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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 9d

This post is getting ratioed on X because all the Democrats are like "no they're not" and all the Republicans are like "no we're not"

X post by Jeff Flake captioned, "C'mon, fellow Republicans, we're better than this." Image is screenshot of CNN with chyron, "Trump posts fake, AI video of Jeffries & Schumer"

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 9d

Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries

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The Onion @theonion.com · 9d

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...

theonion.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9d

In any event, if you want a sense of what kind of journalistic standards CBS will now have, here's @radleybalko.bsky.social's detailed takedown at @theunpopulist.net about how her Free Press pushes diatribes riddled with falsehoods, to which the response was basically 'how dare you fact check us.'

The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers

Their flagship publication, The Free Press’, failure to correct an error-filled defense of George Floyd’s killer demonstrates that they are just another partisan tribe

www.theunpopulist.net

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9d

The shamelessness is the point. There are plenty of hacks out there nobody's ever heard of but who on paper have reasonable credentials for the job, and would do all the same Trump-friendly distortion of their coverage. But you have to make a show of subservience, a spectacle of your bootlicking.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9d

According to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social in tonight's Status, Paramount's purchase of The Free Press is imminent and will be announced in the next few days, with Bari Weiss being named the editor in chief of CBS News.

www.status.news/p/washington...

WaPo’s Ad Chief Wavers

Johanna Mayer-Jones, the executive tasked with helming The Post’s ad business, has been weighing her future at the paper—raising the prospect of another high-profile departure at a precarious moment.

www.status.news

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

Here’s 3 full minutes of @kaitlancollins trying to get @SpeakerJohnson to admit undocumented people can’t get federal health care, and Johnson repeating the lie over and over anyway.

Republicans are kicking people off insurance then lying about who they’re doing it to.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9d

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · Apr 5

I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad

American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Hank G @neqone.bsky.social · 9d

Death of CBS News as a legitimate news organization. It’ll basically be OANN after.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

AOC: "This will experiences the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence. Which is why we have to stand tall right now alongside everyday Americans who want us to be standing up."

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 9d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9d

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court –- squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.” “No law” means “no law.” The First Amendment does not draw President Trump’s invidious distinction and it is not to be found in our history or jurisprudence. See Section III.A infra. No one’s freedom of speech is unlimited, of course, but these limits are the same for both citizens and non-citizens alike.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 9d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 9d

My whole life I was told that the left hates America, but it’s MAGA that declared war on American cities.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9d

DHS said “defund the police” (w alt text added)

STATE OF NEW YORK EXECUTIVE
CHAMBER ALBANY 12224
KATHY HOCHUL
GOVERNOR
September 29, 2025
The Honorable Kristi Noem
Secretary of Homeland Security
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528
Dear Secretary Noem:
I write to seek transparency and accountability regarding your Department's decision to
withdraw federal support for New York's efforts to combat terrorism by cutting over $187 million dollars - or 86% - of homeland security funding from New York State. This decision to defund the New York City Police Department (NYPD), New York City Fire Department (FDNY), New York State Police, and other law enforcement agencies will put New Yorkers and all Americans in danger and it must be reversed.
Following months of delay, New York was pleased to see the Homeland Security Grant Program application finally released in August. However, when it was released, your Department initially cut $87 million from New York's historic allocation - approximately 40% of New York's counterterrorism funding. Through this cut, you eliminated $23 million from the State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) as well as $64 million from New York City, Suffolk, Nassau, and Westchester counties' allocations under the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI).
As you know, UASI was specifically created after the 9/11 terrorist attacks to protect the New York City area and other American cities and surrounding areas.
When pressed for an explanation for these cuts, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
staff indicated that they relied upon a formula to calculate these awards and that "the Secretary exercised no discretion." Although your staff provided a brief overview regarding the formula, they were either unable or unwilling to share how certain factors were determined and what elements were considered. Despite multiple requests for clarification, your Department failed to provide any additional information.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 9d

Rep. AOC: This is not a fight over tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. When Republicans use a legislative mechanism to gut the American health care system, we have to use a legislative mechanism in order to restore it

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 9d

Can anyone explain the value of having someone on a panel show that just casually lies like this? What benefit is it to the audience? This isn't a difference of opinion on whether cutting taxes will be stimulatory or something, its just outright lying about objective reality.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9d

A surprising defining text for the modern right is PATTON (1970). Ronald Reagan said it was his favorite movie of all time. In the first act of the movie, Patton turns a defeated army of losers into killing machines by forcing them to tuck in their shirts and show up on time for meals.

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Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 9d

Trump defund police

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9d

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9d

The Catholic Church is more in line with science than the current administration and holy shit

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 9d

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said at the Vatican on Tuesday that “every single one of these 1.4 billion Catholics…can help us terminate pollution.” His comments were made at a press conference ahead of a three-day Vatican meeting regarding climate change.

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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 9d

U.S. soybean exports are gone for good. They're not coming back. But this isn't the 1st time America has been burned by idiotic agricultural policies. In the lead up to the Civil War, the South played a cotton gambit that backfired so that Egypt became the world's leading cotton exporter...

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 9d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 9d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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Tim Cushing @timcushing.bsky.social · 9d

as long as you "earnestly" stacked Gitmo inmates into a naked pyramid "for the clicks," you're cool with me, says Pete "I do my best drinking at work" Hegseth

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Hegseth: "You should not pay for an earnest mistake for your entire career. That's why today, at my direction, we're making changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records."

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9d

Trump effectively declared civil war today. He told the top brass of the military that there's a war within Democratic-run cities and it's their mission to fight it. The whole performance was so ridiculous it takes a while for the gravity of that to sink in.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid.

Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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