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There are at least FOUR Trump huge oil corruption stories from just the [double checks calendar] last two days. There's the NYT story about Trump selling out Ukraine to get a $2M donor a big contract. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

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In Trump’s Russian Oil Deal, Middle East Funds Are the Biggest Owners

A majority of ownership in a proposed multibillion-dollar deal would go to a group of Middle Eastern investors, including some with business ties to U.S. negotiators.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

(5/X) there won't be happy ending. Future generations will look on us with disgust and dismay.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

(4/X) attacks on our economy, our way of life, and basic human decency will suffer a career setback as a result. There will be no consequences for the villains and no rewards for the heroes. This meant to be positive because I think our country will survive. But...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

(3/X) There will be no lessons learned. Mostly people in power will try to pretend that it never happened. Scott Jennings will say some mush-mouthed things about not really liking Trump and get an even better media gig. No one who spent the last ten years cheering on ...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

(2/X) The people who supported him will not be humiliated and the people who opposed him will not be allowed to declare victory. There will be no "At long last sir have you no decency" momment.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

(1/X) Nothing good and nothing satisfying will come out of the Trump era. He will leave the country in much worse shape than he found it. The GOP will pay a price for this politically but not not one that is commensurate with the damage he caused...

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So many of our very powerful and very old politicians can barely speak normally.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

inexcusable bullshit spoiling what could be the OH Dems' first winning year in a long time.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Robert Taylor @rbtaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Smith is mad but north-north-west, when the wind is southerly he knows a Hawk from a Hawkeye.

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026

My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking

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Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An engineer once told me, "I could get this building to run perfectly, if it weren't for all the people in it." He was being serious.

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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Honestly, I think a lot of this comes out of spaces and situations where intentionally reading 'the enemy' - be that a high school rival, a political outsider, another academic, whatever - in bad faith is rewarded as a display of group solidarity, a demonstration of belonging through hate.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The USS Abraham Lincoln just arrived in Guam after more than 300 days deployed - a telling example of operational overstretch. In my latest Times Defence Decoded video I ask whether these ships have turned from a symbol of US might into one of its limitations www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTpr...

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How America’s Aircraft Carrier Crisis Reveals A Military Decline

YouTube video by The Times

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

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Trick Charles, PI 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is going to get really REALLY bad.

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17/09/2026

It’s like he asked ChatGPT “draft a message perfectly tailored to bring out the guillotines”

Bret: Millions of Americans, including me, not only hate the parties but also hate the party for which we typically vote. That means there's a market of the dissatisfied. I hear this all the time among my friends in New York City: They can't believe they're stuck with Zohran Mamdani as mayor, and they felt the same way about Eric Adams and Bill de Blasio before him. But when you ask them if they voted in the primaries, the usual answer is: Uh, no - we were on the Vineyard or in Greece. The point is that it's on them, or us, and the remedy is some civic entrepreneurship, philanthropically funded, to change this.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

CBO analysis: The Iran war has cost the U.S. $38 billion as of August 1. That’s >$246 million per day, on average. CBO says the war has raised inflation and global energy prices, citing reduced traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and says it’ll raise interest rates on treasuries.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/09/2026

I love us—queers, transsexuals, dykes, gays. I love us so much. 💕

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 04/09/2026

jfc this ghoul is absolutely rotten to the core

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

One cool thing that is worth grasping is that 95% of laymen's takes about medieval history are not /really/ about medieval history in the same way that Animal Farm is not really about farmyard animals.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Right-wing propagandists Christopher Rufo, Jack Posobiec, and Elon Musk are trying hard to get another Red Scare going. Worth paying attention to because they are the tip of the spear for campaigns that go mainstream.

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McCarthy was right (obviously)

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I used to read this over and over when I was going through a difficult time a few years ago; his writing still means a great deal to me. A rare and unique life.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 01/09/2026

I'm a cishet dude and neither will I. First They Came is not a poem, it is a description of how events played out. There is no metaphor there. It is absolute madness to say "they won't come for me" when we know, as a matter of historical fact, that they will. It isn't just morals, its self-interest.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026

“woke 1 was worse than our nation being run by fascist white nationalists” is a horrible thing to say out loud but it is the actual position most of these people hold so they disguise it by Just Asking Questions but you can tell by which subjects they cover

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 30/08/2026

It really seems to me like the attacks against Hasan Piker are coming from The Bulwark and Never Trump Republicans. Which really needs to be mentioned because that salient detail demonstrates how the whole thing is a cuckoo attack by non-Democrats who don't have Democratic values.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/08/2026

So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A word of advice to the less mentally unwell: if an employer says that “this workplace is a family,” they mean that they intend to abuse you.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh, Dolly Parton. What a loss of a bright light and a beloved human. Beyond from her beautiful music--what a talented composer--her commitment to literacy means so much. She came from poverty and family members who could not read--and she funded the free distribution of millions of chidren's books.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If players in the W didn’t already disagree with Sophie Cunningham about her comments about trans women in sports, how many of them must despise how she turned the WNBA into a political circus and battleground for conservatives to interrupt their game when the league is hot?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty NYT: Democrats divided

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

For those unfamiliar with how dangerous the UK media is, Dr Beth Upton, a NHS doctor that had the temerity of living as a trans woman, was hounded by the UK media after a (coincidentally vicious, racist, hateful bigot hated by all her coworkers) sued the NHS. Dr Beth Upton had to flee the country

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's funny, Idaho AG Labrador routinely says doctors are being disingenuous when they say the law is unclear about when they can perform an abortion without fear of prosecution, and yet when a judge tries to make it clearer, they say it's too vague and allows for too much room to perform abortions.

The standard varies throughout the opinion’s discussion. Is it as specific as the conditions
identified by the decision—hysterectomies, nerve damage, and the like? Id. Perhaps. But the
opinion refused to provide an “exhaustive” list of conditions warranting abortion. Dkt. 147 at 17.
Is it anything that is not a typical risk? Perhaps. But the opinion even indicates that the risk of
commonly performed cesarean sections could allow for abortion based on potential permanent
damage from a “risk of infection.” Dkt. 147 at 49. What exactly is serious enough and lasting
enough to qualify? The opinion does not say, but instead trusts doctors being paid to perform
abortions to flesh it out.

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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

excited to vote for Jean Normielib vs. the school shooter caucus for the rest of my life

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Holy crap. “I’m just gonna be honest here, I’m not that, on national security, I’m not that informed on national security” You’re the sitting senator, FFS. Yes only by nepotism, but US/Taiwan/China is something you may want to spend an hour on 😳😳😳

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So young adults, who usually interact with their friends online, are told that type of contact doesn’t count. And disabled young adults who need to lean on that style of connection are disregarded in the analysis—even as we make more of them in an ongoing public heath disaster.

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The pandemic seems to have permanently increased (or coincided with) asocial behavior. On an average day, one in 10 young adults now has no in-person contact with another human
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Chart: On an average day, one in 10 young adults now has no in-person contact % of US 23- to 29-year-olds surveyed in each year who spent no time with other people that day*

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

At least some of this was public in real time. But consider -- what has Bessent demanded from the other countries he has intervened with, like Argentina and Japan?

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