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Miri Iron @miri-iron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump’s always spoken the “language of the (white, aggrieved, & poorly educated) people.“ Most Americans don’t read much or well & don’t see Trump—or themselves— as incoherent. Their illiteracy meant they couldn’t read Project 2025 to save their lives. Welcome to the Republican States of America.

https://www.gq.com/story/president-obama-back

Photo of President Obama smiling broadly in from of US and Illinois flags

Headline:
President Shocks Nation by Speaking Thoughtfully in Complete Sentences
Barack Obama made his return to public life on Monday.
By Jay Willis
April 24, 2017

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
Interview from Real America’s Voice * 1:32 PM MT *
2:50 WORDS: REPORT
PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SPEAK IN TEXAS

Woman in yellow raincoat under umbrella, waiting for Trump to speak in Texas, speaks into reporter’s microphone:

"He's gonna fix it. Believe in him ... all the abortion, it's evil... I want to see 2 people -- Trump & Jesus...we do not want Muslims taking over.... have horrible thoughts. I don't think they should be here. This isn't their country...they need to pack up & go back where they came from."

Excerpt from Time’s Sept 2026 Trump interview:

Do you trust Sam Altman?

I like him. Do I trust him? Who do I trust? I like Sam Altman. Smart. Dario's smart. They're all smart. We're dealing with a very high level of IQ. Very very high level. That's a good thing. I like that. I like it. Did you see the story about my uncle?

The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.
I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.
What I've done is I've created, for instance, these massive plants have no—We have no electricity in our grid. These massive plants now are allowed to make their own electric-

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10h

Slave ships?!?!?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

Related news: I reviewed emails received yesterday by two federal agencies—SEC and NIH—instructing them to update all internal and public materials to say "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in order to comply with Trump's executive order.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 10h

As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 14h

A New Confederacy but run entirely by mediocre slobs.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 13h

Just say white, bro.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

a sure sign that something is "highly accepted" is if you have to threaten to impose the power of the state against those who don't accept it

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Miri Iron @miri-iron.bsky.social · 14h

This really never was the quiet part.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is even more insane than I remembered.

Did Biden call Trump supporters 'garbage? It comes down to an apostrophe.
Republicans have long strained for a new Hillary Clinton-"deplorables" moment, but Biden's defense is entirely plausible.
October 30, 2024
• Footage of Biden's disputed
'garbage' comment
President Joe Biden was on a call with Latino voters on Oct. 29 when he brought up a Trump rally speaker's recent insult of Puerto Rico.
October 28, 2024
• Harris responds to question about Biden's 'garbage' remark
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to reporters before boarding a flight on Oct. 30 about President Joe Biden's remark that some intrepreted as calling former president Donald Trump's supporters
"garbage." The White House said Biden was referring
"to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square
Garden rally as garbage."
October 29, 2024

Harris seeks to distance herself from Biden's 'garbage' remark
Vice President Kamala Harris tells reporters she rejects criticism based on how someone votes. The White House says President Joe Biden was referring to racist rhetoric, not to Trump voters.
October 31, 2024
Biden visits Philly amid lingering furor over 'garbage' remark
The White House stenographer's office complained about how press office officials handled the transcript of Biden's comments.
November 5, 2024
or Trump and Rubio react to Biden's 'garbage' comments
At former president Donald Trump's rally on Oct. 29, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said he hoped President Joe Biden would apologize for his "garbage" comments.
October 28, 2024

Opinion
Take all this garbage out to the curb
Two comments have created a dumpster fire of partisan outrage this week.
October 30, 2024
White House, Trump campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters garbage'
The disputed remark came in response to racist remarks about Puerto Rico at a Trump rally in New York City.
October 30, 2024
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Kamala Harris's Joe Biden problem
Kamala Harris stood on the Ellipse and delivered a clear and unifying message to a thundering crowd.
Moments earlier, in the White House illuminated behind her, Joe Biden had sat alone at a computer.
October 30, 2024
Opinion
The 10 worst things Biden did in 2024
Among the president's lows: pardoning Hunter Biden and calling Trump supporters "garbage."
January

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

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Miri Iron @miri-iron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rape should be THIS rare. But it’s not.

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Jeff Domingues @jeffdomingues.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes the articles of impeachment write themselves.

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Miri Iron @miri-iron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is especially worth reading if you’re a man who still wonders, “What do they mean by ‘Rape Culture’?” Rape is one way in which Patriarchy is enforced. Rape survivors (and not rapists) are meant to feel shame.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am aware of the history of 20th century fascism and grew up around Holocaust survivors. When fascism returns, they said, expect indifference or outright cowardice from 90% of your friends, neighbors and colleagues. AND YET, it still shocks me to see this groveling cowardice in real time.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"i believe that every Republican Senator has betrayed their oath to the Constitution but i will never ever ever endorse or vote for their opponent" is a sentence that should immediately zap your prefrontal cortex like a microwave oven what are we doing here man

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the first OMB Director who, when you hear the President mention his name, you start pondering what illegal abuses of power will be coming soon. My guess: some systemic bribery efforts as well as punishments to blue states.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats again to the New York Times on its long form journalism

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nothing to see here, just a national *news* station airing a segment where they do open anti-Muslim racism and laugh about beating the shit out of a Democratic senate candidate

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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Miri Iron @miri-iron.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My racism platter was supposed to come with a side of fries!

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

we really should talk about this strategy more, because it does cause real harm and generates real blowback and is not very effective but it does fulfill a gop need for two minutes of hate before an election and a way to arouse evangelicals without having to shout abortion.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Polarization Is Not the Problem" This paragraph says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. Read the rest here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social via @brizzyc.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu

Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026

North Carolinians are facing a confusing stream of letters warning voters they must update missing personal information by the Oct. 9 deadline. The mailers are another barrier to voting that makes some voters question whether they should bother casting a ballot at all: demdock.com/4rTwVrB

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Miri Iron @miri-iron.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1/2 I find this kind of fascinating. YMMV. In February, Olivia Colman gave “Them” an interview in which she identified as nonbinary. www.them.us/story/olivia...

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Olivia Colman: “I’ve Always Described Myself to My Husband as a Gay Man”

The ‘Jimpa’ star and director Sophie Hyde open up about the queer film’s personal resonance.

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j "indict them all" melesky @jmelesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It took me a while to believe that cognitive hazards exist, so i'm mildly sympathetic. But at this point, the hard numbers around ideological drift of x posters specifically should be enough for any skeptic. Unless you've got protocols and a recovery plan, x will melt your brain.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We need to take our country back from the fascists and make it a civilized place to live.

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Rachel Richmond @saudaderachel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Vagans" are on Trump's vagenda.

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 01/10/2026

This is looting

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I for one feel so much safer knowing that the future of the American military will be determined by the reanimated corpse of Henry Ford, Temu Isaac Asimov, and Matt Gaetz’s Hawaiian shirt and flip flop wearing gamer bro brother in law.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 30/09/2026

Incredible work, no notes

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t think a good system of government would give the worst person to ever live the ability to murder every human on earth.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

<chris rock> That Republican didn’t go rogue. That Republican went *Republican.*

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 27/09/2026

When asked why he doesn’t become an independent, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman responded: “Because I’m a lifelong Republican.” After realizing his slip-up, Fetterman laughed and said: “That’ll get clipped.” He then corrected himself and said he's a lifelong Democrat. #TribFest26

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Miri Iron @miri-iron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dear Ungentlemanly Filmakers, If you think your sausage-fest requires only one woman, & you decide she should be sexy & tell us she’s every woman, you are a misogynist. Eiza González & her wandering accent was miscast as an amalgamation. Give me The Bletchley Circle any day.

"When they organized the party, they organized ladies to be there for the same reason," Lewis says. "That was part of the draw - drink, food and women."
Amel says that Stewart, who was also an actress, was an incredible person in real life." He wanted to include her not only because she married March-Phillipps, but because she could stand in for all of the female spies who never got their due.
"If we didn't put Marjorie in there, we'd be forgetting all of the women that were there and the work that she did specifically on all the different missions," Amel says.
"That's where it's acceptable, for me, to stray from the bounds of an absolute commitment to history because contributions get forgotten."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-04-19/ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-james-bond-ian-fleming-fact-fiction

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Miri Iron @miri-iron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If Meryl Streep as Aslan gets your back up, wait until you hear about the Pre-Raphaelites! Seriously, though, can the RW get some art historians on staff? fannycornforth.blogspot.com/2022/08/whos...

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Who's that Lady? It's Jesus!

pre-raphaelite blog, Pre-Raphaelite blog, Victorian, Rossetti, Fanny Cornforth, Elizabeth Siddal, Alexa Wilding, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian blog,

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For just a moment, the world saw their true nature. This is a real photo. F*cking chilling.

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