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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 1h
Nobody does a better job of tracking the healthcare coverage losses caused by Republican attacks on the ACA than Charles. If you want the hard facts of what Republican healthcare "policy" really means, this is one of your go-to sources.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3h
Ken Paxton’s comments are obviously a humiliating gaffe for Trump, who backed the attorney general against Senator John Cornyn in a shocking political maneuver. trib.al/19ZS4al
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Ken Paxton Caught Privately Trashing Trump in Leaked Audio
The attorney general and Senate candidate warned Trump is dragging down all Republicans with him.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 5h
"Only 13% of Americans, according to an analysis by G. Elliott Morris, are willing to tell a pollster they buy the president’s $5,000 check lie, showing that even people who claim to approve of him can’t be bothered to trust him any longer." www.salon.com/2026/09/30/t...
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 29/09/2026
In one violent incident on August 1, immigration agents in CPD's 25th District station lot boxed in an ICE observer, ripped her from her car and moved her to one of their SUVs to detain her. We asked for security footage from that morning. It shows ICE agents in full view of local police:
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ICE agents box in and detain observer in CPD's 25th District parking lot on August 1, 2026
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 5h
And who knows the private healthcare industry better that Rick Scott, former CEO of Columbia/HCA? www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...
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HCA - THE HEALTH CARE COMPANY & SUBSIDIARIES
IO PAY $840 MILLION IN CRIMINAL FINES AND CIVIL DAMAGES AND PENALTIES
Largest Government Fraud Settlement in U.S. History
WASHINGTON, D.C. - HCA-The Healthcare Company (formerly known as Columbia-HCA), the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal conduct and pay more than $840 million in criminal fines, civil penalties and damages for alleged unlawful billing practices,
Attorney General Janet Reno announced today.
Today's agreement is the largest government fraud settlement ever reached by the Justice Department.
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Nerdy G.I. James 🤓🪖📚🧠🍺🥃🗳️ @nerdygi.bsky.social · 15h
Me, cruising LinkedIn, looking for the companies jumping on the “SI” bandwagon…
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Will Ferrell Laughs: What a Loser KTO
ALT: Will Ferrell Laughs: What a Loser KTO
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 16h
Trump’s Midterm Message: - We have the best murder (?) - We have the best poverty (?) - North Korea can have nukes - He’s done a shitty job as President Will this resonate with voters???
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Trump: "We have the best murder"Headquarters C @HQNewsNow
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Trump: We have the best poverty in the history of our countryAcyn
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Q: You said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. Why not? North Korea can have nuclear weapons.
Trump: Ahh because you had a different president.
Kim Jong un. He's a friend of mine. He likes Trump.
I like him. As long as I'm around, he's going to be fine. You know why? He respects me.Headquarters {
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Trump: I've done a shitty job as president
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 15h
I saw them in high school. Still one of my favorites.
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 15h
LFG!!!
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Carla @cwalworth.bsky.social · 17h
Pay attention. Military senior leadership are being reshaped to get leaders who WILL attack US cities and citizens who don’t bow down to Dictator Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth to cut more generals, admirals in bid to remake military’s top ranks
The defense secretary is expected to announce that the number of top officers will be reduced by as much as 20 percent, officials said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This.
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man. Schmitt, though he refuses to apologize, turns RED with both anger and embarrassment.
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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please watch this very moving video. It is 100% on point. Our entire culture needs a reset: It is abhorrent to target women, NOR is it acceptable to look the other way. As Daniel Sloss says "Get Involved".
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To all of the “not all men” men out there, this is Daniel Sloss, a comic and former friend of Russell Brand. I suggest you watch this. www.instagram.com/reel/C--YtXqvZ4C/…
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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump is spending $1,800,000,000 on a ballroom and his vanity projects. Instead, that money could pay for: 🍎607,000,000 school lunches 💡12,000,000 electric bills for a month 🩺88,000 Veterans medical expenses this year 🥪429,500 Americans’ SNAP benefits for a year Priorities.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new Alex Gibney documentary calls Elon Musk out. His lawyers sent threat letters before the premiere. But the numbers don't lie. Musk spent $278 MILLION in 2024. 100 billionaire families dumped $2.6 BILLION into federal elections. That is one of every six dollars spent.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump shouts out Lockheed Martin and Raytheon (Trump reported owning $5.9 million in Lockheed and $6.9 million in Raytheon stocks at end of last year)
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 28/09/2026
The FBI director was spotted in a photo with an FBI informant suspected of being a double agent. trib.al/fCILkab
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Kash Patel Caught With Suspected Double Agent at Alina Habba’s Wedding
The FBI director was spotted in a photo with an FBI informant suspected of being a double agent.
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Freddie Mercury's Pajamas @libbityboo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But both parties are the same amiright?
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not making it up: Just boarded a Southwest flight and as I passed the cockpit, pilot and copilot were telling a flight attendant about being furries. Regrettably for the intellectual powerhouse that is the U.S. senator from Alabama, in the next breath they started laughing and called him an idiot.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BIG TECH: This thing is going to kill everyone TRUMP: I want to be the one to name it
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law" A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it's too late. @kimwehle.bsky.social for Zeteo:
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Fascism Doesn’t Always Arrive by Force. Sometimes It Comes as Law
A visit to the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam showed me how changes in the law were used by the Nazis to push their agenda. It’s a warning from history we must heed before it’s too late.
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 14/11/2015
#ISIS lost to an army of women this week. It must be driving them literally bonkers. And making them stupid. Paris will be their undoing.
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How is this not a Hatch Act violation?
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seriously. What does he think this will accomplish?
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.
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Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 28/09/2026
Damn it’s that easy???
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI propagandists are more willing to believe a computer program feels pain than a woman or black person.
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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 26/09/2026
MAGA Rep. Eli Crane backed off of support for releasing notorious Epstein Files as donations came into his coffers. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/epstei…
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@billdayart.bsky.social
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Kenny Akers @keneakers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am……….. Nolan Wells, Kendrick Johnson, Tamala Horsford, Sandra Bland, Jelani Day, Daniel Roberts, Mitrice Richardson, Terrance Woods Jr., Trayvon Martin, Daniel Erving, Tasia Fortune, Emmett Till, Henrietta Lacks, Michael Brown, Rasheem Carter, 👇🏾
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"In 1906, years before Tulsa became known as home to one of the deadliest massacres of Black men and women in United States history, a similar race massacre befell Atlanta." thegrio.com/2026/09/25/1...
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120 years later, Atlanta honors the lives lost in the 1906 Race Massacre
Fulton County has revealed official remembrance days for the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre, one of the deadliest events in city history.
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is dangerous.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Timothy Mellon, heir to Gilded Age tycoon Andrew Mellon's fortune, gave nearly $200M to elect Trump and Republicans in 2024 and over $20M so far this midterm cycle. Tax dynastic wealth now.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, this was an awful time. I had to get police involved three times for threats I received while promoting COVID19 vaccines in 2021. The worst was after I was quoted in the WSJ. Can’t even recall what I said, but it launched a bunch of protonmail missives from feral anti-public health nutters.
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Local, state public health officials overwhelmingly faced serious backlash during pandemic, report reveals
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Hoosier Homer is reading With Zeal & With Bayonet Only by Spring @hoosierhomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
crazy to think to that even now in 2026 no state has ever had a black woman as governor. ~21 million black women and girls out there and many of them will still be the first to do the things they will accomplish.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
“Sure, it’s true that many Black people have reclaimed the word. But the lawsuit is about non-Black Tesla employees and managers abusing Black workers — including allegedly hurling the slur at them in ways that don’t sound like anything resembling gestures of ‘respect and endearment.’”
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Tesla Argues in Court That the N-Word Is Acceptable Under Certain Circumstances
An important trial in California kicked off with Tesla's lawyers arguing that the n-word is a term of "respect and endearment."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump has appointed a German lawyer named Nick Oberheiden as his ambassador to Egypt. What does this say about the quality and character of US diplomacy? First of all, that Trump does not trust his professional diplomats. Second, that the business he has to pursue with Egypt is private business.
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Warum Trump den Deutschen Nick Oberheiden zum US-Botschafter macht
Der gebürtige Deutsche Nick Oberheiden wird US-Botschafter in Ägypten. Was sagt das über den Zustand der US-Diplomatie aus?
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donald Johnson is 81. He has driven over 200,000 miles delivering lost luggage as his wife Josephine has cancer & he needs to pay her medical bills. “It’s the only job that will hire me.” Vote blue for a country where 81-year-olds get to care for their wives. #BlueWaveIn40Days
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Erin Gallagher @3r1ng.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is wild
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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I AM DAD @iamdad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Average Dad 🌻 Beer League Hockeyist @davetheaveragedad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now that’s a record to campaign on.🤦‍♂️
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jon Husted has now voted 14 times to continue the Iran war. That’s 14 votes causing record high gas and grocery prices, and Ohioans are paying the price.
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