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(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
(Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News)
(Phil Hands, Wisconsin State Journal)
(Patrick Chappatte, The Boston Globe)
(Michael Ramirez, Las Vegas Review-Journal)
(Nick Anderson, Raw Story)
(Christopher Weyant, The Boston Globe)
(Ratt, caglecartoons.com)
(Rick McKee, caglecartoons.com)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(Jonathan Brown, caglecartoons.com)
(Bob Englehart, caglecartoons.com)
(Jon Adams, @citycyclops)
Operation Epic Quagmire / FAFO Crown Prince Bonesaw --
Saudi Arabia is in big trouble, with their oil industry under attack from multiple directions. The Saudis spent years bribing Trump and Kushner. At first, it seemed like a good investment. But the Iran war screwed them, now they really need help, and the US can't/won't. Me, in @foreignpolicy.com:
— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Trump's illegalities (part infinity) --
Ambassador Alan Wolff says President Donald Trump's novel implementation of America's tariff law is illegal and runs counter to how Congress intended the presidential power to be used. Wolff would know. He wrote the law. https://cnn.it/4AuSoLg
— CNN (@cnn.com) September 25, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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With the midterm elections approaching, the White House is airing a new TV ad promoting President Donald Trump and his policies that says it is “Paid for by the U.S. Government.” https://cnn.it/4Av5loz
— CNN (@cnn.com) September 24, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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"Stop us before we kill" --
Tech leaders to UN: For the sake of humanity, please control the AI technology we created. apnews.com/article/ai-a...
— Tim O’Brien (@timobrien.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 5:32 AM
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Sad! --
Deaths now outnumber births in reliably Republican counties for the first time since at least 1982. We explain how this may already be affecting voting patterns in America bit.ly/471apDL
— The Economist (@economist.com) September 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Trump and Xi mismatch --
Diplomacy or ‘diplotainment’? Key takeaways from the Trump-Xi summit in Washington
— The Guardian (@theguardian.com) September 25, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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Chinese officials look on as some final adjustments to the red carpet are made for President Xi.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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While Trump had the US military on their hands and knees smoothing out a red carpet for Xi and the Chinese.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) September 25, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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So it's going to be the Xi ballroom? Figures...
— The GREAT HOUDINI (@thegreathoudini.bsky.social) September 25, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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no significant deliverables from the trump-xi summit. but the most extraordinary photo (via chip somodevilla)
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer.com) September 25, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Xi knows he is in the presence of an absolute buffoon. He also knows that he is in the presence of the buffoon handing him global dominance.
— VT Commons (@vtcommons.bsky.social) September 25, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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Bobby Brainworm stole from black infant care to fund his security. Shameless. --
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) September 25, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Progress! 😁 (Happy Friday!) --
“He definitely isn’t fluent, and I doubt he’ll ever get there, but he’s truly come a long way from being unable to pronounce a single word intelligibly.” — Xi Jinping
— The Onion (@theonion.com) September 24, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Now that it's Fall (in the Northern Hemisphere!), the first hints of yellow are showing in the tulip poplars, the sycamores are well along in dropping their leaves, while the oaks, hickories and other trees are holding on to their green for a while longer. "Autumn Leaves" is an American standard, performed in many genres, but we like trumpeter Chet Baker's jazz version, with contributions from an all-star band including Steve Gadd on drums, Paul Desmond on alto sax, Ron Carter on bass, and Bob James on piano. Hope you enjoy.
This past summer, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that it had identified noncitizen voters on the State of Nevada's rolls, in support of the lying Malignant Fascist's oft-repeated claim that droves of illegal immigrants have been voting in our elections. From the Las Vegas Sun (New York Times byline):
"When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
'As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens,' Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests. 'You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise.'
Ott also stated that DHS officials had still not provided enough data for election officials to investigate their claims. Nor have they turned over the list of nearly 16,000 individuals they claim may be noncitizens.
'Our records do not support DHS’s claims, and DHS has still not provided evidence to change that,' Francisco Aguilar, the Democratic secretary of state in Nevada, said in a statement. 'Instead, DHS officials continue their attempts to intimidate election officials into compliance and deter voters with huge claims of fraud with no evidence. Repeating unsupported claims does not make them true.'" (our emphasis)
Be assured that this scenario is being played out across the nation, as the delusional MF tries to discredit and undermine the validity of our elections, specifically the ones where he and his cult are losing. His private Gestapo, when they're not forcing immigrants into internment camps or shipping them to third countries, is actively throwing sand in the gears of the mid-term elections, until they're stopped by state officials like Nevada's.
UPDATE: The MAGAt Supreme Court has OK'ed the use of the "SAVE" database, allowing states to kick legitimate voters off the rolls. Expand the Supreme Court when Dems have control!
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"People with dementia often experience heightened sensitivity to loud or background noises because the brain loses its ability to filter sounds and interpret sensory input."
Dementia Don.
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The Trump Golden Age of Affordability, prospective homebuyers!
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week above 7% for the first time since January 2025, the latest affordability setback for prospective homebuyers following a five-week run of rate increases.
The weekly average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan rose to 7.03% from 6.95% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.30%.
The average rate is now the highest it’s been since Jan. 16, 2025, when it was at 7.04%.
“Beyond the immediate financial constraints, the 7% threshold is a foreboding psychological barrier,” said Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist at Bright MLS. “Crossing this mark could create a chilling effect on the market” that would lead to a considerable slowing of home sales transactions this fall.
Higher mortgage rates can add hundreds of dollars a month to borrowers’ costs, limiting homebuyers’ purchasing power. As rates rise, that can also lead prospective home shoppers to delay buying. [snip]
The housing market has been stuck in a rut this year in large part because of elevated mortgage rates, which have been climbing in the months since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran in late February.
Mortgage rates are influenced by inflation, Federal Reserve policy and bond-market investors’ expectations for the economy, among other factors. They generally follow the trajectory of the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans. [snip]
The latest increase in the 10-year Treasury yield suggests that “upward mortgage rate pressure seems likely to linger,” said Anthony Smith, senior economist at Realtor.com... (our emphasis)
More fallout from Trump's economic (tariff) policies and his war of choice, Operation Epic Quagmire!
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(Jimmy Margulies, King Features)
(Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News)
(Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency)
(Bill Bramhall, New York Daily News)
(Robert Ariail, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, SC)
(Chip Bok, Creators.com)
(Dave Whamond, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Ann Telnaes, annrelnaes.substack.com; context here)
(Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Canada; context here)
(Marian Kamensky, caglecartoons.com, Austria)
(Mike Smith, Las Vegas Sun)
(Mike Konopacki, The Capital Times, Madison, WI)
(Paul Noth, The New Yorker)
Operation Epic Quagmire: up in smoke --
“A Defense Department inspector general report last week cited the loss of nearly 60 aircraft and other equipment, resulting in around $3.7 billion going up in smoke. Hundreds of buildings were damaged.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...
— John Sipher (@johnsipher.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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The demented Malignant Fascist's cruel, white supremacist "Office of Remigration" --
Beyond the horrific nature of this as an actual part of the government, there’s something just truly evil but also stupid about taking immigrants and sending them to a place they’ve never lived in before. This is something that a man child bigot would think up, so naturally Stephen Miller did this.
— Mike Honcho (@lasergoblin666.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
— David Kaye (@davidakaye.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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MF is violating the press credentials court order ... and his oath of office --
BREAKING: Trump appointed judge orders the White House to immediately restore press credentials.
— Allison Gill (@muellershewrote.com) September 24, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately restore access for news organizations that President Donald Trump banned from the complex last week. politi.co/4dU7YX4
— Politico (@politico.com) September 24, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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Guess who was the anonymous source for the story prompting Politico's ban 👆 ? --
The anonymous “senior administration official” behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, @oliverdarcy.bsky.social scoops www.status.news/p/white-hous...
— Natalie Korach (@nataliekorach.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Whiskey Pete Hegseth's team screws up again. Testosterone stat! --
The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed on the incident said. bloom.bg/3Vad1MJ 📷️: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg
— Bloomberg News (@bloomberg.com) September 23, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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Where there's smoke, there's fire: corrupt Sen. Collins edition --
Susan Collins' Campaign Manager: "We hear this every cycle that Susan Collins is corrupt. I mean....whatever" Uhh
— The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) September 23, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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The MF's "human binkie" is never far away from him 💖 --
Imagine posting a photo of yourself with a visiting dignitary and including your fluffer and not your wife.
— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.com) September 24, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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Third Lady Melanie's "direct channel" to Russia--
I mean, wedding guests for starters.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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FAFO, American farmers edition. Diesel, fertilizer, tariffs...Winning! --
Farmers all over America finding out this was the decision they made in 2024.
— Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life.bsky.social) September 24, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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First the Reflecting Pool, now the White House helipad --
President Trump's new helipad is vandalized by Antifa thugs just 24 hours after it's grand opening. #DonaldTrump
— Paulley Ticks (@tomadelsbach.bsky.social) September 22, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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A planned coup by the Malignant Fascist's regime of National Institutes of Health grantmaking has reportedly bitten the dust, for now:
The White House is scrapping plans for an executive order that would give the Trump administration more control over grantmaking at the National Institutes of Health, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
The White House had reportedly held a meeting earlier this week discussing plans for the potential order that would’ve given the Office of Management and Budget discretion over grantmaking at the NIH, which quickly drew backlash from key Senate appropriators.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, welcomed the news in a statement Wednesday.
“It shouldn’t take public outcry to prevent President Trump and [Office of Management and Budget director] Russ Vought from laying waste to the NIH and defunding lifesaving research because they think it’s ‘woke’ or want to extort a university,” she said. “This president is on a mission to shred patients and families’ hopes for new treatments and cures.”
We pause for a queef from embattled pay-to-play Sen. Susan "Concerned" Collins:
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had penned a letter to the White House on Tuesday warning the administration to not move forward, saying the grantmaking process should not become politicized.
That's rich. Concluding:
The executive order idea arose after the administration in May moved to exert more control over the agency’s process for awarding research funds issuing a proposal, known as the Uniform Guidance proposed rule. It would require political appointees to review discretionary grants to make sure they aligned with presidential priorities and would expand agencies’ ability to terminate grants “for convenience,” among other changes...
We should never believe that a battle with these committed fascist goons is won, because they see everything as a long struggle to impose their unscientific, racist, misogynist worldview on American life. Electing a Democratic House and Senate in November will deter them from trying to pass legislation to effect this politicization of NIH grants for the remainder of the MF's term in office.
Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman writes in his Substack column about the dangers America faces with an increasingly deranged Malignant Fascist. An excerpt, but please read his entire column:
"I wrote a post titled 'It’s Sundowning in America,' inspired by Trump’s demented demands that he receive the Nobel Peace Prize, 8 months ago. The damage being done by Deranged Trump Syndrome was already obvious. And that was before Trump squandered America’s military credibility, as well as a dangerously large share of our munitions, on his catastrophic war-of-choice in Iran.
There’s a high probability that Trump’s power will be considerably reduced in the aftermath of the November midterms. Polls point to a blue wave that is highly likely to give Democrats control of the House and more likely than not to deliver the Senate. If that blue wave does indeed materialize, I expect that there will be an enormous sigh of relief across the country because it will be a major, if not fatal, setback for Trumpism.
However, we shouldn’t let the short-term relief of a November victory blind us to the long-term realities. Trumpism did not emerge out of thin air – that is, an unfortunate draw of the democracy cards. Instead Trump and Trumpism is the culmination of a decades-long threat to American democracy, to the moral, legal and social fiber of this country." (our emphasis)
Krugman later points out that the mid-term elections are likely to produce a crushing blow to the MF's ego, his party, and his self-aggrandizing agenda. That may trigger the MF to use what remaining power he has to vindictively punish the American people for their "disloyalty" to him. Stay tuned.
As expected, the feeble-minded Malignant Fascist's un-Constitutional banning of three news media from the White House has suffered its first defeat in court:
A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from the White House grounds, ordering early Thursday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have their access restored.
The ruling hands the outlets at least a temporary reprieve in what has been an extraordinary showdown between Trump and media outlets whose coverage he dislikes.
Trump first announced he was banning the outlets Friday, assailing what he called “fake news,” and only later arguing that their reporting was a risk to national security. The outlets argued in a joint lawsuit that the ban was a blatant violation of the First Amendment because it singled them out for the content of their coverage.
In his late-night ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered the White House to “immediately return, reinstate, and restore” the three outlets’ access. He said they had met the legal thresholds to obtain a temporary restraining order, in effect for 14 days, and were likely to succeed in showing that their press passes were revoked without due process.
“This is a high bar, but Plaintiffs have met it,” he wrote.
Kelly — whom Trump nominated in 2017 and who ordered a CNN journalist’s access restored in a similar case in 2018 — also said the government must have clear standards for conduct that would lead to revoking a press pass. He called the standard of objectionable reporting outlined in letters that the White House sent the outlets “so vague it hardly does the trick.”
The judge also made clear he did not buy the administration’s argument that the news outlets’ reporting endangered national security — and noted that Trump himself had not used that argument in the beginning, focusing solely on what he called negative coverage.
“Nothing in the record ... suggests that the revocation of Plaintiffs’ hard passes was motivated by national security concerns,” he wrote.
The ruling came after Kelly heard arguments in an emergency hearing Wednesday. Temporary restraining orders are typically designed to preserve the status quo pending a closer review of the case by the court.
“This is a strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process and the rule of law,” Theodore Boutrous Jr., attorney for the outlets, said in an emailed statement. “We greatly appreciate the court’s swift action.”... (our emphasis)
The ban finally motivated the access-driven White House press corps to gird their spines and stand up against the would-be tyrant by suspending pool coverage of the MF. Meanwhile, given the moronic MF's characterization of the ban as resulting from "negative" coverage, this is as slam dunk a First Amendment case as there could be, with the ultimate defeat of the MF just a matter of time (and we don't underestimate the dilatory games that will be played to stave off that defeat).
Also, it's good to know there are at least some MF-appointed judges who can read the Constitution and uphold their oaths of office.
UPDATE: The games have begun -- reporters from the three organizations have been barred from the White House grounds this morning, in defiance of the court's order.
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Ed. note: We notice that many cartoonists are now accurately depicting Trump with a box/ fecal extrusion device on his posterior. Bravo!
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(Steve Sack, stevesacksubstack.com)
(R.J. Matson, CQ/Roll Call)
(Chris Britt, Creators.com)
(Nick Anderson, The Contrarian)
(John Deering, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
(Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
(Gary Markstein, Creators.com)
(Paul Duginski, caglecartoons.com)
(Jeff Stahler, gocomiccs.com)
(Dennis Goris, @dennisgoris)
(Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune)
(Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency)
(Dan Misdea, @dan_misdea)
" ... Trump is the imperfect figurehead of a corrupt cabal of plutocrats and ideological fanatics, who have used his political movement to foment something like a revolution, short of igniting civil war: Collapse the democratic order globally, replace it with great power spheres, and subservient, corrupt courtier states. Collapse the democratic order domestically, replace it with a right-wing autocracy.
"That’s why they aren’t letting up; their objective is not to calibrate for public opinion; it’s to advance—pocket as many corrupt spoils, compromise as many institutions as thoroughly as possible—while there’s still room to maneuver. Trump wants his name on every building, to break ground on monuments to himself while impediments are minimal. Ideological fanatics want to make as much headway as they can, while they can—ideally in ways that makes reversals hard: As many people deported as the government can deport; as many thugs hired as the government can hire; as much damage to the social safety net as can be inflicted; as much A.I. infrastructure as we can build. [snip]
"This revolution is poised to fail in just six weeks. At least as a procedural matter. The nightmare scenarios you’ve no doubt contemplated, wherein Trump and the GOP manage to steal the midterms, would not cement the revolution so much as transform it into something different in type, and dramatically more repressive. Everything that’s happened to now has been predicated upon one successful election and single-party, autocratic rule, enabled by congressional negligence and a corrupt judiciary. It can’t function as intended if voters reject that arrangement and give control of Congress back to the out party. Which is what they’re poised to do..." -- Brian Beutler, in his "Off Message" Substack, on "The Revolution Has Been Televised -- It's About To Fail." Beutler has some excellent, specific points about what the task is for Democrats starting on January 3 and proceeding through the next 2 years, generally summed up as backstopping democracy and preventing further authoritarian advance -- with unprecedented resolution.
The Epstein-Trump files coverup / spent political capital --
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) September 22, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Operation Epic Quagmire / the chyron says it --
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
— Brandy Zadrozny (@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social) September 22, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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Trump's corruption on steroids ... --
Trump’s net worth hit $7 billion in 2026. That’s triple where it was in early 2024, according to Forbes data.
— Steve Rattner (@steverattner.bsky.social) September 22, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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... and the MAGA Republican affordability plan --
What an inspirational message! The Republican Party, folks.
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) September 22, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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Sen. Collins' corruption corroborated --
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) September 22, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Trump - Xi mismatch --
This Politico headline is just way too funny. A battle of the wits and #KingCorruption tRump came unarmed. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
— acroadglide.bsky.social (@acroadglide.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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"After eight years of historically high tariffs, export controls, industrial policy, and more, we can conclude the policy has been a failure by its own objectives." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
— Bob Burgess (@bobburgess.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Is anybody shocked that after Trump’s hostility towards democratic allies at the UN, he’ll now do his best buddies routine with Xi the authoritarian? This guy LOVES dictators
— David Pakman (@davidpakman.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 8:56 AM
The "Trump-Ford's Theatre"? Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln Trump? --
tempting fate there
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Run through the tape --
As a reminder, Democrats picked up 41 seats in the House in 2018, while losing two seats in the Senate. We should see a bigger pickup in both chambers this time, to put it mildly. But do not get cocky and coast here. Run through the tape.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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"Le code, c'est moi" --
WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Trump stole taxpayer $$ to destroy the White House and replace it with a firetrap and too few ladies stalls. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) September 23, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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MAGA FAFO 😆 --
MAGA finding out
— Brent Terhune (@brentterhune.bsky.social) September 19, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Indie folk rock group The Lumineers originally wrote this song, "Isabelle Fly," for the Netflix film "The Starling," but it's just been released commercially as a single. It continues their unique, catchy folk sound. Enjoy.
