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Blake Rutherford
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Editor of Flyover Country and the Flyover Country Podcast on Substack | Arkansawyer living in Fayetteville | I was @blakerutherford on Twitter | Middlebury | Arkansas Law | Michigan Law | Fmr. CoS to state AGs https://blakerutherford.substack.com
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This would trigger impeachment if Republicans were lost in a MAGA fever dream.

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
Yet one more reason to avoid visiting Washington, DC in perpetuity.
Trump has now accomplished what al-Qaeda tried to do on 9/11 and failed
Trump in July, on the WH $250MM ballroom project:

“It won’t interfere with the current building.... It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Ghislaine Maxwell gave an interview and told these lies for Donald Trump in exchange for her cushy, new, low-security prison transfer and anyone who believes this is an idiot. He is the king of the quid pro quo.

THIS IS NOT HARD, PEOPLE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ghislaine Maxwell never saw Trump in ‘any inappropriate setting’, transcript shows
Maxwell also said she was not aware of any ‘client list’ of Epstein’s, released documents from DoJ interview show
www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump is making the case for DC statehood. Barack Obama and the Democrats missed this opportunity. The next time the Dems are in power, they should not.
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"Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL," Jesse Watters texted Greg Gutfeld in December 2020, according to recently unredacted documents in the Smartmatic defamation case against Fox News.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The amusing thing about this clip is the infrastructure bill was literally the first and only thing Nancy Mace brought up in terms of her accomplishments in Congress. Her biggest win for her district was legislation she voted against.
Nancy Mace: "In my time in Congress, I actually helped secure the largest infrastructure grant in state history, in South Carolina history. So I've worked very hard on the policies that matter to voters here."

(Mace is taking credit for legislation she voted against!)
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A hugely important point is that international students pay full tuition, so they actually make it CHEAPER for US students to attend college, by allowing for more money for scholarships. Across the board, the reality is we need MORE international students.
In which the New York Times repeats the claim -- without any pushback! —that international students are taking seats away from domestic students

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus
www.nytimes.com
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Trump surrogate attacking government statistics by failing to add correctly is almost too perfect (16% + 30% ≠ “2 out of 3”)
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When there was positive economic data under Biden, the New York Times told us to worry, with headlines like:
“Why a Strong U.S. Economy Is Making Stock Investors Jittery”
and
“Inflation Has Been Easing Fast, but Wild Cards Lie Ahead”
But when there is worrisome data under Trump, NYT reassures us:
Cc: Arkansas
This is school #vouchers working as intended. Remember, as the wealthy were doing this with your taxes, children were going hungry.
ARIZONA: “(Voucher) parents bought diamond rings, luxury clothing, dog food, grills, mopeds with public education dollars….”

A handout for the wealthy. This has been @GovBillLee’s #1 priority. #LeesVoucherScam

www.12news.com/article/news...
Thank you for joining me @lindseyboylan.bsky.social
Joined @blakesrutherford.bsky.social for this conversation on strategy and state-of-play in the nyc mayor’s race. Enjoyed chatting on “Flyover Country” about the broader implications of the NYC mayor’s race. substack.com/app-link/pos...
Lindsey Boylan
A seasoned New Yorker discusses the mayor's race and why it matters in the Heartland
substack.com
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Joined @blakesrutherford.bsky.social for this conversation on strategy and state-of-play in the nyc mayor’s race. Enjoyed chatting on “Flyover Country” about the broader implications of the NYC mayor’s race. substack.com/app-link/pos...
Lindsey Boylan
A seasoned New Yorker discusses the mayor's race and why it matters in the Heartland
substack.com
This show should have been cancelled years ago
Joe's on a rant this morning about Washington as a dangerous hellscape (unlike New York) and thinks a federal takeover of the police is a good idea. Of course, he does.
Many thanks to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social for this thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion. It was a genuine pleasure to visit with her about the New York City mayor's race, her personal experiences, and issues of affordability, housing & income disparity. blakerutherford.substack.com/p/lindsey-bo...
Lindsey Boylan
A seasoned New Yorker discusses the mayor's race and why it matters in the Heartland
blakerutherford.substack.com
I am old enough to remember when administration officials had to resign for using gov’t transportation to go play golf.
What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump believes that all water functions like a kitchen sink.
Trump: "I've been fighting with them for a long time about allowing the water to come down from the pacific northwest. We actually opened up that water pretty strongly, we got a lot of opposition from the governor. We opened it up anyway and the water is coming down...they've gotta allow full water"
Cc: Arkansas
The impacts of school choice have been particularly clear in Arizona, offering an early picture of K-12 education under the Republican vision of maximum school choice.

Here, public schools are starting to close.
Public schools are closing as Arizona’s school voucher program soars
Arizona, with a marketplace of school options and universal vouchers, offers a window into the GOP vision for K-12 education
www.washingtonpost.com
Owens’ position is utterly bananas. We’re going to learn a lot more about disinformation, manipulation, and celebrity in the next decade. She’s a working case study.
The position Candace Owens is taking here, that the USA has not been a sovereign nation since JFK was assassinated, is a Neo-Nazi position.

And when I say Neo-Nazi, I mean that quite literally: as in, guys who wear the swastika and think Hitler was a great man.

Not your average antisemite/racist.
This is laugh out loud funny.
They will eat her up in that District. She had better take a speed lesson in legal procedure and law, she’s go to need it. Like most folk her age she’s forgotten more than what she learned.
msnbc.com MSNBC @msnbc.com · Aug 3
Senate confirms former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Dems need a national reset. Schumer has not won big races when it counts. But Dems are wimps and won’t defy what has been obvious for a while. 2026 Will tell the tale, I hope.
A recent WSJ poll found Democrats’ popularity at its lowest point in 35 years, with 63 percent of voters holding an unfavorable view of the party. Maybe that's not because Trump is popular, but because Dems have to fight harder. ICYMI @lauren-egan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/chuck-schu...
Schumer’s Moment of Truth
The September government-shutdown deadline will show us how willing Democratic leaders are to take on Trump.
www.thebulwark.com