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Mathew Helman
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Dad, #mapoli communications pro, Senate/House race junkie, Springsteen disciple, Celtics fan, stand-up comedy enthusiast. He/him. Skeeto ergo sum.
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Mathew Helman @mathelman.bsky.social · Jul 9
[1/15] The House GOP decimating Medicaid & stealing food from hungry kids in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthiest is a form of violence.

Also, there are myriad cases of *individual* House GOP members engaging in violence. To avoid the memory-hole, here's a House GOP Violence THREAD.

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thetransitguy.com
Someone said Megyn R. Kelly 😂
November 14, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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polyesterunis.com
Megyn R. Kelly
accountablegop.bsky.social Republican Accountability @accountablegop.bsky.social · 23h
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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luxeprogressive.bsky.social
Just want to pass along from the bird app that some are calling her Megan R Kelly
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social
After Republicans refused to extend ACA subsidies, 4 Michigan insurers are dropping out of the ACA marketplace altogether. That’s 200,000 Michiganders who just lost their plans.
freep.com Detroit Free Press @freep.com · 1d
Four health insurers are dropping or significantly curtailing individual market offerings in 2026 as insurance pools are predicted to grow sicker. bit.ly/444v08M
Cortney Strother, 61, sits inside his home in Berkley on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Strother recently learned he must find a new health insurance company for 2026 after Health Alliance Plan (HAP) announced it will drop out of Michigan’s individual health insurance market. Photo by David Rodríguez Muñoz, Detroit Free Press
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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thebulwark.com
"What Earth are the viewers of this show on, where you can make a statement like that, where there have not been a slew of women coming forth against Donald Trump — there have," @timmiller.bsky.social says of Megyn Kelly's defense of Trump.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
mathelman.bsky.social
Trump Regime slogan: No Nazi Left Behind
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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thedailybeast.bsky.social
Donald Trump appears to be sticking with Paul Ingrassia, despite leaked texts in which the 30-year-old allegedly made racist remarks.
Trump Rewards Failed ‘Nazi’ Nominee With New Top Job
Donald Trump appears to be sticking with Paul Ingrassia, despite leaked texts in which the 30 year old allegedly made racist remarks.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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latimes.com
Kai Trump's first-round score at the LPGA Tour's Annika tournament? Don't ask
Kai Trump's first-round score at the LPGA Tour's Annika tournament? Don't ask
Kai Trump, 18, is competing in the LPGA Tour Annika event on a sponsor exemption. It has been criticized as a publicity stunt, which no one at the tournament disputes.
www.latimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
mathelman.bsky.social
JFC...
accountablegop.bsky.social Republican Accountability @accountablegop.bsky.social · 23h
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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wired.com
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary. www.wired.com/story/jeffre...
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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leahfeiger.bsky.social
SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“.. The New York Times reached out to the girl’s lawyer .. who agreed to confirm some basic biographical information about her client, providing details for the first time of how the girl’s circumstances led her to her encounters with Mr. Gaetz ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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leahlitman.bsky.social
The Epstein emails make clear how little powerful people care about victimizing girls.

There's also this NYT story on a 17 year-old girl (allegedly) victimized by Matt Gaetz. The girl turned to sex work to afford braces. She also lived in a homeless shelter.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter. Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money. What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican. Mr. Gaetz was investigated by the Justice Department for child sex trafficking but never charged. Following the election last year, he was President Trump’s first choice to serve as attorney general. He subsequently resigned from Congress, and then withdrew from consideration as attorney general under a storm of scrutiny.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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pbump.com
Times has a new report up about a Florida Republican's alleged exploitation of a minor. Uh, sorry: a different Florida Republican. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Girl Vulnerable to Exploitation
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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jaywillis.net
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter. Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money. What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican.
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: America’s Roman Catholic bishops issued a rare statement rebuking the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation campaign.
Catholic Bishops Rebuke Trump’s Immigration Tactics in Rare Statement
“We feel compelled now in this environment to raise our voices in defense of God-given human dignity,” they said in the statement.
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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reuters.com
USDA searched for terms like 'diversity,' 'climate modeling' to target grants for cancellation reut.rs/3WQTG0P
USDA searched for terms like 'diversity,' 'climate modeling' to target grants for cancellation
The U.S. Department of Agriculture directed its staff to identify grants for possible termination in the early months of the second Trump administration by searching for more than two dozen specific words and phrases related to diversity and climate change, according to documents seen by Reuters.
reut.rs
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
mathelman.bsky.social
Everyone is taking notice of how competitive and down-to-the-wire close the #TN07 special election is.

Follow @aftynbehn.bsky.social and support her #TN7 GOTV effort at:
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#Tennessee #Nashville #ElectionBluesky #ElectionSky
November 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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POLLS ARE OPEN! 🗳️

Early voting has started for the TN-7 special congressional election in Tennessee! 😍

Check to see if you live in TN-7👇🏻
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Check early voting locations👇🏻
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November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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willsommer.bsky.social
Kash Patel's much-younger girlfriend is driving Trump allies nuts with her legal battles over being called an Israeli honey-pot spy. Will the FBI director ever catch a break?!

My latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com:
www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...
Kash Patel’s Girlfriend Is Driving MAGA Nuts
She’s litigious. They’re sexist. It’s a miasma of loathing.
www.thebulwark.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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wsj.com
Tipping off suspects with social-media posts, a trip to Boondoggle Ranch on the FBI's private jet, and all the other ways Kash Patel frustrates his bosses. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4hSU2NY
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
#GASEN Sen. Jon Ossoff is pressing his Republican challengers in Georgia’s 2026 Senate race to take a stand on whether they will support a House effort to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3885229...
Ossoff pressures GOP rivals on Epstein files in escalating 2026 Georgia fight
Ossoff publicly addressed his GOP rivals, Reps. Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, and former coach Derek Dooley on the discussion of the Epstein files.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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nickfield.bsky.social
AP finds Trump 34 points underwater on the economy and 15 points underwater on immigration apnorc.org/projects/tru...
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Trump's approval rating continues to plummet.

The latest AP-NORC poll has him at just 36%, and only 28% with independents. Even Republicans are starting to sour on him, as only 74% of GOP voters approve of him.

On the economy, he has a 33% approval rating.

apnorc.org/projects/tru...
Trump’s approval rating remains low during government shutdown - AP-NORC
Approval of how Trump is handling the federal government has dropped sharply since March.
apnorc.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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jasonkander.bsky.social
Best case: The President of the United States knew about a pedophilia ring and did nothing to stop it.

Medium case: He also used his office to protect the perpetrators.

Worst case: Because he was one of the perpetrators.
November 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM