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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16h
Can't think of any reporter who speaks for me more than this guy— a Canadian. "Hundreds of hours immersed in Trump’s rhetoric has given me some insights and personal opinions about the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 16h
Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14h
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14h
also not getting enough attention: these texts are between one of the lawyers on Jack Smith's team and a US Marshall tasked with keeping people fueled by Republican conspiracy theories from murdering Jack Smith in public because he tried to prosecute the president for crimes that he did
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 14h
the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much
Katie Britt enduring the stupidest fucking piece of posterboard ever displayed in the US Senate
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h
Enjoy
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12h
"He has one house" I lost it
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 11h
Eric Schmitt’s conspiracy theory, slander and b-ball ignorance yesterday was humiliating. But also remember who he is: a natcon with a blood-and-soil belief that the only real Americans are descended from white Christians who immigrated before the mid-1800s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Stephen Hardwick @nonfinality.com · 15h
The NYTimes scans crowd footage and finds Jack Smith at the Hawkeye game. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
Photo of fuzzy photo of crowd in near-outside seats.  A white man with a beard is circled. The text in the photo is:

College Park, Md.
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The New York Times analyzed footage from the game and identified Smith in the crowd.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h
Senator Eric Schmitt is a fucking clown. He didn’t just ask Jack Smith if he was in Atlanta; he did a whole ass posterboard presentation trying to play gotcha, and it backfired because he doesn’t know how to fact-check. Missouri, do better!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
New from me: I unpack what happened at the Jack Smith hearing, and offer a theory of what the hell Senator Eric Schmitt thought he was doing. And yes, an inability to tell the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes really did seem to be a big part of it. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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What happened at the Jack Smith hearing?
A guide for the perplexed. And yes, it does say something about the state of the Republican Party
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23h
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23h
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Reuters @reuters.com · 29/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing reut.rs/4hvqeY1
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing
Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced ​AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Roger Marshall has sent a 'cease-and-desist' letter to Adam Hamilton saying Hamilton's ad featuring a former patient of Marshall's talking about his debt collectin practices is 'defamatory': kansasreflector.com/2026/09/28/r...
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Roger Marshall alleges defamation in new ad about former Kansas patient arrested while in debt • Kansas Reflector
Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pluto too (with a recording of the ad in the comments): www.reddit.com/r/PlutoTV/co...
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From the PlutoTV community on Reddit: Anti Naza AI Ad on Repeat
Explore this post and more from the PlutoTV community
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In addition to ads for Kalshi and Neutrogena, Tubi is now running genocide propaganda, without disclosing the ad buyers, against "NAZA":
Anti-NAZA ad on Tubi, featuring (AI?) cartoons of the two filmmakers, with Yuval looking into an mpty box labeled "FACTS" and the words "HARD EVIDENCE" [<-second word crossed out] YOU MIGHT NOT FIND ANY"Anti-NAZA ad on Tubi, featuring (AI?) cartoons of the two filmmakers, with "Gaza" "Other Urban Fighting" "COMPARE?" [striked out]Anti-NAZA ad on Tubi, featuring (AI?) cartoons of the two filmmakers, with
AI ASSISTANCE
COULD IT HELP MINIMIZE CIVILIAN CASUALTIES?
LEAVE THAT OUT.Anti-NAZA ad on Tubi, featuring an (AI?) cartoon of an audience of smug bow-tied seals clapping, implying these are NAZA viewers as opposed to Zionists fed a diet of indoctrination from birth through death
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
HAHAHA wouldn't it be hilarious if Judge Cannon's illegal ruling in the documents case was the thing that stopped the trump deep state grand conspiracy probe?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If a sentence in your newscast starts with “President Trump says…” you’re failing your audience.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rufo literally offered a bounty to anyone who could produce a video of Haitians eating dogs. He got nothing. So he found a video of Congolese men grilling chicken and tried to claim they were cooking cats.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How it started/how it’s going
Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in UtahBREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV
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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now they are using US taxpayer funds to just run a Trump 2024 campaign ad on national TV — and one in which he pledged to "expel the warmongers from our government"
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Republican senator criticizes White House for taxpayer-funded Trump ads
John Kennedy pushes back against such spending as pro-Trump ‘public service announcements’ air before midterms
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not exactly subtle. He used to work with Charlie Kirk at TPUSA.
Joel Tenney & Sep 10 • @
Today Marks the passing of a man who stands above all in personal influence over my life. I wouldn't have married so young and had so many children by 30 if it wasn't for Charlie Kirk, not only did he help to shape me and ground me in my faith in Jesus, he helped shape an entire generation. For that I am truly grateful to "The Martyr Of American Freedom" my heart is incredibly broken today. The last thing he said to me was "Erika & I have some catching up to do" in reference to my already large family. I loved him like a brother, l'm grateful that such a man once walked among us, daily I aspire to be more like him, because he truly walked in the footsteps of my Lord, Jesus Christ. There's so much we don't yet understand about his death, so much that makes us ask questions, but today I choose to remember Charlie for who he was and examine my walk with God in light of his.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Joel Tenney is an Iowa pastor who gave the invocation for a Trump rally there in 2023. He's been to Mar-a-Lago and campaigned this summer with IA GOP gubernatorial Zach Lahn. He's got pics of himself with Trump and Vance. Oh, and also, he's an antisemitic white nationalist Holocaust denying Nazi.
Joel Tenney @Realcrusaid • 12/9/23
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Standing by the man who stood by his promises! It was such a great honor to pray over The Greatest President of my life time. Believing for 4more yrs! I will be opening the Coralville lowa Rally in prayer before The President Speaks, on Dec 13th @ 6pml hope to see you all there!
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Zach Lahn for Governor, Had the honor to march with this lowan Patriot in the fairfax parade today!... moreDid you know that Auschwitz had a swimming pool, dentist, hospital just for inmates. swimming pool, theater, orchestra, sports fields, and soccer team
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Is that Rolfe from Sound of Music?
Because that sure is a young Nazi if I ever saw one.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 26/09/2026
‘It would be wrong to participate’: Gavin Bazunu on decision to withdraw from squad for Israel match
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‘It would be wrong to participate’: Gavin Bazunu on decision to withdraw from squad for Israel match
Goalkeeper released statement on social media after leaving Irish squad before Nations League game
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 26/09/2026
Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI
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Ireland v Israel: Day of infamy exposes serious lack of leadership in FAI
Gavin Bazunu has been left brutally isolated as any semblance of squad unity has been utterly sundered
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
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FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump ends his Friday with a posting spree, including an edited image of himself looking tough beside Xi as a B-1 bomber passes overhead. A news photograph of the same moment showed that, in reality, Trump winced from the booming jet flying low over his head: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
White House claims pro-Trump ad it paid Fox to air was ‘public service announcement’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
The entire US politics and news industries spend a large chunk of their waking hours on a platform designed to inflate the importance of that 18%. It's a big problem, and why you get stuff like Tammy Duckworth saying she's against impeachment because she wants to "find a compromise" on USAID $
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is my shocked face www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Saudis have not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, U.S. intelligence assesses
The sobering outlook has compounded concerns from some U.S. lawmakers about President Donald Trump’s agreement to assist the kingdom with establishing a civilian nuclear program.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/09/2026
The Supreme Court is allowing use of a data system that Trump officials overhauled. The system has erroneously flagged U.S. citizens and a lower court found it violated federal privacy protections. n.pr/4dRATLp
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The Supreme Court revives a controversial data system for citizenship checks
The Supreme Court is allowing use of a data system that Trump officials overhauled. The system has erroneously flagged U.S. citizens and a lower court found it violated federal privacy protections.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The per curiam opinion notes that, given the timing, this will only involve "individualized inquiries" for this election.
The plaintiff organizations argue that the Federal Gov-
ernment will not suffer irreparable harm because federal
law currently prohibits state and local election authorities
from clearing their voter rolls in the weeks leading up to
federal elections. The organizations point to the National
Voter Registration Act (NVRA), 52 U. S. C. §20507(c)(2)(A),
which provides that “[a] State shall complete, not later than
90 days prior to the date of a primary or general election for
Federal office, any program the purpose of which is to sys-
tematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the
official lists of eligible voters.”2 To be sure, that moratorium
limits the potential impact of staying the District Court’s
order in this case. Still, all agree that the order prevents
the Federal Government from using the modified SAVE
program to conduct individualized inquiries, which are per-
mitted under federal law during this period. The District
Court’s order thus inhibits the Federal Government’s ef-
forts to assist state and local agencies in the proper admin-
istration of the midterm elections. Under these circum-
stances, the equities weigh in favor of a stay.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kansas
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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The pro-Trump ad the White House used taxpayer funds to air on Fox News uses a rapid-fire montage of flash-frames of Trump's second term you have to slow down to appreciate the weirdness of — including Trump winning the Fifa peace prize and pardoning a turkey www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
An image from a pro-Trump ad shows him pardoning a turkey as on-screen text reads: "America will never be a communist country"
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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