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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 1h
I know "media stories that scared us as kids" is trending, but it seems everyone is pointing at books and movies. None of those ever scared me as a kid. But news stories, like from the newspaper? Yes.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 1h
Why not pass a motion that genocidal jihadism or simply theocracy is racism? (By the way, Israel is by far the most diverse country in the Middle East - 20 percent of Israelis are Arab, hold places as high as the Supreme Court, and there are even anti-Zionist parties allowed in the political system.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 1h
I truly believe that if the wealthy and corporations paid their fair of taxes, the vast majority of our problems could be solved. It's that simple.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 1h
Only if the bad things happen to him.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 12h
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From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith attends the Power to the People concert on October 3, 2026, at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent and branded a “domestic terrorist” by DHS — all for just warning her neighbors and speaking her truth during Operation Midway Blitz. She deserves true justice and accountability from the federal government.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 14h
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Trump defies Democrats, diverts aid for Europe to Latin America instead
The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars that Congress approved for countries affected by the war in Ukraine.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 18h
apnews.com
Rubio waives human rights restrictions to release $320 million in military aid to Egypt
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has waived a restriction on $320 million in military aid to Egypt that had been previously withheld over human rights concerns.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 22h
NYT publishes Op-Ed by someone who lied to them for three years.
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Opinion | This Mistake Doomed Biden. Trump Is Falling Into the Same Trap.
When leaders ignore people’s lived experience, their political messaging collapses.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And Trump, as also noted by I think Democracy Docket, is telling people to vote by mail even though his administration is trying to bollox that up. They couldn't run a two-car funeral but they'd figure out how to get rich off it.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Two months.
reddit.com
From the USNEWS community on Reddit: Ex-fraternity leader at Arizona university gets jail time after pledge died of alcohol poisoning
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s called “Mitch McConnell.”
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Scientists Found a “Third State” Of Being Between Life and Death
Frog and human cells can reorganize after removal from their host, raising open questions about biological death and potential uses in regenerative medicine.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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From the Jewish community on Reddit: NYC public school suddenly ended longstanding rental of Reform synagogue for graduation ‘because of Israel’
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Possible. Resurface.
nytimes.com
With Elon Musk’s Return to Washington, Possible Conflicts of Interest Resurface
The founder of SpaceX, with billions of dollars in military contracts, joins several other defense industry executives on a Pentagon advisory board.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
houstonpublicmedia.org
Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants | Houston Public Media
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Playbook: Trump has cracked down on crime in D.C.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
God was unavailable for comment.
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‘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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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"His broad tariffs failed to boost demand and the plant’s former owner, International Motors, chose to offload the facility."
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Of course.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Nearly $100" is a funnier punch line than Dr. Evil holding the world hostage for one million dollars.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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From the USNEWS community on Reddit: Hamas Operative Raised $1.7M by Telling Donors He Was Buying Food for Starving Gazans, Prosecutors Say
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
The Trump administration quietly removed an option on a form overseas voters use to request mail ballots, making it harder for some to vote. In a new lawsuit, Democrats say the GOP's goal is to disenfranchise voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic: demdock.com/4djBJR1
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Status @status.news · 02/10/2026
Disney's president said this week that Jimmy Kimmel is doing a “phenomenal job,” but offered an ominous explanation for why that may not be enough to keep his late-night show on ABC. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...
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‘Curtains’ for Kimmel?
Disney's president said Jimmy Kimmel is doing a “phenomenal job,” but offered an ominous explanation for why that may not be enough to keep his late-night show on ABC.
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Status @status.news · 02/10/2026
Some MS NOW staffers are not so happy that their network is airing Donald Trump’s propaganda ads. Watch the full episode of Power Lines: youtu.be/GCdmkD0PKP0?... Or listen via a podcast app: www.status.news/power-lines
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
📮 New USPS cost cuts could delay your mail ballot. In most states, late means it doesn't count. 61% of planned zip codes will be affected for midterms. Search for your zip code here: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WashPost: Taxpayer funded Trump political ads seen by many as illegal draw on government cash that was in part devoted to "memorials for officers killed in the line of duty."
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Agency Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
nytimes.com
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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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
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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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I hate when news organizations do this. If The Washington Sun believes in its reporting, why publish the White House's lie? You know they are lying! Or perhaps, a reader may wonder, the report is false. Why provide a window to readers to suspect the report may be wrong? #Journalism
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Listening to Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit wave away the sexual assault charges against DeShaun Watson — even saying “winning is the best deodorant” — was pretty jarring, especially this week.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't know whether to lol or omg
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, Ro, you just haven't been paying attention then.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looks like Trump’s new “steel plant” in IA, announced to shore up support in midterms from people his policies have crushed, where he said construction has already begun, is nowhere close to happening and contingent on Iowans giving tax breaks & incentives to a company in India.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's coming out in two weeks.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm elated! I love you, ProPublica. Please hire me.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Coming soon in The New York Times: "The Indian Question" By Christopher Rufo
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I haven't clicked through yet because I don't want to be let down: Please tell me you opened a school!
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Does anyone think the mayor of Hammond gets it yet?
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every article about this should describe Musk properly, factually, objectively: a white supremacist conspiracy theorist who is mentally ill
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hell, I added 29,000 jobs in September. What a disaster.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Ms. Shaw Glaser was soon fired from her columnist gig, and the newspaper published an apology to the chief justice."
nytimes.com
John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: The Democratic National Committee is suing over the Trump administration's last-minute changes to forms many U.S. citizens living abroad use for absentee voting www.courtlistener.com/docket/74903...
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Complaint – #1 in DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-03431) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number ADCDC-12714499) filed by DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sh...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/10/2026
NEW: A New Jersey GOP official allegedly targeted Democratic voters' eligibility over residency discrepancies while leaving Republicans untouched. Now, the ACLU is threatening to sue unless election officials stop the effort — which risks disenfranchising those voters before the midterms.
democracydocket.com
New Jersey GOP operative, pardoned by Trump, accused of scheming to purge Democratic voters ahead of midterms
At the center of the controversy is George Gilmore, who holds two influential positions in Ocean County. He chairs both the county Board of Elections and the Ocean County GOP.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In plain sight, as it's been all along.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I like Mark Zuckerberg a lot," Graham wrote in an 800-word Facebook post over the weekend. "I think he is a good guy. I am proud to be his friend."
mediapost.com
Don Graham Wants To Talk About The Wrong Facebook Movie - Why Now?
Donald Graham, former CEO of The Washington Post Company and former Facebook board member, has decided there's something we need to know: Mark Zuckerberg is a good guy.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey Gen Z, this is why we drink.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OK, but to clarify, the popular vote doesn't matter in this country. So the real problem was with the Florida recount that didn't happen but would have clearly showed that Gore won the state, and therefore the presidency.
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