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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”
Plutarch
Secret agent in the real world with an artistic agenda. 
Buddhists stole my clarinet!
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 6h
Breaking: A judge on Friday blocked further border barrier construction in the Big Bend region. The ruling means federal contractors can’t continue construction in the national park or surrounding areas until a lawsuit opposing the work is resolved.
texastribune.org
Judge halts border barrier construction in Big Bend
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardon’s ruling means federal contractors can’t continue construction in the national park or surrounding areas until a lawsuit opposing the work is resolved.
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“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 2h
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 2h
“You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” Ray Bradbury
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congresswoman @replamonica.bsky.social just gave birth to her second child, a baby girl. The weaponized Trump DOJ is prosecuting her for simply doing her oversight job. She has been threatened with 17 years in federal prison. people.com/rep-lamonica...
people.com
Rep. LaMonica McIver Gives Birth as Trump’s Justice Department Threatens Her With 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Incident
Rep. LaMonica McIver gave birth to her second child, a baby girl, on Oct. 1, her office said in a statement. She currently faces prosecution by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for allegati...
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 14h
Trump’s war crimes, foul indeed. #TrialAtTheHague 1/ “In the opening hours of the war against Iran, on February 28, 2026, the U.S. military fired Tomahawk cruise missiles directly at a school in the southern city of Minab.”
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Video: The Morning the U.S. Bombed a School in Iran
Parents, teachers, and first responders tell the story of what happened in Minab at the Shajareh Tayyebeh School massacre on the first day of the war.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 15h
Now the main stream. Unless you’re MAGA, who are made up of billionaires and people who love to subjugate themselves to billionaires.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15h
And it went about as well for Senator Eric Schmitt as you might expect. trib.al/BWEoxNY
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GOP Senator Was Warned Attempt to Trap Jack Smith Might Backfire
Senator Eric Schmitt knowingly used unvetted information in his effort to have a “gotcha” moment.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't take tips on virtue from a man who used a pic of his stillborn child for a GoFundMe campaign for his children's burial garden named "Lincoln’s Place" when the project was never built, and Ogles repeatedly refused to disclose what happened to the tens of thousands of dollars donated.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
It’s not just the 7. Or the 57. It’s the whole system.
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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 02/10/2026
Judge rules PresidentTrump lacks constitutional authority to fire court-appointed U.S. attorneys. The decision reinstates Seattle prosecutor Roger Rogoff and halts administration efforts to bypass the Senate confirmation process with political loyalists.
politico.com
Judge rules Trump can’t fire court-appointed prosecutors
The ruling is a major loss for Trump’s effort to install loyalists in key positions.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hispanics working in the USA 👏🏽
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h
🔥🔥 Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Samara oil pumping station this morning, setting it ablaze. The facility is a key hub on the Druzhba and Kuibyshev–Tikhoretsk pipelines, mixing and transporting Kazakh and Siberian oil west for export.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 15h
He should have to answer for throwing out the constitution “John Roberts retreated to his island. Supreme Court critics found him. After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine's midcoast, rising anger and pretests have left the Supreme Court's chief justice more isolated than ever”
boston.com
John Roberts retreated to his island. Supreme Court critics found him.
After decades on Maine's midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court's chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing news! MLB has dropped its proposal for a baseball game in Grand Teton National Park! Thank you to everyone who pushed back and stood up for our parks!
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
robrogers3.substack.com
AI Monster
Trump has decided that the big tech companies, the same ones responsible for rogue AI attacks, can just regulate themselves.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Chicago-area election officials gear up for potential ICE, FBI presence at the polls after Trump threats”
chicagotribune.com
Chicago-area election officials gear up for potential ICE, FBI presence at the polls after Trump threats
Citing recent comments by President Donald Trump and top administration officials, lawsuits have been filed nationally and local election officials in Illinois have stepped up planning for ICE or FBI ...
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just hideous
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Chris Dashiell @cdashiell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If a Dem loses a close race in one of those GOP-run states, I don’t wsnt to see thrm just concede. Bring on the lawyers and challenge it. You know they’re cheating.
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 01/10/2026
Wemby is something else, man
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It doesn’t SOUND like he’s trying to stop the war… In fact…
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now they’re saying it out loud 
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#AbolishICE “New ICE guidance bans high-speed car chases and sets tighter rules for traffic stops, a memo shows”
chicagotribune.com
New ICE guidance bans high-speed car chases and sets tighter rules for traffic stops, a memo shows
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been ordered not to engage in high-speed car chases and to make vehicle stops only if they have completed specific training, under new internal g...
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#AbolishICE #ThisIsTheWay “A federal judge said she’d initiate a “fact finding” process to determine whether the U.S. attorney’s office intentionally misled her in the “Broadview Six” case, a rare step that could lead to criminal contempt charges or other sanctions.”
chicagotribune.com
Judge to begin inquiry that could lead to criminal contempt charges in ‘Broadview Six’ case
A federal judge on Thursday said she’d initiate a “fact finding” process to determine whether potential criminal contempt charges are warranted against prosecutors in the “Broadview Six” case.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They should have never been approved to the Supreme Court for this alone.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is trying for an obedient, sycophantic military. “Hegseth confirmed he’s cutting 20% of the military’s generals and admirals, doubling last year’s target, in what senators from both parties are questioning. The reduction covers roughly 800 general and flag officer positions”
aaronparnas.substack.com
NEWS: Democratic Turnout Surges, Trump Snaps at Reporters, Hegseth Purges Military, Renee Good’s Family Sues Trump, Botched Execution
Good morning.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today’s Winner
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just sick
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Protest them anywhere and everywhere
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The war on empathy, led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and embraced by Trump and his MAGA movement, is a systematic rejection of Christian systematic theology as established from the second century. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’
According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Democrats must show Americans not only that they’re paying more for just about everything, but that the reason they’re paying more is the rot at the heart of Trump-Republican deal.”
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ProsecuteICE “Renee Good’s family files lawsuits over fatal shooting by ICE agent Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross”
startribune.com
Live: Renee Good’s family files lawsuits over fatal shooting by ICE agent
Renee Good was fatally shot on Jan. 7 in south Minneapolis by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Russia Sends Nuclear Warning to NATO as Tensions Rise in the Baltic Reuters Russia has warned NATO it would be ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the Baltic Sea.”
gcaptain.com
Russia Sends Nuclear Warning to NATO as Tensions Rise in the Baltic
Russia has warned NATO it would be ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the Baltic Sea.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Only because it’s not Joe Biden. Who never fell asleep and never did anything crazy. Thank god he never wore a tan suit. I’m not seeing any Biden-Kennedy Center or Biden arch or… The media is now owned by the oligarchs. Break up the monopolies. We need a Teddy Roosevelt.
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/ “The Trump-Republican war on Iran has been a huge windfall for Big Tech supplying the military — such as Palantir, a core artificial intelligence and data-integration partner for the U.S. Department of Defense, founded by Trump and JD Vance buddy Peter Thiel. But it’s costing Americans dearly.”
robertreich.substack.com
The Rot at the Top
The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.
meidasnews.com
Judge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records Fight
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
robrogers3.substack.com
Contagious
Trump and RFK, Jr.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
See what I mean when I say the system is rigged?
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Greetings From Out of the Blue … State 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @greetingsout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Go Sox!
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Pope Leo XIV's Surprised Expression
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump is fully intending for the Kennedy Center to be his 7th bankruptcy. This isn't mismanagement, this is deliberate destruction in revenge for Trump not being able to make it a tribute to himself. www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
rawstory.com
Kennedy Center 'in free fall' as Trump allies max out credit and spend opera funds: WaPo
President Donald Trump took control of the Kennedy Center 19 months ago. Since then, the center has used up nearly every financial cushion it had, and one arts management expert says it now appears to...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.commondreams.org/news/us-sena...
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Despite Historic Support, Fetterman Joins GOP in Blocking Effort to Expose Israeli Abuses in West Bank | Common Dreams
"Tonight, 47 senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the nine Americans killed on the West Bank and for Palestinians who face injustices daily," said Sen. Chris Van Hollen.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pappas: It’s a golden age if you’re Don Jr. getting a Russian oligarch to pay for a wedding reception, but for the rest of us, it doesn’t feel like that. They can put out whatever numbers they want. The American people know that this is a totally incompetent president who is estranged from reality.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This morning, the Justice Department went after nearly an entire state's federal bench, all at once. The judges had said the government wasn't following court orders. The response was to try to remove the judges. Here's why every American should be paying attention. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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