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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 26m

If thundershirts work then this should be even better!

🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 40m

Exactly

🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 2h

I'm so glad that the glass ceiling for conmen and bullshit artists has been broken. Girl power, yay!

The US media's race to debase itself continues unabated...

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · Sep 4

The most profitable cancelling ever culminates in CBS being turned into Fox News for people who prefer not to admit that they’re MAGA Republicans
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...

The Goddess of Grift - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Today’s episode of The Cancellation of Bari Weiss: lol at Bari's "broadly shit-kicking anti-establishment disposition." She's not fucking Stone Cold Steve Austin, she is the kid from your high school ...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 48m

This whole "they all hate me which means I'm right" bit is so goddamn tiring.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

its a tremendous bit.

Sally Jenkins of the Atlantic writes: Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

its a tremendous bit.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3h

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 1h

Completely unrelated WH visits from a parkinson's expert vs cankles, IV hand, and "routine annual exams" twice a year at Walter Reed.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 5h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 2h

Like after sending back your cologuard kit, specifically.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

also "retribution" implies he was wronged in some way by the people he's persecuting, subtly justifying what he's doing. bsky.app/profile/reun...

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 2h

I'm so glad that the glass ceiling for conmen and bullshit artists has been broken. Girl power, yay!

The US media's race to debase itself continues unabated...

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 16h

This image shows a stack of six lightning bolts nearly striking the same spot six time in only one minute of elapsed time! Mother nature really had it out for whoever was down there... #photography

A sculpted, layered LP supercell at night. The structure is illuminated by six lightning strikes hitting the ground to the right of the storm. A clear, starry night sky is on the left of the storm. A car's headlights can be seen in the distance.

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 2h

Our entire society is geared towards rewarding sociopathic behavior.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3h

The ability to "be natural" in front of, let alone toward, a camera lens is a freakish artificial skill and the demand for it almost certainly has left scammers and sociopaths overrepresented in political leadership; probably not great that we've now organized everyday society around it too

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 3h

It's a sign of how many people (and journalists) live inside a media-created alternate reality that skill in the style of televised public performance associated with Hollywood actors is considered equivalent to 'authenticity'

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

Out of shape goon squad 🤣

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 3h

Some experts agree that he does!

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn either does kidnap and molest preschoolers or he doesn’t. Does he or does he not? Is there troubling evidence or isn’t there? Have preschoolers shrieked in pain and terror in his office or haven’t they? All of this plus the Brooklyn Book Festival!ghv

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats cannot stop him from taking away my healthcare subsidies, I will have no choice but to continue voting for him and/or his anointed offspring in all future elections.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 5h

choose your fighter

12 images in a grid showing a different type of inflatable animal each

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 3h

We can certainly make the US more democratic. We're currently letting land vote and give small states the same power in the senate as states 60x their size. We haven't expanded the house so that's been skewed as well for decades now. SCOTUS shouldn't depend on who's in the WH when one of them dies.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 4h

More of this please

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

It's amazing how public officials who willingly go on TV to talk about these issues can claim ignorance about the very things they've come on to talk about, and it's treated like a legitimate answer.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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🎃dutch(trick or)treat🎃 @dutchtreat.bsky.social · 4h

Do they sell inflatable popes?

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 6h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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