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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026
That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.
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The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?
Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 11/10/2026
Is there a cleverer way that Ukraine could have hit back at Trump doing a dirty oil deal with Putin to help him with gas prices in the midterms than turning off the army of Russian propagandists posing as heartland Americans with concerns about trans socialists?
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is me after every email from my child’s school.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This point is 100% accurate. I’ll add the observation that so much of the GOP scam on their supporters is rooted in the notion of “fairness,” as in DEI isn’t fair to me, a hard working red blooded conservative. This is a much tougher sell when DSA socialism sounds fairer to their base.
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think it's important to remember he knows exactly what's up and is obsessive about polling, and I would bet money the actual accepted definitions of socialism are more popular than he wants to address right now.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I came here to say “what was going through you”, but I see my point has already been made with appropriate nuance and subtlety.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Don’t sleep on upside down Tina from Bobs Burgers next him.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The GOP does not care about mothers, children, women’s sports, the deficit, free speech, food safety, national security…
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Mary Tuma @marytuma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Texas reproductive rights advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing its much anticipated maternal death report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027: Background here: www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mor...
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A ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’: Why the State's Maternal Death Report Was Pushed Until After Midterms
Advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing the annual report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The timeline created its own shot/chaser for me. I hope the people of Kansas see through this ridiculous and condescending attempt to stir up hate to distract from real issues.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
See also farmers and farm equipment or NYC taxis and taxi medallions.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell a nice post doc posi… I’ll start again
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
…energy policy. Gas fueled cars are barely 100 years old but Americans behave as though Moses drove the 10 commandments down in a Model-T. Power and a need for control amd approval absolutely fucks peoples brains.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m often struck by how people decide that certain categories and times become the 1 true archetype, ignoring constant flux and change in every other part of life and society. Here it’s whatever the fuck she’s saying about race, ethnicity, class? It could be any other sclerotic view from gender to..
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects.
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James Urbaniak @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This historic image is the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima of MAGA idiocy
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We like “OUR” identity politics, too, apparently.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Any thoughts on the relationship between avocado toast and housing affordability?
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ok, we’re rebranding AI again. Instead of super intelligence we’re going with Gollum.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can we get a rewrite where he’s shoving forkfuls of salad into his mouth as he says the last line? Instead of leaning back as he unfurls this factoid I imagine him hunched over the table, flecks of food flying. Like a pig.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brain on drugs, for sure. I learned it by watching you is a deep cut. Too sad and cumbersome to be used ironically.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More old fruit pictures,please!
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You’re telling me there’s an account called old fruit pictures that posts old fruit pictures? Instant follow.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Was that the convention where Trump, from the stage, said Paxton is ugky and no one likes him?
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Strong closing argument. Elect Republican who cannot accomplish a single damn thing while the world collapses around you.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is my policy, as well. Curiously, I’ve never had to hand out a single one of my cards.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Back in my day, hair brained right-wing conspiracy theories at least broadened public knowledge of typesetting and terminology like kerning.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I admire their commitment to the bit.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Made mordantly funny by the sad fact that Albert Brooks” father actually died on stage.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One of my favorite jokes ever is the comedian in Defending Your Life doing crowd work asking Albert Brooks how he died and Albert’s character says “like you, onstage”
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’ll take things that aren’t and never will happen for $10,000,000, Alex.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This meme and this photo were always meant for each other. For years they’ve been on a collision course and none of us knew. Someone should write their stories in the vein of A Prayer for Owen Meany. 750 pages before it all suddenly clicks together.
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Chris Edelson @chrisedelson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"In Trump’s first term, he reneged on JCPOA & reimposed sanctions, vowing that a policy of “maximum pressure” would force Iran into a “better deal.” trump got this enormous gamble completely wrong & US as well as others pay the price. Haven't seen any front page stories exploring this central point
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
…things of that nature.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"It is just no longer feasible to prioritize consensus over unilateralism, without playing patsy to the forces trying to destroy us." Yep.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed gave Democrats the template for dodging bad faith questions about sports. Call them unserious. Refocus the conversation on things people are actually struggling to survive right now. There is an energy crisis unfolding, this should not be hard.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It was just a perspective trick like David Copperfirld used to make the Statue of Liberty “disappear.”
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mike Johnson sending the House home to avoid a vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment is a cowardly disgrace…and another reminder why these anti-democratic, pro-war, pro-Trump, Epstein file coverup enablers and Republican failures need to be sent home permanently.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As others have pointed out, the Texas GOP is still running against pronouns. You cannot appease them.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Has anyone suggested any of these phantom checks be means tested? I thought republicans loved means testing to bog down any public benefits administration.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
every time I see this human thumb I think about how fuckin wild it is that the story about the cava bag full of $50K in bribe cash just... disappeared
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I just want to remind you that Al Gore invented the internet. You see, people thought he told self aggrandizing lies and this was an ongoing question about his suitability for office.
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meshelman.bsky.social @meshelman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
From Elon’s look book:
London street entertainer who paints himself gold and poses like a statue.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/09/2026
Rep. Lisa McClain admits that Trump's trade war will "absolutely" cause pain to her constituents, but adds that "at the end of the day I trust that President Trump is not going to do anything to hurt the American people long term"
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I was recently asked a question on a podcast that seemed like it was trying to prompt a factional infighting comment, and my response was that bigger things are happening, I'm happy to see and to stand with a wide variety of Americans who agree, and any smaller disagreements can be worked out later.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
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POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Any candidate who accepts Musk's money will be repeatedly asked if they think it's a political liability to partner with an open bigot—blatantly racist, unambiguously sexist, egregiously antisemitic, you can pick one of many, many available examples—and if they'll give the money back, right? Right?
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