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Rob Fardon

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“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.” --Fran Lebowitz

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h
Pennsylvania health officials have reported a fifth measles-associated death.
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Pennsylvania records a fifth measles death as the nation endures its worst year since 1991
Pennsylvania health officials have reported a fifth measles-associated death. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said Wednesday that the person was from Lancaster County and was unvaccinated.
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 12h
The moment a drone or missile whistles nearby, 🇺🇦 women instantly become a shield for their children—covering them with their bodies, holding them tightly, covering their eyes and ears, comforting them. Every Ukrainian mother, sister, & grandmother is always ready to become a shelter. Thread 1/5🧵
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 3h
The US is literally being avoided like the plague.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 3h
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 4h
Not even fully performative. For some of them, I'd say it's not performative at all
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 8h
The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 8h
Pete Von Clusterwitz is worse than merely unqualified for his job. He is rabidly, openly anti-American. I genuinely have no idea what American ideals he values. He doesn't value freedom, he doesn't value the rule of law, he doesn't value individualism, and he doesn't value equality
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Abdohassan @abdohassan.bsky.social · 9h
Hegseth is a war criminal
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 16h
Awww. Poor little Ken Paxton. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/09/2026
So many of Trump’s open abuses of power over the last two years are easy to comprehend and have played out right in the open. It would simply be a matter of congressional Democrats picking their favorites.
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Impeach Him Again
There’s never been a better time.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear former Congressional staffers: Would this have been considered a firing offense in your day?
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ooooof
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I almost feel sorry for Eric Schmitt. Almost
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What a day for the Show Me State
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Ray Glennon OFS @rayglennon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Naval Academy faculty has been roughly 50% civilian and 50% military since its founding in 1845. I was a Chemistry major (1972) and part of the military faculty as a Chemistry instructor from 1975-1978. Civilian profs were the core and foundation of the department.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reminiscent of Nevada. The state in which DHS Sec Mullin claimed that DHS had ID'd 15,903 noncitizens on its voter roll, which turned into wait, "actually the real number is 185 people we know are noncitizens", which turned into "actually, they are, in fact, all U.S. citizens."
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is a prime example of why I’m a FORMER Republican and will always remain so unless there is a wholesale cleaning of house and reinvention of that political party. It isn’t even a real political party anymore. Merely a cult of personality. Disgusting, immoral behavior.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[redacted] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now
The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good for the BBC. Their radio update described Jack Smith's testimony that he charged Trump because the evidence supported this beyond a reasonable doubt and that he would do so again against either a Republican or a Democratic president. Not a word about the b.s. from the GOP senators
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 29/09/2026
Wokery!
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You only appreciate how weak Trump is when you also remember how frightened he is of looking weak. He's terrified of looking weak! Yet his fear of looking weak is *still overridden* by his weak, whiny need for adulation. THAT's how weak he is
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump & ICE have done this to 25,000 people & counting. The government is abducting our neighbors and disappearing them to places with abhorrent human rights records. Often, they’re stranded there without money or identity papers. These aren’t deportations - they’re renditions.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Apparently, Bailey had (some) red lines www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a hopeful read
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think we lucked out a bit here in that a lot of what Trump does falls into the bucket of “so jaw-droppingly vulgar or corrupt that it’s not technically illegal because it was inconceivable that someone would attempt it.” Like why restaurants rarely post “no defecating on the tables” signs.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DOJ is asking for a writ of mandamus against Nicholas Garaufis in NY for not fully dismissing the bribery case against Gautam Adani's co-conspirators that Trump was bribed to dismiss.
The Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis
United States District Court
Eastern District of New York
225 Cadman Plaza East
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Re: United States v. Gautam S. Adani et al.
Criminal Docket No. 24-433 (NGG)
“A party petitioning for a writ of mandamus or prohibition directed to a court … must also
provide a copy to the trial-court judge.” Fed. R. App. P. 21(a)(1). The attached petition for a writ of
mandamus was filed today at the Second Circuit.
/s/
R. TRENT MCCOTTER
Acting Deputy Attorney General
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a good result, but one we need many more of. Unconstitutional schemes like this to violate the 4th Amendment become pilot programs for authoritarians elsewhere in the country. ij.org/press-releas...
The unconstitutional program ran in five steps: First, surveillance cameras across the state and country recorded license plates and logged when and where cars went. Second, analysts and anonymous tipsters flagged ordinary travel, like driving toward the border and back, as suspicious. Third, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies invented a traffic violation to justify pulling over the flagged driver. Fourth, deputies pulled drivers into their front seats, interrogated them and asked consent to search their car. Finally, fifth, if the driver refused to consent to a search, a K-9 alert from a manipulated dog supplied the probable cause to search anyway. This practice happened for four years to countless motorists.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge strikes down Trump’s bid to cut states’ anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions
The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Big day tomorrow
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.” --Fran Lebowitz I don't know how many times I've tweeted this. I don't know how many times I'll have to
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu is always essential reading. She pulls no punches here. Accurately describes the current Administration as a clan of predators. On the whole a depressing but imp’t read.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There aren't many issues left on which Americans have a broad consensus, but releasing the Epstein files is one of them
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John Wallach @jmwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Backup of the profile drive.google.com/open?id=1ddA...
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 28/09/2026
Oh my god, it looks like a Russian bot forgot to pay their Claude bill but was still configured to reply to posts about Putin
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Roy Cooper (D-NC) will be the next Senator of North Carolina, here he is out on the campaign trail talking to voters who are talking to voters and they’re mad AF and ready to vote!! Cooper is a great candidate but don’t forget the down ballot candidates and vote for Justice Earls!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our tax dollars are being spent to indulge the fantasies and to soothe the fragile ego of a narcissistic sociopath who is falling deeper and deeper into psychosis.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unbelievable. Apparently at the same time Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress, he offered to sell arms to Xi Jinping, despite the fact that China is aiding Iran and Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All: I'm suggesting @pallone.house.gov do this bc he is likely to have the Commerce gavel in January to do such an investigation. It's not a New Jersey thing it's a committee of jurisdiction thing.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is beyond insane for a U.S. president. I don't know whether Trump is an outright foreign agent. But I understand why others believe so. He's the most anti-American person in the country apnews.com/article/trum... Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says
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Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says
The U.S. ambassador to China says President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It will be a long time, if ever, before Canadians (and people from other countries) will trust the United States government again. Donald Trump and his MAGA followers have turned that country into a pariah state.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I regard this as required reading. Having such a pathological liar as president has a cost, and it will continue to cost the U.S. for at least a decade more. No one is more qualified to speak on this than Daniel Dale, and I enjoin everyone to read him: 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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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@atticus59914029.bsky.social Seen any game results recently?! 👀
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I saw that clip circulating yesterday and thought there could be a completely normal, non-sexist, explanation other than the rage bait one. Grateful for this (really well-written!) peek into a loving family, sad she felt she had to write it. themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've read enough about him to believe he believes this. But I have to ask, has anyone seen the full conversation? This is a 9-second clip. It could be cherry-picked. Does the full conversation provide more context? Could he even be describing someone else's argument with which he disagrees?
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Russkiy mir, the Russian world. Russia is not a civilized country
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
okay actually…. i am informed the first report was @jmetr22b.bsky.social for @chicagotribune.com (though i think @jonseidel.bsky.social had his story up before the NYT, too). anyway follow those reporters and support local media, goodnight and good luck bye
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