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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They made her wait all day to kill her, and now they’re torturing her.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By late November 2020, Trump was joking to others about how crazy Sidney Powell was. That didn't stop him from cashing a $300 donation with the memo line, "Release the Kracken." [sic]
A heavily redacted check dated 11-20-20 for $300.00 with an address of Greenville, NC. 

The memo line reads, "Release the Kracken."
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Saw this story on BBC website about VPP in Vermont @volts.wtf www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The US state replacing power plants with home batteries
Spread across thousands of ordinary homes, Vermont's virtual power plant has become its largest power source. It's protecting owners from outages and providing cheaper, cleaner energy.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today’s Jack Smith hearing should be treated by the press as a civics lesson rather than a spectacle. “As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime.” His opening remarks: www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“It’s just a fuel crisis Michael, what could you possibly expect the federal government to do”
Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth”
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He really thought he had something
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think people REALLY can't appreciate how badly the far right wants to prove that Fani Willis and Jack Smith coordinated. So they were not going to let the truth get in the way of their most sincerely held belief.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm genuinely curious what sort of play this gets in the broader media. Could be: *nothing *Senator can't tell the difference between sports teams! c *big gotcha effort backfiring emblematic of right-wing conspiracy addiction I think the latter story would be most insightful, but less likely
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/09/2026
The Trump admin rejected the UN Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics because it mentioned equity, solidarity & universal access to sexual & reproductive health care services. They're so obsessed with banning words & controlling women that they’ll risk millions of lives to do so.
The graphic displays a photo of Donald Trump and the red Stand Up for Science logo. The graphic reads: "Trump admin willing to risk millions of lives just because of their war on words and women."
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 27/09/2026
Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024).
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 27/09/2026
"Hitler was now the law, as Goering said." - Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," p. 337.
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
See for yourself bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
May 2024: "You all are wealthy enough, he said, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House. Giving $1 billion would be a 'deal,' Trump said, because of the taxation and regulation they would avoid thanks to him." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign
Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
A while back when SCOTUS ordered Trump to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, Roberts said “courts must show due regard and deference” to him on national security matters. Since then, he’s used it to justify everything from the ballroom to the arch, mass deportation, boat strikes, and now this.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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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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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 19/09/2026
FEMA denies remaining federal funding for Colorado counties affected by wildfires
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FEMA denies remaining federal funding for Colorado counties affected by wildfires
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 19/09/2026
Cabinet secretaries are public servants, not “warriors” for God. Americans who don’t share the administration’s religion are not “darkness” to be defeated. Our government represents Christians, atheists and everyone in between. It is not a vehicle for religious crusades.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What? A sudden 30% decline in national housing prices would be a sign we're in like a serious depression. After the housing bubble burst in 2006/2007, national house prices fell "only" 27% peak to trough fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSH...
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Such a dumb mofo with a gigantic platform
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At 18, I got myself vaccinated. My mother claimed religious exemptions to skirt school requirements when I was a child. Recently, I find myself reflecting on how lucky I was to grow up then and not now. And how grateful I am to the largely vaccinated community I grew up around, who kept me safe.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rand Paul just quoted Carl Sagan at Children’s Health Defense’s anti-vaccine conference and AJGIRKCHSINDJJVKFKDJAHCJKDDJHDJSJCJDJFJFJJFJGJGKKGKGKDKDIEUCIWIVNJDIRUFJF
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fox News' Special Report has now spent 3 minutes covering the Russian oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding. No other program on the network has mentioned the story. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News all but ignores report that a Russian oligarch bankrolled Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes, all his businesses failed. But I do wonder how someone this stupid continued to be in a position to have new businesses to drive into the ground. Now he's just selling his power. But who was having conversations with a guy this dumb in the 80s and 90s and then writing him a check?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026
Read Mikhal Zygar on Umar Kremlev, the oligarch who helped pay for Don Jr's wedding zygaro.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The war on Iran has cost consumers more than $100 billion in fuel costs. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Americans Have Spent $100 Billion More on Fuel During the Iran War
Higher gasoline and diesel prices have led many families to save less and curb spending elsewhere.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SCOOP: A group of staffers from the right-wing think tank, America First Policy Initiative, have been detailed to the Census Bureau, where they have access to sensitive data +contributed to a public report that bolsters conspiracy theories undermining trust in elections www.wired.com/story/a-trum...
wired.com
The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Once again, this was how the Economist characterized the American economy on Election Day in 2024. We had a country on the brink of stunning success, but the Republicans knee-capped it with trade wars and real wars of their own choosing.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/09/2026
if you're a reporter "barred from recording video" by the government, you goddamn better record video
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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David Crook @idcrook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
OMFG. Pictured in white robes and a pointy hat, getting his “disenfranchisement” desires coming true
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"my client didn't show up to his final immigration court hearing this morning" would usually be imm lawyer nightmare fuel, but my guy was in ICE custody. They were supposed to put him on video and they just... didn't. Because no one could find him. He's still in there. Just, you know, missing.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/09/2026
There’s no better time to make sure you and your friends have a plan to vote in the midterm election. 🗳️
Graphic with a design that has a close up image of a ballot box. The graphic reads "There are 50 days until election day!" The number 50 is inside the ballot bubbles.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
1/ This @propublica.org story is just gobsmacking. As table stakes: why does a family of billionaires need help paying for weddings? And why would they accept from Russian oligarch with ties to Putin and FSB? 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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICE and Oklahoma state police are illegally arresting and detaining Ukrainian truck drivers who are here legally via TPS. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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Truck drivers who fled Ukraine war are being jailed by ICE in Oklahoma
Many believed they had proper paperwork but have been ensnared by inconsistent immigration policy and a federal push for deportations. Most remain in custody at Oklahoma prisons.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stop being so cynical about the six-figure gift to the president's son, people give him gifts like that all the time!!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Naked graft, selling out the country. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
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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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh boy 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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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And I don’t care what Douthat looks like or how smooth he is. Morley Safer wasn’t exactly leading-man handsome, but he was a real journalist. Douthat is mealy-mouthed failure whose signature move is laundering reactionary rage through enough tortuous prose it emerges looking like a real question.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this is kind of a good explanation of why AI doomerism is being pushed on us from every direction. better to have people worry about computers oppressing us than about the actual fascists doing so.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Douthat piece where he talks about the importance of AI closes with a sponsorship notice from a healthcare company using AI to deny claims.
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