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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h
Breaking news: The Pentagon acknowledged that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops killed during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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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 th
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
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Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"Next month, Trump is hosting the 'most exclusive dinner in the world' at his golf club in Virginia — & you’re invited! Well, only if you can pony up millions to buy his scammy meme coin. It’s just another breathtaking bit of corruption that, by now, is depressingly routine." — @snipy.bsky.social
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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rarely has a person been so enmeshed in the workings (or one might say, dysfunctions) of our current political-economic-media-influence system as Kimberly Guilfoyle. Let me explain...https://robertreich.substack.com/p/pay-to-play-to-play-to-pay
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So it’s slave ships except they’re trying to reduce the number of laborers in this country
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/10/2026
NEW: The Trump Administration has denied our request for emergency assistance after storms in August. Our communities are still picking up the pieces, but this President is playing politics instead. Illinois will keep fighting to help our people recover and rebuild.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"The daily population of children in ICE detention has risen sharply since family detention was reinstated in early 2025. ... ICE holds a daily average of roughly 200 children in custody compared to just 23 the previous year — an eightfold rise."
Screenshot of a graph showing how "daily population of children in ICE detention has risen sharply since family detention was reinstated in early 2025. Since Trump’s return to office, ICE holds a daily average of roughly 200 children in custody compared to just 23 the previous year — an eightfold rise."
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I could have done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could have done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could have done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama,” Trump said in response to a reporter in the Oval Office Wednesday. More: substack.com/profile/2357...
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Amee Vanderpool (@shero)
During a press conference in the Oval Office to promote automatic enrollment for Trump Accounts, Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he could do “whatever I want,” including potentially taki...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become ambassador to Greece when she asked a donor for $100K to pay AmEx, in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to AmEx.” Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"I'm asking you to pretend I'm on the ballot." -Donald Trump
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Parscale said "Campaign Nucleus, his AI campaign software business backed by the Texas oil billionaire Tim Dunn, had expanded into Israel, India, Brazil and the Balkans." Cerimedo: "Brad set up all the infrastructure that I work with" Parscale told HIC 2017 that he had no interaction with Russia.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reminder: It isn’t just Netanyahu/Ben Gvir/Smotrich
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/10/2026
“They took me and they threw me [like] a sheep to the back of a military Hummer. After, they made their dog attack me and bite me, and they hit me,” says Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, who was detained at a military base by Israeli soldiers for seven hours on Friday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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KellyK🌺 @azkellyk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Simon Andriesz, who worked for Lutnick’s firm, uncovered evidence that Lutnick and Epstein did business in 2014 while remaining in contact through 2018—despite Lutnick’s claim he cut off contact with Epstein in 2005. And now, Andriesz is dead. www.rawstory.com/howard-lutni...
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Raised eyebrows as banker who outed Howard Lutnick’s Epstein ties dies by suicide
A British banker who exposed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s business ties to Jeffrey Epstein has died by suicide, according to The Banker, a death that raised eyebrows and drew the attention of R...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 01/10/2026
California's supreme court ruled that a county sheriff broke the law when he seized more than 650,000 ballots, KSL News reports:
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California sheriff unlawfully seized over 650,000 ballots and must return them, state Supreme Court rules
The California Supreme Court ruled Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated state election law by ordering his deputies to seize more than 650,000 ballots tied to the Proposition 50 special election.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
ICE just spent $16.7 million on electric shock gloves that human rights organizations like Amnesty International warn “could be readily misused for torture.” When parents in Omaha, Nebraska, learned that school resource officers had these same devices, they decided to fight back. WATCH:
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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You’ve likely seen the news: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. Almost as troubling: Plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
NEW: We published our investigation, in partnership with @pablo.show, about Tim Tebow’s involvement with Life Surge, a Christian financial seminar company. Now, one day after our investigation was published, the legendary quarterback announced that he’s “pausing” his work with Life Surge.
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Tim Tebow “pausing” Christian seminar promotion after our investigation
“I think the allegations are extremely serious."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026
really fascinating to see isgur conduct this interview as if conservative election mistrust has materialized out of nowhere or as if liberal claims of voter suppression are totally baseless. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Opinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?
And how we learn to trust elections again.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the most high profile funder of the Republican Party. Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances futurism.com/advanced-tra...
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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You’re paying for Trump’s campaign ads—and Fox News is cashing in www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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You’re paying for Trump’s campaign ads—and Fox News is cashing in
President Donald Trump is using taxpayer dollars to finance a new ad meant to stop the blue wave that’s barreling toward GOP candidates.
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Should be bigger news, no? www.propublica.org/article/debu...
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
Tim Tebow. Magic Johnson. Joe Montana. These are only a few of the celebs who have spoken for Life Surge, a company that sells self-improvement course packages that can reach up to $40,000. Former and current employees state that the company uses questionable tactics and Christianity to sell.
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The Gospel of high yields: Inside Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar
Life Surge pairs Christian celebs with hard-sell pitches. Some attendees ended up deep in debt.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ryan Clark went step by step through the news of his layoff being leaked in the media while he was live on the air. awfulannouncing.com/podcasts/rya...
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Ryan Clark details phone call that ended ESPN career
Ryan Clark went step by step through the news of his layoff being leaked in the media while he was live on the air.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Israeli fire killed 15 Palestinian civilians in Gaza since 21 Sept, pushing Gaza ceasefire death toll past 1,400. In the occupied West Bank, raids intensified as more than 1,600 settler attacks causing casualties or property damage were reported in 2026.
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Israel kills more Palestinian civilians in Gaza as West Bank raids widen
Israeli fire killed 15 more Palestinians in Gaza from 21 to 24 September, as troops and settlers raided, burned and detained Palestinian civilians across the occupied West Bank. Gaza's ceasefire death...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 24/09/2026
A young Salvadoran man in Frederick County whose stepfather was deported last year says that the fear of being detained is commonplace. “In our community, the Hispanic community, there is always a fear of being stopped by the sheriff office.”
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 “We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A downballot race to circle for November: In a Harris +9 county in Maryland, far-right sheriff who boasts about funneling 2,000 people into deportation faces seeks a sixth term. I wrote about him, and ICE, and immigrant rights organizing, in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/frederick-co...
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“We're Afraid on a Daily Basis”: How a Maryland Sheriff Targeted Immigrants Long Before ICE Raids Spiked - Bolts
Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
im confused how was propublica able to do journalism without having daily access to donald trump in the oval office where he calls everyone stupid
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In an important hyperscale data center case, the govt has claimed a never-before-invoked right to dismiss an environmental suit brought by NAACP against Musk's xAI, citing national security. Judge said he'd likely deny but hasn't. Govt has now appealed his "constructive" denial to 5th Cir.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 22/09/2026
The number of traffic stops by Chicago police each month has dropped significantly in the past two years. But CPD has continued to conduct hundreds of thousands of off-the-books traffic stops, in violation of Illinois law.
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Chicago Police Promised to 'Fix' Secret Traffic Stops. A Year Later, the Problem Has Only Gotten Worse. - Bolts
As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are still not being reported to oversight agencies, despite a state law mandating disclosure.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Shot in the back. No criminal record.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 21/09/2026
ICE just signed $7.3 billion in contracts to build detention space on land it owns, after its warehouse plan stalled. A $1.2 billion contract for a California site ICE left in 2014 went to a company tied to a developer facing more than a dozen lawsuits.
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ICE signs contracts worth up to $7.3B to expand detention in 5 states
With its warehouse plan stalled, ICE is building on land it already owns, and one of the companies it hired is tied to a developer who worked on its earlier property deals.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
These are human beings
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Meanwhile, we’re still murdering people in the Caribbean. www.reuters.com/world/us-say...
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