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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 3h
75% of Americans don’t want a data center in their neighborhood, but Trump’s EPA is greenlighting data center construction at the expense of our health. My new report details how Lee Zeldin is bending a knee to Big Tech by rolling back protections and failing the public.
Screenshot of report cover. Full text of report linked in reply.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1h
After Trump used taxpayer money to air one of his literal campaign ads, FCC Chair Brendan Carr shrugged off the scandal, saying the propaganda was just a “normal PSA.” It’s ridiculous to the point of being insulting. It’s as if these guys think Americans are idiots. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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FCC’s Carr brushes off concerns about Trump’s taxpayer-paid election ads
To see literal campaign propaganda as “normal PSAs” is obviously preposterous — except to Trump’s FCC chair.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1h
Brutal graphic on the amount of money everyone at Trump's AI roundtable contributed to Trump's Super PAC and vanity projects. It comes to $227 million. www.citizen.org/news/tech-ex...
CEO's donations paid off: Here's who had a seat at Trump's luncheon.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1h
Healthcare reform has never been more urgently needed. Indeed the entire medical system, including the research component, will need a full reconstruction if we're to move forward after Trump. Luckily there's a publication for thinking through such things.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h
New piece from me on James Talarico leaning into the immigration debate in the Trumpiest of border states:
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h
it's hard out there for a pimp
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h
NEW: NextEra and Dominion Energy, two of America's biggest utility companies, are on the verge of merging. Electricity costs are already through the roof — and this deal could jack up costs even more. The Trump Admin should not rubber stamp this merger.
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 6h
From @davidcorn.bsky.social: "His strategy for surmounting the Russia scandal boiled down to deny, define, deflect, and repeat." trib.al/KPeXGMB
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How Trump Won the Russia Messaging War—and How the Democrats Lost It
When Robert Mueller found no smoking gun on collusion, Democrats largely turned to other matters. But Trump and his backers never stopped pushing their lies.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 6h
Was it funny to see the new White House AI chatbot, on its first day of operations, presenting the public with facts that completely contradicted Trump’s alternate reality and brazen lies? Actually, yes, it was. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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On its first day, the White House’s new AI chatbot causes embarrassing troubles for Trump
America.gov, which the president described as “damn good,” presented the public with facts that were wholly at odds with Trump’s alternate reality.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12h
I don't think Katie Britt went slackjawed because she was mortified by Eric Schmitt's sloppiness. I think she (like all Republicans) knew the hearing was meant to generate propaganda and lawfare and she was crestfallen to see it come apart. Reporters should ask her if she knew the ambush was coming.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 9h
Americans’ belief in press freedom just hit a record low. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump’s war on the media is backfiring
Trump’s war on the First Amendment has sent public confidence in press freedom to a new low.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 9h
Some lessons to learn today, from somewhere that had it much worse than we do even now
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 9h
This is going to be such a mess for a future administration to disentangle
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JVL is right: "In their death throes, authoritarian movements can cause tremendous damage...A failing soiciopath, surrounded by loyalists and bitter-enders, facing the end of his rule, while the world burns. The period of maximum danger may still lie ahead." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The Forces of Trumpism Are in Disarray
This is what it looks like when a movement begins to come apart.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another way of making this point: The wheels may be coming off the Trump administration and the authoritarian movement energizing it. But a large tractor-trailer barreling down a highway at full speed whose wheels come loose is very dangerous to innocent people in the vicinity.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awful: The Supreme Court just let Trump's third-country deportations move forward. Still a shot at stopping them later but unlikely. Reminder: If Dems win power, they can and should defund both the white-nationalist Office of Remigration and third-country deportations, as I argue in this piece:
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's one thing to contest a close election. But if the Republicans contest an election that they've clearly lost badly will GOP voters buy it? (I know MAGA diehards will but will all of them?) Would the Supremes go along with whatever crackpot theory they've come up with?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23h
Yep.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 23h
Nowhere in the Trump account legislation does it allow auto-enrollment or say anything about enrollment procedures at all, just so you know the way that John Roberts will justify his 6-3 decision blocking auto-enrollment of kids into Medicare
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 22h
Prosecutors declined to act on a Cornell student’s rape allegations in 2024. Two years later, they’re finally taking another look. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Cornell rape scandal proves women’s safety is never the priority
The New York state prosecutors have decided to finally look into 2024 gang rape allegations.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States
‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rep Salazar and a few others are saying they might want to leave the compound without drinking the Magic Kool-Aid. But Jim Jones is making clear that you can't leave the compound. Sorry, Trump. Not Jim Jones.
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump refuses to end his reckless war in Iran. Costs are soaring. Families aren’t making it. Troops are in harm’s way. And Republicans in Congress are doing nothing about it.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/09/2026
"it certainly sounds like the US government through the DFC is being used leverage a deal for business pals of the Trump family." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
they claim insurrectioning is protected free speech
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
run this as an ad right now
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Column: Yes, Trump is uniquely stupid about the economy. But in another sense, he's just one more Republican president f--king up the economy, which is standard operating procedure for them. newrepublic.com/article/2158... via @newrepublic.com
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The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.
Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s long-standing traditions: burning the economy to the ground.
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He may have driven the country into the ditch, but at least he will have exploded the “we need a businessman” myth with a force no liberal Democrat could ever hope to. trib.al/Q5cRvjz
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The Last Recession Wasn’t Trump’s Fault. The Next One Will Be—Utterly.
Trump is following one of the Republican Party’s long-standing traditions: burning the economy to the ground.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
After our visit to Springfield Friday, I repeat what I wrote that. morning: We’re honored to help bring more attention to the outrages our government is perpetrating in our name. We’re honored so many of you are part of this effort. One more thing: ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-were-g...
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Why We’re Going to Springfield
There’s honor in this fight.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 28/09/2026
Fort Worth's Tarrant County was long a bastion for Texas Republicans up and down the ballot. Alisa Simmons has the chance to become its first Democratic leader since 1986 in a contest that could impact her party's statewide fortunes.
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Morning Digest: Texas Democrats campaign for control of battleground county
The race to lead once-red Tarrant County could have big implications statewide
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The “Love Me” commercial ran this morning during CBS Sunday Morning. How much are we spending on this national tongue bath?
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump’s fascist, taxpayer-paid ad is airing during football and it’s straight out of Germany circa 1933.
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is an image from Ann Wagner’s congressional ad. Dem candidate Fred Wellman is a West Point graduate and Desert Storm veteran who lost his wife in a car accident when she was 7 months pregnant. Wagner displays pictures of Wellman laughing over claims he “wants boys in girl’s sports.” And this—
Ann Wagner ad claiming “Wellman wants gender mutilation on minors”
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You’d get a lot more support of Medicare For All from people already on Medicare if the plan didn’t require them to read a 131-page book every fall detailing thousands of small, unintelligible rule changes to make literally life or death decisions while never knowing if they made the right choices.…
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We must embrace the Terrible Man Theory of history.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great to see all the Trump-supporting China hawks being just a little bit intellectually honest and politically courageous and criticizing him for this pathetic, sucking-up-and-kowtowing-to China summit. Not.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shorter Mike Waltz: Yes, Trump’s great buddies running China are helping Iran.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/09/2026
“and the Israelites replied, saying, please forgive us O Lord, we did not know he would smash OUR amphorae of cooking oil”
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/09/2026
it’s like some particularly clumsy Old Testament parable about why you shouldn’t have a psychotic piece of shit as king. “the LORD spake, saying, an evil king will befoul thine own food and drink as well as the foreigner”
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 25/09/2026
It’s fundamentally unhealthy for an authoritarian president to falsely, casually, and frequently accuse assorted political foes of “treason” — a word Trump apparently defines in a deeply twisted way. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump is the president who cried ‘treason‘
You’ve heard of the boy who cried “wolf”? I’d like to introduce you to the president who cried “treason.”
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 25/09/2026
As the White House tries to play people for fools, claiming Trump’s new taxpayer-financed propaganda ad is a “public service announcement,” Dems are taking a hard line: “This is the sort of government propaganda one might expect in North Korea,” they said, calling the ad “utterly illegal.”
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White House pretends its taxpayer-financed propaganda is a ‘public service announcement’
Key congressional Democrats called the pro-Trump ad “an egregious and utterly illegal misuse of Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars.”
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is no Republican "split" with Trump. It's catnip for access media, but the desperate ploy to align with the supermajority of voters who can't stand the president is tissue-thin. The same people saying the Iran war needs to end voted yesterday to keep it going. #Realtalk here.
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Republicans Had 690 Days to Oppose Trump - The American Prospect
They’re trying to cram all the opposition into the last 40 before the election.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The imminent landlord bailout, a settlement of litigation over the COVID-era eviction moratorium, is dominated by affiliates of Starwood Capital, a private equity firm that itself received direct and indirect federal assistance during COVID. Zachary Groz reports. prospect.org/2026/09/25/p...
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Private Equity Landlords Double-Dipping in Imminent Bailout - The American Prospect
Companies like Starwood Capital Group, which benefited greatly from financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, want a federal bailout on top of that.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Chinese are actively destroying the US global position while the US president bows and scrapes." phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/its-not-th...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"So Trump is consistent. He won’t offend Putin. He will suck up to Xi. Our petty presidential bully is cowed by the big-boy bullies of the real world." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kowt...
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Trump Kowtows to China
He rolled out the red carpet . . . literally.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sherrod riding cspan. ya love t'see it
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/09/2026
"Now the world knows that we can’t, in fact, be trusted as an energy supplier — that we may suddenly cut off fossil fuel exports whenever doing so might yield even temporary domestic political advantage." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-the...
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Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel
Trump gets ready to stiff more contractors
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