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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 8h
We need a War on White Collar Crime
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 5h
Strength In Numbers called this eight months ago www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri... (from The Bulwark's latest Focus Group pod)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 22h
Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has cut legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries by 96% from 21,096 legal immigrants and refugees in Dec. 2024 to 808 in Feb. 2026. Far more severe than anything in his 1st term, falling disproportionately on spouses of US citizens and skilled immigrants... www.cato.org/blog/legal-i...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Araghchi, Iranian foreign minister, explains why US is untrustworthy: "In 2025 they offered negotiations, we accepted, then in the middle of negotiations they attacked us. Eight months later, again they offered negotiations, again we accepted, & again they attacked us in the middle of negotiations"
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
Between 2015 and 2025, at least 15 children in an Idaho faith-healing sect died of treatable conditions. State law allows that to happen: Parents who say their faith prohibits giving their children lifesaving medical care can’t be prosecuted.
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Idaho Law Protects Faith Healers. It Wasn’t Always That Way.
From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He literally just voted "no" on a resolution to end the Iran War
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of fascinating observations in this piece. A key one is that those demanding calculated moderation on trans rights are not acknowledging where the logic *or* the politics of that position actually lead, which is to a terrible place:
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
New in PN: The blackmail part out loud "Trump immediately insisted he was 'only kidding.' But that too is a lie — he's already refused to pay promised funds for North Carolina’s relief, FEMA funds to blue states in the wake of disasters, and attempted to use blackmail to swing election results."
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The blackmail part out loud
He’s not joking. He’s confessing.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Greenspan thought finance guys could self regulate...and then followed the Global Financial Crisis.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
internal audit released by DHS’s inspector general found a significant dip in Homeland Security Investigations’ enforcement efforts against fentanyl trafficking from FY 2024 to FY 2025, because resources were diverted toward immigration instead. (via @eggerdc.bsky.social)
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AI Is a Test of Our Maturity. *Gulp*
Recursively self-improving machines vs. recursively self-deluding people.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026
In states with abortion bans, medical providers are hesitating or flat-out refusing to terminate ectopic pregnancies, lawsuits allege. “I genuinely thought I was going to die,” said Kyleigh Thurman, who couldn’t get care in Texas.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump official starts laying groundwork to go after Fed if it hikes rates, which it is widely expected to do as the central bank seeks to counter the very inflation the current administration has a large role in driving.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Do NOT get dreamy about George W. Bush. He launched a war against a country that had not attacked us and approved the use of torture, two great stains on this country. And he had no reason to do either, except that Cheney told him to. Take a blast through the past: www.huffpost.com/entry/the-tw...
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The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush's Memoir
The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush's Memoir
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
"The mainstream media, is, unsurprisingly, not covering itself in glory as it struggles to avoid saying that either the president’s brain has completely left the station or that he’s a mendacious liar who knows no bounds, or both."
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The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure
It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/09/2026
ICYMI: the backstory of this breakthrough melanoma vaccine is in many ways a perfect case study in what’s at stake.
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This Cancer Breakthrough Has Scientists Cheering—and Crying
They know RFK Jr. and Donald Trump are destroying the research ecosystem that made it possible.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
ICE has deported the mother of David Garcia, a first‑year midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, after taking her into custody during her scheduled green card interview. www.borderreport.com/border-repor...
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Congressman says midshipman’s mom deported back to Mexico
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, says the mother of a midshipman cadet at the Naval Academy has been deported back to Mexico by U.S. immigration officials.
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My new @opinion.bloomberg.com piece, “… credibility lives in what people believe the central bank will do under pressure. It is precisely when the pressure is greatest that the Fed’s credibility is won or lost.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Later on in that same episode, Kristen Welker spoke with Senator John Kennedy, who has repeatedly praised and hyped Elon Musk, even saying he thought "we ought to give him a medal" for his DOGE work. Were there any questions to the Republican about Musk's recent amplification of white supremacist?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Some congressional Democrats (or their staffers, I guess) follow me on here, so let me speak directly to them: The media isn't going to do this on their own. But if you make it an issue, they might just be shamed into forcing your GOP opponents into discussing the fat racist elephant in the room.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/09/2026
A way immigrant Americans raise native-born Americans' productivity... "...immigrants are responsible for 32 percent of aggregate innovation, over half of which is due to human capital externalities on US-born collaborators."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last week, the Trump administration deported eight people seeking asylum from the Iranian regime to the Central African Republic.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 33% from its 2024 highs and 20% over the last year alone
A graph of US manufacturing construction
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Trump’s Iran costs the U.S. a major military base.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Excellent points here. The story shouldn't be how much money the US supposedly gets off of Trump's criming or how this is a "win" for Trump. The story is that Trump is criming!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings:
A (messy) Excel spreadsheet tracking all of the Trump administration's emergency applications, when they were filed, when they were decided, what kind of ruling they produced, and how each justice voted.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 31/08/2026
Self-inflicted head wound
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 01/09/2026
Political control undermines the agencies' independence & scientific integrity. It betrays their purpose. We need reliable, representative views of our world as they have delivered. Instead we will never know if we are getting that or spin.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A shameful moment in our history
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 26/08/2026
trump now underwater on every policy issue, including border security. dems drawing even on handling deportations, immigration, and crime -- the GOP's last significant issue advantages. is that bad? seems bad www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-25...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Wow. Canada just released the list of products that it will target with retaliatory tariffs, and it's basically aimed right at vulnerable Republicans in the Midwest and at other key midterm contests. Trump's trade war is a disaster for the GOP. (bears out my reporting on this below)
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yes…(as I write in A Pox on Fools) this has been true since it became clear that vaccines offered not just individual protection, but safeguards for society at large. The best description of antivaxxers are doing are doing came in 1857. Then and now, such opponents commit “omissional infanticde.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
David Rohde says that the major logistics problems for the Navy largely come from the fact that the Navy's chief resupply station in the Gulf of Oman was completely destroyed in an Iranian attack, and Hegseth decided to keep it secret, from the public, Congress and the White House.
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USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed main U.S. base: Rohde
President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the condition...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/08/2026
"Roberts also thumbed his nose at his colleagues in the lower courts...suggesting that the Supreme Court has arbitrary veto power—not only over them, but over the law that they duly applied."
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John Roberts Gives Trump a License to Bulldoze the Law
The chief justice’s order turns the president’s illegal ballroom construction project into a fait accompli.
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"...totally inadequate response...our local & state police are the only ones who can investigate crimes committed by federal officials...federal officials are NOT immune from investigation & prosecution when they violate state law"- @parisaforjustice.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/08/arli...
Arlington County Commonwealth's Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti:

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I’ve received from a constituent the County Board’s response to a demand that the ACPD investigate the beating of Jose Mejia Hernandez. I’m screenshotting a part of the totally inadequate response implying that ACPD cannot investigate misconduct by ICE because it cannot be involved in federal immigration enforcement. It’s true that ACPD cannot (and should not) involve itself in legitimate immigration enforcement. But how are we to know what is and what is legitimate if these masked men are not challenged? And here’s the second and more alarming thing: our local and state police are the only ones who can investigate crimes committed by federal officials. They absolutely have the power and the duty to investigate inappropriate use of force and other violations of state law. Those are crimes and federal officials are NOT immune from investigation and prosecution when they violate state law.
EDIT: I’m adding a third screenshot of the ACPD response hiding behind the notion that there was no police report filed in this case. This response was sent yesterday to a constituent. I want to be clear: I have asked for an investigation. Multiple members of the community have been asking for an investigation. SMH"
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Some home-care agencies have shut down since July 27, when the Trump administration took legal status from 350k Haitian immigrants. Nursing homes, hotels, retailers, are scrambling to fill vacant positions and restaurants are scaling back operating hours. www.wsj.com/us-news/revo...
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Why Thousands of Florida’s Workers Are Disappearing
The slowing flow of immigration is leaving home-care agencies, restaurants, and local governments racing to fill critical vacancies.
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glennso.bsky.social @glennso.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump's first term probably set the U.S. back a bit, but it was mostly just years lost...stuck in place. This second term has us going backwards. He will cost us more than a decade. Thanks to the Republican party and Supreme Court for assisting Trump in his anti-science America last project.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/08/2026
Israeli minister calls for killing ’30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly aje.news/y6jkml
Israeli minister calls for killing ’30 to 40′ Palestinians in Gaza nightly
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/08/2026
The same climate experts whose model overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage have repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground. ➡️ Read our full story w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social: propub.li/4gdTCBc
Two line charts are depicted. At the top, the line chart is labeled "Carbon Capture Capacity." The y-axis is "megatons" and the x-axis is years (2010-2040). More than a dozen blue lines show a steady increase from the left edge of the chart to the right edge of the chart. Some of the blue lines exceed 4,000 megatons between years 2030 and 2040. The blue lines are labeled "Projections". A maroon line is at around 0 megatons from 2010 to 2025. The maroon line is labeled "Actual carbon storage". 

The second chart is labeled "Solar Power". The y-axis is "terawatt-hour" and the x-axis is years (2010-2040). Dozens of blue lines increase from around 0 on the left side of the chart, showing moderate growth from 2010 to 2040. The blue lines are labeled "Projections". A maroon line starts at 0 in 2010 and rises sharply to over 2,000 in 2024. The maroon line is obviously increasing much faster than the blue lines. The maroon line is labeled "Actual solar electricity production."
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Since Trump says he controls the Strait, reporters have to start asking him why he isn't letting more oil through
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
GAO finds 96% of DOGE’s claimed savings on federal grants cannot be verified federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-news...
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GAO finds 96% of DOGE’s claimed savings on federal grants cannot be verified | Federal News Network
Some savings that DOGE posted on its “wall of receipts” website were already being phased out before DOGE was established.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
US Sells 10-Year Debt at Highest Yields Since Financial Crisis www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Bond Traders Keep Cointoss Wager on September Fed Hike Post-CPI
A $42 billion auction of 10-year US Treasuries resulted in the highest yield for the benchmark securities since 2007, luring decent appetite from investors who’ve been demanding more compensation to f...
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Judge Cooper treated Trump with kid-gloves, letting him keep his infantile tarp up for 2 months after the deadline to take his name off the facade. And then Trump & his DOJ just thumb their noses at him.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Sailor went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln last month as conditions on the ship prompt lawmakers’ demand for answers www.cnn.com/2026/08/13/p...
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Sailor went overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln last month as conditions on the ship prompt lawmakers’ demand for answers | CNN Politics
A sailor went overboard last month off of the USS Abraham Lincoln, a US official told CNN, amid reports of worsening mental health for crew members on the ship during an extended deployment for the Ir...
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