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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 8h

Go For It Ladies.......

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

Hahahahahahahaha this ad is awesome

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 1h

And E. Jean Carroll's attorney as a special prosecutor.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 5h

This is a pretty stunning thing to admit

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 5h

Dear Ken: Might not just be Trump that's causing your campaign to crater. Might be because you're a ghoul. Sincerely, &c.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 12h

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 5h

Once again, a college newspaper is leading the way for transparency and ethics. Give those Cornell student journalists a Pulitzer.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

If you’ve decided to start calling something by a new name because Donald Trump decided he wants everyone to call it something different, then you are in a cult of pathetic morons.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h

Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020

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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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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hard to imagine what that would be like

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 29/09/2026

Public Citizen files a complaint opposing the broadcasting of Trump’s ads as violating laws against taxpayer-funded propaganda. Full complaint buff.ly/kYCsKEW

Public Citizen urges the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and broadcasters individually, to end airing recent campaign commercials by President Trump and the White House that appear to be in breach of federal law. At least three campaign ads, paid for by taxpayer dollars, appear to violate the federal law against using taxpayer funds to finance propaganda (5 U.S.C. §3107) and related provisions of the appropriations laws as well as the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. §7324).

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All Trump’s malevolence and psychosis will be on full display right after the midterms. We’ve been here before in Nov 2020, and here we go again. The national nightmare of Trump refusing to accept defeat and dragging the country through lies, conspiracies and drama begins again.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.

Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News.

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I guess the point is that Roger Marshall wants to keep this story in the news cycle as long as possible. Nice work.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One obvious point about the Republican rats desperately deserting the sinking Trump ship: They're still rats.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should expect a lot more of this 'i was wrong about trump' bullsh*t especially after the midterms. Sarah is completely correct: don't fall for it.

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Watching people who propped up this corrupt disaster of an administration for their own enrichment start to slowly back away with their hands up will be good for short term dunks, but thats not good enough. It should be a reputational nuke from which these people never recover.
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Thiel on Trump:

“There are a lot of things I got wrong... was crazier than I thought. It was more dangerous than I thought.”

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not enough is said about how Trump views United States dollars as HIS own money

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out

Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thx for the campaign ad.

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 28/09/2026

This is a BFD - one of the charter airlines doing ICE flights has been sold off, thanks to pressure from smart folks with spines. Raise a glass to the financial misfortune of those who’ve been profiting off of ICE’s detention apparatus; may they not be the last.

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Jenny Cromwell / Papyrus Stories @jennycromwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New papyrology curator job in Oxford/London! As part of rebuilding its HQ, the @theees.bsky.social is establishing the Grenfell & Hunt Papyrology Centre, for which it is hiring a new curator (initially to be located in Oxford). See full details here: www.ees.ac.uk/resource/we-...

ees.ac.uk

We’re looking for a Curator

Would you like to join the EES team?

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026

Called it again

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 28/09/2026

Impeach. Convict. Remove. Imprison.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.

nytimes.com

Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say

In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.

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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...

A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 28/09/2026

Still geeking out over this paper (arxiv.org/pdf/2609.224...) and thinking I might even try to run it against some of the papyri in Stuff Early Christians Read (rickbrannan.github.io/StuffEarlyCh...)

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.

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Rick Brannan @rickbrannan.com · 28/09/2026

Impeach. Convict. Remove. Imprison.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"

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The Appian Way Press @appianwaypress.com · 27/09/2026

We've posted a few times, and have a few posts in the queue for the next week to boot. The newsletter, "Ask the Texts," poses a question like "What did Chrysostom think of Wealth and Poverty?" and uses the available corpus of Appian Way Press texts to provide an answer. Check it out!

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