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Kara Yorio @karayorio.bsky.social · 9h
"State law in Arkansas doesn’t require much to open a private school, nothing about teacher skills or what kids learn. But it does require that all schools display an American flag, and we wanted to follow the rules." Unbelievable story. Also, immediately ordering the ProPublica Academy pencils.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WTF?? Source: K-12 Dive share.google/VkKhtgQYETRp...
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IRS proposes rule for groundbreaking school choice program
The controversial program is estimated to provide $26 billion in taxpayer contributions annually for education expenses for public and private school students.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A forgotten media moment from earlier this year was that Olivia Reingold embedded with ICE agents in Minnesota and never wrote about what it was like because doing so would turn Free Press readers into No Kings marchers.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Again and again, this administration has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as an assertion of power, a dominance display, to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, and nobody can stop him. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Scenes from a personality cult
Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hear we're not supposed to call these guys weird.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So Schmitt got his right-wing media hit from a completely fabricated storyline. One newscaster noted: “When a witness lies under oath before Congress, he can face prison. When a senator gets it wrong, he says he was just ‘asking questions’.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 30/09/2026
The Missouri Republican apparently mixed up the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Atlanta Hawks in an epic perjury trap failure.
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Eric Schmitt Tries To Laugh Off His False Jack Smith Perjury Accusation
Eric Schmitt Tries To Laugh Off His False Jack Smith Perjury Accusation
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026
Companies have changed the way they price their products — and shoppers are getting deliberately overcharged. Here are steps you can take to ensure you are getting the best deal. n.pr/4ryNNUh
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4 ways to avoid getting ripped off, according to a pricing expert
Companies have changed the way they price their products — and shoppers are getting deliberately overcharged. Here are steps you can take to ensure you are getting the best deal.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The administration announced it is refusing to spend about a billion dollars Congress appropriated for programs that help the American people—a refusal the nonpartisan GAO says is illegal—on Saturday, Trump used taxpayer money for his own vanity ads. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 28, 2026
It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.
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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera
De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The second lesson is that this moment is not just the result of a rogue regime operating outside the scope of its mandate. It turns out that many Americans did not know they were fascists—but when the time came, they did indeed find out. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The Hard Lessons of Springfield
There are plenty of people happy about what is happening to the Haitian community.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The White House has insisted both are public service announcements, even though neither promotes the kind of cause or awareness that benefits the public. They do, however, seem to meet the literal definition of propaganda.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With just a few weeks remaining until a highly-anticipated midterm election, the cost crisis is worse than some elected leaders – including President Trump – are acknowledging. macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/they-dont-...
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 28/09/2026
Letter: Cutting USAID funding. The U.S. support of genocide in Gaza. Killing thousands of civilians in Iran. These are all issues of “significant moral consequence,” LDS Church leaders. Why do you only speak on abortion?
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Letter: In opposing Idaho’s abortion measure, the LDS Church says it weighs in on issues that have ‘significant moral consequences.’ Why, then, does it stay mum on so many others?
Letter: Cutting USAID funding. The U.S. support of genocide in Gaza. Killing thousands of civilians in Iran. These are all issues of “significant moral consequence,” LDS Church leaders. Why do you only speak on abortion?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 27/09/2026
I just got the news Wolf 1273M of the Rescue Creek Pack has been shot outside park boundaries. Vote Like all our lives depend on it Ours and theirs
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/09/2026
Previously unseen tax filings for the Kennedy Center paint a fuller picture of the finances Trump inherited—and what happened during his first months in charge, @janaykingsberry.bsky.social reports:
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The Kennedy Center’s Tax Return
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Russ Vought’s message to Congress is that your votes don’t count, and your laws are optional,” Murray said. “It is now time for my Republican colleagues who said they would never let this happen to stand up and join us to stop this, heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 26, 2026
Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to emancipate white people from Black elected officials—but not to help Black people elect officials—signals its fundamentally racist priorities.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Lucifer 10th Anniversary @luci10anniversary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lux4 might be postponed, but we can still make the weekend special What's your favourite memories of Cons past? Who did you meet? What friends did you make? What photos or videos do have? Share it and let's see what we all desire 👀 📺😈 #Lucifer10 #Lucifer #LuciferNetflix
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Lucifer (Tom Ellis) - I Know You Want To
ALT: Lucifer (Tom Ellis) - I Know You Want To
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/a...
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Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say (Gift Article)
In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Vote “No” on the NC GOP’s bad amendments
Republicans want to keep shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to the rest of us.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And that’s the gist of Trump’s attacks on media outlets: MAGA is falling apart, and he either lives in a fantasy world or hopes to stem that collapse by issuing propaganda that will convince voters he is actually winning. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 24, 2026
After a hearing yesterday about Trump’s Friday ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House campus, very early this morning—I was still awake writing yesterday’s letter—U.S.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026
CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all." TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICE agents chasing him in a car ran this guy over a week ago, horribly injuring him. Needs some media attention beyond this: www.walb.com/2026/09/23/i...
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ICE releases statement after man run over in Dougherty County operation
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now releasing more information about an incident that happened in Dougherty County on Sept. 17 when a man was run over by an ICE vehicle.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Truth Matters (@politicsusa46)
Liam Denning from Bloomberg is spot on here. Trump doesn’t care about America or the future of Americans, he has no interest in anyone or anything but himself. He can see accountability inbound and n...
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump announced a "massive deal" Monday to buy cheap Belarusian fertilizer instead of Canada's. Hours later, Belarus's dictator said there wasn't any. The fertilizer is potash. Trump spent a year cozying up to a dictator so he wouldn't have to buy from Canada. ===================
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On a far larger scale is the use of tax dollars to pay authoritarian governments to imprison immigrants from the United States who are not their own citizens. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 23, 2026
Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...
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Slate @slate.com · 23/09/2026
This can’t just be “how it is” now. slate.trib.al/WQgKGQD
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When Immigration Agents Killed People in January, the Nation Took Notice. What’s Different Now?
So far, federal agents have not faced consequences for their fatal interactions with the public. That can’t stand.
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An Anarchist Who Tried Her Best @nataliereed84.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Christ on a cracker.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My kids have measles, I can't afford gas, my country has been humiliated by Iran, and our senile rapist president is going to allow unregulated AI to destroy our civilization. But a lesbian bar in a town I've never heard of still has a mask mandate. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
when Reagan came into office 90 percent of the American media landscape was scattered among over 50 companies; now a mere five conglomerates dominate that 90 percent of the media Americans consume. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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Rightwing Billionaires Aren’t Just Buying CNN and CBS: They’re Seizing the Power to Shape Reality
When Trump-aligned billionaires control the networks Americans trust for news, they don’t just own the cameras. They gain the power to decide what the entire country sees, hears, and never learns…
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The Economist @economist.com · 23/09/2026
Individual incidents may appear random, but as a whole they show a pattern of disruption and intelligence gathering. They are calibrated to be large enough to have an impact while remaining below the threshold that would prompt a NATO military response
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Russia’s grey-zone attacks on Europe are growing more brazen
The Europeans will have to start fighting back
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website this week stripping away numerous prominent references to his endorsement from Donald Trump.
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Byron Donalds strips Trump references from his campaign website
The Republican gubernatorial candidate stopped emphasizing his endorsement from Donald Trump as the president’s approval ratings plummet.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To be fair, he reads nothing and if you give him a Sharpie, he’ll sign anything.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Touting his own “Board of Peace” and continuing his fiction that he has solved multiple wars, he outlined a fantasy worldview of himself as a powerful dictator, a man of action who rejects the diplomacy at the heart of the U.N. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 22, 2026
In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Meanwhile, the economic question has already been answered. A free press helps voters manage politicians. It makes corruption riskier. It keeps political competition alive. It lowers what taxpayers pay to borrow. And without it, we and our economy are weaker. open.substack.com/pub/platypus...
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What Economists Know About Kicking Out Reporters
Trump banned three news organizations from the White House last week — and there’s a research literature on exactly where that leads.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Truth Matters (@politicsusa46)
@Matthew Cooke nails it. This is not new, previously it was a creeping invisible cancer hidden from view. Now greed and control is out and proud. They know the day of reckoning is imminent and their...
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In fact, on the same day that the president would announce that controversial ban, Lyman’s outfit—known as Border Hawk News—had been picked as a “new media” representative in that day’s official White House press pool. open.substack.com/pub/confront...
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As CNN, MS NOW, Politico Booted, White Nationalist Outlet Snags White House Press Slot
The White House moves to silence critical reporting—while handing access to a fringe outlet with explicit white nationalist ties.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Source: Trump’s revised plans for triumphal arch include a moat filled with sharks with laser beams attached to their foreheads.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
News wasn’t “fake” until the President was.
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