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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If anyone should know what happens when companies are left to do the right thing on their own, it's Rick Scott, whose healthcare company paid nearly $2 billion in lawsuits related to fraud that occurred while he was CEO

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Supreme Court's rejection of "esthetic standing" in the ballroom case today leaves standing doctrine in a more confused state than ever, given its other rulings. Why is “I want to look at a crocodile” a yes, and “I want to look at the White House” a no? [@williambaude.bsky.social]

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Esthetic Standing in the White House Ballroom Case

Today the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in National Park Service v.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Dem. appointees, #SCOTUS has *granted* the Trump administration’s request to freeze a district court injunction that had blocked the mail-in ballots executive order. But Trump’s EO remains blocked by a different injunction in a different case—at least for now:

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Tim 🎃wens @attimowens.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

They should've called it Gruel & Unusual.

Screen capture of RFKJ's promotional cooking show, with guest chef & minor right wing luminary, the improbably-named Andy Gruel.

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

An all time touch grass heat check and people addicted to dumbass social algorithms will prob learn nothing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

Reuters tweeted: "Pope Leo urged Americans to uphold the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, praising the country's long tradition of welcoming immigrants in his first major address to the United States." They then attached a video of the Pope speaking.

Someone named NoraNH replied: "The Declaration of Independence doesn’t mention immigrants"

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Congressional statute: "There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise." 50 U.S. Code § 3023

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

JCPOA might be the most vindicated foreign policy of all time tbh

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer during the George W. Bush administration, said aides to the president should not be intervening in contracting and lending decisions by agencies, particularly in matters that financially benefit the president’s family."

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Rep. Shontel Brown @repshontelbrown.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

When Howard Lutnick found out he had to testify in front of the Oversight Committee, he gave a $5 MILLION to a House Republican PAC. Shortly after donating, James Comer announced his testimony would never be seen by the public. This IS corruption. He should be fired. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Lutnick donated $5M to House GOP super PAC ahead of Epstein deposition

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick donated $5 million to a committee backing House Republicans ahead of his testimony to Congress about his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Federal El…

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

One of the things that makes me think we're not going to make it is seeing a regime that is super openly proudly wielding government power to punish and regulate speech and then seeing people say "well this wouldn't have happened if the government could punish and regulate speech more."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026

US attorney for SDNY Jay Clayton defends Trump's taxpayer-funded J6 slush fund: "I don't think we're gonna be talking about this issue in a week because the American people are gonna say, 'Look, they leaked his tax returns, they tried to destroy him. Okay, we resolved that.'"

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

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Scott 🌊(OC SoCal) @skinoc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Crazy that there's three impeachable/corruption stories on just one current news screen...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

2. Three more SMOKING GUNS in Trump's new 113 page financial disclosure. Trump purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 in Micron stock on March 25 (also unsolicited). The next day he called into The Five, said he had just met with Micron's CEO, and called Micron "one of the hottest companies."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

He’s the biggest fucking crybaby in all of human history.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

ETHICS FILINGS SHOW DONALD TRUMP REPORTED BETWEEN $220 MILLION AND $750 MILLION IN SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS DURING THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2026, INCLUDING MAJOR TRADES LINKED TO TOP US COMPANIES AND INDEX FUNDS.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

The months between signing and ratification were a busy period for the country. The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention had been kept secret, so each state needed to inform its voters of what exactly the proposed new government contained. Congress therefore directed the state legislatures to call ratification conventions in each state, with delegates specifically elected to approve or disapprove the new government.

However, this meant that each state from New Hampshire to Georgia had to receive a copy of the text, submit it to public debate, elect delegates, meet, vote, and return the results to Philadelphia. In an era where the speed of travel was limited by horseback, stagecoach, and boat, this was no quick feat. After the end of the Convention the news of the Constitution spread out in a wave, and thousands of copies were republished by local printers and distributed for debate. A flurry of newspaper articles, pamphlets, and public meetings followed, hotly debating whether the Constitution would be a good framework for a new national government.

Part of the debate and ratification process involved translation: non-negligible portions of the electorate spoke languages other than English. To reach them, the document was translated into Dutch in New York and German in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

ajc.com

Brian Kemp signs law making many metro Atlanta races nonpartisan

The law applies to most local government races in Democratic-dominated areas. A court challenge is expected.

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Adub @adub01488424.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

RKM is gassed go to the other side.

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Adub @adub01488424.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Leeds aren’t pressing like they were first half - at least not at the moment.

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Adub @adub01488424.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Leed’s opportunities are coming on tackles where the ball gets loose and they recover it instead of us.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 06/05/2026

Exclusive: FBI Director Kash Patel has distributed “Ka$h”-branded bottles of bourbon to bureau staff and civilians, multiple people in Patel’s orbit tell @sfifz787.bsky.social.

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Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash

The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

$250M. $300M. $400M. “All paid for by donors.” Trump’s lying isn’t a character flaw. It’s the business model. Now Republicans want $1B for his ballroom and are calling it “updated security.” Even if you believe that, taxpayers are still footing the bill for his golden ego facade.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I have trouble imagining anything more pedagogically insane and self-destructive, short of a literal lobotomy, than encouraging *sixth graders* to have AI “help” them write essays.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This again is one of the problems of this whole thing. The Iranian leadership is not "insane." They're fairly rational actors that seem to behave in rational ways, but if you keep saying they're insane there's no way you can talk to them.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

What's especially funny about this is how hard Ilya worked to try to persuade people that he hadn't meant anything nefarious by referring to Justice Jackson, at the time of her nomination, as a "lesser black woman." When people show you who they are, believe them.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Trump’s meme coin is a scam to enrich insiders. A couple dozen “whales” made nearly $2 billion soon after launch in early 2025. Then, the coin crashed and lost over $4 billion for over 2 million retail investors—including many everyday Americans. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

1. Trump has used the presidency to promote businesses that he and his family own 110 times in the last 16 months, a Popular Information investigation reveals. Trump has repeatedly promoted Trump-branded golf courses, crypto tokens, and consumer products on social media and at presidential events.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

hey do you guys think I need a lawyer

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is how the United States Department of Justice writes now.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

You can’t privately fund a national security project.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The taxpayers will not be responsible for paying for Trump’s tacky new ballroom. They will just be responsible for paying exorbitant above-market no-bid contracts to the people building the ballroom, which is totally different www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/04/kick...

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Kickback nation - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The taxpayers will not be responsible for paying for Trump’s tacky new ballroom. They will just be responsible for paying exorbitant above-market no-bod contracts to the people building the ballroom, ...

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Tom Nichols about the dangers of our current situation: “If I were a foreign opponent, I’d be looking into this and saying: this is singularly the most incompetent American regime we’ve ever faced and they’re burning through their stocks.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 24/04/2026

Several white supremacists were convicted of crimes related to Charlottesville, including Heather Heyer's murderer. A dozen were held civilly liable. To call this a "hoax" because an anti-hate watchdog had eyes on the organizers is delusional racist propaganda from the White House.

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Kampf mit Kette @kampfmitkette.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Every Cyberpunk author: In my book I invented the concept of the evil tech megacorp as a cautionary tale. Palantir: At long last, we have created the evil tech megacorp from every classic cyberpunk novel.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Tom Nichols on JD Vance’s memoir: “First let me say: worst book launch ever by picking a fight with the pope just as you release your memoir of converting to Catholicism.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We can't keep looking away from his emotional and cognitive issues. The attack on the Pope was the beginning of a full night of melting down. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

Trump’s Dark Night on Truth Social

Attacking the pope was only part of the president’s disturbing meltdown.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What's remarkable about both Venezuela and Iran is that the tactical and operational dominance is extraordinary. Not perfect, not free of cost or risk, but still astonishing. Yet the inability of these all-but-unchallenged capabilities to deliver the political outcomes desired screams of failure.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/04/2026

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

washingtonpost.com

CDC delays publishing report showing covid vaccine benefits

The acting CDC director cited concerns with the methodology, but the design has long been used to test vaccine effectiveness.

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Two’s a trend. And, trust me I have been involved in hundreds of IPO’s over multiple decades, it’s not for altruistic reasons. They already sense a lack of institutional demand and are looking to dump bags on retail.

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