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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This picture, which was treated as a serious example of threats to election infrastructure, seemingly came from a tweet posted by someone with the username “l33tLumberjack” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-doo...

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The ‘Doom’ Computer Game Was Part Of Trump’s Wild And Baseless ‘Election Security Nightmare’

Things got really weird during President Donald Trump’s big speech on “election...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.

Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.

Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Decided to look at the classes taught at West Virginia University ’s Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship (the one with one enrolled student) and it turns out it’s teaching classes on the wonders of fascism

MWF 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM | WASH 393A

Often as revolutionary as it is traditionalist, democratic as it is authoritarian, individualistic as it is communal, the “right” is today far from an easily defined or unified reality. Nevertheless, a certain emerging consensus can be discerned. Called the New Right, this consensus refers to a set of ideas and instincts that affirm the need for a new political paradigm beyond the three reigning ideologies of the twentieth century: liberalism, fascism, and communism. This idea is what Alexander Dugin has termed the “fourth political theory.” Using Dugin’s analysis as a starting point, this course will investigate what he and others mean when they imagine and think in this “fourth” place beyond liberalism, fascism, and communism. Readings in the first half will focus on philosophical foundations, and will include Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, as well as more secondary figures such as Ernst Jünger, Oswald Spengler, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Julius Evola, and Dugin himself. In the second half, we will critically examine several contemporary leading figures—such as Alain de Benoist, Renaud Camus, Michael Millerman, and Alexander Markovics—who have each proposed answers to the question of a “fourth politics” today.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

In Trump v. Hawaii, Roberts wrote that “the forcible relocation of U. S. citizens to concentration camps, solely and explicitly on the basis of race, is objectively unlawful and outside the scope of Presidential authority.” But the author of the Korematsu opinion, having exchanged his white robe for a dark one, would have agreed. After all, Hugo Black wrote that “pressing public necessity”—not “racial antagonism”—motivated the Japanese-internment policy. Black upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction because he argued that the presence of a national-security motive meant the racism against Japanese Americans didn’t count. And that is exactly the logic the Roberts Court has followed in so many cases. This reasoning—Black’s reasoning—has been reiterated again and again by Roberts and his right-wing colleagues to sanction discrimination against the vulnerable populations targeted by the Republican Party.

The Korematsu decision may be overturned by the “court of history.” But its legacy lives on in the Roberts Court.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

As others have noted, this engages in a lot of ad hominem and strawman attacks. It is particularly silly that Dan claims there's some kind of subliminal confession in a phrase I didn't even use in my essay. We'll have other responses in due course at The UnPopulist, but my personal reply is here:

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A Reply to “Against Court-Packing”

Addressing a few points of confusion.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026

the truly enraging thing is that sam alito will never face this question from a member of the public. we have allowed these people to create a wall between themselves and the people they rule over.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The facts of this case are bad. County wrongly claimed family owed $2,000 in taxes, foreclosed on the home, and sold a house it assessed at $190K for just $76K and tried (unsuccessfully) to keep all $76K. Screwed a family out of tens of thousands to collect $2,000 that they didn't actually owe.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

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The Onion says it won’t wait for the courts, will launch Infowars to pay Sandy Hook families

The Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

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Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet

It’s not about whether technology is inherently good or bad, liberating or oppressive. Architecture shapes incentives; incentives shape outcomes.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 22/05/2026

New: The CLARITY Act hits the Senate floor as WSJ reports Iran is still using Binance—Trump's business partner—to move money. At minimum, senators must bar the president, his family & sr. officials from issuing, promoting, or profiting from the digital assets me, for @publiccitizen.bsky.social

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Iran Still Uses Binance. Trump's WLFI Still Profits from Binance. - Public Citizen

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Iranian entities associated with the regime” have continued to use Binance – a major backer of the…

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It should be said loud and clear that this isn’t just illegal in all the usual ways. It is “illegal and void” by Section 4 of the 14th Amendment. We’re going to take the money back. And any financial institution that touches it should be on notice that will be treated as conscious money laundering.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If I were the opposition party I'd be saying anyone involved in creating this corrupt scheme will be prosecuted but also anyone accepting payments from it will at minimum be required to pay back the full sum with interest

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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I can't leave it alone. Here's the 527-page opinion describing Alabama's congressional map: "[t]ry as we might, we cannot understand the 2023 Plan as anything other than an intentional effort to dilute Black Alabamian's voting strength." That's the map SCOTUS resurrected today with 0 explanation.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is similar to the advantage enjoyed by Fidesz in Hungary via their corruption of the electoral system which was large enough to make it not a democracy by every expert evaluation

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My New One at Slate: Justice Alito is a Coward (and Possibly a Liar) slate.com/news-and-pol...

In the end, Justice Alito is afraid to stand up and say what his opinions necessarily imply: that Congress cannot do anything to protect minority voting rights short of banning intentional discrimination despite the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee, despite the Fifteenth Amendment’s ban on race discrimination in voting, and despite the fact that both amendments explicitly give Congress the power to enforce the measures by “appropriate legislation.”

Maybe Alito is worried that a ruling forthrightly saying what he is doing would sully the reputation of the court, which has already faced public criticism for killing off another key part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013’s Shelby County decision. Perhaps he is worried that a frontal kill of Section 2 would energize Democrats, leading to greater losses for Republicans in the midterm elections and in future elections.

Whatever the reason, Justice Alito lacks courage, a word which ironically has been embraced by the Trumpiest of judges and legal commentators to describe taking positions that are extreme, unpopular, and I would argue, in conflict with the rule of law.

No one is fooled by Justice Alito’s act of cowardice, unless it is Justice Alito himself. If that’s the case, he is more deluded than he seems to think the rest of us are.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The F.B.I. began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/04/2026

ghoulish

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Bill Riley was a Vietnam vet who flew helicopters for EMT. Lefty conspiracy theorists believe he ran a child abuse cabal for Epstein. A couple weeks after I met him in GA, he died. The funeral home had to take down his obit to stop harassment of the family. Truly ghoulish. www.ms.now/news/sascha-...

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The conspiratorial left needed proof Trump is a monster. They settled on Sascha Riley.

An Iraq War veteran “unlocked” new memories of abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and the right-wing elite. A network of conspiracists took control of his fantastical story.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Elizabeth Banks

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

LOL: Paul Clement to Kavanaugh: there’s no Purcell problem (changing rules too close to an election) with banning states from counting absentee votes received after Election Day for upcoming midterms! (Purcell means never too late to disenfranchise and help Rs; always too late to help democracy)

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

“‘I’m Glad He’s Dead’: Trump Spits on Robert Mueller’s Grave” The president celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into Trump and his associates over Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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‘I’m Glad He’s Dead’: Trump Spits on Robert Mueller’s Grave

The president celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, who led the investigation into Trump and his associates over Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better." The Defense Secretary calling for a billionaire ally of the government to take over a media outlet & make it more pro-government. This is what authoritarianism looks like. But in other countries they try & hide it.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

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I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves

The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The motions are “unopposed” because Trump now sits on both sides of the case—as the defendant and as the glowering visage who looks out from tall banners on the walls of a subjugated DOJ—and Judge Cannon did not allow any of the third parties who sought to intervene to argue for disclosure.

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The Lost Muppet @thelostmuppet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Republicans once promised a chicken in every pot, but now we've got RFK working towards an 8-ball on every toilet seat.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/02/2026

I’m on a trip with my family so I wasn’t going to do a newsletter but then I saw that visualization of very grim data that I thought deserved some comment. And then I added other stuff, too. www.howtoreadthisch.art/a-visualizat...

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A visualization you should see.

Some of you may have noticed that last week's newsletter ended with a bit of housekeeping: I wasn't planning on doing a newsletter this week, since I'm on a trip with my family. I was still rummaging ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Great thread:

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026

GALLEGO: Why is the agent who shot Renee Good holding a camera phone & weapon? LYONS: The US attorney was requiring to have video leading up to arrests, so officials have used phones for that GALLEGO: Maybe you shouldn't be trying to be an influencer and wielding a weapon at the same time

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I called up one of the White House "special government employees" linked to the Fulton County ballot seizure. I ended up on the phone for nearly two hours. It got weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

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Meet the ‘Cabal’-Hating ‘Special Government Employee’ Involved in the Fulton County FBI Raid

Clay Parikh unloaded in a nearly two hour conversation with TPM.

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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Multiple election deniers are cited in this affidavit by name or can be identified: Kurt Olsen, Clay Parikh & Kevin Moncla. All of them have gone on a QAnon-affiliated show dedicated to election fraud claims. Parikh, who's gone on it repeatedly, even told the channel that it’s "how I get my news."

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On Rumble, a QAnon-affiliated show dedicated to election misinformation hosts election deniers from across the country

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

“Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,”a former staffer claimed of incidents they recalled going back to 2021. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Nancy Mace Is Not Okay

“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere.”

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

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