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I'm here for the news. Wine industry professional. I also make an alcohol-free beverage called Faux Wine.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This week: contempt proceedings against the Trump admin, Elon Musk's Wisconsin election case, DOJ's retreat from corporate crime & ICE investigations, threats against state election officials & the Tate brothers' extradition. The dots connect. I connect them. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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The Week Ahead
July 19, 2026
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China
His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/07/2026
"But then, like many others, he made the decision to abandon his previous ideals, to bury the patriotism that was once so important to him, and to become, instead, a loud, opportunistic collaborator." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Quintessential Politician of This Era
The late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham made a mid-career turn to MAGA.
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Sara R. Fagerlie, PhD, CHCP @cancercommunicator.com · 13/07/2026
"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry (Gift Article)
A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch.
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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Call us unsurprised and concerned. Gift: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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CIA Officers Can Sense the Threat Within
A survey reveals concern among the rank and file that Trump-administration meddling is undermining intelligence work.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/07/2026
this is one of the many small changes Trump is making in his attempt to manipulate the midterms
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/07/2026
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)
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Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
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Aaron Schaffer @aaronschaffer.com · 21/06/2026
You're gonna want to read this. Gift link: wapo.st/4viLSnW
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Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career
I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.
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Politico @politico.com · 21/06/2026
FEC filings confirm GOP meddling in Dem primaries
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FEC filings confirm GOP meddling in Dem primaries
Two shadowy groups, Lead Left and Real Change, received all their funds from a super PAC that also supports Republicans.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
NEW: 35 retired fed judges escalate challenge against Trump $1.7 billion slush fund & IRS deal They say Trump Admin's latest filing "underscores the need to investigate whether the parties have perpetrated a fraud on this Court & corrupted the integrity of the judicial process"
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2026
Rep. Brandon Gill: "We particularly need the left to tone down the rhetoric ... somebody is gonna listen and believe they are the next Dietrich Bonhoeffer and act on that and that's what we're seeing here."
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NPR @npr.org · 16/06/2026
One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human. n.pr/4vV8dYM
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Is a transparent fish the future of brain science? This center is betting on it
One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@pkrugman.bsky.social: "The SpaceX IPO now in progress makes it clearer than ever that Musk’s greatest skill isn’t developing futuristic products. It’s his mastery of financial shell games & his ability to leverage insider influence, especially his influence w/the Trump admin." 🧾 t2m.co/Zjm6S5yr
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Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme
With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/06/2026
Breaking News: The Justice Department has cleared the way for Paramount’s $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Justice Dept. Clears Way for Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
The $111 billion deal would unite two major movie studios and put CNN under the same roof as CBS News.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 09/06/2026
Deeply reported must-read— "An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr." @josh-kaplan.bsky.social, @justinelliott.bsky.social, @amierjeski.bsky.social for @propublica.org
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An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.
An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/06/2026
An unsigned order from the Supreme Court in a long-running Alabama redistricting case legitimatized a map that a lower court claimed “amounted to intentional racial discrimination.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Supreme Court’s Latest Blow to Black Voters’ Rights
An unsigned order from the Supreme Court in a long-running Alabama redistricting case legitimatized a map that a lower court claimed “amounted to intentional racial discrimination.”
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/05/2026
We found that 11 of Trump’s DOT appointees disclosed between $12 million and $52 million in stock holdings and other financial interests in airlines, railroads, oil and gas corporations, transportation technology firms and other related businesses. (Published Nov. 2025)
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How Trump’s Transportation Department Is Loosening Safety Rules Meant to Protect the Public
ProPublica has identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s DOT has moved to cut, soften or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines. Expe...
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/05/2026
Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family
Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
“.. Elon Musk gleefully boasted about feeding the United States Agency for International Development into a ‘wood chipper.’ “.. An Ebola outbreak in the region in 2018 took nearly two years to contain. .. This time around, we have far less capacity to respond.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/o...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
President Trump, who definitely has control over the situation and don't you dare say otherwise, announces project freedom is on pause.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...
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Media Matters secures complete and total victory against the Federal Trade Commission
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/05/2026
Chief Justice John Roberts once decried partisan gerrymandering as “unjust.” Last week, the high court made a decision that doesn’t just tolerate but encourages the practice, @dgraham.bsky.social argues:
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How the Supreme Court Came to Accept a Practice It Called Unjust
The Court went from condemning partisan gerrymandering to effectively encouraging it.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
NEW: The Fifth Circuit would like to run the United States. The far-right federal appeals court and the district court judges below them are taking actions to control and influence what happens outside of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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The Fifth Circuit would like to run the United States
The far-right federal appeals court and the district court judges below them are taking actions to control and influence what happens outside of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"
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DOJ Enters a New, Even More Aggressive Phase
The department is growing bolder yet, cutting legal corners in service of getting President Trump the headlines—and revenge—he wants.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"The program, which provides HIV testing, counseling and support services — will sunset June 30, according to the Indiana state Department of Health. The decision follows a $6.7 million reduction in federal funding that had supported the program..." indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/30/i...
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Indiana to sunset HIV outreach program amid federal funding cuts • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana will end a statewide HIV outreach and testing program this summer after a drop in federal pandemic relief dollars forced cuts.
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NPR @npr.org · 02/05/2026
By weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.
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Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress
By weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
WATCH: @RepLuna calls for a vote to strip the pesticide corporations immunity provision from the farm bill… chair Mike Simpson (RH) claims the “the NO’s have it” when clearly the YAY votes were louder… Luna asks for a recorded vote… Simpson postpones it… Wildly corrupt stuff
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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC, Sen. Katie Britt R-AL, and Sen. Eric Schmidt R-MO unveil plans to authorize $400 million in taxpayer funds to pay for a new White House ballroom.
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NPR @npr.org · 27/04/2026
The technique allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved. n.pr/4udjcvH
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Ingenious? Orwellian? Or both? Supreme Court considers constitutionality of 'geofence' warrants
The technique allows police to tap into giant tech-firm databases to find out who was near the scene of a crime and may have been involved.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Great essay, worth reading. We are "ruled" by sociopaths. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/04/2026
Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh
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Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
@washingtonpost.com lives up to its motto ("democracy dies in darkness") with this expose about CDC killing a scientifically reviewed report already approved for publication. The findings? The COVID vaccine is a good thing that works. By @lenasun.bsky.social Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/41JhAhb
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CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Republicans loved gerrymandering as long as their opponents were committed to fair maps. Now that Dems are responding in kind, conservatives aren’t having as much fun. But the only thing worse than constitutional hardball is unilateral constitutional hardball. (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans
Republicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 20/04/2026
BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned after a tenure marked by allegations that she had an affair with a security staffer and that her husband sexually assaulted her employees. www.ms.now/news/trump-l...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/04/2026
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished. (Published Jan. 2026)
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
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NPR @npr.org · 20/04/2026
Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, the U.S. government has set Monday as the day when some companies can begin requesting refunds.
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This tariff-refund portal is about to be America's hottest website
Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, the U.S. government has set Monday as the day when some companies can begin requesting refunds.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 19/04/2026
NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Breaking: Iran has re-imposed restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz — accusing the U.S. of violating the deal to reopen it. Iran says it will continue to block transit as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remains in effect.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The FBI responded with a statement, attributed to Patel: “Print it, all false, I’ll see you in court—bring your checkbook.” The @theatlantic.com story: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The FBI Director Is MIA
Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/04/2026
Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.
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Politico @politico.com · 13/04/2026
Swalwell suspends governor campaign amid sexual misconduct allegations
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Swalwell suspends governor campaign amid sexual misconduct allegations
His exit came after allies and staffers abandoned him en masse.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/04/2026
Hungarian voters turned out in the greatest numbers since the 1990s to turn away from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist Fidesz party, putting an end to Orbán's 16 years in power. n.pr/421W9b7
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Hungary's Viktor Orbán concedes defeat, ending 16 years in power
Hungarian voters turned out in the greatest numbers since the 1990s to turn away from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist Fidesz party, putting an end to Orbán's 16 years in power.
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