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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h
It's curious that in all the reporting about the LaCivita and Blair work for the Republika Srbska, the reporters appear to have no idea of all the work that Uday and Qusay are doing out there, and that Gen Flynn and others in the Trump entourage are doing, all aligned with the Bosnian Serbs.
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Trump considers ‘terminating’ campaign advisers after Balkans trip
President says Chris LaCivita and James Blair guiding pro-Russian government less than a month before midterms could be a ‘conflict’
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h
The traditional values that Rubio has in mind—and as a Catholic, turned Baptist, turned Mormon, turned Catholic again, he knows them all well—are massive corruption, exploitation of slave labor and the use of military power to accrete personal wealth. www.ft.com/content/404b...
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Marco Rubio urges western countries to uphold traditional values
US secretary of state warns alternative is ‘atrophy, servitude and decline’ in Athens speech
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 4h
My assessment of the State of the Force: "this Congress is overdue to protect the American military from a civilian leadership that is its greatest threat." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Reducing the Number of Generals Isn’t the Problem
Hegseth is damaging the military and the public’s trust in it.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 6h
Next he’ll be agreeing to call it “Trump Intelligence.” The new robber barons know what they need to say to appease their master and keep the money flowing.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
“My main worry is that the idea is the A.I. can make a smarter A.I. in some way that we’re not going to understand. .. So we’re ending up in a world where .. we’re just going to have to trust what it tells us about how it works or whether it’s aligned.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h
15 months later, Republicans have pulled ads from the NC Senate race and all but conceded it to Democrat Roy Cooper after the strategic genius Trump drove Tillis into leaving the senate.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 7h
A walking advertisement for a wealth tax
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
“.. one research firm is valuing the artificial intelligence company at a mere $150 billion and says Wall Street is about to face an ‘unprecedented test of investor gullibility.’” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/a...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18h
All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17h
Whenever I have a remotely plausible choice, I avoid buying from Amazon. Bezos's destruction of a great newspaper is one huge reason. His "giving quislings a bad name" subservience is the other.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h
Hegseth: “Theocratic regimes should never have access to nuclear weapons. Trump recognises that.” The man who last week was manifesting the Christian god in the Pentagon and calling for a crusade.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h
Is this a head fake, because no one in a position of power could possibly be this stupid? Or are they really that stupid? These are not rhetorical questions.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 18h
Ken's piece yesterday that Trump reacted to noted that Zeljka Cvijanovic, an ally of Bosnia Serb boss Milorad Dodik, met recently with WH chief of staff Susie Wiles, with help from lobbyist Robert Garcia of Continental Strategy. Continental also happens to employ Wiles' daughter. Can't hurt.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 19h
Was just telling a colleague that to me "ways" is the key part of strategy and must include an explicit cause effect logic -- theory -- linking action to outcome. So, what's the logic chain where "limited bomb Iran" leads immediately to lower retail gas prices?
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fermat15.bsky.social @fermat15.bsky.social · 18h
Hey Jeff, back then did you call it Super Sweetener? Super Flavoring? No? I wonder what the difference is.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h
My theory is that these dudes get so used to people telling them how right they are that they truly believe they have the only solutions to the world’s problems, so see stroking Trump as a means to their own vision of what the world should be.
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fermat15.bsky.social @fermat15.bsky.social · 18h
All the money in the world doesn’t buy moral courage.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h
he’s got a 30% approval rating and this one is ridiculous even for him, you craven sycophant
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20h
Could be some good reasons that the US Constitution doesn't authorize one person to take the country to war on a whim.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h
Jack Ohman, Tribune Content Agency
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19h
"Is you sending texts on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"
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Jim LaPorta @jimlaporta.bsky.social · 20h
From CBS News - Newly obtained video shows Iranian drones hitting Camp Buehring in Kuwait and the damage to the base as the war kicked off. Among other new details: when soldiers moved into the Udari Desert, two soldiers were injured when the were struck by lightning. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-at...
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"They hit us bad." Newly obtained footage, witness accounts detail Iran attack — and U.S. retreat — at major post in Kuwait
CBS News obtained new video from a person on the ground showing an Iranian attack on a U.S. base at the beginning of the war.
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fermat15.bsky.social @fermat15.bsky.social · 20h
No.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20h
Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 21h
A thing that always strikes me about Hegseth's remarks criticizing the media: he was, of course, a prominent media professional (at Fox News) *for years.*
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22h
President Homelander www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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President Homelander
Donald Trump believes he can do whatever he wants—and his followers are determined to prove him right.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h
what does the former have to do with the latter
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I do not have any idea who else they work for …” Always a good thing to hear from the President of the United States.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hugo Chavez-linked PR flack Michael Shellenberger — a random guy with a Substack who rakes in donations to fight a “censorship complex” that he created — would like you to know that journalists reporting on his attempts to smear people are propagandists.
Lithuania's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment. EU Disinfolab declined to comment.
"If you believe that emailing questions to government officials and others constitutes
'pressure,' then you are a propagandist and a toady and should stop misrepresenting yourself as a journalist," Shellenberger told Rapporteur.
An EEAS spokesperson said: "The reason for the request to remove the logo of the EEAS was that organisers chose to frame some of the discussions in a way which does not align with the official positions held by the EU. "
Global Affairs Canada did not respond to questions about its decisions to withdraw support.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Max is right. Note how major US corporate media report stuff like Rubio's pablum without pointing out to their audience that Rubio is the man attempting to gut WHO and cutting off long-standing US cooperation with the agency. bsky.app/profile/maxb...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am struck that the political theory of MAGA in Trump 2.0 is the GOP can win without sound or moral government if everyone throws red meat to the cameras as the occasional bribe. You see it with Trump, Patel, Hegseth, all of them. Anyway, Trump's approval is at, like, -23, so...no luck on that.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New whistleblower complaint: The Trump admin pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau's policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint.
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If there isn’t a fierce and prolonged accountability campaign that leads to the disbarment of scores if not hundreds of Trump administration lawyers, then what’s even the point of having state bars? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Wrongly Indicted Man Seeks Inquiry of Official Conduct in Reflecting Pool Case
Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn accused prosecutors of ignoring their own evidence to indict him and then providing “blatantly false” information about what they knew when.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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stuartpstevens.bsky.social @stuartpstevens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s time for an aggressive state AG to bring RICO case against Cleta Mitchell and her co-conspirators for conspiracy to attack lawful elections.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Montana Supreme Court struck down key GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives. The unanimous ruling is a major win for direct democracy — and a powerful check on the Legislature’s ability to interfere with the people’s lawmaking power.
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Montana Supreme Court strikes down GOP restrictions on citizen ballot initiatives
The decision is a major victory for citizen-led democracy in Montana, where the state constitution expressly reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people. It also delivers a…
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Bat-prillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Vought, Hegseth and Miller know what's coming for them and it's going to be one hell of a lot worse than whatever this man is bloviating about.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also, the DoD just put Anduril founder Palmer Luckey on "Project Meridian," its commission to determine the future of warfare, which may just involve buying lots of Anduril products, who knows. Luckey has made over 1,000 contributions to Republicans since 2017, 23 of which were for over $100K each.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pete Hegseth has an amazingly shallow—and stupid—bag of tricks. If you've heard one of his silly speeches, you've heard them all.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wow, they’re almost lucky to have lost a family member!
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 06/10/2026
This is the type of unaccountable behavior from armed government forces that helped spark the American Revolution. It's what the founding generation wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights to oppose. 🇺🇲
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sure. He's smiling so he has to be telling the truth.
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Mike J @mikejason.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
LTC, MAJ, CW4----looks like a battalion command team. This isn't a case of bellyaking joes...
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
in all seriousness, this is (yet another) example of u.s. public universities at the cutting edge of research mind-boggling that anyone would want to defund any of it
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/10/2026
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth removing tenure protections shows precisely why they are needed. He wants to silence dissent by being able to fire anyone who questions his vision of the military. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...
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Hegseth halts tenure appointments for civilian faculty at military academies
Military academies will no longer appoint civilian faculty to tenured positions as Hegseth says it can contribute to “academic stagnation.”
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’re being fought to a draw by Iran, and we can’t protect our aircraft from them in, ahem, the United Kingdom, but at least the Defense Department is winning the war on — let me check my notes — beards and wokeness. Pete Hegseth is clearly the second coming of George Marshall.
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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