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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11h
A thwarted mass shooting targeting a large Hindu temple in suburban Chicago was fueled by years of hateful rhetoric on social media against Hindus and Indians, community leaders say. to.pbs.org/47We6uD
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Community leaders say foiled Hindu temple attack was result of surge in online hate
A thwarted mass shooting targeting a large Hindu temple in suburban Chicago was fueled by years of hateful rhetoric on social media against Hindus and Indians, community leaders say.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 20h
Zelenskyy amid his bitter row with Trump: "We will keep living, fighting, and most importantly, living with dignity. It's very important, the quality of life, when it's so horrific during the war. It's very important that you preserve your dignity."
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18h
Update: Per joint status report filed Thursday, the FBI— 📜 reports all searches have been completed 📜estimates 328 pages of potentially responsive records 📜 is reviewing the documents for responsiveness and preparing them for processing 📜 will produce all responsive documents by Jan. 15, 2027.
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Status Report – #17 in PUBLIC CITIZEN v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01952) – CourtListener.com
Status Report
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 15/09/2026
Update: Per joint status report filed on Monday, "FBI agrees to provide search results by October 15, 2026." Shame it required a lawsuit to speed that up from the original estimate of 2,000+ days
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Status Report – #15 in PUBLIC CITIZEN v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01952) – CourtListener.com
Status Report
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 09/07/2026
Update: FBI req'd and was granted a 30-day extension to respond to Public Citizen's complaint (which is pretty standard). New deadline is Aug. 5, 2026.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 03/06/2026
In case you need a refresher—
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 03/06/2026
🚨 The FBI says Kash Patel was in Milan during the Winter Olympics for work. I filed a FOIA for @publiccitizen.bsky.social asking for proof. The FBI said that’ll take 2,000 days. Today PC sued the FBI to speed it up.
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Was Kash Patel’s Winter Olympics Trip for Work or Play? - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do you remember FBI Director Kash Patel’s viral video showing him drinking with the US men’s national ice hockey…
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21h
I've never met a single soldier who thinks that way. They are fighting because foreign invaders would otherwise occupy their homes, kidnap their children, steal their property, and kill them. That's why, Zelenskyy or no Zelenskyy, they would still defend their country.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21h
to go against the people's will and capitulate by accepting Putin's conditions, he wouldn't last 20 seconds in office. ​And the notion that the Ukrainian people are "dying for Zelenskyy" is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21h
Trump only thinks that it's Zelenskyy who refuses to surrender, viewing him as the main obstacle standing between himself and a sweet dealmaking with Putin. But in reality, it's not Zelenskyy, it's the Ukrainian people who refuse to surrender. If our president decided, for some reason,
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h
“.. At a FIFA Council meeting in Zurich on Thursday, it was decided that the governing body’s football social responsibility committee will now be tasked with assessing the merits of what was supposed to be an annual prize.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/athletic/769....
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19h
October 16, 1968
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists on the medal stand at he 1968 Olympics in Mexico City; Peter Norman looks on
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h
I'm in Japan so I think my gang of antifascists might have done the very first #NOKINGS demo and yes it is Saturday morning here. Please share! Please show up to your local #NoKings! 3000+ about to take place.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 11h
Link to DOJ letter: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28... My quote to AP:
“It is deplorable that rather than work cooperatively and assist states in their election administration responsibilities, the federal government is making escalating threats and unreasonable demands beyond its power in the middle of an ongoing election,” he said.
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Bob Mould @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
ICYMI: A great conversation with Jesse Thorn for NPR’s Bullseye.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h
(NYT) - The United States budget deficit approached $2 trillion in the 2026 fiscal year, its highest level since the pandemic .. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/b...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 13h
"If Democrats take the House, the dynamic would change quickly. The House Judiciary Committee could subpoena the Justice Department for Volume II. That would set Cannon’s injunction on a collision course with the oversight power of a coequal branch..."
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Putting Jack Smith’s Report Back Under Wraps
An Eleventh Circuit ruling stuffs Trump’s Volume II skeletons back in the closet.
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Giorgi Revishvili @revishvili.bsky.social · 13h
These developments have further complicated the Kremlin’s objective of capturing Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the foreseeable future. 4/4
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Giorgi Revishvili @revishvili.bsky.social · 13h
The operation disrupted the Russian West Grouping of Forces’ offensive and forced the redeployment of elements of the 1st Tank Army, easing pressure on Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi. 3/4
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Giorgi Revishvili @revishvili.bsky.social · 13h
Ukrainian forces also secured the Kharkiv-Sloviansk highway, a critical logistical artery supporting Ukrainian troops in Donbas. 2/4
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Giorgi Revishvili @revishvili.bsky.social · 13h
The operation’s primary strategic objective was to prevent Russian forces from outflanking the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk urban agglomeration and trapping it in a pincer movement. 1/4 russiaanalyzed.substack.com/p/ukraine-li...
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Ukraine Liberates More Territory from Russian Forces
Four Seasons of Operation Vivaldi
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15h
so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
"Trump, according to one of the White House officials, told Zacharia directly that she really needed to reconsider the position. But the official added that the president, in an earlier meeting that Zacharia was not present for, told attendees that she had no talent and shouldn’t be on television."
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Katie Zacharia out as press secretary after five days
Zacharia’s brief stint started off rocky and went downhill from there.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 13h
My statement on a suspicious package that was received at my office:
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21h
“Donald Trump is a traitor. And he’s not simply a traitor in the loose sense of someone who commits an act of betrayal…Trump is a traitor in the very particular sense laid out in the U.S. Constitution…’adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Is a Traitor
And in a sane world, he would be removed from office now
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 13h
Grateful that none of our election workers were harmed. As these attacks continue across the country, my promise is this: Minnesota will continue to have the safest, freest, and fairest elections in the nation. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Letter with white powder sent to Minnesota election office as ballots are being cast
A threatening letter containing an "unidentified white powder" addressed to the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State is being investigated.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16h
B/C grade source in terms of reliability but likely accurate www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7a210b0...
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Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine
SpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h
Oh, Donald . . . That's not a gym. It's a gay bathhouse. And you have *never* looked like that.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Trump: "Maybe I won't have a news conference santamataldum"
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Forbes @forbes.com · 15h
The BBC told the court this week Trump was supposed to be deposed Friday, but his lawyers said he had “other matters of national importance” to attend to.
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Judge Threatens To Sanction Trump After He Backs Out Of Deposition In $10 Billion BBC Case
The BBC told the court this week Trump was supposed to be deposed Friday, but his lawyers said he had “other matters of national importance” to attend to.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
SULLIVAN: We weren't supposed to get these questions beforehand, were we? MODERATOR: No, neither one of you got questions beforehand PELTOLA: I'm prepared!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Trump claims he has already talked to Google about changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean to the "Trump Ocean"
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h
it is also just so Classic Elon to get really fuckin wound up over some bullshit he saw on social media, do something criminally insane in response, and then lie that he had nothing to do with it when people criticize him
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h
really Elon has outdone himself this time. many America troops are embedded with Ukrainian forces. and the principal beneficiary of Elon's action, Russia, is currently funding and supplying Iran, America's (alas) adversary in an ongoing shooting war
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h
never seen someone adhering to our Enemies more closely, or giving them more lavish Aid and Comfort www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7a210b0...
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Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine
SpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14/10/2026
sounds to me like Elon Musk is an openly declared enemy of the Ukrainian state!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Markwayne Mullin reveals that the Trump admin is trying to build a RICO case against Ilhan Omar: "There was conspiracy to deceive the American govt, and therefore everything else that came in with it could then be looked at as the same case ... the statute of limitations on things, they don't apply"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
TELEGRAPH: Trump & Musk conspired to throttle Starlink and make Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian attacks — then Musk tried to blame only Trump. Putin wins again, as usual. Russia was never a hoax. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 16h
Just a reminder that we don't know that Zacharia wasn't a lawyer without @juddlegum.bsky.social . Support for independent media is more vital now than ever.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13h
I feel like it is kind of urgent that Elon Musk’s role in our government be clarified?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13h
At the close of trading today, exchange rates: 1 Scaramucci = 2.2 Zacharias Or 1 Zacharia = 0.4545 Scaramuccis www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
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Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Ousted After 5 Days (Gift Article)
Her abrupt departure came after she was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
"Federal law prohibits 'troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held.' It’s a law with a five-year statute of limitations, which means violations of the law in 2026 could be prosecuted by an administration elected in 2028."
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What Would Stephen Miller Do? Dems Wargame Election Defense
Meet the ‘democracy protectors’ planning to safeguard the midterms.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 14h
Trump says he brought in “$21 trillion” of investment vs. “less than $1 trillion” under Biden. Actual business investment: $14.5 trillion under Biden, $6.7 trillion so far under Trump. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h
The White House again barred CNN from its traveling television pool today — preventing the network from accompanying Trump aboard Air Force One.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 15h
Oh.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Trump: "You have Mohammed, Mohammed, Mohammed, Mohammed, Mohammed. Everybody is basically. If you're in doubt about somebody's name from the Middle East, just say 'Mohammed.' You have about a 65% chance."
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 19h
On Earth 2.0, this story would end a presidency. But even in our timeline, Donald Trump’s cowardly back-stab of the Ukrainians was an act of historic perfidy. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumpworld...
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TrumpWorld: A Bag Filled With Spiders, Snakes and Scorpions
The call to betray Ukraine came from inside the White House; the knives are out in MAGA; Martial Law enters the chat; and a new poll suggests that it is the Corruption, Stupid.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19h
This piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social is one for the ages. "The logic of this brand of politics moves inexorably toward atrocity...If there’s one lesson of the last decade, it’s never believe it can’t happen here." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar Is Another Leap Toward the Abyss (Gift Article)
This is more than just another persecution of one of the president’s political enemies.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17h
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