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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/08/2026
I have had multiple Air Guard/Reserve pilots/aircrew reach out to me about the deployment rates and lengths. Guardsmen and reservists are part time, and have civilian jobs. Retention in the flying ranks is going to be atrocious, and they were already down pilots and aircrew. More this week
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
So much here that is insane. I have so many questions: Why is Trump obsessed with autism. Who is leaking these stories. Why would Trump think Oz would be better at pushing this lie than RFK Jr. Who is going to be willing to kill American children based on one elderly man’s medical delusion
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The reporting by NBC News on our depletion of weapons and by the Times on the selection of a CNO is more evidence that Hegseth—with his firing of competent general officers, politicized promotions, and a culture where truth-telling is punished—has done real damage to our military.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
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Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
President Trump used to brag about all the money we were making from tariff revenue. Last month, that trend flipped to a $26 billion loss as the government started paying back the tariffs the Supreme Court ruled illegal. The refund bill is just getting started.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 17/07/2026
This is who they sent out on our streets to murder us
A new career in ICE

Brouillette, 37, told his ex-wife Ashley
Brouillette late last year that he had been hired by ICE. She said that because of his long history of psychiatric issues, she thought he was having a mental health episode and she didn't believe him. She didn't realize he'd been telling the truth until this week, when videos began circulating online of the moments surrounding the shooting.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
"Paxton recently bought 3 condos at a luxury resort in Utah worth a total of $1.6m and transferred them to his blind trust. On the deeds, Paxton listed his address as a Dallas-area home. Police records indicate a woman who is not his wife & has been photographed vacationing with Paxton lives there"
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Ken Paxton Bought 3 Utah Condos, Adding to a $9 Million Real Estate Portfolio (Gift Article)
The Texas attorney general and his trusts now hold at least 15 properties worth about $9 million.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hard to describe the sorrow I feel watching the boreal forest burn, summer after summer. I was paddling on a lake yesterday when the smoke came in, and knew what was happening despite not having cell reception. Climate change is a heartbreaker.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/07/2026
"If the American public wants a public health system and one that works, then the United States has to pay for it and support it. And what we’ve seen over the past eighteen months is the decimation of it instead."
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When You’re Sliding Into First and You Feel You’re Gonna Burst, Read This Story
What you need to know about the cyclospora outbreak.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
America has had free and fair elections for many decades. The data to support this fact are overwhelming.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Senator Lindsey Graham has died. His death was preceded by the death of his longtime friend and colleague John McCain in 2018, and by Graham's supposed principles shortly after. Known for saying "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it," then enthusiastically backing him.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Seems telling: The family of the unarmed family man driving to work and fatally shot by an ICE agent calls for an independent inquiry. And ICE and DHS seem to be in full stonewall and coverup mode, with no interest in the facts coming to light. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...
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Family of Man Fatally Shot by ICE Agent Calls for Independent Inquiry
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“Three men were in the van with Lorenzo at the time of the shooting, including his brother. They have been detained, and their whereabouts are unknown. There is fear the men will be quickly deported to prevent them from providing testimony about ICE’s actions.” www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Dems have dumped Swalwell and platner Republicans have nominated Ken Paxton
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Zohran up 32 points over Bibi among American Jews should scramble a lot of very dumb narratives
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fsknipp.bsky.social @fsknipp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Depending on where you live, Central Presbyterian might be more convenient for you
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fsknipp.bsky.social @fsknipp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
For context, Anne Lamott is a Presbyterian (USA) - this is the more progressive denomination
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fsknipp.bsky.social @fsknipp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/06/2026
The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Trump and Rubio announce they will entirely cut HIV/AIDS assistance to the country with the highest number of people living with HIV in the world: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
politico.com
Trump administration to phase out HIV funding for South Africa
The State Department said the country had failed to address the president’s concerns about treatment of its white citizens.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/06/2026
Outrageous.   Dr. Justin Ryder, a pediatric surgeon and expert at Northwestern, was booted from a conference for sharing an article on federal cuts to biomedical research.   This is the impact of Trump's administration.
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Medical group leader apologizes to Northwestern researcher, others booted from conference over Trump critique
The researchers were distributing an editorial from an American Diabetes Association journal during the group’s annual meeting when they were escorted out by local police and security.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20/06/2026
One of those charged is a three time Olympics canoist who says he just touched a bit of the detached liner and found himself in handcuffs facing charges of destroying government property. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Former Olympian arrested on vandalism charges at Lincoln Memorial
The former Olympian was seen on camera being handcuffed in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on Friday.
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Jon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is why George Washington started vaccinations in the Continental Army. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"A business tied to a longtime supporter of Trump was given a no-bid contract to install a water-purification system in the Reflecting Pool. The Park Service bypassed the competitive-bidding process...Cafaro was once involved in a high-profile bribery scandal." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Firm Tied to Trump Donor Got No-Bid Contract to Clean Reflecting Pool
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Watching a flu outbreak sweep through a major military training installation after Hegseth pointlessly politicized the vaccine requirement is a reminder that viruses are unimpressed by amateur political theater. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The world's most expensive assisted living facility
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 15/06/2026
WHOA. At least three passenger jets appear to have had rejected landings/go-rounds in ~30 minutes while that UFC light show was going a mile away. @aaronparnas.bsky.social previously reported a commercial pilot filed an FAA safety report about being “nearly blinded” by a test run of the lights.
An FR24 map showing AAL1092 from Phoenix doing a rejected landing/go-round at DCA. An FR24 map showing DAL2962 from Minneapolis doing a rejected landing/go-round at DCA. An FR24 map showing SWA1295 from Dallas doing a rejected landing/go-round at DCA. A post from @musicologyduck.bsky.social showing the blinding lights being projected into a cloudy sky over the White House. 

Text reads: It looks like the sun is trying to come out I’m not even kidding
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Harmonie Perrone health and life was devastated by a Catholic hospital in Illinois that refused to treat her for an ectopic pregnancy, resulting in infertility and a real risk of death. Illinois is a pro-choice state but Catholic facilities can enforce shadow bans.
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A religious hospital denied her a life-saving drug during an ectopic pregnancy. She lost her fertility
Harmonie Perrone, 28, is suing Advocate Good Shepherd in Illinois, where reproductive rights are enshrined in law
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
arrest of a local resident in san ygnacio texas, protesting against sudden bulldozing of riverbank property in sensitive/historic site to build border wall... spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/dallas-fo...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 05/06/2026
"The most trusted and esteemed program in American journalism, the legacy of our loved ones’ hard work and its accompanying sacrifices on the home front, has, in [Scott] Pelley’s words, been murdered," writes Sarah Safer, daughter of Morley Safer, who was a 60 Minutes correspondent for 46 years.
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Morley Safer of 60 Minutes was my father. He would be disgusted by what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS Is doing to CBS | Sarah Safer
My father joined the program when I was eight months old and retired 46 years later. He would be encouraging journalists at CBS to speak out
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This, on top of the funding from OBBBA, will provide enough money for ICE to function at quadruple capacity through the end of the Trump admin. Republicans also passed on their single best opportunity to stop Trump from literally giving himself more than $100 million. Complicit.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Medical researcher I know responded to this with: "not to be dramatic, but it’s the end of scientific freedom in the US" www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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OMB Proposes Rules Establishing Political Oversight of Grants
The Office of Management and Budget published long-expected proposed rules for how federal agencies must carry out Trump’s order to put “senior appointees” in charge of deciding who gets funded. The p...
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump appears to be completely passed out asleep during his 3pm Oval Office announcement
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The Texas Secretary of State resigning in the middle of an election cycle should be ringing many alarms. #Trump #abbott #midterms2026 #democrat #democracy www.texastribune.org/2026/06/02/t...
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Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson stepping down
Nelson’s office oversees elections. Abbott appointed her to the role in 2023 after she became the longest-serving Republican woman in Texas Senate history.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026
President Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. That means it has now been one week since he has appeared publicly for anything besides a pre-taped interview. His last public event was his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, one day after his trip to Walter Reed.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/06/2026
After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Because the service had been arranged last minute, the funeral home on a busy street in Atlanta could only offer them one hour.
Orlin wore a long-sleeved shirt and a tan vest with a striped bow tie and matching pants.
The clothes concealed his injuries. A new teddy bear was tucked beside him.
Embroidered into the satin lining of his casket was "Principito," or "Little Prince."
His full name was embossed on the coffin:
Orlin Josue Hernandez Reyes.
McCaffrey and Hernandez's sister had to hold Hernandez up as she walked trembling toward her son. Once she regained the strength to stand, she stood over him and stroked his face and chest.
"I never wanted to leave you," she whispered repeatedly. "I wanted to bring you with me.
My son."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2026
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
They’re not equivalent — obviously the man who ate the delicious breakfast burrito is the problem
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 31/05/2026
I believe Xi made a deal with Trump: Look the other way on Taiwan, and in exchange Beijing will purchase enough Trump meme coins to make him wealthier than the CEOs who accompanied him at the summit.
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Art of the Sellout
China’s soft invasion of Taiwan
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 30/05/2026
The next time you pull up to a national park and pay the entrance fee, know this: Our parks have $23 billion in repairs that have never been made. But instead of prioritizing that our national parks are clean, maintained, and ready for your next visit, the President is…
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National Park Entrance Fees Are Funding Trump’s D.C. Projects
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut tells us about Charter Oak, a lasting symbol of independence and American ingenuity at keeping it. #WeAreAmerica250
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Pamela in CA @pamica.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I love this.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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JT Ennis @jt-ennis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Official Statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on Oak Cliff Explosion
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/05/2026
While Americans struggle to pay their bills, the First Family is treating the Pentagon like a private wealth accelerator. This is our money they are spending. This is corruption we pay for. Congress should issue subpoenas immediately.
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
EXXON SVP NEIL CHAPMAN, at the Bernstein conference: (via Eric Nuttall) $XOM
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Steven Rattner: Stocks usually track consumer feelings about the economy. The two have diverged sharply under Trump as corporate earnings rally and consumer sentiment craters.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The reason we don’t have larger denomination bills is that they make drug trafficking and other crimes easier
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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