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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 12/10/2026
Trump’s destruction of parts of a DC public park in violation of a federal judge’s order cannot go unpunished. This land, like the Kennedy Center & Yosemite belongs to the people, not him. The perpetrators need to be held in contempt.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices
The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you're wondering what the real threat to "election integrity" is, it's billionaires.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
npr.org
ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh yeah, those are definitely the Big Two when it comes to understanding socialism. Check out the big brain on J.D. here! He's definitely not an idiot.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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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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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The entire right wing has been furious that the mayor of New York City had the nerve to be Muslim on 9/11, while their president is out here bragging about what a terrific relationship he has with the Saudi royal family.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2026
This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/08/2026
It's official: DOGE LIED about how much money it saved our government. A government watchdog just uncovered that DOGE overstated savings by BILLIONS. Trump and Elon's mission to root out "waste, fraud, and abuse" was just another failure.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Just 3 weeks ago, JD Vance tried to use the Marine Two helicopter to send his 9-year-old son to a golf lesson. The helicopter costs between $16K-$25K per hour to operate and is paid for by American taxpayers. He has also used it for multiple recent “house hunting” trips in the DC suburbs.
ms.now
Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests
Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Whether it's refusing to answer questions about their son-in-law who's a Nazi or refusing to answer questions about their son-in-law who abused their daughter and granddaughter, Republicans are the true party of family values.
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Brian Young @brianyoungan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Voting for essentially unlimited funding for an authoritarian domestic paramilitary force and then taking credit for adding bodycams is the most Susan Collins thing ever
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/07/2026
Trump would rather withdraw Blanche's nomination than give up his slush fund for Jan 6 rioters & his sweetheart immunity deal that prevents anyone from scrutinizing his, his family's, or his businesses' taxes. Tells you what this nomination was really about: protecting Trump.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Senator Bernie Moreno -- who refuses to comment publicly on his daughter's allegations that her ex-husband physically abused her and her daughter -- tries to shame Dr. Fauci for not listening to right-wing cranks and Fox News pundits. He even asks: "You can't even look at them?" You first, coward.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Thread. Rapists running a coercive sex ring AND transmitting CSAM AND inducing other men to abuse women and girls in turn. The alleged behavior is legitimately monstrous and it’s a HUGE deal that the Trump regime is undermining law enforcement to help/free them. Epstein in real time
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Remember why they are in the US in the first place: the Trump administration lobbying on their behalf to free them from Romania.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
They're plundering the national treasury.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
As a Watergate historian, this might be the dumbest and worst take we’ve seen from JD Vance in a long time. And it’s also a complete misunderstanding of Nixon and Watergate.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/03/trump-georgia-raffensperger-call-biden-washington-post
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And make no mistake, when the Klan was ranting about unassimilable immigrants in the 1920s, they were very much talking about Italians whom they attacked as Catholic pawns of the pope, as a "criminal race" whose members were all tied to the mafia, and as a non-white threat to white women.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The founders, in the Treaty of Tripoli -- begun under Washington, signed by Adams, ratified by a Senate filled with other crafters of the Constitution -- said "the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Tom Emmer is a dumb-as-dirt bigot.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And here is the CENTCOM report that lists 1,700 targets truck in first 72 hours, which also corroborates. If Grok was used for 2,000 in the first 96 hours, then it had to be the technology that was responsible for the strike on the school. Let's stop talking about algae, this is a scandal.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Clearest proof we've seen that he thinks refugees claiming political asylum were refugees from an actual insane asylum. The leader of the United States is dumber than dirt but there's an entire cult enabling him and a corporate media too cowardly to call them out.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"The story the White House expects Americans to believe is that Trump and his team are impervious to pressure. The president does what he wants when he wants. The narrative, however, isn’t true. The Republican administration regularly reverses course under pressure..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
In back-to-back reversals, the Trump administration folds under pressure
On ICE warehouses and an ocean monitoring system, the White House intended to stand its ground — right up until it changed its mind.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/06/2026
Republicans trying to make the world safe for kleptocracy newrepublic.com/article/2118...
newrepublic.com
Republicans Are Dismantling a Key Tool in the War Against Kleptocrats
GOP lawmakers are pushing forward a bill to repeal a vital shell company database—completely undoing the biggest anti-kleptocracy step forward the U.S. has seen in decades.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Holy shit. The government is conceding it willl pay some amount of fees to the Broadview Six. They are DESPERATE to stop further inquiry into the case. Never heard of such a thing.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
If the president throws a tantrum when he's pressed about his lies about election fraud and walks away from the interview, your response should be to remind your viewers of all the ways in which those lies were dismissed by the courts. Not promise to give him a do over after he's had nap time.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 05/06/2026
Today, we gave Republicans a choice: Do they want to support people who assaulted police on Jan 6th or the police officers who defended the Capitol on that day. They made their choice. Another shameful vote from Republicans to send your tax dollars to these criminals.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
via @hissgoescobra.bsky.social Listen to the judge at Tina Peters's trial give a searing condemnation of her crimes and behavior in Court. Compare this to what Polis is trying to spin today, in order to justify the bended knee to Trump and his shortcutting of the judicial process:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Ordinary Americans are facing soaring costs on groceries and gas and everything in between, while the most corrupt president in American history continues to line his own pockets with taxpayer money, and now he wants another billion for his golden ballroom. Please, Democrats, this is a lay up.
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Trump’s ballroom is costing taxpayers nothing, just like he said. Unless you count the taxpayer money he’s shoveling under the table. A comically corrupt administration, from top to bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Unprecedented corruption
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
If you're @raskin.house.gov, how tempting is it to do a press hit today where you tell Pam Bondi this isn't goodbye forever, it's just a farewell until he's running House Judiciary next year and has the chance to subpoena her himself
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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?
nbcnews.com
At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My new piece is up and it requires your URGENT ATTENTION! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com
Stop the SAVE Act
Trump Has Pushed for a Vote in the House This Week On A Bill That May Disenfranchise Tens of Millions of Eligible Voters
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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
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Jim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
"So the president's claims that prices are falling is nonsense. The president's claim that he stopped inflation is also nonsense." Clear, testable economics beats wishful talking points.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
What Senator Cotton says here would be a bad defense for the Germans convicted in WWI and WWII war crimes trials -- including for firing on shipwrecked in fully operational lifeboats. This line of response hurts the US and US servicemembers. It will cause long-term damage unless we get this right.
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