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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026

Rufo often gets treated as a "respectable" conservative. His latest podcast episode — framing Indian-Americans as a problem in need of solving — is more evidence that he shouldn't be.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Steve Daines www.c-span.org/clip/public-...

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It gives me no pleasure to report that it is now a matter of presidential history that Donald Trump will have driven by the giant porn and lingerie store on the south side of the Texas / Oklahoma border.

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(not a dig at the reporters here, but) some follow ups should be: - Does Abbott still rely on public ed advice from “race scientist” Charles Murray? - Does he regret campaigning with Ted Nugent? Or white supremacist Robbie Cooper? - does he still supported adjudicated sexual assailant Donald Trump?

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E.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 29/09/2026

Dems need to win PA by around 9 points to flip its Senate (~D+11 nationally). In that situation, they likely also take the state legislatures of WI, MI, AZ and NV Gov. Dems would have the votes to push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over the line and eliminate the Electoral College.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...

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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026

Q: Mr Sununu, would you have voted for a war powers resolution in the Senate? JOHN SUNUNU:🚶🚶🚶 Q: Would you admit that Trump’s war was a bad decision, or are you just going to do everything that Trump tells you to do? JOHN SUNUNU:🚶🚶🚶

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everything is a spectrum. I once interviewed a dude for a job and he brought breakfast tacos…for himself only. He said down and ate 2 tacos while being interviewed. He did not get the job, but did eventually get himself elected to the Austin city council.

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People who put their bag in the overhead bin at the front of the plane and then walk to their seat at the back of plane should be sentenced to consecutive life sentences without parole.

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Or you could literally not pretend that we have to care what Raymond Emanuel says about *anything.* He’s not a news-maker or policy maker and doing PR for his inevitably failing presidential campaign is an editorial choice.

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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 22/09/2026

My latest @thebarbedwire.com: Ever taken an HIV test at a nightclub or event? 13 AIDS-related nonprofits in Texas (and more nationwide) are losing millions in HIV outreach funding, thanks to the latest DOGE-like cuts at the CDC. Six nonprofits in Houston will collectively lose ~$2M in vital funds.

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Thanks To CDC Cutbacks, 13 Texas Nonprofits Lose Millions In HIV Outreach Funding

Gulf Coast is hardest hit: The CEO of a Houston-area nonprofit estimated that six organizations in the area are losing a total of about $2 million in funds.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Texans Need the Truth…And That’s Why We Invited Marjorie Taylor Green To Keynote Our Big Conference

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 20/09/2026

A federal immigration official shot and injured a man in Austin on Sunday afternoon, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The man was transported to a hospital. His identity and condition are currently unknown. It’s not immediately clear what led up to the shooting. bit.ly/4cV0CSU

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The reported shooting in Austin came more than two months after an ICE officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.

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Dan Pizzuta @danpizzuta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't really follow politics

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 18/09/2026

But the football team won a big game so whatever!!! I hate all of this so much, I cannot really articulate it. The conservatives in this state are successfully rolling back one of the great institutions of learning to the 1950s and we are all worse for it.

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A fun thing to ask is “did the Texas Tribune pay KXAN for this advertising-as-a-post?” Both possible answers are bad!

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They are absolutely terrified

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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social is urging fellow Ds to vote FOR the corrupt crypto CLARITY Act. I’m sure this has nothing to do with the fact that her 22 year old son received a $30 mil investment from a VC fund led by a crypto billionaire www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Gillibrand privately urges Dems to advance crypto bill

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's posture on the legislation puts her at odds with progressives in her party.

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redstateprof.bsky.social @redstateprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dude is out there saying stuff that would have been shocking for a mainstream politician to say in the early 1900s, and this is how they frame it.

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Chad C @chadc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"I mean, come on. That’s one of the most sociopathic things I’ve heard Ted say, and that’s saying a lot." Worth reading the entire thing just for this line.

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I’m sorry to say this but once you hear that Chris Collinsworth’s voice sounds like James Austin Johnson’s Trump you can’t unhear it.

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

No disrespect to @robertdownen.bsky.social. But Cornyn has nothing to lose. Burrows needs low stakes chances to throw a bone to his Democratic members. Leach is in a real race, and he and Patterson represent many thousands of South Asians. Wake me up when Abbott, Paxton, & Cruz disavow Bo French.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On the same day Ted Cruz gets roundly booed by Texas fans, Abdul El-Sayed has Michigan fans running over to shake his hand. Please tell us more about who's popular with Real Americans™

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a very moving piece that I'd recommend everyone read and consider.

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nothing about this is an exaggeration. The only comp is basically “what if Joe Biden pardoned El Chapo who then campaigned for Democrats?”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If the media is going to demand that Democrats disavow a Twitch streamer they’ve never associated, they better demand Ted Cruz disavow the Republican convention attendee who responded to Cruz’s own attacks on Democrats with calls for their murder.

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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is a great lesson; I’m gonna show this video at candidate trainings. Anyone who’s even *been to* a little league game knows Vivek looks like a complete tool in these vids. I’d bet he’s maybe never swung a bat before? Candidates! Don’t fake who you are! People can see it! What a dork.

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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 09/09/2026

it's not her platform, but hinojosa's ad strategy is saying that abortion is bad and trans people are silly. anyone who cares about abortion or trans people has no one else to vote for, so i guess she figures why not attempt to reach the unknown number of texans who want to hear that from a democrat

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Doctors, lawyers and engineers" is an international online Nazi trope. The "joke" is that non-White people are too stupid to be anything other than a criminal or someone who leeches social services. Read a Spanish newspaper about Ceuta, e.g., and you'll see "médicos y ingenieros" in the comments.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

JD Vance on two separate occasions last week declined to criticize Tucker Carlson -- and in fact suggested that asking him to distance himself from an architect of his political career in unAmerican. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/jd-...

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JD Vance’s wildly disingenuous response to his Tucker Carlson problem

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Don’t trust @thebulwark.com. They want Trumpism lite and deniable oligarchy. The Weekly Standard’s DNA remains within them

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here's yet another figure about whose direct connection to Republicans our Hasan Piker-obsessed media seems to have scant curiosity or follow-through.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Oh my, federal prosecutors have indicted a state House candidate (Thomas Ross) in Missouri, alleging that he asked his campaign manager to plant cocaine on his primary opponent. Thomas Ross, a Republican, won the primary by 32 votes and is now the GOP nominee in a red-leaning seat.

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Missouri House candidate charged in plot to plant drugs on Republican primary opponent • Missouri Independent

A Republican legislative candidate in Joplin plotted to plant cocaine and Adderall on his primary opponent in an effort to derail her campaign, federal prosecutors allege.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

just trying to imagine if like, Hasan Piker said this and not a former high level White House Advisor and #1 donor to Republican campaigns in 2024 and 2026

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Common Sense Good Government @commonsensegoodgov.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is the top republican donor

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Carl Ruby, a Springfield pastor, said he was struggling to make sense of Bel’s untimely death. ‘I know that I’m a pastor and I’m supposed to be forgiving,’ he said. ‘But right now as I sit with a broken family, I’m crying out to God for righteous judgment in those who made this happen.’”

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The mother of a USNA midshipman was detained by ICE AT HER GREEN CARD INTERVIEW and is now being held in a concentration camp and I find it insane that people don’t understand how THAT is a bigger national security threat than any undocumented immigrant.

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Michael Barajas @michaelbarajas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

there have been so many shitty clickbait headlines wrongly screaming about TX “suspending” more than a million voters ahead of the midterms here’s what you actually need to know/do to verify voter registration if you live here in TX www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...

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Voters on Texas’ suspense list haven’t been kicked off the voter roll

Election officials need to confirm their address, but registrations in suspense haven’t been canceled.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months.

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.

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Nicholas Sarwark @sarwark.org · 31/08/2026

There is no news content in that headline or story. It's all future imperfect tense.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 29/08/2026

The idea that Trump won in 2024 “because people lost their jobs” to “woke 1” is completely unempirical. By every measure, Harris most probably lost because of inflation under Biden, and even outperformed expectations from the fundamentals. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

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The real reason Democrats lost in 2024

The DNC "autopsy" omits the biggest reason Democrats lost in 2024. In doing so, it fails to prepare the party for the future

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