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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/09/2026
This makes it crystal clear. Trump doesn’t want to save the Kennedy Center. He wants another monument to himself. The place is reportedly facing financial collapse, and somehow the rescue plan involves putting his name on the building. It was never about the arts. Or about saving the place.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 27/08/2026
DEVELOPING STORY: A Florida grand jury investigating the Hope Florida scandal found that key members of the DeSantis administration engaged in a “sophisticated scheme” to divert $10 million of a Medicaid settlement into a political activities and the Republican Party of Florida.
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Hope Florida grand jury describes public money ‘misused for political purposes’
The not-yet released reported was obtained by CBS News Miami and detailed wrongdoing but also an inability to bring criminal charges.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CBS Miami got the actual grand jury report implicating Ashely Moody and Ron DeSantis in stealing Medicaid funds to put into political campaign. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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litzz11 @litzz11.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
GIFT LINK here, for those who can't subscribe: share.inquirer.com/YJcvRK
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We need to care about Trump’s CIA murdering fishermen on the high seas | Will Bunch
Reports that CIA drones attacked fishing boats off the Galapagos Islands may be Trump’s worst war crime yet.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Meanwhile, in other unlawful federal occupation of D.C. news... bsky.app/profile/npr....
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/08/2026
Excuse my ignorance, but if Todd Blanche is confirmed, couldn’t he just issue a new memo under a slightly different framework that still gives Trump the slush fund and the immunity he wanted? We can’t trust these people.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
An important warning from @meiselasb.bsky.social that the “sham document” Blanche’s advancement seems to rely upon showing the insurrectionist slush fund is *dead* is actually “unenforceable” @SenThomTillis @JohnCornyn
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The SAVE Act is built to trip women up. About 69 million married women have names that do not match their birth certificates, and this bill turns that paperwork into a weapon against their voice. Screw that! Please call your Senators and tell them to vote no on the #PayToVoteSaveAct
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cetzel3.bsky.social @cetzel3.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I hope Kansas Dems see this! According to Roger Marshall, gas & grocery prices are more important than troops. What a pathetic human.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Beyond absurd. A budget is a moral document.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Gift link with no paywall because everybody needs to read this one after the June we just had slate.com/news-and-pol...
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A Sitting Judge Just Delivered the Most Scathing Critique of This Supreme Court Term
The Supreme Court has veered so far off track that even the harshest language can feel inadequate to capture the damage wrought by its most recent term.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 16/07/2026
Trump Hypes ‘Magnets’ After Son’s Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company
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Trump Hypes ‘Magnets’ After Son’s Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company
President Donald Trump urged defense contractors to "do magnets" on Wednesday, just seven weeks after ProPublica revealed that a top White House aide intervened to help secure a $620 million Pentagon loan for a rare-earth magnet startup after Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm took a stake in the company. The post Trump Hypes ‘Magnets’ After Son’s Firm Takes Stake in Rare-Earth Magnet Company first appeared on Mediaite.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026
vance? a grifter? i’m shocked
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/05/2026
NEW: Donald just STOLE $1.7B from us to pay insurrectionists. I have some important info about this. Please share widely.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/07/2026
This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/07/2026
Rachel Maddow’s description of Juan Sebastian Guerrero killed by ICE in Maine is a must see. She explains what happened w/out being graphic, and somehow that makes it even more powerful. Remember Alex, Pretti, and Renée? There have been no prosecutions. Still no justice. We know how this goes.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Kasie Hunt asked Scott Jennings on live TV if McConnell would be willing to call in to CNN. The discomfort on Jennings’ face while he tried to bullshit his way around that answer was really something. Methinks we still aren’t getting the whole story.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 04/07/2026
The National Archives in the UK says it has discovered a vanishingly rare copy of the Declaration of Independence. The document was found by a volunteer reviewing the letters of an 18th-century Royal Navy captain, who had labeled it simply as "another paper."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/07/2026
NEW: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
NBC Exclusive: A White House task force has been gathering thousands of pages of documents from intelligence agencies — with plans to declassify some of them — so Trump can amplify new disinformation about past elections, three people familiar with the effort said.
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White House task force aims to boost Trump’s election claims with declassified intelligence documents
The team has been quietly reviewing documents for months, sometimes late into the night, sources say.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Why Flavor Flav is betting on #SHEWeekend and why brands should too,!! I alwayz wanted to be in Forbes,,, this is a real treat and honor. www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
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Why Flavor Flav Is Betting Big On Women’s Sports With ‘SHE Weekend’ In Las Vegas
Flavor Flav has quietly been building a reputation as an advocate for equity in women's sports. This Summer he's hosting SHE Weekend in Las Vegas to honor female athletes
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.
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A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/06/2026
Wow. This focus group on the MAGA cult. Spoiler: not MAGA anymore. Tori Hurst: "They made me watch a documentary on January 6th, and I didn't even know what happened on January 6th prior... And I looked at him, and I said, 'Scott, did that really happen?' And he was like, 'Where have you been?’”
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The fact that stephen miller is saying the US is closed to asylum seekers from Haiti while granting asylum to white South Africans should tell you all you need to know.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/06/2026
Iran’s Parliament Speaker and key negotiator MB Ghalibaf hits back at Trump for misrepresenting the deal:
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 24/06/2026
NEW: The postmaster general told Congress that, under a new proposed rule, the USPS will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration. The admission is evidence that the traditionally nonpartisan USPS is complying with Trump's mail voting attack.
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Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls
“You are going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail. That’s unacceptable," one senator told the postmaster general.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Crime and Punishment Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @contrariannews.org
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
my man looking like the baby from the Teletubby sun grew up to be an alcoholic
still from a tv showing coverage of the UFC white house fight. it's joe rogan in an ugly tie that's too short holding a microphone and looking like a blister with acne. You can see the white House in the background.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/05/2026
Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 30/05/2026
Republicans slashed VA benefits, fired decorated generals, & sent soldiers to their deaths. Now Pentagon leaders are screening soldiers by waist size for UFC tickets because they want troops who “look good on camera.” A defense official’s actual words: “No fatties.” The hypocrisy is astounding.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 27/05/2026
BREAKING: California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed from Trump’s Jan. 6th “slush fund.”
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 25/05/2026
6 Greenville, SC residents, including at least 3 cops have been arrested & charged with child sex trafficking AGAIN—not immigrants, not trans people, not drag queens, not Black or brown people. And we will not hear Trump or any MAGA politician acknowledge this. These were cops. How deep is the rot?
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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026
Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.
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cetzel3.bsky.social @cetzel3.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Overland Park KS wealthy people f***ing suck at tipping!! Tip your delivery drivers, people. $3 is not ok for an order I had to drive 30 minutes for. It was a huge house!!! The same thing happened last week. It's disgusting.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Every American should be disgusted by this.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/05/2026
Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello." here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
PGA Tour plays at Trump’s Doral course in Miami tomorrow and he installed this of himself right before it starts.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Revoking kids' visas because their parents criticized Elon Musk.
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Karen Ruckman @ruckmanphoto.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
No work, no school, no shopping | May 1 #mayday
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2
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