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John Elliott

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Refugee of sorts. Picture shows actual Tower of Sauron.

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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 1h
its been brought to my attention that the olive branch has been removed and the eagles now just holding a bundle of arrows, truly hunter thompson was right, truly this is the sixth reich, circus circus circus circus baby!!! but no bread for you!!!!!
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 2h
I don't think I've made this point on this platform before it's no coincidence IMO that so much fash faux nostalgia AI slop is indistinguishable from the most gonzo dystopian "what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war, this is the sixth Reich" parodies, IE:
its charlie kirk rting an obviously AI image of a 4th of july parade saying "this is what we're fighting for." indeed.its the roswell level from wolfenstein new order. if you haven't played it, it's really something. before going into the cafe, make sure to explore the whole level, sticking around to listen to the npc dialogue in full. fucking dead on.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1h
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13m
Russia Russia Russia Never Stopped Russia Russia Russiaing emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/r...
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Russia Russia Russia Never Stopped Russia Russia Russiaing - emptywheel
Russia's interference in the 2016 election is not the past. On the contrary, the latest news shows how much Russian has simply relentlessly pursued the very same plan it put in place starting a decade...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14m
good thread. it is very annoying that people make out like there is one singular policy called rent control out there
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h
A few years ago, I said greedy egg producers like Cal-Maine were using their market power to deliberately drive up egg prices. My right-wing critics fried me for saying this — but now they all have egg on their face.
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Fox News Mocked Me For Being Right
When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me craz
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23h
Oh, look! The Trump administration is making crossing the US border more onerous for all the millions of Canadians who are no longer doing it. They are smart that way.
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Ulysses S. Longtorso, MN @uslongtorso.bsky.social · 35m
Before NY Mag, circa 20 years ago, Chait used to write countless funny/accurate variations on a “Republicans campaign on the culture war, and rule for the plutocrats” essay. Then he got into “education reform” and “free speech” and descended into perpetual suckitude.🤷
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London Reed🫘🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟No Kings🌟🌟🌟 @londonreed.bsky.social · 6h
Jack Smith smiling at a concert. It was said he was congenial and happy to be with the crowd. I have never seen him smile.
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RN Mayhem @mayhem1994.bsky.social · 2h
At an Atlanta Hawks concert!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 51m
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14h
…there’s nothing on his head and he’ll criminally charge you and deport your family to a brutal third party regime if u ever say Fake News about “the glasses” again.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 34m
Does anyone tthink the smartest reporters in DC don't know Trump is building a dictatorship? Of course they know. The question is why they won't tell the public loudly and clearly.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 8h
Just woke up from a wet dream about Elon Musk where I ran him over with a Cybertruck and laughed so hard I peed my PJs.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h
Two family members can corroborate the following happened last night around midnight when we came out of the (really awesome) Indianapolis blue bar Slippery Noodle: I’m wearing a @zeteo.com shirt and a guy on the sidewalk walking with his friends goes @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s “the GOAT! Mehdi…
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 57m
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 4h
1/ Researchers submitted 15 AI-generated political ads to Meta, including calls for another coup in Brazil. Meta approved 13. None ran, but the gate opened. What happens when next person submitting them wants them published? Brazil's election begins today #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 57m
Oligarchy is ridiculous, part 247839
Elon Musk: No more Al
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It's better

X Freeze: Any possibility of renaming to SpaceXSI??

Elon Musk: Yes, we will make that change
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h
NEW: This week we reported how USPS has slowed down mail pickup/delivery times, boosting risks that ballots could reach election offices too late to be counted. USPS also shrunk the period for "extraordinary measures" to ensure timely election mail delivery from 15 days before election day to 10.
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s citizenship lists could be in effect for the midterm
We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.
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Charles Miner @peleforever.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
dropped case after case, but the felony they kept was for the woman running for congress. what are the odds.
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Grace Garcia @givemegrace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"What Boutros doesn’t mention are the 25 other people charged during that period. For good reason! Virtually all of those cases also fell apart... But they fell apart differently than Broadview 6. And that’s where...the decision to keep trying to indict it, should come under scrutiny."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h
I had Harvey Keitel and his caregivers on my airplane like 17 years ago and even back then I was like, “This man has dementia and is being propped up by gold diggers.” If you’ve read Trejo’s memoir you know the real him would never do this. Seriously think this is double elder abuse, or fake.
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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 2h
It’s an NFL Sunday, which means it’s the perfect time to confirm your voter registration status. Or to register to vote. Or to request your mail in ballot. Then, vote early. But, vote. Like your life depends on it. Because in so many ways, it does.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 7h
I’m at the Emergency Room with my date because YouTube ran a 30 second ad before showing “Heimlich Maneuver.”
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 8h
The norms we miss aren’t gone, they’re waiting for us at the ballot box.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Speaking of Kushner… cc: 🇺🇸 media
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
🥊 Hassett gets his ass kicked by Tapper 🥊 Hassett's efforts to insist Trump's economy is the greatest ever and POTUS has never failed to deliver on his promises did not go well on CNN, as Tapper brought receipts to back up the feeling the majority of Americans have about how hard it is to get by
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 1h
Ruffo is a defender of colorblind meritocracy in exactly the same fashion in which Jonathan Chait is an advocate for raising the quality of public education
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h
the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h
During impeachment, the following happened: 1) Rudy visited known Russian spy Andrii Derkach 2) Bill Barr got copy of Hunter Biden's laptop 3) DOJ dropped Burisma corruption investigation started in 2016 4) Bill Barr set up a side channel to ingest Rudy's RU dirt Impeachment slowed none of that.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
I respect the kind of journalist who may be jailed if the U.S. keeps moving toward a dictatorship, not the kind of journalist who will do just fine regardless.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
Congratulations, fake Christians.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
Joe Biden was too old to be president. Trump is the same age as Biden was when he was president. And it’s obvious that Trump is less mentally healthy than Biden was. So when will the media report that the president’s brain is broken? If the answer is “never,” that means the media are broken too.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West)
By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 19h
Meet Josh Turek — Iowa’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.🇺🇸 An Iowa State Representative and two-time Paralympic gold medalist, Turek is campaigning on lowering costs, affordable health care and supporting Iowa farmers and small businesses. #JoshTurek #Iowa #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Meet Josh Turek — Iowa’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. 🇺🇸

An Iowa State Representative and two-time Paralympic gold medalist, Turek is campaigning on lowering costs, affordable health care and supporting Iowa farmers and small businesses.

#JoshTurek #Iowa #SheShed
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 2h
🧊✈️ HEADS UP NEW JERSEY‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Newark GlobalX A321 – Tail: N277GX ETA – 11:20am 👀
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 3h
Ah yes, known in the Drezner household as “The Season When My Wife Reminds Me Yet Again That I Have Not Won a Nobel or a MacArthur Genius Grant.”
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Edwin Eisendrath @eisendrath.net · 3h
Longtime Chicago journalist @markjacob.bsky.social has dedicated this part of his life to rescuing journalism from it’s own timidity. One of his biggest concerns is how the press has still not fully confronted what is plainly in front of it: “the president’s brain is broken.” Watch:
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The president’s brain is broken
Watch: My conversation with media critic Mark Jacob about sanewashing Trump, pack journalism & the danger of having powerful media assets consolidated under politically aligned billionaires
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
I enjoyed this conversation.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2h
Pete Hegseth is telling troops to vote. Meanwhile, the administration has: ❌ Scrapped a service military voters used to fax back election materials ❌ Changed their ballot request forms at the last minute ❌ Tried to restrict mail voting until a court blocked it
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Hegseth urges military to vote as Trump administration makes it harder for them to cast ballots
Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their famili...
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3h
FBI Director Kash Patel is so busy sniffing out “election fraud” that he has no time to run the FBI, critics complain.
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Keystone Kash’s FBI Humiliation Takes a Brutal New Turn
He’s so busy sniffing out “election fraud” that he has no time to run the FBI, critics complain.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
If we lived in a functioning democracy, major newspapers would run Page 1 editorials pleading with people to vote out the Republicans to save us from a fascist dictatorship. But most of the mainstream media have run out of bravery, if they ever had any.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 3h
What do writers do when their book proposals are rejected? Of course, they WRITE about it! www.confrontthehate.com/p/top-new-yo...
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Top New York Editors Loved My Story of Confronting Hate. Then Came the ‘But...’
What happens when a “hair-raising,” “powerful,” “impressive” story meets a “challenging market”? And where does that leave important stories?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h
Whether it’s Obama saying “yes we can” or Donald Trump say “we’re gonna shove it up their ass” both presidents adopted divisive slogans.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h
Thank you Pete Hegseth for getting rid of the weirdos and beardos. by Elon Musk and JD Vance
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h
Playbook | President Trump is privately demanding that Republicans prove their loyalty by going on TV and insisting that, no matter what was said in the Senate hearing, Jack Smith did attend an Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h
The Ethicist | We increasingly suspect our son was one of the Cornell rapists. Do we have to turn him in now, or can we wait until he gets his Christmas bonus from his private equity firm?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
This is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.
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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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