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James McGuire

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Retired Marine Colonel

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4h
Because of course Laws, meh Pathetic use of American power, wheee www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump defies Democrats, diverts aid for Europe to Latin America instead
The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars that Congress approved for countries affected by the war in Ukraine.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16h
Wild that he gets this coverage after he packed the Utah Supreme Court in order to try to prevent it from enforcing a referendum-passed gerrymandering ban to steal a congressional seat for the GOP (and disenfranchise his state's largest city)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We should try having some group of people who get to vote on approving agency heads like OMB director.

Sen. Susan Collins

@SenatorCollins
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse. 
 
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.  
  
Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
 
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
 
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We send Israel $3.4 billion a year. They have free healthcare. You don't. They have free college. You don't. Any questions?
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Daniel has eyes on literally every county in every state, so you should trust the curation here and bookmark this:
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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Obviously bleak as fuck, and also incredibly hackable using AI… This will just set of the most cynical arms race ever where applicants mirror the AI judging and optimize against it, with AI…
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...
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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A point I make here is: Why do you think Trump/Miller are letting in Afrikaners? Not because they care about those people. It's the larger message it sends the world: It’s now US doctrine that the only humanitarian victims who merit our concern are the imagined victims of anti-white persecution.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
About damn time
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 23/09/2026
"Totally disloyal judge" - a judge he appointed who has ruled against him. Appalling thing for a president to say.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This story and the story of the Collins corruption allegations broke the same day, and in one instance the administration is alleging fraud to remove access to healthcare, and in the other they are stopping anti-corruption investigations of political allies.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This didn't happen. What actually happened is that Russia deliberately bombed several American businesses in Ukraine. ​The Bunge oilseed plant was hit right after Senator Blumenthal's visit in a twisted demonstration of power.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In sworn testimony, the Treasury Department says it hasn't seen the money from Venezuela, and doesn't know where it's gone. Time to figure out who's pocketing it. In an overall kleptocracy, this may well be the most brazen act of embezzlement so far. www.ft.com/content/0588...
ft.com
US state department under pressure to disclose Venezuelan oil takings
Trump administration holds back from revealing how much money it has collected and how much it has sent back to Caracas
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Jeff Abbott @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Trump administration is now going to essentially be disappearing immigrants detained by ICE. This is going to cause so much pain for their loved ones on both sides of the border.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump comes up hard against facts again: Bloomberg analysis shows the Iran war has removed significantly more diesel supply from the market than Russia-Ukraine. Trump caused the global energy crisis all on his own - no wriggling out of that.
bloomberg.com
Iran War Drives Bigger Diesel Supply Loss Despite Trump’s Claims
Diesel prices have never been higher. US President Donald Trump contends that’s not because of the war he started nearly seven months ago.
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump has now refunded $128 billion dollars from his tariffs to corporations. Tariffs he created, made Americans pay for, and then returned right back to his donors. We paid, and his friends cashed in.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s abuse of power. Falsely labeling things an emergency or a national security need allows him to circumvent Congress and common sense.
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Séamas Aloysius @seamusaloysius.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maybe Trump and Republicans can work out a compromise, count immigrants as three-fifths of a full person or something
nytimes.com
Trump’s Census Proposal to Exclude Some Immigrants Could Cut Seats From Red States
A Trump administration proposal to block some immigrants from the 2030 census could shift congressional seats away from Republican states, a New York Times analysis found.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation is infamous for organizing Project 2025. As I was investigating Heritage, I found that it promotes a network of Christian nationalist schools to parents. That network was founded by Doug Wilson, who is well-known for his extreme views. Read my investigative report here:
civildefenseinstitute.org
How the Heritage Foundation Promotes Christian Nationalist Schooling — Civil Defense
Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.
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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...
newrepublic.com
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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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 17/09/2026
3/22 That is the systemic degradation I have worried about since the beginning of #TheHormuzCrisis and throughout my book. The danger was never simply a strait being closed. It was universal commercial access being replaced by conditional, selective and politically managed access in practice.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, Marisa is doing The Work. Check it out.
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Rep. Jared Huffman @rephuffman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ve been against Trump’s arch from the start. Now, his own National Park Service is even admitting the harm this thing will cause. Do you know how we could avoid this harm? Don’t build the stupid thing.
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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Madiba Dennie for U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Let's give her ALL the Trump admin cases.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump has raked in $2B since returning to the WH His high-volume of stock trades outpace all members of Congress Trump Inc. has a new Trump tower deal w/ a Putin ally And it's just Wednesday I'll get into it w/ @nicollewallace.bsky.social on @ms.now at 5:30👇 -TN
bloomberg.com
Trump Made 29,000 Securities Trades, More Than All of Congress
Donald Trump made nearly 29,000 securities trades in 17 months — more than every member of Congress combined. The stock-purchasing ban he’s pushing would leave him exempt
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Noah Weinberger @noahweinberger2003.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolute banger of a @foreignpolicy.com article. I am fascinated by UAVs, and I even learned Ardupilot. I think they’re super cool, but it’s scary to see how bad actors use them. I hope the Red Cross takes you advice and updates the Geneva Conventions. Superb opinion journalism like wow.
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 16/09/2026
I think this is a good safety conversation to have, fwiw, we do not have to address Roko nor his basilisk or other culty scenarios. There are plenty of basic humans-being-crap things to worry about, starting with law enforcement being awful. AI doesn’t even have to be good to make that worse.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 15/09/2026
It's had a lot of near misses in the DOGE era, but in the last few hours, the new head of GSA's Technology Transformation Service removed all of the open source community contributors from USWDS's github org.
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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m fascinated by policies like these because you simply can’t justify them. No interest group is making a private investment case compelling enough to supersede the rights of the Americans to access that land. You only do it if cruelty is your guiding principle and objective. You have to be evil.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 16/09/2026
Wondering what the SecDef Impeachment Resolution says? It is very much worth reading. So here it is.... www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... #holdfast
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026
The Trump administration plans to spend $84,000 to shame the Smithsonian and harass the tourists who come to see the Star Spangled Banner that flew over Fort McHenry www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
theatlantic.com
The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian
A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026
the reason my likely presidential candidate tier list has two people at the top - Ossoff and AOC - is that they are by far the most effective messengers of I Am Fucking Furious And There Must Be Consequences, which is the most deeply held conviction of the Dem base
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
There's always a new grift www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Washington DC federal court BLOCKS Postal Service mail-in ballot rule. First court to prohibit USPS from taking steps to allow voluntary compliance with anti-voting rule. A victory for ELG and our clients DSCC, DCCC, DNC, DGA and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries!
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1/x So, in the last week I witnessed a bit of an ugly discussion on X between John Konrad of GCaptain and others about the status of merchant mariners during wartime. This has spurred me on to make a series of threads about the merchant navy during WW2 and I'm going to start with a statue.
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Charly Salonius-Pasternak @charlyjsp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OK, I know what to say: this is not ‘levelling the playing field’, rather it is forcing externalities - harm - that one industry causes on all of us, simply so that they can survive and make money. It is grotesque.
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Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All this latest wave of AI-will-kill-us-all nonsense is really just the panicking of tech CEOs who realize they won’t be able to escape the economic consequences of the AI Bubble they’ve recklessly built unless they can provoke the government into nationalization AI research and buying them out. 🤖 🫧
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2026
“To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.” -Shirer, Rise & Fall of the Thrid Reich, p. 375
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Read this thread:
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is outrageous. DEA operating illegally in Canada and deceiving the RCMP about its activities. A bad sign for the future of law enforcement cooperation between Canada and the US. vancouversun.com/news/crime/d...
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DEA operated 'illegally' in Canada, B.C. Supreme Court judge says
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has stayed an extradition proceeding because U.S. DEA agents 'operated unlawfully and illegally in Canada'
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wow. New CNN poll finds 64% in Michigan say Trump's tariffs on Canada are bad for the state. Supports my argument below that Trump's disastrous trade wars are discrediting MAGA/right wing nationalist zero-sum thinking at a very profound level:
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