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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 5h

In 1987 Trump visited Moscow. Since then, "He has changed his mind about abortion and crypto, he has supported different political parties, but his dislike of America’s democratic allies and his preference for Russia have remained remarkably consistent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 11h

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

New — I wrote about Republicans beclowning themselves heading into the midterms with clearly bullshit narratives about James Talarico and Rep. Ilhan Omar, and how the favorable conditions for Dems have produced a noticeable shift to nipping deranged stories in the bud.

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Why Democrats must keep calling out GOP bullsh*t on sight

Immediately diffusing Republican desperation drastically shortens the life cycle of their clownish ideas.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h

There will be post-mortems after the elections about Dem performance. All of those discussions should include two structural factors: *Gerrymandering designed to make elections less representative *Massive spending by the wealthy, including unprecedented spending by the richest man in the world

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20h

2/ Incidents like the McIver prosecution and the Omar search should remind us that the fear motivating the speech or debate privilege--from its mid-fourteenth century origins through its inclusion in the US Constitution--was the prevention of executive and judicial harassment of legislators.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026

As the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. We’re showing you every incident we’ve confirmed — along with the receipts: propub.li/3TBuddL

500+ U.S. citizens detained since the start of the second Trump administration. 100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. At least 70 American children and teens detained, some of whom were handcuffed. 36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or family.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

James Talarico was briefly not doing events because he was at my house playing Super Smash Bros. We lost track of time

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Hey Trump – stop scapegoating President Zelenskyy. You and your puppet-masters Putin and Netanyahu started wars – and it's you three who are responsible for dramatically increased gas and diesel prices, not Zelenskyy. It's you three who are responsible for the deaths of innocents, not Zelenskyy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The billionaire class is going all-in to keep Trump and the GOP in power because they don't want to pay their fair share in taxes. Here's how we fight back.

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How to Actually Tax Extreme Wealth (ft. Gabriel Zucman)

Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Do you ever think about how rarely it's mentioned that Musk was found guilty by a jury of his peers of defrauding investors before he launched the largest, and possibly most fraudulent IPO, ever?

youtube.com

Jury finds Elon Musk misled investors during Twitter purchase

YouTube video by Associated Press

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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 10/10/2026

Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 10/10/2026

Excellent news for Republicans in the crucial swing state of Donald Trump's imagination:

Screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald Trump https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117418148236895862 dated 10 October 2026, reading as follows.

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The Dumocrats, along with their partners in crime, the Fake News Media, are trying to create the false narrative that, Donald Trump is so “unpopular,” the Republicans are going to lose. Actually, it's just the opposite. I'm so “popular,” that the Republicans are going to WIN, and that's being proven by the Record Setting Rallies we're doing (including the one in Tennessee where I'll be in a short while — See you soon!). President DONALD J. TRUMP

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The ship of diesel Putin sent Trump left on September 22. September 23 is when Trump's invite to G-20 was announced. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘We hope he’ll accept’: US invites Putin to G20 summit at Trump golf club

Invitation announced by Marco Rubio is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and EU countries

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They're burning more money than they've pulled out of food stamps every month on concentration camps that don't do what they want concentration camps to do.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Why can’t we have a decent life working 40-50 hours a week? As soon as you figure out a way to make a dollar more, they’re going to take it away from you.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 09/10/2026

Right-wing Christian nationalist podcasters are using the tragic Massachusetts case of Lindsay Clancy to make a radical argument: women should lose the right to vote, end no-fault divorce, and live under strict male supervision. Here is a breakdown of what they are saying on video 🧵👇

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family.

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of:

➡️ defunding the police
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."

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Denver Riggleman @denverr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We can only conclude Trump works for Putin.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But none of this addresses why people are seeking out what's considered to be disinformation. It treats it as a supply side issue, where if we can filter out the bad information, people only see good information, and democracy wins, but we know people seek the information out.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Will the 11th Circuit see through Trump’s new delay tactic as he tries to keep the public from seeing the Mar-a-Lago volume of Jack Smith’s report? joycevance.substack.com/p/pat-robert...

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Pat Robertson Tried It While Campaigning. Will Trump Fare Any Better?

But he shouldn’t.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everything about her and everything about the way he interacts with her and everything about their relationship and everything about the US president going around the world with arm candy decades and decades younger than him is just thoroughly grotesque before you even consider that she's a cultist

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, spare me the bullshit redemption tour. Everyone knew what this was going to be. “Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.” apnews.com/article/thom...

apnews.com

Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If we're going to denaturalize and deport people for sex trafficking they hid on their citizenship applications, is there a reason this would not apply to Ghislaine Maxwell?

CHILD SEX ABUSER’S CITIZENSHIP REVOKED AFTER NATURALIZATION FRAUD CONVICTION

Cyril Domaquik Clemens, a Liberian native, was convicted of three counts of indecent liberties with a child after confessing to sexually molesting a young child.

The abuse began before he naturalized, but he concealed it during the citizenship process, fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

➡️Learn more about ICE’s role in immigration fraud investigations by searching our website for “Operation False Haven.”

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🎃 Seasonal Creep 👻 @windingdot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Either it’s such critical funding that I have to be fined $100 a year by the state for the crime of owning a hybrid or it’s NBD and we can suspend the gas tax any time it’s politically advantageous, so which is it?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Part of that is our broken media. If people no longer read the NYT and WaPo, if they're no longer on a social media platform that tells them what to read, if no one watches TV anymore, then the old rules need to change. And part of it is that it cannot be JUST Congress.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pro Publica’s bombshell report is as detailed a story about government corruption as you’re going to get. And Susan Collins is right in the middle of it.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/10/2026

Plague outbreak in Russia from a lab. We MUST ban all commercial flights to and from Russia NOW

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but yes, someone earning minimum wage should be able to afford food, shelter, and the basic necessities to take care of themselves. That's literally the bare minimum. It's even in the name, Minimum Wage, just so you couldn't miss it!

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NEWS: Senate Republicans caught LYING in an attack ad claiming Sherrod Brown supports "irreversible surgery on kids like me," when the woman in the ad isn't from Ohio and didn't have surgery until she was 19 in Texas. These people are pathetic.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is psychosis. The president of the United States is psychotic. Is the media going to start talking about this, or continue to normalize it?

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Jon Husted was at the center of the biggest corruption scandal in Ohio history, receiving $3.5 million from FirstEnergy. He secured a bailout for FirstEnergy and raised your utility rates to pay for it.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In excusable, nostalgia drenched coverage in lieu of exacting account of mentally unstable rants. This is truly reprehensible non-journalism. See: www.contrariannews.org/p/you-can-he...

nytimes.com

In Alabama, Trump Relives His Glory Days (This Time With Some Empty Seats)

The Deep South was the birthplace of the mega MAGA rally. How do people on the Gulf feel about President Trump now?

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Wait... anyone get their $2K checks? How about their $5K checks? Oh, great... now seniors will get $100 if they vote red. Not sure that's gonna cover healthcare. What do you think?

axios.com

Trump promises $100 checks for 20 million seniors for Medicare

More than 20 million people will get direct deposits early this month to help pay Part B benefits.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Omg…did you read the ProPublica reporting on private schools?

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump’s entire National Security team, chaired by Vance, met in an unannounced meeting at Camp David to discuss the Middle East, Axios reports. Trump is now considering intervening in Yemen *as well as* Iran.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/10/2026

My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a point I think Dems need to be making more: Taunting the GOP on the way Trump delayed spending then tainted them all with these corrupt ads.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trump wants to do something illegal with taxpayer money, like not spend it for an appropriated purpose, withhold it from blue states, or spend it for a non-appropriated purpose, who does he turn to? Russ Vought and OMB General Counsel Mark Paoletta, who raid the DHS piggybank.

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