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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine choosing to be this vile and doing it day after day. Megyn Kelly is toxic waste.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 8h

How many of these are there? 🤦🏾

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 8h

Canonical example of NYT delighting in trolling its readers. See also: presswatchers.org/2025/12/new-... and the all-time winner presswatchers.org/2022/12/just...

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New York Times editor Joe Kahn misunderstands what the readers want | Press Watch

They want the Times to be more honest, not more partisan

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 12h

Susan Collins's antisemitism did not get enough attention. "I don't think it's a coincidence that ProPublica has as some of its funders George Soros, Donald Sussman, and other [pause] left-wing billionaires."

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10h

Illegal. Don’t waste your vote on Trump’s false promise to buy it.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

The corrupt gangsters running this government violate the law daily and use government funds for partisan politics to bribe voters in violation of the law. Trump has been emboldened by a rogue Supreme Court which has given him immunity and taken a blowtorch to the Constitution.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Thom Tillis now claims he didn't vote to convict Trump after January 6 because "you've never seen a president dealt with that way" and then blames "both parties" (no other president incited a coup attempt!)

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 19h

New job: Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Studies Emory University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70530

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13h

Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h

There's a takeover of the American news industry going on, pushed by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis and others. Democracy is impossible if the truth is buried under right-wing propaganda, so we've got to push back against this "media capture." My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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American oligarchs and foreign fatcats are attempting ‘media capture’

Your access to real news is threatened by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis, and others

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

confronted with the fact that he continues to defend Trump despite Trump pocketing billions while president, Tillis does some Hunter Biden whataboutism and then suggests "people advising the president" are to blame 🤡 (Ari Melber points out that Hunter Biden was never president)

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 10h

They have also hired Heinrich Himmler, to teach Peace Studies

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 13h

Well- at least he didn’t call the female reporter a nasty word. Dude is just out of it. Broken

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h

"Driver-volunteers go to homes to drop off diapers, baby formula, toilet paper, groceries... "Drivers switch routes and cars, write addresses on paper, and carry a water bottle so they can drop the paper in water and obscure the addresses if stopped... kansasreflector.com/2026/10/02/t...

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Trump's immigration sweeps leave southwest Kansas communities looking for way forward • Kansas Reflector

DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: Your approval rating with Latino voters has dropped down to 27% TRUMP: You're fake news. You're CNN. My poll numbers are great. All you have to do is look at the crowds we're drawing.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14h

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h

We simply cannot keep doing. We've been doing it since Iran-Contra, & really since 1865. It's the signal feature of American politics. It has to end, or democracy will. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 15h

Rampant, unchecked corruption. All at the taxpayers' expense.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14h

Phenomenally depressing story. Also flawed: Says Trump has made his "top priority in Latin America a new war on drugs." No, it's about dominance, and murder, and most likely corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/w...

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Brazil Election Could Give Bolsonaro a Key Role in Trump’s Latin America Map (Gift Article)

Flávio Bolsonaro, now the favorite to win Brazil’s presidency, would give President Trump a critical new ally in Latin America, particularly on security.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.

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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15h

Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 15h

Megyn Kelly, classy as ever

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 15h

Lock him up

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Iran destroyed naval base in Bahrain, we just withdrew (under an agreement Biden made) from Iraq, and now Whiskey Pete has cut and run from the UK. But sure, we're winning the war.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

Russia’s “shadow war” against Europe has entered a new and more dangerous phase, Germany’s intelligence chiefs have warned, with Moscow plotting attacks on Nato territory on a scale not seen since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Germany’s three intelligence services on Monday briefed parliament

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Russia’s ‘shadow war’ with Europe enters new phase, Germany warns

Berlin spy chiefs say Moscow is plotting more deadly and provocative attacks on Nato soil than at any point since 2022

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 17h

We need more confirmation that this isn’t just a cycling but Senate Leadership fund(R) just removed $3.5m from the Texas Senate race

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 17h

"In Arkansas, all it took to establish a school was filling out a form on a state website, $45 and the purchase of an American flag."

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17h

Just one week after Trump rolled out the red carpet for his Chinese counterpart at a White House summit, Xi restates his support for “the great cause of national reunification.”

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Taiwan reckons with the prospect of fending for itself as Trump pivots on China

Just one week after Trump rolled out the red carpet for his Chinese counterpart at a White House summit, Xi Jinping restated his support for “the great cause of national reunification.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

Even a significant portion of Republicans are like “uhhh yeah that’s sketchy”

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 18h

NAACP files federal civil lawsuit, asking court to order Justice Dept to turn over records about its "election monitor program" NAACP argues Trump Admin is "searching for evidence related to unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud", rather than "ensuring access for voters"

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18h

If we are just comparing people who held elected office, what is the ratio of Republicans to Democrats who have been arrested for pedo stuff? Seriously, is it at 10:1 yet?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17h

Stephen Miller's Office of Remigration deliberately announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy. Dems should defund it. The great Posting Through It pod invited me on to talk about my reporting on Miller. We went deep: open.spotify.com/episode/5OAX...

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146: Taxpayer-Funded White Nationalism feat. Greg Sargent

Posting Through It · Episode

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18h

Gallup reporting D+11 in self-reported party id in latest 2026 Q3 release news.gallup.com/poll/654560/...

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 21h

It's Banned Books Week. Please read widely and bravely.

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Amanda Demmer @amandademmer.bsky.social · 18h

The written version of my Bernath Lecture is now available! Read on to learn more about the intersection of war, human rights, humanitarianism, NGOs, and moral authority! You'll also get sneak peak of the subject of my current in-progress biography, Ginetta Sagan. academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

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Suffering and Sovereignty: Moral Authority and Diplomatic Norms in the 1940s and 1970s*

In February 1945, Italian fascists took Ginetta Sagan into custody.1 A twenty-one-year-old civilian, Sagan stood at less than five feet tall, weighed appro

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard

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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026

A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18h

"The gratuitous cruelty of this order cannot possibly be regarded as anything even vaguely adjacent to any sane notion of justice," writes @sifill.bsky.social, possibly understating what the Supreme Court's six pro-fascism justices did last week. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...

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The New SCOTUS Term Begins Today. But Let’s Not Move on Too Quickly From What SCOTUS Did Last Week

The new Supreme Court term begins this week.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

This always happens when we find out the details a few days later on Trump and Nutlick’s Big Announcements. Art of the Deal.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

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Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18h

In our latest @jhppl.bsky.social author interview, @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and I interviewed Michael Gusmano and Frank Thompson about their recent health reform brief, "Work Requirements and Medicaid Enrollments: Will States Stanch Erosion?" Give it a listen! soundcloud.com/user-1083235...

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JHPPL Interview with Michael Gusmano and Frank Thompson, on Medicaid Work Requirements

Miranda Yaver and Michael Shepherd interview authors Michael Gusmano and Frank Thompson about their JHPPL article "Work Requirements and Medicaid Enrollments: Will States Stanch Erosion? " on states'

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18h

The polls could be off, but you shouldn't necessarily expect them to be off in any particular direction. Historically speaking, "unskew"ing has made forecasts worse, not better. Plus, unlike 2016-2024, polls in the Midwest basically agree with the fundamentals www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-04...

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Polls and "fundamentals" basically agree about the blue wave

When you look at state-level election results, fundraising, and the national environment, surprising state polls actually make a lot of sense. Your weekly political data roundup for October 4, 2026.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 19h

Best way to convince Texans that he's their guy is to complain that he's not allowed to run his own campaign, masterful gambit sir

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