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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026

Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/ In May, I wrote: “The real fraud is the con that this is about fraud at all.” I warned fraud claims could become cover for cutting benefits. Four months later, 760,000 ACA enrollees are being removed in an anti-fraud sweep. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

EXCLUSIVE @ms.now: Trump administration officials have discussed attaching the president’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name www.ms.now/news/trump-f...

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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre

The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026

Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 22/09/2026

UPDATE: I just listened to the press conference with Oz & Vance...and sure enough, just as I suspected, they're apparently relying heavily on AN AI MODEL to "decide" which ACA enrollees meet the financial eligibility standards and which ones don't.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In 1960, these people were assuring you, ASSURING you JFK would allow the will of the Pope to override Congress. The playbook literally never changes.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Well, well, well. In 2025, Brendan Carr’s wife “joined billionaire Peter Thiel’s data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.” 4/28/25 … 1/ www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Carr graduated from Georgetown University, then earned his law degree at Catholic University, where he met his wife, Machalagh, who went on to serve as chief of staff for Kevin McCarthy when the California Republican was House speaker.They are among D.C.'s power couples. Earlier this year, she joined billionaire Peter Thiel's data analytics firm, Palantir Technologies, as its head of global policy.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 11/09/2026

DOGE is still running the show: The Bureau of Land Management gave its state directors *3 days* to list public lands that could be turned over to Big Tech to build AI hyperscalers, after Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met with Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy

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Inside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public Lands

The Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/09/2026

While RFK Jr.'s been shouting "Make America Healthy Again" from the rooftops, over 160 foods have been recalled so far this year. There’s nothing healthy about food-borne illness.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Census Bureau tells staff not to talk publicly about its new rule, which would dramatically shift how the survey is conducted and redistribute political power from blue states to red ones.

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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule

Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Smithsonian does not belong to the President, to the Administration, or to any politician. It belongs to the American people. Period. We’re here today to say Hands Off the Smithsonian!

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Reps. Stansbury, Jackson, and Mfume Introduce Bill to Defend the Smithsonian

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Attorneys for Rep Joyce Beatty (D-OH) alert the judge that Team Trump appears to be considering demolishing Kennedy Center New filing this morning ====>

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026

New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.

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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game

An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 17/09/2026

We were supposed to be in session all of September. We worked 2.5 days. Now Johnson is sending us home. Why? He’s terrified of votes on Hegseth impeachment articles and another Epstein discharge petition. Meanwhile, Trump is only focused on destroying the Kennedy Center and ranting like a maniac.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mitch McConnell nearly voted “no” with Democrats until Republicans stepped in and reminded him which way they wanted him to vote.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/09/2026

The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the procedure is unconstitutional.

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Texas abortion ban caused pregnant woman's death, lawsuit claims

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A minor detail is missing from the headline.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The United States government had $46.5 billion, a fleet of bulldozers, and the entire Department of Homeland Security. A county water board in Texas beat all of it with one thing they forgot to do. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-just...

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Trump Just Went 0-4 In Court. Even A County Water Board Beat Him.

A professor, a VA employee, and an attorney general who filed eleven times before a court answered

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026

Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow.

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The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade

The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/09/2026

There's A LOT of ways the Trump admin is currently attacking & decimating American science. Here's a breakdown of what they are doing, and what you can do about it. 🧵

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Ossoff: "On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr's 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs ... President Trump is compromised"

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Casey Revkin helps more than 80 children and 67 families a week who are held at Dilley Detention Center in the Texas desert. She joins me to explain how she’s sending more than $10,000 a week to these families’ commissary accounts to help them get food and essentials. youtu.be/EmE26ez2t-Q?...

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Trump's ICE Facilities EXPOSED as ONE WOMAN Reveals SHOCKING INSIDER SECRETS!!

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) rejected a Florida county’s mail ballot envelope design, it inadvertently offered a test case for just how disruptive President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict mail voting could be this November. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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In ominous sign, USPS initially rejected Florida county’s mail ballot over spacing issue

Read more here.

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Kara Swisher: “I think this idea that AI is going to kill us, it’s not AI, it’s the people making AI who are killing us. Let’s stop blaming the machines. Let’s blame the people who are making these things and the administration that refuses to put any guardrails”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let me tell you a story about how top-end menswear retail transformed over the last hundred years. 🧵

Fiorinamarietta on Threads writes: "The death of department stores as an EXPERIENCE needs to be studied. You used to be able to buy a dress, have lunch, get your hair done, smell every perfume in existence and leave carrying beautifully wrapped boxes. Shopping used to be an event."

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/09/2026

After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl

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WATCH: Trump leads RNC in pledge to 'cheat like hell' in November elections

After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that “we want honesty in our elections,” he led them in a pledge to “cheat like hell” and “go out and vo...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/09/2026

If SCOTUS allows Trump’s anti-mail voting order to move forward for the midterms, it may rely on Purcell to justify the chaos that decision would unleash. If so, the justices would be stretching an already strained legal doctrine far beyond the limits of logic: demdock.com/4h0tpXk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

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LadyCat311 🇺🇲 @coffeecat311.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

youtube.com/shorts/kXtHd... Don't conflate the top 1% of INCOME earners pay taxes, and the top 1% of the WEALTH earners who don't. Have a listen! @hcrhq.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @raymadoff.bsky.social

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A False Narrative

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Please note that this project is not an initiative of the current administration, or cause for alarm because of that. (I've worked just upstairs and now down the hall from the WI State Cartographer's Office, and they've been updating people about this for years, along with lots of other good work.)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026

WATCH: Billions of gallons of toxic oil field wastewater are injected below Oklahoma each year. Some of it is spreading uncontrollably and blasting out of old wells. Our documentary with @readfrontier.bsky.social exposes what regulators knew — and how they did little about the risks.

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Why Oil Field Wastewater Is Bubbling Up All Over This State | ProPublica Docs

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026

Also a reminder that if you're already a subscriber and/or would just like to buy me a coffee (or something stronger 🥃), you can do so here:

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Independent journalist and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter. Your support makes my work possible, including all the clipping I do across my social media channels.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🇺🇸❗️The US is pressuring NATO allies to dismantle the International Criminal Court, - Politico. During a closed meeting of NATO ambassadors in Brussels in July, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker called on Alliance countries to help dismantle the court and withdraw from the Rome Statute.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026

Hillary Clinton: "I love Israel, and I hate Netanyahu's government and his policies. I love America, and I hate Trump's government and policies ... if the Israelis want to vote for that again, then I think the United States has to take a very tough position."

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In my decades of public service, I have rarely been as angry as I was the day the damning inspector general’s report was released about the EPA's response to the World Trade Center collapse. Read my new piece on the lessons of 9/11 at @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is gold. Fascinating and maddening. Educating the public in terms everyday folks can hear and understand should be a priority for democrats moving forward. Have a listen to American Conversations: Ray Madoff and @hcrichardson.bsky.social cc: @kamalaharris.com www.youtube.com/live/QqRyG8n...

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Ray Madoff | American Conversations

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Republican Party makes false promises and creates fake culture war distractions because they don’t want you to pay attention to things like this.

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DeidShaw @deidshaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you want to understand how the rich got SO rich in America and what we can do to rebalance the scales, watch this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRy... with @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Dr. Ray Madoff.

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Please share wisely to publicize the attempts by musk to suppress votes and spread disinformation popular.info/p/the-hidden...

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Elon Musk is living proof that money doesn’t make you smart, interesting, loved, creative, nice, kind, happy, funny, or cool.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Elon Musk offered his ex, Ashley St. Clair, $40,000,000 not to tell the truth about him in Alex Gibney’s new, scathing documentary. She told Musk to take a hike. Apparently, Elon is *furious* that the four-hour film is unflattering. But, in fairness, how could it not be—unless it were fiction?

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Elon Musk shows off bizarre dance moves at Tesla event in China

YouTube video by Global News

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