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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."

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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Amazing and alarming how profoundly @nytimes.com has enabled Trump all these years, after knowing exactly who he was since the beginning

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is an actual reason why Bari Weiss’ CBS foreign editor told staff that they could not include reporting on Netanyahu receiving advance warning of a Hamas attack before Oct 7. The astonishing tirade in @status.news www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/10/2026

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP

The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

BUT... what the fuck. What the fuck, man. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK. HOW IS THIS OUR FUCKING COUNTRY! HOW IN MY LIFETIME HAVE WE GONE FROM C.J. FUCKING CREGG TO FUCKING THIS?????

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Any single individual having this amount of influence in our elections does not lead to a healthy democracy. It doesn’t matter if they are supporting Democrats or Republicans. We need a serious effort at campaign finance reform and have to overturn the Citizens United decision.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Three Yandex data centers were reportedly struck by drones — took more than 80 services offline and sent HTTP-request traffic from Yandex networks to 0.4% of recent peak levels…” No wonder Elon’s so mad 😕 www.gadgetreview.com/ukraine-stri...

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A disgrace committed by Trump's' authoritarian operatives. Midterms in three weeks: Last chance to push back against these thugs.

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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trump does something like this most every Sunday. Why do so many people keep falling for his bullsh*t?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We've seen Trump do some shitty things to Ukraine since taking office (Oval Office incident; Alaska summit; Patriot U-turn) but today he's chosen to do a diesel deal with Putin that plays to Russia's economic/warchest advantage and restricts Ukraine's ability to defend itself.

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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mortgage rates have increased now for *7 weeks in a row* They're at the highest levels in almost *3 years* This is EXACTLY what Donald Trump said he wants to do Can't afford to buy a home or even rent an apartment? Now you know why It's the #CostOfTrumpsCorruption And we're ALL paying for it

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It feels like one of the tenets of the MAGA movement is you always have to act like you're the dumbest motherfucker alive. JD Vance has a degree in political science and philosophy from Ohio State. He has a law degree from Yale. He absolutely knows what socialism is, but he has to do this act.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Why you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers

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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nicely done. But who is Durkee, and where were they from, in actual fact? The sauce was a staple in my Midwestern home

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Duckula Flow @georgelang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is great and necessary reading, and a strong argument for NYT and other legacy media to hire new public editors.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every clip I've caught of this Hegseth speech is batshit insane. What a delusional moron. Impeach his ass now, before he gets more Americans killed.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 30/09/2026

The Cornell 7 case is particularly infuriating because I truly cannot imagine seeing your friends talk about raping a drugged girl in your groupchat and just sit there and do nothing. All 57 of them should have their lives tore to shreds.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most bizarre thing about this idiotic, embarrassing line of questioning by Eric Schmitt is that it’s totally irrelevant Even if Jack Smith went to a basketball game in Atlanta-he didn’t-there isn’t even a scintilla of proof that he met, much less conspired with Fani Willis 35 days

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s always been my view that she should run for Senate. She can handily win and keep this seat. And she’d be the right hand a democratic president needed and a legendary lioness of the senate besides. She’s shown real talent as a legislator & the caucus respects her.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

chat is this good?

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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“So ‘remigrations’ are understood as part of a civilizational rescue mission of sorts: Masses of human civilizational contaminants are rounded up, expelled from the West, and dumped outside our charmed hemisphere, into that geographic mass that Trump calls ‘shithole countries’” This is a must-read

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

67 years ago today, on September 21, 1959, The Dave Brubeck Quartet released ‘Take Five.' Enjoy your evening…

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Dave Brubeck - Take Five

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Boykin: The Republicans control the entire government. They control the white house. They control the house. They control the senate. They control six of the nine seats on the supreme court. If you're not happy with the way the country is running America, blame the Republicans.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I tire of these parasites. They do everything in their power to destroy the democratic governance and regulatory systems of the countries that enabled them to grow rich, but they always come running when it's time to foist the costs of their reckless decisions onto taxpayers. See also: SV Bank.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'd go further: at this point, the NYT and other mainstream journalistic outlets -- given their business-related need to continuously ship both-sides polarization porn -- are doing way more than El-Sayed is to keep Piker relevant and make him a more influential figure than he otherwise might be

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I find a surprising number of people who classify themselves on the left in politics simply WILL NOT countenance the idea that people can be bad--by choice. It's a very strange and dangerous naïveté. I don't understand how people can reach adulthood and not have understood badness.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm not a psychologist, but I know shunning and stigmatization works, even to depose world leaders. We've been so busy worshipping "wealth creators" that we've created a cadre of psychopaths and elevated them to unimaginable power.

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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can only trust you’ll ponder this and provide some insight. Choosing to be this type of bad may be a temporary, if generational affliction that can be corrected. Though human history suggests otherwise.

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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

100 percent, @ebharrington.bsky.social. Shocking but true, and you see such me-above-all behavior in everything from speeding around stopped school buses to basic tax dodges to backing whatever local NIMBY issue that affects them in any personal or even psychological way. Rules for thee, not for me

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Come on this is ridiculous.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Insanity. Thanks again, Trump voters. Every day you curse us with a brand new dose of corruption, incompetence and stupidity.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/09/2026

We watched social media become the Wild West and waited for legislation that never really came. We can’t repeat that with AI. We need guardrails. Congress is finally debating safeguards, including stronger oversight and a human-controlled “kill switch.” Jeffries is calling for urgent action…

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shutting down a memorial to an assassinated president because you can't slap your name on it ranks with the most empty, floppy dictator shit of all time. Ferdinand Marcos would tell you to get a grip.

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

to some degree the entire Trump phenomenon, from his self-inculcated celebrity status to his absurd 2015-16 candidacy to his two disastrous administrations, has been a media failure

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Scott Russell Smith @scottcole73.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yep. They gotta make it a horse race, even if that means touting a jackass like Vance, or Rubio or some other Trumpy lickspittle

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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