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@middledude.bsky.social
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SF Giants. Dogs Loved/Dogma Blocked. Just a radical centrist looking for the middle. Writing short stories to capture the buzz. Writing non-fiction to stay sane. This is a moral crisis not a political one. Slava Ukrani!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 44m
I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.
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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Baseball is best.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
Sons of father shot by ICE: We still haven’t gotten straight answers from DHS about what happened. What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo? Why do they get to be protected behind anonymity?
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
His response to everything. More tariffs. More war. Per WH news sources: The US is preparing a large-scale military operation against Yemen's Houthis in retaliation for their strikes on Saudi Arabia....
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Murder. Not a word from Congress.
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Maxine Bernstein @maxbernstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Testimony revealed ICE agents randomly ran license plates of cars in Walmart & McDonald's lots in Medford this summer, looking to detain people. Judge says he’s ‘deeply concerned’ about inaccuracies in ICE reports & post-arrest justifications for stops. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
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ICE ‘dragnet’ violates court order against warrantless arrests, immigration lawyers say
Federal judge cites "deep concerns" about inaccuracies in ICE documents, and post-arrest justifications for stops.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MARGE: “The war in Iran has got to stop. This should not be this high. This is Trump’s fault. Ridiculous.” ⛽️ 🤷🏼
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mitch McConnell nearly voted “no” with Democrats until Republicans stepped in and reminded him which way they wanted him to vote.
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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We lost the war.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike DODGERS is too cowardly to show up to debate me.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump is burning our house down. And he, Kushner, & the rest are walking away with billions while they burn our house down. You don’t sit down with them. You defeat them. You put the fire out. You put them in jail. Hakeem doesn’t get it. He wasn’t built for this moment. He should not be Speaker.👇
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I mean if Trump can do it why not them.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“They treated us like we were criminals” 😕
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) told a federal judge Friday it’s appealing a scorching court order against President Donald Trump’s attempt to sue himself to create an almost $2 billion fund for his political allies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Attorney General Blanche said Trump’s ‘weaponization fund’ was dead. Now DOJ is appealing
The DOJ said Friday it's appealing a judge's finding that Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own administration was "improper."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/09/2026
"Vance got a lot wrong there, including what the 'blood libel' is, but he got one thing right: It is an affront to God and country to punish someone for a crime committed by their ancestors."
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Marco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s Sins
America gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For the first time since WWII, a federal agency is updating its official seal so the eagle faces the arrows rather than the olive branch. This is to reflects the Department of Homeland Security's belief that it's at war: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/us-finds-a...
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U.S. Finds A War It’s Willing to Declare
New government logo chooses violence
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
With all this white fear, it’s no wonder Musk decimated USAID, an agency that did much to keep non-white people overseas healthy and alive.
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wait until he discovers how many American carriers use Brazillian and EU planes.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“We have spent the last 18 years describing the financial crisis as .. a black swan .. .. It was none of those things.” It was “the scheduled mathematical consequence of loans that assumed perpetual appreciation. .. The AI boom has rebuilt this exact structure.” www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Holy fuck.
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The cries of the toddler…
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Holy fuck.
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Evangelical crooks. Trump’s stormtroopers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
"We have one goal right now, to win Michigan, and given the fact my opponent is Mike Rogers, who you agree is a beta, it probably shouldn't be very hard" -- Abdul El-Sayed more than held his own against Jesse Watters, who tried to trip him up on loaded culture war questions. Here's whole interview:
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Abdul El-Sayed slugs it out with Jesse Watters
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Unarmed women faced armed ICE agents swinging batons in Fort Myers. No warrant. No explanation. No ICE record. Just masked agents preying on brown families. PAXIS.app know your rights. Help keep it free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS Record safely. Demand names, badges, warrants, and accountability.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When a few men -- Cubans -- refused to get off ICE plane in *Liberia* yesterday, agents *pressed knees into their necks,* forced them back on the plane and banished them... to Equatorial Guinea. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ZELENSKYY: Today, Russians struck shopping center in Kryvyi Rih with drones. A purposeful, mean attack. As of now, 14 people confirmed killed. Absolute barbarity by Russians. Absolute animals. We will definitely answer. More than 100 people were injured, including 11 children.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We aren’t talking enough about those Destroyed American Bases….
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Now baseball. Fuck Trump.
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Another institution destroyed.
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K @ynotask.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone about the increases in black lung. www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n...
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Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick
Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/08/2026
Wow! Not even nursing homes are sacred when it comes to voting rights and the Trump administration. New federal guidance could make it harder for 1.2 MILLION nursing home residents to vote, while warning staff they could face fraud investigations for crossing the line when helping residents.
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lacerantplainer.bsky.social @lacerantplainer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The brave commander in chief...
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And there it is. The breaking point.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Uh oh.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s a mind-blowing thing to say - the current President of the United States is America’s enemy - but it’s true. Anyone doing what Trump is doing to our elections alone would be called our country’s enemy. Trump is our enemy. Treat him as such.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...
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The Hard Truth: The Current President of the United States Is America's Enemy
This Week’s Monday Missive
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reporter: Democrats are going to impeach you again. Trump: A lot of people are saying I’m one of the greatest presidents ever. Reporter: They aren’t saying that, though.
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JHB @middledude.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
They say he is a Mini Aussie but it turns out he is a velociraptor.
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JustSayin @justsayin-fromx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Politico @politico.com · 05/08/2026
Amid progressive surge, Blue Dogs double down
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Amid progressive surge, Blue Dogs double down
The centrist Democrats are expanding their battleground map. In some cases they even overlap with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endorsements.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
THE U.S. HAS DEPLETED NEARLY 80% OF ITS THAAD INTERCEPTORS, ABOUT HALF OF ITS PATRIOT MISSILES AND SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF OTHER PRECISION MUNITIONS DURING THE IRAN CONFLICT, PROMPTING SENIOR MILITARY COMMANDERS TO WARN THAT KEY STOCKPILES ARE DANGEROUSLY LOW. - CNN
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Tim and I in sync: The left & center-left are acting like the other is the enemy—and not Trump. C’mon, Dems! Keep your eye on the ball: Trump & the corruption, lying, & danger of his administration. And why is Schumer cutting a deal w/ Republicans? And how about Max Miller? youtu.be/rRwKwJsjSDg?...
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Tim Left for Two Weeks and Everything Fell Apart (w/ Bill Kristol) | Bulwark Daily
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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