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Moderate. Independent. Older than you think. Smarter than you look. I block if you follow more than you're followed. He/him

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h
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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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 8h
Republicans blocked the measure, which would have terminated Trump administration changes to the ACA marketplace. www.washingtonsun.com/congress/sena…
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Senate Democrats Force an Uncomfortable Vote on Health Care Costs
Republicans blocked the measure, which would have terminated Trump administration changes to the ACA marketplace.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
🚌 NEWSWEEK: “Soaring diesel prices are putting mounting pressure on school districts and school buscontractors responsible for transporting millions of students across the country each day.” #TrumpTax #Trumpflation www.newsweek.com/school-bus-r...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7h
The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index tumbled 6.7 points to 81.9 in September. That's the lowest reading in the board's survey since April 2014 and below the lowest level reached during the pandemic. to.pbs.org/4z5vxEG
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Americans' opinion of economy drops to lowest level since 2014
Americans’ confidence in the economy sank to the lowest level in more than a decade this month as prices remain elevated and wages stagnate amid the ongoing Iran war.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 7h
Jack Smith explains that the phone records for some members of Congress "corroborated evidence that we had that the president, President Donald Trump and his co-conspirators were seeking to exploit the violence on January 6th in furtherance of their criminal scheme." www.youtube.com/live/zNc5VMP...
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LIVE: Jack Smith appears before Senate Judiciary Committee
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
Mortgage rates print 7.58% @cnbc.com
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 7h
I've been counting on the officer corps to refuse orders if they are told to deploy in support of another Trump coup attempt. But is Hegseth purging the military of the officers who would say no? This is a hugely important question. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Hegseth to Announce 20% Cut to Senior Officer Ranks
The defense secretary will announce the move on Wednesday during a speech to a handpicked group of lower-ranked officers and enlisted troops.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
NBC: “U of Michigan survey shows Americans feel worse about the economy than during the Covid-19 pandemic or 2008 financial crisis… Trump promised a ‘Golden Age’, but under Republicans Americans are struggling more than ever.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 8h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 7h
We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along www.wonkette.com/p/we-found-t... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social
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We Found The Voter Fraud — It Was In The Moms For Liberty All Along
Former Republican mayoral candidate Gaea Powell found guilty on eight counts related to voter fraud.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 6h
Here's an incredible example of how far DOJ and ICE will go in their failed attempts to prosecute the people they shoot. Also of the surveillance state. chicagoreader.com/news/ice-flo...
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Feds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago Reader
During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 10h
On Sept. 19th, OMB gave Customs and Border Protection $20 million. The next day, CBP awarded an ad company a contract for $20 million for a “national media campaign.” On Sept. 23rd, Trump ads start running on national tv as "paid for by U.S. government."
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CBP Got $20 Million for a ‘Media Campaign.’ Lawmakers Say It Was a Misuse of Funds.
The administration started running Trump-focused national ads that have come under ethical scrutiny for using taxpayer funds.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 9h
Absolutely revolting Supreme Court endorsement of cruelty because Trump. Third-country deportations are inhumane and corrupt. www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
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Supreme Court yields to Trump, giving feds free rein on third-country deportations
Immigrant advocates say the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy left their clients to face prolonged and arbitrary detention, beatings, sexual assault and even disappearance.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h
Check this out! Today, Democratic leaders in the Senate are holding a shadow hearing about the Trump admin's mass delegalization campaign. @immcouncil.org's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social is on the ground in DC preparing to livetweet the hearing. Follower her thread for more. 👇
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 13h
Generic Ballot Polling: 🔵Democrats: 53% 🔴Republicans: 38% YouGov / Sept 28, 2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
“.. Share of consumers expecting higher interest rates over the next year climbed to 68.4% in August, an increase of over five percentage points.” - Schwab #ConferenceBoard
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 12h
Fed's Barr: I do not see a clear trend toward a timely return to 2% inflation.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12h
STOP! Do not treat this cover story from ICE and DOJ with any credence whatsoever. So far, they have lied every time about what led to a shooting. At most, this suggests that the ICE agent who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez did so in anger, and had no body camera. wapo.st/4xP6VyM
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Immigrant shot by ICE in Austin is charged with assault
An affidavit unsealed on Tuesday said the officer who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez was not wearing a body camera and that another officer turned his camera off.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 12h
"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation," former special counsel Jack Smith said during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. to.pbs.org/4hwiB3E
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WATCH: Jack Smith says he would prosecute Trump again for 'serious crimes against our nation'
Smith, who in 2022 led investigations into Trump and secured two indictments, said he made decisions in the case "without regard” for Trump’s “political association activities, beliefs, or candidacy i...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
Ten-year yield, via Ekwueme:
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 13h
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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Rep. Suhas Subramanyam @repsuhas.bsky.social · 11h
As of yesterday, the war with Iran has gone on for 7 months. That’s 7 months of servicemembers put in harms way. 7 months of grocery and gas prices rising. 7 months of Republicans not taking any action. What happened to 4-6 weeks?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the 2020 presidential race was stolen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election denier Kurt Olsen leaves DOJ after failing to find evidence of stolen election
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11h
Watchdog group Public Citizen files a formal FCC complaint about Trump's taxpayer-funded TV ads “Broadcasters may be held liable for airing any ad that is in violation of federal law. Federal law explicitly prohibits using appropriated public funds for government propaganda"
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 11h
Sheila Blair: ‘With its September rate decision, the Fed is correcting for its past misjudgments. In 2022, it was too hesitant to raise rates, despite persistent inflation, and in 2024, it was too quick to lower them with inflation still above target.’ www.ft.com/content/4339...
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For once, the Fed has put Main Street before Wall Street
Rather than criticising the central bank’s rate increase, Republicans should be praising Warsh for putting American families first
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Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 12h
An affidavit unsealed Tuesday said that the ICE officer who shot Venezuelan delivery driver Wilber Garcés Pérez in Austin was not wearing a body camera and that another officer turned his camera off www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Immigrant shot by ICE in Austin is charged with assault
An affidavit unsealed on Tuesday said the officer who shot Wilber Garcés Pérez was not wearing a body camera and that another officer turned his camera off.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h
Listening to the D.C. Circuit's en banc oral argument regarding Judge Boasberg's efforts to investigate contempt of court in regards to the CECOT flights, and it's not going great for the government right now. It seems like the en banc court is likely to allow the investigation to go forward.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h
Brett Meiselas: If we’re going to get into a “race” against China like with AI, why is it never like... We’re going to get into an affordable healthcare race! We’re going to get into an infrastructure race and beat them in high-speed rail! We’re going to beat China in the affordable housing race!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13h
Fox and the Trump administration are using the narrative of a new migrant “caravan” to drive attention back to border security, a rare issue where Trump and his party retain an advantage in the polls, but one whose salience has fallen. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18h
"The agreement is good for Greenland, for Denmark, for the United States, for NATO and Europe, and for international peace and security," Denmark's U.N. ambassador, Christina Lassen, said. to.pbs.org/4xMFVQv
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At UN, Denmark says Greenland pact benefits all parties involved
The security agreement signed by the U.S., Denmark and Greenland last week “strengthens the defense of Greenland, the NATO area, and the American continent."
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 18h
Republicans in tight races are hammering Democrats on transgender policy and praying a message that worked so well in the 2024 election can save them this November. The problem is that even if their attack is the same, a lot else has changed.
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Republicans' Trans Attack Ads Aren’t Hitting the Same Way This Year
A potent 2024 message risks falling flat, with Democrats adjusting and the economy overpowering.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 18h
Trucking rates are approaching the 2022 peak @WSJ @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 18h
Oura postpones IPO, citing market uncertainty Not a healthy sign @seekingalpha
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m beyond livid about tax dollars funding Trump propaganda. I do not see “two sides“ to this situation. Join me in mocking news organizations whose coverage was pathetic by extrapolating how they’d cover Trump shooting someone on Fifth Avenue... presswatchers.org/2026/09/the-...
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The political equivalent of Trump shooting someone on Fifth Avenue | Press Watch
Trump using tax dollars for a campaign commercial should trigger every thinking American, even White House political reporters
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Khanna: Please put Trump on TV all over America. Have him talk about how he's still committed to the Iran war & how gas prices are going up & diesel is going up but he doesn't care, he's going to finish the war. I'd love for him to spend all his money promoting himself."
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kash Patel should resign in disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
Ciaran Martin, the former head of Britain’s cyberdefense agency, said the F.B.I. hack likely had “huge impact on the operational capability” of the bureau and could rank as one of the most consequential data breaches in history — graver even than the Office of Personnel Management burglary.

“Losing the data on 20 million federal employees to the Chinese was bad,” Mr. Martin said. “But you knew the Chinese weren’t going to sell or publish it.”
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
US finalizes new lower fuel economy standards reut.rs/3TVcuhl
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US finalizes new lower fuel economy standards
The ​Trump administration ‌has finalized new ​lower ​fuel economy standards, ⁠according ​to a ​government notice published on ​Monday ​said, officially reversing a ‌push ⁠by the Biden administration ​to ​force ⁠automakers to ​build ​more ⁠fuel-efficient vehicles.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"To say that we're gob smacked is an understatement" Cultural Landscape Foundation blisters Team Trump for shutting down public comment on Trump Monumental Arch Group says Trump Admin has deemed 1000's of public concerns about Arch to be "meaningless, unimportant & of no value whatsoever"
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 28/09/2026
‘S&P 500 breadth has narrowed to its weakest level since the dot-com bubble.‘ thedailyshot.com/2026/09/28/s...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28/09/2026
SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday, aiming for six full laps around Earth to prove its readiness for NASA's Artemis moon program. to.pbs.org/3TZsZch
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SpaceX's supersized Starship launches into orbit for the first time
The spacecraft almost didn't achieve the long-desired goal after one of its engines shut down too soon.
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