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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h
Important under-the-radar race. There's a big debate next week, given how Graham performed in the last one it could create a swing.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 05/10/2026
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20h
Attorneys for the former Olympian who had been accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool have called for inspectors general to investigate alleged misconduct by the Interior and Justice departments in the handling of the since-dismissed case.
washingtonpost.com
Inspectors general should probe Reflecting Pool case, ex-Olympian’s attorneys say
Attorneys for David Hearn say they want inspectors general to investigate alleged misconduct by the Departments of Interior and Justice in the handling of the since-dismissed case.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h
interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 20h
Trump could give himself a trillion dollars from the US Treasury and Republicans would be okay with that
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's absolutely bonkers to me that this image led directly to this tweet.
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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Today is the 20th anniversary of The Departed hitting theaters, aka the best flip phone movie ever made and Marky Mark's last great role, which means it's also been 20 years of annoying complaints from people who think they're smarter than the movie because of its last shot.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Eric Segall @espinsegall.bsky.social · 23h
All this talk about Alito is pretty silly. He’s not an Originalist. He’s a GOPist who privileges religion, hates unions (a lot), and has no empathy for the poor and powerless while favoring the rich and powerful. The rest doesn’t matter. Mostly, he’s a GOP partisan.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Gasoline prices were briefly sky-high under Biden, in the immediate aftermath of Putin's Ukraine invasion. Then they came down, well before his term ended. Gas is up +39.4% from a year ago. Diesel it at ALL TIME high prices, up +67.0% from a year ago.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seems like Bari has lost the New York Post. And bigly. Everyone can smell the stench of sucking air. pagesix.com/2026/10/05/s...
pagesix.com
Exclusive | Infuriated CBS staff still can’t get through to Bari Weiss after scandals and ratings collapse
It’s her way or no way, with insiders claiming she doesn’t listen to anyone when she has bad ideas.
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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How nice for them. Next question: which act of Congress authorized this expenditure of federal funds? Quaint it may be, but our constitution forbids drawing funds from the treasury except pursuant to acts of congress.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh my god
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/10/2026
I'm trying to imagine how much money or fame would be worth it to say such things out loud in public.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
theunpopulist.net
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👀⚖️ #1A
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Epstein case whistleblower dies by suicide — he is not the first Simon Andries revealed business ties between Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein. He is not the first person connected to the Epstein case files to have died after the materials were made public. ✅️Follow us for the latest updates
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Epstein Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Reportedly Dies By Suicide
None of the reports have linked Andriesz's death to his whistleblowing.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey WHCA -- u up?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today is the first day of the Supreme Court's term. My yearly print preview of all the things the Republicans will take away from us this time, is now avaialble on Al Gore's Internet in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
thenation.com
The People vs. the Supreme Court
This term the Supreme Court has plans to trampleeven more of our rights. But we, the people, are not powerlessin the face of their power grab.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
pedocon theory is a theory like gravity is a theory www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”
As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
for reference, in the Dobbs opinion, Alito was like, women generally don't _plan_ to get an abortion, so how could they have a reliance interest in abortion? which is kind of an extension of 'you want health insurance? what, you plan on being sick?'
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
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Trump Urges Republicans to Vote by Mail
"President Trump, who has long staged a rhetorical and legal assault against voting by mail even as he used the method himself to cast his ballots, released a video on Saturday urging Republicans to…
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.“ Now he’s dead.
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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump this week: Again promised every adult $5,000 to vote for his party Offered another private dinner with people who buy the most of his crypto coin Used more government money to run campaign ads for himself
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No could possibly have predicted that Trump calling Democrats “sons of bitches” would not be on today’s front page of the NYT, & Jake Tapper would be platforming Kevin Hassett to lie with impunity on the Sunday shows. 🧐🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
NYT front page 10/4Hassett and Tapper on CNN today
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 03/10/2026
Dan Sullivan's votes for tariffs didn't help Alaska, but they sure helped his brother's chemical company, where he owns up to $5 million in stock. This is the exact kind of corruption that Alaskans are sick and tired of.
americanjournalnews.com
Sullivan backs policies that enrich his family’s business
Sullivan owns up to $5 million in RPM International stock.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember, you are under no obligation to ever side with Tucker Carlson when he makes some anti-Trump comment. He is a fascist apologist who apparently thinks Hitler winning WWII would have been fine. He is, in my humble opinion, a silver spooned bigot who romanticizes white supremacy.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 03/10/2026
The Supreme Court works best when its composition reflects the broader political system. Term limits and regularized appointments for the justices would help make that happen. bit.ly/3TARNHi
brennancenter.org
How to Fix the Supreme Court’s Design Flaw
History suggests that giving each president equal influence over the Court’s makeup could produce a healthier institution.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UPDATE: Despite being ordered by Judge Sullivan to produce a certified list of the contents of the Administrative Record by Oct. 1st, Todd Blanche once again has decided he doesn't want to comply. I explain why Blanche would want to avoid producing this court-ordered info: youtu.be/junhrisxRlg?...
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🚨AG Blanche IGNORES JUDGE'S ORDERS And TRIES To DELAY MY Epstein LAWSUIT!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Marin K. Levy @marinklevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Judge says "she will appoint UChicago Consitutional law expert William Baude as an outside counsel. He'll be charged with filing an Amicus Brief that would clarify what powers the judge has under the consitution to appoint a special prosecutor and who that prosecutor would ultimately answer to."
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Federal judge weighs special prosecutor in ‘Broadview Six' case
A federal judge is evaluating whether to assign a special prosecutor after the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s handling of the ‘Broadview Six’ case
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s going to use nukes before it’s all over. People need to wake up
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
washingtonpost.com
The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
President Chutes N. Ladders
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Signs you might really have crossed a line: The torture guy is suggesting a firing squad as a more humane alternative
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*Gulp*
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