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They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 16h

Remarkable outcome in Fox News' latest poll: 88% of U.S. voters say they are extremely or very concerned about corruption in government, beating every other issue including inflation www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Fox News Poll chart with title: "HOW CONCERNED ARE VOTERS ABOUT KEY ISSUES." Corruption in government leads with 88% extremely/very concerned.

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Jeff Domingues @jeffdomingues.bsky.social · 14h

“We’ll think of something.”

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 13h

Have to be clear just how dangerous this is. If it continues, it effectively removes constitutional rights from an entire class of people. Imagine you had to fear that if you criticize the regime, any error on paperwork filled out by your family decades ago could be used to strip your citizenship.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I have some very severe problems"

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/10/2026

Can we please not nominate another “neutral” attorney general in 2029? Go scorched earth.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The absolute flood of leaks about this case is maybe an indication that people inside govt aren’t feeling too great about it

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The federal government is going after Ilhan Omar only because of her race, gender, religion, and party, openly admitting they have no probable cause and aim to manufacture something. Worse because she’s a sitting member of Congress. That makes it an attack on her constituents and US democracy too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026

Trump: "I didn't go to Congress. Remember Sleepy Joe? 'Oh, if they would give me approval in Congress!' You're not gonna get approval. You just do it. You're the president."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

We need to report more figures in daily life as percentages of net worth rather than raw numbers. We should also levy fines the same way. A $250 speeding ticket may be fully 2.5% of a poor person's net worth. It would also be equivalent to fining Elon Musk $2.5 billion.

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sbwriter.bsky.social @sbwriter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump is the drunk who sits by himself at the end of the bar, insulting everyone until he is finally kicked out.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

GOP Rep. Tom Kean disappeared for 4 months & missed dozens of votes then finally surfaced, read a 5 minute speech saying he was at a mental health facility, refused to take questions from the press, and MAGA supports his reelection. But the Talarico hoax is career ending.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social had shown, in his entire career, even a tenth of the courage and care @ilhanmn.bsky.social shows every single day, I’d have more hope for this party and this country. Instead we have a corporate-padded coward writing mildly worded letters as we drive off a cliff.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just another thing that disqualifies him for the democratic nomination

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Right-wing nationalist populist movement led by charismatic demagogue, failed in coup attempt but later got some power electorally and illegally seized more, deployed secret police to put minorities in concentration camps, and launched aggressive war, but do not compare to the Nazis, that’d be rude.

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sbwriter.bsky.social @sbwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Democracy is boring. We need a dictator to make politics more exciting!

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sbwriter.bsky.social @sbwriter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Musk was fired from Paypal. New management turned around the company and Musk sold his stock for a fortune. He then bought Tesla, a struggling car company he kept alive for years through the sale of pollution credits. Next, Musk -- like Amazon's Bezos -- hired experts to start a rocket company.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is an excellent point. When pro-democracy, anti-corruption forces get power, they won't need elaborate new laws to start getting Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, Peter Thiel, and other tech oligarchs out of government. They've almost certainly committed fraud and other already existing crimes.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Instead of shying away from the values of democracy, pluralism, and rights—as many consultants and pundits urge—Ossoff asserts those values. Look at what he’s gotten so much praise for: calling a white nationalist a “white nationalist” and treating that as bad. As a reason to vote against someone.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is how you get frustrated voters to haul themselves to a midterms voting booth. When ppl see you fighting, it makes them want to join in. They want to be associated with Guy Who Takes No Crap. They're going to think of this moment when filling in the little oval and they're going to _smile_.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You have to be on guard for Trump getting extra violent on the days he doesn't get the Peace Prize.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think in reality what socialism actually means in the American context is that trillionaire Elon Musk got $38 billion from the U.S. government and you got rejected trying to buy a $1 soda on SNAP benefits.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't really know what to do with these pieces, because: 1. They refuse to used "illegal" & "unconstitutional" & "corruption" in the heds, deks, ledes, or body text 2. They disappear from the front page/headlines within 36 hours & never become THE NARRATIVE, contra EMAILS & BIDEN IS OLD, etc.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"

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Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Trump started injecting every immigrant with bubonic plague, the Supreme Court would rule that while they take a year or two to decide if it's constitutional, the program should go forward because to not let Trump inject people with bubonic plague would do irreparable harm to the government

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CARTOON OF THE DAY…

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides.

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psvrh.bsky.social @psvrh.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"Cancel culture" is bottom-up, generally. It's the powerless leveraging numbers against the powerful, which is why the elite–even the liberal elite–hated it. This is top-down censorship. Which the elite are totally fine with because it's power being exercised in the "right" way, to quote Ezra Klein

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The objective of Republicans has always been trolling liberals, not achieving any helpful goals. The simpleton Ronald Reagan is a good example. He blathered on about how much he was in favor of smaller government. Well, guess what? The federal government was *larger* when he left office.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Poor, sad, stupid orange white man. He would sell his soul—and country—for a few hollow words of praise."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Donald Trump getting up in front of the UN, bragging about how great America and Trump are with lies, and telling them their countries are going to Hell—What an excellent way to dispel the USA's international reputation for being a nation of loud, poorly mannered, aggressive braggarts.

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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We’re not being governed, we’re being looted! 👇 👇 👇 👇

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump saying we urgently need well stocked sniper nests overlooking the nation’s main location for political protest should ring alarm bells.

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