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Stuck in the corrupt MAGA state of South Carolina

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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 4h
bill clinton made my electric bill skyrocket this year
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 4h
Democrats — whose base was deeply divided over the war in Gaza — have been increasingly willing to rebuke Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government publicly, as reflected in the growing numbers of Democrats opposing arms sales to Israel. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Republicans sink measure to spotlight Israeli violence in the West Bank
The overwhelming Democratic support for the resolution highlights the party’s increasing frustration with Israel’s government.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 4h
The withdrawal was also celebrated by Iran-backed groups but raised concerns among some other Iraqis, particularly in the Kurdish region, where many fear a resurgence of IS as well as more attacks by Iran-linked groups,possibly emboldened by the departure of US forces. www.usnews.com/news/world/a...
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 5h
Perhaps the report’s most significant omission, which it shares with the National Defense Strategy itself, concerns Russian actions: hybrid and kinetic action against NATO members, military assistance to Iran, and intensifying the war on Ukraine. www.defenseone.com/threats/2026...
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Pentagon update on National Defense Strategy cites progress, omits key threats
The report to Congress notes accomplishments but masks depleted arsenals, strategic distractions, and a quiet retreat from European defense.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 5h
In a piece for Esquire, Charles P. Pierce wrote of Schmitt, “The man lacks only a red rubber nose and some floppy shoes.” www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Eric Schmitt pins down Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan
It appeared that the Missouri Republican misinterpreted a text message reference to the "hawks."
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 5h
Two more years of Republicans controlling the House would bring more of the same chaos, and neither the party nor President Donald Trump would be expected to focus on the needs of average Americans.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 20h
The ads have aired almost 90 times across national television as of Sunday on networks including MS NOW, CBS, Fox, and Newsmax, costing an estimated $337,000. They’ve also aired on local stations 2,311 times at an estimated cost of $1.4 million newrepublic.com/post/215987/...
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Trump Stole Homeland Security Funds to Pay for His “Love Me” Ads
We now know where the money for Trump’s deranged ad campaign came from.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22h
The six-justice right-wing majority of the high court temporarily lifted a lower court decision that determined immigrants being deported to a third country needed notice to argue they are at risk of persecution. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Utah Senator Mike Lee, however, apparently did not feel that protecting presidential memorials was a pertinent issue, despite the president’s recent machinations surrounding the Kennedy Center and the ensuing looming threat of the historic theater’s destruction. newrepublic.com/post/215962/...
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One Republican Blocks Attempt to Save Kennedy Center From Trump
Senator Mike Lee cast the sole vote blocking a bipartisan bill to protect the Kennedy Center.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump decided to cancel the funds without giving Congress enough time to respond with legislation or reallocation. The end of the fiscal year is in less than one week, and the House is out of session until after November’s midterm elections. newrepublic.com/post/215945/...
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Republicans Silent as Trump Cuts Nearly $1 Billion Passed by Congress
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is refusing to criticize Trump after he canceled health and education funding approved by Congress.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trumps latest brilliant idea! newrepublic.com/post/215907/...
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Trump Team Scrambles After Embarrassing Slip About Arms Sale to China
U.S. Ambassador David Perdue casually let slip that Donald Trump had offered to sell weapons to China.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All Trump really demonstrated is that he badly needs the news organizations attention. Thus, their decision to join together in defense of excluded colleagues has located a real weak spot—and nailed it with a direct hit. That’s the true source of his furious outburst. newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He is a bizarro-world president, doing it all bass-ackwards "Trump has an instinctive admiration for authoritarian leaders, a quasi-mystical belief in his own judgement of character, and a bone-deep commitment to never listening to a briefing. The result is diplomacy by dictatorial whim."
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“It’s true what they say about us being cannon fodder,” Davila Vela said. “The commanders know you’re heading to your death, but the task is to take a village or town, even if only 50 out of 1,000 make it out alive.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Russia Said These Foreigners Wouldn’t Have to Fight. Then It Sent Them to the Frontlines.
One wounded Peruvian escaped and made his way home.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The black-and-white video ends with Trump staring straight into the camera lens with a message that says: “Paid for by the U.S. Government.” The 2024 iteration of the ad from the Trump campaign urged viewers to “Join President Trump’s Fight for America.” apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration begins airing 2024 Trump campaign ad in latest taxpayer-funded messaging
The Trump administration is using taxpayer funds to air a television advertisement from Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign in the latest in a series of ads promoting the president ahead of the ...
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The decision would leave the country’s second-largest source of planet-warming emissions unchecked. It would place the heaviest burden on Black communities, which are often in close proximity to power plants.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“It is essential that our partners not forget: Russia is escalating every single day. If the Russians have chosen to make their strikes even more brutal, the world must choose stronger responses to keep the war from spreading further,” President Zelenskyy wrote. apnews.com/article/russ...
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Russian and Ukrainian strikes leave 10 dead as Trump calls on Zelenskyy to 'settle with Putin'
Russian attacks killed four people in Ukraine as the aerial war between Moscow and Kyiv intensified.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“The notion that somehow this museum or any part of the Smithsonian is done by people who don’t love America, don’t care about America, is unbelievably wrong,” Secretary Lonnie Bunch said. “And what you see in this building is great love. Great respect.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Let’s tell the truth’: Smithsonian head given standing ovation as he hits back at Trump attacks
Outgoing secretary Lonnie Bunch rejects claims the institution is unpatriotic, telling audience ‘You cannot understand all without illuminating the dark corners’
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Netanyahu, who faces a critical election next month, emphasized his close ties with Trump during his speech to the United Nations on Thursday while trashing a long list of real and perceived enemies. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Netanyahu uses UN address to highlight Trump ties — and harangue everyone else
The Israeli leader, increasingly isolated on the world stage, emphasized his relationship with the U.S. president during an otherwise confrontational speech.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On Saturday morning, Trump wrote on Truth Social, “FAKE NEWS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!! IT HAS GONE ON FAR TOO LONG, AT A TREMENDOUS COST TO OUR COUNTRY.” www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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White House blocks CNN from traveling with Trump on Air Force One
CNN had been scheduled to cover the president Saturday as part of the television networks’ pool rotation.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The funding Trump declared canceled is for immigration services, support to foreign countries, education programs, health research efforts and assistance for businesses owned by minorities. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Russia is a country that already has 17 million square kilometers of its own land without any Ukrainian territory, by the way. So to add another 1,000 square kilometers, Putin is paying with 248 people for every kilometer.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Election officials and civil rights groups have been following the Bianco case carefully as they brace for the possibility that Trump or his allies may try to seize ballots in November. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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California sheriff ordered to return ballots he confiscated in voter ‘fraud’ inquiry
Court says Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and seizure of ballots ‘creates substantial risk to election integrity’
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But that was far from the truth. Reporters from those two networks, as well as many others, refused to cover Xi’s arrival in protest of Trump’s attempt to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
Q: On affordability, Republicans have been in control for a couple years, and Americans are not seeing prices come down. What argument can you make that we should continue on this course? MIKE COLLINS: Sure, gas is too high. But also know that we got here because of Bidenomics
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"So in that sense, I think that has to be the way forward for Democrats, to focus on the economic issues and not take the bait when it comes to the culture wars.” www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
‘Shove it with your culture wars’: Hinojosa urges Democrats to focus on economy ahead of November and 2028
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Earlier this month, Haaretz reported that Netanyahu received dozens of warnings ahead of the October 7th attack but chose to ignore them. newrepublic.com/post/215828/...
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Everyone Walks Out of U.N. Before Netanyahu Says a Single Word
The Israeli prime minister is increasingly isolated in the world.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The possibility of him [Musk] having even partial ownership in CNN and CBS would likely raise alarm bells in Washington. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donald Trump described reports of poor conditions on the ship as fake news in August. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms
Hung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A 90-day ban could cause diesel prices to drop in some U.S. regions in the short term as tankers of the fuel originally intended to go to Europe or Asia are instead pumped back into the U.S. fuel system, raising domestic supply.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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RFK Jr. Took Money Out of Key Health Agency for His Own Security
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took millions from the Office of Minority Health in order to fund his exorbitant security costs.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Rude, crude, and socially unacceptable."
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Democrats are winning. Republicans are ready to care about debt again. It sure is convenient that Republicans are pushing for fiscal responsibility now after two years of not caring. www.ms.now/opinion/gop-...
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Opinion | A potential midterm loss has Republicans suddenly remembering they hate the debt
It sure is convenient that Republicans are pushing for fiscal responsibility now after two years of not caring.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
According to a new investigation from ProPublica, Sen. Susan Collins narrowly escaped being embroiled in an FBI bribery probe into defense contracts, lawmakers and large campaign contributions.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lai is one of the main contributors to Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, especially to the Democratic Party. A British citizen since 1994, he was imprisoned in 2020 and his business operations shuttered under pressure from the Chinese government. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The move represents a stark departure from previous practice and highlights the hardline nature of Trump’s immigration crackdown, leaving thousands of detainees exceedingly hard to trace and potentially unable to exercise all of their legal options apnews.com/article/ice-...
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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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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The host blamed the cancellation on a lack of enthusiasm from his wealthiest friends, noting that he was only able to sell six VIP tickets (at $1,000 each). newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Ossoff: "Georgians deserve to know the full extent of the congressman's ties to some of the nation's most notorious white nationalists. I am calling on the congressman to release these files in full."
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I'm in a lot of pain because the shot fractured my clavicle and at the hospital where they took me they couldn't remove the bullet because it's close to the spinal cord...I'm not doing very well, I still have the bullet inside," he told reporters by phone. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Man shot by US immigration agent describes pain of bullet still inside him
A Venezuelan national shot and wounded by a US immigration agent in Texas was jailed with the bullet still inside his body, his lawyer said Monday.I'm not doing very well, I still have the bullet insi...
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The swap amounts to a gift of public lands to SpaceX, “clearing the way for bulldozers to tear into this wildlife refuge as soon as next week and turn a public treasure into a private payday”, said Laiken Jordahl, with the Center for Biological Diversity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US judge declines to block transfer of wildlife refuge land to Musk’s SpaceX
Environmental groups vow to continue opposition to deal that would expand site for Elon Musk rocket company
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Even Newsmax—one of the few networks to air the event—recognized that it was “one example” of the president’s censorship scheme “backfiring just a little bit.” “Obviously the ramifications are right here. Can’t hear what the president’s saying.” newrepublic.com/post/215671/...
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Trump’s Ban on White House Press Backfires Immediately
Donald Trump was essentially talking to himself, as no press pool meant no mics.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Simpson spoke a day after Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that the arch — which he wants to build less than a mile from the Pentagon, just across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial — would be used to store and deploy drones and snipers. www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Senior GOP appropriator pours cold water on funding Trump’s arch
“If it was my choice, I wouldn't put any of that money into the arch,” Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson said.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Former British national security adviser Lord Ricketts told The Sunday Times that “we’re in a very dangerous situation” as Western governments try to deter further Russian escalation. nationalsecurityjournal.org/they-will-ha...
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'They Will Hang Me': Putin Fears Losing the Ukraine War More Than Anything And Paying the Ultimate Price
Georgia Gilholy reports The Economist's fearful Putin, the naked-tsar mood among his elite, and the CIA's bleak assessment for Moscow.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Elon Musk is behind much of it. Despite his much-publicized rift with Trump last year—and his claim last May that he thought he had “done enough” political spending—the tech billionaire and gutter racist is spending hundreds of millions to elect Republicans. newrepublic.com/article/2156...
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There’s One Group That Still Loves Trump
Billionaires love the president more than ever—and they’re spending big to show it.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Separate applications for a total of 649 diesel-fired generators evade responsibility for high levels of harmful air pollution in this North Carolina fenceline community. www.selc.org/news/amazon-...
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Amazon and Duke Energy attempt to dodge clean air requirements for $10 billion data center
A global tech company and monopoly utility are attempting to sidestep Clean Air Act protections in Richmond County, North Carolina. As Amazon moves to build a $10 billion hyperscale data center that w...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
US Trade Representative Jameson Greer: "The Chinese have generally speaking steered clear of the Iran situation" (China is reportedly helping Iran kill US troops!)
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The production increase would translate to an additional 28,000 weaponized drones every year, according to one expert estimate — a 78% increase in production of weapons like the one that struck a passenger train on the Polish border this month. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
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Russia’s secret plan to supercharge kamikaze drone production
Documents obtained by POLITICO show a Russian state company blueprint for increasing drone carbon fiber production as the Kremlin escalates air war over Europe.
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