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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 13h
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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Ben Shultz @benmshultz.net · 05/10/2026
Michael Shellenberger appears to be preparing another piece falsely claiming that a conference of researchers studying disinformation is tantamount to a shadowy cabal of censorship. Spoiler alert: conferences, in fact, are the definition of free speech. My response to his questions is below.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
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How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."
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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle's pay-for-play scandal is grotesque and obviously corrupt. But she'd have to run it 20,000 times to match Trump's own haul for second-term graft. www.thebulwark.com/p/our-big-fa...
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Our Big Fat Greek Bribery Scandal
Kimberly Guilfoyle’s corruption is shocking, damning, and—by now—chump change.
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Oversight Dems @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From day one in the majority, we're going to take on: 🔍Trump family corruption 🔍Abuses by DHS and ICE 🔍Corporate corruption making everything more expensive 🔍Getting justice for the Epstein survivors We will hold them accountable for everything that they've done.
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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whether he does or not, extremists will splice it in with glorious music and images of jihadis in action. He will shout Alallahu Akbar, and enter anti-western mythology. Because we are dumb.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not for nothing, but the span from 2012 to whatever we have as a society when we get through this is an object lesson in "They're called the 'humanities' for a fucking reason, you fucking morons."
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 09/10/2026
So here's a factoid. Osama bin Laden was buried at sea. It was reportedly done in accordance with Muslim practice. The body was reportedly not desecrated or abused. Pictures and videos were taken. Someone FOIAed the pictures and videos, then sued. DOD said they were classified. But why??
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calawyer.bsky.social @calawyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"I’ve come to see Trump as a secular televangelist preaching his own version of the prosperity gospel to the same marks susceptible to the same grift that powered the fleeting televangelical fortunes." talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Court Ruling Hobbles Trump DOJ’s Jihad Against Elusive Threat of Noncitizen Voting
Judge Strikes Down Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting In a potentially very...
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Putin-Trump was the most successful covert operation in modern history. David Corn on today's "To the Contrary" Podcast.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is why i’m not interested in “Bibi told Trump to do this war so it’s Bibi’s fault.” Bibi had told every president since Clinton to bomb Iran. It’s the President’s job to know when a foreign leader is being a bloodthirsty idiot and NOT LISTEN TO THAT GUY. This war is because of Trump.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a book about how completely unprincipled attention hounds will always make their way to the right because they know the right will have them. The NYMag piece? I guess that’s a story about how unprincipled attention hounds deserve attention as long as they’re shitting on democrats.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
themomoftheyear.substack.com
I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Jess Craven ❌👑 @jesscraven101.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This courage— from the woman who witnessed and filmed Alex Pretti’s murder—is like nothing I’ve ever seen OMG 😭 Thank you to Senator Blumenthal and Rep. Garcia for giving Stella an opportunity to finally tell her story.
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's very good that Democrats are starting to embrace the idea that they will take back some degree of power in 2026, rather than getting bogged down in conspiracy theories where Trump declares himself god king and Mike Johnson conspires with the House clerk to invalidate the election.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.
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Mike Honcho @lasergoblin666.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Beyond the horrific nature of this as an actual part of the government, there’s something just truly evil but also stupid about taking immigrants and sending them to a place they’ve never lived in before. This is something that a man child bigot would think up, so naturally Stephen Miller did this.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a genuinely terrible piece of journalism: Reporting, editing, writing, all of it. (Photos OK). Will appear alongside the word "credulous" in dictionaries. I had thought that the WaPo's news section was still "mainly good," in contrast to its laughable editorial section. But...
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yet again, in words neither of us foresaw a generation ago: I agree here 100% with @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social .
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The simplest explanation is that someone they wanted as a MAGA political appointee came up on the polygraph.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Alito's contempt for voters and Trump toadyism are an embarrassment to the court www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito Would Have Allowed Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rules
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, called the challenge to the restrictions a “Hail Mary pass” that was unlikely to prevail because of the Postal Service’s broad authority...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Others have said this but it’s truly insane that Brett Kavanaugh, lover of the major questions doctrine, thinks there’s a good chance USPS can use a vague grant of authority over mail processing to radically alter absentee voting procedures in all 50 states without congressional approval. Come on.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My read is that there aren’t five votes to let Trump literally rig elections. Roberts and Barrett won’t greenlight overt election subversion or chaotic, illegal interference with voting. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch aren’t reliable but don’t love the chaos either. Thomas and Alito want to end democracy.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
That's how we ended up with the richest man on earth slaughtering hundreds of thousands of the world's poorest children for the lulz: hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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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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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Huge props to the authors of this article for not giving an inch to lab leak truthers. It's perfectly defensible to classify it as a conspiracy theory at this point.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.
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calawyer.bsky.social @calawyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Elon Musk's superpower has been outrunning disaster by successfully duping investors and markets observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/octo...
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October 28, 2016, was arguably the pivotal moment in the career of Elon Musk
From D.E. Rising and The Standard Dispatch & Mail : As announced by Electrek today , Tesla has officially discontinued its Solar Roof tile p...
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“It just came out today,” @angieforfl.bsky.social said of the news report. “She stole $10 million for medically needy kids in order to defeat two citizen-led ballot initiatives that you all placed on the ballot that would have allowed you all to have healthier lives.”
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So embarrassing that Lake America is the smallest of the Great Lakes. One more Trump failure.
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Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 27/08/2026
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
While Trump is threatening countries to produce zero-sum outcomes, Xi is offering partners aid, trade, and investment opportunities to achieve win-win outcomes. You don't need a PhD in international relations to predict which one of these strategies will endure over time.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not to brag but www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
standard. SCOTUS allows Trump to continue to create literal facts on the ground while they 'consider' his his meritless challenge. nothing is more important than reforming the court and ending its corruption.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Now this is the right headline. John Roberts did this. ↘️
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
As US citizen, I find this heartbreaking. As one who has studied rhetoric and watched leaders in difficult circumstances, I have only admiration for what M Carney is saying—and doing—here. "We cannot accept what they've offered, and we will not give what they've asked." www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...
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PM Carney Speaks to Media After Suspension of Canada-U.S. Trade Talks
Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa after Canada and the United States failed to reach a trade agreement before a late Friday deadline and Canada said it wa...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026
Watching Prime Minister Carney discussing the breakdown of the Canada-US trade deal at a press conference and just really appreciating living in a country where the leader can speak coherently and knowledgeably about what is actually happening.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
John Roberts is Natalie Harp in a robe. A cringeworthy handmaiden
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Unspeakably disgraceful. Doris Miller was a mess attendant -- the only jobs open to Black sailors -- who won the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor. With this, and reports USN leaders are considering changing the design of aircraft carriers *because Trump said so* -- the Navy is dishonoring itself.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
aiddata.org
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
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