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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 4h
"President Donald Trump is sending more than 20 million Medicare recipients a one-time $90 payment — less than half the cost of a single month’s standard Medicare Part B premium — just weeks before the midterm elections." www.salon.com/2026/10/03/t...
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Trump has $90 for his "wonderful Seniors" - Salon.com
The one-time Medicare payment is less than half a standard monthly Part B premium, arrives just before the midterms
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 5h
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 8h
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 5h
I'll be voting just for the satisfaction of voting against these lickspittles.
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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, when you put it like *that* it sounds really bad.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 6h
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21h
Trump landed two huge projects and almost several hours of economic growth.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess he missed Hegseth’s speech at Quantico this week.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 5h
Amazing and depressing how many people actually believed this guy was genuine and honest. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14h
If this reads like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails, it’s because it’s exactly like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 10h
As he does so often, Senator Tommy Tuberville, a former football coach, proves that it's not only players who get dibilitating brain injuries.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 13h
Trump to sign an executive order renaming failure as success, defeat as victory, war as peace, poverty as prosperity and tyranny as democracy. (Probably.)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h
"I'd rather get free money from the government than have socialism, which just teaches lazy, stupid folks they don't have to work for money they get, y'all!!!"
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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 14h
Okay, so just to clarify, no mail-in voting unless it helps the Republicans win. Got it!
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 12h
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
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We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 6h
"[W]hile the biggest changes to Medicaid won’t land until after the midterms, state lawmakers and hospitals are making deep cuts to benefits and services now as they brace for a dropoff in federal funding." www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Republicans tried to punt health care cuts until after the midterms. It didn’t work.
While most GOP-enacted cuts to Medicaid and other safety net programs won’t happen until 2027, Democrats are speaking to the voters already feeling the squeeze.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 10h
"The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you! go.bsky.app/RoiYSwx
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 11h
"President Trump personally instructed his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency, setting in motion a $20 million contract that used funds from the Department of Homeland Security...." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 12h
"What’s different and scarier now [than in 2020] is that the Justice Department’s leadership is working together to validate the president’s election lies from the top down. Turning fiction into fact is now part of the job description." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Getting Desperate. It Shows. (Gift Article)
The Justice Department is trawling to find perpetrators on whom to pin conspiracies. Ordinary citizens are being ensnared.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 12h
"Since Labor Day, Democrats have been tied or ahead in nearly every nonpartisan poll of not just two but five states that voted for Mr. Trump by between 11 and 16 points: Texas, Alaska, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Democrats May Have Found the Recipe for Flipping Red-State Senate Seats (Gift Article)
Five new Times/Siena polls continue a run of strong results for Democrats in states that President Trump won easily in 2024.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 12h
"The whole thing is, to the extent that it makes any sense at all, based on the idea that only corrupt partisan prosecutors would have taken note of Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, which is…bonkers." goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/the-schmit...
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The Schmitt Fiasco
And why it’s par for the GOP course.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
" ..Alito has confirmed that he is considering retirement, leaving open the possibility that he could leave after next year’s term and hand another nomination to President Donald Trump." www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The right has gone from insisting that its rhetoric about entitlements was color-blind to demanding that it include racial signifiers." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Right’s Identity Politics Take a Bizarre Turn
MAGA activists are having a meltdown over a throwaway character in Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s political ad.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can tell a lot about Trump just by the people he sympathizes with. bsky.app/profile/sylv...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/10/2026
Billionaire political spending was about $16 million in 2008. In 2026, it could reach $2–3 billion. Whatever your politics, that’s a staggering shift in who has the financial power to shape American elections.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Step 🐸 @big-steppa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.
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🏳️‍🌈Joan🐾3DogMom💙UConnWBB🏀 🐾 🫶🏽WNBA 🇩🇰🇺🇸♀in NewEngland💪🏽🇨🇦♥️ Hygge ོ⋆☀︎𓂃ᨒོ @joan3dogmom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thoughts?😊
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolutely blows my mind! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/10/2026
The jobs report was so weak Fox may need to hire a grief counselor.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.
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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1𝜄 = 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗈𝗇𝖾 𝗂𝗈𝗍𝖺 @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
⁍ Trump told TIME the GOP convention drew 107M views and beat the NFL. ⁍ Nielsen data tell another story: about 2.5M watched his speech on Fox News; the NFL opener drew 25.1M. ⁍ Psaki calls him “untethered”; the numbers make the cleaner case. ➷ www.rawstory.com/jen-psaki-26...
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'Untethered' Trump admitted he's given up on midterms in sprawling interview: Jen Psaki
President Donald Trump is completely losing touch with reality and looking for anyone to validate his greatness as the American public turns on him, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Thursday evening.It's li...
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"...Reuters found that the effort had two goals: to find evidence that the 2020 election had been rigged and use it to support sweeping changes to the American voting system." www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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How Trump’s obsession with ‘rigged’ voting machines spread across US government
What began with a search for evidence inside a Puerto Rico voting machine grew into a vast quest involving intelligence agencies, election deniers and White House officials. It failed — but Trump dieh...
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"...[B]oth Musk and Luckey head companies that have contracts with the Pentagon worth billions of dollars — and nine current and former officials said any preferential access could allow them to funnel even more business their way." www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Musk-led war commission triggers alarms in Pentagon
Two of the Defense Department’s biggest contractors will help lead a project that could directly benefit them.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"You’d think after a humiliation as comprehensive as Tuesday’s, they’d drop it. But you know these people. They don’t drop stuff." newrepublic.com/post/216176/...
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Eric Schmitt’s a Joke. The Assaults on Jack Smith Are Anything But.
The Missouri senator and other Republicans made fools of themselves Tuesday. But that won’t stop them lying about—and trying to destroy—Donald Trump’s prosecutor.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hegseth reminds us that the military must have standards, namely no jingos, no winos, no bigots, no twits.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Last week, as the war with Iran dragged into its seventh month, [and] gas prices shot up to an average of $4.50 a gallon,...Republican senators determined that the time had come to discuss something else entirely: youth sports." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The GOP’s Culture-War Hail Mary
Will it work?
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"'We have every reason to believe that Patel will aid and abet Trump' in the pursuit of election-related conspiracy theories and undermining trust in the midterm elections, one former official told me." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Given the steady drumbeat of headlines about OpenAI agents hacking into companies, nonprofits, and government agencies, it isn’t hard to imagine why self-policing is preferable to the alternatives." newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Trump Just Pledged to Let AI Companies Do Whatever They Want
Trump and the tech CEOs have a lot in common—not least their sense of total impunity.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's (well past) time to bite the bullet, Republicans. "...[I]f you’re a Republican who is hoping for a restoration of sanity, the rule of law and conservative principles, you should consider doing the same." www.washingtonsun.com/perspectives...
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I Almost Never Vote for Democrats. I’m Making an Exception This Year.
The Republican Party cannot be saved until it finally hits rock bottom.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Employers added 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent, federal data showed on Friday.... "Growth in average hourly earnings fell to 3 percent on an annual basis in September, well below the current rate of inflation." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Jobs Report Live Updates: Growth Cools and Unemployment Rises to 4.2% (Gift Article)
U.S. employers added 29,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate rose to 4.2 percent, as inflation has maintained pressure on markets and raised costs.
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weltschmerzing.bsky.social @weltschmerzing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"'The discussion of making it a landmark is legally meaningless,' said Greg Werkheiser, founding partner of Cultural Heritage Partners, a law firm focused on historical preservation." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump says Secret Service wants him to ‘take down’ Oval Office
The president also said he is looking into designating the White House room as a “federal landmark,” potentially preserving his changes.
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