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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 13/10/2026
The FAA rolled out a new AI tool for air traffic control in DC without publishing a safety evaluation or sufficiently consulting labor. @repaprildelaney.bsky.social and I are urging the FAA to stop the rollout until we have answers. Air traffic control leaves zero margin for error.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Election deniers with a record of wanting to overturn the 2020 election are running to run elections in the swing states of Arizona and Nevada. Candidates who've raised doubts about 2020 are also running to take over elections in Georgia, New Mexico, Vermont, & other states. Our breakdown:
boltsmag.org
These 35 States Are Deciding Who’ll Run Their Elections - Bolts
The midterms will usher in a new cast of characters to oversee the next presidential race. They’ll decide how to answer Trump’s orders and how to shape mail voting and registration.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
ICE must be abolished.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump sanctioned the International Criminal Court while simultaneously easing sanctions on Russia which is massacring Ukrainian civilians. A masterclass in criminality and corruption.
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Collectively, the cases we’ve documented show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, it has run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens, too, and on a scale not seen in generations. Read our full story:
projects.propublica.org
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump…
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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Since Trump took office, @publiccitizen.bsky.social has tracked the admin's retreat from enforcement against corporate lawbreaking. Today, our new report documents the admin's cancellation of investigations, lawsuits, & penalties against more than *200* corporations. www.citizen.org/article/trum...
citizen.org
Trump’s Cascade of Canceled Corporate Enforcement Against Over 200 Corporations - Public Citizen
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tragic news: Curtis Flowers, who faced an extraordinarily ordeal by being prosecuted six times for the same crime by a Mississippi DA over decades before SCOTUS sided with him in 2019, just died at 56. Flowers' case was core to the 'In the Dark' podcast.
mississippitoday.org
Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump says he has a call set up today with Putin for his birthday
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
President Trump announced a nearly $7 billion deal with a defense firm founded by one of his political supporters to expedite submarine shipbuilding, an arrangement that puts an autonomous-weapons company into a more traditional defense manufacturing role.
washingtonpost.com
Trump steers nearly $7B to shipbuilding in deal with weapons maker Anduril
Anduril’s submarine deal — which one expert called “unusual” — could revive a Baltimore-area industrial hub, while testing the limits of its high-tech approach to manufacturing.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A day after Trump said his super PAC would pay for those propaganda ads that had been funded by taxpayers, White House officials said the group did *not* plan to reimburse the government for the more than $10 million it had already spent on the ads.
nytimes.com
Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.
wbaltv.com
Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state
Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026
The Department of Homeland Security signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft at a substantial markup from a company owned by a political contributor of Kristi Noem on her last day as secretary, documents show. trib.al/a3d0s6B
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 03/10/2026
Dan Sullivan's votes for tariffs didn't help Alaska, but they sure helped his brother's chemical company, where he owns up to $5 million in stock. This is the exact kind of corruption that Alaskans are sick and tired of.
americanjournalnews.com
Sullivan backs policies that enrich his family’s business
Sullivan owns up to $5 million in RPM International stock.
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
nytimes.com
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Friend of Putin oligarch Konstantin Sokolov makes a nice fat donation to Trump's ballroom project, and gets relief from Treasury Department sanctions in exchange. This is known as a quid pro quo transaction. It's a felony. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
esquire.com
A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The push to privatize Medicaid and other programs undermines those programs’ effectiveness. Josh Turek, Iowa Senate candidate, says it's all an effort to maximize profits at the expense of patients. @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: She oversees a state agency with a $3.4B budget. Her husband is a consultant helping housing authorities develop apartments that get a lot of subsidies from her agency. She didn't disclose his job -- until we asked. “In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need ProPublica for this kind of thing."
propublica.org
Oregon Housing Director Failed to Report Husband’s Related Business Interests
Andrea Bell, executive director of Oregon Housing and Community Services, filed amended state ethics paperwork after ProPublica asked about her husband’s work at a firm that’s consulted on projects re...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026
Trump has so overwhelmed DC with air shows this year that he appears to have shut out some of the traditional “missing man” flyovers that honor veterans at Arlington Cemetery.
motherjones.com
From birthday celebrations to murderous dictators, Trump brings out the jets
The President's military flyovers are torturing DC-area residents.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy fuck. SCOTUS overturned the circuit court ruling, sending Christa Pike to her death, and then the state of Tennessee botched the execution and she’s still alive. There are no fucking words.
lawdork.com
After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
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
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(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
Related Awards
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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
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$20.0 Million
Current Award Amount
$20.0 Million
Obligated Amount
$20.0 Million
Potential Award Amount
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$0.00
Obligated Amount
$20,000,000.00
Current Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
Potential Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
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5418: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
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R7: MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES
R701: SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: ADVERTISING
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...
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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
BREAKING NEWS
GOR SENATOR'S PERJURY CLAIM AGAINST SMITH FAILS IN HAWKS-HAWKEYES MOUP
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAGA candidate Gaea Powell convicted on 9 counts of election fraud 9/28/26 www.sfgate.com/politics/art...
sfgate.com
MAGA candidate in small Calif. town convicted on 9 counts of election fraud
It turns out this conservative candidate wasn't following election laws herself.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kash Patel’s phony manufactured stats that he uses to cover up his gross incompetence.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/09/2026
A letter shows how the coal industry pressed the Trump administration to keep coal plants open using emergency powers.
nyti.ms
The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.
nytimes.com
Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Advocates say the delays mean people are left waiting in prisonlike detention facilities that are riddled with allegations about spoiled food, beatings and medical neglect. “People are left hungry,” said the wife of a detainee in Mississippi.
propublica.org
These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We need to talk about the abortion problem we have in this country.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 26/09/2026
Do you or someone you know use DraftKings or FanDuel? You can help @propublica.org continue to report on these apps by sharing your data with us. In some states, you can request it. But we also built a browser extension to help download your own data! projects.propublica.org/sports-betti...
projects.propublica.org
Help ProPublica Report on Sports Betting by Sending Us Your App Data
If you’ve bet on sports with FanDuel or DraftKings, you can help ProPublica understand how these apps respond to their users’ betting behavior. Use our browser extension to download your betting histo...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
some of you seem confused by this so here’s a translation: “we’re winning and own everything so no we don’t want the people who actually own the thing we already own to open it back up.” hope that helps!
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What happened after OpenAI banned the first account was astonishing: ChatGPT advised the shooter about how to evade its own safeguards on violence. “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So @propublica.org debunked Susan Collins www.propublica.org/article/debu...
propublica.org
ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 22/09/2026
The Oligarch who funded Don Jr.'s wedding is deeply linked to Russia's mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
propublica.org
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration is considering data center-related projects across at least 17,600 acres of public land — far more than previously reported. Reminder: 70% of Americans oppose data centers, but Trump is heavily invested in the corporations pushing AI. Always follow the money.
washingtonsun.com
Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known
The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026
Sakariye Abdi Mohamed had done everything right, he said: applied for asylum, waited for his work authorization, gotten his commercial driver’s license, paid his taxes. Now, he is detained in a facility originally meant for suspected terrorists.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/09/2026
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bloomberg.com
Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 16/09/2026
Everything's falling into place
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