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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 38m
Susan Collins wants voters to believe she is a moderate Republican who stands up to Trump. But the truth is Collins only takes sides against the regime when she knows her vote won’t stop Trump.
nytimes.com
In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him (Gift Article)
A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2h
anyway I'm writing a newsletter on Twitter and I think it's going to be good
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 16h
This is like the US avidly helping Hitler bomb London with V-2 rockets.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 16h
Just remembering that Melania Trump got a green card on an EB-1 visa, aka the "Einstein visa," reserved for a small number of people with extraordinary talent and renown - Olympic athletes, globally recognized scholars, etc. Then she chain-migrated her parents too.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 16h
Why did agents raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home?
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 17h
The Free Press will take up his case any day now
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 22h
Today is a great day to remember that Tom Barrett is an extremist who voted with Trump 99% of the time just last year.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23h
Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A racist billionaire with a pedophile-enabling robot is bankrolling the gop and the democrats won’t say anything about it
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 12/10/2026
🔵EXCLUSIVE: Leaked files containing years’ worth of email correspondence and financial records show how Deloitte Cyprus worked with other firms managing Roman Abramovich’s wealth to move vast assets from Cyprus to the BVI, including cash deposits in banks, superyachts, and luxury homes.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 10/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 10/10/2026
Russia just bought large quantities of diesel from South Korea because it has run out of the fuel. Could Putin be defrauding a gullible Donald J Trump? Perish the thought!
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
gadgetreview.com
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Nothing with Trump has ever been hidden. From the moment he became a public figure it was obvious he was solely a broken, corrupt, self-seeking criminal Any "analysis" or framing that continues to act like this is anything else stems from a desire to hide it or denial in aid of their favored system
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 11/10/2026
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 11/10/2026
Here’s your assignment for today: while your government is selling out Ukraine for Russian diesel, you can donate directly to the companies that are developing and building intercepter drones that are keeping Ukrainians alive and safe. wildhornets.com/en/
wildhornets.com
Wild Hornets – FPV Drones. Ukrainian UAV Manufacturer, Wild Hornets
Ukrainian UAV Manufacturer Wild Hornets. We produce FPV drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ground control stations, interceptors, high-speed drones, and the Queen Hornet.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Noah Bookbinder @noahbookbinder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The President bought over $1 million in SpaceX bonds days before issuing a new policy that is in part intended to strengthen the space industry. Whether this is out-and-out corruption or just a (glaring) appearance of conflict of interest, we have to stop pretending this is in any way acceptable.
washingtonpost.com
Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Your boss was trying to incite a racist pogrom yesterday, Markwayne
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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Redacting the signatory might be unprecedented. I've never seen or heard of the like.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
> @cnn.com $SPCX www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/i...
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 08/10/2026
Susie Wiles and her daughter have met with senior figures from Bosnia’s pro-Russian Serb nationalist leadership in recent weeks, according to photos circulating online this week. www.washingtonsun.com/foreign-polic…
washingtonsun.com
Susie Wiles and Her Daughter Met With Pro-Russia Balkan Officials, Photos Show
The photos resurfaced after Trump distanced himself from two advisers who traveled to the Republika Srpska region to advise its government ahead of the election.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tom Barrett cannot run from his record. In 2025, he voted with Trump 99% of the time. Mid-Michigan deserves a congressman who will fight for working families, not his MAGA extremist friends.
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 08/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Ken Paxton just revealed he wants to cut programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid: “Making some reasonable cuts to mandatory spending… Suck it up.” This is NOT someone we can trust with our earned benefits!
A graphic with a photo of Ken Paxton. The text says, "BREAKING: LEAKED AUDIO REVEALS REPUBLICAN U.S. SENATE NOMINEE KEN PAXTON STATING HE WOULD SUPPORT CUTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY DURING A PRIVATE FUNDRAISER WITH LOBBYISTS."
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A modern record: Measles Outbreak in Pennsylvania Is Now the Biggest in U.S. in 35 Years
wsj.com
Measles Outbreak in Pennsylvania Is Now the Biggest in U.S. in 35 Years
Cases in the state surpassed a prior record as falling vaccination rates have fueled the disease’s rapid spread.
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David Seaver @davidseaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A MAGA election-fraud pusher committing election fraud? Say it ain't so. 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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#TXsen
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
jkbjournalist.substack.com
Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 07/10/2026
Donald Trump has been branded "cheap" and a "hypocrite" after inadvertently revealing where he gets his suits from.
irishstar.com
Donald Trump humiliated by his own suit as tag gives away all his secrets
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Kassie Navarro @kassien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A defense contractor CEO + his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding. He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron. Dive into @propublica.org’s investigation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 06/10/2026
Maine Republican Paul LePage violated the Ethics in Government Act by failing to properly disclose details about his personal finances. www.washingtonsun.com/money/paul-le…
washingtonsun.com
Maine Republican Paul LePage Violates Federal Financial Disclosure Law
The former governor is months late revealing his personal finances. His campaign says Congress will receive the disclosure Tuesday.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Hugo Lowell @hugolowell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SCOOP @wired.com: Abdul El-Sayed is out with a new paid digital ad in the Michigan Senate race attacking Mike Rogers for helping expand government surveillance, seeking to tap into voter anxieties about tech and Flock cameras weeks before the midterms
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨Fact check: Tom Barrett voted to make it harder for state and local governments to regulate AI and gave billions in tax breaks to data center developers after Big Tech spent $1M+ to elect him.
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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Take a guess: Which person on this stage has taken billions from corporate interests, including weapons manufacturers, health insurance companies, and data center developers? HINT: It’s not me. I will never take corporate PAC money. MI-07 debate starts now.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A Texas pediatrician has already paid $15k in legal fees to counter requests from Ken Paxton's office about her vaccine policy. She spoke to the NYT on background after prosecutors threatened this: "You are requested NOT to inform other entities of this request" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
nytimes.com
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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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Republican #Corruption is off the charts
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/10/2026
Cis guy walks into a women's locker room and immediately proceeds to sexually assault women. JK Rowling: this is trans people's fault.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a look at the dramatic contraction in information jobs since the release of ChatGPT @soberlook Tech employment down, edu & health up... female job gains over male in recent years thedailyshot.com/sub...
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And for those who don’t remember, Deripaska is close with Putin and is the one who Manafort allegedly passed internal campaign polling data via GRU Kilimnik (during the 2016 election)
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian-born American businessman Konstantin Sokolov gave $11M to MAGA Inc. and donated to Trump’s ballroom. He was recently tapped to lead Trump’s $201M TRIPP+ investment fund. @luchkov.bsky.social and I dug into his past and found that his former partner worked for Oleg Deripaska.
maligninfluenceoperations.substack.com
Inside Trump Donor Konstantin Sokolov’s Business Ties to Russia
This investigation is part of an ongoing examination of Konstantin Sokolov’s network.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 05/10/2026
The U.S. government is actively monitoring a suspected outbreak of the plague in Russia following the death of a 28-year-old lab worker who was reportedly infected after coming into contact with a broken test tube containing the pathogen.
washingtonsun.com
U.S. Monitoring Reports of Russian Lab Worker’s Suspected Plague Death
The State Department called on Russian authorities to release “accurate information quickly and openly” about the developing situation.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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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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