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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18h
Super PACs aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have spent a combined $55.7 million and counting on the midterm elections. Almost none of their ads mention AI or data centers. Know their names and don't fall for their lies.
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Meet the Biggest Super PACs of 2026
Voters are increasingly opposed to U.S. aid to Israel, cryptocurrency, and AI data centers.That's why the Big Money grou
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h
Amazing stuff here
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Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

Yes
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15h
Proud of the CDCers who fought to get this vital info out! 30% of our workforce is gone. Heartbroken by the loss of brilliant scientists, institutional knowledge, & frankly my friends, colleagues, & mentors. An understaffed CDC harms the public & leaves the US vulnerable. Rebuilding will take years
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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LSW @ltrip.altgov.info · 29/09/2026
Your government websites are being taken over. Your access to things like Social Security, Medicare, IRS etc and your privacy are both at risk. Read the open letter from the government employees trying to protect you.
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 20h
And now a new EO dropped that makes me want to vom. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Streamlines Access to Government Services Through America.gov
REDESIGNING GOVERNMENT SERVICES FOR AMERICANS: Today, President Donald J. Trump launched America.gov, a single digital point of entry for Americans
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 29/09/2026
A letter from us. We want the best for USWDS, and we're ready to help. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...
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Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA
The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Q: Tell us why the world shouldn't be concerned about AI, why there shouldn't be guardrails? TRUMP: Because we have people that love our country & love the world a lot Q: It requires more than love, doesn't it? T: No. It requires this *points to head* and they're the smartest people in the world
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22h
NEW: The Supreme Court, over the objections of the 3 liberal justices, grants a stay in the D.V.D. litigation, authorizing the Trump admin to resume third country removals without any notice to people being sent to countries they've never been to. The Court also agrees to hear the case in December.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026 CERTIORARI GRANTED 26-426 DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL. (26A406) The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed. The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents’ claims. (2) Whether the district court had authority to enter classwide declaratory relief and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252(f)(1). (3) Whether the Government’s Guidance on third-country removals is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or FARRA/CAT and its implementing regulations. (4) Such other questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the application for stay.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump starts twitching in anger when a reporter tries to ask him about ICE
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Trump says people in communities where data centers are built will be paid a "dividend" (just like his $5,000 "Trump dividend"!)
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 21h
TRUMP SAYS ON NORTH KOREA'S KIM JONG UN THAT 'HE'S A FRIEND OF MINE, I LIKE HIM' AND THAT 'KIM WILL BE FINE AS LONG AS I AM AROUND'.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h
Trump's Iran War has spiked food prices by raising the cost of fertilizer and fuel. His cuts to FDA and HHS have made foodborne illness outbreaks harder to contain. And his SNAP cuts have made it even harder for millions to feed themselves. He's making America hungry again.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h
According to leaks, Anthropic reported a $42B net loss in 2025. This was revealed as Anthropic is preparing a massive IPO and even bigger investments in AI infrastructure. How worried should we be about the AI bubble bursting?
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Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22h
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 15/09/2026
You're likely to hear more about DOGE in the coming days. Rightfully, you'll think "Hey weren't they disbanded?" No. And their ethos hasn't faded either.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💯. But the press won't bother itself to start reporting what experts think of this. Instead they try to make sense of it and recast his gibberish in failed efforts to make it cohere.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He does not suffer fools or tolerate disingenuous reporters; he was getting the biased reporter (not from a major Detroit outlet) to be specific in their question. His event with Harris went really well and the local media all did a good job covering it.
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WokeMooseAndSquirrel🌊🫏 @wokemoosensquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Spin the wheel.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 27/09/2026
Which is weird, because we already have a LAW that says he can’t put his face on currency but he broke the law and did it anyhow and Kennedy isn’t going to do anything about that. So why make more rules if he just breaks them with impunity?
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Office Space Bobs
ALT: Office Space Bobs
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our system of governance derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When public servants use propaganda to manipulate the people they are supposed to serve in order to MANUFACTURE that consent, our SERVANTS soon become our MASTERS. Your tax dollars paid for this ad.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our tax dollars are being spent to indulge the fantasies and to soothe the fragile ego of a narcissistic sociopath who is falling deeper and deeper into psychosis.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Exactly. As he becomes more deranged and politically weaker, he will become more desperate and more dangerous.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“National Park Service Deputy Director Frank Lands visited Grand Teton National Park this week and looked at three potential locations for a baseball park within the park’s boundaries” WTF 🤬 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Blanche on AI: "The answer is not to just all of the sudden try to regulate this"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Q: Do you support the hostilities in Iran, which is causing inflation? MIKE COLLINS: I support the administration's efforts to make sure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon (So, yes!)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Q: Some folks in the administration have floated the idea of having federal troops at polling places. Do you have thoughts on that? MIKE COLLINS: The last thing we want is for people to not have confidence in the elections, so if that's something they decide they have to look at, that's fine w/ me
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“‘Ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation or promoted voluntary return of non-white immigrants'... This is, of course, beyond alarming...” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Trump: "We have the best, uhh, I guess you could say poverty. They talk poverty. We have the best poverty numbers ever in the history of our country."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Way too close, but thankfully someone was paying attention and alerted the police before this got really bad. They reportedly tried to call RAF Fairford to report 3 suspicious vans, but couldn’t get an answer from the base.
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Rangeeni @rangeeni.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
“The Bannons and Millers and Hegseths; the grifter Cabinet members and empty GOP suits on Capitol Hill, pledging fealty to a lifelong sexual predator and protecting him from the Epstein files and his own past - to keep their own crimes and endless corruption hidden.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The kindest thing you could say about the Trump presidency at this point is that he used the powers of the office to create private business deals for his family. It’s the only element he has been successful at and while it is without precedent and corrupt it is his only effort.
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ok so at this point we *dont* want the strait that we control open
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 26/09/2026
They fraudulently got ... nothing.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because of the Texas state government's error, Texas "counties are now dealing with nearly a year of backlogged voter registration tasks to process. They could include new registrations or simply updates to voters’ existing records, like a change in address..." www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
if you've ever had a salesman who really needs a sale doubling down on the hard sell you know this guy. like wow there's more oil coming throuhg the strait than ever. yeah that makes sense. we should be at war with them forever. it's great at holding down the price of gas!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
"Getting French-Canadians to the point of embracing the mindset of 'we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately' is an amazing feat. Only Trump could have made the US seem so awful that the Quebecois would embrace Canada First."
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The view from Canada: Make America Think Again
Rebuilding trust will take generations.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“.. “We need to get some other voices in there to push back a little bit on this stuff,” said Nancy Danner, who farms thousands of acres of corn and soybeans with her husband, Kevin, in western Iowa. “We need as many changes as we can get.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 27/09/2026
I'm just happy/sad/thankful/angry that the Strait is open/closed/partially open/mostly closed so that the tankers can/can't traverse through it I'm really tired of/happy about all the winning/mostly winning/some winning we're doing every day/week/month in the war/not war/conflict in Iran
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Trump administration gave a high level security clearance and unprecedented access to your sensitive PII and financials to a kid who ran foreign CSAM boards, was fired from his only prior real job for stealing company data, and was linked to a Russian cybercrime ring.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Network solidarity against Trump's attack on the 1st Amendment lasted less than one week. Pathetic. On the bright side for CNN, moving forward Bari Weiss can make changes to ensure there is no more friction with the White House. Support independent media. demdock.com/4w6emld
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CQBJ @cee2026.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Trump family has billions to earn off drone and mineral contracts from OUR Pentagon. When the money is made and Kushner real estate deals finalized, the war will end. 😡
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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