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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 12h
JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
presswatchers.org
The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In the last few weeks, Elon Musk has dumped $300,000,000 into the Midterms in a desperate attempt to buy the election for Trump. Make sure everyone knows that Musk is behind that deluge of disgusting ads they are seeing and that Musk doesn't give one whit about them. He just wants more power.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Remember: ICE lied so often about people posing threats to them, to justify their violence in Chicago, that a Chicago federal judge wrote it was "difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost anything" ICE said. Do you know what it takes to get a Fed district judge to WRITE THAT in a ruling?
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The right's evidence for a James Talarico mental breakdown debuted with a lot of fanfare this afternoon—and imploded immediately. A very special emergency False Flag for @thebulwark.com with @eggerdc.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-james...
thebulwark.com
MAGA’s Talarico Mental Breakdown Conspiracy Implodes—Instantly
The holes in this one were evident pretty quickly. Now the big question is will there be lawsuits in response?
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“These things are important now to put clearly on the record and, I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," the Observer reports Burnham saying.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In any normal parliamentary democracy, the no confidence vote would be taking place tonight.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Again, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yikes — abc news has fallen… “outright deleted” a story about the Trump boys getting billions in government contracts 🤔👇🏽
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026
Well, this is where we're at lnk.thebulwark.com/4y5NBxp
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When you offer a bare bones, factual description of what Guilfoyle has been up to, it sounds absolutely insane. But here we are: America's government under the Trumps. People of Greece, if you are listening, we are sorry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
Here is what happened: the former girlfriend of the President’s son asked an aspiring Republican politician for $100,000 to settle her credit card bill right before her Senate confirmation for an Ambassadorship, which she seems to have been awarded as a break-up present from the Trump family. (The son has since married, with the celebrations partially financed by a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin). She had previously received $300,000 from the donor for what seem to be largely unfulfilled promises of political favors.

As Ambassador to Greece, she has been pushing other countries to do business with an oil-and-gas lobbyist who has been attending her official meetings, and suggesting that the US could bring down the Greek government any time they wanted.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...
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The Speech That Gets You Banned From America
Leaked Rubio cable details “far-left” speech that bars people from entering the U.S.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the last hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup, documents show.
nytimes.com
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What would you say if you saw it in another country? "If the fence proposal is implemented, it could limit the public’s access to an open space that has allowed people to practice free speech at the doorstep of the country’s highest seat of power."
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Isn't that where Trump lives...Palm Beach?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The trade deficit last month was $36 billion larger than the Biden average. Trump's tariffs have failed.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I remember in 2000 when the WHO declared measles had been eradicated in the United States. Then RFK Jr. put out the welcome mat for contagious diseases:
thedailybeast.com
RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Congrats to UW Madison on the Nobel in Physics! He is an immigrant to the US. Immigrants make up 40% of US wins in science chemistry, medicine, and physics in this century.
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/10/2026
"Once a hub of Venezuelan and South Florida culture, the place seemed subdued, sapped of the energy, vibrancy, and music that had been so prominent during my previous visits." There is one man to blame.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Trump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost Town
In Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In Springfield, OH, nearly 1,400 workers were laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally. Layoffs were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally - PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
This year’s election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 03/10/2026
A sobering, clear assessment in @pnas.org of the current US policy of international student exclusion. "The damage would not end with academic careers. A discovery becomes a vaccine, a company, and an industry only when someone commercializes it, and that work runs on the same imported talent."
pnas.org
Taxing the talent that builds American science | PNAS
Taxing the talent that builds American science
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A.I.'s risks are real, but they can and must be responsibly managed by government oversight. With proper guardrails, we can leverage A.I.'s transformative power for shared prosperity. Read my take in @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Six Charts That Show Just How Much We Need A.I.
All the worry about artificial intelligence should not obscure this key point: If we don’t develop it, we’ll be a lot worse off.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three AI safety researchers at OpenAI have left the company. OpenAI says it was because they allegedly shared information with a third-party AI safety organization. All three have previously publicly expressed concerns.
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10:25 AM • 10/1/26 • 8.7K ViewsJasmine Wang © @j_asminewang
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It's hard to overstate how dangerous speeding towards RSI is.
That's why I + 1385 others signed the pacing the frontier petition asking the
US government to pace Al development. I'm guesstimating this is ~8-10% of all frontier lab employees.
Jacob Coxon & @hilberts...•9/8/26
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAl and Anthropic.
Neither company is acting responsibly.
They are racing straight to self-improvi...
7:11 PM • 9/9/26 • 58K ViewsMikita Balesni _ @balesni
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i am at OpenAl and i think Al is >10% likely to kill all humans
this proposal is among the top things we should do as an industry to lower that risk (it's not enough though!)
Ryan Greenblatt & @Rya... • 9/10/26
I'm very worried about changes to Al architectures that result in Als thinking in opaque activations instead of in chain of thought (aka "neuralese" architectures).....
1:01 PM • 9/10/26 • 259K ViewsTomek Korbak ©
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X.com
I'm quite unhappy with much of what
OpenAl does.
I am very happy that I'm allowed to say
"I'm quite unhappy with much of what
OpenAl does."
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i think sama deserves great credit for this. openai, for better or worse, is very defensive of employee freedom of speech. anthropic's culture is a follow on to this. it's rare to see much from X...
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Can someone explain to me why OpenAl and Anthropic allow any em...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🇺🇸 US TRAVEL ASSOCIATION: “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation. It’s mind-boggling.” The Trump effect. 🤷🏼 www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“As Trump funds influencers to manipulate the Brazilian election, he is getting help in his quest from Elon Musk, who is blocking accounts that post critiques of the Bolsonaro-Trump alliance. This week, the National Conference of Bishops of Brasil lost access to its X account.“
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
The American pope draws attention, but there have been scores of American cardinals. You might not always hear much about them, but listen to this one:
lnk.thebulwark.com
‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’
What we saw in Springfield, Ohio.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
science.org
NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Truly no limit to how low this administration will go
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Data centers are booming. All other private construction is shrinking.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FYI this bill does nothing. It contains no new mandatory rules restricting data centers. It's just fakery to try to fool voters into forgetting that Republicans spent the entire term trying to stop states from regulating AI (as requested by the AI companies). www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
semafor.com
Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill
Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The president has repeatedly exhibited bizarre conduct in the public eye. Not only does that include taking naps during public events, but also erratic behavior, slurred speech, appearing lost or disoriented, and sporting mysterious bruises.” newrepublic.com/post/215938/...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lmaooo💤💤💤
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I served in multiple authoritarian states, both communist and otherwise--Russia, Vietnam, Iraq, the Sultanate of Oman, and Ukraine before the Orange Revolution brought in democracy. One common thread among all of them is government spending on propaganda to glorify the dictator/sultan.
cnn.com
White House airs another government-funded ad, this time with Trump warning of ‘final battle’ | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to launch another overtly political campaign ad funded by taxpayer dollars, attacking the “fake news media” and “the sick political class that hates our country.”
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
Trump’s proposed nuke deal with Saudi Arabia could help them build nuclear bombs and ignite a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. This dangerous deal would enrich Trump's cronies but make everyone less safe. No nukes for Saudi Arabia. Trump must cancel this deal immediately.
Screenshot of letter. Full text of letter linked in reply.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/09/2026
Defying court orders. Acting in contempt of the courts. Will any official face any consequences for this law breaking spree? bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The latest minute-long ad features Trump speaking against the backdrop of Mount Rushmore and ends with him declaring: “This is only the beginning of the golden age of America.” And at the end? “Paid for by the U.S. Government.”
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just so I understand: immigrants (and their children) are bad for America because they don’t “assimiliate.” But loving college football and going nuts when your team wins is…just a bridge too far? Just trying to keep up
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