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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h

Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵Democrats: 53% 🔴Republicans: 38% YouGov / Sept 28, 2026

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith says he stands by his decision to bring charges against Trump in the classified documents case. "If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that President was a Republican or a Democrat."

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 28/09/2026

Today, Russian strikes across Ukraine damaged homes and civilian infrastructure, killed at least seven people, and injured dozens more. WCK teams were on the ground in several impacted communities to provide immediate support to families and first responders. (1/4)

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026

well, glad we cleared that up!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If Democrats retake Congress this November, a top priority should be investigating the Trump family's many shady business deals. Perhaps they can start with Eric and Don Jr.'s ties to defense companies receiving lucrative government contracts?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026

1/ On @lastweektonight.com, John Oliver cited our reporting w/ @texastribune.org about how Ken Paxton appeared to have violated Texas law. Paxton used an address where his estranged wife said he no longer lived while voting in 6 elections in the past 2 years: www.propublica.org/article/ken-...

John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a Texas Tribune headline from July 7, 2026 reads: “Ken Paxton vowed to crack down on 'illegal voting.' He may have violated Texas election law.” An article excerpt below says: "... appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections ...”

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 28/09/2026

The White House app wants your location in real time, your financial data, your private messages, and it's force-installed on government devices with no security review ever completed. People downloaded it to watch a livestream nobody's watching. That's a hell of a trade for state TV.

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Trump's White House app mines users for financial data and private messages: expert

The White House app that surged in popularity alongside the launch of Trump TV comes with security flaws that insiders say most users didn't bargain for.The app "shot to the top" of Apple's App Store ...

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A mass surrender of Russian forces in Ukraine near Lyman as Russian defensive positions collapse.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just on time, there’s another fucking caravan. You can’t make this shit up. Anyone buying this is a complete moron

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New York Times builds on the Haaretz report showing Netanyahu was warned by the UAE that October 7 was coming, but he never told the military and security services. He was happy to have Hamas in charge of Gaza and thought he could control it: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...

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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7

The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026

The Chinese Communist Party got access to sensitive components of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters. The U.S. got 2 pandas.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court is requiring Missouri to use its 2022 map in the general election, rejecting a late push by lower courts to require the state to implement a GOP-friendlier 2025 gerrymandering.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jack Smith gets what he’s been seeking.. a public hearing to answer questions about his criminal case against Trump. Tuesday. At the US Senate

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING NYT: The California Supreme Court just ordered a county sheriff to return about 650,000 ballots he seized from election officials as part of an investigation into voter fraud that state officials said had no basis in fact.

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Republican Sheriff Illegally Seized California Ballots, Court Rules

The California Supreme Court ordered Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County to return ballots to election officials after he confiscated them for an investigation.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026

Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?

Trump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's face

Trump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 24/09/2026

CNN was supposed to be the pool camera for Xi's visit today and Fuckface's White House just locked them out anyway, along with MS NOW and Politico, hours after a judge ordered them back in. His own lawyers will not even answer the phone. This is contempt of court in real time.

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JUST IN: CNN, MS NOW and Politico Petition for Emergency Hearing After Being Denied WH Access Despite Court Order

The banned news organizations sought an emergency hearing after their reporters were barred from the White House despite a judge's order restoring access.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”

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Axios @axios.com · 24/09/2026

A district judge tossed an election interference lawsuit by President Trump against the Des Moines Register, parent company USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) and pollster Ann Selzer — rejecting claims that its inaccurate pre-election poll amounted to consumer fraud.

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Judge tosses Trump's lawsuit against Des Moines Register

The dismissal is an early test of Trump's broader push to use litigation against news organizations over coverage he disputes.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At this point the only Republican who is still publicly embracing trump is john fetterman.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...

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The Source Behind The Ban

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is why Trump and Republicans are freaking out: James Talarico, campaigning in Lubbock County, Texas -- which voted for Trump by 40 points.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One big reason I have been saying for a year that Talarico is going to win TX: in 2018 when Beto lost by 2.5%, Trumps approve/disapprove in TX was 49/49, and strongly disapprove vs. strongly approve was even. Today Trumps numbers are 43/55; and strong disapprove is 20 pts more than strong approve.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don't download the Trump app. Everything he does is underhanded and dishonest.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports. “I am the code,” Trump said www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

By Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O'Connell
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
Trump brushed off McCrery's concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.
"I am the code," Trump said.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Sources inside and close to the Trump-Vance administration tell Zeteo that the president repeatedly asks about myriad different things in and outside of DC that his allies could work to get his name or face on. Buildings, parks, airports, military bases, US…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The ShinyHunters hacker group just released this PSA, which is addressed in part to FBI Director Kash Patel, to their dark web leak site. ShinyHunters, according to 404 Media, appear to have hacked the FBI. The group says the agency made "substantial false allegations regarding our organization."

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 22/09/2026

UPDATE: I just listened to the press conference with Oz & Vance...and sure enough, just as I suspected, they're apparently relying heavily on AN AI MODEL to "decide" which ACA enrollees meet the financial eligibility standards and which ones don't.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A public backlash is growing against the predatory companies that try to erase our jobs and monetize everything not nailed down. They want leaders who are going to unapologetically fight back. Democrats should seize that humanist mantle. And it matters who we work with.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BREAKING WaPo: JD Vance and admin officials are set to announce that they're removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage — claiming that they were fraudulently enrolled in the program, according to three people with knowledge of the forthcoming announcement.

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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud

Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026

Ossoff: "The congressman voted to accelerate the insolvency of Social Security so that he could pass anothe tax break for his wealthy donors and corporate America. And so step one to strengthening Social Security is to repeal the Collins-Trump law."

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 22/09/2026

ICE shot a 28-year-old DoorDash driver in the back in Austin while he made a delivery, then cuffed him bleeding and drove him off with the bullet still in him. No record. No charges. His government just shot him for existing. Fuckface's approval is 32 and the ICE bullet is why.

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The Rachel Maddow Show 9/21/26 | 🅼🆂🅽🅱️🅲 Breaking News Today September 21, 2026

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Holy crap. Susan Collins is finished. What a corrupt POS. I hope she goes to prison for this. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the bribe payments that Kao made to Susan Collins, very carefully laundered.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unspecified urgent national security developments in Poland require the Polish defense minister to cancel his visit to the Pentagon.

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