists (Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar) were punished by having to write an essay. And you wonder why women don't feel safe . . .
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
Instead of lowering healthcare costs or gas prices, Trump is spending YOUR tax dollars on an illegal, blatantly political ad. He knows how unpopular he is — and now he is using your money to try to change your mind. Corrupt & illegal.
Trump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’

The agency responsible for the commercial was not immediately clear.
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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...
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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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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar” Credit to Daniel Dale for this deep dive into Trump’s lies, the topics he lies about most; why MAGA loves the lies & the impact of the press failure to consistently fact check Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
After Trump threatened to invade Canada, they have started to buy their military aircraft from Sweden. It is estimated this will be a loss to our nation in the range of $80,000,000,000.00. How many jobs is that? ================
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 09/09/2026
what repubs ALWAYS do (and have done for decades) is exploit existing trauma by inflicting some their own Roger Marshall is no different. newrepublic.com/post/215156/...
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GOP Senator Built Fortune Suing People Who Couldn’t Pay Health Bills
Republican Senator Roger Marshall sued hundreds of patients before entering Congress—even getting some of them arrested.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
This is actually hell, right?
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Evil is actually good” — Peter Thiel youtube.com/shorts/8Idvw...
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Peter Thiel Says Evil Is Okay
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.
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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool
The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Talarico will be a great Senator for Texas and Texans
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We can make more jobs and drop the price of electricity while solving the climate crisis, too.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The President of the United States is a traitor and a rapist.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump's comments always age so well.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who else is way past impeachment and wants REAL accountability? 🙋‍♀️ I do. Who’s with me? #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 26/09/2026
Every family deserves access to healthy food. That’s why, in my first budget, I have proposed making permanent $10 million worth of investments to fight food insecurity in Seattle. Together, we’re building a city where no family has to choose between rent and groceries.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Talarico: "I am extending an open hand to all of our neighbors who supported the president in the last election and inviting them to join this movement we are building across the state"
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