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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
How was a Nevada Republican with a 30-year mortgage on a $565,000 home able to loan his Congressional campaign $1.6 million? We don't know, because he has repeatedly failed to submit required financial disclosures that would illuminate his personal financial position.
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The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress
David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 28/09/2026
"Netanyahu asked the Emirati president to deny reports of their phone conversation as well as details concerning the events leading up to October 7 that could embarrass him, according to the sources. He also asked bin Zayed for what the source described as 'moral support.'"
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 26/09/2026
Sort of says it all does it not? The issue with Ben-Gvir isn't actually his right wing beliefs but the fact that he's bad for PR
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Collins said she would work with colleagues to address “these illegal actions” Dem colleagues tried to address it last year. She blocked it 7/7/25, Collins "voted against a Democratic proposal to require that rescissions go through the appropriations process" www.pressherald.com/2025/07/17/s...
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Susan Collins opposes Democratic effort to rein in Trump’s budget rescission power
A spokesperson said Maine's senior senator voted against the proposal because it would have been challenged on jurisdictional grounds and delay needed funding for military infrastructure and veterans ...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Democracy Now! has now gone from constantly inviting Max Tegmark to platforming people from none other than MIRI. That's right MIRI. Y'all know how bad that is? Do you understand the level to which they are doubling down on the eugenicists?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
IMO one of the most important local elections in the country (boltsmag.org/prosecutor-a...)
"Long before Trump began sowing unfounded doubts about the 2020 presidential race, Republicans in Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth, were notorious for their selective enforcement of election laws and for the harsh prosecution of Crystal Mason, a woman who mistakenly thought she could vote while on probation and was sentenced years in prison.

DA Phil Sorrells, who came into office after the 2022 midterms, has continued that legacy. He helped launch a task force to police local elections, and he continued to prosecute Mason even after an appeals court overturned her conviction in 2024. This fall, he filed criminal charges against Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker who was expelled from a public meeting and forcibly arrested for speaking out against a GOP plan to dramatically reduce polling places. 

Sorrells faces Democratic challenger Tiffany Burks in a competitive rematch of their 2022 election. Burks, who has worked as a prosecutor in the office, has signaled a very different direction from Sorrells on such cases. “We are talking about a county where they are doing everything that they can to suppress the vote,” she said in an interview last month.

She is currently representing Burnam in court, and she said last month that her “first item on business” as DA would be to drop the county’s efforts to reinstate Mason’s conviction. (That won’t be necessary after all: Texas’ highest criminal court ruled in favor of Mason and against Sorrells on Sept. 24, upholding Mason’s 2024 acquittal.)"
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.
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Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Terrific review of SUPREMACY by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social alongside my book, THE POLITICAL SUPREME COURT: 
Picture of this quotation from Pema Levy’s article “How the Supreme Court seized power to rule over the rest of us”:

“As Bowie, Renan, and Shelden show, this is not how its always been, or how it's supposed to be. To take back their power, the people must simply demand it.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026
Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: 22 senators are joining @vanhollen.senate.gov to force a vote to direct the State Department to investigate Israel's killing of American citizens and the status of human rights for Palestinians living under Israeli military rule in the West Bank. Tell your senators to join at:
imeupolicy.org
Message Your Senators: Expose Israel's Violence and Human Rights Abuses — IMEU Policy Project
We need to pressure our U.S. Senators to take real action. Tell them to report on human rights violations in the West Bank and hold Israel accountable.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AT&T Stadium reportedly is one of the venues that opposed Macklemore being on Ed Sheeran's bill. Worth noting that AT&T is hosting Kanye West in November.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kind of interested in the Democratic politicians who appear to have Nazi kids (Gillibrand, Newsom) and how that distorts their politics
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Kit @hoosierkit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
public opinion polls don't dictate American foreign policy. Never have. Never will. pic unrelated
Hey hey lbj
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
I've been Black long enough to have at least some built-in 'yup, people be racist, and yet we move' defense systems But ngl shit can still sometimes be...jarring! Like seeing this, openly and shamelessly, and knowing Gorsuch had him in his chambers, and that he helps pick federal judges. Sickening!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026
at this point being a nazi edgelord online must be a prerequisite for working in the trump administration, no?
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2026
i really cannot maintain enough that my current theory of donald trump is that he is utterly gripped by the terror of death, and is desperately attempting to leave some mark on the world that history cannot erase--this is the point of the wars, the annexation threats, the dc vandalism
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 06/09/2026
Average pro Israel person desperately wants you to believe that the defense minister of Israel has no say over Israeli military policy but that the average college freshman in the US is in charge of Hamas
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
made a video about this youtu.be/sPonQniJTCE
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We need to cut the Supreme Court down to size
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEWS: After Yaakov Roth defended many of the worst actions of the Trump administration over the past year and a half at DOJ, Jones Day took Roth back as a partner when he wanted to cash in on the friends he made when working to undermine the rule of law in America.
Yaakov Roth, former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of DOJ Civil Division, rejoins Jones Day
August 31, 2026 Firm News
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/09/2026
It breaks my heart that it wasn't the ankle monitor that broke him—it was the way his college classmates treated him for having to wear It. Which says so much about the kinds of hatefulness that permeate American culture and that made it possible for MAGA to gain so much power.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026
Aid workers in Nepal laid off by USAID cuts - including trans women who were working on community HIV outreach - have been forced to turn to sex work to survive.
apnews.com
Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive
After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is part of why I went to Gitmo twice while writing my camps history a decade ago. As long as Guantanamo remains open for detention, it will be the site of future chapters of terror and extrajudicial abuses by the U.S. government.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/08/2026
The Israeli commander who personally ordered the airstrikes on seven World Central Kitchen workers who were murdered in cold blood says that he is not sorry and falsely claims that the WCK has ties to Hamas. WCK is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent."
abc.net.au
Israeli commander defends ordering strike that killed Zomi Frankcom
An Israeli commander who ordered a deadly drone strike on an aid convoy in Gaza, killing Australian woman Zomi Frankcom, says he stands by his decision.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/08/2026
Great news: a new party is poised to siphon tens of thousands of votes from the Netanyahu-aligned bloc. The catch: The party is headed by a war criminal that massacred people in the 2014 war on Gaza, it supports expelling all 2,000,000 Palestinians from Gaza, and wants to expand settlements.
timesofisrael.com
Winter launches nationalist ‘People of Israel’ party; Netanyahu warns it could doom the right
Controversial ex-general says Israelis will no longer accept same political faces after Oct. 7; does not mention PM; unveils diverse slate including Arab-Israeli influencer Yosef Haddad
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t
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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 25/08/2026
I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP.
“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The light of the South has gone out, man
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’ve made a deliberate attempt to stop responding to these pieces of deportation propaganda, in part because their entire point is trolling and they WANT the angry responses. But the same time, we cannot make this stuff normal. It’s deeply wrong; a perversion of good things for fascist purposes.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
nytimes.com
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Incredible failure of Republican governance at the state and federal level
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Guillotines
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/08/2026
Do it, Canada. Do the funni. Export tax of 500%. I want to see gas at $12/gal
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 22/08/2026
In an exceptionally interesting twist, Mike Rogers has asked AIPAC not to intervene on his behalf against Abdul El Sayed, believing that the group's extraordinarily toxic brand and unusual amount of spending gives Abdul an easy line of attack.
axios.com
Scoop: Mike Rogers-AIPAC rupture roils Michigan Senate race
The tension underscores how far AIPAC's political standing has fallen amid voters' anger over the war in Gaza.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Even when LLMs write well, the lack of variety in style is crippling. Reading the same prose in your instructions & social media & advertisements & software & PowerPoint eventually makes one queasy. Prompting & temperature only gets you so far. Real variation is needed (and under-researched)
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Miller probably knows he has at most 2 years, & that if Trump dies Vance will probably marginalize if not outright fire him, so he’s likely planning his version of the post-Stalingrad final solution; the war is lost, but he’ll do his ethnic cleansing right up to the last day.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 19/08/2026
just gonna say, as mildly as i can, that israel's conduct towards the new syrian government has been "deranged"
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 19/08/2026
Good time to note that Israel has at least 40 Syrian citizens in what is called "administrative detention" aka illegal arrest in a military prison without charge or any guarantee that they'll ever even have a trial. For some reason, these people are never called hostages.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 19/08/2026
Woah.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/08/2026
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years. www.wired.com/story/the-co...
wired.com
The Cop Who Took On Flock
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
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