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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8h

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 7h

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 8h

literally the only irreparable harm here is to the people who are fucking getting sent to countries they have no connection to

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing

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Ben Emerson @jbemerson.bsky.social · 12h

Anyone remotely curious about what the hell is going in with this country absolutely needs to check out D.L. and Krispin’s work.

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 7h

I was just thinking about the fact that Amy Coney Barrett told Congress that her children have had to think about things that children should never have to think about. But for children of immigrants shipped off to torture dungeons, I guess it's ... character building?

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7h

One of the biggest AI companies is paying to "present" Politico's flagship newsletter as it touts "AI's big day in Washington." Good stuff.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 7h

I was trying to figure out why the shifting dynamics in this clip felt so familiar and... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlGl...

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The Big Lebowski (1998) - Is This Your Homework, Larry? Scene | Movieclips

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 7h

What's fun about this whole contretemps and why it's worth watching again is how smirky Schmitt starts out - this is going to be his big moment – and how honest a puzzled Smith comes off, and how sharp Klobuchar was to quickly figure out the basic mistake. And then how pissy Schmitt gets at her.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h

After Eric Schmitt lied and was corrected at the Jack Smith hearing, the NY Times called it a “misunderstanding.” This might be fair if Schmitt had a record of honesty (he doesn’t) and if Schmitt didn’t repeat the same lie after the hearing (he did). What the hell is the NY Times doing?

Devlin Barrett and Charlie Savage
Reporting from Washington
Jack Smith, who as special counsel twice charged Donald J. Trump with criminal offenses after his first term, defended his actions in testimony before Congress on Tuesday, as a Republican senator accused him of perjury based on what appeared to be the lawmaker’s misunderstanding about a basketball game involving the University of Iowa Hawkeyes.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10h

Every time I see Jack Smith speak in public I remember how incredibly cautious he was about doing so during the investigation lest he appeared politically motivated or biased. And now we have the actual AG out here basically saying, “Yeah I’m team Trump, what are you bitches gonna do about it?”

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h

NYT Stylebook: "While the term 'fuck-up' is often the most accurate term, we prefer the use of 'misunderstanding' or 'misperception.'"

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11h

Like, I think we've all met exactly this sort of asshat in our lives, who confidently says something wrong and then reacts with absolute fury when someone points out that it isn't quite right.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11h

The angry response is what comes out so clearly to me - normal people, if they're caught out mistaking the Hawks for the Hawkeyes are going to be embarrassed and apologetic, but Schmitt's response is volcanic 'how dare you' anger. Just manifest low character, frankly.

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jack @jackalltogether.bsky.social · 10h

I enjoyed Klob running him down specifically because if a staffer embarrassed her with that line of shit they’d be flayed with a letter opener

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11h

Reposting this with alt text: Near as I can tell, you can't see a home Atlanta Hawks game from section 109 row 1 - the rows in section 109 are lettered not numbered. Not the case for the DC-area UMD Terps, who Catlin Clark put 38 on during the Feb 3 game. Their 109 has numbered rows.

Atlanta Hawks seating chart shows Section 109 has lettered rows

UMD seating chart shows Section 109 has numbered rows.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 10h

The legendary defenders of women's sports don't know the difference between Caitlin Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes and the Atlanta Hawks. Just putting that one out there.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 11h

Accusing Jack Smith of attending a 23-24 Atlanta Hawks game, how rude

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h

surprised by how much damage control is being expended in defense of a newbie senator from missouri with negative charisma who makes jd vance seem empathetic.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10h

It's incredibly on brand how many of these tools are just running with the prescripted "gotcha!" as though Schmitt didn't just publicly soil himself.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

kinda wild that “actually, I was watching the Terps play” is an exculpatory piece of evidence

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

The thing is, once you are ok with "the election was stolen" or "immigrants are eating pets" you are on board with everything else bsky.app/profile/just...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

I just realized that Eric Schmitt absolutely used AI to write this shit up. He absolutely did. Lol. Hell yeah

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11h

The bubble is undefeated.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 12h

Jack Smith adopting the sort of bewildered deadpan affect of Coach Beard in 'Ted Lasso' throughout this clip might be the comic performance of the year

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Radical anti-choice activist Seth Gruber calls for women who get abortions to face the death penalty: "What you did was so heinous and evil in murdering an innocent that you've actually rescinded your right to live." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 12h

Look at Kennedy holding this insane crackpot bullshit poster up for Schmitt, like a chump.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 12h

I was skeptical of this take but making up some bullshit to accuse someone of a crime in defense of Trump only for it to completely fall apart, then acting outraged and refusing to apologize for any of it really does sound like Vance VP material.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 13h

On February 3, 2024, Special Counsel Jack Smith watched Caitlin Clark drop 38 points, 12 assists, and 6 boards in College Park, MD. The Republicans in the U.S. Senate seem to think this happened in Atlanta, GA (which also has a suburb called College Park). Rookies. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Russtofferson @russtofferson.bsky.social · 12h

If you want to see "the two Americas" on display tune into this Jack Smith hearing. The oscillation between rational adults who live in the real world and those who live (or at least nihilistically travel in) the conspiracy theory fever swamps is jarring. Not a sign of a healthy republic.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. HAHAHAHAHAH. Eric Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of lying about going to an Atlanta Hawk's basketball game. Smith went to see the Iowa Hawkeyes.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026

US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z

Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The press wear “kick me” signs and wonder why Trump kicks them. If they had more self-respect, they’d get less disrespect. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

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The press wear ‘kick me’ signs and wonder why Trump kicks them

The White House is emboldened to disrespect journalists because journalists disrespect themselves

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These are exactly the type of things Project 2025 said they’d do, but this is still purely bigotry as governing policy.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In response to people going after him for this, Friedersdorf claimed that he genuinely had no idea Rufo had anything to do with the Haitians in Springfield slurs and then got mad at people for acting like he was being a complete rube.

BillielsTheOne 9/20/26 “Rufo? The dude who earnestly repeated the lie about cats and dogs being eaten in Springfield? He believes in colorblind equality?”

Conor Friedersdorf • 9/20/26

“I'd missed his involvement in that and agree that, whatever it says about his beliefs, it reflects badly on him.”

@josephgfrancis, 9/21/26
“just incredible how people paid to write about politics for major publications can be more ignorant than random twitter users who didn't have to search hard to find this”

Conor Friedersdorf, 9/21/26 “Maybe I saw it and forgot. Or maybe I wasn't on X that week. You people are unbelievable--as if anyone has perfect recollection of every post relevant to something they do a quick x post about. Of course the hive mind of X collectively recalls more things than I do individually.”

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026

Welp. Republicans distancing themselves from Trump, saying it’s time to end the war. Congress introduced War Powers resolutions to force Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran. Ashley Hinson: NO Jon Husted: NO Tom Tiffany: NO They had a chance to end it, but they voted against it.

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've struggled explaining to people: so there was this weird group that was obsessed with the idea that AI would lead to human extinction. And they were super worried about it. So to prevent that they created AI.

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esmependergast.bsky.social @esmependergast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, people clutched their pearls just as much about the "epidemic" of parents cutting off their queer kids, right? Leaving them vulnerable to homelessness and violence? Right? And parents cutting off kids that decline to practice the parent's religion or pursue the careers the parents prefer?

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