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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 10h

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 8h

I've said it before and I'll say it again: schadenfreude is a part of my cultural heritage and you cannot make me give it up.

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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MAGA is about to lose his farm

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When republicans tell you who they are, believe them

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The first protest I ever went to, was as a kid holding a "Give a hoot, don't pollute" sign while protesting a hog confinement being permitted extremely close to a small town. This data is as incredible as CAFOs are depressing.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm still willing to believe Jack Smith committed perjury by not mentioning Kate Martin was also playing. Lie of omission, surely.

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RadioBradshaw @radiobradshaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you weren't promising to kick some Iowans off the team I'd be excited to vote for you. bsky.app/profile/vote...

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is why they say shut up and dribble (or tackle in this case). This is absolutely a scandal and deserves to be covered as such

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Things I’m watching for tonight… 🏈 Jordan Love had a 2.3 TTT last week. Do they trust the line more vs the ATL rush? Does he? 🏈 Penix’s ability to lean into his strength (attacking the perimeter) vs GB’s corners, as opposed to their strength up the spine 🏈 Can LVN keep balling?

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.

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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great endorsement of the product, "yeah it makes everyone lose basic skills to be a functioning person but who cares?"

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 23/09/2026

Via conservative Iowa talk show host Steve Deace. Inject this directly into my veins. x.com/SteveDeaceSh...

Yesterday, Iowa House Republicans were informed by their own pollsters that if you are in a +15 district you’re within the margin for error, if you’re in a +10 district you’re underwater, and that this might end being an even worse midterm environment than 2006.

I slept on whether to share this publicly, because I don’t want to cause anyone to black pill. But this morning I ultimately decided the truth should be shared while there is still six weeks left to do something about it for the good of the country.

Because if the environment is this bad in my home state, where Trump has been the most popular political figure over the last decade, I can’t imagine where it is everywhere else.

Whatever we’re doing or not doing in Iran/Hormuz has become a 2020 Covid lockdown level of political albatross. This is approaching TARP bailout levels of unpopular in my home state. We are risking what’s left of the Trump presidency on this, because if Democrats take control the legislative branch the Trump domestic agenda we all voted for will largely cease between what a Democrat Congress will do and the courts have already been doing. Not to mention what it will cost individual states like my own, which we have worked so hard to make so red these last 20 years (with Trump’s help).

This whatever/kinda/sorta/but not really war has become an existential misuse of political capital. Many of us never thought it was worth it, and more and more it appears voters agree. We have to save our own country and our own way of life first before we can save anyone else. We have to save America before we can save the world. If a plane is endangered, you are told to put on your mask first otherwise you’re of no use to help save anyone else.

I desperately want us to win. I desperately want this presidency to fulfill all the great promise it had coming out of the 2024 election. But whatever this currently is, isn’t it. We don’t have to just sit here and take the L. It doesn’t have to end this way. We can still win. There’s plenty of ammunition to hammer the Democrats with.

We need the president out on the stump asap. We need better and way more aggressive messaging. Stop running fake and gay ads about how often so-and-so shows up for votes, and instead mercilessly hammer Democrats on the wickedness they’re voting for. Articulate specifically what the mission/victory is in Iran/Hormuz, because out here in the cheap seats it feels like another Middle East War quagmire regular folks are paying for on both ends all over again.

And for heaven’s sake, make sure Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are getting the finest healthcare in America.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*whispers* the packers defense finally might be for real

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

no, it is the other way around. if you are looking at D+14 (or D+12 or +10 or even +8) generic ballot then there is basically no point in trying to tamper with anything. you are going to lose, the only ? is how bad it is going to be. it's when the election is *tight* that tampering makes sense.

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ENRAGED. The U.S. has deported more than 470 people to Haiti since July, including people who lost Temporary Protected Status, which had allowed them to live and work legally in the U.S. apnews.com/article/hait...

apnews.com

Report offers rare insight into the risks and challenges facing US deportees in Haiti

Human Rights Watch has released a report detailing the struggles faced by hundreds of people deported by the U.S. to gang-ravaged Haiti.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Giants should pack it up. Team's cursed.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So the school where the star quarterback was laughing about violent imagery targeting a woman reporter and the school which was target of a racist attack by a politician for statewide office is getting rid of women's, Black, and Latino studies.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The word of the year is setting up to be dummymander

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“I told him at the time to stop working, because ICE was arresting everyone,” Sakariye’s cousin told me. But Sakariye refused. “He believed ICE was looking for criminals.”

motherjones.com

The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The difference between the Irish and Irish-Americans has never been more striking

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hochuli's entire extended family should be required to make their Kalshi accounts public

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"fairness in women's sports" is literally just "ethics in games journalism" like this is the same thing this is part of the same playbook dawg

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Sam Chaffee @samchaffee.com · 11/09/2026

DHS as it currently exists has outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"I believe that you are accustomed to having too many conversations with stupid people" is such an amazing and layered statement from @domoniquefoxworth.bsky.social to David Samson on the latest @pablo.show episode. I mean, damn.

youtube.com

Do Pro Athletes Deserve a Cut of Ownership? | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Respectfully: Watching a theoretical Gravity Falls 2 will not make you feel the same way watching Gravity Falls did. If you want that feeling back, you need to go find new things.

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sean McVay looks like he's planning to mass murder his players on the flight home

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Rewatching But I'm a Cheerleader for the first time in... decades? Too long. Anyway, I'm struck by how much of my adult personality was either formed or solidified by this movie and Citizen Ruth.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social if you want to fix the country and lead the opposition after Trump, you're gonna need to have the stomach to punish a lot of people if we want to stop this from ever happening again. Unprecedented punishments. If you can't protect the country from our enemies, quit

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What kind of a name is Cho Chang? Are her parents Chinese but decided to give their daughter a Korean Surname as a given name? Or are they Korean and breaking Korean name customs by giving their child a single-syllable surname instead of a two syllable given name?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026

nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also worth mentioning that @pablo.show has done actual journalism on the topic of Trans athletes in High School -- far superior to anything the Times has put out on the subject. Like when he covered the *one* trans girl HS athlete in Ohio who just wanted to play sports (badly) with her friends.

youtube.com

The Teenage Athlete at the Heart of America's Culture War... Isn't Very Good at Sports | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My basic take on why Quibi didn’t succeed but microdramas have taken over the web is that everyone involved in making this knew it was dreadful, whereas the dreadful morality tales and weird quasi-pornography has a core of sincerity.

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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is what a REAL journalist looks like. (Complimentary)

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is very unlikely to be successful, but is anyone out there planning to visit courtroom 1 in Massachusetts district Court tomorrow at 11 to report on the duration of status case? Or does anyone know of anyone who is?

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I need articles to stop using things like "Centrist Democrats" in these headlines and ledes. Name names, so we know if these are people with power, attention-seekers, or crypto-republicans. Everything else is needlessly inflammatory or misleading.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.

"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.

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Spooky Scary S-Kevin-ton 💀 @kforce1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is the most perfect commentary on the state of the wnba

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Michael @mpborts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Political media is irrevocably broken and must be rebuilt from the ground up, part infinity:

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