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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 21h
Interesting 🧵
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
In Trump’s defense the reflecting pool has never more accurately reflected the state the country is in
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Losers.
Republican Men Are More Likely To Blame Women For Their Problems chart
• Democrat
• Republican
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18 to 29
30 to 49
Source: Civility and Morality Survey, 2025.
50 to 64
65 and older
Survey Center
on American Life
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump seeks to label Democrats as communists, but he was the one who rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping and kissed his ass. He is clearly Putin’s comrade and buying government stakes in private companies, so why aren’t more people calling out this bullshit? #ComradeTrump
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From Daniel Dale: "I started fact-checking Donald Trump 10 years ago this month. Here are 15 thoughts on the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered by the media: www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 27/09/2026
Doug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise. buff.ly/AY3SEou
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How the Interior secretary has let down public lands and the nation - High Country News
Doug Burgum was once seen as a conservationist. Reality shows otherwise.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026
Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing
Dr. Oz on flight
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here is the guest list for the State Dinner for China tonight. I have preserved misspellings from the list the White House sent.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump’s inner circle admits it’s possible he may listen to his election-denying supporters by declaring a national emergency and martial law.
theatlantic.com
The Supporters Urging Trump to Declare Martial Law for the Midterms
Trump’s advisers have been working for months to move his focus away from baseless theories of election fraud. A group of outsiders is making that difficult.
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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
"The FBI in 2025 under President Trump shut down an inquiry into allegations that a political adviser to Senator Susan Collins had participated in a scheme to funnel illegal campaign contributions from a defense contractor seeking lucrative federal contracts"
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins (Gift Article)
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Cuban delegation walks out as Trump rambles incoherently at the UN
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘I fell from my bed, all paintings and books fell off the walls,’ Liubov shares after Russia bombed her city on Monday . Liubov means ‘Love’ in Ukrainian. ‘Then I heard my door flung open and glass falling .’ she continues . ‘Whole apartment building was shaking. I grabbed the cat and
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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Doesn’t sound real good to me….
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Even if you think you know the whole Kennedy Center story, this is enlightening and enraging. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 20/09/2026
🗳️Early voting is getting underway across the country🇺🇸 Dates vary by state & sometimes by county, so know your dates & double check your state or local election site. Be informed. Be prepared. Make your voice heard. 🌊 Let’s bring on the Blue Wave 🌊 #2026Midterms #EarlyVoting #BlueWave #SheShed
🗳️Early voting is getting underway across the country🇺🇸

Dates vary by state & sometimes by county, so know your dates & double check your state or local election site.

Be informed. Be prepared. Make your voice heard.

🌊 Let’s bring on the Blue Wave 🌊
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump is imposing sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court, a sharp escalation in his efforts to dismantle the institution because it issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
Nevada: "With the passage of Assembly Bill 321 during the 2021 Legislative Session, all registered voters will receive a ballot by mail." Find early voting sites and election day voting sites (both links): www.nvsos.gov/elections/el... nvsos.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
This thread contains voting & election information for all 50 states and D.C. Links lead to the state's main elections web page and where and/or how to vote. Please take time to ensure you are registered to vote and know how and where you can vote.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 21/09/2026
⚡️ Putin's ruling party, United Russia, set to claim 'victory' in Russian parliamentary election. As is typical of elections in Russia, the results are widely considered by independent election monitors to be predetermined by Putin and his regime.
kyivindependent.com
Putin's ruling party set to claim 'victory' in Russian parliamentary election, in results deemed predetermined
As is typical of elections in Russia, the results are widely considered by independent election monitors to be predetermined by Putin and his regime.
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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/09/2026
Previously unseen tax filings for the Kennedy Center paint a fuller picture of the finances Trump inherited—and what happened during his first months in charge, @janaykingsberry.bsky.social reports:
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The Kennedy Center’s Tax Return
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
FCC says Paramounts request to override Congress’s 1934 national security restrictions on foreign media ownership is in the “public interest”—& permits MiddleEastern royal families & wealth funds to own 50%+ of WarnerMount www.latimes.com/entertainmen... what is more public interest than🇸🇦owning CNN?
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FCC approves foreign owners for a merged Paramount-Warner Bros.
Royal families of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi will own nearly 50% of the equity of a merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery
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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thread….
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Fracking in a #NationalForest! #ProtectOurParks
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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
LMAO…FFS, go into the Oval Office during a cabinet meeting and start rounding them up.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to financethemselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 19/09/2026
The White House belongs to the American people, not dictators who decide they would rather not face questions. A free press does not need permission to do its job. In the end we, the people, have the power to save our country. Democracy is a verb. Use it. Take it to the ballot box in November.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Speak at Your Own Risk
Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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An important 🧵….
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/09/2026
NEW: Hegseth and Trump are lying about how many troops have been killed in their war. The DoD website says 14. The actual number is 23 or 24 according to multiple DOD officials 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 18/09/2026
Far-right influencer C.Jay Engel helped popularize the term “Heritage American.” Now, he’s pushing the discredited theory of “blood memory.” 1/
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The hypocrisy is knows no bounds.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump's arch will harm historic sites: Federal officials acknowledge that Trump's planned triumphal arch will unavoidably harm historic sites if built as planned — but they say the project must move forward, according to a National Park Service document and emails obtained by The Washington Post.
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Trump’s arch will harm historic sites but must proceed, federal officials say
National Park Service officials acknowledge that President Donald Trump’s planned arch would harm dozens of historic sites but say it must move forward anyway.
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RandyResists2025💙🔵 @resist2025.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is basically how Trump wants to run the elections in the US — under the watchful eyes of armed guards.
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LSW @ltrip.altgov.info · 17/09/2026
www.wsmv.com/2026/09/16/h... Post from WinterQueen So greedy they’re gonna kill off their source of $. I beg you, vote for a government that 🤬 regulates!!
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Hand soap recalled for potential contamination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Six hand soaps distributed across 15 states have been recalled over possible bacterial contamination. See the brands, lot codes and affected products.
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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh, it was just an accident…🙄
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pete Hegseth demands servicemembers meet waist-to-height requirements and exhibit “impeccable” grooming standards. I think we are only days from Pete pulling a Madeleine Kahn, as Empress Nympho, inspecting bare-assed troops and swooning when they bounce up and down doing a “quick-time harch.”
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The GOP has canceled 23 House voting days so far in 2026: Jan 23 Feb 5, Feb 23 Mar 3, Mar 6, Mar 16 April 28 May 18-19 June 2, June 5, June 26 July 1-2 Sep 17 Sep 22-25 Sep 28-30 Oct 1
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections.
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BREAKING: US Supreme Court blocks Trump rule limiting mail voting, sides with Dem states
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday kept in place a lower court’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s embattled plan to place new restrictions on mail ballots for this year’s midterm elections.
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Heather Tierney 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @htierney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🤣🤪😂 short 🧵
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🤣🤪😂 short thread
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
kyivindependent.com/russia-admit...
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Russia admits it is striking 'everything and anything' in Ukraine
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed Russia had previously avoided indiscriminate strikes but changed its approach after Ukraine began targeting Russian economic and strategic infrastructure.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 14/09/2026
⚡️ "Our answer is to increase support" NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte declared that Russia’s attack on a Ukrainian passenger train reveals Putin’s growing desperation.
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