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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13/11/2025

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

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Epstein Document Search

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Feels like just in my lifetime the tech industry went from solving problems to pretending to solve problems, to creating problems

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers

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Vinty @vintyfresh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The #treatlerites phenomenon is real… From r/temuthings: “I’m angry because he’s taken away one of the very few things I had left to enjoy in life…” “…Now I work a job I despise and cant afford anything at all as even a small consolation for it.”

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Tam Hodge @tamhodge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Empathy over apathy.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Hey you know how people made the Tesla brand radioactively toxic and crashed its entire corporate structure? You can do that with authoritarian brutality and with neoliberal oppression and exploitation. You chase these motherfuckers from society until all that’s left is something real and better.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

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LeAnne, who is not high in this photo, but unsure about the cat @ennael.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

But ultimately the blame lies with the Democratic Party leaders and the party consultants who lost an election against an authoritarian dipshit in spite of receiving millions in donations. The “they are weird” slogan energized people; the shift right on the border and promising Biden 2.0 did not

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MountainBikeCrashExpert @magnusxander.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Democratic corporate consultants: “Don’t say ‘weird’. ”

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Dan Ray @danray0424.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

They were really onto something with the "weird" thing. Then the Democratic consultants convinced them it wasn't serious enough. Blame every single thing on them, highlight every failure however tenuous, and relentlessly point out what weird-ass humans they are.

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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 16/01/2025

remember when they actually struck gold when they called republicans weird and republicans were actually freaking out about it, and the message was actually working but then the Democratic Consultants got upset and told them to stop calling republicans weird, so they stopped and never did it again?

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CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 21/01/2025

Which is part of why Tim Walz was so refreshing. He was the first person since 1980 to appear on either the top or bottom of a Democratic ticket who wasn't a lawyer. Until the lawyer-brained consultants gagged him because they thought "weird" wasn't SrsPolitics™.

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dallas @liketexas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Remember that brief moment where the democratic message on this was “these guys are weird” and the voters loved it and then the consultants made them stop

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 12/02/2025

Maybe I'm a fool, but I honestly do think that this tactic can be defeated. But not the way the Democratic Party has been doing it. tl;dr - my God, we need some better comms. It's why "they're weird" worked so well until the consultants killed it... it's language! Communication.

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

That was the pivot. Away from Walz and "weird" (both freaked out the consultants) and back as usual to chasing their precious centrists You could feel all the joy deflate. We had like two weeks of playing to Democratic voters and then back to the same loser energy

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Don't blame focus groups for how Democrats reacted. Focus groups were quite clear that weird would have worked as a strategy. It was Democratic consultants rejecting data in favor of what they wanted that caused weird to end.

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🫡 🇺🇸 Never heard of him 🚮 🔚 🔜 @backlitkeyboard.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I will never forgive the Democratic consultants who told him to stop using the word ‘weird’ because it could offend MAGA voters who might vote blue. Unbelievable

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

One of these days someone in the Democratic Party will try turning out the base rather than chasing mythical ‘swing voters.’ I think Walz’s ‘weird’ campaign was good. Too bad the Party’s consultants turned away from that.

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Madcap @madcap777.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

4.5. "We're not going back" is a great, punchy refutation of MAGA, with overtones of pre-Dobbs America. Shoulda been the campaign's official slogan. And "weird" was working so very very well. Sadly, Democratic campaign consultants hate things that work well, for reasons I've never understood.

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Ditaki @ditaki.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We HAD our messaging. Calling those ghouls fucking weird WORKED. Then we stopped because some septuagenarian Democratic consultants said we might not win suburban white women…and then we proceeded to not do that anyway

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ProChoice Mike @vichyregime2.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

AND the Democratic consultants telling Democrats not to attack the Republicans TOO HARD like the consultants who told Kamala Harris to stop saying "Republicans are weird" or "we're not going back"

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dallas @liketexas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

remember when the second-most-prominent democratic politician made "these guys are weird" a slogan and the base absolutely loved it and then the consultants made him stop so he wouldn't hurt liz cheney's feelings

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

sorry for sharing this antisemitic sex creep's tweet, but someone should report out who, exactly, is paying far-right influencers. I don't think Shaffer is lying. Forget about the money they earn from YouTube ads or Substack subscriptions. The real gravy train is what amounts to affiliate deals

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Sabo-Katt @resistokatt.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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KCRCC Town Hall in Coeur d'Alene Idaho woman illegally detained

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

CALIFORNIA: Rep. @JayObernolte (R) becomes the latest to hear from the people 🇺🇸 🔥 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGZ0d7B...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

In 2024, The New Republic and Proof wrote a ton about Yarvin. Now—thankfully—everyone is interested. He's the leader of a cult at least one of the three co-presidents is in, along with the VP and a top lieutenant of yet another co-president. America needs to know how dangerous these cultists are.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Hi, hello. In order to grasp the significance of Trump crowning himself a King, you have to understand that he is literally carrying out a plan crafted by Curtis Yarvin, a right wing extremist, to overthrow democracy and replace it with dictatorial rule by a monarch-CEO.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

MUST WATCH: Rich McCormick (R) got embarrassed at his own town hall because he wouldn’t admit the obvious—Trump is headed straight for dictatorship. He dodged the questions and got BOOED to hell. Things are heating up!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/02/2025

Meanwhile, outside, folks are not playin… Nearly 500 people showed up for Georgia Congressman Rich McCormick’s District 7 town hall. This is the third overflow area—the crowd is fired up, demanding a live stream and more town halls.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

WATCH: “When will you stand up to them and say that is enough?” WISCONSIN Republicans Grothman & Fitzgerald run into tough town hall crowds also 👇🏽👀

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 21/02/2025

Here's the second @bluestein.bsky.social video that X blocked. Lots of shouting. Closing quote from Rep. McCormick: "No, I don't think that we should cut school lunches for needy kids. I don't."

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 21/02/2025

Here's the first @bluestein.bsky.social video that X blocked (with the last few seconds trimmed off). Audience member: "[Congress] controls the budget, not the president. And you are doing us a disservice to set that down and not stand up for us!"

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21/02/2025

Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

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