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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
forget the prediction markets stuff, THIS is probably the real big insider trading scandal we should be paying attention: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Backstory: "The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people." [spring 2025 ProPublica report]
propublica.org
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This county, an hour from DC, has one of the biggest races for immigrants’ rights in the nation, imo. Make sure people know about it.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The official U.S. Department of Education account posted a Columbus Day video set to the song L'Amour toujours, which, if you don’t know, is a random dance song that’s been song co-opted by Nazi groups across Europe, complete with new (nazi) lyrics. link in next post. x.com/usedgov/stat...
a screenshot from x. the U.S. department of education account has posted a video. in the screenshot it’s conquistadors with a cross from the movie apocalypto.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 12/10/2026
This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trafficking kids. Don't think we can 'turn the page' on this shit @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social unless you think the government should be trafficking kids. Fucking monster. Just wanna let them get away with this
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John Outwater @johnoutwater.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The airforce is contracting Tom Cruise to teach fighter pilots how to fly in tornadoes and how to avoid the ever present threat of the Bermuda Triangle.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Everyone is somehow getting twelver
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 09/10/2026
Yes, it does, IDF. You denied killing U.S. reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022 until evidence forced an admission. Then you murdered hundreds of journalists in Gaza and denied it all over again. Want credibility? Let international press into the Strip.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the U.S. is a pathetic country.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There is nothing comparable to this level of corruption in American history.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE is a militia of serial abusers.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 09/10/2026
I just can't get past that this shooting happened immediately after NYPD announced
NYPD ANNOUNCES FEWEST
SHOOTING INCIDENTS,
SHOOTING VICTIMS, AND
MURDERS IN RECORDED
HISTORY FOR FIRST NINE
MONTHS OF 2026 AND THIRD
QUARTER
October 6, 2026
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com · 09/10/2026
Agents surrounded him and A 5-YEAR OLD CHILD in his car before firing multiple rounds. There is no reforming this barbarism. Abolish ICE is the bare fucking minimum.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Again he’s really losing it with the AI stuff now
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term,
"Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
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10/8/26, 12:14 PM
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 07/10/2026
In Gaza, an entire generation of children born into the genocide has no memory of how life was like before, and doesn't know about the world outside Gaza's walls. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-... #Palestine #Israel
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
this is effectively a new $100k tax on international students, and will destroy the market. Which is killing the golden goose -- higher ed is one of the most successful exports the US produces
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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.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026
Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look how casually Vice President JD Vance mentions the possibility of political violence (“kind of insane that we didn’t have a revolution”) when discussing white men’s grievances. White identity politics (white nationalism) is central to his worldview.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Over on X, the everything app, claims that Ireland has descended into "full-blown civil war", with people engaged in open warfare about migration and claims about the "New Irish Republican Army", mostly with old/unrelated videos/images. Absolute brain worms.
PatriotUSA @lorraine01640 • 4h
§JUST IN: Ireland is on the brink of becoming the first country in Europe to plunge into a full-blown civil war over immigration.
The government and police are struggling to maintain order in major cities as protests and acts of civil disobedience escalate.SHOCKING: IRELAND JUST ERUPTED INTO FULL CIVIL WAR
Patriots seize Dublin and major cities...owing to SHUT DOWN the entire economy until the Treasonous Government FOLDS.
The Irish are DONE being replaced and robbed.
It's OVER for the EU Tyrannical LIARSWWG1WGA
@WWG1WGA_QQ
• Meanwhile in Dublin, Ireland
So this just happened yesterday in the Irish Capital - no Police to be seen anywhere.
If this doesn't terrify you, then you're simply not paying attention.
No these are not Irish people.THE NEW NEW IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY HAVE DECLARED TO THE AUTHORITIES THAT THEY WILL START A CIVIL WAR IF ALL MIGRANTS ARE NOT REMOVED FROM IRELAND
BREAKING
THE NEW NEW IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY
HAVE DECLARED TO THE AUTHORITIES THAT THEY WILL START A CIVIL WAR IF ALL MIGRANTS ARE NOT REMOVED FROM IRELAND
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 02/10/2026
☢️🌿Pres. Trump: “These unbelievable machines led by the most incredible pilots in the world, they unloaded every single bomb, went right down air chutes into this, uh, drug factories, really. Uh that’s what they were doing. They were nuclear and drugs. They were doing drugs but they were doing the...
☢️🌿 President Trump: “These unbelievable machines led by the most incredible pilots in the world, they unloaded every single bomb, went right down air chutes into this, uh, drug factories, really. Uh that’s what they were doing. They were nuclear and drugs. They were doing drugs but they were doing the nuclear. These drug factories slash nuclear factories were hit so hard." https://x.com/factpostnews/status/2105841492564623696/video/1
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a guy that the media has promoted a dozen times in the last few years. He was on Bill Maher's show two weeks ago as a reasonable conservative.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Sources within the federal government tell WIRED that the highest ranks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are now controlled by people with connections to Musk and to the tech industry. Among them is a person who, according to an online résumé, was set to start college last fall.”👶
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest: I wrote about internal ICE reviews---now deleted from ICE's website---revealing new details medical neglect in detention centers. The reports contradict DHS' public statements both generally and specifically about in-custody deaths reason.com/2026/10/01/i...
According to the internal report on Blaise's death, "A mortality review committee (MRC) determined BTC did not provide Ms. BLAISE medical care within the safe limits of practice."

The MRC found that, after Blaise collapsed, "1) BTC health staff deviated from basic life support (BLS) protocols; 2) Health staff failed to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), despite Ms. BLAISE's pulselessness; and 3) Health staff did not include Ms. BLAISE's vital signs with their documentation of the emergency response."

The mortality report contradicts the public report ICE published on Blaise's death, which claimed that staff called for emergency medical services (EMS) and "immediately began cardiopulmonary resuscitation" and "continued providing CPR until EMS personnel arrived."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it would change nothing but it would still be stunning and important to see someone brave enough to withhold communion to certain justices over this
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
fucking horrendous
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Pierre Damas Bel was an honor student & part of his college's ROTC program. He was also a TPS recipient. After Trump's attacks on TPS, he was forced to wear an ankle monitor that isolated and humiliated him. Pierre died in an apparent suicide. He was 20.
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Got CTE from Playing Peek a boo @doubledoinkrigged.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
19th century Ryan Grim: Based on the orderly nature of the stab wounds, “the ripper” is a highly inaccurate name. Its journalistic malpractice to not give “Jack” credit for minimizing suffering and killing painlessly 19th century Michael Tracey: I think these bitches alive 💯
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Cthulhootie & the Blowfish @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
infinite personalized music = chatbot loudly yells your name at the end of each chorus. 🎶takin care of business BRAD🎶
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Enjoy
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