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“I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.” – and tore it up. —The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
Can someone ask CBS News why Ted Koppel said that "Bannon's technically correct; they didn't have standing" in the 60+ cases Trump and his allies lost in 2020. This is verifiably false and is a GOP talking point. Many/most of the cases Trump lost were on the merits. Do they not fact check at CBS?
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cleo @smuuchii.bsky.social · 10h
"ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10h
Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
This is the scene of Lonesome Rhodes' undoing in A FACE IN THE CROWD, except here the audience loves that their idol is calling them dumb fucking sheep.
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"Good night, you stupid people!" clip from A FACE IN THE CROWD
YouTube video by Club Samely
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h
New developments on a Saturday night: Reports Trump’s DOJ will try to use the Sherman Antitrust Act to intimidate the free press. joycevance.substack.com/p/can-the-sh...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
October 10, 2026
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October 10, 2026 (Saturday)
So now, after more than a decade of pretending that he is not associated with Russia and that he would honor the U.S.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/10/2026
He was found dead in his home at age fifty-six. www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-t...
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Season 2 Update: Curtis Flowers Has Died
He was found dead in his home at age fifty-six.
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Kris Gates @krismgates.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So where did the $ millions go that big donors gave? Doesn't look they were spent on this miserable "Freedom 250 celebration"-- that travesty was paid for by our tax dollars instead. I bet I can guess where the millions went; I bet you can too.
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Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So I edited this story. And I wanna share on thought on language, & telling the truth We talked about: the "government is lying to you" It may sound saucy. It may sound like opinion But it's just true And if something is true then you should just say it, clearly That's just good journalism
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Scott Berfield ❌👑- May it happen today. @berfield.com · 06/10/2026
Lawsuit time.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
While the flow of oil through Hormuz has now reached about 85% of its normal rate, the cost of moving it has become staggering as a result of insurance and special security. The cost of carrying oil from inside the Persian Gulf to China rose to a record $1.3 million a day Monday, according to data
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Dalio Says We’re Nearing Point Where AI Bubble May Burst
Billionaire Ray Dalio warned that artificial intelligence is a “classic bubble” that is nearing a bursting point thanks to rising interest rates and the need to turn wealth into cash.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Outrage as MAGA lawmaker openly admits plot to block seating of Dem candidate: 'Shameful' www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett...
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Outrage as MAGA lawmaker openly admits plot to block seating of Dem candidate: 'Shameful'
Outrage erupted Sunday after Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) openly admitted to his plan to block the seating of a Democratic congressional candidate should they win in November.As reported by the New York P...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/10/2026
Doctors noted in their records she was at a “high” risk of death. The 37-year-old requested an abortion twice. She was denied and discharged. trib.al/RzISmSA
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Paxton Sued by Family of Woman Who Died After Being Denied Abortion
Ken Paxton is facing a historic lawsuit over Texas’s abortion ban.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/10/2026
a monstrously wicked man
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"The doctrine that the strong shall dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies. And we reject it." -- FDR
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's a reason for that. Ask Putin's brain, Aleksandr Dugin about his intellectual hero Ivan Ilyin.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
International lawyer: “Stop pretending silence is moral… Silence makes this possible… say the word: Genocide.” From @DiegoParrhesia 🧵
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Friend of Putin oligarch Konstantin Sokolov makes a nice fat donation to Trump's ballroom project, and gets relief from Treasury Department sanctions in exchange. This is known as a quid pro quo transaction. It's a felony. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 02/10/2026
How much does it cost to get information about a cop who punched someone in the face? About $2.5M, plus 44,816 hours of staff time, according to the Eugene, OR, Police Department. If that sounds absurd, it’s because it is. Watch @laurenleharper.bsky.social explain:
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PSA: The Trump administration changed the form used to register and request absentee ballots, removing the checkbox for US citizens who have never lived in the US(even though some are eligible to vote under state law). The change could block eligible voters and was made without proper public notice.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 01/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: A Russian drone struck a school in Kyiv while children were inside.
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Russian Drone Slams Into Kyiv School as Children Shelter Underground
A Russian drone attack in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district hit a school as children sheltered, causing a fire and prompting an emergency response.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Peter Thiel's obsession with Pope Leo borders on the pathological. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/10/2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have penalized people for using smart glasses to record people without their permission in changing rooms, doctor's offices and other spaces people generally consider private.
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Newsom vetoes measure that would have penalized the use of smart glasses to secretly record people
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have penalized people for using smart glasses to record people without their permission in changing rooms, doctor’s offices and other spaces people generally consider private.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/09/2026
Nine Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since 2022. trib.al/JEL6WB3
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John Fetterman Helps GOP Block Probe Into Israeli Murders of Americans
Nine Americans have been killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank since 2022.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Super Intelligence."
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 30/09/2026
“Patel is apparently planning a trip to Russia, a country that (a) is no friend of the United States nor the FBI specifically and yet (b) is quite friendly with Patel, including via a ‘Russia-linked production company’ that evidently previously paid Patel $25,000 to appear in an anti-FBI TV series.”
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...
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Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Russia’s turning abducted Ukrainian children into Russian soldiers." Reporter Kathryn Diss traveled to Ukraine to expose this devastating reality. After years of indoctrination and militarization, kidnapped kids are being forced to sign contracts and fight against their own country.
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Foreign Correspondent: S2026 Ukraine's Stolen Children Foreign Correspondent
Thousands of Ukrainian kids have been stolen by Russia since the war began with many ending up on Russian adoption websites. We embed with the undercover rescue network working in a race against time ...
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J6 Plaque @thejan6plaque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More people to prosecute
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am reading @stevebrusatte.bsky.social’s new book on birds and dinosaurs and it’s a blast—and more evidence today right here! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER​​​From the renowned paleontologist and bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a sweeping evolutionary history of birds, from their dinosaur origins to the ...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton's prolific adultery routinely makes the cover of London tabloids (and much of it occurs in London). But the Texas press consistently prefers to look the other way.
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“MY TICKET WAS REVOKED” Tech oligarch Trump donor Peter Thiel (J.D. Vance’s sugar daddy) is rejecting local journalists from his secretive closed-door ‘Antichrist Lectures’ series in NASHVILLE… what’s he hiding? 🤔
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's the thing: The New York Times report this ad was based off said that Marshall had patients arrested for owing as little as $114 *total.* They can try to pull the 'this pregnant mom was no angel' if she were the only person he'd had arrested but there are dozens more such cases.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Adam Dean Hoffman sexually abused an 8-year-old boy dozens of times. But because he was a good Southern Baptist and loyal Republican, Paxton offered him a 60-days-in-jail plea-bargain. Paxton thinks this was a tough sentence.
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
So gas is getting more expensive, and Trump is making cars less fuel-efficient. Brilliant strategy.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian forces delivered around 4,000 kg of food to 100 locations in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The report says Russian troops shoot down aid drones, seize or resell food intended for children and elderly residents, and detain people receiving packages. #Ukraine
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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The New Voice of Ukraine @english.nv.ua · 26/09/2026
🕯️ NV Business journalist Mariia Yivzhenko killed in Russian attack on Kyiv Mariia was 29. She was killed on Sept. 25 when a Russian drone struck the Compass business center in Kyiv. 📌 Those wishing to support her family: 4874 1000 3398 4082
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Did 5,900 Marines die on Iwo Jima so Hegseth could disgrace his oath with a disgraceful request like this?
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