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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Weakness is dangerous, and Trump is dangerously weak. And, as weaklings do, he blames others for his own failures, and thereby makes everything worse." My latest essay: "War Through Weakness: Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia" snyder.substack.com/p/war-throug...
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War Through Weakness
Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia
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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Angela Paxton is asking Texans to stand by a man for six long years when she won’t even do it for one more day. Estranged from and divorcing Ken, won’t even say his name, and not good enough for her, but she claims he is perfect for Texans. Angie needs to lead by example.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The White House says it banned Politico for using anonymous sources. One of the examples it cited was their own background briefing in which the White House itself provided the anonymous official. @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We have never looked weaker or more pathetic.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the White House to IMMEDIATELY restore the press credentials of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO reporters after President Trump barred the outlets from the White House. 1/
Screenshot of page 8 of a September 24, 2026 federal court order signed by U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. The order grants the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order and directs White House officials, excluding President Trump, to immediately restore the “hard pass” press credentials of employees of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO that were revoked around September 18, 2026. The temporary restraining order remains in effect for 14 days. The plaintiffs are also ordered to post a $1 bond by October 1, 2026. The page ends with “SO ORDERED,” Judge Kelly’s signature, title, and the date September 24, 2026.
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CNN @cnn.com · 24/09/2026
Federal Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the Trump administration to reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico's access to the White House after they were banned from the premises by President Donald Trump. cnn.it/4hI6EZI
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MayhemMel! @melindameyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Your demise is of your own making. Trying to convince others it's the press fault couldn't make you look less piteous.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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John in Western New York @johnwalczak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good. Damn good.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a sweeping package of election laws Saturday, including a measure making it a felony to seize ballots, election records or voting technology before an election is certified. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California enacts new election safeguards against potential Trump interference in midterms
It’s the latest move by the Golden State to prevent law enforcement or federal officials from disrupting the counting of votes ahead of the midterms.
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Mr. Ron @mrrevron.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson gets brutally community noted.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Donald Trump is again violating the First Amendment. Perhaps this can be noted during the White House Correspondents Association's next black tie dinner honoring Donald Trump. Support independent media that stands to the felon rather than eating with him.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/09/2026
@gtconway.bsky.social went to the Hands Around The Kennedy Center protest tonight and talked to some demonstrators. Thanks to everyone in The Bulwark community who showed out!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😂 there were more people behind JD (for the camera shot) than in front of him
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This, my friends, is gaslighting. Congress is the top three or four of all time only on abdicating its responsibilities. 
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
😬🤷🏼
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How not surprising that a president who acts like a petty mob boss is holding one of our nation’s treasured institutions hostage until we meet his conditions—that is, putting his stupid name on the building. I say we just put it in mothballs until he is gone.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.
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Jay @jaylboh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is what we’re dealing with.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The most dangerous person is the moron who thinks he knows everything with the ability to wreck the fortunes of a country and harm its people. We’ve had many bad presidents, but there was just nobody close to this bad.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts barred the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Friday from advancing new mail voting restrictions that, if carried out, could leave vast numbers of people unable to cast a ballot by mail this fall. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In major win for voters, judge blocks Trump’s mail voting restrictions for midterms
"The court concludes that disenfranchisement for Plaintiff Organizations’ members, regardless of residence, is practically inevitable," the judge wrote.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It would be nice if someone could explain this community note to him. Having a president with a basic understanding of how trade works doesn’t seem like a ton to ask. Meanwhile our farmers are getting crushed.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of concealing from a federal judge its efforts to implement key parts of President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order before November’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump administration is ‘hiding’ efforts to implement anti-mail voting order, Democrats tell court
Democrats are accusing the Trump administration of concealing from a federal judge its efforts to implement key parts of the president's anti-mail voting executive order.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS chief says ICE could make arrests at polling places — ignoring federal ban on armed agents at voting sites
Under federal law, an official who orders, brings or keeps “troops or armed men” at a location where a general or special election is taking place can face up to five years in prison and disqualificat...
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This criticism by Thom Tillis is far too little and too late-but it’s still amusing. And-of course-despite knowing about his incompetence at the time, Tillis nonetheless voted to confirm Pete Hegseth “I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men and women who serve our country.“
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Seems like this should be a bigger deal. 🤷🏼 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Supreme Court today gave the President the unilateral power to do ANYTHING to the White House. The Supreme Court today gave the President the unilateral power to literally tear down the ENTIRE White House if he wanted to. We’re in a very, very bad place.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/09/2026
"There’s nothing in the Constitution that makes the Supreme Court the sovereign monarch of everyone and everything in America. We’ve just grown to tolerate it because, so far, it hasn’t been abjectly abused. Those days are (tragically) over."
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John Roberts Gives Trump a License to Bulldoze the Law
The chief justice’s order turns the president’s illegal ballroom construction project into a fait accompli.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Spread the word.👇
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Liz Sanders: PBS News obtained a letter from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine sent to Senator Elissa Slotkin - he writes, "The Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 2026 elections.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Online records show that a close Honey associate, who has pushed to ban voting machines and brought a slew of lawsuits that risked disenfranchising large numbers of voters, has quietly been brought into the same DHS office. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: Another election denial leader, hired by DHS, drafted letter threatening states over voting audits
The letter is the latest evidence that key figures from the election denial movement are helping drive, from the inside, the Trump administration’s efforts to assert control over voting as the midterm...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/08/2026
DeSantis stole $10M from poor children and funneled it into republican political campaigns. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The United States has never looked weaker or more ridiculous and incompetent to allies and enemies around the world than we do right now.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats renewed their bid Tuesday to block President Donald Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. I am proud to be representing the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries in the critical fight for voting rights. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Democrats renew bid to block Trump’s ‘unlawful’ anti-mail voting order
The filing — which argues that the USPS lacks the authority to regulate who receives a mail ballot — is the first litigation to challenge the order on its merits. It marks the start of the next phase ...
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Loser behavior from a guy who’s clinging like a shriveled old barnacle to a sport he doesn’t actually care about in a desperate bid for relevance. Do not cede one inch to him or anyone who acts this way.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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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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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW: Trump is moving to open 45 million acres of national forest to logging and development. 45 million. Acres. Land that belongs to you, that your grandparents protected, that nobody gets to replace. We just launched this. Tell Congress to stop him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every media story he doesn’t like is “fake news.” Every election he loses is “rigged” or “stolen.” Every court ruling that goes against him is because of a “corrupt, biased judge who had it out for him.” He’s always the victim. What a miserable, pathetic way to go through life. What a wussy he is.👇
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/08/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social on Trump cozying up to Kim Jong Un: "I guess we're going to punish South Korea because they're not getting involved in the stupid war that we started... And instead, we're going to cozy up to the dictator running a prison state."
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Negotiations Continue To learn more about the creative process and philosophical thinking behind my work, and to see behind-the scenese sketches and videos, subscribe to my Substack newsletter: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
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Marc Murphy @murphycartoons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We are all in there. Pawns. Garbage to him, and his people. Bait. Indentured labor to create their wealth. Fooled into fighting amongst ourselves over scraps when we should be fighting them. The Louisville Courier Journal political art.
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MPWERED @kelvin1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
By Nick Anderson (🇺🇸). 🎯😡
By Nick Anderson (🇺🇸).
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"
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