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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 1h

The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.

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bythepeople1863.bsky.social @bythepeople1863.bsky.social · 9h

The gist of the Jack Smith hearing was that Republicans will fabricate evidence to entrap opponents and they were upset that Jack Smith had the audacity to investigate Republicans in Congress for possibly abetting Trump's 1/6 insurrection, in other words for doing his job.

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 1h

I was drinking a beer and the waitress screamed “does anyone know CPR?” I yelled, “I know the entire alphabet” and we all laughed and laughed. Well, except for one person.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 1h

This is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell.

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 12h

The report exhibits little curiosity about how or why a dead body was lodged half-way down a mine shaft, and this suggests it was not uncommon to find unidentified corpses in the mine.

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Tiger Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 8h

Schmitt getting dowalked is the prestige, but Darlene getting told by Jack Smith that her brother Lindsey would have a witness against Trump was just as delicious.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026

The internet is erupting in mockery after Eric Schmitt’s spectacular Jack Smith faceplant. Now people are openly speculating: Did his team plant the glowing 2028 story AND coordinate with MAGA influencers in advance, expecting a victory lap that blew up in their faces?

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Eric Schmitt Gets Mercilessly Mocked Over ‘Planted’ Story After Jack Smith Faceplant

A glowing 2028 scoop dropped just before Schmitt’s disastrous “gotcha,” while right-wing influencers appeared ready to celebrate. After it blew up, the internet noticed.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19h

don't threaten me with a good time mikey

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe I'm missing something, but I still don't get this. Schmitt was saying Smith went to a Hawks game. His evidence was texts that mention "Jack" but not from Smith (and the Hawks does not have a 109 row). Yes, Smith went to a Hawkeyes game, but Schmitt did not present any evidence of that.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

If what I'm proposing is true, it definitely seems like someone (whether a Smith or Schmitt staffer, latter being more likely) was unable to tell the difference between the Hawkeyes & Hawks, and this led the Schmitt team to run headlong with a very poorly sourced accusation bsky.app/profile/donm...

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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 19h

hairline looking like the maine coastline

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Kenric Leung @kenricleung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you’re able to avoid the AI results, Google is bearable. Love @udm14.bsky.social for giving people an easy way to do that: udm14.com

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&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wild how we went from "Wikipedia isn't a reliable source" to "Google isn't a reliable source"

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 21h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 22h

Not you.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely coordinated

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/09/2026

Very funny this happened right after Axios was like "lots of buzz about Schmitt for VP" this morning.

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Tom Cairney @tomcairney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only salary cap that should exist is the profit of the industry

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Johnny McNulty @johnnymcnulty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh you want to make college free for everyone? Heheh... even rich kids???? You want rich and poor kids to attend the same institutions without class distinctions? You idiot. You think if rich families use gov't services, it increases the pressure for those services to be good? You cretin. You freak.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the republican party will gladly pay you Tuesday for a vote today

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is this a metaphor for the Republican Party?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Algarve Celtic @algarveceltic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a nutshell 👌🏻

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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of my few real regrets in life: Nearly bumping into Ian McShane in a crosswalk in L.A. like 15 years ago and not having the awareness in the moment to say "watch it, c*cksucker."

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's poetic that the two greatest footballers of their era were arguably the most and least elegant footballers off the field to do it

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone notice how Pete Hegseth spent the first few weeks of the Iran bombing campaign in front of the cameras telling us how awesome it was going and now we haven’t seen him for months?

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I said this a lot in 2024, which is, media were completely terrified of asking Trump basic factual questions that he obviously didn't know the answer to because it would have seemed "gauche". All we got was horse race conversations that pretended Trump had any inkling of how anything at all worked.

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wasn't raised in any sort of religion but they did force me to learn about the beach boys at like age 5, and 35 years later I am still suffering the consequences

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.

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Carrying That Weight—Again

I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A momentous day for the bunghole community.

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

The GOP is an opposition party even when it's in power, the idea that they are the perpetual underdog is central to their internal mythology and can't be disturbed by facts or the results of elections. It's also why they're bad at, you know, governing.

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I agree with this but also it’s really important to distinguish within your own thinking why this is not analogous to “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” Which is to say…in the rush to declare AI as unworthy of blame in itself, it’s very easy to actually argue it is not dangerous at all.

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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shadow docket is at it again Time to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1789 and start over

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026

mfw the Nathan Fielder documentary You Can See Everything is rated R for "some graphic nudity"

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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How many more pieces of evidence do we need to prove that this guy is an out and out Nazi

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smokey eunuch™ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is what being an anti-trans democrat who goes out in public and says shit like "theres male, female, and a tiny percentage of intersex people, and then heheh yeah theres some OTHER PEOPLE" buys you

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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Elliott Vanskike @twonnet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

no hints at all? we're just supposed to randomly guess?

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