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Mary Smith

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined "​to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump" after a federal judge found that the attorneys misused the court system in "settling" his IRS lawsuit. www.reuters.com/world/us-app...
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Appeals court declines to pause sanctions against Trump lawyers in IRS settlement
A US appeals court declined on Tuesday ​to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump who a judge accused of misusing the court system in settling a lawsuit the Republican president...
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think @darrigomelanie.bsky.social said everything that needs to be said.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/09/2026
“The No. 1 problem the Kennedy Center has had is President Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/09/2026
Okay, this got me.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
gocomics.com/robertariail
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"She *lived* for her job. "For 40 years. "And now it’s gone." -- Dave Barry, writing about how his wife, longtime Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, just got laid off by "two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her." davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nailed it
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love, love, love this. ht: @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026
Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/08/2026
Gov. Pritzker: I have to find money that we don’t have to fight problems that didn’t exist before Donald Trump. I’m not the only one.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m not willing to regard Trump slaughtering wild horses at the same time he’s offering Americans cheap “ground beef” as simply a coincidence . . .
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I wonder why 90 days. Couldn’t be because the midterms are in… 74 days, right? Right? Apparently communist price controls are fine when you’re trying to get votes. Who knew?
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 24/07/2026
Fox News insists racism doesn't exist, unless a Black actor plays a white character
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please explain to me how the same senators who voted for the Epstein Transparency Acf would now vote to confirm the man who’s leading the continuing coverup of the Epstein files.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/07/2026
Blumenthal asks about Blanche being referred to the Bar. Has that ever happened to an Attorney General? BLANCHE: That judge didn’t refer me. (Yes, she did.) No follow up. 🤯
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Crazy how People is the remaining publication that just goes for the jugular.
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Mitch McConnell Was Rolled into Ambulance with ‘No Urgency,’ According to Eyewitness Who Filmed Him Lying Still Under Blanket
A video reportedly depicting Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who has been hospitalized for nearly a month, being placed in an ambulance on a stretcher in mid-June has been published by CNN
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Maria @maria1962.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This is bad
Post by Zeke Hausfather on X:
The global surface temperature record is one of the most iconic figures in climate science.
We now have 12 different groups of researchers from the US, UK, EU, Japan and China (among others) that have calculated it and found nearly identical results:
Chart showing global mean temperature vs 1800-1900 in degrees Celsius going from 0 to 1.50
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Mets Chief @metschief.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I believe we are dealing with is a Schrödinger's McConnell situation
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ALERT: Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) asks Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to provide a health update to him and to all Kentuckians
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/07/2026
Belgian team celebrating their win in the locker room.
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BUG-EYED CAT @californiahorst.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
People are claiming that Mitch McConnell being braindead disqualifies him from being a member of Congress. Honesty, after watching Congress for decades, I assumed that was a *qualification* for being in Congress.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
To this day, this man makes excuses for those who carried out an attack to throw out your votes and install a defeated President.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I still think this is one of the most egregious acts of Treason ever committed….
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Talarico: Every bar has that guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.
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Mary Smith @mermsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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101 Former Judges Ask the New York Bar to Investigate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
Today, 101 former judges filed a complaint, asking the New York State Bar Attorney Grievance Commission to “initiate an investigation into Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (Registration No.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
donald trump wants people to go to jail for inappropriately touching things. DONALD TRUMP.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.
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Gia Monroe 🇺🇸 @giamonroe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Colbert arrives at the Obama Library opening in a tan suit. 😂
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 18/06/2026
Incredible troll by Macron--a bet that neither Trump nor any of his advisors would have a high school-level understanding of world history.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There is a viral Instagram post claiming the Knicks have turned down the invitation to visit the White House, sourced to nothing, apparently just a photo with some text written on it. It’s been reposted 10,000 times. Can’t find any indication it’s true. We have got to stop doing this.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just because the media is not covering it does not mean these extrajudicial killings have stopped!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The next time Ted Cruz sneers at James Talarico's masculinity bonafides, Talarico should remind everyone that Ted Cruz was the president of his high school's drama club, where he starred in musicals. From my experience, that tends to signify gayness more reliably than simply not weighing a lot.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Kimmel joked, “You’d think Trump would be rooting for the Spurs. It’s what got him out of Vietnam" - a reference to the diapered Don's planned attendance at Game 3 of the Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals tomorrow.
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Mary Smith @mermsmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Death toll hits 202 as U.S. violates 5th and 8th Amendments of it own Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...
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The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
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We Need a Fourth Branch
Why our most vital institutions should be placed in a constitutional vault - beyond the reach of any President.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A study in contrasts.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tim Miller: This is a front page story and weeks long scandal for anyone other than Trump.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is the coolest ceasefire ever, you can just bomb shit every other day, call it defensive, and claim the ceasefire is still intact.
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Do you ever look a people and wonder what kind of ants crawl in their brain? Never a dull moment.
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Mary Smith @mermsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Opinion | Trump Just Took Us Somewhere the Country Has Never Been Before
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.
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Clay Nobles @claynobles.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The fact that Thomas Massie lost a Republican primary because he wants pedophiles to face justice tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Republican party.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Kestrels are famous for their ability to hover. This allows them to lock their eyes on the ground and search for small prey like voles and mice. TT: Jacob Rheams Wildlife Photographer - UK
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