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Melissa

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
"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...I 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."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump and Ronny Jackson have a chuckle about the botched execution in Tennessee: "The medication didn't exactly work. He [Jackson] would answer it better than anybody. How does that happen? It shouldn't be very difficult."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Trump on global warming: "That didn't work out because the planet got cooler. In fact, you know the ice that was melting? It right now just set a record. It's the biggest ice cube that's ever been in the history of the world ... they're doing the scam with data centers, by the way."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 16h
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump now says "If I weren't president, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be here right now ... They'd be wiped off the face of the planet." 🙃
Yes, there were reports after the Houthi attacks that Saudi Arabia wasn't pleased that the U.S. didn't come to its defense. What's your relationship like with the Saudis right now?

Good, good. I've done a lot for Saudi Arabia. I protect Saudi Arabia. If I weren't president, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be here right now. Neither would Israel. They'd be wiped off the face of the planet. I do a lot for Saudi Arabia. My relationship with them is very good. I like the crown prince. My relationship is very good. But remember, if I weren't here, there wouldn't be a Saudi Arabia. There wouldn't be an Israel. There wouldn't be various other countries also.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
TRUMP: Did you see the story about my uncle? TIME: The one who taught at MIT? TRUMP: I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest.
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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
TIME: Would you rule out declaring a state of emergency in the lead up to the midterms? TRUMP: I don't rule anything out or in. We'll see. You mean the Insurrection Act? TIME: Yeah. TRUMP: No, I've never used it. I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes.
Do you plan to dispatch ICE agents to polling places in the midterms? 

Haven't thought of it.

Would you rule out declaring a state of emergency in the lead up to the midterms unless there's widespread violence in the streets?

I don't rule anything out or in. We'll see. You mean the Insurrection Act?

Yeah.

 

No, I've never used it. I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes. We have the best—look, we have the lowest crime in the history of our country. We have the lowest murder rate since 1900, 125 years. We have the lowest murder rate. That's despite the fact that they allowed 25 million people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2026
An interim superintendent bans the musical “Flashdance,” adapted for a younger audience, from being performed at Watertown High School in Wisconsin, citing concerns "passed on" to him.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.
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Judge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records Fight
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Today, at my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top -- a direct line to the secretary ... as Psalm 33:12 extolls us, blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
alert the press -- Trump is conked out in the Oval Office again
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "It's worth saying again so the fake news understands it. We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that -- no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026
Nine Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since 2022. trib.al/JEL6WB3
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John Fetterman Helps GOP Block Probe Into Israeli Murders of Americans
Nine Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since 2022.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🧊✈️ VENEZUELA 😲⛓️ 👉 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) departs El Paso Wednesday morning, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela 🇻🇪
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
New in PN: Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith "The GOP playbook relies on an absolute lack of shame, so Schmitt dutifully bellied up to the microphone to celebrate his flawless victory with the chuds keeping the grift alive in Charlie Kirk’s old studio."
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Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith
When gotchas go disastrously wrong.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
trump's big 'constitution' with AI leaders refers to him as 'President of the Unites States'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
when you need to be cut off from the Diet Coke refills (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Trump, looking extremely orange with his eyes barely open, with Zuckerberg today at the WH
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Former special counsel Jack Smith: “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Independent has a photo of the slide we weren't able to see during the Smith hearing. No texts from Smith in it.
JP Cooley: Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack? 
JP Cooley: Damn. Thank you for saving -- but we are good. Ask Harbach. 
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Good to know!
Screenshot of America.gov answering who won and lost the 2020 presidential election. It states that Joseph R. Biden Jr. won and Donald J. Trump lost, with an Electoral College result of Biden 306 to Trump 232, and links to National Archives and FEC election results.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses? JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Forbes: Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ Use Of White Male Actor As Welfare Recipient Sparks Hard-Right Firestorm I'm glad my Antifa dues went for something constructive.😅 #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 29/09/2026
The attorney representing a former Cornell University student who says she was sexually assaulted for hours in 2024 after she was pressured to take ketamine decried the initial investigation and accused both law enforcement officials and the school of failing his client.
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Cornell rape accuser’s attorney says the school and law enforcement failed a young woman
The DA vows to pursue any additional evidence after the woman’s lawsuit prompted him to reopen the case.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The unsolved mystery of the Hamas attacks that happen when most politically convenient for Netanyahu and his party.
The main text reads: "Why the Hamas terrorist group would keep repeatedly saving Netanyahu from his years long corruption trial is a total mystery." A partially visible link below the text leads to a haaretz.com article.
The post quotes an older tweet by the same account from October 21, 2023, which states: "Netanyahu empowered Hamas for over 14 years to weaken the Palestinian Authority, Palestinian civil society, and use to paint all Palestinians as 'terrorists'. Thomas Friedman wrote in 2021, Netanyahu and Hamas didn't need t...".
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/09/2026
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven students after being plied with alcohol and drugs.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 29/09/2026
The physique of a man whose exercise routine is refreshing his mentions.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026
US House Democratic Women's Caucus press health secretary on estrogen patch shortages reut.rs/4hxVzcq
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US House Democratic Women's Caucus press health secretary on estrogen patch shortages
The Democratic Women's Caucus in the ‌US House of Representatives has asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address a shortage of estrogen patches to ensure a stable supply of the widely used hormone therapy, according to a copy of ​the letter seen by Reuters.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 29/09/2026
Google Earth exposes devastation in Gaza with new updated images
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Google Earth exposes devastation in Gaza with new updated images
Google Earth shows the unprecedented devastation in Gaza, illustrating the scale of the wreckage
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
“Guard” US election systems? This is not good.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026
SpaceX's Starship engine failure could impact NASA's moon mission objectives reut.rs/4rCJqaJ
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SpaceX's Starship engine failure could impact NASA's moon mission objectives
Starship, designed in part to carry large payloads to space, is one of two vehicles vying to ‌become the first craft that NASA will use as early as 2028 to land humans on the moon.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/09/2026
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is refusing to criticize Trump after he canceled health and education funding approved by Congress. trib.al/XOszW7p
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Republicans Silent as Trump Cuts Nearly $1 Billion Passed by Congress
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is refusing to criticize Trump after he canceled health and education funding approved by Congress.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: "The big problem is refineries in Russia are being blown up. This isn't really a Middle Eastern problem, this is a Russia problem, that Ukraine & Russia are going at it & Ukraine is blowing up diesel refineries. I told to President Zelenskyy, 'You gotta take it easy on the refineries.'"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
"Trump has an instinctive admiration for authoritarian leaders, a quasi-mystical belief in his own judgement of character, and a bone-deep commitment to never listening to a briefing. The result is diplomacy by dictatorial whim."
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Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him
Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.
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