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mom, grandma to 1 fabulous little man and 4 sweet furbabies, obsessed bookworm, eternal etherealgirl and true blue forever - it's the freaking 21st century - never ever going back. No DMs, please.

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Charlie Mas @charliemas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is how the MAGA mind works. Start with the baseless presumption that everyone is cheating to persecute you. Prosecutors aren't making charges against Donald Trump because he committed crimes. Oh no. It must be because they are his political enemies.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/10/2026
“In an influencer-occupied government, the functions of elected and unelected officials converge on the same goal, which is making little videos for their distractible boss to watch on his phone, and later to watch other people talking about on his TV.” defector.com/jack-smith-e...
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Jack Smith Did Not Conspire Against Donald Trump While Watching Steph Curry Score 60 Points In An Overtime Loss To The Hawks | Defector
The most salient part of the accusation that Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt lodged against former special prosecutor Jack Smith in a Senate hearing on Tuesday is that it was wrong. It was ecstatically and...
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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week's Sit Your Ass Down Award goes to RFK Jr., courtesy of Dr. Annie Andrews. As a measles outbreak impacted South Carolina and killed four in Pennsylvania, she says he's spreading antivaccine disinformation and belongs nowhere near public health.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
Episcopal bishop who urged Trump to ‘have mercy’ to resign post in Washington DC
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Episcopal bishop who urged Trump to ‘have mercy’ to resign post in Washington DC
Mariann Budde gained national attention for calling on US president to consider immigrants and LGBTQ+ people Rev Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington DC who gained national attention when she called on Donald Trump to “have mercy” on the country’s immigrants and LGBTQ+ community after his second inauguration, is resigning. Budde shared in her resignation letter that she will be leaving her post on 3 June 2028 after the consecration and ordination of the new diocesan bishop. Continue reading...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We are losing our soul as a nation," warns Cardinal McElroy, as he urges us all to rise up against Trump’s "evil" immigration policies. www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-los... New on Heads Up News.
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‘We are losing our soul as a nation’
Catholic clergy call for action against Trump’s ‘evil’ immigration policies
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
Democracy is the house that we all live in. Donald Trump is setting that house on fire.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Here's a little chart that our graphics team did to help you keep track of the various players.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
This Lukoil pending deal has a tie-in to the billionaire Syrian-born Qatari brothers that I wrote about earlier this year-- who have teamed up with Ivanka and Jared on a real estate project in Albania. Yes, it's an intricate web. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. (Gift Article)
The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s second term.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Witkoff and Kushner discussed the deal last month during a meeting at the Kremlin with Putin. Here is a shorter overview of our investigation. With my NYT Washington Bureau colleague Anton Troianovski www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Trump, Putin, Ukraine and an Oil Deal: 5 Takeaways (Gift Article)
A proposal to bolster relations with the Kremlin through the purchase of Russian energy assets is striking even for an administration that regularly mixes personal business interests with foreign poli...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
The pending oil deal involves Russian Lukoil international assets (now sanctioned by the US) that would be acquired at a big discount by a Trump campaign donor, a UAE-based investor in Trump/Witkoff family crypto company, and Kushner/Ivanka's Qatari-based real estate partners.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. 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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The Joy of Ed @edjoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Matched with Briton Reviere's "Aphrodite (Selfie With The Squad)"...
Briton Reviere's painting "Aphrodite". The Goddess, depicted as a white woman in a red dress, is surrounded by wolves, bears, lions and leopards while walking through a forest, and holds her arm above her as though taking a group selfie.
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martin_fff @martinfff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/10/2026
I can’t stop laughing at this. The fact that Trump &!Vance had to campaign in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida just 4 weeks before the midterms is wild. These are red states, but they know the bottom has fallen out for Republicans, so they have to run defense. Happy Friday Dems, and #LetsGetVoteReady
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“.. It’s a perfect storm,” said one senior Senate GOP aide, granted anonymity to candidly discuss the race. @politico.com #KSsen www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Triaging begins!
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most pro-sex criminal President since slavery strikes again.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump's economy in two headlines.
CNN Business: The US economy added just 29,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%. 

ABC News: Households will pay more for energy because of Trump's policy changes
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Its just a coincidence this dude discovered people of South Asian descent were a problem after an African American-South Asian woman became the presidential nominee of one of the two major parties. Yeah, that's it. Just a coincidence.
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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.
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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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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 2028 election may create "an historic opportunity for Democrats to establish a 'New New Deal,'" writes @davidrlurie.com. The challenge: building "a broad and resilient" coalition to lead us out of our political and economic crises. Yes please. No infighting. 🙂 www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic...
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Will Democrats offer Americans a New New Deal?
A new social pact will be needed in the wake of Trump’s trail of ruin.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026
Breaking news: Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park.
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MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This. Vote as if the life of every woman you know (including one's own, as applicable) is at risk on election day. And all those thousands (perhaps many more) at the receiving end of Kegsbreath's and Trump's savior-bombs. Because they all are.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember this is why we need Democrats to take back power in DC so that they can stop some of these cuts that take effect after the election. #LetsGetVoteReady by checking your voter registration status, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot. Your vote is your voice so use it.
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Sinner Representative @irepresentsinners.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(But “sHe’s iRrELeVanT 🤪”) THAT’S MY FUTURE PRESIDENTTTT!!! 😝💅🏼
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FDR v. Stephen Miller
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
His name coming out as "RABBITS" in a grinding Maine accent, the most beautiful sound I've ever heard
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illinirunner.bsky.social @illinirunner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I feel like this is an un-tapped tourism promotion opportunity by Maine. "Come to Maine! And tell John Roberts he sucks shit!".
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
YES! “Should you see Chief Justice John Roberts …consider letting him know exactly what you think of him and his illegitimate, ultraconservative court,” she wrote. “Yell, boo, whisper, weep audibly, give him the thumbs down or the finger, hand him a note, refuse to serve him.”
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
American voter: I'm concerned about the price of groceries. Trump Admin: Shhh, we're focused on finding out if Nixon was the real victim of Watergate. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate
A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump: "They came up with the word 'affordability' ... it's phony" (Note that the crowd isn't into Trump's affordability denialism at all)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To Trump, loyalty is always demanded, but only ever runs one-way—to him. He is far more concerned with the bragging rights of picking the winning candidates than having any candidate—other than him—win.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pointing to the sign once again - narcissists don't do loyalty You have to wonder if all these republicans realise that?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Surest sign that Donald has been told that Ken Paxton is going to lose.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: "He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn't even know if he was here! I don't care."
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good thing for him that Congress authorized unlimited funds to keep this war going forever
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
We’ve warned about A7's many unsanctioned entities, and so many other unchecked Kremlin enablers. The Trump Administration needs to reverse its stunning halt of regular Russia sanctions over the past year and a half. www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/min...
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On Fourth Anniversary of Putin’s Full-Scale War, New Banking Committee Analysis Highlights Range of Targets Left Unsanctioned by Trump Administration | United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and...
The Official website of The United States Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Multibillion-dollar schemes like A7 are much easier when the United States simply gives up on countering Russian sanctions evasion. The Kremlin agent gloating in this story could show a bit more humility. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
During the Biden administration, the Treasury Department made cracking down on sanctions evasion a centerpiece of its effort to punish Russia. The department imposed thousands of additional sanctions, targeting companies and networks designed to move money around financial restrictions.

The pressure has largely disappeared. Since President Trump returned to office, the administration has removed more restrictions than it has added, according to a Times analysis of Treasury data.

That has made it harder for banks to screen for illicit activity, in part because new actors and organizations can spring up without fresh information. A7 shell companies, for example, have facilitated payments to companies that banked at major American and European banks, The Times found.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Key parts of the Fox News poll of Texas Talarico 51% Paxton 49% NET FAVORABILITY Talarico +8% Paxton -18% But ALSO 22% of non-MAGA Republicans prefer James Talarico to Paxton.
A graph of a Fox News poll with red and blue chart lines showing voter preferences for the Texas Senate race. The graph shows that 51% of all likely voters voters prefer James Talarico and 49% of them prefer Ken Paxton. Another line shows 4% of MAGA Republicans do not prefer Paxton compared to 96% who prefer Paxton. But 22% of non-MAGA Republicans prefer Talarico and 78% prefer Paxton. And 100 percent of DSA Democrats prefer Talarico and 98% of non-DSA Democrats prefer Talarico.
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Gina Hinojosa @ginafortexas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: Cook Political Report just shifted their TX-Gov rating in our favor. Texans are ready for a governor who will restore the American Dream by saving Texas schools and putting money in your pocket.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Before someone jumps in and is like “Oh, so you have a better idea,” no, I do not. That’s the problem. I just don’t fucking know. Maybe someone smarter than me does and I wish them the best if they do, but I got nothing.
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