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Chait seems to think that a couple of ass-covering posts from Just The Tip Trumpers means there's a viable anti-MAGA conservative movement. He may be the only person alive who thinks that.

But the naked expression of anti-Indian bigotry by a candidate for statewide office signified that it was threatening to enter mainstream Republican politics, a prospect that immediately divided the party. The schism tracked roughly along the same lines as the ones drawn during the initial response to Trump more than a decade ago.
The post was met with angry pushback from National Review as well as Texas
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

I'm not immune to the demands for civility and bipartisanship, but they are also vulnerabilities that allow bad faith and partisan actors to destroy lives while maintaining occupying prestigious public platforms, and for the provider of those platforms to be rewarded for pretending not to notice.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Rufo pioneered the tactic of calling any discussions of race Critical Race Theory, and used it to get people fired. He pioneered the strategy of labeling teachers as "groomers" if they talked about gender identity donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-qanoni...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11h

The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣ ⁣ Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 7h

Every time he says something completely insane or incoherent and the media basically ignores it, they look more and more disingenuous for acting like Biden was some doddering old fool and I am so fucking sick of it.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 23h

This is too much President's broken Shut it down Let's reboot

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 22h

I think of Republican public servants who commanded respect, among Conservatives and many Liberals. Howard Baker. Dwight Eisenhower. Margaret Chase Smith. Everett Dirksen. Teddy Roosevelt. People of honor, above filth and corruption, with whom one could disagree, but leaders with values & dignity.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's all so normalized. It takes 7 men raping a young woman for us to see this level of outrage, and even now, it's mostly centered on the punishment of these seven rapists, rather than the larger picture of violence. I appreciate Solnit's point that much of the outcry is missing the point.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is Alison, Cornell Class of 1994. She saw and experienced how Cornell University has gone out of their way to support and protect gang rape fraternity culture FOR YEARS, just like many other schools continue to do today.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 03/10/2026

watch til the end and think about what this joke on this show at this time says about what social norms used to be when someone openly said nazi shit.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ooooo, 100 whole dollars?!? Finally my grandma can get a half a tank of gas.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got a front row seat tonight to a number of high school freshman girls talking about what happened at Cornell and they. are. terrified. about what the future has in store for them, even as some of them have already been violated. “Nowhere is safe.” The world is so fucking unfair.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That MAGA has been able to spread and popularize the clearly false story that minority groups are oppressing white people in the year of our lord 2026 is itself definitive proof that racism and its allied bigotries remain deeply entrenched in American society.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 02/10/2026

the thing about these dudes is that they’re really dumb

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so tired of this take. ask some conservatives if they want to make adjunct salaries and see how eager they are. gosh, i wonder why lots of left-leaning folks choose professions like teaching, counseling, and care work? must be indoctrination! no, we just give a shit about others and our world.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We will then schedule your appointment with the wallet inspector

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it goes all the way to 11

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/10/2026

Hegseth rehearsing his speech in front of the mirror.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spoiler: Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey will decide that the U.S. taxpayer should give Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey billions of dollars.

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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes. Though bsky.app/profile/upin...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

👀 🔥

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Ed Sheeran: you know, I also sold out

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Elon Musk is back in government, baby! This time he’s doing, uh, some supervillain shit with Soulpatch Killer Robot Guy and everyone’s least favorite “what if Lee WON at Gettysburg” novelist.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sen. Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over a Hawks game. It was apparently the Hawkeyes. His defense: Atlanta was the only NBA or men's college game that night. Benny Johnson's victory post has since been deleted. Watch Katie Britt's face 🤣🤣🤣

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Uniongrl ☮️ 🌍🎵🌻🦋 @uniongrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How embarrassing that it was a woman (Amy) who knew that he was so misinformed that he confused the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks. Amy, my future Governor, was awesome! We know our sports in my State! What a sickening display of a petulant child. Please vote! 🗳️

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New survey from the Annenberg Center is out. Less than a quarter of Americans (23%) have a favorable view of RFK Jr. Meanwhile 42% of us have a “very unfavorable” view of him, and many people (40%) are confused about whether he recommends the MMR vaccine. Horrifying stats for an HHS Secretary.

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About 1 in 3 Americans Say RFK Jr. Recommends Measles Vaccine | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

1 in 3 U.S. adults say HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommends vaccinating children against measles - as many as those who say he does not recommend it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

In which Eric Schmitt, rumored candidate for VP in an (ugh) JD Vance 2028 presidential run, pre-emptively loses 22 electoral votes in Georgia and Iowa

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026

🚨 FACT: There is a federal criminal law that prohibits any armed agent of the federal government from being at the polls. There is only one exception. Marc Elias explains. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, the media, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy sh*t. Sen Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of going to an Atlanta Hawks bball game with the implication that he must of also met with then prosecutor Fani Willis BUT Smith went to an Iowa HAWKEYES game in Maryland instead. This GOP clown show is a disgrace.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wish everyone could see how disgusting, dishonest and just plain stupid Republicans are acting at this Jack Smith hearing.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My Building a Healthier America Policy Agenda. 🌱🧑‍🌾🍏💧

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lot of Trumpism boils down to the belief that accurately pointing out facts to a man caught up in emotion and false conspiracy theories is a terrible wrong, one that demands retribution.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hochul calls Cornell case 'horrifying,' calls for separate review of university response #TheHill

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Hochul calls Cornell case ‘horrifying,’ calls for separate review of university response

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026

The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 29/09/2026

science has long said it is impossible to be both a pig and a worm. well,

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