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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 2h
Josh Marshall: A lot of these bright red states have gone a pretty long time without a seriously contested partisan election, and it shows. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rusty...
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Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values
This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2h
Total clown show
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 22h
EASILY the most gob smacking thing — and fail — I’ve witnessed in more than two decades of covering Congressional hearings youtu.be/akMKzlfoEac?...
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GOP Hearing with Jack Smith Goes OFF THE RAILS
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2h
Really wish RFK Jr and his crew of MAHA influencers would stop peddling raw milk
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KFF @kff.org · 2h
Among new Medicaid applicants subject to Nebraska's work requirements, 86% met the requirements or qualified for an exemption — while 14% were denied. More data and early insights on Nebraska’s Medicaid work requirements in our new policy watch: on.kff.org/4htUy5i
Chart shows Nebraska application outcomes among individuals subject to Medicaid work requirements. Among new Medicaid applicants subject to Nebraska's work requirements, 86% met the requirements or qualified for an exemption — while 14% were denied.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2h
This is truly amazing—RFK Jr openly, gladly, joyfully telling people that under his leadership of the US health system, actual public health expertise, training, & experience is no longer needed. All that’s needed to lead the US health agencies is a past history of being a right wing blogger!
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2h
Too late, Senator. You knew what you were getting.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 2h
The Pennsylvania Department of Health said an unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County tested positive for measles and has died.
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Pennsylvania confirms a fifth death associated with widening measles outbreak
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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAHA has never been about making America healthier. It has *always* been about making the 1% healthier at the expense of everyone else. Ironically, they don't realize that the most effective way to improve their own health would be to raise up the health of the other 99%.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h
Poland to set quicker air defence procedures, defence minister says reut.rs/4hWGeUc
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Poland to set quicker air defence procedures, defence minister says
Poland will deploy new rules of engagement to counter threats in its airspace ​from the beginning of October, Polish Defence ‌Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday during a press briefing.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
Three more tankers were just struck in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump’s Iran war drags on. Now a Republican senator in a battleground seat who voted against pulling U.S. forces out is trying to explain away his vote.
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Trump’s Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote
As fuel costs climbed and commercial ships again came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Ohio Sen. Jon Husted blamed Iran, Russia, and congressional Democrats after voting against an order to pull U....
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3h
That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 3h
75% of Americans don’t want a data center in their neighborhood, but Trump’s EPA is greenlighting data center construction at the expense of our health. My new report details how Lee Zeldin is bending a knee to Big Tech by rolling back protections and failing the public.
Screenshot of report cover. Full text of report linked in reply.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 8h
rural health folks have been hearing nonsense and hype about how AI and medtech will fix everything for YEARS. if these coastal elites had bothered to talk to anyone instead of imposing their corrupt deals on everyone...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2h
Wow, RFK Jr really is loathed.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 2h
❗️The courtyard of a residential complex in Kyiv is on fire after a drone strike
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2h
Fiji is experiencing an alarming HIV outbreak at a time when we have more tools than ever to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV. It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...
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HIV Is Not Done With Us
Fiji’s rapidly growing epidemic is a warning about what happens when complacency, vulnerability and retreating resources give the virus an opening
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 5h
Hours after Axios floated him as Vance’s 2028 running mate, Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over an Atlanta Hawks game. But Schmitt hadn’t double checked his work. My write-up in the link in the comments.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h
Last year, a pastor saw masked immigration agents arresting someone at her church and filmed them. DHS denied they were there. A year later, DHS finally acknowledged the incident — days after WH border czar Tom Homan claimed "no one has been arrested at a church." religionnews.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Do federal immigration agents make arrests at churches? Depends on what day you ask.
(RNS) — Over the past year, the Trump administration has issued contradictory and, at times, seemingly false statements about whether federal agents have conducted operations at churches.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1h
The MTA wants the Trump administration to exempt NYC’s purchases of new subway cars and buses from tariffs to avoid $1 billion in added fees on the nation’s biggest transit system.
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MTA Seeks to End $1 Billion of Tariffs on Subway Cars, Buses
New York Governor Kathy Hochul wants the Trump administration to exempt purchases of New York City subway cars and buses from tariffs to avoid $1 billion in added fees for the nation’s biggest transit system.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h
Senators will try to win approval of permanent Chinese car ban in November reut.rs/3TDDy4u
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Senators will try to win approval of permanent Chinese car ban in November
The two US senators backing a permanent legislative ban on Chinese vehicles in the US will not seek ​approval until the Senate returns from recess in November, congressional aides said ‌Wednesday.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h
“It doesn’t surprise me at all that all this time later the department is choosing to correct the narrative in ways that favor them,” Pastor Lopez said in an email, adding, “they can’t gaslight victims, communities, and the American people into not believing what they are seeing and experiencing.”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1h
my favorite part of reporting this out was the trump White House told us our reporting on the president privately calling them the “midterm ads” is “false” (it’s not), but they didn’t even bother denying — and yes we put it to them plainly and in bullet point form in the comment request — that…
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h
Unsealed opinion shows why Thomson Reuters won landmark AI fair-use ruling reut.rs/4yk0B3u
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Unsealed opinion shows why Thomson Reuters won landmark AI fair-use ruling
The Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals said in a ruling unsealed on Wednesday that defunct legal-research company Ross Intelligence did not make fair use of Thomson Reuters' copyrighted material to ​build an AI-based legal search engine.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1h
Trump threatened the Center for American Progress (CAP) with a $5 billion lawsuit for reporting that the National Guard deployed in D.C. had failed to meet their purpose of reducing crime. Norm spoke with CAP CEO Neera Tanden on the latest @americanprogress.bsky.social @neeratanden.bsky.social
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When Trump Attacks Free Speech, We're All in Danger
Trump’s assaults on the First Amendment are not limited to the press, and the press isn’t the only group with the respon
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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 1h
Trump does not care about the American people. Let these numbers serve as a reminder.
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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 2h
Rising diesel prices, a revolt over data centers, Ken Paxton's defense of a child predator's plea deal, and Republicans in tight races suddenly breaking with Trump over Iran. Most coverage treats these as separate stories, but they share the same root. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-crisis...
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The GOP Crisis: Five Separate Stories, One Looming Disaster
If this is the GOP’s posture going into the midterms, it won’t end well for them
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 1h
Donald Trump and Republicans have broken every promise they made. Make your plan to vote them out on or before November 3 at IWillVote.com.
A graphic featuring an image of a sweaty, tired looking Donald Trump. Text overlaid reads, "Trump's broken promises." Text below lists all of the promises Trump lied about: No new wars, releasing the Epstein files, $5,000 DOGE checks, cheap gas, $2,000 tariff refund checks, lower grocery costs, draining the swap, Make America Healthy Again, Make America Great Again.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1h
An IRS proposal to add a citizenship and work authorization question to a crucial tax form coincides with Census Bureau efforts that would use tax information to exclude most immigrants from the 10-year population count.
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New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power
A proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h
I've obtained new data showing that in 3 House districts in South Texas, big majorities of Latinos are swinging hard against Trump on immigration. This is where the "multiracial working-class realignment" behind Trump restrictionism was said to be happening. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h
Talarico has an immigration plan that in its broad strokes is very humane and pro-immigrant. He says our border should be like a "front porch" with a "lock" and a "welcome mat." Both of those are important. The "welcome mat" in his plan deserves more attention. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3h
If for no other reason, vote against every Republican in November because they never stop blaming Biden, and now Obama, for all their fuck ups. They never take responsibility for anything.👇
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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h
Pennsylvania reports 943 measles cases as outbreak grows reut.rs/4iXZG3Y
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Pennsylvania reports 943 measles cases as outbreak grows
Pennsylvania's health department reported 943 measles cases as of ​Wednesday, according to its website, ‌as the state grapples with a growing outbreak of the highly ​contagious disease.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 3h
This racist POS should never have been elected either time. A shame on us all
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Jeff Jachens @jeffjwarwick.bsky.social · 3h
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 3h
The proposed bill would also prevent the president from attempting to use a pocket rescission in the future.
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Senate Dems Will Attempt to Stop Trump White House’s Latest Illegal Pocket Rescission 
Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Budget Committee...
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miterstomp.bsky.social @miterstomp.bsky.social · 10h
David Rothkopf puts it clearly for Americans, I paraphrase: The last person you want to have flying your plane is a visibly dying 80 year old narcissist!
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DSR Daily Live with Mary Trump
A recording from David Rothkopf and The DSR Network's live video
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NPR @npr.org · 3h
The Pentagon made last-minute changes to forms that many overseas U.S. citizens use for absentee voting, removing a category of citizens that Republicans have been pushing to block from voting. n.pr/4iT13Ru
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Trump officials changed forms for overseas voters amid a GOP push to restrict voting
The Pentagon made last-minute changes to forms that many overseas U.S. citizens use for absentee voting, removing a category of citizens that Republicans have been pushing to block from voting.
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 6h
🇺🇦 Budanov: “I think that we will have time to scale up the production of drones capable of intercepting jet Shaheds by the most difficult period of this winter. They are already being tested in combat. This is no longer ordinary testing, but experimental use - at least.”
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Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone's said all there is to say about Schmitt's hilarious "Hawks" boner. But the part that I keep coming back to is that Schmitt apparently thought proving Smith was in Atlanta would somehow prove some cross-prosecutorial conspiracy. Then he didn't bother to confirm if Smith ever was in Atlanta.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3h
NEW: NextEra and Dominion Energy, two of America's biggest utility companies, are on the verge of merging. Electricity costs are already through the roof — and this deal could jack up costs even more. The Trump Admin should not rubber stamp this merger.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 6h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 10h
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt is so F'ing Dumb he doesn't even get that his attempt to go after Jack Smith failed miserably. Even Fox News is mocking him. www.mediaite.com/politics/rep...
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Reporter Confronts Republican Senator on the Street Over Viral Blunder: ‘What Happened in There?’
TMZ DC’s Charlie Cotton confronted Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) outside the Capitol over his failed attempt to catch former special counsel Jack Smith in a contradiction, asking the senator, “What happene...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10h
As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 10h
She added that the Russians continue to kidnap people in the community: “People are being taken away, our family has disappeared without a trace. We don’t know where they are, they took them to the basement — that’s all. Whether they are alive or not — is unknown.”
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 10h
😡 In Oleshky, the occupiers took food packages from people, which the Ukrainian military had dropped from drones the day before. This was reported by the head of the Oleshky MVA. “They are dropping off products from the Armed Forces of Ukraine to you, it means you are cooperating with them.”
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 22h
Student journalists across this country have been churning out some of the best journalism these last couple years Thinking of the radio crew covering the encampments in New York, UCLA crew doing the same, not to mention groundbreaking investigation after investigation Brilliant, the best of us
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 9h
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Simpsons Lisa Laughing
ALT: Simpsons Lisa Laughing
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h
Also worth remembering: Outlets often use this approach when they don't have credentials that allow them inside, where there's a bunch of professional norms, etc. That was the case for the bloggy sites, and, now, with TMZ: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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No credentials, no problem as TMZ DC shakes up Hill media bubble
TMZ’s new, kind of troll-y Washington team says their dream stories could be what bills are passing to who’s clogging the toilets in Congress.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h
…when these kinds of interviews with lawmakers were a common approach for bloggy news sites of the late aughts and 2010s. When those outlets died, this approach died with them, and became more the purview of activists. Folks have different views on this style, but TMZ is making an interesting case.
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