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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19h

I sure would like to hear more of this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 39m

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 2h

The results are in: For every percentage point Trump increased tariffs, overall inflation increased by 0.25%. If it weren't for Trump's tariffs, inflation would have gone down rather than up since April 2025. Prices on both imported goods/components and domestic ones went up as a result of tariffs.

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How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics

A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.

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A Horse of Course @charliehorsephotos.bsky.social · 19h

@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social can you review any federal funding going to the University of Texas while they are suppressing free speech?

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 20h

An Austin American Statesman reporter was eventually let in, but under some truly bizarre parameters in which she was told she was not to behave like a “reporter.”

A tweet from journalist Faith Bugenhagen: got in but late and I’ve been told I’m not allowed to operate as a “reporter” in general admission and that the event was “private” but “open to the public” — I’m in the crowd now but was told to “respect my non press capacity” + not document anything inside

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h

Ken Paxton told Washington lobbyists he would support cuts to federal benefits according to leaked audio. "Making some reasonable cuts to mandatory spending — you’re gonna have to do it. Or there is no solution. That’s just the reality. We have to suck it up." www.texastribune.org/2026/10/08/k...

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Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio

In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...

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Brus McKee @brusmckee.bsky.social · 8h

Cutting federal benefits huh? Cool. Let's start with members of congress and work up from there.

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Steven Woods @stevenwoods.com · 9h

this is infuriating @aircanada.bsky.social

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 7h

The England Airpark board in Alexandria, Louisiana can still halt the planned ICE facility for unaccompanied children, set to open in a few days. The Board of Commissioners traded the safety of immigrant families and kids for a $530,000 contract on a toxic site. thelensnola.org/2026/10/08/a...

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The England Airpark board in Alexandria can still halt the planned ICE facility for children and families. | The Lens

The Alexandria child ICE detention facility is nearing its opening as critics urge the England Airpark board to terminate the contracts behind the project.

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Iamremulak @iamremulak.bsky.social · 7h

I am so outraged by this, I am 1000% sure if I was there I would’ve started swinging fists at those assholes. Then they might be taking me away, if they could! Grrr 🤬😡 this makes me explosively

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

By forcibly closing the UK consulate in Jerusalem while hosting the fascist international there, Netanyahu is redefining Israel's position in the world: an enemy of Western democracies but a friend to dictators everywhere, and to "populist" movements aspiring to bring dictatorship to democracies.

thetimes.com

Israel closes British consulate in Jerusalem blaming ‘hostile rhetoric’

The Israeli foreign minister accused the UK of ‘false accusations’. It came after 11 were arrested at pro-Palestine rallies in London

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Woman Veteran ☮️ @pamelaoplays.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

- #PamelasFridayFeeling If you are an American, your heritage is either Native American, slave, refugee, or immigrant. That's it. -

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 5h

As a Cold War diplomat, I feel qualified to say that Vance has no understanding of the political systems he is trying to describe. What a hapless #Loser

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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social · 7h

Subverting and suppressing embassy reporting that should reflect our eyes and ears on the ground. I am so, so damn tired of these guys.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.

NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21h

1. NEW An incredible, but not surprising, story in the Wall Street Journal about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US Ambassador to Greece.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Schmitt: Did you attend a concert wearing an anti-Trump shirt? Smith: I wore a “No Kings” shirt. It used to be a bipartisan American sentiment.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 7h

This week, the last of the accused 9/11 co-conspirators' confessions was ruled inadmissible due to their torture while in CIA custody. These rulings are a reminder that the U.S. government fares better when it abides by the law, writes Benjamin Farley.

justsecurity.org

The 9/11 Military Commission and Lessons of Recent History

The 9/11 military commission's recent rulings are a reminder that the government fares better when it abides by the law.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18h

I am trying to think of AI from a standard corporate accountability perspective and I found this line from the safety policy employee who quit to be the most succinct explanation of the concern. it doesn't need you to buy into any sci-fi narratives. it's all about scale/scope:

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 9h

Warehousing the diaper wearing Deranged Tyrants livestock of ‘for profit human trafficking. It’s a human abomination of the highest crimes against humanity. Never Forget. Never Forgive.

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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 06/10/2026

🛑 NEW: Reports of 'plague' in Irkutsk, Russia have set off a wave of speculation and anxiety. To help combat misinformation, we have setup a live tracker to continuously assess new claims. As of right now: reports have LOW credibility. Read more here. irkutsk.america2.news

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The Irkutsk Plague Report — live credibility tracker

What is confirmed, what is not, and who is spreading which claims about the reported plague death in Irkutsk, Russia.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 06/10/2026

Latest: Two charities associated with the world’s largest far-right Hindu group have raised more than US$24.4 million over a five-year period through US grants that allow the donor to be anonymous, Bellingcat can reveal: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/10...

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US DAFs Donate Millions to Groups Linked to India’s Far-Right

Donor-advised funds allow individuals and foundations to give money to charities while remaining anonymous.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump: "Under my leadership, America is the most respected country on earth." EU Parliament: "Here's a token of our esteem."

Gold-gilt statue of an obese Trump holding a long golf club riding on the shoulders of an emaciated man.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Companies linked with Trump's two eldest sons have received over $6 billion in government contracts. Some are established companies that invited the sons to join their Boards, but more are new start-ups with zero experience that are *magically* receiving massive contracts. Corruption gone wild.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've endorsed the Media and Democracy Project's pro-democracy election coverage guidelines. You should too.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The president's practice of expelling journalists whose stories he doesn't like is an insult to our democracy, and congress and the courts have already allowed it to go on for too long. www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/m...

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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One amid press access lawsuit | CNN Business

The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One on Monday, which means the news organization cannot fulfill its press corps pool responsibilities.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lifelong Coloradan Madison Schink describes enduring the combined harms of pollution from the Suncor oil refinery and the devastation of worsening climate-fueled fires outside the U.S. Supreme Court today as #SCOTUS considers Suncor and Exxon v. Boulder. "Can I endure more of this?" she asks.

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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com · 05/10/2026

JUST IN: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world "should accept some bad things happening" for AI’s benefits. Who gets to decide how much harm society should accept in the name of “progress”?

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Please contemplate the unprecedented U.S. tax dollars, time, energy, resources, person-power, weaponry, and care Trump is devoting to moving oil and gas tankers one-by-one through the Strait of Hormuz, and how else those resources could be used instead. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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No Lights, No Radio: Getting Oil Through Hormuz Is a Risky Job

A tanker captain’s first-hand account shows why flows from the Middle East are rising, despite the dangers of Iranian drones and missiles.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Key point that @aselrod.bsky.social makes here is that some of these figures offering the most vile male-supremacist responses to this have gigs within mainstream media as well:

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Under Trump, more than 500 Americans have been grabbed off the street and sent to DHS concentration camps. Many have been filmed screaming that they are American citizens. DHS doesn't care; they just toss them into detainment until some family member or lawyer is able to prove their citizenship.

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The House and the Senate must immediately reconvene in emergency sessions to impeach and remove this treasonous individual – this clear and present danger.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely 👇

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pete Hegseth gave a speech in front of a backdrop that almost perfectly matches Nazi imagery. Meanwhile, Trump calls opponents “vermin” who he will “root out,” and says the blood of our country is being poisoned. We are far past left vs right. Our choice is democracy or fascism.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The hackers weren't brilliant. They were patient. They waited until the people who close doors had been fired by Kash Patel, then they walked in. That's not a hack. That's a business model. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is now almost certain that the 28-year old Russian bio-weapons lab researcher who suddenly died succumbed to pneumonic plague, the most dangerous and easily transmittable of all plague variants. This means that Russia continues to produce, and likely enhance, weaponized pneumonic plague. 1/3

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Los Angeles and San Diego if you are not protesting after this then what the fuck?

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DrLouS @drlous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#Brexit turned the UK from a global power to a small island. Trump now turns America into an economically diminished, demeaned and militarily weakened dying superpower. Both are led by the European White Supremacist International long funded by Putin now also supported by Elon Musk and Peter Theil

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