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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 27m

makes sense, it’s not like this drunk motherfucker knows how to do any actual, real work, might as well give himself more fake work

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 53m

this Pete Hegseth speech is indistinguishable from parody. words fail to describe the absurdity. here he's talking about governors coming to the Pentagon to grovel to him and Trump so they can be rewarded with a new military base

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 52m

Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 52m

I thought this guy said no fatties and no weirdos.

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 52m

It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.

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John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 1h

How do you even parody this shit?

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 1h

Here’s the bigger ask I mentioned: I owe $6k in back rent. I’ve been selling my limited belongings to reduce the number but it is slow going and I can’t hope to cover it all, especially not in the short time I have. I have enough to cover October rent and little more. More details below.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

that’s what this ridiculous, insulting, unprofessional farce is about and the people being ordered to attend should be blisteringly furious about being used as props for his future campaign

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

this is a man who knows he’s getting canned or impeached after the election and who is trying to set up a future political career

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2h

"to ease administrative burden"

To maintain members’ privacy about where they stay, and ease the program’s administrative burden, House officials decided not to require receipts.

That means the reimbursements operate on an honor system, though members cannot expense more than the daily rate that the federal government allows employees to spend on lodging, meals and incidentals while traveling in the Washington area.

For 2025, that rate fluctuated between $183 and $276 per day for lodging, depending on the month, and was $92 per day for meals and incidentals.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 8h

It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

I sincerely hope he keeps this promise to work 20 hours a day, traveling nonstop and giving these amazing speeches for embattled Republicans all across the country

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3h

It gets less attention than the sparring with Harvard, because the national press is obsessed with Harvard and very detached from the officer corps, but fundamentally Harvard is going to survive these four years wounded but intact, whereas the service academies are getting butchered.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3h

Saying it again: the destruction of the service academies as actual universities is a very importany piece of the Trump administration's undermining of both higher ed and the civilian-military constitutional order. thehill.com/policy/defen...

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Hegseth freezes hiring of civilian tenured faculty at US military academies

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed departments on Tuesday to halt appointments of civilian staff to tenured positions at U.S. military service academies and develop hiring plans that prioritiz…

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

in the maintenance of the constitutional order. (A civilian constitutional order depends in part on the successful inculcation of legal-constitutional norms in the officer corps!) So the destruction of the service academies as universities does seem particularly important to keep track of.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The service academies aren't the only institutions in the US being destroyed as universities. But they're the only federal public universities in the US at all, and they play an important role in training the armed forces' leadership, which ultimately means... www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says

Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3h

This is your brain on drugs, in part because it was hilarious and you could say it while pointing to ANYTHING

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

Look, I was just meeting with Al Capone to raise money for the orphanage bsky.app/profile/rdub...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates

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Kaitensatsuma @kaitensatsuma.bsky.social · 3h

It's somewhat Ironic that Death, who starts out as a somewhat stereotypical anthropomorphized entity becomes one of the most human characters across all the books

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 3h

Some of those above and others, like Ron Johnson, actively participated in encouraging a violent insurrection. Many who knew it was the fault of Donald Trump still caved and refused to convict him of it. But Eric Schmidt is a special kind of immoral evil. He besmirches the Senate I revered.

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 3h

It’s one thing to rely on faulty evidence while thinking you have a gotcha moment. It’s another thing to start by slimming the witness, gloating, while you lie, being smug afterwards, and refusing to apologize. Schmitt may not be the worst Senator – Mike Lee, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz are contenders. 2

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 3h

I first started working in the Senate in 1970–56 years ago. I have loved and revered the institution, worked in it and with it over all these decades, with dozens of senators from both parties. I’ve seen bad stuff and bad people along with great ones. Nothing quite compares to Eric Schmitt. 1

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 3h

i think two things can be true: 1. biden should've had red lines with israel* 2. the oft repeated notion that he could stop it all with a phone call was wildly out (& that was clear at the time)

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Vrachteend, BGK @vincentdehart.bsky.social · 2h

Capitalism at it's finest

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 11h

Most TV is just this now.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 4h

One of the results of killing reading and STEM-ing everything is that we should think and talk about death more

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

The sources aren’t actually worried about that, they’re worried about paying legal bills once congressional subpoenas hit under, presumably, a Dem Congress lol

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

My three-year-old was watching the Jack Smith hearings yesterday when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the Senator think the nice bearded man was in Atlanta?" And when I told her "Because our Senate is filled with fucking idiots," she started crying.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4h

Citing that project as some sort of refutation that Dems are better on climate is such a titanic douche move -- just an absolute waving red flag that an online leftist cares more about purity signaling than concrete progress on emissions.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Obviously I am not saying that Democrats are flawlessly addressing climate change. But there is a vast difference between not doing enough to address a problem and aggressively making it worse.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are progressive politicians so reluctant to admit that conservatives are wrong about something

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball while answering questions from reporters

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Blanche defends appearing at Trump rallies 👇 Q: Wherever you go, you are the attorney general-- BLANCHE: I don't agree w/that. We are allowed to do things in our individual capacity. There have been AGs who were blatantly partisan and never spoke at a single rally. Is that right? Of course not!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Gebbia is in the news again, but strangely no reporters mention this. Seems worth mentioning! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...

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Trump's Chief Design Officer Just Boosted the John Birch Society

Joe Gebbia, the founder of Airbnb, blames immigrants for rising housing costs

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Wrote about the National Design Studio a while back, and two things worth noting. *It is led by a white nationalist *They do skins, not services. America.gov is a chatbot with a .gov skin. They are promising to make services work better but its all TBD.

Skins vs. services: the National Design Studio is building a handful of attractive single page websites, but not fixing digital services that most of the public relies on when they interact with government. Skins is easy to do, but not very impactful.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

This is basically the National Design people who think government should look like Apple products. Not that services should work as well as Apple products - which would be hard - but that visually they should be appealing.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 5h

These savage fucks in the majority might as well let executions go forward while they consider whether someone is innocent.

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 5h

The Lomez-Rufo podcast gives us a snapshot of the conservative movement's metabolism in action.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/from-shitp...

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From Shitpost to Bullshit

The Function of Conservative Intellectuals

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Richard Jensen (No AI.) @theragingcelt.bsky.social · 20h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you've never met anyone from the David E. Kelly Series THE PRACTICE? [JACK SMITH]: Correct [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Dylan McDermott! [SMITH]: That is Dermot Mulroney, sir.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

this guy can barely talk, folks

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 7h

Well Mr, Eggers, you're right about one thing ;) www.ign.com/articles/rob...

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 9h

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 19h

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

"Vote for James Talarico. He has *one* house."

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