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Cosmic Loper

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Justice Jackson: This "violates well-established precedents concerning this Court's equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections. It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating."
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
See how this headline sane-washes that insane Truth Social Post?
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Weapons contractor $GD hasn’t made a single shell. The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million. But the Army has not held General Dynamics publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back. www.propublica.org/article/gene...
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Scott Whitmore @scottwhitmore.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Of course they don't. Yes: assholes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026
FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s latest financial report said Paramount gave him tickets to the 2025 Kennedy Center gala worth $12,390. He and his wife sat in skybox seats. Such seats sold for $125,000 a piece, according to Kennedy Center guidelines.
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FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Early voting is now open across the state! I’m not a career politician — in fact, I’m the only candidate in this race who has never run for office before. If you want a new voice who’s ready to disrupt the status quo, I’m your guy. I’d be honored to be that voice in the Senate.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
People voted for authoritarianism because they wanted lower inflation and now they have authoritarianism and even more inflation. (no lessons will be learned) blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/affordabil...
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Affordability concerns are even more important to voters than in 2024
Inflation continues to dominate the issue landscape, and drag down the president
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We may hit 3.5C sea surface temperature anomaly in September. The planet you were born in no longer exists
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to compel Illinois to provide its complete statewide voter registration database. Another big victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is now 0-19 in these cases. ELG remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/illino...
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🚨 United States of America v. Matthews
Learn more.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 28/07/2026
Extracted from the seeds of the trumpet-shaped brugmansia flower — which blooms across South America’s Andean regions — scopolamine is tasteless and odorless, and doses as small as 10 milligrams can induce a zombie-like state of compliance. More: apple.news/Alj7BdKqqRPO...
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 28/07/2026
Sen. Ossoff: It is astonishing that Donald Trump wouldn't sign the one bipartisan achievement of this Congress to address the cost-of-living crisis.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
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Cosmic Loper @cosmicloper.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
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Scott Whitmore @scottwhitmore.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
He again claims he wants to create a "post-scarcity" world similar to the Culture books of Iain Banks. Informed Banks was a socialist, Musk insists he wasn't, but pivots his "vision" to that of Star Trek -- more sci-fi socialism! You can see why he rarely agrees to interviews with *real* journalists
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to compel Kentucky to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-17 in these case. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/kentuc...
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🚨 United States of America v. Adams
Learn more.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/07/2026
Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. (Published May)
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What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
That’s an oldie but a goodie. Nine years ago this week. @montanaskeptic.bsky.social
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Ukrainian civil society, in an atmosphere of existential war and the chilling effect that has on expression and dissent, is nonetheless more actively involved in questioning its government's wartime decisions than our own is in the US
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
LINCICOME: “.. Trump promises to use Section 338 — a short, vague, 96YO law that's never been used (and that most experts think is defunct bc it was superceded by Sec 301) .. Tariff Crazytown is officially BACK, baby.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social 🇨🇦 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Sets 50% Tariff on Some Canadian Goods Over Retaliation Claim
The Trump administration is set to impose a fresh 50% tariff on some Canadian goods under a never-before-used legal provision, citing what it said was unfair treatment by Ottawa of American alcohol, a...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fine print time: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security — all real, all narrower than advertised, and all expire at the end of 2028.⁣ ⁣ The tax cuts for wealthy families in the same bill? Permanent.⁣ ⁣ newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Ossoff's Office @ossoff.senate.gov · 20/07/2026
Sen. Ossoff slams HHS Secretary RFK Jr. after he terminated the CDC's required surveillance of the parasite causing cyclosporiasis: "Your foolish and self-indulgent demolition of critical public health programs puts Americans at risk. The Trump Administration is actively undermining food safety."
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I mean....
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Even Fox News has learned (the hard way, but still) that the lying liar can’t be freely platformed when he does this shit.
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When somebody shows you they want to destroy free and fair elections the first time—believe them.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 15/07/2026
The Supreme Court is facing a major corruption crisis. I'm proud to introduce the High Court Gift Ban Act, with @raskin.house.gov and @lujan.senate.gov, to remove the influence of dark money from our nation’s highest judicial body. We must safeguard the sanctity of our democracy.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
OSSOFF: “.. Isn’t it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the President’s delusions?”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
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Cosmic Loper @cosmicloper.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Fossil Fuel Industry First. America Second.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Gift link. How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...
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How a Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist (Gift Article)
The world’s most valuable assets are stored on rows of servers in giant, anonymous buildings. And they can be stolen.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
MOAR economics. I love this partnership between my baby -- @platypuseconomics.bsky.social -- and the largest independent media company around. I'm going to keep producing analyses and insights for both groups. Just moar of them.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/07/2026
"But then, like many others, he made the decision to abandon his previous ideals, to bury the patriotism that was once so important to him, and to become, instead, a loud, opportunistic collaborator." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Quintessential Politician of This Era
The late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham made a mid-career turn to MAGA.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The frontier AI labs are lobbying Trump to take action against open Chinese AI models. The AI bubble could totally burst if the end game is U.S. companies spending billions to train AI models and trillions on data centers only for Chinese labs to produce good enough AI models you can run locally.
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Cosmic Loper @cosmicloper.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Putin’s ‘Make Russia Great Again’
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/07/2026
A few words on the passing of South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, who spent the last ten years of his life eagerly helping Donald Trump in his quest to destroy American democracy. youtu.be/z4HMequIiiY
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What is there to say about Lindsay Graham?
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 12/07/2026
"DOGE’s disappearing records are part of a coordinated assault on government accountability," writes FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social for @ms.now. "The DOGE playbook cannot become the blueprint ...The first step to averting this oligarchical capture is securing and opening DOGE’s books."
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Opinion | Fixing what DOGE broke requires records Trump is putting out of reach
Lauren Harper: If the DOGE playbook becomes a blueprint, there’s no telling how many future shadow agencies might follow — and how many government decisions taxpayers could be locked out of.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just issued subpoenas to several journalists for The New York Times, after the outlet reported on security concerns involving Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The subpoenas seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury on Wednesday.
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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Distracted boyfriend meme: FIFA, Lawlessness, Supreme Court
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/07/2026
NEW: Detroit's Cadillac Heights used to be a quiet neighborhood. After a historic land swap facilitated by city officials, a billionaire-owned concrete plant moved in. Now residents say they are battling air pollution so thick they can “taste the dust.” with @bridgedet313.bsky.social
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Left in the Dust: How a Billionaire-Owned Concrete Plant Took Over a Detroit Community
After a Moroun-owned company erected a concrete plant in a quiet neighborhood with the aid of the city, residents began battling clouds of dust and other problems. They say local and state officials h...
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This Day in Labor History: July 3, 1835. Children employed in Paterson, New Jersey’s textile mills went on strike, demanding an 11 hour day and 6 day week. Let's talk about one of the first major strikes in American history!
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Originally there was no Constitution. So ignoring the Constitution is the only truly originalist approach to Constitutional law.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It's July 2nd...the deadline for Todd Blanche to comply with Judge Sullivan's order in my lawsuit over the Epstein Files. Let's see what his "compliance" looks like today... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction – #15 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
ORDER granting 9 Motion for Preliminary Injunction. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 6/25/2026. (lcegs1) (Entered: 06/25/2026)
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Fuck off marie condo
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026
NEW: Trump awarded a secret, no-bid $500M contract to Clark Construction for the ballroom. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Trump is using a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom
The White House routed a $500 million no-bid contract through a White House office that typically handles repairs and furnishings and is exempt from competitive bidding requirements.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
“Liberal democracies around the world are now among the most unequal societies ever to have existed in human history,” Jeffrey Winters, has a new book out! "The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies." Interview on @democracynow.org www.democracynow.org/2026/5/27/th...
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This chart by the Fed shows that the 70+ cohort in the US held 19% of household wealth in 1989. Today the 70+ group owns 33%. Source: buff.ly/WPQoEUL
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...
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As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man
Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.
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