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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 2h

You don't say: Fox & Friends admits “coffee prices are soaring” due to Trump's tariffs
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 5d

MAGA throws a temper tantrum over Bad Bunny; Also, right-wing media cheers on a government shutdown.

This week's Media Matters newsletter: www.mediamatters.org/media-matter...

Media Matters weekly newsletter, October 3

Welcome back to Media Matters’ weekly newsletter. This week: Right-wing media’s Bad Bunny temper tantrum reveals who they think counts as American. Some MAGA media pundits were, and are, cheering for ...

www.mediamatters.org

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5d

The politics of full service to the fossil fuels industry, and spreading its malicious propaganda, on full display.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Reducing the CO2 emissions, that's expensive but really wholly unnecessary. Extremely expensive, very little benefit from that. Again, it's just returning common sense. Americans want affordable energy."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 5d

One of those most anti-Christ things I've read

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 6d

MAGA Christianity is a cesspool.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d

Benny Johnson: "Netflix has transed the cows"

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 6d

This is a perfect example of how Donald Trump views the entire federal government, and really the whole country, as a thing that belongs to him personally.

L'État, c'est moi.

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 6d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d

Newsmax host: “These poor government employees are now on a paid vacation”
www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/news...

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d

Matt Walsh: "The death penalty is pro-life"
www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/m...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6d

If Fox News just started playing footage on loop for a bit from the Matthew Broderick Godzilla, the literal president would probably bomb Madison square garden

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9d

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.'"

Almost ... a glimmer ... "am I in an anti-reality bubble populated by sycophants?" ... and gone.

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 6d

Ben Shapiro: “It kind of feels like, you know, a government shutdown is mostly the stuff you need and kind of gets rid of a lot of the stuff you don't”
www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/...

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 7d

Daily Wire host: "In reality, white people don't say the n-word. And actually, statistically, the only people who say the n-word are black people."

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 7d

Benny Johnson: “There is a government shutdown right now, and we are cheering for that. We say yes.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

CNBC: "Very disappointing. It's a weak number. This is private sector jobs for September. The total comes in -32,000. And that was a surprise because economists were looking for an increase of 51,000. Also, the revision was not good. August now showing -3,000 compared to the initial read of 54,000"

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 7d

Presumably this is meant to dissuade future Iranian attacks on U.S. assets there, but the most recent country to bomb Qatar is Israel.

CNN reporter Aaron Blake via Twitter:
https://x.com/AaronBlake/status/1973367863449919923

This is really something.

Trump has signed an executive order basically pledging Article 5-esque security guarantees to Qatar.

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 7d

"I want the people to know that they still have two out of three branches of government working for them, and that ain't bad"

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone with critical thinking skills or a memory of past shutdowns should be aware that this isn’t how it works. The president doesn’t gain new powers because Congress hasn’t sent over the money for the executive branch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Mike Johnson on the shutdown: "It can provide an opportunity to downside the scope and scale of government, which is something that we've always wanted to do. So in a way Chuck Schumer has now handed the keys to the kingdom the executive branch under President Trump."

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 7d

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

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Vesper Henry @newsrepertoire.bsky.social · 7d

A potential ban on gun ownership for transgender people appears to expose the ceiling of MAGA's unity behind the anti-transgender movement.

www.mediamatters.org/national-rif...

Right-wing media fracture over potential gun ban for trans Americans

Fractures have emerged in right-wing media over reports that the Trump administration is considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender people following a school shooting in Minnesota in August. W...

www.mediamatters.org

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8d

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

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Jason Campbell @jasonscampbell.bsky.social · 8d

Benny Johnson: I mean, I feel like most workers in the federal government are nonessential. I think most of them could be replaced by an AI chatbot, frankly.

Rick Scott: Yeah. Well, it just looks like that might happen

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The U.S. president just ordered all the military generals to an unprecedented gathering in Washington, then told them that they should plan to participate in a war on American cities.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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