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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1h

And I think he's right. People are repulsed by the regime. I'll also note that white evangelicals are some of the biggest supporters of Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown, so I get Talarico's strategy here. See: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/homan-s...

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Homan Stumps for Georgia GOPers by Promoting ICE Brutality in Speech to Evangelicals

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 20h

Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...

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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 20h

We've uncovered some definitive proof Eric Schmitt's supposedly blockbuster texts were not about an Atlanta Hawks game. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-evi...

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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1h

Yesterday's developments in three important Trump II cases are datapoints in favor of a tentative working theory that appeals courts are slowly coming around to the urgency of the current moment.

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Appeals Courts Slowly Awaken to Trump II Threat

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back In the defining legal struggle of...

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 3h

If a claim doesn’t implode quite as spectacularly as this one did, it’s easy enough for the right-wing influencers who promote it to brazen it out for audiences who may never make contact with reality. Initially, that seemed to be the plan.

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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 4h

They’re campaigning on keeping them out of sports, even in states where trans students have been blocked from competition for years.

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Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Banning Trans Athletes

This story was originally reported by Brooke Migdon of The 19th. Meet...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 5h

Schmitt's staff may have set their boss up for a big day around his big moment. But, to echo another famous conspiracy theorist, the intel on this wasn't 100%.

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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury

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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 19h

Congress’ top Democratic appropriators demanded answers from the Department of Homeland Security and threatened investigations Tuesday as more details of the egregious shuffling of taxpayer dollars surfaced.

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Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself

‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 20h

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries where they have no ties and where they may face violence.

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Supreme Court Cosigns One of Trump’s Most Inhumane Immigration Practices

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 20h

TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread text messages when he attempted to corner former special counsel Jack Smith during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.

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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 21h

The top line: The en banc court is likely to rule against the Trump administration and allow U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to proceed with a contempt of court inquiry.

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A Critical Moment for the Rule of Law

This morning the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments...

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 21h

"If I could just bring a politician with me to stand in the front hall of a nursing home” and see how people react when they realize they can vote again, a disability rights attorney said. “I wish they could see that and realize how important the work is.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-massi...

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‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 22h

@emineirmakyucel.bsky.social and @jragazzo.bsky.social talk about Mike Johnson's claim that this was the "most productive" Congress ever, GOP infighting, and what will happen if the Dems retake the House: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS05...

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Congress Is Leaving Town. What Do Lawmakers Have to Show for Themselves? | TPM Live

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 22h

A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restrict voting access.

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‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 22h

Josh Marshall: Two things appear to be moving in unison, on a downward trajectory: consumer confidence and the Republican position on the national generic ballot.

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Perfect Storm, Brought to You by Donald Trump

As I noted a week ago, we can’t know whether the current...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 23h

STARTING NOW: Emine Yücel has chronicled all the congressional drama this session. Join her on YouTube Live to hear about how the Senate is spending its final week on the Hill, how GOPers are planning to mobilize their demoralized voters + more

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TPM Live: Congress Is Leaving Town. What Do Lawmakers Have to Show for Themselves?

The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026

The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this week. Join TPM's congressional reporter Emine Yücel for a chat about what Congress has actually done — and failed to do — this session:

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TPM Live: Congress Is Leaving Town. What Do Lawmakers Have to Show for Themselves?

The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this...

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The mother of all “investigate the investigators” retributions suffered another major blow with the resignation of Kurt Olsen as top prosecutor. Olsen’s departure marks the 3d top prosecutor in a row to leave the probe—tho his departure seems markedly different. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

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The Biggest Trump Retribution Scheme Is Coming Apart at the Seams

Blanche Overpromises and Underdelivers The mother of all “investigate the investigators” retributions...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026

The mother of all "investigate the investigators" retributions in south Florida suffered another major blow with the resignation of Kurt Olsen as its top prosecutor.

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The Biggest Trump Retribution Scheme Is Coming Apart at the Seams

Blanche Overpromises and Underdelivers The mother of all “investigate the investigators” retributions...

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Russ Vought's latest "pocket rescission" maneuver is wonky and may not get much coverage, but it's another major milestone in Congress ceding its power to Trump. Some Republicans (Susan Collins prominent among them) are vowing to fight back, but it's tbd how real that is. (I am skeptical.)

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Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Check out yesterday’s episode and follow the links in the description to see the great work done on this topic by our guest, @joshkovensky.bsky.social. The figures we discussed are sure to be critical in stirring chaos and confusion around 2026 midterms. Learn who they are before they make news!

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was a great episode of a great pod.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026

The White House is steamrolling Congress' power of the purse — its constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on television

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Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress

Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026

The insurgent left does not share Tea Party’s reactionary fervor to remake, or remove, much of the U.S. government. And the Tea Party movement was largely suburban or rural and, most importantly, white.

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Why All the Handwringing About a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Was So Misguided

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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And while Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) did not directly criticize the retribution assault the Trump administration has waged against NYC/New Jersey, he distanced himself from it during a debate on Sunday night. More here:

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Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States

‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and...

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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’ve got a new example of a vulnerable Republican trying to put some daylight between himself & Trump’s political toxicity this weekend — it also converges on a theme that TPM has been focused on during Trump’s second term, as he weaponizes the executive branch for his own political aims.

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Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States

‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026

Kean is facing a tough reelection challenge from Democrat Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, in a race rating that Cook Political Report recently switched from a "toss up" to "lean Democratic."

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Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States

‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026

@terrigerstein.bsky.social: If workers for just this one company in this one city are owed $115 million dollars, just imagine how much workers are owed everywhere else. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/whats-m...

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What’s Missing From Coverage of the Massive DoorDash Worker Settlement

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We've got another great ep of the show coming for everyone on Monday morning. This one features @joshkovensky.bsky.social, who joined us to talk about the cast of content creators making state propaganda with the Trump Administration www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky | Posting Through It

144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky by Posting Through It on Patreon. Join Posting Through It's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What do Nick Shirley, Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Katie Daviscourt, Savanah Hernandez, and Tyler Oliveira have in common? They make clickbait in service of, and sometimes collaboration with, the Trump Admin. Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...

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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky

Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · September 28 · 1h 12m

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026

The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday for wrongfully deporting a Salvadoran young man last month for the second time — after he had already been unlawfully deported in March, then returned to the U.S., before being removed again.

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Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation

Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026

Despite decades of precedent, Republicans have long aimed to count students at their parents’ homes instead of where they reside during the academic term. The pandemic created the perfect opportunity for Republicans to pursue this agenda.

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How Republicans Used the Pandemic to Try to Upend Census Residency Rules

The census makes politics. Representatives are allocated to states based on the...

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In the Weekender: I break down the different flavors of GOP midterms cope @laylaayanna.bsky.social on Republicans blaming data center opposition on China -The Nvidia CEO not knowing his own address -The cancelation of Freedom Fest w/Kid Rock and more talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

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The Midterms Look Bad for Republicans. How Are GOP Candidates Coping?

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 26/09/2026

For the third time in just over two weeks, the Supreme Court declined to let Missouri Republicans jam through a maximal gerrymander, this time with an air of exasperation.

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SCOTUS Finally Puts an End to Missouri Republicans’ Map Scheme With Slap on Wrist for Lower Judges

For the third time in just over two weeks, the Supreme Court...

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