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Ok, this may look like the more likely scenario now, but it also still makes Schmitt and his staff look very incompetent. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Another possibility, consistent with Schmitt’s statements was that the Hawks game was the only NBA or NCAA mens game on at that time, and so when his staff googled basketball games on that date, they focused on the Atlanta game. In this theory, there was no confusion between the Hawks and Hawkeyes, just a coincidence. A reporter who has seen the texts say there was no mention of the Hawks or Hawkeyes.

If so, the Schmitt team just looks more incompetent. There five other NBA games on the same date. (It also reflects the point that Schmitt’s team could not imagine Smith went to a women’s game, even though Clark we mentioned elsewhere in texts between staff). The Hawks game started at 7.30pm but other games started at 8.00 or 8.30, so if the texts were timestamped for around 7.30, that hardly seems definitive. After all, the game Smith actually attended started at 8pm. There were also mens NCAA games, including a Duke-UNC game that started at 6.30.

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Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social · 1h

The only account worth following on BlueSky.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 1h

The new climate normal in New York City—air conditioning is necessary through the end of October, maybe November 15 if you are playing it safe. Then count on needing it again at some point in March.

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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 1h

Oct 2nd 1990 - In an effort to prolong his ailing mother from finding out about the reunification of Germany the next day, Alex celebrates the Day of the Republic for East Germany (which occurs on the 7th October) with his mother. 📽️📅 Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)

4 Screenshots from the movie "Good Bye, Lenin!" (2003): First, a woman is lying in bed with closed eyes, appearing to be ill, with an IV drip visible beside her. The subtitle reads, "Because Mother could hardly wait," indicating anticipation or impatience. Second, a close-up of a hand adjusting a calendar on the wall, suggesting a change of dates. The subtitle reads, "we celebrated the country's birthday on October 2 instead of October 7, 1990." Third, a young man looks contemplative as he stands near a wall, with the subtitle, "It was the day before official reunification," indicating a significant historical moment. Fourth, a close-up of a calendar displaying "7 Oktober" with floral decorations, .

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1h

Home to dinner with my wife, who is over head and eares in getting her house up.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22m

Wage growth just keeps slowing. And yes, wages are rising slower than prices, and no, that's not how economic growth is meant to work.

Line chart titled "Nominal wage growth is slowing" showing year-over-year growth in average hourly earnings of private-sector workers. Wage growth has declined steadily from a peak of 5.9% in early 2022 to 3.0% in September 2026, the slowest rate in the series. This nearly 3 percentage point drop over four and a half years indicates significantly cooler labor market conditions, with the deceleration accelerating in recent months as growth fell from the 3.7-3.9% range in 2025 to the low 3% range currently.

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dogwelder @ga2so.com · 8h

"It truly was a Shawshank redemption."

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ohhleary @ohhleary.bsky.social · 8h

Didn’t think the first place I’d see a MAGA hat in public in months would be on the street in Shanghai.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 14h

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 2h

My @propublica.org colleagues have no business running a private school for kids. And yet they were easily able to start schools in two states -- with a third ProPublica Academy pending that would be located inside a North Carolina bar.

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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 2h

Big sigh. Cornell edited its faq after the NYT story about the CUPD omitting details from the victim statement: “Any mention of sharing “all investigatory information” with the district attorney had been removed from the page.” www.wskg.org/regional-new...

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Cornell quietly edits FAQ page about fraternity sexual assault allegations amid public backlash

On Wednesday, the university removed a sentence stating that campus police “shared all investigatory information with the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office.”

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 16h

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 12h

Scoop: In a sworn deposition Monday, Rep. Max Miller repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether he pushed a girl down the stairs in high school. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 12h

Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?

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Mykael Wyvern — 🔮🧙🏻‍♂️🐉 @wyvern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I legitimately thought this was a joke post

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 22h

I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here.

New York Times homepage link reading:
FRANK BRUNI AND BRET STEPHENS:
Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 15h

The S&P 500 is near a record, but if you strip out the A.I. companies, it’s down 5% since late August. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 15h

Anyone who reads Time's recent interview with Trump would clearly conclude that the biggest story on Earth, this day and every day, is that the President of the United States is seriously unwell and allowed to continue in office - unfit, untethered, and unchecked. Unbelievable.

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Socky Noob @sockynoob.bsky.social · 17h

Greatest radio station in the galaxy. Nothing better in the Milky Way.

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 16h

Rick Baker tells Marya E. Gates about his groundbreaking career in special-effects makeup, from building Bigfoot for Harry and the Hendersons to collaborating with Eddie Murphy on Coming to America and The Nutty Professor. boxd.it/3oe

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WH Press Pool Reports @whpresspool.bsky.social · 16h

🛬 Out-of-town pool report #3 - Dallas arrival + gaggle AF1 touched down at DFW at 2:55 p.m. CDT. It was a quiet trip, with no visitors to the press cabin (except for a stowaway lantern fly that caused a brief annoyance.) (1/2)

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16h

Can irony kill you?

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S @vidiot.bsky.social · 15h

fucking ghoul (not that we didn't already know that.)

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 16h

Home to see the painter at work, late, in my wife’s closet, and so to supper and to bed, having been very merry with the painter, late, while he was doing his work.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone involved with this, except a dozen or so already very wealthy people, will lose.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

JD Vance on Angie Nixon: "Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America"

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Anu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 19h

Even in his own made up flattery fantasies, the woman has to be completely intoxicated to find him appealing.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?

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S @vidiot.bsky.social · 18h

I mean, when I think about torture, John Yoo's name does come to mind.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 22h

Hearn's case presents "exceptional" circumstances. He "faces the unique possibility that the govt will revive this case—one that it has already announced to be meritless—based on political pressure brought by the President of the United States on his subordinate officers."

While all defendants deal with
some degree of uncertainty regarding the odds of re-prosecution after a case has been
dismissed, Mr. Hearn faces the unique possibility that the government will revive this case - one that it has already announced to be meritless - based on political pressure
brought by the President of the United States upon his subordinate officers.

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 22h

This *INCLUDES* tourism from the world's largest sporting event, and it was FIFA's biggest-ever World Cup.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20h

Apparently attacking a random streamer that 99% of us have never heard of wasn’t working very well. So they’re switching up.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 20h

Great thread to read if you respond to every paywall like someone has shot you in the chest

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 20h

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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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19h

For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 19h

Trump in Alabama: 44.3% fav - 46.7% unfav. “That’s in a poll by a center-right firm, in a sample where Republicans outnumber Democrats by nearly 18 percentage points and self-identified conservatives outnumber liberals by more than 2½ to 1.”

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23h

2️⃣5️⃣

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

According to a poll a few years ago, 18% of Americans think the 1969 moon landing was actually staged somewhere in Arizona. In a new poll, Trump’s approval on the cost of living is 17%. Which means there are more moon-landing deniers than people who think Trump is doing a good job on affordability.

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 23h

Today, NYC's first-in-the-nation click-to-cancel rule goes live. A basic rule with big implications: sign up with one click, cancel with one click. Here’s @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social citing our research: it'll save New Yorkers up to $160M and 600,000 hours a year 👇

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