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Richard Mullaney

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See, kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent / Talking big words on the mic, but still irrelevant. #GoHoos

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 17h
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
in case you're wondering whether the cowbells in Starkville are really that loud: They're actually much, much worse in person
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
liberalcurrents.com
We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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lauren benet @laurenbenet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something I learned just this week: "only 4% of the world’s women and girls live in the U.S., but the U.S. confines ONE-QUARTER of the world’s incarcerated women and girls." www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women...
a chart from Prison Policy comparing states' incarceration rates of women to the other countries' rates.
it shows about 20 states who incarcerate women at a higher rate than even the most incarceration-friendly countries (el salvador, dem. rep. of congo, thailand). three states - south dakota, montana and idaho - incarcerate women at a higher rate than the country of El Salvador.
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Me watching highlights of Virginia Tech's 4 turnovers and missed last-second field goal
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That's a Shame Reaction
ALT: That's a Shame Reaction
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's time for the media to stop referring to these positions as "radical leftist."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That Trump-created bomb in the US economy is ticking.
FT front page: Global bond sell-off leaves
US trapped in
'vicious loop'
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah so if a president liquidates a government entity created in legislaiton passed by Congress & funded by congressional appropriations that's super-duper unconstitutional. In normal times he'd be impeached by close of business that day.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I miss the great American tradition of not thinking about the president constantly.
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a monstrous practice. Abolish the death penalty now.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Iran can see the US political calendar too. Have this whole time. Much as Iran used the MOU period—when Trump surrendered, tried lying about it, then bombed again—to prepare with allied militias, they’ll use this time to get ready for post-midterms fighting, knowing the US president will be weaker.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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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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Edward Wong @ewong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Extraordinary for any American president: Trump offered to sell weapons to Xi Jinping of China. That was revealed by David Perdue, US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan approved by Congress. China aids Iran and Russia. Gift link: 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 U.S. ambassador to China. Trump is withholding a $14 billion arms package to Taiwan.
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Siri, show me the deliberate destruction of eight decades of American-led international diplomacy and cooperation in one photograph:
Screenshot of a September 28, 2026, post on ex-Twitter by right-wing foreign policy analyst, professor, author and former Trump Department of Defense senior policy adviser Matthew Koenig, showing the lobby of the US State Department adorned with 200 American flags:

“The US State Department lobby used to display the flags of the roughly 200 countries with which the US maintains diplomatic relations. Now, it displays 200 American flags, to remind State Department employees who they work for.”
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Much of the problem can be blamed on Trump and the GOP, the so-called party of fiscal discipline....The corruption of the Trump administration, enabled by Republicans in the House and Senate, also bears blame for the country’s rising borrowing costs." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore
Blame Trump for rising borrowing costs.
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"There is a danger to democracy here, but it is less the danger of a strategic shift toward authoritarianism and more the danger of petulance and stupidity." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Two-Year Temper Tantrum to Come
Trump’s recent kerfuffle with the press is a preview of his next era.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with an estimated 800,000 people in Paris on Saturday, after spending the morning with migrants, the poor, and adults newly entering the Catholic Church. “For Christians,” he added, “the poor are not a sociological category, but the very ‘flesh’ of Christ.”
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Drawing 800,000 in Paris, Pope Leo XIV Calls on the Church to “Make Room” for Migrants and the Poor
“No one is so poor as to have nothing to give.” Before Mass, the pope sat with migrants and told catechists to respect each person’s pace. Six altar servers with Down syndrome served his Mass.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping at one point if he would to like to buy some American armaments, US Ambassador to China David Perdue says.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good piece from @dgraham.bsky.social on how the failure to appoint people to key positions undermines Trump's ability to get things done. The mass gutting of civil service positions compounds the problem. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Absences Haunting the Trump Administration
The president has left hundreds of appointed roles open—including those that would have a central role in implementing his priorities.
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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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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Blue Hen sighting
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Touchdown Wahoos!
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Called it.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When are people in the sports world going to stand up and say “we would prefer the openly evil 28% approval rating president not attend our game in-person because it is a massive inconvenience for our in-person fans, a strain on local law enforcement, and harms the television product”
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump's presence in Neyland means Tennessee is def gonna lose.
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... At this point, it's clear that the warnings Netanyahu received about an imminent Hamas attack from multiple sources (UAE, now Egyptian intelligence) were much more specific and actionable than pre-9/11 warnings to U.S. leaders. And he ignored them all because/
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Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Possibly the best example of American democracy and governance in the era of Trump.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don't think the United States should invade Cuba. This, to me, sounds like a bad idea. www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-gro...
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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"In the Trump White House, summits are hazardous excursions during which the interests of the US are shoved aside by a president whose cringe-inducing admiration of dictators makes these meetings into rituals of American humiliation." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nirvana’s “Nevermind” turns 35 today — an album the band almost titled “Sheep”, referring to people who follow the herd. “Dreaming of the person you want to be,” Cobain said, “is wasting the person you already are.” “Come As You Are” 🎸
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump, despite the fact that he has 27 more months in office, is most likely going to attempt to stick the next administration with the unenviable, messy task of resolving this quagmire." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump Could Leave the Iran Mess to His Successor
And if he blames the next administration for whatever happens, he’ll likely succeed.
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The open question is how much of the drop in oil and gas use — known in the industry as 'demand destruction' — is permanent." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump dismantled U.S. climate policy. But his war is cutting emissions.
While the president remains a climate-change denier, the war with Iran has triggered an unforeseen benefit in the fight against global warming.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well this is gonna suck shit. x.com/RJ_cfb/statu...
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s not going to get better www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/its-...
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It's not going to get better - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Barring force majeure, we still have more than two years of this: Most reporting on Trump’s speech emphasized either his belligerence — his rejection of global cooperation — or the fact that almost ev...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The SNAP stuff was the part that they allowed to take effect before the midterms. That gives you a sense of just how awful the Medicaid stuff they are holding until after the midterms will be.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“Let Donald Trump save face” is how you got January 6 *and* why faced no consequences for doing it.
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh come on. This is such a weak excuse. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump tells judge media ban is necessary to protect national security
Ahead of a court hearing, the administration cited reports that included sensitive or classified information about the White House ballroom and the Iran war to defend its ban against CNN, MS NOW and P...
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Richard Mullaney @rwm7k.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Republican officials are "privately conceding the party appears set to lose North Carolina’s Senate seat unless Trump’s poor approval ratings — and the high prices that caused them — improve dramatically in the coming weeks." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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GOP appears deeply worried about Senate race in N.C., a once-reliable state
Republicans privately say the key battleground for Senate control may be out of reach as nominee Michael Whatley’s ties to the president bog him down.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“.. Trump’s support for the idea blindsided industry officials. Oil executives and lobbyists rushed to register their opposition .. But now, they said, it seems inevitable the U.S. will move forward ..” ⛽️ @wsj.com $OSX www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026
Why liberal arts degrees are still necessary
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As befitting a filmmaker who is known for his meticulous attention to detail in capturing a time period, even when it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICE has a bigger budget than the Marine Corps & still conned Congress out of $20M more for bodycams. Swore every agent would wear one by August. It’s September and ICE shot an Austinite in the back. They say there was no camera. They’re liars with masks and a blank check from Trump.
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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