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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22h
The numbers were just a fraction of economists’ expectations of just under 70,000 new jobs. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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US added just 29,000 jobs in September in sharp drop from last month’s gains
Final jobs report before the midterm elections also shows the US unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.2%
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...months after three elders at the church’s Midland chapter were sent to prison for sexually abusing children. newrepublic.com/post/216114/...
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The Church Sex Abuse Scandal Mike Rogers Won’t Talk About
The Michigan GOP senate candidate is dodging questions about why two pastors from the Living World Church—the subject of recent child sex abuse lawsuits—are on his Faith Leadership Coalition.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The former FBI agent dodged one such question while collecting a local endorsement in Saginaw on Wednesday, where a reporter asked why two pastors from the Living Word Church were on Rogers’s Faith Leadership Coalition,
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But Ukraine needs money to fund it's war effort. That’s putting pressure on European allies, which supply the bulk of Kyiv’s weapons and finances after the U.S. ended most new aid when Trump returned to the White House last year. www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
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Ukraine’s war chest is running low at the worst possible moment
With winter looming, Kyiv faces a cash crunch just as Russia ramps up its effort to crush its economy.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Brazil and America were made for each other,” he said at the right-wing CPAC conference earlier this year. www.politico.eu/article/a-ne...
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A new Bolsonaro could pull Brazil away from Europe — and toward Trump
Brussels has spent years rebuilding ties with Brasília. Brazil’s knife-edge election could change the equation.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Flávio Bolsonaro's presidency could mark a sharp shift in Brazil’s foreign policy: The 45-year-old senator from the right-wing Liberal Party has called for more flexibility within Mercosur and the closest possible alliance with the United States.
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sharon* @cluelessinnyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“At the end of his remarks, Mr. Hegseth received a standing ovation. Last year’s speech was greeted by stone-faced generals and admirals who made sure not to cheer, per the norms of a nonpartisan military.” The new norm. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran (Gift Article)
In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether ICE’s unprecedented mandatory detention policy — which lower courts have rejected more than 20,000 times — is legal. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Supreme Court will rule on Trump’s ICE detention policy
Lower courts have overwhelmingly rejected ICE’s novel view of its detention authority.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lutnick remains one of the wealthiest members of Trump’s Cabinet, but pales in comparison with the more than $2 billion Trump received last year. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reports more than $250 million in income last year
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick unwound his ties to Cantor Fitzgerald as the billionaire financier joined the Trump administration.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The texts they had obtained from the Justice Department — which Schmitt suggested was proof Smith had colluded with a Georgia state prosecutor — were “unvetted,” according to a source with direct knowledge of the conversation. Schmitt used the texts anyway. www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Musk, Luckey, and Gingrich will work with private sector leaders, experts, and Pentagon chief technology officer and former Uber vice president Emil Michael to “creatively look to the future and identify the domains that we must conquer.” newrepublic.com/post/216045/...
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Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military
Pete Hegseth revealed that the men will help direct a project to determine the future of the military.
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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
bill clinton made my electric bill skyrocket this year
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
That means Johnson’s answer was the last thing most voters clamoring for change want to hear. www.ms.now/opinion/mike...
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Opinion | Mike Johnson picked a terrible time to tell the truth
The speaker told CNBC that the GOP keeping control of the House would lead to two more years of the same situation that voters seem eager to reject.
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Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
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 rollback also gives a lifeline to coal-fired power plants, which are the worst energy facilities for the climate. capitalbnews.org/trump-epa-po...
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Trump Moves to Strip Pollution Limits from Power Plants Near Black Communities
The EPA says a repeal would lower electricity costs, though residential rates have risen sharply since Trump took office.
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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
Does anyone still think that he is reasonable? And moderate?” www.twz.com/news-feature...
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Inside Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi That Sees Its Troops Gaining Ground In The East
Ukraine Situation Report: Ukrainian Colonel gives insights into how his forces have been slowly advancing on the eastern front.
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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
What’s more, just hours after Trump’s post, CNN and MS NOW were blocked from covering the state dinner at the White House Thursday night. newrepublic.com/post/215863/...
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Trump Whines About His Own Media Ban as Outlets Barred From Event
Donald Trump claimed CNN and MS NOW had chosen not to cover him.
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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...
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‘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
But refiners would eventually slow down production in answer to the loss of a major export market, causing prices to rise. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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‘Dammit, something has to happen’: White House preparing plan for 90-day diesel exports ban
Some GOP lawmakers and oil industry reps are still fighting to stave off an announcement.
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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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