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AriesAdrift

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Lifelong liberal. Wife of an amazing man. West Michigan. Amateur leathercrafter.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
Shocker: Financial criminal president is kneecapping enforcement of financial crimes
motherjones.com
The many ways Trump is kneecapping white-collar crime enforcement
"Are we blowing a big bubble of potential corporate fraud that will come to harm us all?”
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 6h
Also: NO TRAITORS NO PATHOLOGICAL LIARS NO CONVICTED FELONS NO ADJUDICATED RAPISTS NO PEDOPHILES NO RUSSIAN ASSETS NO ORANGE ATROCITIES NO EPSTEIN/MUSK BUDDIES NO PUTIN PUPPETS NO MAKEUP-WEARING MAN-BABIES NO BLOWHARDS WITH ZERO SELF-AWARENESS BRONZED BRAGGARTS and NO ARROGANT A-HOLES
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Trump officials scrutinized Rep. Ilhan Omar in 2019. They didn't find citizenship issues. 
The earlier review of Omar's immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
washingtonpost.com
Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/10/2026
ICE’s own confiscation directive only permits officers to keep belongings for a clearly defined reason. But a new lawsuit alleges the agency is refusing to return personal items like employment authorization documents, phones, and a wedding ring.
motherjones.com
ICE sued for refusing to return detainees' papers and property
One plaintiff is jobless after his work authorization was taken. The agency also won't return his wedding ring.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/10/2026
Environmental advocates argue that the EPA’s proposed regulatory rollback reflects a coordinated industry wish list.
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The EPA is about to hand oil and gas companies a huge methane-related gift
Rolling back regulations will give industry players “exactly what they’ve long wanted.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...
cjr.org
Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Exclusive Senior Adviser to The First Lady Marc Beckman claims Melania Trump is making appropriations decisions: "They put $30 million in their budget as a result of the First Lady's efforts. She secured it. It was not in the budget, and she put it in there."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Trump regime is paying your tax money to Elon Musk through lucrative government contracts, and then Musk is giving hundreds of million of dollars to the Republicans so they'll keep doing that. It's how oligarchs and Republican politicians scam the rest of us.
theguardian.com
Elon Musk becomes biggest political donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent
Musk’s midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How it’s going
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Christina🌊🌊 @sassycc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
He truly believes that because Putin and Xi put on a show for him that they are his allies. He's childlike and gullible even as he is unspeakably brutal and corrupt. What a horrifying combination. And such a mark for powerful leaders who are smarter than him. Which would be all of them.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is simply not generating either the volume or tone of scandal coverage that effectively ended Joe Biden's presidency when he was unable to produce a surgically-clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned & poorly timed withdrawal from Afghanistan: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The mentality of a rapist
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So executing a valid search warrant to recover stolen classified documents at Mar-a-Lago is an “illegal, partisan witch hunt” Yet when a racist president who tried to incite a race war against Somalis and called Ilhan Omar “garbage” has DOJ raid her home for this sham, it’s supposedly acceptable
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/10/2026
People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job. n.pr/4hYY9bL
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It's taking longer to find a new job after losing one
People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This county, an hour from DC, has one of the biggest races for immigrants’ rights in the nation, imo. Make sure people know about it.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
VERY important point from my colleague Sam Bagenstos - the 2026 Senate races will determine the future of the Supreme Court and federal courts more broadly. Which means the 2026 Senate race in MICHIGAN could determine the future of the Supreme Court
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump now using his DOJ to investigate the media for NOT covering him enough. I'm 100% serious. He was outraged a few outlets agreed to suspend pool coverage after he banned CNN, Politico and MSNOW. So now he is using the DOJ to send a message you MUST cover Trump! www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...
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Trump’s DOJ Is Investigating Whether TV Networks Broke The Law By Suspending His Pool Coverage
The DOJ is looking into whether major television networks violated antitrust laws when they suspended Trump's press pool coverage, The NYT reported.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
idk man you’ve been blowing up a lot of fishermen and school girls for a guy worried about innocent life
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/10/2026
The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video starting in 2027 in a six-year deal struck between Amazon and the Television Academy that ends a seven-decade run of broadcast networks airing the ceremony honoring the best in TV. to.pbs.org/47E3dgP
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Emmy Awards to move to Prime Video in 2027
Amazon and the Television Academy have struck a six-year deal, ending the ceremony's seven-decade run on traditional broadcast networks.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
BREAKING: In responding to one of two lawsuits challenging the legality of the Trump-praising DHS propaganda ads, DOJ tonight does not defend the ads on the merits — instead arguing that the ads are set to end on Sunday, so there will be no irreparable harm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
Plaintiffs' motion should be denied because the alleged improper final agency action of which they are complaining "run[ning] partisan political ads, funded by U.S. taxpayers," Plaintiffs' Brief in Support of Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Section 705 Stay (Pls. Br.") (ECF No. 26) at 1-will not continue past tomorrow, the date on which briefing on their motion for a TRO will close. As such, Plaintiffs cannot demonstrate that a TRO is necessary to prevent imminent irreparable harm to them from Defendants' future conduct.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
PEAK DELUSION.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Headline makes it sound like the DCCC spent all their money on hookers and blow and now rent is due but the real reason is Trump and the Republicans are so toxic the DCCC thinks it can compete in districts Trump won by 13-20 points.
Specifically, Merz dedicates significant portions of the memo to four districts where the committee is desperate for more money in order to compete — all of which President Donald Trump won by double-digit margins in 2024:

— Florida’s 27th District (Trump +14.6)
— Nevada’s 2nd District (Trump +13.9)
— South Carolina’s 1st District (Trump +13)
— New York’s 21st District (Trump +20.7)
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Donald Trump’s plan to buy diesel and gas from Russia is just as insane roar as his plan from the Treason Summit in Helsinki to turn over America’s cyber defenses to Putin. He’s the first American President to be a vassal of another country’s dictator.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Millions with private Medicare coverage are being forced to change their insurance for 2027 and will pay more for prescriptions and medical care. More older Americans will face greater financial hardship. In the “greatest country in the world.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 10/10/2026
NEWS — A federal judge has struck down the Trump administration’s nationwide voter roll verification program, ruling that the DOJ exceeded its authority and violated federal privacy laws. The program sought to identify and remove suspected noncitizens from voter rolls ahead of the midterms.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So many things wrong with this "deal," but also: it's not a "massive" amount. If we actually receive 1,800,000 tons of diesel from Russia, that's equivalent to: * 3.3 days of US consumption, or * 10 days of US *exports*. It's a drop in the bucket. We send more than that overseas every two weeks.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: If Trump and Hegseth weren’t trying to kick trans people out of the military, a Navy board recently wrote of a trans women that it “without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service," lawyers revealed today. www.lawdork.com/i/219495792/...
Absent ALNAV 011/26, the board without reservation would recommend retention based on a record of exemplary service.
• If separated from Naval Service, the board recommends waiving recoupment of debt associated with service education program costs based on LT Winchell's demonstrated exemplary service.
REDACTED BOARD MEMBERS 9/23/26
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026
Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
rawstory.com
Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No punishment will ever be too harsh for ICE agents and the leaders who empowered them
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Private mercenary company now monitoring and enforcing U.S. elections. Very good sign for democracy.
newrepublic.com
USPS Hires Security Service With History of Human Rights Abuse
Almost 1,000 armed security officers have been sent to at least 55 post office facilities.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Drain the swamp." www.citizen.org/article/trump-casca…
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Think about how intolerable ICE arrests are right now Then nearly double it
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
C’mon now. It’s not like he did something inexcusable, like call some people “deplorable”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theverge.com/2024/9/24/24...
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Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
Even if you’ve got nothing to hide.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David. 
The plan calls for a parcel of the private club to be designated a permanent, official sanctuary for foreign leaders and future U.S. presidents.
washingtonpost.com
Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into the new Camp David
The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why have so many people fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because corporations and billionaires rigged the system in their favor — and a bought-off political establishment let it happen. It's time to fix the system.
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