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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h
If you didn't already hate Meta, Mark Zuckerburg, and data centers, Meta is using the latter to cheat on their taxes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
They did two things: One, launched a complaint against MN's District Judges, for CALLING OUT THE DEATH THREATS that Harmeet DHillon ginned up against those judges. www.justice.gov/sites/defaul...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
The other day, Andrew Bailey, who stepped down as MO AG in hopes of becoming FBI Director, stepped down. REMARKABLY, one report said he routinely told Kash he was violating the Constitution. Today, DOJ did something profoundly corrupt in hopes of politicizing 8th C, which covers MO, MN, and IA.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h
Looks like Eric Schmitt has a new website--I guess to campaign to be JD's VP. senatorericschmitt.com
Schmitt
Schmitt: (verb) \ˈshmit\

1. A sudden and urgent gastrointestinal revolt in which the body issues an unmistakable, nonnegotiable evacuation order that causes a considerable mess and great humiliation.

2. To suffer a sudden, public, and spectacular political collapse, especially after overconfidently attempting a partisan attack.

3. To create such an avoidable mess that one’s credibility, message, and electoral prospects are left in tatters.

Example: “I ended up with that cyclosporiasis invection from tainted lettuce and I schmitted myself in the grocery store trying to buy some Pepto.”

Example: “During the hearing performance, he didn’t land a blow—he completely schmitted himself.”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 5h
Donald Trump thinks it should be illegal for Americans to criticize the Supreme Court—except for him, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
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Only Trump Gets to Criticize the Supreme Court
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve.”
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 9h
E. coli was the cause; doctors suspected raw milk as the culprit. Emily was not aware of the medical consensus that raw milk has no proven nutritional benefits compared to its pasteurized counterpart and carries >100x the risk of foodborne illness. “Just how stupid could I be?” she thought.
Emily Marris, wearing an expression of distress, holds her toddler to her chest from inside a hospital room. The toddler's face is pressed against her shoulder and her hand is hugging Emily's back
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 9h
But after Brooklyn drank raw milk for six months, it all began to unravel. Vomit that turned bilious yellow, then a tarry blackish-green. Bloodwork that so alarmed ER doctors they called for transport to a pediatric ICU 70 miles away.
A toddler with medical tubes attached to her sits in a car seat on a hospital gurney, attended to by a paramedic and another man.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h
RFK Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety. This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them. (Published March)
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NBC: “U of Michigan survey shows Americans feel worse about the economy than during the Covid-19 pandemic or 2008 financial crisis… Trump promised a ‘Golden Age’, but under Republicans Americans are struggling more than ever.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“MY TICKET WAS REVOKED” Tech oligarch Trump donor Peter Thiel (J.D. Vance’s sugar daddy) is rejecting local journalists from his secretive closed-door ‘Antichrist Lectures’ series in NASHVILLE… what’s he hiding? 🤔
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“As young as 2” 😳
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's Trump saying tariff money is the Republicans' "income" and they can do what they want with it. The Republican Party is a Mafia-style gang, not a political organization.
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A CNN @kfile.bsky.social investigation unearthed since-removed posts from Texas GOP candidate Bo French that repeatedly advocated public executions for political opponents, including former President Barack Obama www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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KFile: Texas GOP candidate Bo French has a history of calling for public executions | CNN Politics
Bo French, the Republican nominee for one of Texas’ most powerful statewide offices, is facing bipartisan criticism over a racist post about the crowd at a University of Texas football game.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer on the Trump DOJ: They’re just making stuff up as they go along to try to defend the president’s indefensible decisions after the fact.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
asked about gas prices, Trump says "if you want to see turmoil and a travesty, let them take out a city with a nuclear weapon ... let them hit us with a nuclear weapon"
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
He says this with a straight face as gas reaches $4.50/gal, diesel reaches $6.50/gal, mortgage rates soar over 7%, grocery costs are rising, and Americans’ sentiments towards the economy are the lowest they’ve been since the Great Recession.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer: Donald Trump expects the Justice Department to bend reality to his will. And the lawyers who are making legal arguments that are not in good faith are complicit in what he's doing to destroy the rule of law in this country, and they should be held accountable
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump thinks tariff money is his money. He thinks Air Force One is his plane. He defended his White House press ban by saying: "I don't have to let them into my– into the people's house." (He really meant "my.") They're stealing our country. Vote against all Republicans.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer recounts being asked to recommend restoring Mel Gibson’s gun rights, saying she was told his personal relationship with Trump mattered. She refused: “When I declined to make the recommendation, I was very shortly thereafter fired.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have never underestimated Trump’s lying, or his ability to spew bullshit. But he has in fact lost substantial control of his mind. And his ability to distinguish truth from lies—which was never really strong or important to him—is, at this point, de minimis.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No one except the soulless criminal who's president of the U.S. would say Canada is "one of the worst countries in the entire world." Trump uses China as a good example and Canada as a bad example because he loves dictators and wants to be one.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The press wear “kick me” signs and wonder why Trump kicks them. If they had more self-respect, they’d get less disrespect. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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The press wear ‘kick me’ signs and wonder why Trump kicks them
The White House is emboldened to disrespect journalists because journalists disrespect themselves
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: "The big problem is refineries in Russia are being blown up. This isn't really a Middle Eastern problem, this is a Russia problem, that Ukraine & Russia are going at it & Ukraine is blowing up diesel refineries. I told to President Zelenskyy, 'You gotta take it easy on the refineries.'"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for nearly a year.
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The Untold Origins of Trump’s Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting
ProPublica’s reporting reveals for the first time the extent of the White House’s role in trying to dictate how mail-in ballots are processed, spurring behind-the-scenes drama that played out for near...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is going great. (*Average* US price now above $6.50)
Chart of diesel prices, showing them about 50% higher than one year ago.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social
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The view from Canada: Make America Think Again
Rebuilding trust will take generations.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The Supreme Court’s decision Friday to revive the Trump administration’s expanded SAVE database for the midterms also suggests the justices may be eager to weaken one of federal law’s most important safeguards against last-minute voter purges." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In SAVE ruling, Supreme Court signals path to weaken key protection against last-minute purges
A crucial voter protection could hinge on whether the Supreme Court wants to narrow the definition of “systematic” as applied to purges. And there’s reason to fear that it does.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"A group of pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere... to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men..." religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...
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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros
(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 25/09/2026
It's this, btw. 900 square foot modular detention cells.
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ICE seeks ‘modular’ detention units for 50 field offices, saying increased arrests have exceeded its space
A request for information seeks ready-made detention, interview and courtroom units, with no limits on how many people the units would hold or for how long.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/09/2026
America's allies no longer think the country's isolationism and protectionism will end with Trump, Vivian Salama reports.
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America’s Allies Are Done Trying to Wait Trump Out
They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
We call this a concentration camp, your honor.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/09/2026
The Oligarch who funded Don Jr.'s wedding is deeply linked to Russia's mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
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