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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2h

Ok I saw everyone talking about how bizarre this ad was but it’s somehow SIGNIFICANTLY more bizarre than I ever dreamed

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing against the Guardians but you gotta love the White Sox. Lost over 300 games in 3 years and now this.

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 2h

“Republicans could avoid some of these political dilemmas by simply avoiding massively unpopular policies that make them outliers even among reactionary parties in the western world. but evidently that’s never an alternative.”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Scare-ah @slwein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

remember during the finals when a lot of y’all started hating him for no reason lol

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pope’s team doin’ the Lord’s work. Bye bye Asstros.

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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like, the US is very publicly losing a war of choice that rocked the global economy and is going to cost his party a massive election loss. And the SecDef’s priority is getting a bunch of subordinates together to lecture about how important lifting weights and tucking in your shirt is. Pathological!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mr. Bringdown.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Under Trump, the U.S. went “who cares that these relationships are mutually beneficial, you need us, pay us tribute.” And in response, most countries are going “no, what we need are mutually beneficial relationships with reliable partners, and there’s a whole world out there, we’ll go elsewhere.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t think the president should be using taxpayer dollars to buy ads for himself. It’s illegal, undemocratic and wrong—stealing from the public and abusing state power to try to tilt an election in his party’s favor—which I think is bad, not good. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules.

Line chart titled "Revenue per audit," subtitled "In-person audits, 2010-2014." It plots average revenue and average cost per audit by taxpayer income percentile, poorer to richer, from the 0–5th percentile to the top 0.1%. Source: Boning et al. 2023, "A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution."

Across the bottom half of the income distribution, revenue and cost track closely, both around $3,000–$6,000 per audit. Above the median, revenue pulls ahead of cost: about $10,000 vs. $5,000 near the 90th percentile, and about $17,000 vs. $8,000 at the 95th–99th. At the top, revenue jumps to about $31,000 for the 99–99.9th percentile and about $90,000 for the top 0.1%.

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“In light of [the] story about how 16k noncitizen voters claimed by DHS in Nevada got winnowed down to 185 when the state asked for a list and then to 0 when the state actually checked the list, I do not have a lot of confidence in the integrity of the federal database…”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What Tucker and company are doing is really obvious, but the thing that needs more attention is the susceptible audience of liberals and "resisters." It's high time a lot of people reckon with the fact that this is a group that is, probably unconsciously, conservative and fascist-curious.

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Josh Thomas @joshthomas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

everything might be burning down around us, but I’m still going to celebrate earth wind and fire day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

National security decision-making has a longer time horizon. It would be stupid for Canada, Europe, South Korea, etc. to act now based on assuming the US will be a reliable in a decade. We have shown that we are not. Many Americans still don’t appreciate how profound of a change that is.

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Donald Trump got 77 million votes, 49.8% of all those cast. A more comprehensive indictment of the contemporary American electorate is impossible to imagine.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't think it's possible for a president's party to be in worse position for a midterm. Virtually all polling and material factors against. With gerrymandering in the House and a GOP-friendly map in the Senate, it might not look like a historical wave. But still, negative referendum here we come.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16/09/2026

This is a very good cause for very good people who are facing unconscionable union busting

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That interview within hours of the WTC falling in which Trump boasted (incorrectly) that he now owned the tallest building in the New York is the most Trumpian thing that has ever happened. It's his entire life, ethos, and purpose in one anecdote.

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Trump’s 9/11: Where He Cleared Rubble, Predicted bin Laden, and Lost ‘Hundreds’ of Friends

From exaggerating his role at Ground Zero to inventing cheering crowds, a review of Trump’s most misleading claims about September 11.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sept 2 marked the anniversary of the illegal, immoral, unstrategic US boat bombing campaign. A year since US policy chose to throw away any remaining moral authority to do open murder. Failure even on its own terms: no indication any cartel is weaker, nor the US drug situation improved in any way

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I will never forgive the centrist chumps who pushed the lie that the the right wing cares about free speech.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The newly pervasive absence of humility is one reason reactions to Dolly Parton's death stands out. All these stories about donations she didn't draw attention to, and support she gave to other artists. No one has a memory of her bragging, demanding credit, or centering herself when helping others.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s time for Maine voters to retire Susan Collins from public life, because she has 100% ownership of every child that suffers and dies because Kennedy was unconscionably given a position of power over American public health www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/brea...

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BREAKING: RFK Jr. is a compulsively dishonest anti-vaxx crackpot - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Somebody please prepare a fainting couch for Bill Cassidy and Susan Collins, because it turns out the transparently obvious lies that RFK Jr. told in his confirmation hearings were also demonstrable l...

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Obviously I don’t accept the validity of the petulant tyrant’s actions, but now “HOMES” is now “SHAME”.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Not only is it obvious that control of the Senate is much more important than control of the House, since every senator elected in 2026 will still be in office in 2029 every single marginal seat is important

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’ve been ignoring the news as much as I can lately. This morning in a fit of masochism I decided to take a peek. I’m going to go back to hiding now

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Inflation in July at 3.7% It's been above 3% every month since Trump started the Iran war. To put that in perspective, 2% is the level associated with normal economic growth, monthly average in 2024 was 2.9%, and in 2024 it trended down, while this year it has trended up, with no relief in sight.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sen. Bill Cassidy MD’s argument for being the decisive vote to confirm RFK Jr. was essentially “thank you for lying to me, no matter how transparently, that’s what I needed to do something I know is awful to stay aligned with my party, which I value much more than childrens’ lives.” Everyone knew.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/08/2026

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

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A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.

U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every day now produces a new iteration of the “Trump is intentionally collapsing the dollar to replace it with crypto and line his pockets” argument and I have yet to see one that didn’t have like four obvious factual errors in it just from a quick skim.

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Bat-prillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Jfc.

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The Duckman))) @theduckman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Good bye, Dolly Well goodbye, Dolly It’s so nice that you here with us at all

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