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A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23h

Plague outbreak in Russia from a lab. We MUST ban all commercial flights to and from Russia NOW

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026

🚨 OCTOBER 5 DEADLINE #BlueWaveIn30Days If you live in one of these states, Monday is the voter registration deadline: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Check your registration. IWillVote.com

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🎥🎥🎥 BIG NEWS! Talk about Four Walling! Thrilled to announce, on October 18, four days after my 82nd birthday, our little film TESTING TESTING SANDI BACHOM, will be screening in some incredible film festivals on the same day! . World premiere @woodstockfilm @MIFF4 @NHFF @SFIntlFilmFest

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The leading bidder is a group involving Trump donor Todd Boehly, Qatar-based investors with business ties to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, an Abu Dhabi fund linked to Sheikh Tahnoon and the US government. Putin sees it as a way to cement ties with the US.

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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The New Yorker has published an extensive report on the competition between China and the United States, highlighting several areas where China has gained a significant lead: • China’s current shipbuilding capacity is roughly 200 times greater than that of the United States👇

ko-fi.com

China’s Growing Edge Over the US

Osint Radar published a post on Ko-fi

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The last Trump-Kushner-Witkoff “peace plan” for Russia-Ukraine had more on data center construction opportunities than on security guarantees that could make peace last. This time it’s an oil deal. The whole effort has been trying to sell out Ukraine for personal profit and neo-fascist solidarity.

nytimes.com

U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nicole is a leading expert on the issue of campus sexual violence. I am floored that USA Today would do this to her. I find this kind of journalistic behavior unethical and morally reprehensible, twisting an interview with a renowned advocate for survivors into a hit piece against a survivor.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’ll also add that most of the heat should be directed at USA Today, but the journalists who participated in this breach of ethics also made a choice. Organizations are made up of people. We can’t absolve the people who do harm on the behalf of an organization.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lot of victims don’t have the language for what happened to them right away because our culture teaches all of us that men are allowed to mistreat women.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the age of technology, we all expect that every conversation will be recorded. But that isn’t true. A lot of records come from the recollections of someone in a position of power. And we know that investigators—including police and Title IX—severely overestimate the amount of false allegations.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters

The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

wired.com

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A CNN investigation revealing Jared Kushner, tasked by Trump to negotiate peace in Gaza, owns a company with a major stake in a firm linked to Israel's military.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026

Trump's human binky made the trip to Alabama with him #TravelWithNatalie (Brendan Smialowski/Getty)

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Once again we have a choice between something really really REALLY bad and something that's never quite as good as we hoped. That shouldn't be a hard choice.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

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Mottlione @johnmott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For anyone who isn’t aware:

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acallan1, god emperor of the Unites States @acallan1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wish getting exposed was sufficient for change but the ongoing media career of former (alleged) witness intimidator & attempted jury tamperer Michael Irvin suggest otherwise

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NFL -- Dancer Tells Court Of Irvin's Drug Use
Jul 13, 1996
Dallas Morning News: AP
DALLAS - Hours after police found cocaine and marijuana scattered around an Irving motel room occupied by Michael Irvin,
the Dallas Cowboy receiver acknowledged to friends that the drugs were his, a topless dancer testified yesterday.
Rachelle Smith, 24, also testified that the March 4 party broken up by Irving police was not the first that Irvin had arranged.
She said Irvin had paid for rooms and provided drugs for a series of all-night sex parties with women at the motel in
suburban Irving.
Smith said Irvin also threatened her after she testified before the Dallas County grand jury that indicted him in April on drug
possession charges.

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"He kept on telling me that I shouldn't be afraid of the DA's office, I should be afraid of him, because he was more powerful,"
Smith said. "He said he would put everybody against me, and everybody would hate me. He said that he could score a
touchdown and everybody would love him again."

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Smith, who testified under a grant of immunity from prosecutors, answered lawyers' questions with jurors out of the
courtroom. State District Judge Manny Alvarez will evaluate her testimony to determine how much of it is relevant to the
charge against Irvin and should be allowed before jurors.
Irvin and former teammate Alfredo Roberts were found inside the room with two topless dancers, Angela Beck and Jasmine
Nabwangu. Police seized more than 10 grams of cocaine and more than an ounce of marijuana.
Beck, who claimed all the drugs were hers, was the only person arrested that night. Roberts was the only person not
eventually indicted.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Economist analysis of more than 3,000 US counties finds that in reliably GOP counties, annual deaths now exceed births by 0.4 per 1k residents, while in reliably Democratic counties, births exceed deaths by 2.8 per 1k. Population growth in the GOP counties is largely driven by internal migration.

economist.com

In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born

Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Some morning musings on AI. We need to stop talking about this as technology issue. It's an ethics & law enforcement issue. Thread:

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Julie Hotard Ph.D., writer, effects of disinfo on social systems @upine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're lucky this time bc RWng media--which are most media/SMedia--said 1000X that T wd lower gas/grocery prices, deport violent criminals only & end forever wars. Since we have eyes & ears, everyone can see he did the opposite & so they disapprove. But in the long run we need to combat the disinfo

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Time to Solve Our Propaganda Problems like the Military Does

A large percentage of our nation’s voters are immersed in Right Wing propaganda. What’s the solution? We should

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NOT Too Scared To Voter The US has a LONG history of voter intimidation. Know the signs. Know your rights. Join us. Friday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CNE...

youtube.com

NOT Too Scared To Vote

YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/10/2026

Over 90 percent of Republican Tom Tiffany’s campaign funds have come from just three donors. trib.al/5ZG9tqb

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The Three Billionaires Trying to Buy Wisconsin’s Governor’s Race

Over 90 percent of Republican Tom Tiffany’s campaign funds have come from just three donors.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 01/10/2026

Alright class, lets gather around and discuss parties as coalitions as the ability of members of legislature (MLs) to credibly challenge or defect from party leadership.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

time.com

Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026

“If your concern for women disappears the moment accountability becomes socially inconvenient, then protection was never the principle to begin with. Performance was.”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today in life (and death) under competitive authoritarianism These people need to spend the rest of their lives in jail when this is done. We simply cannot fail at elite accountability again. Too many people have died.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been covering the death penalty in depth for a dozen years now, and few nights have been as disturbing and dispiriting as tonight. This was a moral, ethical, and legal failure on several different fronts from many different actors. It wasn't *just* SCOTUS, though they sure were a key part.

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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution

SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are dozens of people and institutions that had to go awry — again, morally, ethically, or legally — to end up where we are at the end of the day here.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Netanyahu has killed plenty. His coalition and Hamas are in a lurid embrace. They need each other to maintain power and authority and to hold the mass of sane Arabs and Jews -- and the necessity of a shared future -- trapped between them.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

57. 57 men didn't do shit or try to help.

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