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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

AI, the kind the companies want normal people to use in their everyday lives, was invented by bad dorks who can't think about or make or do anything fun or cool or social, and they keep trying to sell it to us as a tool to outsource the doing of cool fun social things as if that's appealing.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Again, OMB is using the apportionment mechanism to stop funding. Here it is the Smithsonian. I would note: they are not legally binding if exercised out of the scope of the President’s authority.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Before people make up lies about the common law, aliens in England had the right to not be detained indefinitely and could challenge their imprisonment.

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Kevin Hell-iott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Usually, autocrats need to dissolve the legislatures themselves, by force, to cow opposition & cement their unaccountable authority. In the US, the autocrat's sycophants in the legislature dissolve it themselves

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Wednesday:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like he has Googled "rohypnol police test how good?"

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

America enshittified itself in one decade. That's all it took.

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Randy Hansen @runhansrun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My man looks like he just got caught lying about his T levels.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ICYMI, I wrote about how the three biggest names in American conspiracism in 2001 - Art Bell, Bill Cooper, and Alex Jones - reacted in real time to the 9/11 attacks, spinning out speculation and rage to baffled listeners all day. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/on-9-11...

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On 9/11, Talk Radio Hosts Kickstarted Our Current Era of Paranoia and Conspiracies

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how...

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wrote about Trump's 9/11 lies. He's been spewing this nonsense for decades. He lies out of entitlement & self aggrandizement and "believes" his own lies for the same reason. His cognitive failure is a result of moral failure, not the other way around. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-911...

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Trump’s 9/11 Lies Are A Moral Failure, Not A Cognitive One

He is a fool because he is evil, not the other way around

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Curious how facts like this are all over the English press, but in US print media not to be found

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

imo it would be better if the president were not crazy.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

His brain does not work like yours or mine; it’s not just that he’s world historically corrupt and a constant liar, it’s that his brain does not actually tell the difference between a public good and a purely personal benefit

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My very controversial opinion is that nobody should be allowed to do this in a democracy and in fact if people are allowed to do this you don't actually live in a democracy

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's so weird how "As Speaker of the House, I have no idea what's going on... Like, in general," is an effective way to deflect scandal rather than being a massive scandal in itself.

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.

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Randy Hansen @runhansrun.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can’t wait. Her existing data is garbage (it’s what happens when you don’t clean your data). So, I’m sure this new effort will be top notch.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

what gets me is that not that people worship the Soviet empire but but that the people who do seem to have replaced the actual Soviet empire with a version that was trans friendly and pro-minority

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 28/08/2026

"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...

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Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Again, this is an existential crisis for research universities, graduate education, & yes, also undergraduate education, in 🇺🇸. Once again, one might expect our university presidents to be loudly & collectively speaking out in the public square, explaining & fighting this: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There are so many places these soldiers are needed for help with disasters around the country—Gary, Indiana, for example— and instead they’re being put up in luxury hotels and apartments in DC at a cost of 3 million dollars a day, a symbol of the president’s insecurity. www.npr.org/2026/08/24/n...

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In candid interviews, National Guard members speak out about D.C. deployment

As President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., enters its second year, three guard members who served many months on the mission share their reactions with NPR.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Trump family crypto earnings: $1.4 billion $TRUMP meme coin: -98% $MELANIA meme coin: -99% “Perhaps the most blatant example of corruption in the history of American politics.” — Bilello

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Randy Hansen @runhansrun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Tell me you weren’t there for the vaccination of your children without telling me you weren’t there for the vaccination of your children.

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Randy Hansen @runhansrun.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Because Disney is known to be so forgiving with misuse of their IP.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NYT: “.. The stunning admission offered an unvarnished glimpse into the way President Trump has .. sought to leverage the budget as a tool to assist its allies — or as a cudgel to hurt the president’s foes.” @tonyromm.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Billions in Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 23/07/2026

This is a jarring visual every American should see. Trump has made $2.24 BILLION as President. Trump gets richer while you pay more for everything. Corruption like we've never seen.

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How Much Money Has Trump Made as President?

See how President Trump and his family’s business empire has transformed from his first term.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Trump gets richer while you pay more for everything." This is a winning message.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The judge obviously didn't accept -- he actually disclosed it to the court and then dismissed the trial with prejudice. But I'm struck by how...Trumpy Nixon was. We've had the same problem before, it's just that we had better guardrails and more principled actors across the government

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“The OMB has proposed a rule change to the Federal Register, 2 CFR §200.205. This rule change is an attempt to politicize all federal grants. This is a weapon designed to disappear disfavored people, groups, and ideas—and the blast radius on it will be enormous.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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They Want to Disappear You

How OMB will politicize the federal grant system with this one weird trick.

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Randy Hansen @runhansrun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I do love your photos! Naples is one of my favorite cities.

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Randy Hansen @runhansrun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Totally agree with everything you mention, but I believe this is in Naples, not Florence.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

An underlying logic of unitary executive theory is that the President is an all knowing figure who should be granted extraordinary power, rather than a flawed individual who should be constrained

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

49. On January 8, the Kennedy Center’s Chief Financial Officer sent an email to
WNO’s General Director and Board President asserting for the first time and, contrary to the terms
of the 2024 Agreement, that the funds in the WNO BSRF belonged to the Kennedy Center. In
addition, the CFO disclosed that the Kennedy Center had used those funds—funds that the 2024
Agreement expressly required to be held for the long-term benefit of WNO—to collateralize the
Kennedy Center’s own line of credit.
50. The next day, on January 9, 2026, the WNO Board voted to terminate the 2024
Agreement. WNO’s Board President and Board Chair immediately notified the Kennedy Center
of that decision in a letter to Mr. Grenell and requested that the parties begin unwinding the
affiliation.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

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