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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h
“Everyone is very aware that our audience is going to hate this.” @nataliekorach.bsky.social has the inside scoop on tension inside MS NOW over the network's decision to air Donald Trump's taxpayer-funded propaganda ads. Read her story in @status.news: www.status.news/p/ms-now-tru...
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MS NOW’s Trump Ad Dilemma
Trump tried to ban MS NOW from the White House. Now, his administration is planning to spend taxpayer dollars to reach its viewers, and inside the network, Status has learned, some are "pissed."
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h
The Trump administration is offering up one last release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. That will bring it down to levels not seen since Ronald Reagan’s first term. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US to Tap More Oil From Emergency Reserve as Fuel Prices Surge
The US ordered another release of oil from emergency reserves — and urged European nations to do likewise — as the Trump administration grapples with fuel prices that are surging less than two months ...
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 6h
Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Pike to go ahead, overturning a last-minute reprieve www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US Supreme Court allows execution of Christa Pike to go ahead
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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404 Media @404media.co · 14h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 15h
Today, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A thread on the reporting, and what we found:
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 18h
SCOOP: Valar Atomics is planning a massive nuclear powered data center on public lands in Utah. The 9,600 acre site would include 456 reactors, along with fuel fabrication and waste storage facilities. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...
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A startup wants to build a massive nuclear-powered data center on public land in Utah
Valar Atomics wants to place over 450 reactors on more than 9,500 acres in Utah to power a huge data center project.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h
* ISRAEL'S DEFENSE MINISTER KATZ CITING PRELIMINARY INFORMATION: THE ATTACKER INTENDED TO CRASH THE PLANE, KILLING EVERYONE ON BOARD * NETANYAHU: I HAVE SPOKEN WITH ONE OF THE PASSENGERS ON BOARD THE FLIGHT, A SECOND CREW ON BOARD STABILIZED THE PLANE @reuters.com
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_aa_ @beep.you · 15h
Where's he live?
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 16h
In relation to the flydubai attack
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 22h
Israeli reports suggest altercation between pilots may have prompted emergency hijacking signal on Dubai-Tel Aviv flight; plane expected to land in Saudi Arabia shortly.
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_aa_ @beep.you · 22h
Had a dream that Kash was out as FBI director and they made him janitor. Then they made me FBI director! I don't know how to direct no FBI. My first decision was to ask one of my real coworkers for help then I woke up. Noted here contemporaneously.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: Multiple Ukrainian power stations have come under a Russian attack, targeted by both ballistic missiles and Geran-5 drones. Power surges can be seen from CHP-5, and power outages have been reported in some areas of the capital.
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 29/09/2026
The actor died at 75. www.avclub.com/dennis-haski...
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R.I.P. Dennis Haskins, Saved By The Bell's Principal Belding
R.I.P. Dennis Haskins, Saved By The Bell's Principal Belding
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_aa_ @beep.you · 29/09/2026
We're making it official, guys. We have to stop saying artificial at 5. We all agree on that.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FWIW my read is that the rw media reaction to the Schmitt-Smith thing is a result of them being lazy and stupid rather than deliberately lying to create a false narrative for their audience -- the hosts here literally don't seem to know what actually happened. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Susan Collins says the funds Trump is using for campaign-style ads came out of OBBB: “It is not under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Cmte… It came from the one big, beautiful bill. It was taken out of funding that was supposed to be for Customs and Border Protection.”
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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_aa_ @beep.you · 29/09/2026
OMG YouTube Music sounds like shit. I've been listening to shit.
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_aa_ @beep.you · 29/09/2026
My MAGA coworker is very upset about gas prices.
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More fallout from FBI's ouster of sr. agents heading probe into Katie Miller caller, as case shifts to Boston. Despite fed prosecutors' skepticism, charges coming any day in what former officials said sounds like a matter better suited for local police. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Prepares to Charge Veteran for Calling Stephen Miller’s Wife
Federal prosecutors in Boston are under mounting pressure to imminently charge a military veteran for allegedly making threatening phone calls to Stephen Miller’s wife, despite internal evidentiary co...
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In today’s Post: a visual look at how Trump is physically remaking Washington. His supporters are cheering his renovations and additions. Many DC residents want him to stop. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump’s sweeping changes are remaking Washington
No modern president has done more to personally reshape the nation’s capital.
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 28/09/2026
“Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym." —Bill Nye, Science Guy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency reports loud sounds heard in Strait of Hormuz, citing local sources saying noises resemble warning shots at non-compliant vessels. More: iranwire.com/en/news/158225
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IRGC Media Attributes Noises Near Qeshm Island to “Warning Shots”
The IRGC-affiliated Tasnim news agency reported on the evening of Monday, September 28, that loud sounds were heard coming from the mari ...
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Eligible voters, time's running out for registering to vote or updating your registration for the midterms. Fri, 10/2 — SOUTH CAROLINA — in-person (10/4 online, 10/5 mail) Sat, 10/3 — U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS — in-person (10/4 online) Sun, 10/4 — ALASKA Sun, 10/4 — RHODE ISLAND More at npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Araghchi says Iran’s position has not changed, including its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Despite intensive diplomacy, the report cautions that little is known about actual progress, leaving a prolonged stalemate possible.-Wire Service
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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_aa_ @beep.you · 29/09/2026
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Legal experts say Kristi Noem's airport video breaks the law. Penalties are unlikely
In a Department of Homeland Security video, Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown. Law and ethics experts say it violates the Hatch Act, but there are rarely serious consequences.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
(AXIOS) - Iowa is on the verge of a farm crisis that threatens to wreck the agricultural heart of the state .. @axios.com #IAsen www.axios.com/2026/09/29/i...
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Estonia's Internal Secret Service has concluded Russia of carrying out an arson attack in Tallinn on Milrem Robotics during the night of September 14. The Estonian foreign ministry will summon Russia’s Chargé d’affaires.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. 

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RAF Fairford incident "clearly involves the hands of a foreign actor," US Secretary of State Rubio says on Fox News.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
"Mr. Olsen was central in persuading the F.B.I. to search an election office in Fulton County, Ga., in late January and haul away boxes of ballots as part of an effort to investigate the 2020 race."
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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_aa_ @beep.you · 28/09/2026
He was prepared to make that denial. Curious if Xi is asked for his side of the story.
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AZ Intel @azintel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
President Trump says RAF Fairford suspects should not have been bailed: "We know everything about them. We would have not released them."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: the group that hacked the FBI and stole data on "all FBI employees" says it won't publish the data. The group gave the FBI a one week countdown. Now says won't publish at all. Still represents a massive national security/counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/fbi-hackers-...
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the same way Trump's insistence on making the Bunker-Ballroom a fire trap (with no ladies rooms) gives us an excuse to tear it down and rebuild it, Kash's refusal to protect the FBI from serious compromise gives us an excuse to just replace all the current people with the people he fired.
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 28/09/2026
please, my bonds, they are very sick
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇪🇺🇷🇺 Rikard Jozwiak writes on X that Brussels is currently discussing designating Russia’s GRU as a terrorist organization.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: Former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, who joined the FBI as 'co-deputy director' work alongside then-Deputy Director Dan Bongino, is stepping aside. Bailey was overseeing election-related matters at the FBI.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Counter Terror Police statement on the five men in the RAF Fairford case being released on bail:
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so they're suspected of *something*--there is a bail amount--but it's clearly not terrorism
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