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John Lothian News @johnlothiannews.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Justice Dept. confirms it isn’t investigating Anna Paulina Luna prediction market allegation
Democrats hammered the Congresswoman over allegation she told influencer about JD Vance pick early.
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Lady Haha @lensman23.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A small East African territory has told the Trump administration it would willingly assist with the extradition of Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar after Vice President JD Vance accused her of committing immigration fraud. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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African territory tells Trump admin it will extradite Ilhan Omar after Vance claims
Vice president claims Democratic congresswoman ‘definitely committed immigration fraud’ to enter the U.S. as a teenager, which her office has branded ‘a ridiculous lie’
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In Lakeland visit, JD Vance says Angie Nixon ‘doesn’t belong in America’ floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/01/i...
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In Lakeland visit, JD Vance says Angie Nixon 'doesn't belong in America' • Florida Phoenix
LAKELAND — Vice President JD Vance said in Florida Thursday that it was almost “too easy” to attack the candidacies of the two top Democrats running on the statewide ballot next month, David Jolly for...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning...” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 28/09/2026
Trump & Secretary Duffy have no right to steal federal transit funding from Roxbury, which we fought hard to secure. This project is an investment in our people that will improve the daily lives of commuters. The law is on our side and DOT must reverse course.
An article by The Boston Globe titled: Boston sues Trump administration over $20 million grant for street safety upgrades in Roxbury.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
A massive FBI data breach. Taxpayer-funded Trump ads. Midterm warning signs. Rates surging. Marines injured in an Iranian strike. Russia’s attacks. And some of Trump’s most devoted supporters finally turning on him. Plus, an important note from us about these Bulletins and the next five weeks.
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 469. 9/28/26
… Before we get into today’s Bulletin, first a programming note.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 29/09/2026
Clawing back a $300K federal grant to MIRA Coalition is cruel & unjust. MIRA is a trusted partner in Massachusetts and this grant supported essential work to support neighbors applying for US citizenship. Congress has the power of the purse—not Vought—these funds should be immediately reinstated.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
These people are utterly shameless
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Brett Meiselas: If we’re going to get into a “race” against China like with AI, why is it never like... We’re going to get into an affordable healthcare race! We’re going to get into an infrastructure race and beat them in high-speed rail! We’re going to beat China in the affordable housing race!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 WOW: Marjorie Taylor Greene used a Cameo video to unload on GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan over the Epstein files and foreign wars. "This one is for Senator Dan Sullivan from one of your constituents in Alaska, who is very America First and really sick of the RINOs and very sick of the party."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Pentagon is preparing to cut 20% of senior military posts as his top envoys discuss sanctions relief, energy deals, and economic cooperation with Putin’s team. The timing is raising serious questions.
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Trump's Hegseth Plans 20% Cut to Senior Military Posts as Putin Envoy Courts U.S.
As the Pentagon prepares to downgrade or eliminate senior billets by January 1, 2027, Trump officials are discussing Russian energy and economic cooperation while Moscow's war on Ukraine continues.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Oz: Russell Brand was backstage hugging the Secretary of Agriculture Brand: She initiated that contact. Oz: Ha!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
The internet is erupting in mockery after Eric Schmitt’s spectacular Jack Smith faceplant. Now people are openly speculating: Did his team plant the glowing 2028 story AND coordinate with MAGA influencers in advance, expecting a victory lap that blew up in their faces?
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Eric Schmitt Gets Mercilessly Mocked Over ‘Planted’ Story After Jack Smith Faceplant
A glowing 2028 scoop dropped just before Schmitt’s disastrous “gotcha,” while right-wing influencers appeared ready to celebrate. After it blew up, the internet noticed.
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The Popok Firm @thepopokfirm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LIVE AT 8 PM ET: Popok is back at a very hot Intersection tonight: Jack Smith counterpunches Senate MAGA, never taking the 5th; Trump’s and Blanche’s own words fuel a new injunction motion; Trump may lack the votes to stop a CRIMINAL PROBE; and the 11th Circuit won’t bail out his lawyers.
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LIVE: Trump CRUSHED as GOP Cross-Exam INSTANTLY BACKFIRES | The Intersection
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
NEWS: GOP candidate Brandon Herrera defended massive CEO salaries, mocked renters as “bums,” joked about people who don’t “tip their landlords,” then compared being called a “renter” with a hard R to a racial slur.
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Brandon Herrera Defended High CEO Salaries, Joined Mocking of Renters
GOP candidate: "Did you really call me 'renter' with a hard 'r? It's 'renta' to you."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country.
Screenshot of a Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump’s verified @realDonaldTrump account displaying a signed document titled “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.” The document outlines voluntary AI safety and oversight commitments for companies developing frontier artificial intelligence models. On the right side are signatures and company labels for leaders including Sundar Pichai of Google, Dario Amodei of Anthropic, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Greg Brockman of OpenAI, Elon Musk of xAI, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. Near the center-right, Donald J. Trump’s large signature appears above the printed title identifying him as president. The title contains a noticeable typo: instead of “President of the United States,” it reads, “President of the Unites States,” misspelling “United” as “Unites.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Local newspapers are dying, and I don’t think we’re prepared for a world without them…” tulsaflyer.org/2026/09/29/c...
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Battle in McCurtain County at the center of new Peacock documentary
McCurtain County Sheriff’s officials wanted a family-run newspaper dead — literally. A new Peacock documentary explores the years-long battle and what it means for press freedoms.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Under a new California state law, gas stations can now be sued for using AI software to jack up prices. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has given AI price-gougers — like rental software company RealPage — a slap on the wrist. States are leading where Trump has failed.
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Gas stations are using AI to inflate prices, new lawsuit alleges
A new federal lawsuit alleges that gas station companies across California are engaged in an illegal conspiracy, powered
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Gas over $7 a gallon may be ‘greedflation’. "The average price... in California is currently $5.66, but as of Friday, a Chevron station in Essex is charging $9.69, another in LA... is charging $8.71, & one in Vidal Junction is charging $7.79, according to GasBuddy..." www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Gasoline price gouging in California draws a warning
Some gas stations are charging over $7 for gas in California. Not all of that price can be explained, the state warned.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Speaker Mike Johnson is warning of a “nightmare scenario” if Republicans lose the House: Democrats could investigate Trump, his family, his Cabinet, GOP donors and powerful business figures.
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MAGA Speaker Johnson Calls Trump Family Investigations a ‘Nightmare’ Ahead of Midterms
With control of Congress at stake in November, Johnson warned that Democratic committees would investigate Trump, his family, cabinet officials and major donors—and claimed that accountability would t...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
NEWS: A unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to halt sanctions stemming from Trump’s $1.8 billion insurrectionist “slush fund” saga
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Trump Loses Bid to Freeze Sanctions Over His IRS Scheme
A unanimous Eleventh Circuit panel left Judge Kathleen Williams free to enforce restrictions born from her finding that Trump used a federal lawsuit to manufacture judicial legitimacy for an administr...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
It appears a nerve has been struck
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
Gas prices surge. Russia escalates. Trump spins Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. Republicans call the data center backlash a “Chinese psyop.” And turmoil erupts inside the FBI. A new MeidasTouch Podcast is live now.
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LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 9/28/26
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Katie Phang breaks down one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in the new Cornell sex assault lawsuit: an alleged fraternity Snapchat message referring to the plaintiff as “free p***y upstairs.” Phang zeroes in on another detail: someone apparently photographed the Snapchat from another phone
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/09/2026
Bill McKibben says the world has a new tool against the climate crisis: cheap solar and wind. "Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz."
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Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant
World leaders are in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, which coincides with Climate Week. It comes after months of climate-fueled extreme weather around the world, including ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Because of the Texas state government's error, Texas "counties are now dealing with nearly a year of backlogged voter registration tasks to process. They could include new registrations or simply updates to voters’ existing records, like a change in address..." www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
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Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
new friend in my bathroom sink welcoming me to texas this afternoon!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/09/2026
When Paulo Freire began his public education programs in Brazil during the 1960s, 70% of people in parts of the country were illiterate. "And if you couldn't read and write, you could not vote," says Catherine Murphy, co-director of the new documentary "Reading the World."
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“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”
Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
Ron DeSantis had Florida’s congressional map redrawn to help Republicans. One of those new districts is already giving the GOP a problem.
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DeSantis’ Redrawn Florida Seat Leaves Trump Ally Askar Two Points Behind
A Democratic-backed survey puts educator Pia Dandiya ahead in a South Florida district Republicans redrew this year to expand their House advantage — with no incumbent to save either party.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
Climate activist Bill McKibben says much of the world's electricity needs are still going unmet, even as rich countries expand their energy footprints to power AI data centers.
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“Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis
Ahead of the midterm elections, activist and writer Bill McKibben says he has been traveling across the United States with Third Act, the environmental group he founded to harness the power of seniors...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration has deported tens of thousands of immigrants to so-called "third countries" that they have no connections to. "This is extraordinary rendition all over again, in broad daylight," says Tutu Alicante, a human rights lawyer from Equatorial Guinea.
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“Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned
Two men deported from the United States to Equatorial Guinea were arrested by local police forces and transferred to a prison earlier this month, in apparent retaliation for speaking out about conditi...
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 27/09/2026
Medical needs. Lost income. Mental health support. Housing. By no fault of their own, survivors of sexual violence can incur debilitating financial costs. Our Survivors’ Rights Restitution Act would help deliver the restitution survivors deserve.
A graphic that reads:

Rep. Pressley: Accountability cannot simply mean putting an abuser behind bars.

Rep. Pressley: Accountability must also mean healing and helping survivors reclaim their lives.

Rep. Pressley: We can start by delivering the financial restitution that they demand and deserve.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a sweeping California package cracking down on public corruption, crypto fraud, ticket scams, privacy abuses and more, including a new law barring public officials from launching meme coins.
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Newsom Signs Sweeping Anti-Corruption Package Cracking Down on Meme Coins, Crypto Fraud, and Self-Dealing by Public Officials
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of anti-corruption and consumer protection legislation, MeidasTouch has exclusively learned, delivering one of
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
How are African countries responding to the global AI buildup?
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“Colonial AI”: African Countries Seek Tech Sovereignty But Fear a New Digital Colonialism
Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is a member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, working on a strategy with the African Union to address the risks and benefits of AI for the continent. African ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary. The Communist-ruled nation is considered by most policymakers and legislators of both parties to be the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
"What we have is a lot of furious people." The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain's rising cost of living.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 28/09/2026
Hundreds of protesters are camped outside Madrid’s regional government headquarters demanding new tenant protections.
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Forcible Eviction of 87-Year-Old Madrid Woman Sparks Protest Encampment over Spain’s Housing Crisis
The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal Martín in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain’s rising cost...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/09/2026
"The real victims of this war on the press are members of the public."
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“War on the Press”: Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage
News organizations CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration over the banning of their reporters from the White House on Friday. Their credentials were confiscated or deactivated whe...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026
NEWS: Trump just turned on Republican Rep. María Elvira Salazar after she warned his deportation crackdown had “gone too far” and Hispanic voters “feel betrayed. What followed was a dozen-plus-post meltdown on Truth Social.
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“Nothing But a Back Stabber”— Trump Sours on Salazar
Trump shares call for removing his endorsement from Republican candidate.
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joniej.bsky.social @joniej.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
GPS tracking video showing the movements of Nolan Wells' phone www.wlox.com/video/2026/0...
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GPS tracking video showing the movements of Nolan Wells' phone
Forensic expert Andrew Garrett shared a GPS tracking video showing the movements of Nolan Wells' phone throughout the day, synced with calls and messages.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026
Nolan Wells’ death does not sit right. Grand jury or not. Hakeem Jeffries is asking the questions that still haven’t been answered. And this: Justice delayed will not be justice denied.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A Mississippi grand jury has declined to pursue criminal charges in the death of Nolan Wells. Never Forget! Both Mississippi’s medical examiner and the independent forensic pathologist classified his death as undetermined. Nolan did not drown. We will never stop saying his name. NOLAN XAVIER WELLS.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Nolan Wells' parents make plea for justice after no charges filed in his death
Nolan Wells' family held a press conference Tuesday and said they will not give up after a grand jury found that no criminal charges are warranted in his death.
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mississippi is treating Nolan Well's parents just like it did Emmet Till's parents. We’re not going to stop talking about Nolan Wells. Nolan Wells will never be forgotten. Nolan Xavier Wells will not be erased. We stand with Nolan’s family 🩵 Mississippi Goddam Justice for Nolan Xavier Wells 🕯️
Top: Color photo of Nolan Well's parents-Christine and Elmore Wonsley
Bottom: B&W photo of Emmet Till's parents Mamie Till-Mobley and Louis Till
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