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Mark Grueskin

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CO election lawyer in the daytime. NL baseball fan in the summertime. ConLaw coach (Denver East HS) in my spare time.

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Mark Grueskin @mgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h
This piece is 100% accurate. A political party deserves the consequences of its self-inflicted wounds. They have no one to blame but themselves.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Again, imagine if the national media covered American politics through the lens of which party actually competently staffed & governed the country when it was in power, instead of covering it as horse races, theater, & grading on a curve for the One Special Boy & the far right authoritarian party.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
CC: Log Cabin Republicans, who are "fighting to build a stronger, more inclusive Republican Party."
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you push out a rumor that turns out to be 100% bullshit, you didn't "break a story."
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Jesse SingalO @jessesingal

1/ For the last 80 minutes I've been on a fascinating Twitter Spaces (or whatever they're calling them now) with Rhein Amacher, who broke the Talarico story. I was on the call when everyone found out the hospital was flatly denying it. Some interesting nuggets: 8:24 PM • Oct 11, 2026 • 329.2K Views
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"I've never seen so much energy during the midterms. "I worked in the '06 midterms. "Which we ... did lose."
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026
Imagine how luck Schmitt is that he doesn’t represent a state that has the Jets, Mets and Nets. He’d never figure out who was doing what.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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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 Grueskin @mgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Mr. Trump’s cabinet of curiosities" and the White House "sycophancy Olympics" says it all about the under-qualified bunch that 47 assembled to ensure there would be no challenge to his whims and excesses.
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Mark Grueskin @mgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Phil Weiser and his Democratic AG allies will not let Trump and his henchmen undermine the 2026 midterms. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Commentary: War games and draft lawsuits: Democrats work to Trump-proof November election
Stepping in for a complacent Congress, Democratic attorneys general are ready to fight efforts to undermine or overturn the Nov. 3 election. "We need to stay vigilant," says Colorado's Phil Weiser.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 26/09/2026
It’s always silly when judges insist that they are magically nonpartisan and have no political beliefs, but it’s especially funny when you have a long track record of saying things like “ANY REPUBLICAN IS BETTER THAN ANY DEMOCRAT” (all caps in original)
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Trump Nominee: For Ethical Reasons, I Cannot Discuss the Time I Called Biden a “Great National Nightmare”
Lots of judges are Republicans. Not all of them are this loud about it.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elites that surrended to Trump in 2025 miscalculated, letting his imagined cultural dominance spook them into inflating the price of getting on his bad side. But now the logic of collective resistance has been confirmed as sound. Should have realized this earlier! newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/09/2026
The theme of Trump’s second term is his using the power of the presidency as though it’s his own. That manifests in tantrums booting media outlets from the White House. More harmfully, it also manifests in blocking federal funding to states that didn’t vote for him. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/09/2026
I don’t care for Dick Durbin either, I am just saying, I am not going to get especially upset about the musings of a man who in five months will have as much voting power in the Senate as I do
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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you thought the diarrhea was bad before...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Why were so many powerful people in America...so willing to abase themselves & their institutions" The central question of our time. A total, comprehensive failure of character, leadership, & oaths of office.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From the chief energy advisor of Gulf Oil.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Here are questions the Marx campaign won't answer: Where is his supporters' money going? Does Marx/his LLC profit from the merch store? Why did his campaign's filing say it's his LLC? If it's not his LLC, did his campaign falsely claim otherwise to allow the $5k contribution?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He really thinks if you run a deficit with another country, that represents a net loss. Sort of like … oh gosh, trying to think of an example here … ok wait, I’ve got a crazy one … it’s like running a casino, but where your expenses exceed your revenues. And then you have to file for bankruptcy.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
They're all just making stuff up because this is a nonserious proposal -- a farce, a distraction -- and journalists should stop treating it with any respect whatsoever. Ignoring it would be best. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump at His Convention Asks Participants to Take Voting Pledge: “I don’t care if we’re registered or not… I’m going to cheat like hell like they do…we’re going to vote” electionlawblog.org/2026/trump-a...
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Trump at His Convention Asks Participants to Take Voting Pledge: “I don’t care if we’re registered or not… I’m going to cheat like hell like they do…we’re going to vote” #ELB
Not as hilarious as he thinks.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Big “grand conspiracy” news: Joe DiGenova is out as top prosecutor overseeing the sprawling probe into Trump’s perceived enemies, per ABC news. abcnews.com/US/loyalist-...
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Joe diGenova, loyalist tapped by Trump to oversee controversial DOJ probe targeting his foes, resigns: Sources
A Trump loyalist who had been tapped to oversee a sprawling DOJ conspiracy investigation targeting political foes of President Trump has abruptly resigned, sources say.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(NYT) - Republicans spent the first five hours of their midterm convention in Dallas warning about socialism on Wednesday before President Trump surprised many of them with an audacious trillion-dollar proposal to redistribute wealth. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Mark Grueskin @mgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Republican election officials don't get to invent legal restrictions on fundamental rights to circumvent the election process. Even the US SCt agrees.
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Supreme Court Again Blocks Republican-Backed Missouri Voting Map
The ruling deferred to the state’s Supreme Court, which had invalidated G.O.P.-friendly district lines, saying voters must first have an opportunity to approve the map in a statewide referendum.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's Sept. 9, 2026, which means it's the 25th anniversary of our 9/11 experience. Because for us, the story starts on the Sunday evening before the attack. Here are four emails I wrote to friends, colleagues and family shortly after 9/11, and in the months that followed. medium.com/@BGrueskin/o...
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Our 9/11 Year, in Four Long Emails
Report From NYC, Chapter 1, Sept 22, 2001
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The President of the United States supports AfD.
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
... I explain why that's sufficient reason for the First Circuit and SCOTUS to deny the applications for a stay. @rickhasen.bsky.social www.justsecurity.org/156487/the-s...
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The Simplest Way for the Supreme Court to Rule in the USPS Mail Ballots Case
Marty Lederman outlines the easiest and most straightforward way for SCOTUS to decide the USPS mail-in ballot case.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1. Elon Musk is spending millions pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which bills itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine.
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Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Quite a headline
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Mark Grueskin @mgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MAGA doubling down on white Christian nationalism - no great surprise there. Trump world continues to ignore voter concerns about: Gas prices ⬆️ Grocery costs ⬆️ Mortgage rates ⬆️ Healthcare expenses ⬆️ This is MAGA talking to itself. And admitting it cannot win on issues that resonate with voters.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The post-9/11 lionization of Giuliani rings hollow for many of us who lived and worked in lower Manhattan that day. He and his staff (along with Bush's EPA) frequently reassured us that the air quality was fine. It wasn't, as was apparent to anyone who was there on 9/11 and the weeks thereafter. 1/
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This happens as Republicans slowly realize that contrary to what they heard on Rupert Murdoch TV, the US economy was firing on all pistons as the Biden administration ended, and it's been all downhill since Trump took over.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Here's Jared saying that he and Witkoff have a major task given to them by Trump, which is to help Putin achieve his objectives.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Of course, Trump rushed to his Supreme Court to demand his regime takes over mail balloting. His lawyer’s gaslighting argument: Freezing the plan would impose “serious irreparable harm on the federal government, the states themselves, and the voting public.” www.americaamerica.news/p/we-cant-le...
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We Can’t Let Them Deny Our Sacred Right
A brave USPS staffer just blew the whistle on the Trump regime’s corrupt, covert effort to suppress mail-in votes—and the people’s will
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 04/09/2026
Timeline 1876: Corruption scandals, silver coins and grasshoppers were the hot topics in the new state of Colorado’s first-ever election.
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Corruption scandals, silver coins and grasshoppers were the hot topics in Colorado's 1876 election | Colorado Newsline
Republicans and Democrats were set to contest the state of Colorado’s inaugural elections on the first Tuesday in October.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Phillips Curve has been revoked, by order of the President.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 03/09/2026
To take a day dedicated to shared national grief and use it to take petty, sarcastic swipes at Joe Biden says everything you need to know about JD Vance. He isn't clever. He’s just mean-spirited, hollow, and painfully insecure. And he will never, ever be president.
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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hard to remember your age when you were made of spare parts from every conservative think tank in Washington.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Perfect depiction of Trump’s distraction game 👇
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The #2 or #3 thing these guys do with their hands is fiddle with their face masks, so let's see how The Law of Unintended Consequences plays out here.
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Politico @politico.com · 28/08/2026
Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in voting plan, again
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Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in voting plan, again
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani paused the Trump administration’s plan to use the Postal Service to limit the delivery of ballots.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One of the best SCOTUS/breaking news "reporters" in the business is a law professor, and this @stevevladeck.bsky.social analysis is as indispensable as ever. ... Especially for those of us who saw the headlines earlier and were about to do a Thelma & Louise www.stevevladeck.com/p/246-making...
stevevladeck.com
246. Making Sense of the Mail-in Ballots Ruling
The Supreme Court’s grant of a stay in one of the mail-in ballot cases is deeply wrong, but it’s also not the main event over whether Trump’s patently unlawful executive order can take effect.
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Joel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When any Trump admin official stubs their toe in the middle of the night, do they scream out, “ahhhh, fucking Biden!“ or nah?
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
EDXIT! (Blanche reportedly thought Martin was an idiot.)
Donald J. Trump ( @realDonaldTrump
Ed Martin has been with me from the very beginning, and done an incredible job as an Attorney, Director of the Weaponization Working Group, and the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Ed is now leaving to go outside to fight Legal Battles for the upcoming Midterm Election, and the Presidential Election of 2028. I know he will do an outstanding job, ensure Free, Fair, and Honest Elections, and strongly advance our Constitutional Rights. Good luck
Ed! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dumold Trump making Darline Graham look like a genius
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Two points abt the wave of "resistance is over" bullshit: 1) What it means is national media is not as effective as local organizing. 2) Lumping Nixon in there ignores post-Callais in a painfully white way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
The ‘Resistance’ Is Over
The insurgent left cares more about its own factional agenda than the president’s threats to democracy.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“My first day on the job, I fucked up.” That’s the lede to this CJR account of my 4 months in Utah, where I worked as a junior editor. I wanted to see what’s changed since i left local journalism a few decades ago. A lot of things are different. But not everything. www.cjr.org/first_person...
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The 69-year-old rookie.
I was a fifty-year newspaper veteran and a journalism professor. Then I joined the Salt Lake Tribune as a junior editor.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 17/08/2026
Nothing says military dominance like abandoning ship while your commander-in-chief hides behind the potato salad.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/08/2026
The guy who did such an incredible job with the Reflecting Pool, Ballroom, Kennedy Center, National Mall, and Great American Fair is going to redesign our warships. What could go wrong?
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