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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 1h
You will never earn Trump’s support by appealing to goals oriented in the future, or those that don’t allow him to make a simple and immediate announcement that he feels enhance his image. In this case, long-term global stability is meaningless compared to diesel prices. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 1h
“Nobody has been harder on Russia than me”, he has continually shrieked despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Maybe one day the press will point out how his statements about his relationship with Putin are - and have always been - demonstrably untrue. bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 16h
This is devastating for Collins. Ossoff is so clearly the best communicator in the Democratic Party. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 20h
No member of the GOP will strongly condemn this. They’ll either pretend they didn’t see it, say some version of “that’s not what he meant”, or justify it. These are official US government policies, not just unhinged Trump screeds. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 20h
Every democratic politician should be watching this and many should be taking notes.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 20h
Holy shit this is brutal 😧
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Over the past two weeks, I’ve been following the attempts to smear the Jane Doe in the Cornell University gang rape case and redirect blame from the seven fraternity men onto her. As usual, this campaign is built on a mountain of lies and misogyny. spitfirenews.com/p/cornell-ja...
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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe
Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You know you’re dealing with a secure, self-assured individual who has great ideas when he uses threats as a way to gain compliance over the most trivial nonsense. A focus on Trump is as relevant for the discipline of psychology as it is for political science. bsky.app/profile/ronf...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Language matters. Just like they did with “woke”, the right is being enabled by the press to change the meaning of words to invoke fear. They need to be challenged on their misuse of terms, not rewarded with space to “personally” define it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is a key point of why Trump was always going to be so dangerous. The combination of extreme sensitivity to criticism and conflating any negative assessment about an issue with the country as criticism of him personally. Then surrounds himself with people who only confirm his confabulations.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ah yes, the response of an intellectual who has given great thought to the issue. Who cares what his “personal” definition is…if he doesn’t understand the actual term, clown him for it. Stop letting these malevolent goons define our reality.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 07/10/2026
Black text on white background 
"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Because of the daughters, they wrote the most beautiful letter”. Everyone knows Trump is profoundly moved by the emotional experience of others. And I’ll bet he totally read the letter, too.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is just a football team’s fans cheering for the quarterback even though he doesn’t understand which direction he’s supposed to throw the football. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is so pathetic. How ignorant do you have to be to believe this after 10 years of “as soon as we win you’ll get the thing”? Can someone in the press please string the themes together instead of asking him questions about specific items of nonsense? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“.. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He’s also a complete slug who hates leaving the house, so he wants everything done where he lives. Next Dem president should immediately dismantle this national security nightmare idea if it goes ahead.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
bbc.com
Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is he pointing to Rocky IV as a point of fact about American life…?
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine being Ken Paxton and thinking you actually have something to offer voters? Yeah, DC is the problem. You’d definitely win people over if they let YOU control the messaging.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you can’t revert something back to the way it was, that’s called “breaking” it.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
folks, i can't tell you how many times i've rewatched this ad *that republicans are paying people to see*
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Diabolical choice to let him off right in a straight line in the pavement.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
rollingstone.com
J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is reducing ideological bias a goal? To what end? Politics is almost always a fight over values, not facts. I don’t care if I am “biased” towards social justice, whatever that means.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”
thebanker.com
Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ha! Officer in the military “straight out of central casting” 🙄
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Putting aside the terrible policy decisions and corruption, Trump not being seriously and repeatedly held accountable by the press for his bullying and abusive behaviour is one of the most significant media failures of the Trump era. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Kushner putting his grubby little fingers in everything sinister and corrupt going on around the world.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Find something you love as much as Trump loves using appeals to anonymous authority to launder his gibberish. Oh, “very distinguished people” said this? Or was it a “very successful businessman”? Maybe it was a nameless “leader of another country who called” to tell you. It could be anyone!!
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is behaviour that would result in nuclear backlash for any other president: blatantly lies about a nonexistent arrangement with another country, and when called out on it, acts like a combination of aggressive mobster and middle-school shit starter. No accountability. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It seems like any country outside the US should take a hard look at the type of relationship they have/plan to have with this sinister maniac. After DOGE, he certainly can’t be trusted with any sensitive information.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Society tells these people they’re bad and ugly all the time so we glaze them so we can build a bridge” is wild.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/09/2026
A small group of formerly incarcerated women have won a major lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after a federal judge ruled that the state must air-condition all Texas prisons by the end of 2029.
truthout.org
Formerly Incarcerated Women Sued to Get Air Conditioning in TX Prisons — and Won
Many people in prison have physical conditions that make them more susceptible to extreme heat.
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump requires different structure than he is given. His impaired sense of time/capacity to plan makes asking questions about the future irrelevant. Sensitivity to criticism means he won’t ever take a firm stance. He needs concrete questions about past statements/actions. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carney's first-ever project designated as being in the “national interest" is...a crude oil pipeline. That means the oil pipeline can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments, and Indigenous consultation. It can also kill all of Vancouver's orcas. Here's what you need to know:
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 02/10/2026
“Canada is seen as the No. 1 world influencer for the 10th year in a row.” Canada named most positive leader on world stage
cultmtl.com
Canada named most positive leader on world stage
According to a study by Ipsos, Canada remains the top country expected to have a positive influence on world affairs.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Guy who obsessively counts his macros and spends thousands of dollars on tattoos sent to war for the imperialist aims of billionaire rapists against a military fighting for their country’s survival.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
Live press conference from witnesses at Christa Pike's botched execution. "My arm feels like its about to burst open."
youtube.com
Live: Tennessee to execute death row inmate Christa Gail Pike, witness statements to follow
YouTube video by Tennessean
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ponchmct.bsky.social @ponchmct.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump, who famously exclaimed “everything’s computer” when he sat in a Tesla, and said Barron had an “unbelievable aptitude” in tech because he could turn on a laptop 5 minutes after Trump reportedly turned it off, is precisely the right man to rename AI.
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