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Takeaways from this piece (gift link): 1. The ads are clearly related to midterm politics 2. They are meant to assuage Trump's ego 3. Money comes from OBBBA DHS slush fund www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 11h

Flooding the air waves at a location near you, paid for by you with public money: Yet-to-be-aired spots include a trio of ads highlighting the US military and operations in Iran and Venezuela, one called “God Made Trump” and another recapping the UFC fight he hosted at the White House.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12h

Holy SH*T! NY Times reporting tonight that Trump has stolen $20 million dollars of our taxes to pay for ads to help Republicans win the midterms. Let me repeat that: Trump stole $20 million dollars of YOUR taxes to help Republicans. Trump MUST BE prosecuted. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12h

📌We gotta get this fascist asshole out of the White House as soon as possible.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

These hideous Trump ads are outright theft from the taxpayers and election misconduct at the same time. $20 million in OUR MONEY spent on Illegal ads glorifying the would-be king. And his co-conspirators told him it was OK.

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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

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Christian Picciolini @cpicciolini.bsky.social · 14h

All politics aside, he doesn't care at all about or value anyone without the name Donald J. Trump. He'd even take a flamethrower to his kids and push one of his wives down the stairs if it benefited him, even for a second. What makes you think he has your best interests at heart? He's a slumlord.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h

Presidential vanity ads in addition to presidential vanity wars and presidential vanity monuments—all paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.

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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 10h

BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwqO...

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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Pope of Chili Town @popeofchilitown.bsky.social · 13h

It's so funny that the people who worship him the most are the ones he fucks over the hardest: cops, troops, farmers, etc. Better vote for him 3 more times you stupid motherfuckers.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 13h

oh so it's defund the police now?

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 14h

This is cartoonishly evil, like something out of a silent film involving widows tied to railroad tracks by a Rudolph Rassendale knock-off.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

What do you call the feeling of melancholy when something that would have been a huge scandal in any other administration breaks on a near daily basis?

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12h

TIRED: Defund the police WIRED: Defund the police widows and orphans

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 14h

A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

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Happy213 @happy213.bsky.social · 7h

So many men could have intervened when a young lady was being raped at Cornell. You're all cowards! We have to do better, we have to protect women. This is sad and unacceptable!!! �

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 21h

I've been a reporter for a long time and this might be the strangest thing I've ever done. We've been reporting on privatization of schools this year and found that just about anyone can open a private school in most states. So we asked, Could reporters do it?

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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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Dr. Merri 🐸 @merri24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am going to hunt down this brewery and buy every can 😎

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......

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BlueFairyVA @bluefairyva.bsky.social · 23h

And I guarantee you that that’s an understatement of how many women have been sexually abused there. In fact, I think if we took the stats at universities and colleges across the country, we would all be astounded at the numbers. Which is perhaps why we don’t have those numbers…

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 21h

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22h

The unemployment rate is up a tick to 4.2 percent. It's been "around 4 percent" for a couple of years, and looks like it's staying nearby.

Line chart titled "The unemployment rate has been roughly flat over the past two years" showing the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate as a percent of the labor force. The rate stood at 4.2% in September 2026, remaining stable in the 4.0% to 4.5% range throughout 2025 and 2026. This follows a gradual rise from a low of 3.4% in April 2023, representing an increase of 0.8 percentage points over three years before plateauing at current levels.

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth.

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TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

#SpeakOut #STANDUP #California Palo Alto California Tesla Takedown - Stanford Mall Saturdays Mar 14 through Oct 31 12 – 2pm PDT Tesla Showroom • Stanford Shopping Center 660 Stanford Shopping Center Palo Alto, CA 94304 www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

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Tesla Takedown - Stanford Mall · Mobilize

CALSTRS and CALPERS: Divest from Tesla Funds NOW! City of Palo Alto: Divest from Tesla Funds NOW! Sign our petition: https://www.mobilize.us/thewolves/event/794842/ STOP THE BILLIONAIRE TAKEOVER. ...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21h

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office? MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now BERMAN: So it's gone up MOORE: That is true

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, these job numbers are TERRIBLE. Many people are saying we must have an “incompetent” president who is “asleep at the wheel”

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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AIPAC decided they were going to set a record on the amount of money they spent against me in the primary election. $70 million. Do you know what we could do with $70 million?

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Al Toth @atoth99.bsky.social · 23h

Shallow State: "Anyone who reads Time's recent interview with Trump would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable."

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

11. As you know, the gambit backfired. Smith was not in Georgia watching Atlanta's Hawks. He was in Maryland watching an away game of Iowa's Hawk*eyes*. www.editorialboard.com/how-the-righ...

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Rightwing media tries turning Eric Schmitt's humiliation into victory, but reality prevails

Even so, Schmitt will never face the consequences of spectacular failure.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

4. According to new reporting last night by MS Now, the text messages from 2024 from Smith's team that Eric Schmitt presented at Tuesday's hearing were provided by the US Department of Justice, which is to say, by US Attorney General Todd Blanche. www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...

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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.

As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

3. Schmitt's story is part of a broader attempt by the GOP to punish Smith for prosecuting Donald Trump's treason. If we say goodbye now, we miss a chance to say that.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2. Schmitt's story is part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of a coup against an investigation that, as Jack Smith said, "developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation."

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 21h

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#BlueStormComin1🌪️🦋🇺🇸 #Resistance 🦋🙌🏻 #Blues @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is believable so is this why Hegseth is putting seasoned military to pasture? #War #Blues #Democracy

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On the outside looking in @pauline001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Don't let this Distract your from the Epstein File because that's what they are trying to do!

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