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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h
One thing is clear: elected Republicans are STILL all in on defending January 6th as nothing more than a “spirited debate.” One can safely assume that means they will also be in support of the NEXT insurrection. These MFers MUST be held accountable on November 3rd, 2026.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
CRUZ: Do you have any evidence whatsoever to believe that I and 20% of Republicans in the Senate will engage in destruction or tampering with evidence or intimidation of potential witnesses? JACK SMITH: No. We had powerful evidence that Donald Trump and his associates would
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 17h
Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
SEN. WARREN: "They cut taxes and they always say ‘it's really going to pay off for you’ — every time academics come back say ‘What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.’.. this is the 20.0 version of this.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 6h
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 11h
The Trump Organization filed for trademark protection of "Trump TV" so that the government would have to PAY him to use the channel he just created… Miraculously, Trump has found yet another way to steal even more money from the American people. Trump. Is. A. Charlatan. And. A. Fraud. 😎✨
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h
Benny Johnson took Russian money to spread his right-wing lies. He claims he was duped. So is he spreading right-wing lies for free now?
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Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say
The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h
El Salvador is still imprisoning ICE deportees from the U.S., even after Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case sparked a backlash. Some are disappearing.
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ICE Deportees Are Vanishing Into Salvadoran Prisons
The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12h
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 12h
Today before Senate.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 12h
It’s insanity that Special Counsel Jack Smith is once again having to confirm the orange felon’s seditious crimes to the Senate when half of the despicable scumbags who are questioning him are the same MAGA seditionists/insurrectionists who participated in those crimes.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h
Proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump and Co. conducted a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States out of its presidential election — ie attempted an autogolpe, or "self-coup" — was in the public record. The facts and the law were never in question. Only if America would follow them.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 17h
HOLD MEN ACCOUNTABLE.......💪🏻
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Adam Hoffman was convicted of raping his friend's young son. He should be in jail, but Paxton used his power to get him on a misdemeanor. That means he only served for 60 days, didn't have to register as a sex offender in Texas, and then left the state.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why women choose the 🐻
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Give Iowans a steel plant and they’ll vote for the GOP?
Like third-world(sic) nations’ ruling parties and their dictators building steel plants or starting national airlines because patriotism and big-ticket capital, or a call-back to Stalinist or Nazi…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's difficult to engage in diplomacy when you're too simple-minded to think about anyone except yourself . . .
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 28/09/2026
Netanyahu under pressure over reports he was warned about October 7 ft.trib.al/3PHq7RS
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Netanyahu under pressure over reports he was warned about October 7
Opposition attacks Israeli premier ahead of election over leaks suggesting Egyptian and Emirati officials alerted him to Hamas threat
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Republicans won't spend a cent to make health care more affordable but they'll gladly spend untold millions on CORRUPT political propaganda. Pull these illegal ads DOWN. Trump should be forced to REFUND taxpayers.
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Trump’s 2024 ‘Final Battle’ Ad Returns, Funded by Public Money
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joe Scarborough: It’s important we now have documentation that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run ads for their political party.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t think you need to be a doctor to know that subjecting children to Jets football is harmful.
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Mike @mike-0568.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'We had them under view for a long time, and we got them.' The US president is a lying tosspot. The plot was foiled by an insomniac farmer, who spotted the men and reported them to Gloucestershire police.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No other words needed. Only questions- like how could ANYONE who is part of any of these demographics, or any marginalized population, vote for any GOP? MAGA? Any replies? #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
In April 2026, the Supreme Court effectively ended the Voting Rights Act, opening the door to an all-white Congressional delegation from the South. The decision has startling parallels with Plessy v Ferguson, the decision that established “separate but equal.”
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She’s doing her best to keep his attention… 🤣
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s your periodic reminder that Howard Lutnick is still Commerce secretary despite blatantly lying to the public about his personal and business ties with child molester Jeffrey Epstein.
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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RFK Jr. is in the Epstein files, repeatedly. That's probably the main reason why Trump hired him.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Lingua Franca @triplozero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If it comes to pass that AI has taken all the jobs. We will need answers for how to feed people. Or we can vote differently. apple.news/AdxDEGkSySq2...
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How America’s Biggest Buffet Chain Cracked the Math of All You Can Eat — The Wall Street Journal
Golden Corral scrutinizes buffet waste, marries costly shrimp with cheaper hush puppies and mines data to make money off bottomless offerings
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The right’s “nO moRE taXeS” refrain is such bullshit. Tax is good! Tax is how we get all the good things that we all rely on. We just need to make tax fair. Tax capital gains, tax the rich. 🎨 @slanecartoon.bsky.social
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
House leadership sent lawmakers home on an extended recess to dodge a vote on Pete Hegseth's unauthorized war. Do not let them hide from accountability. Demand your representative vote to impeach right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My foreign policy views are simple. I think we should be the first among equals to enforce the international law we helped build. Thanks, @ezraklein.bsky.social, for having me on the show.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump started “renovating” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in April. After spending $19.2 million of taxpayers’ money, it appears he’s abandoned it.
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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The UN: "The US was the ONLY nation to vote "NO" against ensuring & strengthening worldwide access to justice for all women & girls. The resolution passed with 37 yes votes, 6 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Congo, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania & Saudi Arabia) abstained." Good company, huh? Vote Blue!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“If you’re evil you’re actually kind of good. Because you’re at least getting something done.”🤔 Y’all aren’t alarmed enough about what MAGA tech billionaire (Trump donor, J.D. Vance’s pimp, Epstein’s buddy) Peter Thiel is doing to our country.
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
35 years ago today, after witnessing the bribing of a US senator, a disillusioned Lisa Simpson gave an impromptu fiery anti-American speech at a national essay contest at the Kennedy Center. #TheSimpsons episode “Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington” first aired September 26, 1991.
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