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Lawyer lurking in Grand Rapids (but nothing I say here is legal advice)

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 15h
We need a tracker for all of these mishaps & other related accidents, crashes, shoot downs, etc etc. Sure seems like Pete's military is having a lot of problems...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h
This is where having a Secretary of Education who cares and is knowledgeable about education would be an advantage
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15h
Why All the Handwringing About a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Was So Misguided talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-all...
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Why All the Handwringing About a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Was So Misguided
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. As...
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life." -- T.S. Eliot, born #OTD 1888
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's even worse than being addicted to gasoline. America is actually addicted to gender performance and the right wing has successfully associated gasoline with male performance
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sounds like they should send anyone else?
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough." -- T.S. Eliot, born #OTD 1888
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man." -- T.S. Eliot, born #OTD 1888
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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's the percentage of drinking water in Saudi Arabia that comes from desalination plants: 70%. Source: apnews.com/article/iran... Would not risk this strategic vulnerability on Donald Trump's war against Iran, but that's a thing that the Saudi Arabian government actually did.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 26/09/2026
Good thing DeSantis put a lunatic vaccine-denying quack in charge of health in Florida.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Andy you think he cares about your fat ass" is the perfect response to MAGA right now. Trump truly does not care about Andy's fat ass. He's got a ballroom to build.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scoop: The White House blocked CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One to Tennessee on Saturday. It was set to serve as the designated TV pooler. The decision calls into question the state of the TV pool which was reinstated Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One
The White House’s decision puts the state of the rotational TV pool, which resumed on Friday, in jeopardy once more.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pretty sure Trump didn’t plan it but prompting a TV boycott probably helped him politically by avoiding endless footage of him kowtowing to the top ChiCom www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/p...
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Trump’s disruption to TV coverage during Xi visit frustrates Chinese officials | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump spent months plotting ways to impress Xi Jinping.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/09/2026
The prosecutor on the Broadview Six case said she is “retiring under protest” thanks to U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros. trib.al/1fPitFW
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DOJ Prosecutor Quits, Says She Was Given Orders on “Broadview Six”
The prosecutor on the Broadview Six case said she is “retiring under protest” thanks to U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros.
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JP Acosta @acosta32jp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Using that “Love Me” song behind it is so nasty on so many levels. It’s desperate as hell and also them trying to be cool when they’re the furthest thing from it
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/09/2026
Iran's FM says the "choice rests with the US" to approve the proposed seven-day proposal to reopen Hormuz.
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Iran's FM says Hormuz security cannot be restored through military action
Iran's FM says the "choice rests with the US" to approve the proposed seven-day proposal to reopen Hormuz.
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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New: Trump’s battle against the First Amendment of the US Constitution continues. He just banned CNN from Air Force One as network pool representative. www.cnn.com/2026/09/25/p...
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White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee | CNN Politics
The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet’s duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks.
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Rep. Vikki Goodwin @vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Texas has decided to withhold the Maternal Mortality Report until after the midterms… This morning, as the meeting was kicking off behind closed doors, I stood with advocates in Austin to show my support for releasing the data to the public. It should not be delayed for political expediency.
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the war we have won, are on the verge of winning, and must keep fighting is paused until after trick or treat
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 26/09/2026
has anyone pointed out how fucking stupid it is that Trump is posing for photo ops with Xi Jinping while running state media anticommunism ads on a private network?
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Honestly, who is surprised that removing all obstacles to Trump‘s carrying out his every whim and hunch backfired so drastically? Oh, right, Republican officeholders. Wow, they really sold their brains along with their souls, didn’t they?
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I remember reading that they were going to center him for the midterms (which, sure) and for some reason I guess I had figured the candidates actually up for election in two months would be in the ads. That’s on me
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m starting to think war is kind of a bad thing.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cursed af
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I weirdly remember Tom Arnold talking about him running for Governor and Tom Arnold campaigned for him despite being a Dem and he explained it by saying “Arnold wants to help people” and at some point if you actually think that’s the point of governing you can’t keep being rightwing
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I feel like Arnold was the one guy to truly hold the republican line about what the great goodness of America means in his heart and when they stopped pretending to believe any of it he looked around and was like fuck it I’m Bernie I guess
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
the paramount/warner antitrust suit could have done serious damage to this man’s empire and I will not stop being furious at everyone in california politics who caved on it
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
why are the midterms any part of this decision might be a question
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel is giving Antichrist lectures that say Pope Leo is the Antichrist for supporting AI regulation and now he’s saying “evil is actually good.” Could he be acting more conspicuously like the Antichrist, and more importantly, could the Antichrist be this stupid? Serious questions to ponder.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026
and, most importantly, there’s no way out of any of this. none of them can credibly promise that *any* of this gets better if they win their races and most of them aren’t even trying. the best they’ve got it “this is all biden’s fault”, and no one believes it. even if they do, it doesn’t matter.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 26/09/2026
one thing that’s interesting to watch is that republicans basically don’t know how to campaign when trump is this unpopular. literally any other president would grant them free reign to run against him if they have to, but he refuses and decides that they need his help
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another priority for Trump was painting the exterior columns white in place of what he had deemed a “fake gold color.” Former employees report that the center diverted money — $1.4 million — that had been allocated for the waterproofing repairs to finance the $4.4 million column repainting project.
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WhippetRun @whippetrun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kaitlin Collins walking into the White House tomorrow 😂@kaitlancollins.bsky.social
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Man Sits Down with Camping Chair
ALT: Man Sits Down with Camping Chair
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Bill Scher @billscher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Huge gender gap in NYT polls of ME, MI, NH MEN Collins 54 Jackson 38 Rogers 52 El-Sayed 42 Sununu 51 Pappas 42 WOMEN Jackson 53 Collins 44 El-Sayed 55 Rogers 39 Pappas 57 Sununu 39 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Cross-Tabs: September 2026 Times/Siena Poll of the Likely Electorate in Battleground Senate Races
Results of a New York Times/Siena poll conducted among 1,837 voters from Sept. 15 to 22, 2026.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two arms marked China and Hegseth clasp over a caption that says "Examining the U.S. military's sensitive parts"
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, yes, Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. He exploited the worst aspects of conservative politics to make it explicitly fascist. But he did make the GOP radically worse and broke its connection to widely shared values. The good news is he has no replacement and he’s so bad at his job. See the 🧵.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump's approval rating just hit an all-time low. Polling for Republicans ahead of the midterms is tanking too. Good news. But do not let the unpopularity of Trump and the GOP result in you becoming complacent. We need to show up this November in numbers so huge that victory cannot be denied.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 23/09/2026
Via Jennifer Shutt: U.S. Senate Democrats believe they could pick up as many as six seats following this November’s midterm elections, despite Republicans having better fundraising numbers and break-even polling in several states.
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GOP’s ‘rubberstamp’ of Trump puts US Senate in play, Dem campaign chair says | Alabama Reflector
The DSCC chair said the current environment reminded her of the 2006 election cycle, when Democrats flipped both chambers of Congress.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
there were a lot of people who decided that "the economy of 2019" was the zenith of human development and were willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone else, to get it back.
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Old Dog @the-old-dog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"... the fictional rationale espoused in Kavanaugh’s opinion has repeatedly proven irreconcilable with both the law and reality."
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You think ppl have [redacted] opinions of what should happen to Trump to get him out of office now? Wait until you see where ppls opinions go if he tries some dumb bullshit like this.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not only does this have little chance of happening, but also it wouldny be the magic "win elections forever" button the ppl pushing it think it would be. Having said that, in the extremely unlikely event that it were to happen, I cannot imagine anything that would backfire worse.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 23/09/2026
Could Mississippi's Senate race become competitive? Stuart Stevens thinks Scott Colom has a shot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Pj...
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This Bombshell Report Could Be the End of Susan Collins (w/ Stuart Stevens) | Bulwark Daily
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 23/09/2026
Earlier in the week, @abc7chicago.bsky.social had the nerve to claim the man was "released" by ICE after they confirmed he was a citizen and not the person they claim they were trying to abduct. In reality, the man was left bleeding in the street as the ICE goons fled the scene.
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