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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Rep. Justin J. Pearson @justinjpearson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s the Billionaires versus the rest of us. Photo from @thetnholler.bsky.social

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

👇 "Just win the next election & go back to governing like it's 2015" is not a strategy. It's delusional nonsense.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

What heightens the absurdity is the fact that this guy spent billions of dollars to buy a website where he constantly advocates for white supremacy which the vast the vast majority of the media and politicians regularly frequent.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope this email finds you still registered to vote

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An entirely reasonable organizational response from CNN would be that they will no longer host members of the administration as long as the administration bars them from the White House

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/09/2026

If you really still think it’s about antisemitism—and not about enabling Palestinian genocide—then you’ll have to pretend Kanye pro Hitler West isn’t playing at several of the same venues Macklemore was just cancelled from for saying Free Palestine.😐

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Robert Kraft — who's given millions to pro-Israel orgs like AIPAC — once got a $1M award from Netanyahu for helping stop people from boycotting Israel. "Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft," Netanyahu said. Now, Kraft helps kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran's tour:

Robert Kraft to Establish a Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism, BDS, Delegitimization of Israel
Jun 20, 2019 at 03:25 PM
June 20, 2019, Jerusalem - Tonight, the Laureate of the 2019 Genesis Prize Robert Kraft was honored at a gala ceremony in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Genesis Prize Foundation Chairman Stan Polovets bestowed the award on Kraft in front of an audience of 600 Israeli and international dignitaries.
The $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed "the Jewish Nobel" by Time Magazine, honors extraordinary individuals for outstanding professional achievement, contribution to humanity, and commitment to Jewish values. Previous honorees include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; philanthropist and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; actor, producer and peace activist Michael Douglas; and "Fiddler to the world" maestro Itzhak Perlman.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "I am delighted to welcome Robert Kraft to the august family of Genesis Prize Laureates. This prestigious award honors Robert's generous lifelong philanthropy, his commitment to the Jewish people, and his love for Israel. It also recognizes his principled stand against anti-Semitism and efforts by our enemies to undermine the State of Israel through BDS and other similar campaigns. Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft."
Kraft previously announced he would forgo the $1 million monetary award so that the funds could be granted to initiatives combating anti-Semitism, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), and other efforts to delegitimize Israel. This is in line with the tradition established by previous Genesis Prize Laureates, who have "re-gifted" their awards to philanthropic causes they support.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 11/09/2026

Trump & his admin were going to frame an innocent Marylander for "vandalizing" the reflecting pool, when Trump's handpicked contractor now admits it was their own shoddy installation. Yet another shameless attempt to weaponize our justice system against Americans. This must end.

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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage

The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The fact that Islamophobia is welcomed, championed, and cheered at this Republican Convention. People are chanting to hurt and shoot Muslim American candidates. It will barely be mentioned this weekend. I assume journalists will ask Democrats to condemn Hasan Piker instead, right?

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wrote about Trump's 9/11 lies. He's been spewing this nonsense for decades. He lies out of entitlement & self aggrandizement and "believes" his own lies for the same reason. His cognitive failure is a result of moral failure, not the other way around. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/trumps-911...

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Trump’s 9/11 Lies Are A Moral Failure, Not A Cognitive One

He is a fool because he is evil, not the other way around

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 10/09/2026

HOPE not hate can conclusively prove that Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson’s business empire has been built on fraudulent means, tax evasion, and perjury. This is a long one. Strap in.🧵 hopenothate.org.uk/the-grift/

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The Grift

Stephen Lennon, or Tommy Robinson as he is better known, has amassed a multimillion pound fortune by monetising hate and fear. But, as HOPE not hate can conclusively prove, his business empire has bee...

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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 05/09/2026

You know, honestly, more than monetary donations, if somebody worked at a company that had access to a lot of 18 terabyte and larger hard drives and could talk to us, that's where we are really suffering. The internet archive has no special priority in buying hard drives and those things are insane.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026

A couple days ago, Mike Johnson mocked Thomas Massie for suggesting House leadership could keep Congress out to avoid the new Epstein Files Transparency Act, calling the idea “stupid” and “nonsensical.” Now he has canceled the final two weeks of September.

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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried

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InfiDale @infidale.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you could just snap your fingers and make five people disappear for good with absolutely no consequences to you, who would be the other four?

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 28/08/2026

If you still support Trump and his administration, we don’t have political differences — we have moral ones. Because racism, hatred, and incitement are not opinions. They are a character test. And you are failing it.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Conflating Jews with Israel Is Dangerous – Whether by Antisemites, U.S. Politicians, or the Israeli State” Amid the outrage over Hasan Piker’s remarks, a Jewish professor of Israel studies argues it’s important to acknowledge what Israel’s actions fuel.

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Conflating Jews with Israel Is Dangerous – Whether by Antisemites, U.S. Politicians, or the Israeli State

Amid the outrage over Hasan Piker’s remarks, a Jewish professor of Israel studies at UCLA argues that it’s important to acknowledge how Israel’s actions fuel a lot of the anger directed at Jews.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

2. The "article" links Cooper to a murder by a man released from a SOUTH CAROLINA prison which, the last time I checked, is AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STATE.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1. The New York Post and others have repeatedly claimed that Mayor Mamdani “doxxed” wealthy New Yorkers when he published a list of property owners to implement the new pied-a-terre tax. THIS IS NOT TRUE BECAUSE ALL OF THIS INFORMATION WAS ALREADY PUBLIC AND EASILY SEARCHABLE ONLINE

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Had this exact conversation yesterday. It is very hard to explain to older people that this is the new normal & the old polity & GOP are gone, replaced by competitive authoritarianism & a far right party. And impossible to tell college students that this is not normal. It’s their whole experience.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

WaPo Exclusive: Trump has claimed that the White House needs a massive new ballroom because it would provide him and future presidents with a secure, hardened facility. But former officials say the argument fails to acknowledge that the presidential complex already has one.

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Secret White House bunker undercuts Trump’s ballroom lawsuit, ex-officials say

The White House already has a nuclear-proof facility buried deep underground and built in secret after 9/11.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.

In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation.

When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”

Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.

As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"He Co-Founded Airbnb. Now He’s a Red-Pilled Billionaire Helping Trump" Joe Gebbia, the first-ever chief design officer of the U.S., went from supporting Dems to going all-in on Trump and spreading racist takes and conspiracy theories online.

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He Co-Founded Airbnb. Now He’s a Red-Pilled Billionaire Helping Trump

Joe Gebbia, the first-ever chief design officer of the U.S., went from supporting Democrats to going all-in on Trump and increasingly spreading racist takes and conspiracy theories online.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

👇🎯 We are so far beyond the off ramp for presidency-ending crimes & negligence that we can’t even see how deep & how intertwined it all is. This is very helpful in bringing things together.

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ceej @ceej.online · 13/08/2026

shouting into the void here, I know, but you are literally living in the thought experiment "Would you use an app owned by Adolf Hitler?"

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/08/2026

Why wait

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you told me, when I started this list, in December 2020 & Trump was actively trying to steal the election in Georgia, that we'd be nearly to #3500 on this list, I would absolutely have believed you. And Douthglesias, like so many others did, would have called me hysterical. And yet, here we are.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/08/2026

A central part of why it seems like powerful, rich people live in a consequence-free world is that the social incentives to hold them to account have withered. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar... 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Local man suggests jailing own boss.

Screenshot of an Aaron Rupar clip of J.D. Vance saying on Fox News: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Trelfar @trelfar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Anthropic is buying up and consuming rare books, destroying the originals, all while touting itself as "the ethical AI".

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/07/2026

About the Austin police murder of a Black child named Anthoneil Williams: - Uvalde police cowered for 3 hrs while an armed terrorist murdered children—because cops feared for their lives. - But Austin police opened fire in 3 secs to murder a child—because cops feared for their lives. 1/4

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane

cbs: trump oversees dignified transfer of US soldiers

fox: saluting the fallen; president trump attends dignified transfer ceremony

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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

They’re going to kill more people

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“Investigators have linked shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell restaurants by Taylor Farms as a potential source of contamination in the outbreak of a parasitic illness that has sickened thousands in United States, according to two individuals familiar with the investigation.”

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Lettuce supplier is potential source of cyclosporiasis outbreak, investigators say

Thousands have been sickened in the outbreak of cyclosporiasis, which has been largely concentrated in southeastern Michigan.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Isn't it weird that this week a currently sitting president had to pay a woman MILLIONS of dollars for *raping* (and defaming) her—and the media has forgotten all about it? There was a time that this would have been the ONLY story—until the rapist was driving from office.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/07/2026

Today, the majority of House Democratic leadership chose to defend billions in military aid to Israel over the will of nearly 75% of Democratic voters and 103 members of their own caucus. 🧵

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