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The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 3h

What's really baking my noodle here is... so what if Jack Smith HAD gone to a basketball game in Atlanta in February 2024? I can't really get from there to "go straight to jail, libtard!"

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 3h

I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...

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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
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GOR SENATOR'S PERJURY CLAIM AGAINST SMITH FAILS IN HAWKS-HAWKEYES MOUP
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Juan C Chavez @inafutureage.bsky.social · 4h

We’re even passive-voicing the police shooting their own dog.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 4h

Democratic candidates are looking to kick Republicans teeth in this election and it is very good to see

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 4h

He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio!

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like the right side of his face droops more with every passing day (or TIA)— there’s no hiding now that something quite neurologically serious is happening now.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 7h

It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

it is important to realize that many reporters for mainstream outlets are enthusiastic cogs in this elite-coordinated propaganda machine. don't print lies in the newspaper

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 8h

It’s refreshing that a significant number of Dems are running on a platform of “my opponents are monsters.”

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Mike Rhone @mikerhone.bsky.social · 5h

Eric Schmitt is up for reelection in 2028, and I can’t wait to see his opponent use today’s clips against him.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 9h

It is despicable. Disgraceful. Dishonorable. Inhumane. Pack the Court. Make it a first 100 days goal.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 9h

For the briefest, teeny-tiniest moment in Trump v. J.G.G. it looked like this SCOTUS majority would at least recognize that noncitizens have due process rights to notice and an opportunity to challenge summary removals. They have spent every day since then running away from the idea.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

Lanae Erickson at Third Way said “practice saying ‘I trust parents in my district to make decisions for their kids more than politicians.’ Practice saying, ‘sure, we need rules but politicians aren’t the right ones to make it.’” This is basically how Democrats talk about abortion rights post Dobbs

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 16h

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 10h

I think Smith could successfully sue Schmitt for defamation now, since he's restating the falsehood outside of the Senate hearing, and by this point he clearly knows what he's saying is false

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 13h

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 11h

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Democrats of being “incredibly disingenuous,” saying they do “360s on every single policy position they have.”

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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 11h

If you're from Nebraska, please call his office and gently ask his Staff Assistants and interns if they are embarrassed. They should be.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12h

Great post, very informative.

The defense secretary will announce the move on Wednesday during a speech to a handpicked group of lower-ranked officers
and enlisted troops repeated three times bracketing a photo of Pete Hegseth.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 11h

Some old school Wikipedia here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sc...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

Sen. Booker: “This is an 8-year attempt to lie to the American people, and this is their closing argument, everybody. Right before an election, this is what they want to spend their time on, perpetrating a lie. This committee’s Republicans are more concerned with Trump than the truth.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 13h

What's hilarious is that this story was in Axios this morning in an attempt, I assume, to take advantage of all the positive buzz Schmitt was going to generate for exposing Smith as a fraud. And now Schmitt will never be VP.

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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028

Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 13h

"Fled to the Hague" is an interesting way of phrasing "Led a successful war crimes prosecution." But then, Schmitt doesn't know that there are multiple teams called Hawks in America.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

I would read an oral history of the conception, creation and execution of this poster. "Oh boy, boss, we sure got him good!"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Here's a much clearer image. This is the saddest attempt at a smoking gun I've ever seen.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 13h

this gets really really close to becoming an I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE bit that ends with senator schmitt demanding that the other senators stop bullying him.

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Mike Rhone @mikerhone.bsky.social · 11h

Good god this guy is a moron. I don’t expect much from Missouri voters, but come on…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

What an incredible piece of Schmitt.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

"Democrats don't have any income" is an insane statement, but it's also an admission that he sees the money collected by the United States government as his personal piggy bank, to be raided as he sees fit.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 17h

Today in "decisions in kerning"

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Mike Rhone @mikerhone.bsky.social · 14h

I am not sure that Republicans putting Jack Smith back in the news so close to the midterms is going to accomplish whatever it is they’re trying to accomplish. But I appreciate all the free material they’re giving to Democrats.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

This is not something you say if you actually like education or children

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16h

This is the Foxconn scheme all over again. Just ask Wisconsin voters how many jobs they from scored from the project that promised in his first term but never materialized.

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 16h

New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Michael Tracey seems to operate on the belief that there’s still someone out there who does not think he’s a total piece of shit and by God he’s going to convince them he is

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

We all complain about the media’s failures but organizations like @propublica.org and @texastribune.org are doing the work and deserve our financial support

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

remember when the white house twitter account screamed 'he was blinking you absolute moron' lol

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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