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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...

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Opinion | Religion Is the Roberts Court’s Unfinished Business (Gift Article)

This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So many reasons to create a massive Blue Tsunami in November. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/t...

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

GIFT LINK:United States and Russia have worked to weaken global rules to regulate lethal AI weaponry, as the Pentagon moves to rapidly infuse the burgeoning technology into its battlefield strategy. wapo.st/4yWadkR

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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact

The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Susan Collins has voted to confirm 60+ anti-abortion judges in her time in the Senate, and now she's voted for 3 more just since last week. Nice to see Senator Collins was able to take a break from lying about corruption to give a lifetime appointment to another anti-choice judge.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To be clear, Mr. Attorney General, the 1st Cir struck down your policy after full adversary briefing on 9/18. Rather than seek clarification on whether it took effect immediately, you tried to fly still more people to 3d countries so it would be too late for them. On 9/23 it found out & stopped you.

Without even allowing the government a chance to respond, and in the dark of night, a federal appeals court blocked us from conducting all third-country removals of illegal aliens, an entirely legal and invaluable tool to stem the tide of illegal immigration. We will immediately seek relief from the Supreme Court, which previously granted a stay in this very same case.

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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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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is bad that the White House demonstrates casual disregard for the rule of law.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks, but no thanks from this arrogant villain. Even if you aren't alarmed by AI, you should be alarmed that this kind of person is at the helm of its progress. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Opinion | Jensen Huang vs. the A.I. Doomers (Gift Article)

Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, does not want you to be afraid of A.I.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The U.S. military’s price tag for the Iran war has grown to $43.6 billion as of Sept. 3. Trump administration claims that removing Obamacare healthcare from 750m people (with more cuts coming) would save the government $2.2 billion. Any questions? 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...

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Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud (Gift Article)

Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

GIFT: The term “remigration” has been popularized by white nationalists in Europe who seek the expulsion of racial minorities and immigrants. It often represents a massive expansion in funds being sent to authoritarian regimes that previously received smaller amounts from the US. wapo.st/4dLG4wo

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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation

Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Now, in the case of A.I., it's just a complete dead end. You can not deploy those methods against a faithless opposition and a corporate elite that has chosen to side openly with that opposition. www.offmessage.net/p/ai-risk-ne...

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

outrageous. Bonta will be a villian if he goes through with this

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is fine to issue statements, but what is the WHCA going to do? Other than plan its next black tie dinner honoring Trump.

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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What do Papa Johns, Putin & a Dutch ship company have in common? One man: Tom Dans, chair of the US Arctic Research Commission. The role is typically held by science/public policy experts. That’s not Dans. We dug into how he could be leveraging the role for his own interests 🧵

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Damn, this is good.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026

Read Mikhal Zygar on Umar Kremlev, the oligarch who helped pay for Don Jr's wedding zygaro.substack.com/p/the-oligar...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Mike's like a scandal piñata, everytime you shake him, more misdeeds fall out."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/09/2026

Ossoff: "Americans aren't a race. We're a people, united not by ethnicity but by shared convictions. That is what makes us exceptional and a beacon to the world. This is what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand."

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watch what Gov. Spencer Cox does, not what he says. His “disagreeing better” theme is a mask for continued GOP(male) dominance. He removed a requirement for partisan balance on the commission that nominates judges, and gave himself sole power to appoint its members. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/u...

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A Gender War Explodes in Utah Over the Courts, Abortion and Representation (Gift Article)

When Republicans tried to repeal a law that voters passed banning gerrymandering, they found an opposition that flew in the face of Utah women’s “tradwives” imagery.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On Monday, the Endangered Species Act will be revised under a new rule that says habitat destruction no longer falls within the definition of what constitutes harm. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Defang the Endangered Species Act (Gift Article)

What if 50 years from now, having destroyed the habitat for the creatures around us, we are plagued by an inconsolable loneliness?

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Homing in on Trump gets us closer to more pressing questions about what's already been unleashed, whether it was a good idea, and what we can do to mitigate immediate-term risk. But we still have to be real about hype vs. the reality of human nature. www.offmessage.net/p/killer-rob...

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

His interview with Talarico would instead be posted in its entirety on his YouTube channel on Thursday, he said. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Jimmy Kimmel says he dropped Talarico interview from broadcast after FCC pressure

ABC has been in a months-long feud with the FCC and its chair, Trump appointee Brendan Carr.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's bad enough to think that SCOTUS would collude with trump on the issue of mail in voting. But yeah, it's easy to think that about SCOTUS. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/o...

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Opinion | Trump Is Sabotaging the Midterms. The Supreme Court Must Stop Him. (Gift Article)

The country has built a system in which Americans can have confidence. President Trump is trying to wreck it.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If American consumers knew where that beef was coming from, they might not want to eat it. 🤮 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...

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Opinion | Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? (Gift Article)

On second thought, I’m not that hungry.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The good people of Kansas thought it would be good to elevate this man to the US Senate, a position that would allow him to harm even more people. He has succeeded, shamelessly, in that endeavor. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)

Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The agents successfully figured out how to cover up evidence of their actions. Some agents even cajoled other agents to “accept permadeath” by sacrificing themselves to provide the group with information. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...

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How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face (Gift Article)

A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hasan Piker isn't part of the Abdul El-Sayed campaign. Lorenzo Sewell is a member of the Mike Rogers campaign. And he's a proper extremist and bigot who the media isn't covering. I brought receipts in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

GIFT LINK:The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, now controlled by Trump loyalists, voted to radically limit the scope and force of the law, and eliminate the obligation to seek public opinion. wapo.st/4iHcmfi

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Column | What a Churchill quote reveals about the Supreme Court’s ballroom decision

Chief Justice John Roberts cited Winston Churchill in his dissent, addressing a debate about the role of beauty in public life and architecture.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Analysts say there is no data showing a correlation between English proficiency and accidents involving commercial truck drivers. And industry leaders are concerned about a potential worker shortage if too many drivers are pulled from the roads. www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...

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Trump administration closes 110 trucking schools over English-language rules

The crackdown is part of a broader effort to remove undocumented immigrants from the country, the Department of Homeland Security said.

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The president and secretary of defense replaced senior military lawyers with loyalists who seem willing to support legal justifications for the things the executive wants to do, however frivolous or flawed." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/o...

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Opinion | The U.S. Military Must Learn to Say No to Trump (Gift Article)

How senior leaders of the armed forces dodge accountability.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Remember when she was all but measuring the drapes in the White House? Anyway

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Martian @jmk833.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

WaPo forgot to mention that taken together, the Bush tax cuts, their bipartisan extensions, and the Trump tax cuts, have cost $10 trillion since their creation and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since then. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

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Opinion | To get the national debt under control, start with the retirement state

Social Security and Medicare will be “insolvent” in the 2030s.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.

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