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@watersidecharacter.bsky.social
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Incorrigible hedonist. Enjoy hovering and gazing seaward. Guard your French fries.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Waterside Character @watersidecharacter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Toddler tirade incoming.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/09/2026
New in PN: Alito & Thomas keep pedal to the metal "The only place where election fraud is real is in the right-wing media ecosystem where they marinate. And b/c they are so steeped in online misinfo & conservative grievance, they're willing to sacrifice every principle of law they ever espoused."
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Alito and Thomas keep the pedal to the metal
Their mail voting dissent is legal hackery. But it makes sense politically.
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Waterside Character @watersidecharacter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So… this is what winning looks like.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Ossoff: "We are witnessing people drunk with power who are utterly reckless, utterly corrupt, and obviously believe that they live with impunity. They believe they're untouchable. They believe they're invincible. Let's prove them wrong."
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/09/2026
“I’m here to speak with whoever authorized happiness.”
Stephen "A-Hole" Miller
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/09/2026
“Boss, love the work, big fan, but I need this Strait of Hormuz thing wrapped by Friday."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵
Fiorinamarietta on Threads writes: "The death of department stores as an EXPERIENCE needs to be studied. You used to be able to buy a dress, have lunch, get your hair done, smell every perfume in existence and leave carrying beautifully wrapped boxes. Shopping used to be an event."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
clearly in great spirits after Trumpapalooza
video still of a red-faced Trump barking at a woman reporter
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/09/2026
Even the crickets were embarrassed.
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie
Donald Trump posts an image on his Truth Social account. It shows a new uniform for US Space Force members, comprising of an all-black outfit with knee-high black leather boots, black cap, and minimalist looking suit.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bf6b095...
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Pentagon refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran conflict ‘because it isn’t a war’
JD Vance offers support after widow expresses frustration in viral online post
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ron Filipkowski: The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026. So far. The scams, schemes and grifts have been endless, as the Trump Family seems to spend most of their time and energy finding new ways to profit off the presidency. Here is my Top 75.
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The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026
So far.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is getting tiring and old. Trump belongs in prison.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
USPS is reportedly pushing ahead with untested technology to carry out Trump’s attack on mail-in voting. The plan, if it’s allowed to go forward, could completely “derail” the midterms, according to a whistleblower. Trump will stop at nothing to cheat his way to victory.
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Whistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midterms
A whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yet another issue where every single person who touched it needs to end up in jail for us to have any semblance of the rule of law. You cannot have a functional democracy where the government creates a plan to literally throw away votes from places that don't support the incumbent party.
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Tom Hilton @tvhilton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That's the whole Republican worldview (apart from the racism) right there, and they apply it to everything from Medicaid to voting.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 31/08/2026
We survive Trump because he wants to be Hitler but has the focus of a golden retriever at a fireworks show.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can't believe these Ivory Tower academics left merely because the American government decided it should arbitrarily revoke research funding and visas, dictate what scholars publish & teach, and send students & assistants to concentration camps.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026
Annie Andrews: "What she [Darline Graham] said there was that her healthcare plan is, 'you should work hard until you die' ... I believe Darline's parents deserved better."
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As @brianbeutler.bsky.social argued, the next Democratic president should send bulldozers to the Supreme Court and tell them they have 15 minutes to decide if the Unitary Executive Theory is real.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I unpacked Supreme Court mail-in ballot ruling @outfrontcnn.bsky.social ⤵️ - The Executive Order is still blocked under a totally separate court order. - States should win quick victories now that USPS has "final rule" (SCOTUS simply held it's premature before that final rule issues). Explanation:
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Americans hear "51st state" as Trump trolling. Canadians hear it as an existential threat to their sovereignty. That gap in perception is why Carney can't afford to look conciliatory, even if the economics of retaliation don't add up. This isn't just a trade war anymore.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026
New in PN: Roberts knives democracy again "So states have to wait for Trump to wreck the constitutional order, 10 weeks before midterms, before they can challenge Trump wrecking the constitutional order, 10 weeks before midterms. But it’s also such an emergency the Court had to step in. Got it."
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John Roberts sticks two more knives in democracy’s back
The mail voting and ballroom decisions are a travesty.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Disappointing to wake up and find our economy and foreign policy is still in shambles despite the DC car race.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The President has decided that in order to make ground beef cheaper, he will cut tariffs on ground beef. And I'm wondering if he could generalize from this one product to other products, and perhaps concede that tariffs raise prices on American consumers.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
> @daveweigel.bsky.social
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A little thread on Trump's CRYPTO ventures because I don't think ppl are seeing how totally corruptive it is to the system. Let's start w this. When investors dump millions into Trump’s crypto ventures, what are they actually paying for? It has no intrinsic value.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/08/2026
I truly believe in ten years not a single person will admit in polite company to having supported Trump. Honest to God I fully believe that
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You could argue, correctly I think, that the current willingness to tear down the post war order is rooted in the fact the folks who could tell you why it was built are almost all gone.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Trump just dismantled this so his blatant corruption and his cronies overseas can operate without consequences or detection. Organized crime is now legal and the US is open for exploitation by foreign and domestic criminals. Don’t expect Rubio to say a word.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A novel—and, no doubt, fleeting—moment of self-awareness.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Asking an Attorney General to abide by the Constitution is too high a standard according to Senator Cassidy.
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doc @docseuss.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I don't think people realize how much of this stuff is straight up people deliberately targeting vulnerable young men in an attempt to make them miserable and desperate to spend money on it in something far more toxic and monstrous than the beauty industry's thing.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.
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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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lynnechester cathedral 🎶🗽 @lynnh1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is perfect. I can't stop laughing 🤣😂
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is why this is not just about Max Miller. It’s about “devout Christian” House Republican leadership who is standing with this guy because they crave power above all else. It’s the culture of MAGA and it comes straight from Trump. Vote them out.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"We have no alternative but to believe the promises of a man who has brazenly lied to us time and time again. You see, I am but a simple United States senator, bereft of any power and beholden to the whims of the pedophile president's consigliere."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Waterside Character @watersidecharacter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The entire Republican Party is disreputable, dishonest, and irresponsible. We’ll never again have the country we knew until it is completely dissolved and replaced with a party committed to the republic as laid out in the Constitution.
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In my lifetime I don’t think anything has made me want to give up on this broken country like the mass shared delusion about something that happened just a few years ago. So many brains are just completely gone and they’re not coming back.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 24/07/2026
Ten years later, sweaty and slurring, he's still promising a health care plan he's never delivered on. Instead, Americans got the highest health care costs ever and hospitals laying off staff or shutting down entirely. All thanks to Trump's health care sabotage & Medicaid cuts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/07/2026
cult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.
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