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Caryn

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” ~ William Faulkner

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MORE: Nichols notes that the Trump administration did not provide any evidence that the mail-in ballot rule will prevent fraud and says on the flipside, there's lots of evidene that the new USPS rule would disenfranchise voters. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
everyone paying for early access to his posts is getting exactly what they deserve
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 24/08/2026
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
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Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'
The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Mentions I tracked on Fox News from 12 p.m. ET to 10 p.m. ET Fauci: 89 El-Sayed: 64 WNBA: 64 AOC: 59 Hong: 52 Sophie Cunningham: 34 Mamdani: 32 Hasan Piker: 29
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/08/2026
The audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows, a New York Times analysis suggests. Views are dropping for many of President Trump’s greatest allies. nyti.ms/3TLV4TV
Four charts showing total views per week for 12 right-wing influencers. Headline reads: "The MAGA Media Machine Is Fracturing." Summary reads: "Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/07/2026
EVERY DEMOCRAT NEEDS TO SEE THIS. DSA co-chair Megan Romer laid out the organization’s platform. Now I’ve got to ask: will they be held accountable when they can’t get these policies enacted, just like Democrats in general? 🧵
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
unintended consequences. they’re what’s for dinner.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 22/07/2026
Senators in both parties are questioning a plan by President Donald Trump’s media company to sell real-time access to Truth Social posts to Wall Street firms
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Senators Question ‘Insider’ Access to Trump Truth Social Posts
Senators in both parties are questioning a plan by President Donald Trump’s media company to sell real-time access to Truth Social posts to Wall Street firms.
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MAinNC @martyd409.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
⏩ A STATISTICAL REVAMP to 'deliver' LOWER INFLATION
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“What kind of man would cheat at this golf?” 😂
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11/07/2026
US citizen in Congo tests positive for Ebola virus, US CDC says reut.rs/3SM1MsP
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US citizen in Congo tests positive for Ebola virus, US CDC says
A U.S. citizen working ​for a humanitarian ‌organization in the Democratic Republic of ​the Congo ​has tested positive for ⁠the Bundibugyo Ebola ​virus, the U.S. ​CDC said on Friday.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11/07/2026
The Trump administration finalized a repeal of decades-old regulation that said habitat destruction was a form of harm to endangered species. Overturning the law could allow for mining, ranching and other development to expand into previously protected areas.
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Trump rule says habitat destruction does not harm endangered species
A new rule rescinds the definition of what it means to “harm” a plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act and could lead to more habitat destruction.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/06/2026
If this were just Ketanji Brown Jackson walking the halls of the Capitol, meeting with “nobody” the day before final rulings, Trump and Republicans would be going ballistic.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/06/2026
So....it wasn't vandals www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...
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How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/06/2026
When the Reflecting Pool was replenished after a $14 million-plus renovation, ducks quickly took to the water. But then dead ducks were found nearby. The carcasses found in Constitution Gardens will undergo necropsies to determine cause of death.
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A dead duck was seen in the Reflecting Pool. Then two more were found nearby.
The two ducks that were recovered from Constitution Gardens will undergo necropsies to determine their cause of death.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The UFC event held on Trump’s 80th birthday left it heavily damaged www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump supporter’s company pledges $1 million to fix White House lawn after UFC event
Ohio-based ScottsMiracle-Gro said it is donating “a combination of monetary and product support.” A government watchdog said the arrangement raises ethics questions.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
NBD - it's just the US Pardon Attorney and US Ambassador and Chief of Protocol talking about how the CIA framed Nixon for the Watergate break-in and it was all a hoax.
On the bad site, Monica Crowley quote tweets Eagle Ed Martin and says: "President Nixon was the target of a Deep State hoax.

He will be vindicated.

NIXONMAXX! 🇺🇸" The quoted tweet says: "We should mark the 54th anniversary of the Watergate break-in (a few days ago) by remembering this: 
it is the OG hoax with the pre-FISA CIA running wiretaps on domestic politicians. And then blaming the Nixon campaign.  And Washington Post leading (not reporting). 
The only thing worse than the lying CIA is the two-faced liar John Dean and the fiction-writer Woodward. 
May they suffer in eternity."
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding rules changes. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: substack.com/@joycevance/...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is bombshell stuff.
Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.
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Caryn @carynbrophy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
They used a bucket to put Trump's name on The Kennedy Center. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icoy...
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🔴LIVE: President Trump's name added to Kennedy Center building in DC
YouTube video by ABC 7 News - WJLA
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
BREAKING: Trump admin asks for a 12 hour delay in removing Trump's name from Kennedy Center, saying work got delayed due to thunderstorms. Crowd (including Rep. Beatty) has been outside the center most of the evening.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Taylor chased out the Bad Trump Vibes.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
While Scott Jennings gets prime time appearances on CNN to push MAGA narratives, the network’s resident fact checker hasn’t been seen on the air in three months. The timing is curious. what’s going on? The story in @status.news www.status.news/p/daniel-dal...
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The Curious Disappearance of Daniel Dale
CNN’s resident fact-checker has been absent from the network’s airwaves for more than three months, Status has found, raising questions about the sudden disappearance of one of its most familiar on-ai...
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 11/06/2026
News flash, Mr. President! We appreciate your candor in admitting you “love inflation” and don’t think about other Americans’ “financial situation,” but we hate inflation and can’t stand your illegal tariffs, taxes and wars. We’re sick of your economy for oligarchs!
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg: "I would never ask you to charge somebody if I didn't think there was probable cause … I don't charge people unless I'm absolutely sure."

MS. MECKLENBURG: Yes. This is a very interesting case. It's a little different.
I purposely asked if I could wait for the Thursday grand jury. I did.
Matt.will vouch for me. I said I want to go in front of the Thursday grand jury
because I know you and I trust you and yoU know me and you trust me, and I would never ask you to charge somebody if I didn't think there was probable cause and you know you've asked me before "Well, what about this person?" And I said "I don't charge people unless I'm absolutely sure."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
$41 trillion. @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Oliver Darcy’s Status has obtained a statement from Scott Pelley responding to his termination by CBS News and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Nick Bilton. Full Story Here: bit.ly/3Qig8Qz (Side note: I will always be a paid subscriber to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social — worth every penny)
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 29/05/2026
NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 24/05/2026
⚡️Update: Massive Russian ballistic missile, drone attack on Kyiv kills 1, injures 24. The number of injured victims in Russia's overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region has risen to 24, officials reported.
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'Damage in every district of Kyiv' — Massive Russian ballistic missile, drone attack kills 1, injures 24
Russian forces launched a large-scale missile attack on Kyiv overnight on May 24, officials reported.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 24/05/2026
⚡️Update: Damage reported in every district of Kyiv amid massive Russian missile, drone attack. Officials reported that over 40 locations in Kyiv have sustained damage in the large-scale overnight Russian missile and drone attack on the capital.
kyivindependent.com
Breaking: Kyiv under massive Russian ballistic missile, drone attack, at least 1 killed, 16 injured
Russian forces launched a large-scale missile attack on Kyiv overnight on May 24, officials reported.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service shoots person near the White House, bystander also shot, law enforcement official says.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/05/2026
"‪It would emit more CO2 than the entire nation of Jamaica."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is BIG. These are the first charges relating to an incident that occurred during an enforcement operation.* The officers involved were accused of lying under oath about this shooting, as the Trump admin admitted. *the previous indictment involved an ICE agent who road raged while on duty.
Federal authorities initially accused Sosa-Celis and Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna of beating an officer with a broom handle and a snow shovel during the incident. But a federal judge later dismissed the charges and federal officials opened an investigation into whether two immigration officers lied about what happened.

Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department officials didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment. DHS previously said that lying under oath is a “serious federal offense” and that making false statements could result in an officer being fired or prosecuted.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Ryan Rozbiani 🇺🇸 Insider Oil Trades on Trump's Iran Posts Federal investigators are probing suspicious oil trades made shortly before Trump announced “very good and productive” talks with Iran, CBS News reported.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This is just amazing. "The Office" meets Fyre Festival. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...
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Inside a Corporate Retreat That Went Very Badly Wrong
Technology company Plex took its 120 employees to Honduras for a weeklong bonding experience. It was a disaster from the moment they arrived.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
🗣️ LOUDER PLEASE.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Trump may establish a $1.7 billion fund using taxpayer money to compensate his allies and others investigated by the Justice Department, possibly including those who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. @glennthrush.bsky.social @aduehren.bsky.social @alanfeuer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...
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Trump Administration Weighs $1.7 Billion Fund for Allies Investigated Under Biden
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/05/2026
Trump: "There's no oil coming out of Kharg Island. People are finding other places to buy oil, like Texas. So I don't want to say we're making a fortune, because if I say that, they're gonna say 'he forgets about the little man with the $4 gasoline.'"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trump is creating a $1.7 BILLION slush fund for his allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted but weren’t — in case you’re wondering why Rep Ogles is making himself the victim. He wants to get in on the heist from taxpayers. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026
virgnia foxx is one of those low key members who has been abjectly horrible her entire time in office. a total degenerate.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It was great joining @jamestalarico.bsky.social and @ginafortexas.bsky.social today in Texas. They're working hard to make a difference in the lives of all Texans, and will be able to do even more as your next Senator and Governor. Let’s get it done, Texas!
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Understandable concern about not just the midterms but what comes next, seating the House on Jan 3. It's not as simple as Johnson could refuse members. But there is real potential for mischief or worse. Callais has appreciably increased the danger. So here's what they might try, and how to fight it:
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The VRA Ruling Might Have Handed Republicans a Weapon to Attempt a Jan. 6-style Midterm Coup
An outlandish scenario to refuse to seat newly elected blue state representatives just became more plausible
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New: The U.S. debt appeared to hit a worrying milestone and surpassed the total output of the economy, based on data we got last week. And yet, few seemed to notice in Washington, where under Trump, the debt is on track to worsen considerably www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/b...
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As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices
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