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The People are the 4th Estate of the US. Act like it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
Historians: What the fuck are you talking about, you insane clown?
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GOP lawmaker: Nixon was ‘couped out of office,’ ‘framed’ during Watergate
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) said Thursday that former President Nixon was “absolutely couped out of office” and added that he was “framed” during the infamous Watergate scandal. “We now know more ab…
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4th Estate @the4thest.bsky.social · 11h
Fuck's sake. And I really thought Trejo was a better man than this.
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Montana Locals Protest Daily Wire's Pro-ICE Film Inspired By Renee Good
Daily Wire's new pro-ICE movie production has attracted local protesters in Livingston, Montana.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h
“So many people came out to see me in Alabama last night. The Fire Marshall threatened to shut the rally down because we were so bigly over capacity. And I was told that there were over 300,000 outside, crying because they couldn’t get in to hear me. We could hear them all crying from inside. Sad.”
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 15h
What has Schumer done for us? He's the leader? Stop. After the midterms, it's time for change
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 22h
As much as I’ve always hated Mitch McConnell, I’ve been so impressed with the example he’s set for his fellow Republicans in recent weeks. More of them should be exactly like he is right now.
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julie khaner @juliekhaner.bsky.social · 22h
the ugliest, most powerful kakistocracy the world has ever seen is an existential threat #USAUSAUSA
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the ads is virtually identical to a 2024 Trump campaign ad... While federal laws clearly prohibit gov't use of taxpayer dollars to fund purely political propaganda, the Trump administration exhibits a profound commitment to its unique legal philosophy: “What are you gonna do about it?”
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First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
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Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 23h
Jeremy culhane as tucker carlson on Saturday night live's weekend update.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All by himself Sen Mike Lee killed a bill to stop Trump from razing other President’s memorials Mike Lee has no morals left, only blind ambition to be appointed to SCOTUS
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
Trump's human binky made the trip to Alabama with him #TravelWithNatalie (Brendan Smialowski/Getty)
pic of Ms Harp on AF1
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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
JD possesses a supernatural talent for finding the exact worst possible combination of words in the English language.😐
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Papa Speedmeritus LXIX @r32gtst.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
Loserest loser shit, Marshall
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There is no insurrection -- there's a Nov. election, & Trump doesn't like his odds What he's really afraid of is voters. If he reaches for the Insurrection Act to get around them, @democracydefendersaction.org & our partners will meet him in court More on @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social👇 -TN
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like trying to hold a beach ball underwater. $TNX @cnbc.com
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Didn’t they learn the first time Elon Musk got involved in American politics? -Dismantled life saving agencies -Fired thousands of Americans -Stole our data -Gave himself millions in federal contracts They want him to advise the Pentagon on the future of war?!?!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.
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4th Estate @the4thest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In case any of you were wondering how MAGA was handling the failed execution of Christa Pike, the first woman in Tennessee who was supposed to be put to death but the drugs didn't work. As always, the cruelty is the point for MAGA and nothing is cruel enough for them.
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4th Estate @the4thest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think Trump's meds wore off at this point.
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4th Estate @the4thest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. We have identified the staffer behind Eric Schmitt's positive affirmation that Jack Smith was with Fani Willis at an Atlanta Hawks game.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Hill reviewed the texts from which Eric Schmitt invented his conspiracy. They never mentioned the Hawks OR the Hawkeyes. thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names
Text messages obtained by The Hill show former special counsel Jack Smith’s staff didn’t reference any basketball team names, adding to the confusion around why Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) errantly a…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026
HAHAHAHA
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4th Estate @the4thest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Only in his fucked up head.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I still can't get over how this dude looks like he's trying to sell me ketamine in a gas station restroom
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I absolutely love my nieces and nephews, but if any of them ever pointed to my profession as proof that they themselves are super geniuses, I -- and the rest of my family -- would never stop mocking them for it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The NY Times, which recently lost a multimillion-dollar libel case involving an Alabama basketball player, is trying to get the amount reduced. The Times says that the teen suffered little actual harm from the story, which had erroneously placed him in a car at the scene of a fatal shooting.
Spears offered no evidence he suffered any physical manifestations of emotional distress, no evidence he sought mental health treatment or counseling, and no evidence that he required medication or other interventions for trauma. See Tr. 82:20-83:11; 87:20-88:4; 89:16-21; 90:16-23; 93:12-21 (Aug. 17). The only Case 7:23-cv-00692-ACA Document 302 evidence of emotional harm consisted of Spears testifying he was "embarrassed," was heckled by opposing fans at three basketball heckled by unknown fraternity members on one occasion, and dropped one class. Tr. 82:20-83:11; 87:20-88:4; 89:16-21; 90:16-23; 93:12-21 (Aug. 17); Tr. + . 43 (Aug. 18).- While unpleasant, there was no evidence those events caused significant emotional suffering.

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maDSee, e.g., Tr. 82:1-4 (Aug. 17) ("Honestly, my heart kind of dropped a little bit. I was really just in -initially I was just kind of shocked that it was even posted and then I was just kind of in disbelief that my name was attached to something like that."); id. at 83:3-11 ("it was honestly kind of embarrassing," "humiliating," "sad,' "life was cruel" and Spears "felt a little helpless"); id. at 88:11-14 (being called names and heckled made Spears feel "really just hurt" and it was "not a good feeling to have"); id., 87:20-24 (Spears was "heckled" and told that he was "killer" and a "murderer" who "should be in jail"); id. at 89:16-19 (at the second game after the Article was published, Spears encountered "the same thing [he] experienced the first game," which was "a lot of heckling; people saying the same mean things to you; derogatory remarks"); id. at 89:21 (he felt "the same way" at the second game as he did the first game, "[it sucked" and was 'not feeling"); id. 90:16-23 ("fraternity dudes" recognized him and were "screaming at [him] that [he was] a killer in public on The Strip"); id. at 91:15-16 (at the third game after the Article was published, "people [were] just heckling, saying mean remarks"); id. at 93:15-21 (Spears testifying that "after everything that happened[, he] was just really unfocused and... was struggling a little bit in school which is normally unusual for [him] and [he] ended up dropping out of [one] class" after a "tough" semester); id. at 100:8-10 (Spears felt like there was a "spotlight on [him] and it wasn't a good one at the time" and that "it never goes away").

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Larry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am being asked: is the current pain enough? Well, this woman's best friend in high school saw her dad get snatched by ICE but that's NOT ENOUGH to regret her vote. So no, I don't think they're feeling enough pain.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
gramps is posting crazy stuff on social media again
I stated, numerous times, that it would take 4-6 weeks to get rid of THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, and I did it in one night! The rest of the time is just to make sure it stays that way. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Important; it’s an immigration judge, who unlike federal judges are under the direct supervision of the Administration, which has been pushing out judges they feel are unduly biased towards immigrants.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
TIME: So what is the hoax of AI? Who's behind it? TRUMP: The whole country is based on fake stuff because these people have Trump derangement syndrome.
cap of Trump intv
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I never ever thought I would see such a dangerous unhinged psychopath running the US military. We’ve had some bad ones, but never like this.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bari Weiss torpedoed ‘60 Minutes’, and now her own CBS future could be on the line. Following the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, the “anti-woke” editor is blamed for the program’s low ratings and turmoil after sweeping staffing and editorial changes. radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss...
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EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.
Pete Hegseth drunk and drenchedKash Patel drunk
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: we just struck the 1st blow against Trump's illegal impoundment of almost $1B appropriated by Congress to help average folks We & partners sued to stop him from flushing away vast sums in housing support. Housing! The court just SUSPENDED his illegal action while we fully brief the case
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We need AI regulation yesterday. The incentive driving the doom scenario is simply greed. I don't take PAC money from OpenAI, or any AI corporation, or any corporation for that matter.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 01/10/2026
It can take weeks for a state inspector to check a safety report. It can take months to get a single court date. It can take years to move a bill through a legislature. But you will rarely see all the gears of gov work so well together as when it's time to kill someone.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
Xavier Becerra put the Steve Hilton contradiction right on the debate stage: enforce Trump’s federal immigration laws, but ignore California’s own protections? Then he dropped the hammer: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me.”
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Throwing them out of helicopters?! That alone should be disqualifying for any public office.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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4th Estate @the4thest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We shouldn't be surprised that Michael Tracey is trying to fix Jane Doe from Cornell University. He has a thing for protecting sexual abusers.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three years ago, the Free Beacon ironically named me man of the year on their website. "Don’t give up Ben, you have a whole lot of nothing to look forward to," they wrote. This year, I was on a TIME100 list. I would take this moment to tell them how they can suck me: from the back. Thank you.
We don’t know about Ben’s family or personal finances, but we certainly can’t disagree about his lack of skills. But for someone with absolutely no ability, Ben has found the perfect gig.

Don’t give up Ben, you have a whole lot of nothing to look forward to. Only now, when you do nothing, you'll do it as a Free Beacon Man of the Year.I win.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And now this: GOP "staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Sen. Eric Schmitt a warning: The texts they had obtained from the Justice Department ... were 'unvetted.' ... Schmitt used the texts anyway." www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
Schmitt appeared on the popular Turning Point USA podcast still called the Charlie Kirk Show. The exchanges on the subject are surreal: The interviewers themselves don’t acknowledge that Schmitt’s original gotcha was factually wrong.
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Eric Schmitts the Bed
Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
someone was like "a screenshot of your essay is doing numbers on X" and I tried to ignore it but I broke and looked and it was so nice! it was sandwiched between some prominent racist defending himself for being outed as having a half-Trinidadian child ❤️
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth says “anti-American losers in our media” are committing “treason” by not obediently amplifying his Iran war lies. He hasn’t held a war briefing for reporters at the Pentagon since May. Which means he hasn’t justified his actions to the public, even though he’s conducting a war in our name.
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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran
In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
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