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Noel Mummy 🤕 @noelmu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone's said all there is to say about Schmitt's hilarious "Hawks" boner. But the part that I keep coming back to is that Schmitt apparently thought proving Smith was in Atlanta would somehow prove some cross-prosecutorial conspiracy. Then he didn't bother to confirm if Smith ever was in Atlanta.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not to be a party pooper but a Democratic Congress is absolutely not going to lower costs; it just won't be in their power no matter how much they'd like to. Hard to tell what the political consequences of being unable to follow through on their central campaign promise will be.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump says he's also looking at banning the Washington Post, calling it a "crummy paper" and "disgusting." Anyway, good job, Jeff Bezos! It obviously was worth losing all those scubsribers and turning your opinion section into MAGA-lite, only for the president to continue to call you "fake news."

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“We didn’t vote for more expensive goods, we voted for a barbarian king to make us richer by exacting tribute from our subjugated vassals” is true but not exactly comforting to our trade partners.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is where we are: a tech billionaire who, as an undergrad writing in the Stanford Review, "blasted a student movement to raise custodians' pay, warning it 'destroys incentive for them to improve themselves,'" is now a chief architect of a homelessness policy built around punishment and coercion.

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How the Billionaire Joe Lonsdale Shaped Trump’s Homelessness Policy (Gift Article)

As Republicans have embraced tough measures to clear the streets, no group has led the way more than the Cicero Institute, founded by the venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations. This is an extraordinary scandal.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/08/2026

Trump, Vance & Leavitt - Girth, Wind & Liar.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world" "Cato Institute ranks Texas 50th in personal freedom" "Texas Is Among The Most Difficult Places To Vote" "10 states with poorest quality of life" Total taxes higher than California for 99% of people! Double property tax rate alone!

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"Turning Point USA and Young America’s Foundation (both heavily pro-Trump)—are propped up with cash from wealthy conservatives. Ben Shapiro gilded by a number of conservative billionaires, many of who...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/07/2026

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

and this will happen after a 2028 campaign where the Democrat is painted as the pro-Iran and pro-Israel candidate and Vance or Rubio or whichever Republican is painted as the anti-war candidate.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 24/07/2026

Musk insisting storebought tomatoes are better than homegrown tomatoes is the most perfect distillation of how ignorant he is of daily human life and the small joys therein.

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God @thegodshow.com · 25/07/2026

This is a totally surreal moment in the Epstein scandal. They win the top award for exposing a pedophile, then have to shake hands with said pedophile.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

More Americans have been killed in the Iran war Trump started than in the Afghan withdrawal Biden was handed and completed. The implications for America’s geopolitical situation is much worse with attacking Iran than leaving Afghanistan. But going by tone of coverage, one would think the opposite.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I confess this thought has crossed my mind and the doomer in me can't help but wonder if all the economic bombs Trump has set will just happen to explode the moment we swear in a Dem, causing voters to believe things were better under Trump...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Apparently, we're arguing about tipping again, so I'll repeat what I always say: if you're in a culture that tips, you tip. Your theoretical economic reform theory has no bearing on the present reality, and when you use it as an excuse for not tipping, you tell people what a dick you are. 1/2

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Trump years have been instructive because it's been clear that nobody in the GOP actually hates the inevitably bad things about communism. Secret police, personality cults, gulags, kleptocracy, party loyalty tests, martial law, even central planning. Just the concept of people with less having more.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For decades Air Force One has been built from the ground up as a flying military command bunker. He really thought you could hurriedly tack on some after market tech onto an aging orgy plane and get the same thing. Like trying to turn the Playboy Grotto into the NORAD doomsday bunker, but dumber.

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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 10/07/2026

Announcing "this is how I'm getting tough on China!" while proudly destroying something American is very on-brand.

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Jonas Hallgren @nyheter.nu · 07/07/2026

Haaland Oates

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

there's a lot here to be angry about but in theory if you care about things like "Western Civilization" it seems to me that you should probably be in favor of talented artists disseminating the core texts of the Western canon in a way that makes them accessible to the entire world.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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Harter Lancet @velikizeko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This was the USMNT we all know. Lazy, incoherent, lack of give a fuck. The off-field distraction helped nothing. People kept asking why I didn't believe in the apparent positive change to the squad, and just this is who they have always been Thank God for the USWNT. They know how to play

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Harter Lancet @velikizeko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Balogun situation is vintage Trump: -Corrupt as hell -Betrays one of his supposed bedrock principles if it aggrandizes him -Center himself to deliver something that seems good to the rubes, but actually does massive damage to US reputation -The only thing its missing is stealing $

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84) the18.com/en/soccer-en...

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Where Does The USWNT Rank Amongst The Winningest Teams Of All Time? | The18

The USWNT is quite good — that's what all our number crunching has led us to believe.

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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Until we address the fact most talented soccer players in the US can’t afford to compete because club and travel teams have snuffed rec/school ball out, this is probably going to keep happening.

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Dave Tait @davetait.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

So I guess this is a sub-bloop: I'm done with people posting fake Trump Troots as though they were real, be it an honest error, a deliberate attempt to deceive, or a lame attempt at "satire." Satire isn't possible with him, since everything is plausible ― and comments show many believe the fakes. /1

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

2/2 And while I'm at it: Reminder that DC has more residents than two entire states w total of 3 Reps and 4 US Senators (WY and VT, closing in on ND). We pay *more* federal tax per capita than any other jurisdiction—really, top even NY and CA. And have zero vote in Congress. Statehood for DC.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

shutting down a major artery into the city during a holiday weekend while the world cup is in town and there’s a historic heat wave that’s lead to energy rationing just so you can have a wedding is a real radicalizing eat the rich moment

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Harter Lancet @velikizeko.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

1. Whole lot of "Don't Tread on Me" types who are very silent about this kind of behavior from ICE 2. This would be a massive scandal in any other administration, but now it is barely reported by the local news and will never crack national

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

...I've held my nose and voted for centrist Dems more times than I can count because I didn't want the opposing Republican to win. centrist Dems who won't do the same when a progressive is on the ballot are giving away what side they are really on

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hey just wondering whether there are any mythological tales about a man who becomes obsessed with a reflecting pool? Maybe there would be, like, a personality trait associated with that myth.

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Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. Internal Documents Raise Doubts.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/06/2026

All of Trump's go-to riffs are clearly things that someone tried to explain to him using extremely small words and basic concepts and that he still didn't understand, but still latched onto specific terms to create his own Ralph Wiggum version

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Harter Lancet @velikizeko.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Messi just wanted his record breaker to be from the field of play not the dot

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

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