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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2h
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Google: Because of that executive order today, the proper corporate names for OpenAI and SpaceXAI will effectively function under the OpenSI and XSI umbrella in official government documents and the broader industry rebrand.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3h
😂😂😂
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 9h
LMD isn't independent. It's been a wholly owned subsidiary of MarCom Group since 2022, and MarCom is a major ad vendor for CBP. Five days after LMD's $20M order, MarCom got its annual $86.1M CBP recruiting order. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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PIID

70B06C26F00001127
In Progress
(11 months remain)
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Awarding Agency
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Recipient
MARCOM GROUP, INC
1010 N GLEBE RD STE 600B
ARLINGTON, VA 22201-5793
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: VA-08
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CONT_IDV_70B06C24A00000037_7014
Dates
Today
Start Date
Sep 26, 2026
Current End Date
Sep 25, 2027
Potential End Date
Sep 25, 2027
$ Award Amounts
$86.1 Million
Current Award Amount
$86.1 Million
Obligated Amount
$86.1 Million
Potential Award Amount
Outlayed Amount
$0.00
Obligated Amount
$86,100,000.00
Current Award Amount
$86,100,000.00
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$86,100,000.00
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THIS TASK ORDER IS FOR MARKETING & ADVERTISING SERVICES FOR RECRUITMENT OF CBP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)Code
54 : Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
5418: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
541820: Public Relations Agencies
Product or Service Code(PSC)
SERVICES
R: SUPPORT SVCS (PROF, ADMIN, MGMT)
R7: MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES
R701: SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: ADVERTISING
Contract Activity
$0$20 M$40 M$60 M$80 M$100 MSEP FY '26NOV FY '27DEC FY '27FEB FY '27MAR FY '27MAY FY '27JUN FY '27AUG FY '27SEP FY '27StartTodayCurrent EndPotential End
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 9h
The order ran through a Coast Guard ad contract with LMD. On Sept. 21, that contract was changed to let CBP use it and its ceiling was raised by $25 million. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_I...
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 9h
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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70B06C26F00001137
In Progress
(11 months remain)
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Awarding Agency
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Recipient
LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
COLUMBIA, MD 21044-3592
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: MD-03
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CONT_IDV_70Z02323ACGRC0001_7008
Dates
Today
Start Date
Sep 20, 2026
Current End Date
Sep 19, 2027
Potential End Date
Sep 19, 2027
$ Award Amounts
$20.0 Million
Current Award Amount
$20.0 Million
Obligated Amount
$20.0 Million
Potential Award Amount
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$0.00
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$20,000,000.00
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NATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)Code
54 : Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
5418: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
541810: Advertising Agencies
Product or Service Code(PSC)
SERVICES
R: SUPPORT SVCS (PROF, ADMIN, MGMT)
R7: MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES
R701: SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: ADVERTISING
Contract Activity
$0$5 M$10 M$15 M$20 M$25 MSEP FY '26OCT FY '27DEC FY '27JAN FY '27FEB FY '27APR FY '27MAY FY '27JUN FY '27AUG FY '27SEP FY '27StartTodayCurrent EndPotential End
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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ep46er.bsky.social @ep46er.bsky.social · 3h
Love to see campaign adds calling the republicans “full of Schmitt”.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4h
Three Florida counties have declared emergencies over Dengue Fever because the state is experiencing the most locally-transmitted cases since they began collecting the data 17 years ago.
cbs12.com
Florida counties declare local emergencies as dengue cases rise
Dengue fever is here in Florida, prompting several Florida counties to issue a state of emergency for the mosquito-borne disease.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 5h
Susan Rice: this is what an informed, highly intelligent veteran of govt sounds like on AI, China and Iran... one day such people could return to govt. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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What Do Dictators and Rogue AI Have in Common? Trump's Overwhelming Love
Ambassador Susan Rice warns that unregulated AI will kill civilians and arm hostile parties.
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David Jenni @davidjenni.bsky.social · 6h
Oh FFS! Someone please take away the sharpie from the toddler-in-chief so he stops renaming things for no good reason
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 13h
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 8h
from the dissent:
In light of the Government’s flagrantly unlawful conduct,
today’s decision might suggest the Government faces extraordinary harms. Yet even that is not the case. Rather,
following a recent trend, the Court appears to give no serious consideration to the irreparable harm factor. See, e.g.,
id., at ___ (slip op., at ___); SSA v. AFSCME, 605 U. S. ___
(2025). Without a showing that a stay is necessary to avoid
irreparable harm, however, this Court’s midstream intervention is inexcusable. See, e.g., Hollingsworth, 558 U. S.,
at 190.
Besides the facially absurd contention that the Executive
is “irreparabl[y]” harmed any time a court orders it temporarily to refrain from doing something it would like to do,
see Application for Stay of Injunction 37, the Government
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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 8h
Not a word of justification in the one-paragraph SCOTUS order allowing DHS to resume 3rd-country removals. Vigorous and detailed dissent, though, from Sotomayor, Kagan, & Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 8h
amazing QUinnipiac: not only 12pts lead in generic but: Democrats lead on all major issues: (health care 55-31%; cost of living 49-36%; international conflicts 48-40%; the economy 48-42%; immigration [!] 47-42%; corruption in government 45-33%; AI 42-29%) poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
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Generic Ballot For Control Of U.S. House: Dems 51%, GOP 39%, Dem Party Ahead On Key Issues, Boosted By Independents, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 71% Prefer Candidates Who Support St...
"A warning light flashing red for the GOP scrambling to stay in power. From the economy to international conflicts to AI, independent voters are siding with Democrats, even though a vast majority of t...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 7h
Thinking more about this article, it occurs to me that the reason RFK Jr. wants to use health data from Medicare and Medicaid and not data from states to conduct his “research” is that states will be able to ascertain when he manipulates their data until he gets the outcome he wants.
theguardian.com
RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event
Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights
An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 11h
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 9h
I just had a second to tune into the MAHA shitshow. They have a bunch of techbros talking about longevity and how AI and tech will allow people to live longer. Of course they utterly ignore access to healthcare, income, and all other social determinants of health that actually dictate lifespan.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h
An 11th Cir panel has refused to reverse the district judge & stay the sanctions she imposed on the plaintiffs in the slush fund case, Trump v IRS, strongly suggesting it was a collusive lawsuit designed to deliver relief to the parties.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9h
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14h
If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”
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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed
SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11h
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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George Smiley @mc2020.bsky.social · 13h
"dirtbag" sen Schitt [MO] beclowns himself today while knowingly attempting to pass off texts about a wnba game in a totally different State, as placing #JackSmith somehow in Atlanta at a Hawks game. Trying for big GOTCHA, they stomp on a rake. Fuck them all. #VOTE all republiclowns out.
eric schitt - insurrectionist dirtbag and clown.republican clown show caught trying to pass off txts not only out of context, but deliberately framed in false context, desperately and shamelessly trying to smear Jack Smith.  Fuck them all to hell.  #VOTE
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13h
The ONLY thing the republicans care about is that their stupid crimey toll records were gathered. By law. Because they talked to a fucking criminal. I can’t believe it’s not embarrassing to the GOP.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
The money Trump stole from taxpayers to make illegal ads came from CBP. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The world might look very different right now if Judge Boasberg had been able to hold contempt proceedings in 2025 & the administration had been held accountable. Instead, emboldened by his success, Trump continues to treat the courts like a game to be played. joycevance.substack.com/p/consequenc...
joycevance.substack.com
Consequences
Last Thursday, the White House, almost as soon as Judge Kelly entered his order forcing the administration to restore access to CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, began searching for play in the joints.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration cannot leverage grants meant to help prevent terrorist attacks to force states and local governments to adopt a slate of new anti-voting measures, a federal judge ruled Monday in a major win for voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Judge strikes down Trump’s bid to cut states’ anti-terror funds unless they impose new voting restrictions
The judge ruled that FEMA had no “authority to extract unfunded reforms from states in exchange for grants.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yet another leading Georgia Republican officeholder has endorsed Democrat Jon Ossoff for re-election. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ajc.com
Georgia Peanut Commission chair is latest Republican to back Jon Ossoff
Donald Chase has voted for Republicans for nearly his entire adult life. He joins other Republican officials, including the mayors of Tifton and Valdosta, in backing Ossoff.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
texastribune.org
ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A case that isn’t getting the headlines it deserves: an LSU student was raped by an LSU football player. He admitted it, but the school is still letting him play football. How multiple systems have failed this young woman & why she went public to get the help she needs: youtu.be/LihN7hsNKnw?...
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SHOCKING College SCANDAL EXPOSES Stakes Of Trump’s DANGEROUS AGENDA!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
trib.al
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"So many people are coming to us who have never come to the food bank before. It used to be people who were working hourly-wage jobs. Now we see salary employees." Maybe we should measure the "strength" of the economy not by the stock market but by the length of the line at our local food bank?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the same way Trump's insistence on making the Bunker-Ballroom a fire trap (with no ladies rooms) gives us an excuse to tear it down and rebuild it, Kash's refusal to protect the FBI from serious compromise gives us an excuse to just replace all the current people with the people he fired.
nytimes.com
Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morally spineless and professionally foolish, the WH pool capitulated and returned with CNN still excluded. Given how inept Trump are lackeys like Blanche (the AG in the business of vouching for suppression?!?)in defending exclusion of press on phony national security grounds, no reason to relent.
open.substack.com
The Supreme Court Gets It Half Right
The White House press corps caves, and Trump’s horror show continues.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Brutal: One Iowa GOP strategist privately tells WaPo that the midterms could be a "wipeout." That supports what we reported on the potential for big Dem gains in rural areas, based on what the Iowa Dem chair told us on the pod (see my thread below).
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The WH press corps never learns
open.substack.com
The Supreme Court Gets It Half Right
The White House press corps caves, and Trump’s horror show continues.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ICYMI— this weekend The Factory in FRANKLIN, TN will host a Christian nationalist conference featuring one speaker who advocated for executing gay people, another who has defended slavery “set discuss what organizers call their Christian Crusade Holy War” www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
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DOGE vs. Civic Tech
As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure
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