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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h
The same billionaires bankrolled Scott Walker and are still providing more than 80% of funding for state legislative GOP campaigns. They are certainly ideological, but they also would prefer to pay zero taxes. urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h
If you are remotely familiar with Wisconsin politics, you know exactly which three billionaires (Uihleins & Hendricks) they are talking about and what they want in return. Their purchase of Ron Johnson generated a giant federal tax cut targeted towards them. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-best-d...
It is important to provide context here: Johnson had just been re-elected after polling so dismally for much of the 2016 campaign that the GOP establishment had given up on him.

Hendricks and the Uihelins did not lose faith in Johnson, spending $20 million on his seemingly doomed campaign. Their faith was amply rewarded. They benefited disproportionately from the very particular tax cut that Johnson had held out for.

In 2018 alone, the tax break Johnson engineered was worth an astonishing $215 million to his three billionaire supporters, almost one-quarter of the $1 billion benefit the tax cut provided to 82 mega-rich households. Over the course of its 8-year life, the tax cut could deliver half a billion for them.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h
I love that in Donald Trump’s mind, twice a year across the nation workman in dingy overalls clamber up rickety ladders like in a Richard Scarry book to change the clocks back or forwards an hour.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3h
Ken Paxton has taken over 275 out-of-state trips since taking office. Texans have spent $1.9 million in taxpayer funds on his luxury vacations.
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No Cartridge Trev @nocartridge.bsky.social · 4h
I wonder how much of this image is lost to time, I hope none of it it’s my favorite image to describe modernity
I voted leave….but now I’ve got 10,000 SEX ARSES stuck at Calais! A Sun exclusive from 2016 or 17 idk
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h
I'm not good at math, is $800 million a lot?
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FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel
In a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from...
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Mallory @this-is-mallory.bsky.social · 1h
GET READY TO CREAM YOUR YAMS
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Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 2h
Trump straight up doxxed Senator Tom Cotton this morning
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h
Old enough to remember when Trump did this to Lindsey Graham in 2015 www.politico.com/story/2015/0...
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Donald Trump gives out Lindsey Graham's cellphone number
"When it comes to the Donald, nothing surprises me anymore," Graham says.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 2h
Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 19h
Comments from Disney's president has some industry insiders spectating Jimmy Kimmel's show is DOA. “‘We have to make it make sense for the business’ means it’s a money-loser no matter what we do. So it’s a diplomatic answer, but it’s curtains.” More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...
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‘Curtains’ for Kimmel?
Disney's president said Jimmy Kimmel is doing a “phenomenal job,” but offered an ominous explanation for why that may not be enough to keep his late-night show on ABC.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 19h
Made a little video version of this thread for our Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DeAm8Ux...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 17h
And I want to be clear about this: Kenny Jacoby is NOT the reporter who shared a recording of my interview. I still trust him. I just don’t trust his employer.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16h
I’ll also add that most of the heat should be directed at USA Today, but the journalists who participated in this breach of ethics also made a choice. Organizations are made up of people. We can’t absolve the people who do harm on the behalf of an organization.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h
And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h
Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h
And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 17h
Parents of boys - please make sure they’re speaking up now, not just doing the right thing in the future 🙏 #cornell
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22h
The phrase “ethnic cleansing” appears in the first sentence of the Wikipedia definition.
Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing'"! via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry. [21[3) Originating in Europe, the concept has since spread to the United States and Canada, where it has gained increasing prominence, and is especially popular within the Identitarian movement. 41[5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture. 6]
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 21h
Weeks before the botched execution of Christa Pike, the state’s Catholic bishops urged Gov. Bill Lee to stop it. Lee, an evangelical who has made his “pro-life” faith central to his politics, refused. #OpDeathEaters www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/defying-po...
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Defying Pope Leo XIV and Tennessee’s Bishops, Bill Lee Sends Christa Pike to a Botched Execution
Two doses of pentobarbital failed to kill her on Wednesday night, and Michael Knowles answered with a joke about crushing her skull. Twelve days earlier, the governor had called Tennessee to prayer an...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
During George Floyd uprisings, Keeperman was excited about Kyle Rittenhouse killing two protesters. “May a million Kyle Rittenhouses bloom,” he wrote. He once listed some policy proposals that included "lamppost the journos" — a seeming call for journalists to be hanged
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rufo's co-host is Jonathan Keeperman, who @jasonaw.bsky.social unmasked as "Lomez," a “key player and influential tastemaker in a burgeoning proto-fascist movement," who heads up Passage Press, which reprints out-of-print works by fascist authors talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2 Illinois residents say they were detained at Broadview, released without charges, then branded domestic terrorists to millions by Johnson. It appears to be the first such suit against one of the admin's corps of MAGA creators who make propaganda in exchange for access. www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump has closed the US Embassy in Brasil & all its consulate while issuing a security warning for US citizens in Brasil. This is a political stunt. We are seeing no uptick in violence, but Trump claiming Brasil is unsafe will generate negative press for Lula ahead of Sunday’s election!
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EUA fecham todos seus consulados no Brasil por ‘questão de segurança’ - ICL Notícias
No comunicado, o governo norte-americano afirma que “os serviços consulares na Embaixada e nos Consulados dos EUA no Brasil serão suspensos a partir de
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump economy still stinks: U.S. nonfarm payrolls increase by 29,000 in September, less than expected; unemployment rises to 4.2% www.cnbc.com/2026/10/02/j...
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Labor market faltered in September as jobs increased by just 29,000, unemployment rate rose to 4.2%
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 84,000 in September while the unemployment rate held at 4.1%.
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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
State propaganda matters because it serves not just as a message, but also a warning, said Finchelstein, author of “The Wannabe Fascists,” about dudes who try to destroy democracy from the inside. My interview w/ @latimes.com @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/n...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNBC on the September jobs report: "A bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see two month revisions down 60,000 ... average hourly earnings -- this is a big miss. Big, big miss. We were expecting up three tenth. This comes in at one tenth."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office? MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now BERMAN: So it's gone up MOORE: That is true
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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bullseye. this is very clearly obama’s doing
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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Fox Business host Charles Payne is nearly in tears over the terrible jobs report 😭
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Newsmax to Texas House Republican: "Do we need to change messaging in order to convince voters it's better than they think, and remind them how bad it was under Democrats and Joe Biden?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
FOX NEWS: Is President Trump planning to come campaign with you in Minnesota? MICHELE TAFOYA: I haven't heard FOX: Ok. well. Depending on how things shake out, we might have you back
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "Nobody knows that dumb has a B on the end"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/09/2026
An interim superintendent bans the musical “Flashdance,” adapted for a younger audience, from being performed at Watertown High School in Wisconsin, citing concerns "passed on" to him.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "If I ran today, I'd win by 25 percent"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Q: You're going to Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Alabama, and Nebraska. Why such Republican states if you're so confident your party is gonna do alright? TRUMP: I won all of them by a lot. I'm going just to make sure
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
"He's gonna fix it. Believe in him ... all the abortion, it's evil ... I want to see 2 people -- Trump & Jesus...we do not want Muslims taking over...I have horrible thoughts. I don't think they should be here. This isn't their country...they need to pack up & go back where they came from."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "The one thing we have is oil is a little high, but oil is much lower than it was for Biden" (Energy prices are much higher now than they were when Biden left office)
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Politico @politico.com · 29/09/2026
Trump administration used DHS funds for pro-Trump ads, Dems say
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Trump administration used DHS funds for pro-Trump ads, Dems say
Congressional Democrats said the White House used $20 million for the ad campaign from funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
JD Vance in Florida: "The great leaders here, including of course the governor who couldn't be with us today" 👀
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