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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
Assume an American president was in Putin’s pocket. What would they do differently than Trump? @nytimes 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h
Under Musk's ownership, X decimated its teams of internal moderators and engineers working on trust and safety.
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Elon Musk is the midterms' biggest disinformation risk
The world’s wealthiest man pours money into GOP candidates while backing a floridly fake story about a Democrat on the platform he owns.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16h
Trump's lawyers told a federal judge it was too late to stop his $19 million in TV ads starring himself. The money was spent. The ads were almost over. She disagreed at 6:45 p.m. on a Sunday.
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Trump Doesn’t Want You To Read What His Lawyers Told The Judge
Also: the trap a federal judge just pried open, Ken Paxton’s debate problem, and a doctor’s diagnosis for South Carolina’s handpicked senator
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h
🚨BREAKING: More than 1,000 North Carolina voters will begin receiving letters this week from the state election board requesting they verify their citizenship status — although the board claims compliance is voluntary. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina sends vague letter to voters flagged by citizenship database
The letter provides flagged voters “with instructions on how to voluntarily request removal from the voter rolls if they were registered in error or provide information verifying their U.S. citizenshi...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h
Prayers for Pope Leo 🙏🏽 The first American pope underwent surgery today at Gemelli Hospital in Rome to remove a cancerous growth from his right lung. Surgeons removed the entire lower lobe of his right lung. The 90-minute procedure was successful, with no complications.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 2h
When I talk to people about the ongoing impact of COVID, I find it helpful to lead with a concrete, undeniable indicator, which is that there are about 3,000,000 more disabled workers in the US than at pandemic onset.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 2h
After six months of pretending Maj. Sorffly Davius didn't die in the Iran War, Hegseth's Pentagon finally fessed up. theintercept.com/2026/10/12/i...
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Pentagon Finally Counts an Iran War Death — Six Months Late
After months of questions from The Intercept, the U.S. military finally acknowledged the March death of Maj. Sorffly Davius.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h
The Houston Chronicle endorses Gina Hinojosa, saying Greg Abbott is unfit to serve in public office. "After a dozen years under the leadership of a governor keenly attuned to the needs of the privileged and the powerful, we look forward to a successor dedicated to serving her fellow Texans."
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Why Gina Hinojosa has our whole-hearted support for Texas governor | Endorsement
An offhand remark as Hinojosa prepared to leave the editorial board meeting stayed with us. “I think people are tired of fighting,” she said.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
“.. Guilfoyle reached out to White House officials to say the text messages were AI generated. The officials didn’t believe her claims, the people said. Journal reporters verified the authenticity of the donor’s text messages.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9h
The horse carriage industry is coming to an end in New York City. Our administration will make sure workers and owners are protected and the horses are safe.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h
WATCH: Reporter Jake Pearson had an idea: Ask ProPublica editors for $$$, mimic the patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings and see if the app would encourage his recklessness. What he didn’t expect was how little pushback he’d get as he spiraled.
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I Bet like a Problem Gambler (On Purpose.) DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h
Trump and Howard Lutnick — charter members of the We Lied About Our Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein Club — campaign together in Alaska. .
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h
Jamaica accepts first flight of third-country deportations from US aje.news/d8y6cg
Jamaica accepts first flight of third-country deportations from US
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h
Early voting begins Tuesday in Georgia, and voters can now cast their ballots in several races that will shape future elections in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Georgia early voting begins under intense scrutiny from White House, GOP
The White House, GOP and unelected state officials have exerted immense pressure on the Peach State's voting system.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h
Watch this clip from the Elon Musk documentary that he’s losing his mind over. I need to know what y’all think.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3h
Richard, a Georgia truck driver and three-time Trump voter, has finally caught on. He says he’s voting for Ossoff after Trump’s war sent diesel costs soaring. “It pisses me off. We just want someone in office who’ll stand up for us.”
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 15h
French navy intercepts oil tanker south of La Réunion suspected of being part of Russia's shadow fleet
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French navy intercepts oil tanker south of La Réunion suspected of being part of Russia's shadow fleet
Footage released by the French Armed Forces shows French Navy personnel intercepting a vessel 'suspected of sailing under a false flag' south of La Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 6h
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3h
Trump is testing the courts; cutting down trees on a DC golf course after a judge told him not to. A pretend apology when Trump’s ads ran at taxpayer expense after a judge ordered him to stop. Get up to speed, including on a new order issued tonight: joycevance.substack.com/p/its-more-t...
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It’s More Than Just a Little Routine Maintenance
The administration flouted a judge’s order and cut down more than 400 trees on the East Potomac Golf Course over the weekend.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
Bloomberg:Career staff at CFTC concluded there was ample evidence to suggest that massive insider trading occurred on commodities transactions around specific points during the Iran War, and they referred the matter for enforcement. Then political appointees demanded that they retract the referrals.
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 5h
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4h
The 71-year-old is recovering in Rome's Gemelli hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his lung.
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Pope Leo diagnosed with cancer after surgery to remove part of lung
The 71-year-old is recovering in Rome's Gemelli hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his lung.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h
In a buried report, oil regulators pinpointed nearly 600 wells operating illegally, threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water. Then there were 1,400+ wells that had operated for decades without any limits at all — grandfathered in from an earlier era. (Published March w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)
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Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking wa...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4h
Fair enough. It’s time to stop the bots!
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 6h
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Michael Che on SNL: That's Pretty Racist
ALT: Michael Che on SNL: That's Pretty Racist
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 5h
Who’s at the center of the Trump administration’s hunt for voter fraud ahead of the midterms? Notorious election denier Heather Honey, who’s now a top DHS election official. Marc Elias breaks down her role. They want you tuned out. We help you stay in the fight: demdock.com/3U05Y9c
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5h
“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work” On the recent trove of math proofs released by the evil robots
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‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release (Gift Article)
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5h
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Kai Shaikh, a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, also currently at SLMath, observed that theorems are easy to use as benchmarks, but that they capture little of the wonderment at the heart of math. "Just like a photograph of a mile marker can't provide much of the value of actually going on a hike," he said,
"it would seem to me that proofs without stories, or even stories without struggle or mystery, and first glimpses of strange beasts, are not very meaningful or valuable to us humans."
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h
🗳️ Interesting fact: In Musk, Ashley St. Clair recounts a private election-night exchange in which Elon Musk allegedly told her he already knew Donald Trump had won "hours ago" because his team had "the best realtime data."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h
“He's afraid to sit for a deposition in a lawsuit that HE filed.” Ben Meiselas unloads on Trump over his $10 BILLION BBC lawsuit as the fight over questioning him under oath intensifies.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.
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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 administrati...
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 5h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
🔥 @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon: “The biggest, greatest lie ever told is we don’t have the power to change anything... it’s not about Republican vs. Democrat anymore— it’s about people so rich they’re now becoming trillionaires and trying to wipe out the entire middle class.”
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 6h
Trump: "the ice caps are bigger than they've ever been" Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica in 47 years, satellites show www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
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Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica in 47 years, satellites show
A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979. The massive glacier melt is mainly attributed to warmer waters eroding the ice sheets from...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h
It’s 21 days until the US midterms: This is How We Win My latest for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Americans are voting in three weeks. It’s time to vote out the Trump enablers | Robert Reich
War profiteering, AI grift and tariff shenanigans spell defeat for Trump’s party
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 14h
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9h
US Supreme Court agrees to hear watchdog case on Elon Musk’s DOGE records aje.news/sdc45p
US Supreme Court agrees to hear watchdog case on Elon Musk’s DOGE records
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 9h
Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is now named in a federal court order. Not over a law. Not over a policy. Over TV commercials starring her boss, paid for by you. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-does...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Tapper: "How worried are Republicans about Paxton losing? Well, we've apparently reached a brand new campaign stage where the VP is insinuating that the Texas Democratic Senate nominee, James Talarico, is gay ... not exactly the sign of a party convinced they can win on their record or ideas"
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h
My God this whole 🧵
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
There's exactly three weeks to go until Election Day. It's never too late to start fighting Trump's fascism. Here are some ideas.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h
I have no idea why Trump’s Truth Social account has posted multiple videos of people getting mauled by animals. Either he’s been hacked or Natalie Harp is sending some kind of message.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9h
As a good Southern Baptist deacon, Mike Johnson believes in the prosperity gospel: that Jesus Christ will insure the wealth and health of his faithful Southern Baptist followers. And that appears largely to take the form of dark money from mysterious PACs. Mike is every bit as sleazy as the worst...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife ministers to Hill staffers, but nonprofit funding is a mystery
Kelly Johnson’s counseling services are the centerpiece of an organization that does not disclose its donors.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10h
BREAKING: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint over the outrageous raid on Ilhan Omar's home Officials can't use criminal power to affect an election. This is the textbook case @democracydefendersfund.org & @rwpusa.bsky.social👇
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 9h
When my colleague @maxrn.bsky.social discovered fmr NYC Mayor Eric Adams had been hired to convince Wisconsin residents to allow a 150MW data center to be built at the site of an old paper mill, we had MANY questions. So Max headed to Wisconsin Rapids to answer them. His delightful dispatch here:
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Eric Adams Promised to Pitch a Wisconsin Data Center With 'Rigor.' His Failure Was Spectacular
Hell Gate went to Wisconsin Rapids to trace the footsteps of the former mayor of New York City.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h
Abandoning Ukraine will be a stain on the United States for the rest of time
Screenshot of a statement by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reporting a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv targeting critical energy infrastructure, including the CHPP-4 power plant. Zelenskyy says a residential building was also damaged and caught fire, warns of further Russian missile attacks, and criticizes the lack of advance warnings from Ukraine’s partners. An accompanying nighttime photo shows flames engulfing part of a multistory residential building, with debris scattered across the ground.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
Due to a new GOP-backed law, Tennessee is revoking driver’s licenses for immigrant residents who have LEGAL STATUS to be in the U.S. People are just trying to get to work and provide for their families. GOP is sabotaging our economy b/c they want to torment immigrants. 🎥 @attorneymartinez
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10h
You should be able to afford a house before you're 40.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 10h
ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get theintercept.com/2026/10/12/i...
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ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get
The ICE raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar is an extremist escalation in Trump’s long-running threats — and the checks to stop him aren’t working.
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