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Chris Berry

@playultm8.bsky.social
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Just a dude on...wait, what website is this again?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h
I'll just point out once more: the Republican case to voters, today and for the last 50 years or so, relies on lies & falsehoods. If you could snap your fingers and force everyone to speak only the truth, Republicans would never win a national majority again. The lies are central & load-bearing.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/10/2026
That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.
ctinsider.com
The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?
Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/10/2026
farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison
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Chris Berry @playultm8.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The types of clearly illegal activity detailed in this thread will keep happening at across federal agencies during every GOP administration for the foreseeable future unless we start putting the people that do it in prison.
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Chris Berry @playultm8.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Did the Cleveland Guardians give the Pope cancer so that he would be out of commission during their 3-game comeback against the Sox?!? I'm just asking questions here.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Not reposting that shit but Trump is currently posting videos of lions maiming and killing humans on Truth Social. The kind of stuff you used to have to go to rotten dot com for. And if you think he's not gonna unleash every bit of violence he can to stay in office, I don't know what to tell you
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump dispatched liars and sadists to disparage and ruin the careers of dedicated public servants. That is a core of his legacy, and of the GOP, which for decades denigrated federal civil servants, laying the groundwork for hate, and then stood by as all of these outrages unfolded before our eyes.
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Chris Berry @playultm8.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Without consequences for the government officials involved in these actions, this ruling has very little meaning and the behavior by those involved will almost certainly happen again in new contexts.
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Chris Berry @playultm8.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Getting excited for the upcoming Kings season!! Wooo! www.nytimes.com/athletic/763...
Sacramento finds itself saddled with a roster that is somehow both expensive and terrible and possessing few good young players of note, serially mismanaged by a meddling owner in his flunkies, commanded by arguably the league's worst head coach and faced with a new lottery environment where finishing with a bottom-tree record actually gets you fewer ping-pong balls rather than more. Good luck finding your next savior with the 12th pick in a weak 2027 draft.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The signal feature of 🇺🇸 politics in my adult lifetime has been the glaring divide b/w competently staffed administrations & Congresses that try to actually govern when Dems are in office, & corrupt/criminal ideological kakistocrats when the GOP is. News coverage simply does not reflect that feature.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This clip is the definition of Kakistocracy
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The only requirements are: 1) happy to lie 2) believes completely insane stuff 3) looks like Ivanka
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What was once a gradual slide into autocracy has become something like free-fall. We should all be in the streets. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
reuters.com
US launches immigration raid of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home, Fox News reports
US authorities conducted a predawn raid Monday on the Washington-area home ​of Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar in ‌a probe of the Somali-born lawmaker's immigration paperwork, Fox News Digital re...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Lol anyway, you best be ready for whatever shit they're gonna pull on New J6 because we know they are literally the "you have to physically stop me from breaking the law" administration and I don't know how that's gonna look but it won't be peaceful
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Doing a pre-dawn house raid is obviously being done as thuggish intimidation and as a literally violent assault on her and her family. Overaggressive raids happen in other contexts but in this case it's going out of their way to do politically targeted state terrorism.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a criminal violation of civil rights under color of law, and the people who made it happen must be indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. apnews.com/article/ilha...
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Chris Berry @playultm8.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Rotting in a cell for the rest of their natural lives is too good for these reprobates.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Again, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Petitional prayer is tricky stuff. For God to intervene and grant the White Sox a few runs tonight, a busload of innocents might have tumbled down a ravine in Chile, or a ferry might have overturned in the Phillipines. I suppose even a pope, with a direct line, needs to prioritize.
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Jim Margalus @soxmachine.com · 11/10/2026
The final recap of the 2026 White Sox season was a pretty straightforward one.
soxmachine.com
Guardians 2, White Sox 0: Buried by 21 strikeouts - Sox Machine
In the end, the 2026 White Sox’s postseason lived and died like the 2026 regular season, with a surprising over-.500 record overshadowed by the Cleveland Guardians coming from behind to clip them. Ove...
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The Kings Herald @thekingsherald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Maxime Raynaud is an important piece to the Sacramento Kings future. The degree of severity of this injury is pretty big.
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Chris Berry @playultm8.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Such a frustrating end to an otherwise unexpectedly exciting Sox season. I’d be a lot more hopeful if I had any confidence Jerry will open his pocketbook to support a promising young core that still has some obvious holes to fill.
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Chris Berry @playultm8.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is a massive bummer.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Construction workers in #SanDiego stood up to ICE agents who tried to kidnap their co-workers on the job site...workers stopped their job, helped their co-workers get away and demanded that ICE leave." Source Stop ICE: www.instagram.com/p/DeQGKxtv4Pq/
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The lying liars at DHS said ICE agents tried to block Oscar Belgal from driving away, and believed their lives were in danger. Lies. Always lies.
Agent not in the path of the car, pulls out gun
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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Trump administration has denied Illinois’ request for disaster relief — again. The state sought FEMA’s help after days of severe weather in and around the Chicago area in August. FEMA granted Indiana’s request for help with the same storm. buff.ly/P3ElxRb
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Absolutely wild. Why did ABC 404 this story?
Screenshot of ABC News page with a 404 message w a headline “oops! Page unavailable”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.
wapo.st
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’m starting to believe that Pete Hegseth is the violent sociopath his mom says he is.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is indistinguishable from the white nationalist comments at our city council meeting last night, including the part where they started shouting “White man fight back”
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stochastic terrorism
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
Vance's model immigrant Elon Musk has sucked up more taxpayer-funded largesse than entire generations of asylum seekers combined, interfered with government policy, bought elections, and perpetrated a decade-long crime spree... he's literally the only immigrant we can't afford more of!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A constitutional order that cannot remove a chief executive at this point is not worth saving. We need massive, wholesale, fundamental institutional reform.
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Dave Lack @davelack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The more I watch Doug Christie coach, the more I see a person who relied on their own athletic abilities to be effective rather than understanding the game at a high level. It really doesn’t matter that much this season because the Kings don’t have enough talent right now to compete,
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump calling his Super PAC “my money” will make bribery charges a snap. Both accepting and making. Like the entire crypto industry for starters. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
nytimes.com
Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads (Gift Article)
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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Chris Berry @playultm8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This country used to have standards for its leaders....
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
fortune.com
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/10/2026
You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the Trump White House, “quietly working” is the code word for sleeping. www.washingtonsun.com/agencies/tru...
washingtonsun.com
Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer
The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
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