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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/10/2026
A previous post incorrectly said that Larry Nassar had been one of the sex offenders who was removed. After the article published, the Eaton County prosecutor said: “It was an error because [Nassar] was never placed on the registry to begin with.” wapo.st/4jyk0ZU
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Thousands of sex offenders removed from Michigan registry
The state struck 20,000 names from the public database after a ruling by the state’s highest court.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well guess what
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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...
walb.com
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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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 18/09/2026
Pathetic loser Weijia Jiang sitting next to pathetic loser Donald Trump at the rescheduled WHCA dinner.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/09/2026
Cancer science achieved several landmark breakthroughs in the past year, but the field is at an “inflection point” amid threats to research funding, according to the American Association for Cancer Research.
washingtonpost.com
Funding cuts could threaten new cancer breakthroughs, experts warn
Cancer science made major progress in the past year but faces an “inflection point” amid funding threats, according to a research association.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
DOLLAR GENERAL EXEC, at GS conference: “.. even that middle to upper middle is acting more like a lower income shopper .. we’re hearing more and more from them: ‘I don’t feel like I’m higher income at $100,000 any longer because of all of the headwinds ..” $DG
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JoeyBats87 @joeybats1987.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@riveraveblues.bsky.social seeing the version of Volpe where everything isn’t just handed to the kid and he has to play like he still has something to earn is nice
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's downstream of the media failure in which virtually every working reporter and columnist is scared to death of doing their job properly because they have zero faith that a single phone call to their bosses from a well-connected person won't end their career and ruin their life.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/09/2026
Late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel said he would not broadcast an interview he conducted with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico because of pressure from the Trump administration.
washingtonpost.com
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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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the united states is doing this apnews.com/article/cuba...
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Cyril Mychalejko @cmychalejko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
First the Trump Administration blows up a school killing about about 125 students aged 6-12 and 26 teachers. Still no report or consequences. Now just over 6 months later the U.S. blows up a wedding killing at least 4 people and injuring more than 60 civilians. #EndThisWar #WarCrimes #Trump
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 01/09/2026
Through a statement given by Pastor Carl Ruby, Pierre Ronal Bel talks about the day his son, Haitian-Ohioan college student Pierre Damas Bel, killed himself over shame of losing his temporary protected status as an immigrant and being forced by ICE to wear an ankle monitor.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail.
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
They’re all carrying eight relievers and have basically free access to more as needed. How many more pitchers do they want to not make a half-dozen games a week a farce? “More pitchers“ has been the answer to every question since 1980. It has to stop.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In a functioning democracy, the public would be alarmed if the president boasted that he was “able to break the court system a little bit."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New from me: LAPD released video from an in-custody death that occurred in July. Jose Carlos Hoyos-Munoz appeared to be in crisis as 6 to 9 officers beat him three separate times. One officer is seen putting his knee into the back and neck of Munoz. He died 20 min later. lataco.com/lapd-beat-ha...
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Police Video Shows LAPD Beat Handcuffed Man in Van Nuys Jail Before His Death ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD officers forcefully restrained a man, kneed him, and struck him with their elbows. He was later found dead in his cell.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
President Donald Trump said in May 2020 that COVID-19 was "the worst attack we’ve ever had on our country," adding, "This is worse than the World Trade Center." newsinfo.inquirer.net/1271384/trum...
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Trump says US coronavirus crisis ‘worse than Pearl Harbor’ or 9/11
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that fallout from the novel coronavirus pandemic has hit the United States harder than Pearl Harbor in World War II or the 9/11 attacks. "We went
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There is a perfectly adequate word for this and it is “marooning”.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
All the money in the world can’t make up for the crippling loss of leadership caused by Hegseth’s purges. Trump and Hegseth may be buying more hardware, but they are endangering the apolitical professionalism—the operating system--that made the U.S. military the envy of the world. wapo.st/4gFl3Ey
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Opinion | Hegseth’s purges are endangering national security
The Iran quagmire wouldn’t have happened under Trump’s first-term military leaders.
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Baked into this thread is something I think is worth pulling out: the fact that Donald Trump is singlehandedly destroying the international system that made giant multinationals possible. The corporate executives supporting him in this are impoverishing their own companies’ futures.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
it's almost like an anti-jazz improvisation. his words even more than before have no meaning. what do these words even mean?the words have no connection to anything in the real world. they've achieved escape velocity from an connection to reality.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
genuinely congressional Democrats are some of the dumbest people alive
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cool, cool, I have a couple quick questions -- who's in charge of preventing food-induced illnesses right now and how good a job are they doing?
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
most embarrassing guy of all time
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 29/08/2026
The termination of TPS for Haitians is the most monstrous act of the US federal government since Japanese internment during World War II.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“.. One Pentagon memo about navy funding seen by the Guardian warns that there are ‘shortfalls in payroll’ accounts due to the department ‘raiding’ them to fund combat operations.” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Israelis will be like “we had to blow up the world central kitchen food trucks because Jose Andres is Hamas” and then wonder why nobody takes them seriously
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Israeli official speaks to Australia's ABC about the strike he ordered on World Central Kitchen that killed Jacob Flickinger and 6 other aid workers.
Says he's not sorry, that WCK has Hamas links and is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent."
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Without endorsing this statement, we CAN see something like it from leaked tapes of Joe Manchin. Manchin, on a 2021 call with No Labels (a corporate-money firehose aimed at corrupting Dems), talked about keeping the filibuster to prevent the “far left” from passing legislation.
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Leaked Audio of Sen. Joe Manchin Call With Billionaire Donors Provides Rare Glimpse of Dealmaking on Filibuster and Jan. 6 Commission
Manchin urged big-money donors with No Labels to talk to Sen. Roy Blunt about flipping his vote on the commission in order to save the filibuster.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The official U.S. Department of Education Twitter account posted, then deleted, a video positively comparing Trump to Hitler. Captioned “No one does it like us” with a tiger emoji, the video opens with a scene from Darkest Hour wherein Winston Churchill refers to Hitler as a tiger.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 1981 internal memo written by the director of one of Exxon’s science labs said it was “distinctly possible” that cumulative carbon emissions could eventually ‘produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population).’”
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Nearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 270
Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 26/08/2026
Just to be clear, Social Security is not accounting fraud (obviously). Its structure has to be adjusted over time for changing demographics, of course, but it's a completely sustainable approach to income security for the elderly.
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JoeyBats87 @joeybats1987.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@riveraveblues.bsky.social not to be the one to complain during a game like this, but we can’t trust one of the two call-ups to manage the 9th & instead lean on the guy who’s garnered Scott Proctor comps due to usage?
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CNN @cnn.com · 22/08/2026
A five-year-old boy and his father were arrested by ICE while they were on their way to a soccer match. Video shows the arrest stemming from a vehicle stop in Austin, Texas.
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ALTON🏺🦊 @rudefoxalton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I like watching a lot of videos on WWII organization and tactics including the less glamorous bits about logistics and it's difficult for me to believe this is nominally the same organization that bodied Germany and Japan simultaneously. World record century of humiliation shit.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: America’s borrowing costs are surging. Washington is shrugging. The national debt just hit $40 trillion and interest rates are actually rising. Meanwhile debt reduction is not on this White House or Congress's agenda. The GOP trifecta has added red ink, and has plans to add more to the debt.
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America’s borrowing costs are surging. Washington is shrugging.
The national debt now totals $40 trillion, or about 123% of the gross domestic product, as it’s getting costlier to pay down. Few politicians are eager to confront the issue.
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JoeyBats87 @joeybats1987.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
@mikepetriello.bsky.social sorry if you’ve answered before but is there any existing analysis that attempts to evaluate the merits of the contact play?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/08/2026
Darlene Graham just bumbled through one of the worst responses to a question during a political debate you'll ever see
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/08/2026
Six current and former D.C. police employees are facing fraud charges after prosecutors say they collectively received more than $441,000 in overtime pay that they did not earn.
washingtonpost.com
6 current, former D.C. police employees charged in $441K fraud scheme
Six current and former D.C. police employees are facing fraud charges after prosecutors say they collectively received more than $441,000 in overtime pay that they did not earn.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“.. It’s immoral to, year after year, trillion after trillion, just keep borrowing the money, not paying your bills for immediate consumption and deferring not only the principal balance but the interest costs onto our kids and grandkids,” he said. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
WaPo: “Trump pledged during his first campaign in 2016 to eliminate the debt within eight years; instead, it has doubled since he first took office.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
washingtonpost.com
U.S. debt set to hit $40 trillion months earlier than expected
Faster borrowing — driven in part by lost revenue from invalidated tariffs — means the next debt-limit fight is also likely to arrive ahead of schedule.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's only fraud when other people do it. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida
Voting records from Palm Beach County show the president requested his ballot in late July and it was returned on Aug. 13.
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