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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
gotta say I really don’t love the use of the Israeli flag here especially when some of the largest foreign institutional investors in data centers are not even Israeli (primarily the gulf states) Sunrise has truly lost the plot ngl
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...
newsweek.com
JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Bari Weiss-ification of CBS News continues. Dennis Hastert was convicted of the sexual abuse of high school students under his supervision as a high school wrestling coach. Banking rules violations were his transfers of hush money payments which he misdescribed and which allowed
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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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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social @somedudenamedcarl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HEM: "But you'll ruin that young man's life if you report him for sexual assault." ME: Correct. I'd prefer if he didn't get to become a Supreme Court Judge or run for President.
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Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That
ALT: Karen Gillan Points Up: Yes, That
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 24/09/2026
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge's decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process rights of three outlets whose White House access has be... bit.ly/4At6HQu
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge's decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process rights of three outlets whose White House access has been revoked.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 23/09/2026
Concerning
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But Wait! There's More! In this ethics complaint, it says that Boebert and Navarro went to Mar-A-Lago together ... where they were having sex with Matt Gaetz -- together and separately! (On our dime, of course.) And during all of this...
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🧵Lauren Boebert had sex with three of her staffers. Two of them were women. Her sex partners were Clarisse Navarro, Jeffrey Small and Raven Finnegan. Navarro's husband Jace Ratzlaff: "I assumed this would eventually surface. I’ll have no further comment on this topic.”
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The White House also stole the IP of "The Magic School Bus" for its hateful anti-immigrant propaganda. Unlike Hasbro, the publisher of "The Magic School Bus," Scholastic, has remained silent. Silence is an act of complicity. Story via @thequeenzone.bsky.social www.thequeenzone.com/trump-regime...
The White House also stole the IP of "The Magic School Bus" for its racist anti-immigrant propaganda.

Unlike Hasbro, the publisher of "The Magic School Bus," Scholastic, has remained silent.

Silence is an act of complicity.

Story via @thequeenzone.bsky.social https://www.thequeenzone.com/trump-regime-keeps-stealing-kids-entertainment-for-ice-ad-campaign-companies-are-clapping-back/
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Everyone should look at the haunting photos of bombed out US bases hit by Iran that were leaked by service-members. They are Trump's "American carnage." On the pod @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social is so good on the war, US decline, and Trump/Hegseth's imploding fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2155...
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Trump’s Iran Fiasco Takes Humiliating Turn as Leaks Grow More Damning
As jarring revelations make Trump’s handling of the Iran debacle look even worse, a foreign policy expert explains how the president’s deranged conception of “strength” is making us weaker.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
I’m sorry folks, but if you are among those who both understand how insane the Rationalist AI Sex Cult currently running the U.S. AI industry and who can explain it to others, you have a patriotic duty to do so now. Even though reading their writing absolutely does cause brain damage.
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yeah, as I suspected, simply providing a link that showed her anti-Dem claims were lies got me blocked by Alejandra Caraballo. She is a bad, dishonest person, & she’s causing harm in the world. People should stop treating her like she’s a trustworthy or principled person. She’s a grifting wrecker.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*”
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's called joining Argentina in the 4th world economy
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#BREAKING: Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case. The USPS Rule will remain blocked—almost certainly through the midterms.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
CJ Stroud seated with his legs apart and hands on the turf between them, head tilted down among a sea of legs after a fumble
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is Apple Maps. This is Apple bowing down to Donald Trump. This is what happens when oligarchs reveal themselves to be cowards in service to the almighty dollar over our democracy, sanity and the truth. Shame on Apple.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well, that can't be good for LeTHaLitY
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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Trump’s illegal new tracking system at the US Postal Service is a dangerous attack on your right to vote. @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social are fighting to block this unconstitutional power grab.
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bobbydubs.bsky.social @bobbydubs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Life, Liberty and pursuit of the Apocalypse
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The moment they all found out Trump changed a 400 year old name's lake out of spite Red lawmakers have allowed a child rapist to turn this country into a punchline.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PSA: How to avoid getting scammed by a fake NFL player
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 28/08/2026
Let's be clear about what's happening here: The president's family is in business with a foreign royal and just got approval from the US government to expand that business with a banking charter. This is as corrupt as it gets. On every level. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Exclusive | Trump Family’s New Crypto Bank Is Backed by Abu Dhabi Sheikh
The Emirati “spy sheikh” backs a 49% stake in the entity behind the new World Liberty bank.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 27/08/2026
hand-on-heard, head-bowed sincere appreciation for every affluent white dude who decided today was the day to go hard in the paint on "Hasan Piker is good and anyone demanding Democrats denounce him is a (((shill)))", ty for letting us all know who you are so we can act accordingly <3
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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My fellow Americans, please vote for Democratic control of the House and Senate if you really care about the things you tell pollsters you care about.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you are a sick adult and you don’t seek medical help because of your religion, that is called stupidity. If you are a parent and you don’t seek medical help for your sick child because of your religion, that is called homicide.
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These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of tr...
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s scary to think that if anything happens to Natalie Harp, JD Vance could become the most powerful person in the world.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
For a post I'm still working on, I did a list of all the things we know about how Davey Hearn was charged. Almost none of this is making it into coverage of the case.
There are two main witnesses who implicated Davey Hearn: a female Parks Service employee who claims he told her she was “awfully sensitive about the pool,” and Emily Miller, the right wing propagandist who captured his arrest and claimed to talk to Pirro’s people about the case; Miller may be a witness mentioned in the arrest affidavit (she blocked me when I asked if she was on Xitter).
That woman from the Parks Service did not testify to the grand jury and the investigative witness who did (MF) emphasized that her testimony “was not a sworn statement.” She’s the source of the claim that Hearn “violently” ripped at the pool liner.
There are two photographs, one posted publicly by Hearn before he was charged, and another taken by a government employee, both of which show the damage was already done before Hearn reached his hand into the water.
With regards to Hearn’s photo: the government did not present it to the grand jury (which is not a clearcut abuse) but also did not mention it in an affidavit to seize his phone (which is).
With regards to the other photo, the government seems to have claimed that the female Parks Service employee took it and obscured when it was taken; Pirro’s MTD corrects the timing and attributes the photo to another government employee. The government refused to provide Hearn with metadata to prove this before they dismissed the case.
There is CCTV footage that should have been turned over to Hearn that was not — footage that was shared with Jesse Watters so he could do propaganda to support Trump’s claims of sabotage. It almost certainly would debunk the entirety the Parks Service employee testimony.
Even if we buy Pirro’s suspect claims about what Interior turned over when or her claimed ignorance about the problems with the pool before that, we know she had notice of the problems with the pool well before July 16 or 17, when she claims DOJ discovered the problems for the first time. DOJ knew of a damage assessment Interior did — which in…
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 08/08/2026
When do you think this man last set foot in a grocery store? Because the only person giving this economy an A+ clearly is not buying groceries.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/08/2026
ICE body cams have two purposes: providing a fig leaf so they can claim they’re accountable, and recording the faces of protesters they can feed into Palantir surveillance machines. It’s Donald Trump’s private militia, and it needs to be abolished. It cannot be reformed. 
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
100% correct by @ltgovhashmi.bsky.social. On a related, seriously F*** any "journalists" or "news" organizations which whitewashed/sanewashed Nancy Mace as some sort of "moderate" Republican. Again, to be clear: F*** THEM! bluevirginia.us/2026/08/satu...
"With its Statute for Religious Freedom, Virginia wrote the freedom of worship directly into the DNA of democracy. This nation protects our right to believe freely, without compulsion or litmus tests. No small-minded politician can turn faith into a question of American identity." - Ghazala Hashmi

"Every single Muslim holding public office in America is a trojan horse, and a threat to both national security and our republic. We refuse to be silent." - Nancy Mace
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Ross Douthat is unsettled. The "left-of-center" "elite consensus" of the Obama era he hated is gone (yay!) and replaced by a right-wing populism he dreamed of (YAY!) but he can see it going bad (oh no) so instead of opposing it or reconsidering how bad the Obama era was, he's confused. Cue dril 2/x
The columnist’s job contains multitudes, but it’s useful to have a primary antagonist, a specific worldview that you think needs to be challenged and critiqued. For me, for many years, that worldview was the elite consensus of the early Obama era — a mostly left-of-center perspective that also belonged to Silicon Valley moguls, centrist politicians in the style of Michael Bloomberg and portions of the Republican consultant class.But watching this crisis unfold, I find that I’ve lost my sense of which contemporary worldview is most in need of criticism or opposition, where the good guys and bad guys are. Each major faction seems potentially dangerous, tempted toward the dark side in some unique way, contested or cross-pressured to a degree that makes me uncertain where the side of the angels really lies.Dril: the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
St. Louis Fed President Musalem is ready to hike rates: www.stlouisfed.org/-/media/proj...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It’s insane that Trump’s personal attorney is actively helping him supress evidence of child sex abuse—and a majority of U.S. Senators are considering making him the Attorney General.
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gemcom2000.bsky.social @gemcom2000.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’ve watched his pod with the British guy and he’s always talking about how attractive young women are. Really smarmy.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Trump wants to create an exception to the meaning of jurisdiction to limit citizenship and punish children for their parents’ misdeeds. This is inconsistent with the common law tradition and the territorial-jurisdictional approach to natural born subjects, as I wrote: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution
The controversy over birthright citizenship in the United States and the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment has exposed two urgent needs in American constituti
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This excellent Washpost story is an illustration of how the anguish from an unjustified arrest — in this case, of a veterinarian trying to protect animals near the Reflecting Pool —can linger long after the charges are dropped. Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/3RSQ6nU
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Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken
Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.
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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No amateur sports program is worth sexually abusing children to prove their gender
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.
huffpost.com
I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.
“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...
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