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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10h

Trump's new AI powered website confirmed Biden won in 2020 and that Trump's name is in the Epstein files. Classic

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h

I'm really proud of this episode of Baby Boom! Lawyered. It's informative AND funny, which is hard to pull off when the subject is Missouri Republicans carving up Kansas City and stapling the pieces to rural white counties. Come for the legal analysis. Stay for my Linda Belcher impression:

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SCOTUS Did Something Nice for Black Voters in Missouri. I Know.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 7h

I've been counting on the officer corps to refuse orders if they are told to deploy in support of another Trump coup attempt. But is Hegseth purging the military of the officers who would say no? This is a hugely important question. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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Hegseth to Announce 20% Cut to Senior Officer Ranks

The defense secretary will announce the move on Wednesday during a speech to a handpicked group of lower-ranked officers and enlisted troops.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...

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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case

Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h

Another typical demonstration of Trump in the throws of a flight-of-ideas episode, which is typical of advanced senile dementia.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11h

"USS Fort Lauderdale was in the Caribbean, part of the Trump admin's operation around Venezuela.. "It was constantly like getting texts like, 'Guys, you'll never f***ing believe it. We just got extended again,' & I think it happened 4x. It's just that uncertainty & promises unfulfilled": Calderon

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nancytaylor5.bsky.social @nancytaylor5.bsky.social · 11h

The White House app hit the top of the App Store’s news category. Then cybersecurity experts said it collects more user data than it discloses Source: Attack of the Fanboy

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12h

The angry response is what comes out so clearly to me - normal people, if they're caught out mistaking the Hawks for the Hawkeyes are going to be embarrassed and apologetic, but Schmitt's response is volcanic 'how dare you' anger. Just manifest low character, frankly.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h

Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 13h

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11h

The kicker is you can tell it would never even dawn on this Republican senator or his staff that a man might want to go to a women’s sporting event. But protect women’s sports or something!

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 11h

Is this really how we want our government to function? Letting children die because 1% of the federal budget needs to be saved? There's better ways to govern, fund a new congress at buff.ly/ZIUNOOy

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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 · 14h

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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 11h

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 12h

The same people who's mantra was "back the blue" immediately pivoted to "back the blue...except the ones trying to stop an insurrection at the Capitol, fuck those guys." This was the moment that confirmed that MAGA is a cult, choosing violent criminals over police officers. All for their leader.

“IT’S INCONCEIVABLE TO
ME HOW YOU CAN PARDON
PEOPLE WHO BEAT POLICE
OFFICERS… AND THEN
VILIFY THE OFFICERS”
Jack Smith

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Dogs10Gods0 @johnjado.bsky.social · 12h

They're all trash. 😡🚮

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 11h

11th Cir. rejects Trump administration's attempt to block an order holding that Trump's IRS lawsuit and purported settlement were in bad faith, resulting in sanctions for Trump's lawyers and an ethics referral for AG Blanche. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before JORDAN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges. BY THE COURT: The appellants, some of whom were the plaintiffs below, move for an order staying aspects of the district court’s post-judgment sanctions order pending appeal. After review of the record and the parties’ briefing, we deny the motion.1

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 13h

LOL, he had a smug look on his face the whole time like he had caught Smith red-handed and then got smacked by Klobuchar and couldn't handle it. Love it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

🤡 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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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12h

vicarious cringe for a Republican Senator, that's new for me also really humanizing for Jack Smith tbh who has a very natural reaction to whatever the fuck this is

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12h

long road ahead for whichever neo-Nazi Trump staffer is tasked with doing brain surgery on the AI-powered America-dot-gov site

A screenshot from America.gov showing a question and answer about tariffs.

Header: America.gov with a small U.S. flag and a "Menu" button.

Question in a light blue bubble: "Who pays for tariffs on goods being imported to America, American importers or foreign exporters?"

Answer text: "U.S. importers pay the tariff to the government. Foreign exporters do not pay U.S. Customs.

• When goods enter the United States, the importer of record is legally responsible for any duty. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
• CBP collects that duty at the port of entry. CBP: customs duty
• A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Who ultimately bears the cost in prices (importer, U.S. buyer, or foreign seller) depends on the market; that is separate from who must pay CBP. BLS

Duty rates come from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. CBP makes the final determination of what is owed."

America.gov Menu Who in America is entitled to due process? The U.S. Constitution says the government may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Fifth Amendment applies that rule to the federal government. The Fourteenth Amendment applies the same rule to state governments. Official annotations treat this as covering persons, not only citizens. Congress’s Constitution Annotated also notes that people already present in the United States—including those whose presence is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory—are entitled to due process protection in that setting. What process is required depends on the situation; that is decided case by case. Sources: National Archives; Constitution Annotated (Fifth Amendment procedure); Constitution Annotated (aliens who have entered).

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Arthur Dent @lzenglish.bsky.social · 16h

The tentacles of the Epstein Blackmail Operation is unbelievable. No need to ponder why Trump, Israel and the Republican Party want to bury it. Seems Epstein has some dirty laundry on every politician and billionaires in the world. Controlling world affairs requires blackmail.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 17h

That saying about how the people in power actually want you to go thru the proper channels because they created said channels and they know that the system will never actually work for you. It's called systemic discrimination for a reason.

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 15h

This is not what I want for my kids and I doubt it's what most other parents want, either.

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Royal Blue Angel @rba11.bsky.social · 16h

G20 Summit update- Putin, really Marco??? 😡

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 15h

the Fuel Clock shows Americans have paid $74.4 billion more on gasoline & $47.5 billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago. Total cost will hit $122 billion today. also updated the state map where you can find out how much more you're paying. link in my profile.

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 15h

Thinking about the scale of violence against women, by men AND by the institutions men control, the amount of anger and despair it makes me feel is overwhelming. How many frat houses does something like this happen at every weekend across the country? At least one. Probably closer to 10. BY DESIGN.

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 15h

What happened to that poor woman that night and the way all the systems of authority protected her rapists instead of her is not abnormal, it's not an anomaly, it's perfectly, disgustingly ordinary. What are we supposed to do with that? The entire thing, the entire SOCIETY, is rotten to its core.

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 15h

The Cornell Gang Rape case is so infuriating bc it's not like these were abnormal frat boys, it's not like Cornell or the local cops/DA acted any differently than another university or jurisdiction would, it's not like the system failed to function properly... THIS IS HOW ALL THOSE SYSTEMS FUNCTION.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what they've done.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 16h

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 16h

Did you know the DOJ prosecuted a New York woman for selling abortion pills during the first Trump administration? Learn about how they could be laying the groundwork to do it again in our latest at @autonomynews.co:

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What Was This Anti-Abortion Zealot Doing at the FBI?

Andrew Bailey has always been hellbent on eradicating abortion access. As the FBI’s No. 2, he may have set the stage for investigations into abortion pill providers.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 16h

This Day in Labor History: September 29, 1917. The Army intervenes in the strikes of the Northwest forests and sends in the military to get out the wood for airplanes. It both busted the IWW and also massively improved conditions on the ground for workers. Let's talk about this unusual moment!

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 16h

Between this and Ken "Um, actually, I let the child predator go in SIXTY days, TYVM" Paxton, GOP candidates are simply covering themselves in glory

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨👀 It's Monday so apparently that means there's a list of food recalls. Sigh...I hate that this has become the new norm. Anyhoo...here's a thread because this is exhausting. #StayReadCrew Pork sausage at restaurants recalled for foreign plastic material in it. www.sacbee.com/latest-news/...

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Frozen meat recalled for hard plastic pieces sent to California restaurants

The recalled product was distributed to food-service businesses across California.

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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trumpy is still doing incredibly stupid shit and he loses most of the time, because he's a total idiot.

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Chris Dawe @ctdawe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well this is fun.

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Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For context, Husted's aide - Stephen Woytek - used this photo as his Facebook profile pic: It depicts members of the 1st SS Division (aka Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler) posing with captured Soviet flags during Operation Barbarosa.

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