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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13h
"We have the National Guard here, and they don't do anything. … They're not in any high-crime area in DC. They're in all the tourist areas. They hang out in front of this expensive French restaurant across from my house. … And it costs $3 million a day to keep them here."
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Everything's 'National Security' in Trump's Washington (Half the Answer #106, with Stephanie Mencimer)
Donald Trump is changing the landscape of D.C., from East Potomac Park to the Kennedy Center to the 'Arc de Trump.'
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 12h
"New survey data from Siena suggests close to 50% of men aged 18–49 have an active sports betting account… Instead of fighting what is clearly an emerging crisis, we have some of the biggest names in professional sports acting as spokespeople for DraftKings and Kalshi."
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 11h
"In 2016, Donald Trump ran on, among other things, 'repealing and replacing' the Affordable Care Act. The attempts to do so in 2017 were halting, unpopular, and ultimately less than total, though real damage was done. What's been striking since then is that it is hardly spoken of at all any more."
liberalcurrents.com
Healthcare in The Reconstruction Papers
One of America's most intractable problems.
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Disgusted American @elonisabum.bsky.social · 10h
I've said it many times, but I'll say it again because this perfectly illustrates Christianity in America. If you think God supports a narcissistic mean racist corrupt self admitted sexual predator, likely rapist pedophile, & you're ok with that, you need to have a serious conversation with your God
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sandiaman.bsky.social @sandiaman.bsky.social · 10h
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MuttDad @heavymetalmike.bsky.social · 10h
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h
The NY Times says it’s “not clear“ why Trump is using taxpayer funds and not money from his super PAC for his self-glorifying ads. But it’s clear to me. It’s because HE‘S A CROOK.
It was not clear why taxpayer funds, and not money from the super PAC, were used for the spots.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h
These hideous Trump ads are outright theft from the taxpayers and election misconduct at the same time. $20 million in OUR MONEY spent on Illegal ads glorifying the would-be king. And his co-conspirators told him it was OK.
nytimes.com
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 9h
After seeing the ULTRA MAGA crew try to rehab Nixon’s reputation so that Trump can be excused for the endless crimes he, his family & gaggle of grifters & sycophants are committing, am expecting DJT to post soon: “Jefferson Davis was treated SO unfairly by the Fake News! SAD!” Crazy never stops.
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Failed States @barge118.com · 9h
#maine #shesgottogo
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 9h
Authoritarian dictators always use government resources to boost their own image and ego. I've seen it happen in Russia, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Vietnam, and elsewhere. Trump is now running 13 different campaign ads (including come he ran in is 2024 campaign) at taxpayer expense. State propaganda.
cnn.com
‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h
He had already surrendered. Video captured today in Oasis, California shows a federal goons kneeling on a man he threw to the ground while tasing him. This whole time the man is surrendering.
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azbookworm406.bsky.social @azbookworm406.bsky.social · 13h
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 20h
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 19h
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 17h
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! They are here! Well they been here all summer, but mostly in Seattle. Now they are branching out to the suburbs! Fuck! These fuckers are kidnapping folks in my neighborhood! Good folks, hard working folks. Folks need to get organized. Seattle, you know what to do. #ICEoutofSEATTLE
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h
Many Hispanic voters heard secure the border and deport violent criminals. What they got was cruelty to: workers, parents, grandparents, children, longtime residents and people with no criminal conviction. This is buyer’s remorse on an epic scale. #LetsGetVoteReady
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 14h
This is as close as anything to the molten core of modern democracy: can legislators and laws bind executives? That question has been the motive force of a lot of revolutions, democratic collapses, and democratization
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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 14h
Use ballot drop boxes if you have them. And be sure to vote Democratic. www.sos.wa.gov/elections/vo...
Cartoon character Mark the Ballot is part of a Washington voter education campaign. He's an anthropomorphic ballot in a return envelope, depicted in the slot of an official ballot drop box.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 16h
Vance wants you to believe that Epstein hating Trump is a “great character reference” for Trump. That’s like saying Jeffrey Dahmer was a good chef. 32 days until Election Day. #LetsGetVoteReady
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
A $250,000 donation to a pro-Ken Paxton super PAC came from a businessman whose dad got pardoned by Trump — and who used a fake name and rented mailbox on the donation record.
politico.com
Who was behind a $250K mystery donation to super PAC backing Ken Paxton?
The Texas Senate hopeful has ties to the donor’s family going back decades.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
BREAKING MS NOW: Kash Patel has commissioned a classified report examining purported past FBI shortcomings — including in the Russia and special counsel probes — in what current and former officials see as the Trump admin's latest effort to rewrite history in Trump's favor.
ms.now
Kash Patel commissions classified, internal FBI report to examine department ‘failures’
Sources tell MS NOW the ‘Patel Report’ may be the latest effort to re-write history in President Trump’s favor.
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Collin Yourbs 🌵✡️ 🟦 @collinyourbs.bsky.social · 15h
The incongruity between her comments and the name of her tour splashed across the background behind her is something else.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The CEO of a hate group has some thoughts.
Turning Point USA / TPUSA on X.com

Erika Kirk: "I have watched people respond to political disagreement with a level of hatred and dehumanization that I would have never even thought would have existed, and I never want it to become normal in our country."

8:25 PM, 10/1/26
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 19h
989 billionaires are now worth 22% of our GDP. We have more wealth concentration than the gilded age.
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Tara Palmeri @tarapalmeri.bsky.social · 18h
Michael Tracey claims he's outed the Cornell 7 Jane Doe. He's spent a year going after Epstein survivors. I asked him on TV who's paying him. Watch. More at tarapalmeri.com
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 15h
Marco Rubio's former BFF just got 10 years in jail for trying to broke a deal between Trump and the regime in Venezuela. Which is, of course, now the official policy of the United States. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/d...
cbsnews.com
Former Florida congressman David Rivera sentenced to 10 years in Venezuela lobbying case
Former U.S. Rep. David Rivera was convicted on federal charges stemming from a secret lobbying campaign tied to the Venezuelan government.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h
Very good points from @mjtoma.bsky.social here: Any movement (and president!) that are nutball enough to go down Eric Schmitt-style rabbit holes will be willing to steal the election and much worse. This humiliation won't dissuade them in the slightest: newrepublic.com/post/216176/...
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Eric Schmitt’s a Joke. The Assaults on Jack Smith Are Anything But.
The Missouri senator and other Republicans made fools of themselves Tuesday. But that won’t stop them lying about—and trying to destroy—Donald Trump’s prosecutor.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21h
Killer Pete Hegseth? “Forget equality. Forget expertise. Forget decades of experience. Forget the law to achieve his violent ends. Expect more of this unless Dems take over Congress. And if they do: The hunger to impeach to him may turn into real action.” www.americaamerica.news/p/fighting-f...
americaamerica.news
Fighting for the Future We Want
Listen to the words of Trump, Hegseth and a federal judge. They are a warning of two different fates for America after the midterms.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
RENMAC: “.. This is not just about education & health. Wage growth in several industries have softened. Retail trade, durable goods manufacturing, transportation and warehousing, other services are all at the low-end of their range of the last 12 months.”
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe I can AI clone myself and let them remote work for companies??? Tavus' Griffin, the first(?) model to pass video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 17h
The administration’s abrupt turn against Olmstead appears to trace back to one of President Donald Trump’s central fixations since his return to office: aesthetics and cleanliness in the nation’s capital. It began after Trump complained about unsightly tent encampments along his motorcade route...
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 17h
The fallout has already begun. Since issuing the memo, the Justice Department has abandoned or weakened at least five investigations, lawsuits or settlement agreements rooted in Olmstead. This goes well beyond the administration's stated goal of forcing homeless people into treatment.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 17h
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
nbcnews.com
How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Jason M Ernst @jason-m-ernst.bsky.social · 16h
Tennessee failed to execute a woman and now she’s in the hospital on life support. I guess she’s only allowed to die under procedural conditions.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 20h
Right-wing media has pushed to send federal agents and the military to polling places and interfere with vote counting, but voting rights groups are pushing back.
mediamatters.org
Who's calling for the Trump administration to send federal agents to polling places?
Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, right-wing media figures have called for President Donald Trump to deploy federal law enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, or the m...
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 17h
Voter roll purges in Southern states target Black communities most. That is the reality, not a theory. So we do what we have always done: ORGANIZE. Register by Oct. 5: GA, MS, LA, TN, FL, TX. #LetsGetVoteReady social.demcast.com/s/LxeOtTC0
social.demcast.com
Check Your Voter Registration
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 17h
Yep Mark So Damn Insane
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h
just got a text saying my ballot was sent to me and I know we all like to joke about “voting harder” but, sincerely, I am looking forward to voting against these fuckers as hard as I can
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 18h
Men are told condoms are uncomfortable. Women are told pregnancy, childbirth, hormones, stitches, recovery and lifelong body changes are just part of life. Interesting definition of inconvenience.
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 23h
The Trump two-step. Limits on mifepristone to wait until after the election for fear that such a move “would create unfavorable headlines just before voters head to the polls.” Conservative insider tells the Sun “the gloves will be off“ after the midterms. www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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azbookworm406.bsky.social @azbookworm406.bsky.social · 17h
Sounds like AZ, the dumbing down of our children.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 18h
NYT looking to hear from folks who bought Trump's memecoin (me too, tbh)—
nytimes.com
Did You Buy $TRUMP Coin? Tell Us Your Experience.
We want to hear from people who bought the $TRUMP memecoin, no matter the reason, and whether they made or lost money.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 18h
At 12:36 in the morning Fuckface posted that America belongs to those who love it. This is the guy who tried to overturn an election, slapped his name on the Kennedy Center and told a crowd to cheat like hell. Strange way to show affection for the place.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 18h
‘Many of the biggest names in AI show up connected to these data center projects in some form. That means markets for lower-rated issuers are financing at least some of the infrastructure supporting the biggest AI companies.’ www.theinformation.com/newsletters/...
theinformation.com
AI Data Center Debt Is Showing Up Everywhere
Debt financing for data centers and related infrastructure has grown rapidly enough that it’s become its own category these days—credit analysts are breaking out AI versus non–AI-linked debt across ma...
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 18h
Pam Bondi ran Justice Department business from an email alias named after her grandmother, Grace Maye. DOJ says it's for security, and it can also make FOIA searches miss the documents. Somebody get Grandma Grace a lawyer.
rawstory.com
Pam Bondi’s hidden email alias exposed in practice that can 'undermine transparency'
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi conducted government business using her grandmother’s name as an email alias — a longstanding Justice Department practice that can complicate access to public records...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18h
An entire football team with mumps. Did this many people really not get that vaccine!?! Also, mumps in adult males can cause sterility. "Post-pubertal males can develop orchitis (inflammation of the testicles) 1 week after parotitis (jaw swelling) begins. It affects 25%-40% of post-pubertal cases."
joemygod.com
CA College Football Team Sees 14 Cases Of Mumps - Joe.My.God.
ESPN reports: San Diego State’s football team is dealing with a mumps outbreak as it prepares for Saturday’s Pac-12 opener against Texas State. A bulletin to San Diego State students from the universi...
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