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Acquired Expertise 🌌✒️💫 @acqexp.bsky.social · 19h
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Iran War Energy Cost Tracker
Tracks the extra cost paid by U.S. consumers for gasoline and diesel since the Iran conflict began on February 28, 2026, compared against a no-war counterfactual baseline.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Absolutely stunning stuff. What a time to be alive. #ICE #DHS @nytimes.com
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22h
Former UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson on traitor Trump buying Russian oil: "The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter."
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 22h
“The video of a wheelchair-bound Hasan executed by firing squad will serve as ready-made propaganda for jihadist groups like Al Qaeda and Islamic State,” he said. “I don’t understand how this benefits the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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For Trump, a Firing Squad on Livestream Becomes the Latest Spectacle
The idea seemed to surprise even some inside the Trump administration.
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Acquired Expertise 🌌✒️💫 @acqexp.bsky.social · 20h
Naturally, everything is the fault of the Western alliance’s most determined defender of freedom since World War II… www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: Trump Blames Zelensky for Stalled Peace Talks After Russian Attack Kills at Least 20
On Saturday, less than a day after President Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel, a Russian attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, killed at least 20 people, including children, officials said.
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 22h
Fascinating piece on the (very bad!) interaction between a certain mitochondrial mutation and a common general anesthetic. (CW: child death and disablement) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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When Anesthesia Goes Wrong
A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.
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Acquired Expertise 🌌✒️💫 @acqexp.bsky.social · 20h
America’s Queen of Sleaze. www.rawstory.com/kimberly-gui...
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Trump official caught on tape offering ‘the world’ for Eric Trump dinner seat: WSJ
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's embattled ambassador to Greece, was caught on tape making a sweeping promise to land a seat at an Eric Trump dinner.Guilfoyle boasted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...
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Acquired Expertise 🌌✒️💫 @acqexp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Republican Party destroyed itself with its handling of the 2000 presidential election and its foreign and domestic responses to the 9/11 attacks, the financial emergency and global economic crisis of 2008, and its traitorous, racist response to the Obama administration: Trump.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Americans stand with Pope Leo XIV.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It is against US federal law for troops to be deployed around polling places. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... JTF-DC: “We are aware of imagery circulating online of service members standing near a ballot drop box - members are directed not to monitor or secure polling locations,”
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 10/10/2026
A Republican voter dialed into C-SPAN weeks before the midterms with a blistering verdict on his party and where its leaders belong.
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Republican voter unloads on C-SPAN by declaring 'Trump needs to go to jail’: analyst
A Republican voter dialed into C-SPAN weeks before the midterms with a blistering verdict on his party and where its leaders belong.Progressive political analyst David Pakman played the clip during a Friday episode of "The David Pakman Show" and highlighted a caller identified as Ronald, who phoned ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Shitbag Trump confirms he attacked the ICC because he wasn’t awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and because a WOMAN won it. The 34 time convicted felon then attacks Judge Navi Pillay, who has dedicated decades to justice and human rights, before launching into a long, stupid rant.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don't know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I'm about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They're both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it's the 8 that I've already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:
Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, "Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it." Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World's Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a cons…
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax
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Acquired Expertise 🌌✒️💫 @acqexp.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@radiofreetom.bsky.social www.threads.com/share/BAM-Po...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Wow, if the Justice Department still existed, Kimberly Guilfoyle would be in so much trouble.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/10/2026
Yesterday, JD Vance, a Yale Law grad, couldn't define what "socialism" means. Instead of defining it, Vance talked about boys in girls sports. This admin has devalued its words, and would be admitting to supporting the same policies they attack others for if they told the truth. Link below ⬇️
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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
americansvfascism Nancy Lacore spent 35 years in the Navy, rising from helicopter pilot to three-star vice admiral and chief of the Navy Reserve. Then Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed her from command in August 2025. The Pentagon offered no public explanation.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
VIVIAN MAIER was a Nanny for 40yrs who unbeknownst to anyone spent her free time taking over 150,000 photos of whatever interested her. 2yrs before she died her photos were found in a lock up she’d failed to keep up payments on and her decades of incredible work suddenly exploded upon the world.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
Trump: "It's interesting -- China makes the windmills, but try finding a wind farm in China. There is no such." (China has the largest wind power capacity in the world!)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pritzker: I’m not going to spend much time at all talking about Trump because it can ruin a perfectly good meal for all of us. But I do need to get something off of my chest… There are too many women in this country who are living under the yoke of tyranny…
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dogs are the Best 🩷🩷🩷🩷
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You’d have to be a special kind of stupid to bomb a school full of children and still expect to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nailed it. 🔨
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They couldn’t paint the bottom of a pool, but we’re building on the moon. 🙄
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
Of course Kash Patel wants to hand the UFC a NO-BID contract to train FBI agents. The UFC is a sports entertainment business. The FBI already trains agents in defensive tactics. And we’re supposed to believe Dana White, Trump’s buddy, runs the only organization in America qualified to do this.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Theatre of the absurd! Trump announces US will buy diesel from russia even though he signed a law mandating sanctions for any country buying russian energy. Meanwhile russia actually has a diesel export ban because they can’t meet domestic demand.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
••Natalie hands him a tissue••
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it, Senator Jon Ossoff absolutely destroyed MAGA lunatic Mike Collins on the debate stage and it was glorious.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Birds of a feather…
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel accused Pope Leo XIV of talking about artificial intelligence to distract from child sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
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In Fourth Attack, Peter Thiel Accuses Pope Leo XIV of Using AI to Deflect From Sex Abuse Crisis
JD Vance’s top donor also lumped the pope in with Barack Obama, saying “Obama knows the Democrats have no ideas, but they can at least oppose AI.” Vance has yet to be asked about it.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reactionary
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
IMO, This is the whole ballgame. Money corrupts absolutely. Josh Turek: "We need to have campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics. I want to sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We can have oligarchy or we can have democracy. We can't have both."
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1. During my occasional bouts of hopelessness, I find myself thinking about Cory Doctorow's theory of technological regression. When big platforms like Google and Facebook make themselves worse in pursuit of greater profits, @doctorow.pluralistic.net said, they enshittify themselves.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Democratic AGs @dems.ag · 08/10/2026
ZERO Republican AGs have been helping Dem AGs defend the Constitution and the rule of law.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Major update: A convicted election denier walked into the Oval Office. She spoke to Trump about seizing ballots. Her lawyer is talking about 'civil war strategy.' Trump wants to bomb Iran before Election Day. Kimberly Guilfoyle begged a Trump donor to pay her credit card bills.
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Important: Oval Office Meeting on Seizing Ballots as Lawyer Discusses ‘Civil War,’ Major Trump Ambassador Scandal, and Iran Strikes
Good morning, A convicted election denier sat in the Oval Office this week to talk about “plans” for the midterms.
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Russian Birthday" Putin War Criminal 5 children among murdered, in missile strike that collapsed 5-story apartment block. 28+ killed across #Ukraine during day as #Russia fired 70 missiles and 130 drones. #RussianWarCrimes #7thOctober #TheHague Thread 1/3🧵
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
‘We have to suck it up’: Ken Paxton privately suggests cutting federal benefit programs to reduce national deficit "Around 3/4 of mandatory federal spending went toward Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the most recent fiscal year, according to CBO" www.texastribune.org/2026/10/08/k...
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Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio
In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 08/10/2026
Imposing 18-year term limits for justices would improve the Supreme Court by ensuring no single person has generational power, by giving each president two appointments per four-year term, and by lowering the stakes of the confirmation process. bit.ly/47DWAuZ
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3 Charts that Show the Need for Supreme Court Term Limits
Interactive data visualizations analyzing changes in Supreme Court tenure, unequal numbers of presidential appointments, and narrowing Senate confirmation votes make the case for reform.
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John Bisognano @johnbisognano.com · 08/10/2026
While MAGA pours money into defending seats they drew for themselves, there is a clear contrast between the GOP redraws and the Dems' responsive maps: ✔️ California's voter-approved map is set to flip three seats with little spending needed ✔️ A court-ordered map in Utah is expected to net a Dem seat
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Acquired Expertise 🌌✒️💫 @acqexp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oooh, that smell…can’t you smell that smell? www.rawstory.com/obama-267805...
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'We will lose big': Senate GOP declares 'emergency' over Obama 'takeover' scheme
It's 2026 and Senate Republicans are worried about Barack Obama.The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent supporters a message Wednesday morning with the subject line "Obama plots Senate takeo...
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