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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 5h
Poor John Roberts
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10h
Bill Pulte has abused his position to cry wolf on mortgage fraud against Trump's perceived enemies. Now, Pulte is getting rid of the law enforcement personnel who investigate criminal mortgage fraud, leaving the US housing market at risk. All to protect himself.
Pulte’s FHFA watchdog budget cuts will ‘eliminate’ criminal enforcement, inspector general says.
The agency’s Inspector General told Congress it will have to cut up to 80% of its staff.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Took 21 years but @theonion.com once again predicted the future.
After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future
The U.S. military formally withdrew from Iraq, ending a presence that stoked years of bloodshed, and leaving behind a battered nation trapped between warring allies.Bush Announces Iraq Exit Strategy: 'We'll Go Through Iran'
Published March 9, 2005
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Never trust a bot
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the new federal government ai bot uses elon musk's kiddie porn bot www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/t...
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New AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok, Trump official Gebbia says
Trump called the new website, America.gov, "a restoration of America's founding promise."
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If there ever was a country song that "everyone" should have heard, it was not written in the 21st century.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The broader issue that Trump's efforts at unilaterally name changing highlights is that he seeks to privatize, monetize, and militarize public space, turning collective goods into vessels of self-glorification.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump regime is following the Project 2025 blueprint to dismantle democracy and install a theocratic dictatorship. bsky.app/profile/bria...
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News for 38 Year Olds @newsfor38yearolds.com · 26/09/2026
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP. ProPublica www.propublica.org/article/draftkin… Tip your reporter →
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
ProPublica
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Bob's Burgers" was originally about cannibalism. Anyway...
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is no Republican "split" with Trump. It's catnip for access media, but the desperate ploy to align with the supermajority of voters who can't stand the president is tissue-thin. The same people saying the Iran war needs to end voted yesterday to keep it going. #Realtalk here.
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Republicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump - The American Prospect
They’re trying to cram all the opposition into the last 40 before the election.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republican in TN05 removed the Trump reference from his logo on his website
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New FBI theme song: "Ain't no woman like a one eyed goat"
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The slave trade in full effect
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But here's Rogers's backer, Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), in Uganda in 2023, after that country enacted an LGBTQ+ death penalty and the US objected... ...telling Uganda to be on God's side, not America's... ...two months before endorsing Rogers in 2023.
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Census Bureau tells staff not to talk publicly about its new rule, which would dramatically shift how the survey is conducted and redistribute political power from blue states to red ones.
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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule
Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
21. Yet Trump faces a hostage crisis of his own, only he's the hostage. CBS News reported today the adviser to Iran's supreme leader said the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Trump and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu are "removed from power." www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Flock can track you across your city, across your state, and across the country. This doesn't sound like land of the free.
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's not really a gift article if I need to register for it.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Tierra Walker is dead and those responsible must be held accountable,” the suit reads. “At every turn, Texas’s political and medical establishments not only failed but actively harmed Ms. Walker.”
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨An alarm is being sounded for the American public. Sitting federal judges go on the record with the NYT. On threats to democracy by DOJ/administration actions. Includes 90 minute interview with conservative Judge Patrick Schiltz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The enshittification of America continues. Andrew Yang said the head of an AI lab who told him that the AI agents that attacked Hugging Face also planted self-replicating code across the internet. "The internet is polluted" and "unusable for living purposes." His words. x.com/VaibhavSisin...
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At this point only a goat fuckers apply
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026
Young activists have utilized social media to create change and launch powerful advocacy campaigns for over ten years. However, Meta’s new settlement will create many barriers for future advocacy work done by young people. www.eff.org/how-the-met...
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How the Meta Settlement Silences Youth Activism
The recent Meta lawsuit on the use of Instagram and Facebook by young people silences youth activism.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
According to the whistleblower: - Agents have to investigate 40 voter records a day, leaving just 11.25 minutes per investigation. - Agents are using state voter registration in a way that may be illegal. - Agents are using source data that many think is completely unreliable.
The identity of the whistle-blower is not known to The Times. Democracy Defenders Fund said in its report that the whistle-blower requested anonymity because of “an extreme fear of retaliation but they feel an obligation to speak up about the misconduct and gross mismanagement they have witnessed.”

According to the whistle-blower, agents are expected to complete at least 40 reviews in each eight-hour day, giving them scant time to determine each voter’s citizenship and voting history. The consequence of the investigation is potentially vast, according to the account, because each review is recorded in a database that could affect individuals’ immigration status or legal permanent residency.The agents plugged those names and personal data into public-facing state websites to find a subject’s voter history. Some states, such as Virginia, declare explicitly that only individual voters may use the search tool to look up their own records. Others, such as California, require specific information such as a driver’s license number or partial Social Security number in an effort to limit the use of the tool to individuals. Worried about the potential legal ramifications of such actions, the whistle-blower “expressed concerns” to those leading the investigation within Homeland Security’s Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate, according to the account.

The office of the chief counsel at D.H.S. said it was permissible for agents to use the state databases for operations such as the Unlawful Voter Initiative. Yet leadership appeared to acknowledge the potential for legal liability, responding to internal questions that agents “are not personally liable for conducting these searches when done as part of their official duties and properly documented.”Core to the operation is a compilation of data on hundreds of thousands of voters from across the country, described to agents as “source data,” according to previous reporting by The Times. Agents were given little to no information about where the source data originated; at one point, D.H.S. officials said some immigration information had been added to their source data using “supplemental magic,” according to the whistle-blower account. The mysterious origins of the “source data” comes as voting rights groups and election officials have condemned the Trump administration’s many efforts to compile a national voter file and citizenship list.

The whistle-blower report, however, indicates that the data is likely filled with errors. According to a transcript of a training video included in the account, the investigation has relied on data from multiple sources, including public voter files obtained from states, Department of Justice data and queries of records compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The data also includes what are known as alien identification numbers, the training video says, which are numbers assigned to a noncitizen that stay in their Homeland Security files permanently, even if they subsequently become citizens who are eligible to vote. If the investigation is using the existence of an alien number to flag that a voter is ineligible, many legal citizens are likely to be improperly ensnared as unlawful voters.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Something weirdly not noted in a lot of the coverage of the extortionate threats to murder the Kennedy Center unless it’s reimagined as a shrine to Trump: There was no dire fiscal crisis until Trump’s goombahs started mucking with it. Its finances were fine. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING NATO fighter jets have shot down a drone over Lithuania, says the country's President Gitanas Nauseda
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good piece by @davidgreene.bsky.social about the major issues with the recent Meta / AG settlement: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Meta's $17 Billion Settlement is a Bad Deal for Teens and All Social Media Users
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: @talkingpointsmemo.com can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature: -marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag -has *many* white supremacist donors -appears to advocate lynching He is expected to win Nov. election talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The oligarch didn’t pay for our wedding, just the reception”
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I was standing by this gas pump filling up my truck with six dollar gas I couldn’t help but think that this was a small price to pay so that every child wanting to play sports in elementary school has to submit to mandatory genital inspections
My jeep with a gas pump in her fuel filler $94.59 at 5.999/gal
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gee, Steve Witkoff's 2026 financial disclosure just posted yesterday, and it answers the question Senate Democrats have been asking him for a year: “no, he never actually divested from World Liberty Financial.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
nytimes.com
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Special Envoy, Made More Than $250 Million While in Government (Gift Article)
A disclosure shows that Steve Witkoff collected nearly $107 million in 2025 from a holding company that includes a crypto business owned by his family and President Trump’s.
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm sure there are more options
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 10/09/2026
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Insanity. He’s trying to bribe us with our own money. “If I win, I will allow you to pay yourself $5000…while my friends and I take even more of your money for ourselves.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
Hillary Clinton: "Xi is thinking, 'They they can't defend anybody anymore bc they don't have capacity. Maybe we can coerce Taiwan into giving up bc there's not going to be support.' If you look at the world map, it's not favorable to the US largely bc of wrongheaded decisions by this administration"
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dalwalke.bsky.social @dalwalke.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." Albert Camus
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The United States government: We’re all in on crypto. Also the United States government: You can’t trust crypto.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We all know Witkoff & Kushner’s goal in Russia was to use US policy to make business deals to benefit themselves and their families, which is what they have done full-time since Jan 2025. They have no interest in what’s best for Ukraine or what’s just. Their greed is insatiable.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Brazil did something that few democracies achieve: It convicted a former president of attempting a coup. How did the country’s courts hold would-be autocrat Jair Bolsonaro accountable when so many other coup plotters go unpunished?
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How to Bring Authoritarians to Justice | Journal of Democracy
Brazil did something that few democracies achieve: It convicted a former president of attempting a coup. How did the country’s courts hold would-be autocrat Jair Bolsonaro accountable when so many…
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unpersoned.bsky.social @unpersoned.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.
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