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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: The Pentagon has raised the official U.S. troop death toll from the war with Iran to 21, adding two previously unreported noncombat deaths. A total of 865 U.S. service members have been wounded. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon raises official toll of troops who died during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the number of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
20 people is the death toll in Zaporizhzhia from the Russian strike today. Three of them are kids. 18 more people injured, three of them kids, as well. Russia killed about 70 Ukrainian civilians within the past several days. Heartbreaking and painful.
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Defenders of Our Republic @defendersofourrepublic.org · 10/10/2026
#MajorJasonWatson Major Jason Watson was officially referred to court martial today. #DOOR #GTS #Veterans
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 09/10/2026
The kind of shit you see in Russia or Pakistan.
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Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Re: Trump's diesel deal with Putin Conversion factor is 7.5 barrels of diesel per metric ton. Daily global diesel consumption is around 25 million bpd. So, the initial 300,000 tons, or 2.2 million barrels, would meet global demand for about two hours.
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Eric Holder @ericholder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is unreal. Weakens Ukraine (who with sufficient support could win the war) and for no good reason reverses long standing US policy. Cause for concern. ***** Trump strikes deal with Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy weeks before midterms apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
Trump strikes deal with Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy weeks before midterms
Trump says the U.S. will obtain diesel from Russia, relaxing years of US pressure on Moscow to combat prices ahead of midterms.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.
Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]へ
End of public executions in
Kentucky
As the Kentucky General Assembly had been meeting in its biennial sessions at the time, the media circus surrounding the Bethea execution embarrassed members of the Kentucky
legislature. In spite of the humiliation, they could not amend laws regarding executions until the next session in 1938. However, the trial judges in two separate Kentucky rape cases ordered that the hangings of John "Pete" Montjoy and Harold Van Venison be conducted privately. Montjoy, age 23, was privately hanged in Covington on December 17, 1937.On January 17, 1938, William R. Attkisson of the Kentucky State Senate's 38th District (representing Louisville), introduced Senate Bill 69, repealing the requirement in Section 1137 that executions for convicted rapists be conducted by hanging in the county seat where they raped their victims. The bill was promoted in the Kentucky House of Representatives by Representative Charles W. Anderson Jr., one of the attorneys who assisted Bethea in his post-conviction relief motions.
After both houses approved the bill, Governor Chandler signed it into law on March 12, 1938; it became effective on May 30 of that year.
Chandler later expressed regret at having approved the repeal, claiming, "Our streets are no longer safe." The last person ever legally hanged in Kentucky was Harold Van Venison, a
33-year-old African-American singer, who was privately executed in Covington on June 3, 1938.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“They’re kids! They’re kids!” Monstrous. Abolish ICE.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)
propublica.org
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth says Americans will be able to watch a Trump-approved firing-squad execution. If he follows through, the U.S. could join a disturbing club of countries known for public executions—including Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.
meidasnews.com
Hegseth Turns Trump’s Firing Squad Into a Public Spectacle
The Army has scheduled Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution at Fort Hood — the first military execution since 1961 — while the Pentagon still will not explain how the firing squad will operate.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb
Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A lot of what’s happening doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore by mainstream media. A tree that stood for an estimated 150–250 years was destroyed today to make way for Trump’s border wall.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia is working on bio-weapons in Siberia.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Together! 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Thank you, friends.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
cnn.com
Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Russians tried to transport a Mi-2 helicopter on a pickup truck, but overturned along with it. The incident happened in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
📮 New USPS cost cuts could delay your mail ballot. In most states, late means it doesn't count. 61% of planned zip codes will be affected for midterms. Search for your zip code here: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We talked to Truckers who are turning on Trump because of the war in Iran. "It's going to put us out of business for sure."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RBADVISERS: “.. For those who don’t think the world is changing, LT Treasury returns are now negative for the 1st time in 40+ years.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Trump’s malevolence and psychosis will be on full display right after the midterms. We’ve been here before in Nov 2020, and here we go again. The national nightmare of Trump refusing to accept defeat and dragging the country through lies, conspiracies and drama begins again.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russian strikes are incoming from all sides onto #Kyiv, in broad daylight. Markets, gas stations, a hospital, office, kindergartens, residential buildings. Russian scum cannot push through on the front line, so they are staging genocide in Ukrainian cities.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Susan Collins has been lying to us for almost 30 years.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 27/09/2026
Since Speaker Johnson sent us home last week, a lot of people have asked me the same thing: If a majority of Congress wants to vote, why can't we just show up and vote? It's a fair question, and the answer tells you how much power one person holds over the people's House.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Animals suffer from Russia’s war too. Mars, a stray dog from Zhytomyr, hides under a bench, trembling during an air raid alert. 📹: mal_mar_22 / Threads
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 25/09/2026
While Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump insist we're not even at war with Iran, the Pentagon just quietly added 37 more wounded troops to its official tally, bringing the total figure to 861. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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Surfing the Blue Wave @trumpbgone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And now for some actual good news for once!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
JD Vance, can you explain this?
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“.. Put your hand behind your computer and you feel the heat coming off that fan,” said Sailor. “Now, imagine if you had 1,000 computer [fan] blades in your office — 10,000, 100,000, several hundred thousand .. that’s the amount of heat that we’re talking about.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/09/2026
Under Trump, the government isn't just withholding data it doesn't like; it's killing its own capacity to produce reliable data. @crampell.bsky.social from the archives:
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Trump’s One Weird Trick for Eliminating Bad News: Delete It
The disappearance of inconvenient facts and the remaking of reality.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Remember when we had a NORMAL president who wasn't an ill-mannered, lazy, unintelligent child rapist? Damn, I miss that.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
Trump & Vought are politicizing critical medical research and make no mistake: in the long run, this will cost lives. Their continued attacks will put future cures and treatments at risk in service of their own political agenda.   Shameful.
nytimes.com
White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Vasyl @vaasyl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
To everyone around the world who remembers Ukraine, who support us, who says a kind word, thank you. You may never know what those small things mean to someone here. We don't need to be called heroes every day. Sometimes we just want this war to end and to go home. 🇺🇦 Слава Україні.
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Things are spinning out of control. Wars that were supposed to be contained are expanding across borders, drawing new powers into conflicts they cannot easily control. 🧵 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Title of article: Trump Is Dismantling the World America Built

Lead: The MAGA revolution set out to dismantle a global order it believes weakens the U.S. Instead, it’s creating a vacuum that Russia, China, and others are rushing to fill

By Mac William Bishop
September 20, 2026

Donald Trump on Aug. 20, 2026 in Washington, D.C.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“.. techno-philosophers have hypothesized that a self-improving system could not only break free from human control but also exceed the power of any other machine — permanently.” @nytimes.com #RSI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/s...
nytimes.com
The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers
“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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