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CS Thorne

@csthorne.bsky.social
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Philly man in DC, married to my best friend, dad to two great people, guardian to Ted, haphazard gardener, writer.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h
“A SMALL PRICE TO PAY” “A company that just lost to Tennessee in court (KALSHI) is now helping fund a campaign to elect the state’s next governor (@MarshaBlackburn)” 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️ Looking for a Gov with a “FOR SALE” sign? Marsha’s the one for you! WKRN: www.wkrn.com/news/tenness...
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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 3h
Trump administration aims to remove judge in golf course case, accuses her of ‘egregious’ behavior | Click on the image to read the full story
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Trump administration aims to remove judge in golf course case, accuses her of ‘egregious’ behavior
The Trump administration is looking to remove the federal judge overseeing a legal challenge to Trump’s plans to overhaul a public golf course, accusing her of "egregious" behavior.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5h
We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h
Russia was never a hoax
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Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.wsocial.eu · 5h
Trump blocking Lindsey Graham Act sanctions is guaranteed to expand, extend and escalate fascist Russia’s war against Ukraine and the United States. That’s precisely why Putin ordered Trump to do it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h
(THR) - TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. .. raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.” @thr.com www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h
Really speaks to the impotence of Congress that the president thinks he can simply sign an executive order invalidating a law that Congress passed -- and he signed -- just a few months ago. At worst, SCOTUS might slap his hand months or years from now -- well after the damage has been done.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I like how his gravied brain got him confused with the guy who died in the car with Princess Diana 29 years ago but now he has to retcon that with some fake explanation and the press has to just pretend like this is normal racism and not Alzheimer's racism.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
JPMORGAN DESK: “.. my gut is that growing 2% [real GDP] rather than 4%, doesn’t kill structural inflation. .. .. as I said to one client … ‘7850 to 7700 doesn’t put the inflation genie back in the bottle. Need like 5800. Ok, so maybe it’s 6200. But it’s a lot lower than 7700.’”
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 14/10/2026
A new $20M+ lawsuit against CBS News says Bari Weiss' network "traded the truth for clicks and profit" when it allegedly falsely portrayed a 15-year-old Md. teen as a Reflecting Pool vandal. @TheDesk.net breaks the story thedesk.net/2026/10/teen...
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Teen files $20 million lawsuit against CBS News over vandalism story
The lawsuit claims defamation and invasion of privacy after the teen was wrongly identified as a suspect in the vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
NEW Miami Herald: Two women have filed a federal civil lawsuit accusing Matt Gaetz and two others of participating in an alleged sex trafficking scheme involving young women, drugs and traveling across state lines. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Ex-Florida congressman Matt Gaetz accused in suit of sex trafficking young women
The lawsuit alleges the two women were supplied with drugs, traveled across state lines and were paid to have sex with men, including Gaetz.
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 15/10/2026
BREAKING: Nine ex-FBI employees sue the bureau, saying they were fired for working on the Trump classified documents case.
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9 fired FBI employees who worked on Trump documents case sue, alleging unlawful termination
Nine former FBI employees sued the bureau, saying they were unlawfully terminated for working on the investigation into President Trump's classified documents case.
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A.J. Carrillo @ajcarrillo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Uline CEO Richard Uihlein put close to $67 million more into his Restoration of America PAC, which distributed the money to multiple other SuperPACs
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“.. While Hines .. the President’s 29 year-old crypto adviser .. was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether .. was steering millions of dollars to a business he co-owned ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has previously referred to herself as a lawyer in public appearances, but she hasn't passed the bar exam, WSJ reports
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Exclusive | White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Didn’t Pass Bar Exam
Zacharia has previously referred to herself as a lawyer in public appearances.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
moments after saying leakers should be shot, Trump points at reporters covering his rally and says "they're almost as bad as a leaker"
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Elon Musk is saying "Tump made me do it." On this as a thousand other things, his claims are simply not credible.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It never ends with these people.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Watchdog group @citizensforethics.org files legal challenge, asking court to block Jared Kushner from serving as Trump envoy They allege he's “breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
So Musk is saying it was the Trump Admin who did it and the Trump Admin is saying it was Musk who did it.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Why would a Chinese law firm hire someone to advise on foreign law if they were not licensed to practice that law in their home countries?” popular.info/p/update-kat...
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UPDATE: Katie Zacharia’s disastrous response to Popular Information’s report
Zacharia, who claimed for years to be a lawyer, is not a lawyer.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Maryland is an all party consent state when it comes to recording phone conversations and other situations where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. It does not apply to public press conferences where someone asks a question you, as a public official, find embarrassing.
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Matthew Bennell @matthewbennell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yep, Trump did this all by his lonesome: A Federal Reserve Bank of New York study concludes that his tariffs inflated consumer prices almost 3 percentage points across 67 categories of goods and that those prices would have fallen otherwise. Payback on Nov. 3. political.org/2026/10/08/n...
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New York Fed Study Finds Trump’s Tariffs, Not the Economy, Drove Up Prices on 67 Everyday Goods Categories
A new staff study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concludes that President Donald Trump's tariffs added 2.9 percentage points to inflation across 67 cat…
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
$2000. That's how much your household has already spent this year on Trump's Middle East War. Congressional Republicans won’t lift a finger. It’s time to vote them out.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/10/2026
"'The bottom line is that the president gets to make big claims about reducing drug prices without the evidence to support those claims,' Ian Spatz, founder and principal of Rock Creek Policy Group, told me over e-mail." He gets to. We get to call it out.
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Trump Tells One Health Care Story. The Facts Tell Another.
With voters angry about costs, the GOP is campaigning on presidential boasts about drug prices that don’t stand up to scrutiny.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 14/10/2026
Republican Rep. Andy Harris falsely cited a Maryland statute to bar a reporter from recording, declaring, “I actually know the law well.”
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Freedom Caucus Chair Freaks Out Over Being Recorded in Public
Andy Harris falsely cited a Maryland statute to bar a reporter from recording, declaring, "I actually know the law well."
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t all so fucking grim.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14/10/2026
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
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The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
These heds are beginning to pile up. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @bloomberg.com
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14/10/2026
The blue coating applied to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool failed in at least 85 places because of errors in the renovation, including the premature refilling of the basin before the liner had fully dried, according to an inspection report.
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Reflecting pool liner failed in 85 places due to flawed renovation, inspection found
The damage identified during an inspection commissioned by the contractor is far more extensive than has been previously reported, a document obtained by The Washington Post shows.
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The Economist @economist.com · 14/10/2026
Less than three weeks from the midterms, Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit a new low of -27, according to our tracker. That bodes ill for Republicans
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Donald Trump’s approval rating
Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”
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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”
Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.
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CS Thorne @csthorne.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
POTUS screwing Ukraine’s people with Musk’s help. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...
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Sudden Starlink Restrictions Deepen Ukraine’s Vulnerability as Russia Escalates (Gift Article)
A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite program appeared to be curbed without warning.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good for you if you missed this but if you want to be in the know: MAGA right has been pushing a conspiracy theory all day on X that Talarico checked into a mental health facility in Ohio. A MAGA activist appears to have lied to the facility about being a relative to get info & posted a recording.
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
New: An ABC News editor defended report on Trump’s sons’ investments before the story was deleted amid legal threats New details undercut claims of a premature publication, Status learned, as staffers question the network’s response www.status.news/p/abc-news-d...
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ABC’s Deletion Debacle
Status has learned new details about the chain of events that led to ABC News’ publication of its error-riddled Donald Trump Jr. story, which casts doubt on claims it was published prematurely, as fru...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/10/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “On the most traumatic night in a young woman’s life, a good man could not be found,” our columnist David French writes about the Cornell University case.
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Opinion | Four Hours and Three Minutes in Ithaca
On the most traumatic night in a young woman’s life, a good man could not be found.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12/10/2026
This El Niño may reach heights by the end of the year that have never been observed before. Here’s how: wapo.st/4xv4wcU
El Niño index graph illustrating sea surface temperature variances in the central equatorial Pacific from 1993 to 2016. The red line shows current trends, exceeding the previous record from 1997-98. Notable points include October 6th and the strongest El Niño on record. Background shading indicates forecast ranges. The text highlights record-breaking El Niño strength and anticipated extreme weather.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/10/2026
Not to give Trump any ideas, but the only way it could be more plainly corrupt is if the checks were sent after the election to Republican voters only.
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Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop
He’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In advance of tomorrow:
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whoever wins the governorships in the battleground states will certify the 2028 presidential election. There are election deniers running, in Wisconsin and elsewhere. We've got to beat them. My new NYT op-ed:
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Opinion | Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6? Defeat These Republicans. (Gift Article)
The 2028 election is on the ballot right now.
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Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
8 time Texas HS football state champion coach knows what’s at stake this November.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Defense Secretary is bragging enthusiastically about an upcoming public execution he plans to oversee
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Axios @axios.com · 08/10/2026
Trump says anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House uses it.
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Trump: Anyone saying "AI" is "THE ENEMY!" The White House uses it
Trump's own White House still uses "AI" as a term.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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