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Paul Mooney

@pjmooney.bsky.social
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American freelance journalist based in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Burma and Vietnam for more than 30 years. Vietnam Army Veteran, USMCR

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 11h
The data center industry has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into Ken Paxton's campaign. He's corrupt and can't be trusted to put Texans first. #TXSen
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Ken Paxton’s Political Operation Rakes In Data Center Donations as Texans Turn Against Industry
The Republican Senate candidate has tried to avoid data center fights. His Democratic opponent, James Talarico, has called for more regulations.
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Wendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 14h
“Since assuming office in 2015… out-of-state trips to places such as the California wine country, Caribbean resorts and European tourism hot spots” Paxton wants to continue to grift off taxpayers, Talarico wants to work to work for Texans. #Sheshed apnews.com/article/ken-...
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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Talarico walks out to a standing ovation from 50,000 Texans at the State Fair Classic.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h
JD Vance is out there on the campaign stump for Paxton, telling Springfield, OH level ("they're eating cats, they're eating dogs") lies about his political targets. This is a man of remarkably low moral character.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12h
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15h
“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.” — Dolly Parton
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 15h
It still astounds me how fast the cult and their corrupt politicians will ignore and violate the Constitution in order to protect their own.
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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 6h
OMG - a politician who actually is doing his best for the betterment of his constituents. Not gonna be popular with the leadership of either party, I fear. #mamdani #leadership #empathy #competency
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Paul Mooney @pjmooney.bsky.social · 8h
Trump said yesterday that the Republicans should do well in November “because our numbers are through the roof.” He must have been referring to grocery prices and the cost of gas, which has been surging.
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Paul Mooney @pjmooney.bsky.social · 14h
Trump said the Republican convention in Texas got 107 million TV views, 4 times the viewership of the NFL games. The 2 NFL games airing opposite it drew a combined 43 million TV viewers, against about 7 million for the convention. So Trump overestimated his numbers by 100 million.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pappas: It’s a golden age if you’re Don Jr. getting a Russian oligarch to pay for a wedding reception, but for the rest of us, it doesn’t feel like that. They can put out whatever numbers they want. The American people know that this is a totally incompetent president who is estranged from reality.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Reminder: Hegseth's "no beardo" policy is just his not-so-subtle way to push out Black troops.
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If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A quick vocab lesson for the president: if you buy something from me, then we have a "trade deficit". It doesn't mean you got ripped off. It doesn't mean it's unfair. All it means is you ended up with more stuff and I ended up with more cash. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwJqtzkwYQE
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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The gist of the Jack Smith hearing was that Republicans will fabricate evidence to entrap opponents and they were upset that Jack Smith had the audacity to investigate Republicans in Congress for possibly abetting Trump's 1/6 insurrection, in other words for doing his job.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Sen. SCHMITT: We have texts saying you attended an Atlanta Hawks game in February 2024. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith: I believe it was a Maryland-Iowa game. Sen. KLOBUCHAR: The Iowa HAWKeyes. Perhaps the Senator from Missouri should have looked at these texts more carefully.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet?
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's one thing to be so incredibly incompetent as Eric Schmitt that your dramatic "GOTCHA" moment falls apart in real time. It is quite another thing to be so incredibly dishonest as Eric Schmitt that you then go on a right-wing show and pretend it didn't happen. "My job is to ask the questions."😜
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Think about this. We allowed a man who attacked his own capital to be president again.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt is an international laughingstock. He’s up for reelection in 2028, so we’ll have to work on him later.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What did we learn today? That Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clack fan and that Senator Eric Schmitt is a dirtbag! The senator mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury. Epic fail. I'm still a fan of Jack Smith. A real American patriot. 🇺🇸
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio!
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Dave Pell @davepell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine if Jack Smith really HAD attended a Hawks game. That would totally be worse than inciting an insurrection and trying to overthrow our Democracy. They were so damn close.
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JACK SMITH IS AN AMERICAN HERO AND SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED BY HIS BRAVERY. 100 YEAR OLD CHUCKY GRASSHOLE IS STILL AN ASSHOLE.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing community note on threads
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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 Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's Tuesday and it's time for SIDEBAR Live! Join me at 5:30 pm ET and we'll kick off today's show with @macfarlanenews.bsky.social who was at Former Special Counsel Jack Smith's testimony today before Senate Judiciary! youtube.com/live/x8ZPTJn...
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LIVE: Katie Phang Gives UPDATES on BREAKING NEWS - 9/29/2026
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Webanalyst @webanalyst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My take from the Smith hearings: To be a GOP senator today, you have to be a lying piece-of-shit, who puts loyalty to party & our lying piece-of-shit president, above their oaths to the Constitution & their obligations to tell the truth & do what rights to the American people! Repost if U agree
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Pirateking Blues Jazz Rock Radio @pkradio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That cocky, misplaced look of smug success on Senator Eric Schmitt’s face—moments before everything came crashing down around him because he’s so carelessly incompetent.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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Paul Mooney @pjmooney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt Confuses Ass with Hole in the Ground open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... Republicans continue to humiliate themselves for a corrupt man.
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Eric Schmitt Confuses Ass with Hole in the Ground
A wild attempt at a “gotcha” moment resulted in the ass/hole-in-ground mix-up.
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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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Paul Mooney @pjmooney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith clashes with senators over Trump probes, says he will not be silenced - The Washington Post - It’s bad enough that leading Republicans cowardly said nothing as Trump committed horrible crimes against America. But blaming a respected prosecutor for investigating these things is far worse.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outrage erupted this weekend after a lawsuit was filed by a young woman against Cornell University & several defendants alleging she was gang raped at a fraternity. I explain the law, provide the facts, & discuss why it’s important the local DA now reopens the case: youtu.be/ZzKWgFvqEEo?...
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DISTURBING Cornell ASSAULT Investigation REOPENED After BOMBSHELL New LAWSUIT!!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pete Hegseth runs the Pentagon like a frat house with nukes. 8,954 of us have told Congress to impeach him. We're 46 letters from 9,000. Knock that out in the next hour. Send yours: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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Paul Mooney @pjmooney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s been estimated that there have been about 600,000 deaths resulting from Musk’s shutting down of U.S. international health aid. The estimate was made in Nov. 2025 by epidemiologist Brooke Nichols. The estimate attributed roughly two-thirds of those deaths to children.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump started “renovating” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in April. After spending $19.2 million of taxpayers’ money, it appears he’s abandoned it.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🚨 A new poll shows 51% of voters support impeaching Pete Hegseth over the Iran war. House leadership sent Congress home for 7 weeks to dodge the vote. Do not let them hide this Saturday. Force your representative on the record now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Paul Mooney @pjmooney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump didn’t confront Putin about putting bounties on American troops and didn’t confront Xi about providing intelligence to Iran to target American troops. Trump doesn’t GAF about our military. #FDT
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So the US army wants to invade Cuba who has done nothing to warrant any unprovoked military action how doesn't that violate the war powers act?
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