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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Rep. Michael Cloud on Talarico: "We don't need heresy -- heretical things coming out of his mouth that Texans don't believe in. We like our barbecue, we like our trucks, we like our firearms as well, we like our freedom. We don't want to go that path."
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 1h
If you missed the botched gotcha of Jack Smith by Sen. Schmitt this week, here’s a recap of that moment. Video: buff.ly/yhSmHuI
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
irony is dead -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders is on Fox & Friends decrying "manufactured" conservative outrage
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12h
Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.
Pete Hegseth drunk and drenchedKash Patel drunk
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 2h
AP NORC: Trump approval at 31 points. A majority of Americans, 51%, *strongly disapprove*. AFAIK, strong disapproval crushing overall approval by 20 points is unprecedented. There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h
Trump is now running pro-Iran War propaganda commercials on Fox News paid by for taxpayer dollars
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 14h
BREAKING: Trump says that Jerome Powell must “resign immediately” or face a lawsuit from the “highest level of the U.S. government.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h
JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.
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Judge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records Fight
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 13h
uh…what the fuck
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h
“What a crock of sh*t!” Katie Phang torches Todd Blanche after he declares, “There’s not a prosecutor in this country that should ever, ever violate a court order,” pointing to the Trump DOJ’s documented noncompliance with court orders in her OWN Epstein files lawsuit.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 12h
A conservative dark money group is running Prop 132 asking voters to put more Coloradans in prison for fentanyl. Is it backed by people who make money off private prisons? Don’t know. It’s dark money.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h
We need to focus on the fact that Senators Kennedy and Grassley participated in this charade and soiled themselves badly in the process. They need to apologize to the witness, and to the American public for their serious misconduct. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump: "Our gasoline prices are lower than Biden"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Q: There's a report that Ken Paxton was complaining about your midterm convention. He felt like it hurt him. What's your reaction? TRUMP: Well, I haven't heard that, but I can tell you that the convention was amazing. We had 107 million views. The NFL had 25m. We had four times what the NFL did
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Julie Bee🐝🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @junebug1925.bsky.social · 17h
WH reporters, fact check in real time while you’re standing there. Partner with someone in the room to pool your notes . Trump is Liar liar, with 80 year old soul & pants on fire www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/m...
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Trump said the GOP’s midterm convention outperformed the NFL. Ratings show otherwise | CNN Business
There were two big events on television last Wednesday night: President Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican Party’s midterm convention, and the NFL’s 2025-26 season kickoff game between the Seattl...
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Susan Grgurich @sgrg.bsky.social · 17h
What is the point of the 25th amendment?
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 17h
Trump's “107 million views” is a social-media impressions number, not 107 million people watching. The NFL had 25.1 million actual viewers. Trump's speech had roughly 3.3 million across the three networks carrying it, with Fox alone at 2.5 million.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
He's so far gone he can't even maintain consciousness as his little toadies blow him
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17h
The Biden-appointed judge concluded that federal law does not authorize the DOJ's demands for the state's voter roll. She also noted that the Peach State repeatedly offered the department the public version of its voter roll, which would be enough. Read the full story:
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DOJ now 0-26 after judge rejects  demand for Georgia voter rolls
The judge said the Civil Rights Act does not authorize DOJ's demands for the Peach State’s unredacted voter roll.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h
Someone needs to tell JD Vance that the Bible is full of examples of men who didn't identify as male and resorted to surgery to conform their bodies to their identities. They were called eunuchs. And Jesus noted that some chose to be eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 19:12
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17h
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h
So Israel has a plumber who can stop a plane from crashing—whereas we have a plumber who is currently crashing our Department of Homeland Security.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump lies that Spencer Pratt was winning the LA mayor race until "the fake votes kicked in"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump: "California has a very crooked election system. If we had an honest election, Republicans would win. I would've won. I would've won. If California had an honest system, I would've won.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump on giant AI companies: "They're gonna police. They're gonna police each other. They're gonna self-police. They're gonna police themselves. It's gonna work out very well."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump: "Diesel is really hurt much more, not by the Middle East, but by what's going on in Russia"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17h
The 2,000 residents at NYCHA’s Nostrand Houses have lived with outdated appliances, faulty heating and cooling systems, unreliable elevators, untreated lead and mold, and weak security systems that have decayed over time.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17h
We’re addressing these critical capital needs and more with a $607 million renovation — every dollar guided by residents.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h
When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common Dreams
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 17h
You gotta wonder -- what really motivates a party to spend so much time fixated on whether students were born with a a penis or a vagina?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Things that Senator Eric Schmitt always confuses: Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Atlanta Hawks. A John Deer Tractor vs. A Dear John Letter. Washington State vs. Washington DC. Gorrillas vs. Guerrillas. Duke University’s Blue Devils vs. Arizona State University’s Sun Devils.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 21h
Worst president and worst regime in U.S. history. Let’s start extracting the cancer and making them accountable on Election Day.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 21h
If this holds it’s a Blue Tsunami in November. Story (paywall): buff.ly/YrNvqbg
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21h
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 22h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h
Some of Trump’s most devoted “Front Row Joes,” supporters who traveled the country attending his rallies, are now publicly turning on him. One called him a “fraud and liar.”
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Trump Faces New Midterm Warning Signs as Polls Shift
Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · September 30 · 25m
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h
If you've ever wondered how ridiculously profitable tech companies avoid paying taxes . . .
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Michael Steiner @bierquaffer.bsky.social · 20h
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: Despite Trump fixation, Internal probe of Federal Reserve's building renovation project finds "At no point during our evaluation did we find reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of federal criminal law had occurred requiring a referral to the US Attorney General"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h
Perhaps this is "super intelligence" after all. variety.com/2026/digital...
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White House’s New AI Website Confirms Trump Lost the 2020 Presidential Election
Donald Trump has routinely claimed that he won the 2020 election. But the new AI-powered website America.gov, which Trump unveiled on Tuesday to great fanfare, says otherwise.
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Indivisible Bucks County @indivisiblebux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HOLY PA-01 SCOOP IN POLITICO!! Brian Fitzpatrick's awful ads seem to show a bunch of news headlines. But those deceptive quotes didn't come from actual news reports - they were written by one of his wedding guests, a felon who was once on the payroll of his own campaign, who self-published them!
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The source of Brian Fitzpatrick’s campaign ad attack fodder: A guest at his own wedding
Self-published articles from a longtime ally are showing up in the vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican’s attack ads.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let’s remember that Sen. Eric Schmitt is a white nationalist who employs other white nationalists while spreading white nationalist/racist conspiracy theories. missouriindependent.com/2025/09/15/m... White supremacists never fail to demonstrate how they’re inferior:
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Rep. Dan Meuser blames Ukraine and Biden for high diesel prices
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let’s talk about sex.
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