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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)
Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nice of Susan Collins to explain exactly why and how Martin Kao created a fake shell company to bribe her. #MESen
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
REPORTER: “Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Trump and you don’t have to answer for Hasan Piker?” 🤡 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “Is that a serious question? Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23h
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 20h
“That’s the problem, Mike. It’s not just that you hired half the Third Reich to staff your congressional office, and you have promoted neo-Nazi content online,” Ossoff said. “It’s that you’re robbing your constituents to subsidize your donors.” talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/s...
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Somehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate Debate
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 19h
I ask again, why are national Dems letting Elon "quietly" fund these races? We have two test cases. 2024 when Dems didn't make his money an issue. And 2025 Wisconsin, where they did. Guess which time they won by double digits?
wired.com
Elon Musk’s America PAC Is Quietly Funding November’s Most Consequential Elections
America PAC’s approach has been unusual: for every dollar it has spent supporting GOP Senate candidates, it has spent almost three dollars attacking Democrats.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
propublica.org
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tax billionaire wealth. I frankly don't care if a billionaire can make a second billion. I'd rather have the average person be able to make their first $100k.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 15h
Mike Rogers, Roger Marshall, Michele Tafoya and Ken Paxton — all GOP nominees in hotly contested Senate races — own real estate in the Sunshine State. Democrats are eagerly trying to exploit it, with attacks so potent, one of them told MS NOW he sold his Florida home. Read more from Kevin Frey:
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‘Florida resident’: How owning property in Florida has become a political liability for GOP Senate candidates
Democrats are using the real estate in the Sunshine State to cast their opponents as out of touch.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball as he takes questions about the latest ICE shooting
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16h
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 13h
The Bobadilla Report documented extensive atrocities, torture, and tyrannical rule by Columbus that led to him being hauled back to Spain in chains, being stripped of his titles, and imprisonment. Of course Trump takes pride in "resurrect[ing]" him.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 13h
hollywood releasing a bunch of movies about how an insane, radicalized cabal of billionaires are trying to gobble up the world economy approximately 3 weeks after said insane cabal gobbles up the entertainment industry is what historians call a "whoopsy doodle" moment
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.
propublica.org
Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 12h
This is how you get frustrated voters to haul themselves to a midterms voting booth. When ppl see you fighting, it makes them want to join in. They want to be associated with Guy Who Takes No Crap. They're going to think of this moment when filling in the little oval and they're going to _smile_.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
OSSOFF: Mike Collins is one of the most extreme members of Congress. He's a Trump puppet election denier. I want to hear if Mike still believes the 2020 election was stolen. What do you say Mike? COLLINS: ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
New in PN: Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low "It’s the certainty of staggering losses that makes clear this is nothing but a festival of bribery. No one who spends millions to attend these tacky dinners expects a return. They’re just giving the president money in hopes it'll buy them favors."
publicnotice.co
Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h
One thing that Ossoff does - thank god - is COMPLETELY abandon the weird liberal wisdom that you should never say your opponent’s name. He says “Mike Collins” about 30 times in this clip, not “my opponent” or some such, and the directness make his attacks exponentially more brutal.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
JD Vance blatantly lies: "We've made a lot of progress. Inflation is way lower today than it was when we took office." (Inflation has gone up!)
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Ross A. Isaacs @rossisaacs.bsky.social · 11h
Why would you invest millions of dollars in something that's already lost $3.81 billion? Answer: to stuff money in Trump's pocket in return for favors. That's the only logical answer.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
"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
publicnotice.co
Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 12h
Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10h
Trump announces that the U.S. will buy Russian oil. This is just a few weeks after Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions bill, which authorized him to place 100% tariffs on countries that are the biggest importers of Russian oil/gas. Are we going to tariff ourselves now?
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 10h
This is clearly not acceptable
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
“Just feels more racist, I guess?”
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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 10h
Trump, quoted in the pool report from today's Columbus Day event: "You know this guy, I call him Muhammad Al-Sayed. Some people call him Abdul, I call him Mohammed. Somebody said why? I said, 'I don't know.'"
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 11h
Tim McVeigh killed 167 people in Oklahoma City but his name was "Tim," not "Nidal" so ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
ICC judge Navi Pillay worked on human rights violations in Rwanda and Myanmar, and more recently chaired the UN Commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza. She received the news while in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, and joked about sharing the prize with Trump.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h
NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.
A vertical graphic on a white background displays an October 9, 2026, joint statement from the foreign ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The full statement, presented in black serif text, reaffirms unwavering support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), strongly opposes U.S. sanctions against the Court, warns of their impact on its work, staff, and families, and pledges continued support for international justice, accountability, and the rules-based international system.Marco Rubio, mouth agape, as he announces sweeping sanctions on the ICC to try to punish them for acknowledging Bibi Netanyahu’s war crimes
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 12h
One of the Cornell Chi Phi fraternity members alleged to have gang raped "Jane Doe" is trying to get AG Letitia James disqualified from her role investigating what happened in October 2024. I explain his legal filing & why he’s unlikely to succeed at this point: youtu.be/rUlWY5XeuOM?...
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WOW! Cornell FRAT Member Tries To REMOVE NY AG Letitia James From Assault CASE!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h
Six months ago:
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
There’s always a tweet
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h
And removed sanctions from Russia on the same day.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h
US imposes sanctions on the international criminal court (ICC), hours after former judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live
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US imposes sanctions on ICC, hours after former judge Pillay wins Nobel peace prize - live
The ⁠ICC’s deputy prosecutor condemned the sanctions and said they would not halt the tribunal’s work
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Emily Bregel @emilybregel.bsky.social · 10h
Breaking: An AZ man has been freed from jail in Equatorial Guinea, after weeks of being held in a cell without charges. But Ahmed Soliman, who grew up in Phoenix, is still in detention: He's been returned to the decommissioned hotel where he had been imprisoned for months. tucson.com/news/local/b...
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Lawyers: Arizona deportee freed from Equatorial Guinea jail
Ahmed Soliman, an Arizona man unlawfully deported to Equatorial Guinea, has been released from jail, after weeks of being held without charge.
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God @thegodshow.com · 13h
Public executions are what dictators do.
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Thou Shalt Not Livestream Executions And Call Yourselves “Pro-Life”
Dear Humans,
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h
Why would we let Anthropic decide this for us? If you ascribe to a moral philosophy or religion that disavows being mean to a toaster, that is fine. It is not however fine for a tech company to make, functionally, a moral law for a talking word toaster that is promised to rule us one day.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10h
Developer Josh Abbottoy, who aims to build a “far-right ‘aligned’ [Christian] community” in a tiny TN town has now proposed building a drone factory there. (Abbottoy is tied to New Founding—backed by Thiel ally Marc Andreessen—& to American Reformer where Thiel ally Chris Buskirk is a director.) 1/
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Proposed drone manufacturing facility sparks intense backlash in tiny Tennessee town
For almost two years, some residents in Jackson County have been resisting what they view as a far-right takeover of their community.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2026
These are innocent babies-- the last thing they need is RFK Jr. doing his pet project experiments on them in pursuit of "evidence" to support his dangerous anti-vax beliefs. Our previous investigation into this study got it stopped. We explore every option available to get this shelved for good.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hours later, Trump posts that the US has just had “productive talks” with Iran and announced the US will not attack Iran before the midterms.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.
post from Trump on Truth Social declaring that anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" is THE ENEMY!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this shit is beyond parody, man. It truly is the make a wish presidency. now Trump is getting an award!
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