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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Okay I've seen at least 2 posts today that describe Jim Bakker as "having an affair with his secretary" or "getting caught banging his secretary" and just...no. He got caught paying her off because he and another preacher *violently raped her*. That isn't an affair, or a simple "sex scandal".
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh yes, this one specific example w/r/t a guy with no remaining political salience totally disproves the general phenomenon people are complaining of. All criticism of NYT must now be withdrawn.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
May the lawsuits against OpenAI be plentiful so that their cup runneth over and their liabilities be mighty. Amen.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The news media are way too accepting of racism in our politics. They should be peppering the Republicans' Senate candidates in TX, OH, MI, IA and ME with questions about why they welcome campaign help from white supremacist Elon Musk.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 03/10/2026
Same energy.

@Sassafrass_84

I'll take $5,000 dollars over socialism.
It's not a hard choice.
Vote RED!
Jack Posobiec: What if instead of a vaccine we just were able to get exposed to a weak version of the virus that enabled us to build the antibodies we need to fight the real thing.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The media’s under no obligation, but it will do it anyway so long as corporate media owners choose editors. The Dems need to get comfortable calling out the media when they adopt disingenuous RW framing as their own.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Incredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Trump started injecting every immigrant with bubonic plague, the Supreme Court would rule that while they take a year or two to decide if it's constitutional, the program should go forward because to not let Trump inject people with bubonic plague would do irreparable harm to the government
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why isn’t she suing Courtney? It sounds like she could have potential claims for fraud and negligence.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Writing is pointless” guy *writes*.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LOL
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@jrakove.bsky.social This great piece is even more impt after today's outrageous decision on voting & elections. Roberts & his five fellow radical partisan hacks rewrite or ignore history & the vision of the framers to fit their own ideological & partisan views. t.co/iWQMMGUU4I
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https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/24/unitary-executive-theory-history/
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If he’s the death of the Republican Party, it might be quite apt.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Y’all finally grew a spine and a sense of morality. I wouldn’t be smug about it—it’s 10 years too late.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This would also have been true at any point since 2017, when he first began verbally abusing journalists, engaging in nonstop public lying from the WH, & otherwise abusing the office of the presidency while engaging in unprecedented corruption & authoritarianism. But better late than never, I guess.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A few things: A) there have been 7 democrats who have been primaried out, and 11 incumbents total. That’s 2x the rate of the avg since 1980; and B) it’s not quantity, it’s quality. See Espaillat. House Dems are def picking up on the unpopularity of Jeffries among voters. Anything else is cope.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You mean the colleagues who got their butts kicked in the primaries? 🤔
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The comment mods being used to filter only for desired narratives is par for the course at the Times.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
lt must be heavy under that mountain of self-flattery you’ve heaped on yourselves. Back in reality, your weak euphemisms, normalizing, both-sidesing, pandering, click-baiting, access journalism BS falls far, far, far short of what is wanted or needed. AG Sulzberger is a trash person.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
”RFK Jr plays with raccoon penises for fun and snorts coke off toilet seats. Does he have a point about SSRIs?” JFC, y’all are a parody of a parody at this point.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Stop trying to make fetch happen, it’s not going to happen
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Instead of reporting on the odds, report on the stakes. Ya know, like real fucking newspapers are supposed to do.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nothing in this @cnn.com piece about Elon Musk's extremist views and the questions and complications they will surely bring for Ken Paxton who must, of course, now be asked to disavow the support of a racist who advocates the Great Replacement Theory and other white nationalist ideas. Not a word.
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Musk has started spending money to help Ken Paxton. Will it help change the course of the Texas Senate race? | CNN Politics
For months, Texas Republicans have anxiously awaited the arrival of national resources to help boost Ken Paxton, one of the GOP’s most vulnerable Senate candidates.
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
GET IN LOSER(S), WE'RE REFORMING THE SUPREME COURT! Our HOT SCOTUS REFORM SEPTEMBER bonus series (airing every Thursday!) kicks off with Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net talking about Supreme Court expansion! crooked.com/podcast/we-n...
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Regina George: Get in Loser, Shopping!
ALT: Regina George: Get in Loser, Shopping!
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
You have a spelling error. “Enables” isn’t spelled like “navigates”.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Police work = publicly playing Candy Crush on your phone?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In a new piece up on MS NOW I argue that voters deserve to know what exactly Democrats think they can actually deliver if they flip Congress -- given that Trump retains his veto power and has a history of ignoring congressional budgets and subpoenas. www.ms.now/opinion/demo...
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Opinion | Democrats need their own Project 2027
If Democrats sell voters an inordinately optimistic view of what they can accomplish, they will be setting themselves up to fail.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
A (messy) Excel spreadsheet tracking all of the Trump administration's emergency applications, when they were filed, when they were decided, what kind of ruling they produced, and how each justice voted.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 31/08/2026
Day 1, bulldoze the supreme court building
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
NBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
KBJ has them cold:
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Democratic leaders to meet with Trump family to seek common conflicts of interest.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This piece really takes the cake for how fucking dumb NYT opinions can be. The entire front row of the last presidential inauguration was tech oligarchs. There’s your logic. Fuck off.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In this Washington, DC BDSM dungeon, "ballroom" still means the place the dominatrix takes you when you've been a very bad boy. But they do know this: It's nice to come down here for a break from your day job rubber stamping Trump's whims from your seat on the highest court in the land.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
To be clear: the “political disagreement” is whether lawyers should follow the Constitution or laws in general. The claims about DEI are a red herring.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
CTRL + F "authoritarian" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "autocratic" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "tyrannical" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "fascist" NO RESULTS They couldn't even muster a "critics say this is a part of a pattern of..." At this point, this silence amounts to active suppression of expert opinion & context.
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Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic (Gift Article)
It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
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MJD @mjdaly428.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
And yet SCOTUS will flunk anyway because of the Special Boy Doctrine.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
IMO this is not actually about the Trump administration's credibility, it is about the news media's credibility.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Completely inexcusable that this Glenn Thrush NYT article doesn’t include any explanation of what’s wrong with that! How hard would it be to add a paragraph saying DOJ independence is essential to the rule of law because 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
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Blanche Refuses to Say He’ll Always Be Independent of Trump as Attorney General
The new head of the Justice Department said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the president had never asked him to prosecute specific people — and never would.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Like everyone else, I have absolutely <no> expectation Thune or Johnson etc. will actually do anything. But the fact that journalists keep going to their press conferences & don’t even bother to ask, “Why are you violating your oaths & letting Trump destroy the pillars of 🇺🇸 security?” is maddening.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every day you read two headlines, one like "Trump orders U.S. Aircraft Carrier to get him Chik-fil-a" and one like "Hakeem Jeffries: We Must Be Very Cautious in the Way We Consider Speaking About Methods of Bringing About Incremental Change to U.S. Tax Code"
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