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Jon Farrington

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Engineer, oyster farmer, Chesapeake Bay

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15h
The entire Maksiuta family were killed in a russian missile strike on an apartment building in Pryluky: ​🕯️ Daria Maksiuta, born July 6, 2003 🕯️ Oleksandr Maksiuta, born September 20, 1994 🕯️ Kyrylo Maksiuta, born March 7, 2025 - their baby son, who was only a year and a half old.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Crude Gains as Shipping Attacks Keep Middle East Supply Risks Elevated
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Crude Gains as Shipping Attacks Keep Middle East Supply Risks Elevated
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior
An Asian man looks out the window with binoculars. An Asian man smiling at the camera.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Judge Orders Kennedy Center Renovation Documents Unsealed www.washingtonsun.com/courts/judge...
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Judge Orders Kennedy Center Renovation Documents Unsealed
The documents were used by the center’s board during an August meeting about whether to close the center’s main building.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx told backers on a Zoom call last night that he doesn't regret slamming his wife into a door to teach her a lesson about self-defense. "I'd do it again," Marx said. Marx says she fake cried and physicality is just the nature of their relationship.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
”…state troopers had arrived…one of them told Jack that it was a young Haitian man from Springfield…the violence was being investigated as a suicide, the witness was Jack, and the reckoning began as Renee told him the young man’s name, Pierre Damas Bel.” 👇Stephanie, thx for your incredible article🙏
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 05/10/2026
Point of information: The Republican Party has already spent far more on protecting a single U.S. Senate seat in Texas than the TOTAL cost of the 2000 Presidential election for BOTH Al Gore and George W. Bush COMBINED. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
 The Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee together spent $79.9 million on television ads in the 2000 presidential campaign, far more than the $67.1 million spent by the campaigns of Gov. Bush and Vice President Gore, the study says.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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Headline Vibe · by NoMAGA @headlinevibe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Part of the problem is that Trump’s incoherence gets packaged as personality and spectacle, while Biden’s was treated as evidence about capacity. That framing difference is itself a political choice.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 02/10/2026
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Kushner Rejects CNN Report That His Israeli Diplomacy Might Benefit His Private Equity Fund
Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here are the election deniers who have spent last year & this year championing online a national emergency declaration. If Trump tries to declare one, these are the figures you'd need to know about who likely played a role in making it happen.
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Key election denial activists in the right-wing media ecosystem
It’s become increasingly apparent that election denial activists have the president’s ear. Figures seeking to undermine faith in election outcomes through direct action and advocacy efforts have boast...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
TIME: Would you rule out declaring a state of emergency in the lead up to the midterms? TRUMP: I don't rule anything out or in. We'll see. You mean the Insurrection Act? TIME: Yeah. TRUMP: No, I've never used it. I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes.
Do you plan to dispatch ICE agents to polling places in the midterms? 

Haven't thought of it.

Would you rule out declaring a state of emergency in the lead up to the midterms unless there's widespread violence in the streets?

I don't rule anything out or in. We'll see. You mean the Insurrection Act?

Yeah.

 

No, I've never used it. I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it sometimes. We have the best—look, we have the lowest crime in the history of our country. We have the lowest murder rate since 1900, 125 years. We have the lowest murder rate. That's despite the fact that they allowed 25 million people.
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Expatina @thelongblonde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gifting this excellent Atlantic article by Tom Nichols on the perpetually enraged adolescent Pete Hegseth. It's a "must" read. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate
A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“[Hegseth] also eagerly sowed division between the U.S. military and the society it serves: He told the assembled troops, repeatedly, that the media and higher education were their enemies, at one point saying that the American media were worse than Iran’s state media.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Signs in my neighborhood.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
"Most presidents engage in diplomacy in order to advance the interests of the United States and/or their political standing and that of their party. Trump, though, mostly seems to chase the narcissistic thrill of standing on the world stage and feeling important."
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Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him
Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping at one point if he would like to buy some American armaments, US Ambassador to China David Perdue says. (Bloomberg)
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unnerving @washingtonpost.com exclusive: US and Russia worked in secret to remove "a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of artificial intelligence in weapons." For instance, leave targeting to AI, no human review required. Gift link 🎁 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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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Companies across Russia are being told to fend for themselves. As Ukrainian drones increasingly reach deep into Russian territory, Putin ordered companies to secure their own sites or risk state takeover. Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
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Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump's tirade at the media for boycotting Xi's arrival actually gives away the game in an interesting way: He basically admits straight out that he badly needs the media's attention. In some ways he's powerless without it: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Q: Are you planning military action on Cuba? There's been reports reserves have been activated potentially for Cuba TRUMP: I would say that Cuba and us will make a deal. I don't think we'll need the military. Cubs is failing very badly. We want to help Cuba. We want to open Cuba up to our people.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Political operative takes over responsibility for informing the public at the agency responsible for coordinating the findings of the nation’s intelligence community. What could go wrong ? thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Senior White House spokesperson to move to Office of Director of National Intelligence
White House senior deputy press secretary Kush Desai is leaving the West Wing for a senior communications role at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The White House spokesp…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today's episode of The Ezra Klein Show. What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe? The Senate nominee talks about his view for the future of the Democratic Party. open.spotify.com/episode/4PXj... youtu.be/f7MVyjL-rbk?...
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What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe? | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"In the UK I’d meet third generation Pakistani kids and I’d be like "You’re British." They’re like "I’m not British. I’m Pakistani." I was like "Yes, but you’re British. You have a British citizenship." They’re like, "Yes, I’m a citizen of the United Kingdom, but I’m not British. I’m Pakistani."
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 President Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said. FREE WSJ GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire, Expects Renewed Bombing After Midterms
The president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Press ban For @contrariannews.org Go behind the scenes of my creative process at nickanderson.substack.com.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think we can safely conclude now that Scott Jennings' representation that he had a 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell in July, was an out-and-out lie.
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: DOJ is recruiting military lawyers for October prosecutor posts supporting immigration related law enforcement surges in Manhattan, LA, & Sacramento, per Pentagon email reviewed by @BLaw. I’m told this is unheard of for SDNY. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Seeks Military Lawyers for New York Law Enforcement Surge
The Justice Department is enlisting military attorneys as temporary prosecutors supporting law enforcement surges in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, according to a Defense Department email rev...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
> @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/how...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Once again, they don’t follow laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws or court orders, & we need to stop kidding ourselves about that, especially if we’re United States Senators. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We roll out the red carpet for Putin and Xi while we shit on our closest allies daily. The American government under Trump and his cultist Republican Party is a disgrace.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/09/2026
Russian “journalists” kept screaming at Zelenskyy “when are you going to Moscow?!” He said: “On a missile, b…ch”
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
nytimes.com
Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I am the code” is the one thing the son of a slumlord has dreamed of saying his entire life.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we're boarding now. a gate attendant literally screamed at us to board by boarding group... and a hundred people just laughed in her face. we have formed a self-governing society at this point and her attempt to order us around is oddly funny
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Donald Trump is a sick person. You almost feel you can't hold him fully responsible for his deep psychological deformities. I have more contempt for his aides, who, in humoring him, feed his illness and encourage him to do both symbolic and real damage to the nation. www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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