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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Several Republican members of Congress have said that they are retiring to spend more time with other people's children.
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"
September 18, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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whetmoser.com
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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parkermolloy.com
My "favorite" Kessler "fact check" was when he called Bernie Sanders a liar for correctly noting that "Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America." Kessler's argument was that it doesn't count because "people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth."
Claim:“Three people in this country own more wealth than the bottom half of America” 
—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
 Fact check: This snappy talking point is based on numbers that add up, but it’s also a question of comparing apples to oranges. Sanders is drawing on a 2017 report from the left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies, which said that three billionaires — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos (who owns The Washington Post) and Warren Buffett — had total wealth of $248.5 billion, compared to $245 billion for the bottom 160 million of the United States. The wealth of the three men has gone up even more since then.
But people in the bottom half have essentially no wealth, as debts cancel out whatever assets they might have. So the comparison is not especially meaningful. We once gave Sanders Three Pinocchios when he asserted that the six wealthiest people had more wealth than the half of the world’s population. That was an even more problematic comparison, and we said at the time it was better to focus on inequality within a country.
July 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
My favorite WaPo fact-check is the one where they gave Bernie three Pinocchios for accurately citing a study.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/201...
Sanders’s flawed statistic: 500,000 medical bankruptcies a year Debtors were asked whether medical expenses, or loss of work related to illness, contributed to their bankruptcies. Of those who responded, 66.5 percent said at least one of those factors contributed “somewhat” or “very much.” When we asked Himmelstein whether Sanders was quoting his study accurately, he said yes. Himmelstein wrote: “37 percent of filers said medical bills ‘very much’ contributed to their bankruptcy. Even if you use that restricted definition, then Sanders’s statement is accurate — or an underestimate. There are about 700,000 bankruptcy filings each year. Many filings are joint husband/wife filings, and based on our past research, we estimate that on average 2.71 persons reside in each debtor’s household. So the total number of persons who undergo bankruptcy is about 1.9 million annually. This is a classic case of cherry-picking a number from a scientific study and twisting it to make a political point. Three Pinocchios
August 20, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
July 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔

Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
July 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
AI folks have now discovered “thinking”
Steph Smith: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problem, without even needing to submit it.
July 29, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Take note.
June 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
More MAGA hypocrisy.
June 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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rachaelking70.bsky.social
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.
June 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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wonderofscience.bsky.social
This fascinating timelapse of an orb-weaver spider building her web is even more remarkable considering she removes it before dawn each day and constructs a new one every night to avoid daytime predators.

Credit: dinaoren0/tiktok
June 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.
June 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
CNN sucks.
May 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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kennylauderdale.bsky.social
Nothing I say about The Ninja Turtles anime could possibly do it any justice. This shit had a scene where Krang hit the Twin Towers with a tsunami & it's not even one of the Top 10 craziest things that happens.
May 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
👇👇
May 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
He is completely clueless about what he is doing.
May 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
High school students at the Capitol: “Why is [Trump] so orange?”

GOP Rep. Brian Jack: “Uh, that’s, you know what, it’s, it’s, it’s your perspective...”
May 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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reshetz.bsky.social
Today’s reason for melancholic sighs is the Vogue cover from October 1945
May 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
Ladies of Mar-a-Lago
May 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Crockett: Like the fact that they sat around called Joe Biden sleepy Joe Biden. And as I said before, at least you could sleep at night because you didn't have to worry about your 401 K disappearing.
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.
April 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Watters: We are waging a 21st century information warfare campaign from the left…It's like grassroots guerrilla warfare. Someone says something on social media, Musk retweets it, Rogan podcasts it, Fox broadcasts it.. and by the time it reaches everybody, millions of people have seen it.
February 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM