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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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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We go through the indictment of a defense contractor that helped ProPublica come up with a story that looks really bad for Maine Senator Susan Collins & assess the evidnece joycevance.substack.com/p/a-bad-tues...

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A Bad Tuesday in Maine if Your Name is Susan Collins

And a new order in Katie Phang’s Epstein Files case

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Scott Stedman @scottstedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Meet Milan Knežević, whose party signed cooperation agreements with United Russia. He was convicted (later overturned) of supporting Russia's attempted 2016 coup. This month, he met several GOP politicians at the RNC midterm convention. thenewsground.com/jay-patel-mo...

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MAGA Political Operative Hired by Montenegrin Politician With Close Ties to Russia

Political operative Jay Patel registered under FARA to represent a Montenegrin party with longstanding ties to United Russia.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.” BRUH.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...

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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

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Scott Stedman @scottstedman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

NEWS: Developer of Trump Tower Tbilisi is half-owned by a Georgian-Russian oligarch with deep Kremlin ties who still holds money in sanctioned Russian banks. thenewsground.com/shadowy-russ...

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Shadowy Russian Businessman Controls Half of Trump Tower Tbilisi Developer - The Newsground

An offshore company links a Trump Tower Tbilisi developer to a Moscow fortune, an online casino empire, and sanctioned Russian banks.

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Scott Stedman @scottstedman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Russian model Kira Dikhtyar sent Epstein at least 40 young women and girls over the course of a decade. After his death, she resurfaced as a child-protection advocate and built ties to a Trump insider and Vladimir Putin’s longtime mistress. My investigation: youtu.be/z3nKRIP9d0E

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The Russian Model Who Recruited Girls for Jeffrey Epstein

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s Russian recruiters dated a Russian oligarch and developed relationships with people close to both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. This investigation follows the records,…

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And there’s evidence for this theory. I recall Mamdani got Republican voters. Not a lot, but you don’t need a lot. Going back gulp 20 years Obama ran as an outsider—last time that’s happened in a general—and won Indiana. It’s the centrist Republicans centrist Dems keep chasing who rarely show up.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/07/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/07/2026

One of the biggest lies of the AI bubble is that Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta are "growing because of AI." In reality, they're using the continued growth of their other business units to cover the meager returns from AI, and the massive waste of their trillion+ in capex.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 30/06/2026

Roosevelt spent years educating the public about the tyranny of courts. These institutions exist primarily to preserve the current order. And throughout history, this is how courts have been everywhere. And that is why courts in most democratic countries are strictly limited in their powers.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/06/2026

Newsom Nix (NOO-səm niks), noun 1. A political maneuver in which one loudly champions an unachievable version of a reform in order to quietly kill the achievable one. 2. The art of occupying both sides of an issue by ensuring that the side you appear to favor has no chance of success.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/06/2026

"Gish Gallop" is a debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga... I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI. 1/

A medieval one-man band standing on a crate; his head has been replaced with the head of a killer robot. Observing him are a cluster of critics, who are variously gesticulating wildly, peering disapprovingly, looking on in amusement, etc. The background is a phantasmagoric cloudscape.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 04/06/2026

NEW: @elisethomas.bsky.social reveals multiple links between Viory, a video news agency supplying national press agencies across Africa, Asia and the Middle East and Ruptly news agency - a branch of sanctioned Russian propaganda outlet Russia Today. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

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Tracing Digital Links Between Viory and Ruptly - bellingcat

Bellingcat found mulitple links between the digital infrastructure of Viory and Ruptly news agency, a branch of Russia Today.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Pelley took direct aim at Bari Weiss, the network’s controversial editor-in-chief. “She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley said, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.”

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60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley lays into CBS leadership over cuts

Pelley reportedly rebuked ousting of show’s executive producer, executive editor and two top correspondents

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Postal Service moving forward with Trump’s attack on mail voting

It signaled it plans to only send ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The perception of those who listen to Republican propaganda is that the Democrats, who are mostly led by center-right neoliberal corporatists, are basically all Marxists, no matter how far that is from the truth. To say the Harris campaign moved left is to accept that frame and spread that lie.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

If the campaign truly had made defending trans rights a part of their campaign, if they had promised to stop aiding the genocide in Gaza, if they had run on universal healthcare, and they lost? …OK, maybe you could say they moved left and lost. But they were out there with the Cheneys. Be for real.

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Literal Ham @literalham.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Parente, who was a federal prosecutor for 15 years, said he had never heard of anything as bad as the conduct in the Broadview Six grand jury sessions. He said that while he has not yet been able to review the unredacted transcripts, Judge April Perry gave a summary in court of her impressions. She said she had reviewed thousands of pages of grand jury transcripts in her career and had never seen anything worse than what she saw in these pages.

Parente said during the grand jury sessions, prosecutors used vouching, which he called a "101 no-no for any prosecutor," kicked out grand jury members who disagreed with them, did not disclose that a No True Bill – which indicates no indictment – had been returned to either the defense or the public. Parente also said that after receiving the No True Bill from one grand jury, they re-presented their case after excluding grand jurors who disagreed with them. The grand jury then returned a True Bill to indict the "Broadview Six."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

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In unusual deal, a $1.8 billion fund that could help Trump allies is created
The agreement to end the Trump family's lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority to distribute nearly $1.8 billion to those who, like the president, have claimed they have been targets of a
"weaponized" justice system.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

From May 2021:

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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a massive spike in detainee deaths and medical crises.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

1/ The world faces a catastrophic cliff-edge shortage of oil due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade in the next four weeks, analysts warn. This will cause a deep recession, fuel rationing, the shutdown of entire industries, and oil prices potentially as high as $370 per barrel. ⬇️

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes, Republicans are challenging the results of Virginia’s redistricting referendum, and this is a concern But they keep turning to the same MAGA judge in Tazewell County, whose decisions have routinely been overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court So the will of the voters will likely prevail

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

They think you're stupid.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Amanda Ungaro was 16 when she was flown to the US on an Epstein plane. She later became close to the Trumps On Apr. 8, she went on X to threaten legal action vs Melania “and your pedophile husband” On Apr. 9, Melania made that odd public statement about Epstein www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

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Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir

A Brazilian brought to the U.S. on an Epstein plane at age 16 lashes out at the Trumps, saying she was betrayed by her friend Melania.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026

I'm worried that the seven companies that comprise 35% of the S&P 500 are headed for bankruptcy, as soon as someone makes them stop passing around the same $100b IOU while pretending it's in all their bank accounts at once. 12/

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Josh Manning @joshmanning.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It’s because he is an absolute traitor to what he told us he would be. And now we can see those same fault lines forming in Maine with Platner and Dems are like, “who cares about the rotten person, we have numbers to meet.” And I ain’t playing that game anymore.

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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 18/03/2026

☀️ It's #SunshineWeek, a time to celebrate freedom of information and the public's right to know! To recognize the occasion, here's a thread of some @rcfp.org resources to help journalists and others access public information:

A stylized U.S. Capitol dome rises out of a file folder with the sun behind it; beside it, text reads: 'Sunshine Week March 15-21, 2026'

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle." On who's really in charge: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

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The No World Order

Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/03/2026

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

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Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead.

A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2026

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)

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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

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Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS

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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

"I watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government. I never want to see that again and I'm not going to stand by and watch my neighbors run away scared."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/02/2026

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

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Russell Vought: The Shadow President

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

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