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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 7h
There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
Collins is debating @ossoff Rogers is debating @sayed Collins debated @TroyJackson207 @MarshaBlackburn is hiding from @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social 🐔
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: ICE agent in a high-viz vest holding a rifle at the scene of shooting near the Bronx has a history of allegedly lying, using excessive force, and courts have found his arrests unlawful. @dmehro.bsky.social @awinston.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-ag...
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
Republican candidate for Congress on Texas Brandon Herrera on women voting: “I’m not saying the 19th amendment was a mistake, I’m just saying the country went to shit after.”
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h
The right’s hysteria over immigration really boils down to how they look at this chart. The % of America’s foreign born in 2025 is comparable to the % throughout much of the 19th and early 20th Century. What the right really doesn’t like is where immigrants are coming from: Latin America.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 4h
If Donald Trump, with his record of corruption and law-breaking, is not impeached, we might as well strike impeachment provisions from the Constitution. He is the reason they exist and must be implemented.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h
Great piece by Lisa Needham for Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice: Trump meme coin investors, including rich foreigners, have lost $3.81 billion but gained an opportunity to bribe the president of the United States. It’s mindblowingly corrupt.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 14h
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: Farmers emerge as pivotal voting bloc What happened to all the money donated to Trump's Freedom 250? Democrats demand Sen. Eric Scmitt's (R-MO) "records" about Jack Smith Some of the DOGE cuts put local schools at risk DAY AHEAD is live: macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h
> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Companies linked with Trump's two eldest sons have received over $6 billion in government contracts. Some are established companies that invited the sons to join their Boards, but more are new start-ups with zero experience that are *magically* receiving massive contracts. Corruption gone wild.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump: "Under my leadership, America is the most respected country on earth." EU Parliament: "Here's a token of our esteem."
Gold-gilt statue of an obese Trump holding a long golf club riding on the shoulders of an emaciated man.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 07/10/2026
Remember that “national infertility training center” the Trump administration announced last year? The $4M grant is going to an organization with ties to the Heritage Foundation and an anti-abortion doctor group that sued the FDA 👇🏼
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If only there had been an agreement in place already that was carefully negotiated over the course of two years….
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 07/10/2026
Two panels at the #Disinfo2026 conference seem to have particularly upset the MAGA people. It would be a shame if people weren’t aware of them.
Day 1, October 7, 11:45 - 12:30
Under attack: How the counter-disinformation community is dealing with US government pressure
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room: Zeta
Panel
On 23 December 2025, the US government (USG) imposed travel bans and deportation orders on five European figures - former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, Imran Ahmed, Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von
Hodenberg, and Josephine Ballon - accusing them of censoring US social media platforms.
The use of legal intimidation to wage personal attacks raises its own free-speech concerns as well as questions about the appropriate use of legal punishment in a policy debate. The United States Government's attacks to intimidate individuals and organisations are an unprecedented escalation in defense of US corporations seeking to avoid regulation and criticism. This panel will examine the chilling effect these tactics can potentially have on the community of researchers, journalists, and former government officials who fight disinformation, propaganda and hate speech online. The panel will also discuss how some are fighting back against these tactics.
Speakers:
Claire Pershan, Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Josephine Ballon, HateAid
Chair:
Gregory Rohde, EU DisinfoLabDay 1, October 7, 10:45 - 11:45
USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back #infospaces
room: Alfa
Presentations
This session addresses one of the most uncomfortable questions in the counter-disinformation field today: how did the United States become a FIMI threat for Europe? The session will explore how the counters disinformation community rebuilds resilience without Washington, what solidarity looks like in a fractured transatlantic environment, and how to push back against on these operations.
Speakers:
Adam Fivenson, Center for Security, Innovation & New Technology at American University Alex Finley, Former officer of CIA's Directorate of Operations, Centre for Strategic Advantage Emerson Brooking, Nonresident Senior Fellow, DFRLab
Chair:
Carlos Hernández-Echevarría, Fundación Maldita.es
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 03/10/2026
Since 👇 post 9 days ago, Elon has spent almost $11 million more, over a million bucks a day. In the Senate races alone, he's spent: $8.7m in Texas $4.5m in Ohio $4m in Michigan
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
BREAKING: ICE collected millions of voter records and considered undercover investigations against voter registration groups, documents reveal. It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bessent apparently thinks that the restaurant was going to reheat his half-eaten dinner and serve it to another customer. But crafty fellow that he is, he has foiled their plan!
When hecklers from the liberal group
Code Pink interrupted the Treasury secretary at a Washington restaurant in December and criticized the Trump
administration's economic sanctions policies, Bessent called them ignorant and erupted at the owner of the restaurant for not removing them.
According to the owner and also a nearby diner, Bessent spit in his own food before leaving
"When people legitimately question what he's doing he falls back on ad hominem attacks," said Myrow, the
managing partner at Beacon Policy
Advisors. "People want someone in that role who's less thin skinned and seen as almost boring."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Diesel futures fell after Trump announced a “massive” European oil release.⁣ ⁣ Then traders read the actual G7 statement, and the entire price move vanished.⁣ ⁣ Turns out the massive release was mostly a PR stunt. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
newsletter.platypuseconomics.com
An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels turns out to be leftovers from March.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 06/10/2026
Another blatant act of political corruption.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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crusadermdd.bsky.social @crusadermdd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov Please realize that this is how we truly feel.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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crusadermdd.bsky.social @crusadermdd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨TEXAS, the LAST DAY to 🗳️ REGISTER to VOTE🗳️ is 🗓️ OCTOBER 5th‼️ ✅REGISTER & CHECK your 🗳️ REGISTRATION STATUS 👇 goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🚨🚨Attention - if you live in Alaska, Rhode Island or South Carolina today 10/4 is the last day to register to vote
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“So many people came out to see me in Alabama last night. The Fire Marshall threatened to shut the rally down because we were so bigly over capacity. And I was told that there were over 300,000 outside, crying because they couldn’t get in to hear me. We could hear them all crying from inside. Sad.”
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is psychosis. The president of the United States is psychotic. Is the media going to start talking about this, or continue to normalize it?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The President of the United States said he felt bad for the men accused of committing horrific crimes against a woman who reported being sexually assaulted. He said nothing about the courage it took for her to come forward or the trauma she has endured." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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The President's decline is in a freefall
At 3:54 pm Donald Trump emerged from the White House with freshly colored hair and makeup, as Marine One's engine roared in the background. He walked directly over to the waiting press, threw his hand...
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crusadermdd.bsky.social @crusadermdd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@ms.now We absolutely do hate this. It seems hypocritical, putting profit above principle.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The renovation of the Reflecting Pool was supposed to cost $1.5 million. The cost now exceeds $16 million.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Twelve executives from one private prison company wrote one senator checks in six weeks, right after she voted them $45 billion. The founder. The CEO. A man who used to run ICE. Florida, she's yours. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill... #LetsGetVoteReady
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crusadermdd.bsky.social @crusadermdd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One senator writes ICE's budget. The two companies that profit from every ICE raid send her campaign checks. She cashes them. Nearly three decades of "concern," and the one thing she's never once been troubled by is the money. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 02/10/2026
OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Super Intelligence"
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crusadermdd.bsky.social @crusadermdd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks!
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crusadermdd.bsky.social @crusadermdd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Preach
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ken Paxton is a corrupt con man who has used his office to enrich himself and live a lavish lifestyle with his various mistresses at taxpayer expense.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today, Russia struck a school in Kyiv with a drone during the morning hours. At the time of the strike, about 100 schoolchildren and 60 staff members were in the shelter; fortunately, no one was hurt. Who does that? What kind of barbarians attack children on a school day?
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