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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9h

"Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a Dud" Swin’s conversations with Trumpworld insiders reveal alarm at just how badly the plan to make the leftist streamer the main midterms character is misfiring. Also, Pete Hegseth beclowns himself again.

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First Draft: 📉 Top Republicans Privately Admit Their Hasan Piker Attacks Are a Dud

Swin’s conversations with Trumpworld insiders reveal alarm at just how badly the plan to make the leftist streamer the main midterms character is misfiring. Also, Pete Hegseth beclowns himself again.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 58m

Ok, this may look like the more likely scenario now, but it also still makes Schmitt and his staff look very incompetent. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Another possibility, consistent with Schmitt’s statements was that the Hawks game was the only NBA or NCAA mens game on at that time, and so when his staff googled basketball games on that date, they focused on the Atlanta game. In this theory, there was no confusion between the Hawks and Hawkeyes, just a coincidence. A reporter who has seen the texts say there was no mention of the Hawks or Hawkeyes.

If so, the Schmitt team just looks more incompetent. There five other NBA games on the same date. (It also reflects the point that Schmitt’s team could not imagine Smith went to a women’s game, even though Clark we mentioned elsewhere in texts between staff). The Hawks game started at 7.30pm but other games started at 8.00 or 8.30, so if the texts were timestamped for around 7.30, that hardly seems definitive. After all, the game Smith actually attended started at 8pm. There were also mens NCAA games, including a Duke-UNC game that started at 6.30.

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Kilometres Davis @kilometresdavis.bsky.social · 16h

They didn’t read the part of The Art of War where Sun Tzu says “do not show your enemy’s hog on a 25-foot jumbotron.”

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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 17h

there are people in the replies to this reflexively assuming that Becca Good is the woman who spoke to Congress about her Trump vote. this isn't true. Renee was a queer woman, Becca Good is her widow. please respect her enough to either learn her wife's name or refrain from commentary.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16h

Competent right wing filmmakers and satirists could make this insanely, perversely funny intentionally (evil, but I’m just narrowly talking about the level of ridiculousness being amped up in a darkly comic piece of fiction) Competent versions of that don’t exist anymore

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16h

The mainstream media has given lot of different people lots of reason to lose trust in it broadly speaking. However, when Republicans talk about The Media, I would like for you to look at historical polling graphs of when that plummet in their trust really began and hmm, interesting timing…

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 23h

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Jane Spane @janespane.bsky.social · 16h

But ehen he talks inside her head he sounds like this. Also unnerving.

As President Trump has said, and lived, "You can't prove your merit on quiet waters."

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve asked people who talk to her, including some rather regularly, and they’re like: yes she does talk like this

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Rep. Jimmy Gomez @gomez.house.gov · 17h

I joined in an interfaith pilgrimage to protest against the terrible conditions in the Adelanto ICE Detention Center. In 2025 alone, 32-33 people have died in ICE custody, the highest number of annual deaths in 20 years.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.

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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal

A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18h

My hot take is that Kamala Harris if she ran probably could be president come 2029 because things are That Bad rn but also it would be psychotic to try

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 19h

gonna keep saying this: the anti-trans attacks in 2024 were really about the economy! the point wasn't "vote on trans policy," it was "Kamala's focused on this, Trump's focused on your pocketbook." and this line of wedge attack is a lot less convincing when your party has been in power for 2 years!

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19h

I know who @jessicatarlov.bsky.social is; many of you do The President of the United States is not supposed to know who she is, much less get mad at her on the internet

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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 19h

Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

i suppose i’m not surprised that it is difficult to make people care about something that is low visibility — the vast majority of people have no idea who piker is — and low salience. i think we’re also going to find, for similar reasons, that the anti-trans messaging isn’t working either.

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Cannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 19h

Kobach is one of those names that just won’t go away

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20h

I am aware of how shitty the Democratic brand is rn but I like when people point out the data show voters aren’t planning on voting for Dems this cycle; they’re voting against trump and Republicans in power Yes correct. It’s a midterm

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21h

Oh good the IDF tweeting at my boss again

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22h

the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22h

A good number of them have told me “likeliest scenario” involves losing the senate. They obviously caveat it with some polls could be off and they wouldn’t be completely stunned if the gop kept the senate but there are certain gop operatives and figures who I tell them I think of them as the …

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 22h

I've probably listened to maybe two dozen focus groups of Michigan voters over the course of the past 3 months The number of people who have brought up Hasan Piker is all of one, from a young guy who likely wasn't voting for El-Sayed regardless I don't like Piker but MAGA has completely failed.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23h

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22h

I cannot over emphasize how wild it is that this isn’t a top story constantly. Any other admin, yes. This one? They’re causing death and suffering in so many novel ways that in terms of body count and scale, this actually credibly ranks lower

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

I am less pessimistic about this than I am about the third-country removal case, but I have no illusions that this is an easy case for advocates. But this is a situation where nearly every federal judge in the country has already weighed in, and the vast majority have rejected Trump's views.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h

A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII. It would represent the largest change in how the US treats immigrants facing removal since 1996, and remind us again that the 96 law must be erased.

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 22h

Oh so an immensely powerful man isn’t allowed to enjoy carefree vacations, just because some of his neighbors notice that he has presided over a rollback of their rights and the destruction of the constitutional order? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)

After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22h

There are some people who are actually underestimating how much the trump White House and national GOP have actually made not being Hasan Piker a major part of their 2026 election strategy; for starters, check out the literal millions they’ve poured into ads bragging about not being Hasan piker

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 23h

America yearns to know why they should care about a random streamer they’ve never seen or heard that doesn’t have any position of power

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 23h

Good thread. Even GOP internal polling shows no one persuadable has any idea who Piker is.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22h

What it mostly did was make habitual Fox viewers hate democrats Sweet

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 23h

Damn! Should have gone with "Hasan Piker raised your fuel & grocery costs & got us into war with Iran."

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23h

It’s not just anonymous sources (tho we are in the business of citing people who know what they’re talking about); one of Trump’s top pollsters is on the record throwing cold water on the GOP-wide 2026 anti- Hasan piker electoral strategy which is still going strong at the NRSC, etc. He then…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

irony is dead -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders is on Fox & Friends decrying "manufactured" conservative outrage

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23h

the Cincinnati enquirer is my favorite paper rn, today’s front page has “poll views senate race as a toss-up” moved to the left and the top story is BELOVED CINCINNATI HAT SHOP HANGS IT UP

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. Certain levels of inflation will also pay off that debt very rapidly. Very rapidly."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

".. When pressed on the limits of his power, Trump left himself ample room: He would not rule out declaring a national emergency or invoking the Insurrection Act around the midterms .. 'I’m not committing to anything,' he says."

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The “check engine” light on your dashboard @aklingus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh you mean showing this guy’s briefs-swaddled dick at their midterm party for assholes wasn’t a brilliant tactical decision bsky.app/profile/swin...

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From the guy who actually talks to MAGA world every day - and I do love how they all blab to @swin24.bsky.social: "Lately, the behind-the-scenes, party-wide sense of terror has been growing conspicuously worse, almost by the day, as we approach November."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's hard to fathom that, let alone be OK with the fact that, the six people who allowed tonight to happen will start hearing cases next week, the outcome of which will affect us all.

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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026

Meanwhile, China is attracting more visitors with its visa-free entry policies, and Japan’s weak currency is drawing in a record number of tourists. Read more: www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Decline in tourism hits US economy

Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It would have been immensely more humane if hours ago someone had just illegally taken a gun out of a holster and just shot her in the head

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.

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