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Dual citizen of US and Canada. Retired planning professional, breast cancer survivor, and progressive human being.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Diesel futures fell after Trump announced a “massive” European oil release.⁣ ⁣ Then traders read the actual G7 statement, and the entire price move vanished.⁣ ⁣ Turns out the massive release was mostly a PR stunt. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels turns out to be leftovers from March.
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Luis Ferré-Sadurní @luisferre7.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: A federal judge in New York appointed by President Trump accused ICE of lying and fabricating records to cover up illegal arrests. Judge Gary R. Brown ruled on a case where ICE mistakenly arrested two Hispanic men, including a US citizen. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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Trump-Appointed Judge Accuses ICE of Lying and Fabricating Records (Gift Article)
Two men were mistakenly arrested in the Bronx by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Gary R. Brown, a federal judge, condemned the agency’s actions.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett tells Rachel that local Georgia election officials are making preparations in case Donald Trump tries to interfere in their election.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
👀 Would you feel free to vote with an FBI agent watching? Newly obtained documents show the DOJ tested that theory in Arizona’s primary, raising concerns that aggressive surveillance will be used to restrict ballot access or intimidate voters nationwide.
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DOJ dispatched criminal prosecutors, FBI agent to monitor Arizona’s primary, documents reveal
The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: While Trump was crisscrossing the USA last week trying to help the GOP stave off a midterm washout, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska advising its pro-Russian government on election issues. James Blair & Chris LaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/10/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com To fight back against A.I. propaganda, “Americans need to learn the counterspy techniques of CIA officers,” Anthony Vinci writes in a guest essay.
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Opinion | A Spy’s Guide to Fighting A.I. Propaganda
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
Election deniers want the Trump administration to use false claims that voting machines are compromised as justification to seize voting machines. They believe that the commerce secretary already has authority to do that — a view that legal experts say is way off base: demdock.com/4BaDLxl
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Will the 11th Circuit see through Trump’s new delay tactic as he tries to keep the public from seeing the Mar-a-Lago volume of Jack Smith’s report? joycevance.substack.com/p/pat-robert...
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Pat Robertson Tried It While Campaigning. Will Trump Fare Any Better?
But he shouldn’t.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 07/10/2026
Trump is the first president to call for America to be attacked. And his Republican allies said nothing. They don't care about you, or the country. Vote Democratic this November. The future of America depends on it. youtu.be/DhIeyeqI2Ng
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/10/2026
Breaking news: DHS sped up training for police officers making immigration arrests by scaling back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws and real world scenarios they might encounter, according to emails reviewed by the Post.
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Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers
Police officers helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants were given a shortened training course that scaled back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/10/2026
To fill its depleted ranks, the Justice Department’s civil rights division has opened its doors to recruits whose questionable work histories and lack of education might have disqualified them from being hired in the past, former officials said. nyti.ms/3U9VQuA
The Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., is pictured. Headline reads: "Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks." Photo credit: Jason Andrew for The New York Times.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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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.
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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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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This feels like what life was like before modern medicine. Four young kids, born to "Followers of Christ" family died of treatable illnesses. This is willful ignorance enabled by religious exemptions. Parents were not touched due Idaho's child abuse laws. www.propublica.org/article/idah...
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Reuters @reuters.com · 06/10/2026
US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar reut.rs/4hP5HOp
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US Senator Murphy says Pentagon denied him access to US base in Qatar
Democratic US Senator Chris Murphy said the US Department of Defense denied ​him access to a key US military base in ‌Qatar during a visit to the Middle East, describing it as part of a US government effort to conceal the impact of the Iran war.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 06/10/2026
President Donald Trump's promise to give out $5,000 "dividend" payments if Republicans retain control of Congress in the midterms could violate multiple federal criminal statutes that criminalize buying or coercing votes, write Bruce Swartz, Harry Seavey and Cara Barazia.
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Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”
Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
🗳️ Early voting for California’s 2026 midterms has officially begun. California’s newly redrawn congressional map could be decisive in determining control of the U.S. House. The state is also becoming a major test of federal involvement in election administration. Here’s what to know ⬇️
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026
NEW: After unlawfully firing FBI agents that worked on Trump cases, Patel's FBI is arguing that the reason they can't release Epstein redaction training videos featuring agents is because "assignments to cases are not by choice." Read my latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2026
Delay, delay, delay...
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: Ken Paxton's office is investigating pediatricians for vaccinating children. He alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A dementia addled doddering failure announces to the world that his "big brain" with its "highest IQ" has discovered super secret double hidden tarriffs that no one knew about until he found them that Canada has been charging US for years. Vote in Nov. This must stop www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Claims Canada Has Been Imposing Secret Tariffs on the US: ‘Nobody Knew’ Except Me
President Donald Trump insisted that Canada has been secretly imposing tariffs on the United States, boasting that “nobody knew” about them except him.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/10/2026
The Trump administration is preparing the largest deployment of DOJ election monitors in history, and it won't say who they are. Now, the NAACP is suing for answers in the third such lawsuit. And it's citing Democracy Docket's own reporting. Help us keep digging: demdock.com/46JjoJp
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/10/2026
A former Anthropic employee who publicly resigned last month told a hearing that AI companies had a culture of “move fast, break things.” He appeared alongside former employees of Google and OpenAI who also warned of AI’s dangers.
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Tech workers who resigned tell New York City Council that AI is moving too fast
A hearing in New York brought together AI executives and former employees who say the industry is moving too fast.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
The NAACP is suing DOJ for records on the 1,000+ election monitors it plans to send to the polls on Nov. 3. One question it wants answered: Does a lawyer who pleaded guilty to hacking election websites work for the department? We broke the story on him back in August. Read it here:
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Exclusive: Trump DOJ appears to have hired lawyer convicted of hacking election sites to check ‘integrity’
Levin’s involvement in election monitoring could offer a hint of the kind of personnel who will staff the operation this fall, when the DOJ has said it will send 1,000 monitors to the polls.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“If it was a human on the other side we would be charging them with murder.” Journalist markfollman.bsky.social describing a State AG’s comment on ChatGPT’s role with mass shooter at @floridastate.bsky.social A shocking discussion on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
Speaking at a hearing before Australia’s Parliament on Tuesday, OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, apologized for the company’s A.I. agents breaching government websites and accessing nonpublic data, and for taking months to notify Australian officials. Get the latest live updates.
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OpenAI Hearing Live Updates: Australian Lawmakers Question Officials on Data Breaches
The artificial intelligence company apologized after its agents infiltrated nonpublic data on a government website. Australia is examining potential legal consequences and new A.I. regulations.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Resistors report arrests and injuries, including being pushed into barbed wire. CBP confirmed that all four cottonwoods marked for removal there are now gone. Centuries of life destroyed for two parallel walls cutting through the borderlands. We’re heartbroken and we’re angry!
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What to worry about and what to put down, election edition
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Let's all AGREE that a President suggesting that a foreign adversary taking out 2 American cities is "a small price to pay" is the most fucked up thing a President ever said. 25th Amendment NOW.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump doxes GOP Sen Tom Cotton by sharing his cell phone number online over … Daylight Savings Time. Trump says golfers want more daylight for later tee times. This is the leader of the free world, ladies and gentlemen. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump posts cell phone number of Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton in fight over daylight saving time
President Donald Trump is urging people to call the personal cellphone number of Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas after posting the number online.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Andrew Egger very interesting this morning on the Trump rally he attended last night in Vandalia, Ohio. On the same day as the funeral service for Pierre Damas Bel (which Andrews also attended), Trump celebrated what ICE was doing in nearby Springfield. Awful. www.youtube.com/live/jPod9BI...
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A Trump Rally, A Funeral and a Revealing Day in Ohio | Bulwark on Sunday
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 04/10/2026
With the midterms less than five weeks away, the Trump administration has halted intelligence briefings, trainings and other resources for states, according to state officials. Only in recent days have federal agencies begun offering briefings to states.
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With threats to midterms, states say Trump administration isn’t helping
U.S. spy agencies see Russia and others plotting to sow distrust and misinformation in the upcoming elections.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"You're living right next to people you're writing about. You're at the grocery store with someone who you just wrote about the worst day of their life. It's very tough business, and it makes people mad, but it is a vitally important part of our society..." nofilmschool.com/kill-bury-pr...
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When Officials Talked About Killing Reporters, Ben Klein Made a Movie About It
The director spent months earning a newspaper family's trust, then put the first shoot on credit cards.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Monday LIVE at 2p ET; National Affairs Editor @markfollman.bsky.social, @MotherJones magazine, knows more than most about ChatGPT and violence. He’s my guest for an eye-opening revelation on Substack. Join us: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/10/2026
Shasta County, California, where election doubts run so deep that some don’t trust results even when their choice prevails, offers a glimpse of what happens when distrust in voting systems takes root.
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An election chief lost. Then he padlocked the ballots and called the FBI.
Shasta County, California, where election doubts run so deep that some don’t trust results even when their choice prevails, offers a glimpse of what happens when distrust in voting systems takes root.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/10/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Israel has never entirely been off alert,” Yonatan Touval writes from Tel Aviv. “A state of emergency declared in May 1948 remains. There is something absurd about a national emergency old enough to have grandchildren.”
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Opinion | Israelis Are Exhausted. There Is a Way Out.
In a nation on perpetual alert, many hope that the elections will bring some relief.
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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...
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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
these people. they don't even understand how to quit. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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