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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 4h
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
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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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h
ICE arrested the mom of a 9-year-old at a school bus stop in Austin, leaving him alone and crying. The video has profanity and is heartbreaking to watch, but it shows the fear/pain of what happened. This is evil. This is wrong. And it has to stop.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 18h
Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
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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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
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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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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s deeply frustrating to me to be 10, 15 years into this and routinely have to remind some liberals that the New York Times is not your fucking friend and is not going to do the job of the Democratic Party for it.
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awclark587.bsky.social @awclark587.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCHMITT: So, Mr. Smith, is it your testimony that you DIDN’T punch me in the nuts? JACK SMITH: Um, yes, I certainly can’t recall ever… SCHMITT: Oh YEAH? Well then explain THIS! [punches self in the nuts] SCHMITT [smugly, wheezing in agony]: I think you… perjured yourself… dirtbag…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @firinglineshow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What should the next president do with Trump’s White House ballroom? “Knock it down” says @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. She argues the ballroom is about more than architecture: “It’s Trump seeking to remake the institution itself.”
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scooby doo.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Chairman Goa Tse-tung @jctenton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i often think of the gas station in deus ex and the terrifying 2050s cyberpunk nightmare era prices on the sign
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
oh, that's bad.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“On Thursday, Mr. Gorton said that “the success of the polio vaccine was a massive medical fraud” and that widespread vaccination was a “public health disaster.” He received a standing ovation… Mr. Kennedy spoke next, linking arms with the group even as measles cases continue to rise”
nytimes.com
RFK Jr. Assures Vaccine Skeptics They Have a ‘Friend at the White House’
The health secretary spoke at a conference featuring misinformation about vaccines, including a claim that the success of the polio vaccines was a “fraud.”
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
people are blaming Ed Sheeran for cowardice but have they considered that Robert Kraft owns the Fountain of Popularity on which all his work depends?
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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 16/09/2026
LOL
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolutely amazing that Trump is viewed as so untrustworthy that not one in five people will support the promise of free money
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is WILD
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Breaking: Federal judge hits pause on Trump admin's plan to limit visa length for grad students & postdocs on the day before the policy was supposed to go into effect this quote, from the temporary ruling, is quite something (from a George W. Bush appointee, I will add)
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
if people are interested this is what a typical example of this looks like - docs.google.com/document/d/1... this is extremely useful for me, and it's the kind of work that used to take many, many hours of human labor to compile in the 2000s.
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chinese-internet-roundup-2026-09-13.md
Chinese Internet Daily Round-Up — Sunday 13 September 2026 Method note. The tophub.today mirrors and Baidu's own board page were unreachable from this run (fetch permission not granted), so lists were...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
HOLY SHIT - Tapper plays Johnson footage of GOP candidate Brandon Herrera describing moms as "cum trophies," mentions he called Nazi machine guns "the original ghetto blasters," & asks Johnson how he can support him. Mike says "he has run a very effective campaign ... that was his persona online"
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
you know people, people with real jobs in media loudly declared over 2 years ago Joe Biden had "late stage dementia" a term they clearly didn't understand, and yet here he is, still out and about in public talking to people and doing events, miracle cure I guess.
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
William Boothby, who manages Trump's political appointees at the health department, was accused in a wrongful death lawsuit of punching a college student who was later found dead. www.rawstory.com/william-boot...
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'Full-out brawl': Trump health official linked to death at fraternity in new report
William Boothby, who manages President Donald Trump's political appointees at the health department, was accused in a wrongful death lawsuit of punching a college student who was later found dead.Boot...
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Random Dangling Mystery @sidslang.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
This is my vote for the most classic 9/11 tweet
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What would you say if you saw it in another country?
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/09/2026
For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I hate Trump voters so goddamn much man
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Toad put his head close to the ground and said loudly, “Now seeds, start growing!” Toad looked at the ground again. The seeds did not start to grow.
Toad talks to his seeds, trying to get them to grow.

From "The Garden"
In *Frog and Toad Together*
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wetherholt, of the Cardinals, loves chess. He has chess pieces on his bat. Andersen: “That’s one thing, being from West Virginia, he and Krukkie DON’T have in common.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/08/2026
Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11 theonion.com/scalpers-jack-up-price…
Scalpers Jack Up Price Of Colorado Rockies Ticket To $11
Fans Ask How Ball Club Still Has Heart To Charge Admission At All
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When Bessent goes on his speaking tours after his time in the Trump admin he will not be asked about any of this. If some stray student manages to get this out at a university event, they will be shuffled out of the room while some Dean apologizes. There is no shame, no accountability.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 24/07/2026
It is sickening and illegal and poisonously anti-American to steal OUR tax dollars, mandated by our Congress for the public good, and pervert them into a plaything of authoritarian patronage. Flaying our public institutions is the opposite of Conservative and it harms all Americans.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm not being funny at all when I say my family did similar things when my great grandfather had dementia.
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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’m surprised by how little attention this case has gotten. Even I didn’t really register it for a while. This entire family of three permanent residents were summarily detained without even the option of bond, all as collective punishment for one one of them being the son of an Iranian official
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@MNateShyamalan
Entomologist here. Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when it’s THIS big. The answer might surprise you more. Let’s dive in (1/?)

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@theoceanblooms
can I ask a question: how does something like this go undiscovered until now

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@ABC
Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country.

@MNateShyamalan
he look like stick (2/2)
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
ross douthat's last column is, like all his columns, a worthless pile of shit that shows what a dumb move it was to promote him as any kind of public intellectual in the first place.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/08/2026
Breaking News: U.S. employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in July, and hiring in previous months was revised down sharply.
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Jobs Report Live Updates: Employment Data to Give Latest Look at Slow but Steady Market
Businesses shed 23,000 jobs in July in the face of renewed tariffs and higher costs driven by war in the Middle East.
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