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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think we lucked out a bit here in that a lot of what Trump does falls into the bucket of “so jaw-droppingly vulgar or corrupt that it’s not technically illegal because it was inconceivable that someone would attempt it.” Like why restaurants rarely post “no defecating on the tables” signs.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

JD Vance not only fucked up the WH fight vs. media but got caught trying to distance himself from Trump's disastrous war. How's the boss goin' like THAT? We'll see if any 2028 GOP contenders figure out how to make hay of this. (None of them are that bright so don't count on it.)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In term 1, Trump took a strong economy he inherited from Obama, threw in some tax cuts, didn’t mess with it much, & took credit for it. In term 2, Trump decided that he wanted to completely reshape the economy according to his own dumbass beliefs and now we’re Trump University.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

INSURANCE HOW DOES IT WORK

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is absolutely right, but the key is that Republicans would be the ones to force the issue. Many Democrats just refuse to take the open shot at Musk. He's a ripe, rich target, and an obvious way to dramatize key issues and mobilize key voters, but some of them are still sitting on their hands.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not sure if they're cowards who don't want to take him on or if they're complicit in taking money from him and people like him, but it's staggering. Standing up to Elon Musk should be an easy layup for any Democrat.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/09/2026

An OpenAI executive similarly warned that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content in an internal message, according to newly unsealed documents.

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

STOP LISTENING TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANT CLASS

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's genuinely fascinating that the US president keeps announcing that he just flat out doesn't know what trade is, he legit doesn't appreciate the concept of exchange and instead views economic activity through the lens of a dragon attempting to maximise its gold hoard to sit upon.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The US has ~220 cops per 100,000 people. Trinidad, TX, has a pop of 860 and ~7 full-time equivalent cops. That's a rate of over 800 cops per 100,000! And they were spending ~35% of the local budget on them. For policing so bad the mayor is quoted saying he wasn't surprised by the closure! Why?!

Trinidad budget, showing $277K out of $790K spent on the police.

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I get that Erick Erickson has never been a big MAGA guy, but to see this bit from him about what American conservatism is in 2026 was genuinely shocking to me.

Erick Erickson, on the people leading the current conservative movement:

They all embrace racial grievances. To varying degrees, they embrace white nationalism, antisemitism, and even Nazi sympathies. They are getting added to conservative institutional boards, attempting to purge churches, and are desperate to indoctrinate young conservatives into fascist ideology.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026

Leave it to the ammosexuals to sue the SCHOOL over a school shooting.

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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

CBS takeover failed, gas prices astronomical, food prices correspondingly astronomical, AI backlash growing, Iran war total quagmire. The only success this admin has had is protecting sexual abusers from accountability and making bank from crypto schemes.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

With Trump unleashing insane tirades against regulating AI, Obama just urged Dems to adopt a comprehensive position on it, warning that failure to act now will be "dangerous." Trump's malevolence has given Dems a big opening. They should seize on it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2154...

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The Real Reason Obama’s Harsh Warning to Dems About AI Is So Unnerving

Most Democrats have more or less the right position on AI. But their arguments are way too narrow to dramatize the real stakes. They should aim higher.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Another property files for bankruptcy as soon as Trump’s name gets put on it.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Corporate Media would have crucified Hunter if he had a Russian oligarch pay for his wedding while Biden was president, but they will bury Donald Jr. doing it. Easy to become inured to absurd asymmetric accountability, but critical to hammer home to US that Corporate Media is biased for Trump.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Irish protestor on Trump's visit: "He's everything wrong in this kind of society. I don't know why we welcomed him here…Ireland and America's friendship is still strong. Trump being here is kind of tarnishing that, because he goes against what America should be."

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SteveG @trenchdiggr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Media doing all of the work for the GOP today, breathlessly promoting Trump's bribe. GOP only need to convince a few percent of voters to make the difference between GOP or Dems controlling House and Senate. That's a low bar, and people are stupid. There is a very real risk that this bribe works.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So maddening that Trump gets about 1/10 as much criticism from reporters for saying "This is the greatest economy in history" as Biden got for saying "I know times are tough, but it's getting better" which was supposedly such a terribly insensitive affront to Americans' lived experience

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 08/09/2026

Imagine the self restraint to wait two and a half decades to tell this story for the first time.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Largest Republican donor (by far): we should have a race war against non-whites. Corporate Media: Democrats really need to answer some hard questions about this Twitch streamer almost no one has ever heard of.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you're the abc news editor who wrote that the nyc mayor attending the 9/11 ceremony is attracting "growing criticism" solely because he's a muslim then you are the criticism you're writing about

ABC:
Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism
Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual remembrance ceremony.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What are the chances that this is true and he's telling it for the first time 25 years later? I mean, good god, people. The president's brain is broken. We have to stop him now before our national disaster gets even worse.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that Trump had a mandate for Project 2025, a thing he swore wasn’t his plan, is fucking absurd

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

25th Amendment.👇

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Look, you can campaign with Trump and lie on his behalf all you want, but showing him our internal emails crosses a line

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Classic example of Musk using weird lingo (nobody says “ACTG sequences” in genetic genealogy) to give the impression of deep expertise when he has no idea what he’s talking about.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A destitute and rusted USS Abraham Lincoln docked at a port in eastern Thailand today, marking its first full stop since deployment nearly 300 days ago. The Lincoln has been supporting the U.S. war against Iran. Families of servicemembers voiced concerns over the mental health of their loved ones.

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Images show rust-covered USS Abraham Lincoln pulling into Thailand's notorious 'Sin City' - AOL

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for nearly 10 months to support the U.S. war against Iran

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think it would be good to make this change. See also: Donner Pass.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

these people are fucking losers

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've covered all kinds of oddballs, extremists, liars, and zealots. I've never profiled anyone quite like Victor Marx -- the GOP candidate for governor in Colorado.

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Meet the ‘Reluctant Exorcist’ Running for Governor of Colorado

Republican Victor Marx says his campaign is at ‘the center of God’s will.’ His opponents called him a ‘fraud.’

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Every Republican candidate and elected official must immediately condemn Republican influencer and activist Catturd for this terrible opinion, since those are now the rules.