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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h
National Guard members have congregated outside D.C. public schools around student drop-off times twice recently. Community members and educators say Guard members are unsettling families while doing little to move the needle on crime.
washingtonpost.com
The National Guard keeps appearing outside D.C. schools, stoking tensions
The U.S. Marshals Service says the guard members and federal agents are there to deter crime. Families say their presence is ineffective and unsettling for students.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 6h
The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 13h
When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Trump on Democrats: "They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 16h
This is batshit. This is vastly worse than any Biden decline. Trump has come unglued. He's a danger to the republic.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump “feels badly” for the Cornell alleged gang rapists
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
"We have the National Guard here, and they don't do anything. … They're not in any high-crime area in DC. They're in all the tourist areas. They hang out in front of this expensive French restaurant across from my house. … And it costs $3 million a day to keep them here."
liberalcurrents.com
Everything's 'National Security' in Trump's Washington (Half the Answer #106, with Stephanie Mencimer)
Donald Trump is changing the landscape of D.C., from East Potomac Park to the Kennedy Center to the 'Arc de Trump.'
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butternutmn.bsky.social @butternutmn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A valuable opportunity for those on BlueSky.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“For $45 you can start a school and charge $7000 per student — no background checks, they weren’t teachers — and taxpayers foot the bill… SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE A SCAM.” @GovBillLee (H/T @piper_for_missouri) Pro Publica’s expose: www.propublica.org/article/prop...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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butternutmn.bsky.social @butternutmn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Junior high economist….
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 02/10/2026
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The National Museum of American Diplomacy
Located in the heart of Washington, DC, the National Museum of American Diplomacy tells the story of the history, practice, and challenges of American diplomacy.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a laughable display of sophomoric puffery, childish chest-thumping and just plain weirdness Hegseth underscored his utter cluelessness about what made the U.S. military an unparalleled fighting force. hard to believe he apparently prepares in advance such idiotic phrases ...
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Hegseth’s Dangerous Gibberish
Plus, Trump’s convention backfires, and he is losing, well, just about everyone.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
and everyone who voted to confirm this moron is unfit as well... what did they think was going to happen? Looking at you, Sens. Susan Collins, Dan Sullivan, Jon Husted, Tom Cotton, Roger Marshall, Pete Ricketts, Mike Rounds, Shelley Moore Capito
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "The one thing we have is oil is a little high, but oil is much lower than it was for Biden" (Energy prices are much higher now than they were when Biden left office)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth, who has been rebuked by the pope and the leaders of several other churches for a stream of heretical statements (statements inconsistent with Christian theology and dogma), appoints himself the supreme authority over all chaplains serving in the US Armed Forces.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 01/10/2026
The seven teenagers packed in a newly stolen car that crashed early Tuesday, killing three of the car’s passengers, were coming from a fight elsewhere in Minneapolis that resulted in gunfire, according to a person familiar with the investigation.
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Police: Teens in deadly Minneapolis crash had just left gunfire scene
The identities have been released of two of the three teens killed in the crash. Four others were injured.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
The possibility of losing a 3-mile loop of road has stirred fears among the runners, cyclists, fishermen, birders and others who use it. Lawmakers are beginning to raise concerns about Ohio Drive in East Potomac Park, too.
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s upscale golf plan could destroy a D.C. haven for cyclists, runners
The president wants to eliminate the public road that loops around the Hains Point peninsula, allowing the golf course to stretch to the water’s edge.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
As the U.S. military depletes critical munitions and evacuates bases amid Trump’s Iran war, Pete Hegseth is now moving to eliminate 20% of the military’s top brass positions.
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Hegseth Moves To Gut 20% of Top Brass, Calls Press ‘Treasonous’
At Quantico, Pete Hegseth paired a sweeping cut to senior military positions with culture-war rhetoric and an attack on journalists reporting on the Trump regime’s war.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026
Pennsylvania reported Wednesday that a fifth person who had measles has died as rising infections in the state continue to push up the country’s record-breaking count of cases.
washingtonpost.com
Pennsylvania reports 5th measles-associated death as outbreak continues
Cases in the state, home to the country’s largest ongoing measles outbreak, have climbed to 943 across 39 counties.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A 3-year-old no receipts program allows House members to supplement their $174,000 base salary by expensing food and housing costs while in Washington on official business, no specifics disclosed. House members spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024.
washingtonpost.com
The House reimburses lawmakers for D.C. expenses. See who spent the most.
Taxpayers spent 21 percent more last year on the program, which helps cover the costs of food and lodging in Washington, a Post analysis found.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump is expressing one of the core beliefs of white supremacy: that people of color don't feel pain to the same extent as white people. Hispanic falls off roof? nbd Notoriously gruesome example: gynecological surgery conducted on enslaved Black women, sans anesthesia. www.aaihs.org/black-subjec...
aaihs.org
Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology - AAIHS
In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes the experimental work of early American gynecologists, in...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
shame on junior officers for applauding his claptrap, and for their bosses not giving them appropriate instructions in advance www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
nytimes.com
In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran
The defense secretary returned to culture-war themes and used coarse and offensive terms to describe people he believes have no place in the military.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RFK Jr. Says You Don't Need A Doctor, You Just Need ChatGPT
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RFK Jr. Says You Don't Need A Doctor, You Just Need ChatGPT
RFK Jr. Says You Don't Need A Doctor, You Just Need ChatGPT At the MAHA summit, RFK Jr. said that AI is more trustworthy than your doctor, so you should probably trust your life to it.
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Petmomnw @petmomnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I give them this
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚌 NEWSWEEK: “Soaring diesel prices are putting mounting pressure on school districts and school buscontractors responsible for transporting millions of students across the country each day.” #TrumpTax #Trumpflation www.newsweek.com/school-bus-r...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. Eric Schmitt booked this show as a victory lap for his "gotcha" moment revealing "proof" that Jack Smith was at an Atlanta Hawks game. 2. That "proof" blew up in Schmitt's face. 3. Instead of cancelling this appearance, he dishonestly colludes with the hosts to pretend he did have that proof.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-massi...
talkingpointsmemo.com
‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates...
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seacorc @seacorc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And from the king of Fox News
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/09/2026
Steve Wruble met shelter dog Missy while waiting in line at a Starbucks in New York City. She was being carried in a backpack by Bryan Reisberg, who takes shelter dogs out to help them get adopted. Three days later, Wruble took Missy home.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/09/2026
OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.
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OpenAI pauses training of latest models after agents probed US government sites in unexpected ways
OpenAI announced it has halted development of its latest artificial intelligence models hours after it disclosed its agents scouring federal government website acted in unexpected ways that suggest a lack of control.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Their punishment was to write essays.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/09/2026
Trump rejected an Iran ceasefire and privately told aides he'll resume bombing after the midterms. Then he went to a football game. And that's just the start. Your Saturday recap is here:
meidasplus.com
Saturday Updates: Trump Rejects Peace, Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Xi, and Blames Biden for Everything – 9/26/26
Important news. Paywall free.
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The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 26/09/2026
This is very sad indeed.
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Donate to Help Former USAID Member of the Workforce Avoid Foreclosure, organized by Emily Davis
My name is Emily Davis, and I’m creating this fundraiser for m… Emily Davis needs your support for Help Former USAID Member of the Workforce Avoid Foreclosure
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stolen assembly line valor, Mike
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected?” #AbolishICE
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊
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