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@badtakes.bsky.social
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ex-@MMFA researcher (
https://www.mediamatters.org/author/brendan-karet
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Robert Downen
1 day ago
Some new, bad-for-Texas-Republicans research just dropped. "Our findings indicate an exhaustion issue with Republican voters... We cannot afford to simply hope that they’ll show up on election day for us."
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Noah Shachtman
5 days ago
The Defense Department is beginning to release its "UFO files." Some of them are ... completely fucking ridiculous. If I were a Fox Mulder type, I'd call this a disinformation operation.
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Ari Berman
6 days ago
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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Dan O’Sullivan
7 days ago
Just checked in on Matt Taibbi's Substack and his life appears to be in complete freefall, including a possible break-up with Michael Tracey. This is the funniest thing that could be happening.
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Eoin Higgins
8 days ago
CASE DISMISSED
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Philip Gourevitch
8 days ago
The one big thing this guy could do to relieve depression in America is to quit and disappear. This nonsense he’s pushing will, like all his other pet policies, greatly increase many people’s suffering and mortality.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
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Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/science/rfk-antidepressants-ssris-hhs-maha.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Bobby Silverman
10 days ago
This TPUSA post will surely stop people from making Kirk memes and not, say, have the opposite effect
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Bill
10 days ago
if you let the white south go too many generations without federal occupation, this is what they get up to
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Tim Onion
11 days ago
Old InfoWars' staff appear to have also done some ransacking on the way out. This is some of the property the families planned to eventually sell off to collect on this judgment, in a studio we were prepared to pay up to take over.
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Cat Manning
16 days ago
watching a certain Saudi game investment company cancel all their meetings 48 hours before GDC was an incredibly telling indicator that US markets have not caught up to it
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Kat Abughazaleh
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Jordan Uhl
16 days ago
I asked Matt Mahan on a Zoom call last week about his donations from major players in Peter Thiel's orbit and he told me I was cherry picking donations and generalizing. Anyway, the co-founder of Palantir donated to both Mahan and Republican Steve Hilton within 24 hours.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
16 days ago
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utopia deferred
16 days ago
You’re laughing. Our obese stupid senile pedophile president is trying to barricade himself in his winter palace after sinking the nation into an empire shattering conflict he cannot win and you’re laughing.
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Joshua Erlich
17 days ago
i, for one, hate it when i'm Just Doing My Job and mistakenly find myself posing on the red carpet for an event I'm not attending
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ceej
17 days ago
LAWYER: The shooter shared your post: “Bugs Bunny is a two-pump chump. I’d show Lola how to smash ‘Animal Style!’” What did you mean by that? ME: That Bugs Bunny cums fast. LAWYER: He lacks sexual prowess? ME: Yes. LAWYER: Did you consider that posting something this inflammatory might be dangerous?
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warrior cop
17 days ago
Hey guys just a reminder that everyone else is squared away for work tomorrow but that stuff you’ve been ignoring is about to explode
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Mike Drucker
18 days ago
Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years
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bort
18 days ago
👇 blocked me after her pill-popping employee publicly called for me and others to be murdered, continued to employ said pill-popper
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Amy Ash
18 days ago
POV it’s dinner time and grandpa’s calling from the wrong P.F. Chang’s
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Angelo Carusone
18 days ago
Fox News interviewing Fox reporter from the event. Reporter says she was sitting next to Karoline Leavitt's husband. Says he told her: "You need to be safe and he was very serious when he said that to me. Looked around the room and he said..." Call abruptly cuts.
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false flag. Calling it
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Michael Edison Hayden
21 days ago
I’ve been critical of the SPLC lately but this indictment feels like a stunt. It targets one of the primary enemies of their shared cinematic universe at a time when MAGA is divided over the war. Me for MSNOW:
www.ms.now/opinion/sout...
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Opinion | What the DOJ’s Southern Poverty Law Center indictment is really about
Michael Edison Hayden: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said: “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.” That’s patently absurd.
https://www.ms.now/opinion/southern-poverty-law-center-doj-blanche-charges
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bakoon
23 days ago
looking good sir
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Micah
26 days ago
I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!
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Matt Ortega
28 days ago
Campaign finance reform, including overturning Citizens United, must outlaw this kind of deceptive behavior. If I had my way, we would restrict political spending to parties and candidates only.
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Sen. Lemon Gogurt
29 days ago
clavicular's neurosurgeon asking the nurse for another hammer
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Kyle Griffin
29 days ago
Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department moves to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in major Jan. 6 cases.
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Mehdi Hasan
29 days ago
"according to two sources familiar with the situation...officials at the Pentagon... were quietly given a new directive that came straight from the Trump White House. The message: ramp up your preparations for possible military operations against Cuba." Have you subscribed to our First Draft email?
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First Draft: 🇨🇺 Is Cuba Next?
Trump’s administration is discussing plans to attack and kidnap Cuban leaders, while also turning down an offer from Iran to end the war. Plus: Republicans debate whether to hate... the pope.
https://zeteo.com/p/is-cuba-next
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Acyn
about 1 month ago
Dear G! How are you? Nice story about J. E. in New York mag, you look great on the picture. I know you are very busy flying all over the world. How was Palm Beach? I cannot wait to go down. Give me a call when you are back in NY. Have a great time! Love, Melania
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Emma Yeomans
about 1 month ago
In case you're wondering why Melania is suddenly talking about Epstein... An Epstein victim told the FBI she recalled seeing Epstein introduce Melania and Trump at a modelling agency.
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the impish creature
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hannah gais
about 1 month ago
Please buy
@michaelehayden.bsky.social
’s book because I’m running out of ways to promote it using my cats. Or more accurately I think they’re getting sick of being used as props.
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David_j_roth
about 1 month ago
Showing up at Saturday greenmarkets all across the country and asking vendors if they've "got any lung meat" in a voice that sounds like a skillet falling down a flight of stairs.
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Michael Edison Hayden
about 1 month ago
New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement:
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What Happened to the SPLC—and Me
Union breaking, Gaza, and fear of MAGA turned the SPLC into an organization that abandoned its own civil rights principles.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-193009867
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shauna
about 1 month ago
hypocrisy negates that. if you’re bleating about trans people and drag queen story hours while cross dressing in private, you are fair game. it’s an easy rule.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
about 1 month ago
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
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ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/ice-agents-will-stationed-marine-corps-graduation-events-south-carolin-rcna265941
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evacide
about 2 months ago
No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed:
www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...
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Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic
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Inner City Press
about 2 months ago
Judge Daniels: What's the most defamatory statement you've got? Garson: The cover. Bought. Owned. Cashing in. That he says he will follow the money and name names. Judge: It's hyperbole.
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Jared Holt
about 2 months ago
Are they trying to kill Ian Miles Cheong
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stuart
about 2 months ago
Where We Go One Wegovy
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
about 2 months ago
The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.
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Philip Bump
about 2 months ago
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The NYPD is not required to protect New Yorkers, city lawyers argue in court filing
The argument came in response to a claim filed by Amanda Luci, who alleged NYPD officers failed to protect her from a mob of young men and boys who attacked her in Crown Heights in 2025.
https://gothamist.com/news/the-nypd-is-not-required-to-protect-new-yorkers-city-lawyers-argue-in-court-filing
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Rob Sheridan
about 2 months ago
“New Mexico got a historic $375 million jury verdict in the first of several cases nationwide against Meta.” Yesterday I heard a “did Instagram make your teen depressed? Join our class action lawsuit” ad on the radio. Knives are out. I hope every state and every parent sues Meta into oblivion.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
about 2 months ago
It is very funny the trump officials who clearly immediately got rid of signal after signalgate and are now… back on it lop
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Ed
about 2 months ago
This is gonna be you in like 3 months
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Chris Geidner
about 2 months ago
Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war.
x.com/joekent16jan...
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