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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h
This admin is hiding the full number and extent of soldiers' injuries. Plus soldiers and family members have told the AP that failure to recognize the seriousness of injuries, a poor plan to get the wounded to hospitals and red tape has hindered follow-up care. apnews.com/article/iran...
apnews.com
Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3h
We will need both carrot (incentives for clean energy) and stick (disincentives for fossil fuels) to follow the needed decarbonization pathway. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something — probably (directly or indirectly) fossil fuels.
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 2h
Here’s last night’s story about the Secret Service, the various factors putting strain on the agency, and some fun facts about Abraham Lincoln that will help get you uninvited from any party: youtu.be/XQ-Xnzj_uz4
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 4h
Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h
“.. The announcement comes as the US is grappling with one of the worst measles outbreaks in decades.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 4h
Out today: "The 2010 Citizens United decision opened the floodgates to unlimited dark money in American politics, and the right has used it with devastating efficiency. And they do this not by writing treatises but by writing checks."
texasobserver.org
It's Time for the Catholic Church to Distribute the Loaves
The Vatican holds an estimated $73 billion in assets. That is an institution with the resources to move policy, fund organizing, and match the moral urgency of its own documents.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h
One of these was literally a Trump 2024 campaign ad. The only difference is that it now says "paid for by the US government"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 4h
Worth a read on scrutinizing what politicians say vs. do on data centers. As the saying goes, "talk is cheap": heatmap.news/ideas/2026-g...
heatmap.news
Should You Trust a Politician’s Pivot on Data Centers?
The cofounders of The Impact Project have a three-step test for voters.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6h
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 5h
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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Michael Karlik @michaelkarlik.bsky.social · 4h
This is wild. Of the 60 cases initiated in Colorado's U.S. District Court on September 28, *36* of them were immigration habeas cases. A little under half were filed by people without representation.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 4h
I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.
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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 7h
Relative got a $500 check from US Treasury and a shocking letter full of lies signed by Trump and ending with "May God bless you". Basically a pre-electoral bribe. News reports say they're sending almost a million of these. Full text in alt below. (I told him to cash it quick before it bounces.)
Dear [name],

For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare.gov. That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!

With this Historic Action, my Administration is taking the surplus funds that accumulated from the Obamacare ''Premium Tax" and issuing a one-time $500 REFUND to Americans who use the HealthCare.gov platform to purchase their health insurance, but who do not receive Taxpayer Subsidies to help pay for their Coverage. You have paid into this flawed System, and now you are finally getting something back.

Healthcare Dollars should benefit Patients, not Insurance Companies or Government Bureaucrats. Since returning to office, I have fought to lower Healthcare Costs, increase Accountability, and Put Patients First. Through TrumpRx, we are delivering massive discounts on Household Prescription Drugs, and my Most-Favored-Nation Pricing Agreements have already saved Americans more than 1 Billion Dollars on much-needed Medications. We also secured an unprecedented 50 Billion Dollar investment to transform Rural Healthcare, expanded access to Health Saving Accounts for millions of people on Obamacare, and restored Pnce Transparency, all while roofing out the Waste, Fraud, and abuse across our Healthcare System.

I am proud to return your money to you, and I will never stop fighting to put the American People FIRST, restore Affordability, protect your hard-earned money, and lower the Cost of Healthcare.

May God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America!

Sincerely,

[signed] 

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5h
"South Korea has already run the experiment. Its law requires the National Assembly to vote on presidential impeachment by anonymous ballot, and that rule has now removed two presidents." [@andycraig.bsky.social]
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
Keep in mind that the Trump administration, led by Marco Rubio, is intervening aggressively to support Netanyahu, Putin and the Taliban, all of whom face criminal charges in the ICC.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 5h
‘If you want to know where inflation is heading, look at the price of diesel. Diesel moves the trucks, trains, tractors, and construction equipment that everything else depends on, so its cost works its way into final goods prices across the economy.’ sarmayakar.substack.com/p/rock-and-a...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h
Netanyahu's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, openly refers to IDF operations in south Lebanon as ethnic cleansing.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
As the Trump admin is calling in thousands of people here for years who are protected from persecution in their home country, Tom Homan is on TV saying people who want to avoid being sent to Africa can just "self-deport." So it's accept persecution or be deported to a third country.

CBS News
@CBSNews
Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, said people in the U.S. illegally can avoid being sent to “third countries” in Africa and other places around the world by self-deporting to their home countries.

“There’s your quick answer. If you self-deport … you're 100% likely to go to your home country,” Homan told CBS News’ 
@camiloreports
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This past week, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue its third-country deportation effort.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h
The last time the Strategic Oil Reserve was this low, Olivia Newton-John had the #1 song in the country.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 22h
Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 8h
The whistleblower who revealed Howard Lutnick's ties to Jeffrey Epstein has died by supposed suicide.
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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 8h
One teen told ICE officers he lived with his dad down the block, but that his dad was deaf. They didn’t try to contact the father before deeming the boy “unaccompanied” and detaining him. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Isabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 8h
Flávio Bolsonaro got 56 million votes yesterday. He's under investigation for alleged “money laundering, illicit capital flight, corruption" after he negotiated a $24-million investment from a now-jailed banker—accused of leading the biggest bank fraud in Brazil's history—to finance the movie.
motherjones.com
How a Bolsonaro biopic ended up at the center of Brazil's presidential election
“This movie is going to be a nightmare for the Left.”
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 23h
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8h
the new book Supremacy is the most clarifying and clearsighted book about the Supreme Court I've ever read. and somewhat to my surprise it's by two Harvard Law profs! prospect.org/2026/10/05/o...
prospect.org
The Supreme Court’s Power Is Based on the Lie of Its Supremacy - The American Prospect
The Constitution does not establish a judicial dictatorship.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
$PSKY $SKYD www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h
The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.
nytimes.com
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 8h
Very important - today 10/5 is the last day to register to vote if you live in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 8h
RFK Jr. wants more AI in health care, so we fed Claude, Grok etc. some of his vaccine statements Here's how one of them responded: False/inaccurate False Mostly false/highly misleading False Read here to see which one it was -- and what the others said www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-wan...
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RFK Jr. Wants to AI-ify Health Care. Claude Says He’s Full of Sh*t.
Kennedy is suddenly bullish on artificial intelligence—so we asked some AI assistants to rate his vaccine claims.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a "serial child molester." He was a registered sex offender.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h
From @theathletic.com: LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting the Polymarket prediction market as he will from playing basketball. The deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions.
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LeBron’s Polymarket deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions
LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting a prediction market as he will for playing basketball.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
propublica.org
How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 23h
Bolsonaro Jr winning the Brazil election, or at least being in the drivers seat for the runoff, reminds me that the GOP can still prevail in the midterms even if it looks like they can’t possibly win
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 21h
Trump is getting ready to lift sanctions on Russia so his family and oligarchs can make billions by purchasing Lukoil's profitable overseas assets for less than they are worth. This sale would be a bribe from Putin. That is all Trump wants.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Kevin Fishbain @kfishbain.bsky.social · 21h
Jonah Jackson: “You can feel the air getting sucked out of the defense after a while — just the wearing and tearing on them. … That’s a good feeling.” @danwiederer.bsky.social on another punishing effort from the Bears’ run game, especially on the final drive
nytimes.com
Chicago Bears’ punishing final drive symbolizes the grit of Ben Johnson’s team (Gift Article)
With 232 rushing yards and a dominant edge in time of possession, the Bears are doing more than surviving without Caleb Williams.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h
So the Brazilian election goes to a second round. Maybe US media will figure out what Trump is up to in Brazil. So far they have reported nothing. bsky.app/profile/erne...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21h
I feel like I’m the only one writing about realistic deliverables in the next two years: www.ms.now/opinion/demo... and www.salon.com/2026/09/24/t...
salon.com
The Democratic playbook for taking on Trump after the midterms
The party will have many tools to hold the administration accountable — if it uses them
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21h
This is essential. But has everyone in DC forgotten that Trump has a veto for the next two years? That word does not appear here once. The next two years have to be about getting everything lined up for 2029. And not overpromising deliverables in the meantime. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Trump’s opponents are planning efforts to reverse his changes to presidency
As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base. trib.al/R0rSJ30
trib.al
The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 04/10/2026
New at Strength In Numbers this morning: Despite claims from some pundits and Republican strategists of biased and "fake" polling data, the polls and fundamentals basically agree on the blue wave: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-04...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Meanwhile:
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Latest AI safety guy to quit and issue a dire warning about the risks and the fecklessness of those in charge:
theatlantic.com
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Whistleblower and former banker Simon Andriesz, 57, has died by suicide, The Banker reports. Andriesz exposed US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s past links to Jeffrey Epstein.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/10/2026
The administration is ratcheting up efforts to tilt Brazil’s upcoming election to Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of populist hard-liner Jair Bolsonaro. trib.al/rJzZMVO
trib.al
Trump’s Meddling in Brazil’s Elections May Backfire
The administration is ratcheting up efforts to tilt Brazil’s upcoming election to Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of populist hard-liner Jair Bolsonaro.
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