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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 3h
sure is cool dems are attacking trans people cause there's nothing else to campaign on
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Not Both Sides @joan99.bsky.social · 7h
Look when the current president has been using AI to run his office with such disastrous results it makes sense he now has to call it super intelligence
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h
So what's happening with the warehouses now? Well, ICE is now trying to offload most of them "at a steep discount." In other words, ICE effectively set millions of dollars on fire for a complete boondoggle. Reporting courtesy @projectsaltbox.com. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-puts-s...
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ICE puts seven warehouses purchased for detention on the market
The properties were among 11 warehouses ICE bought for $1.07 billion to expand detention capacity. Seven are now being marketed for sale at a steep discount.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?
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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 23h
I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h
Curtis, please tell us why you consider Jews a problem.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mike Johnson wouldn’t have any involvement in swearing in members of Congress if Dems win. Guess that isn’t something a random Senator would know about.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also, for what it's worth, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't get a say about whether or not there is an amnesty. That's up to Congress, which, you know, Mullin should be aware of given that he used to be a U.S. Senator.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BILELLO: “.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit. Instead, .. The deficit didn’t shrink. It increased 8%.”
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Not Both Sides @joan99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
12 cases! How many of the men take their wives' ballots and vote for them? Or Steve Hilton's crazy ad. That is voter fraud.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gym Jordan for four years: “Hunter Biden scammed $20m!” Now, given Jared’s $2B Saudi payout and Trump sons’ $6B contracts? Not. One. Peep. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
today, the fuel clock for diesel hit $50 billion- businesses and consumers have since March spent $50 billion more on diesel compared to the same time last year. adding gasoline's $78.46 billion, the tally is $128.6 billion more spent on fuel vs a year ago.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Exactly 💯
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"This president is not serious" -- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson cuts a promo on Trump on CNN
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“.. defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey @joshtpm.bsky.social remember Alberto Gonzalez, the attorneys general firing scandal, and the dismantling of the DOJ honors program? Maybe we hallucinated it.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Has any reporter asked Trump why the trade deficit is at pre-tariff levels?
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What stands out in the story is that the only Dem who doesn't like the tit-for-tat idea is Durbin - who is being replaced by a Dem (Stratton) who's fine with it. (Also, Mazie Hirono seemed confused by the Q, but she's 78 and can be dizzy in hallway interviews.)
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Not Both Sides @joan99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Another great letter but this one everyone should read. If you don’t subscribe you should consider it
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/10/2026
Trump hates America.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 06/10/2026
Fox News told viewers that most people held at Delaney Hall had final deportation orders. The data showed 84 percent did not. Thanks to @johnknefel.bsky.social and @mmfa.bsky.social for checking Fox's "worst of the worst" claim against the data. mediamatters.org/immigration/f…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. U.S. trade deficit blew out to $105.6 billion in August ... up significantly from the prior month and now up by $34.4 billion in the past two months. .. Outside of the Liberation Day swings, this is a record.” - Schwab
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These facts are VERY similar to the case of Mohamed Jama in MN. They were looking for a 5'5" guy and snatched Jama, who is 6'5" (his lawyer did a big Perry Mason moment to have him stand in the court room). These rulings may help the victims sue.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 05/10/2026
Shellenberger is seemingly preparing to smear a bunch of people attending a conference on disinformation this week. Ten bucks says he’s gonna claim the researchers there are cEnSoRiNg yOu!!!1 In reality they’re presenting their ideas. Talking. Debating. You know, using their speech rights.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Where in the law does it say that Constitutionality depends on whether a Supreme Court Justice feels an established right has or has not “engendered reliance interests” in other people?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got really annoyed that so many stories about the "Cornell 7" case don't link to the underlying court documents. So I compiled the key filings from Jane Doe's civil suit and from a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them here: annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-c...
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Read the “Cornell 7” Documents
I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This was an awesome indictment of Trump by @saletan.bsky.social w/evidence bombs dropped by Jack Smith during the hearings and testimony. Good watch. Full vid: 📺 youtu.be/AzZ4Bcxv-1Q?...
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Jack Smith Reveals the Words That Could Have Buried Trump
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Not Both Sides @joan99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is just unbelievable
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
paidforby.info
Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
nytimes.com
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tucker Carlson’s frustrated bafflement when confronted with basic things like “the UK’s GDP is larger than Russia’s” and “in 1994, Ukraine, Russia, US, and UK signed a treaty called the Budapest Memorandum” shows the state of Putin apologetics. Without lies and conspiracy theories, it falls apart.
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 04/10/2026
Somehow this country went 250 years without needing armed guards at polling places, but suddenly they’re absolutely essential. To protect us from nonexistent voter fraud. Lies all the way down. This is the Republican Party way. 
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The world’s richest man says he’ll rename his company because a doddering and incredibly unpopular man did a social media poll.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Now who do you think would be test driving a hack to hijack oil tankers arriving at the heart of America's oil industry? 🤔 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Hackers Breached Propulsion System of US-Bound Oil Tanker
FBI and US Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it was approaching the Texas coast this summer, according to US officials ...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/10/2026
If "communism is the greatest threat to our country in its history" and he wants to root it out of America, then why is he hanging pictures of communist authoritarians in gilded frames in the White House?
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...
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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
BREAKING NEWS
GOR SENATOR'S PERJURY CLAIM AGAINST SMITH FAILS IN HAWKS-HAWKEYES MOUP
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ROPIC CEO DARIO AMODEL, WHO MET PRITELY WITH TRUMP.F
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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ladies and gentlemen, Super Intelligence!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nothing but super intelligence all around at the White House.
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In my opinion, if we’re not looking at the likely consequences of AI today and preparing for them - alongside the other jobs we have to do - then we’re leaving the world fragile and vulnerable to societal breakdowns. You only have to look around you at the consequences of 2008 to see risks.
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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