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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
New research indicates Walmart is working to compile massive amounts of data on individual shoppers and potentially charge them different prices, despite the company’s denial. This shady tactic is called surveillance pricing, and Walmart isn’t the only corporation planning to use it. Watch.
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h
⚠️ Aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee covered up Israeli killings of nine Americans
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 7h
ooohkay...
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 8h
Ken Paxton told Washington lobbyists he would support cuts to federal benefits according to leaked audio. "Making some reasonable cuts to mandatory spending — you’re gonna have to do it. Or there is no solution. That’s just the reality. We have to suck it up." www.texastribune.org/2026/10/08/k...
texastribune.org
Paxton suggests cutting federal benefits in newest leaked audio
In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and M...
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 8h
Trump is looking to set century high mortgages rates deanbaker22.substack.com/p/mortgage-r...
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Mortgage Rates Hitting Century Highs
Factory Construction and wages may not be up, but beef prices and mortgages are
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Maé Disabled Immigrant @its-mae-bae.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🎁 "Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials"
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a fucking country… www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The cost of carrying oil from inside the Persian Gulf to China rose to a record $1.3 million a day Monday. “The rate averaged close to $60,000 a day last year.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Iran Ramps Up Ship Attacks in Hormuz as Oil, Gas Flows Rise
Iran has increased the pace of attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, just as oil shipments through the world’s most important energy chokepoint approach prewar levels.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t think a 21X increase in the cost to get a tanker out of the Persian Gulf with lower total exports than before the war is an achievement. And I think it’s odd that so much of the press has been covering it as if we should see this as positive, with “Better Than You Think”-style “explainers.”
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of the most interesting debates in current international security is the degree to which we’re reliant on undersea cables and the degree to which these aren’t at all protected! I spoke to @katjabego.bsky.social about her excellent new book on the subject. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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Deep Connections: Kaja Bego on the undersea cables that underpin the global economy.
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 5 October · 53min
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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kemalmquist.bsky.social @kemalmquist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Paxton has to be one of the most evil men in the country. Many children will die because of this. Pediatricians will flee Texas because of this and children will die from causes that have nothing to do with vaccines because there are no doctors to care for them.
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“The primary reason that diesel and other refined products aren’t making it out of the Middle East is that refineries across the region, in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and elsewhere, are down following missile strikes and other outages stemming from the war.”
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump & Hegseth not only left our troops stationed in Gulf region exposed to Iranian attacks in response to Trump's illegal war. Those troops did not recieve needed immediate medical care, diagnosis or adequate if any treatment. Hegseth still denies their injuries www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-u...
huffpost.com
Soldiers Seriously Wounded In Iranian Drone Strike Say Military's Medical System Failed Them
The soldiers’ criticism comes against the backdrop of years of disinvestment in the Middle East by multiple administrations who sought to end U.S. involvement in the region.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mike Caruso, Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts, and pedophile said he still intends to win his election for Clerk and Comptroller after being arrested in August for molesting a male relative under the age of 5. He’s been endorsed by the GOP. amp.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Palm Beach GOP endorses candidate accused of child sex abuse
“I maintain my innocence and remain a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller,” Mike Caruso, facing child sex abuse charges.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
propublica.org
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's your reminder that border czar Tom Homan, who is terrorizing hard-working immigrants, took $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting. The Trump regime killed the probe, and there’s no indication that Homan paid the money back to the taxpayers – or even paid taxes on the "income."
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
just catching up on JD Vance telling Hannity that Jeffrey Epstein is actually "a great character reference" for Donald Trump 😳
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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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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Got a big hell yeah from me
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Christa Pike is in critical condition after a failed execution in Tennessee, her lawyers say. At least seven needles were used to administer the lethal injection into Pike’s arm over the course of an hour, one of her lawyers, who witnessed the failed execution attempt, said.”
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Christa Pike is in critical condition after a failed execution in Tennessee, her lawyers say
At least seven needles were used to administer the lethal injection into Pike’s arm over the course of an hour, one of her lawyers, who witnessed the failed execution attempt, said.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“‘I’m haunted by last night,’ said Spivey, who was there during the execution attempt.” “‘Last night was not just inefficient; it was cruel and it was torturous,’ Spivey said.” "When the second dosage of pentobarbital was administered, Spivey described seeing Pike’s arm turn purple.”
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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alternet.org @alternet.org · 30/09/2026
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale noticed that President Donald Trump's administration has now changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer reveals the so-called "big lie."
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Trump admin chatbot changes answers to spin 2020 election lies: fact checker
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale noticed that President Donald Trump's administration has now changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer reveals the so-called "big lie."
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Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good day to remind people that when Nate Hochman was too Nazi for DeSantis, Sen. Schmitt picked him up.
Nazi bum. Now at the State Department, being even worse.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
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CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
declaratory
relief
and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness. A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Michael Tracey is actively attempting to dox Jane Doe in the Cornell 7 rape case
Michael Tracey : If you happen to know who this Cornell "Jane Doe" is, get in touch and I would be happy to publish her name and identifying information. And yes -- this is 100% permitted under the First Amendment, whatever threats or emotional blackmail people might want to deploy"Report" me for what, exactly? Save your breath, scumbag. Sorry you hate the First Amendment so much. Her identity is obviously newsworthy at this point, and I will take extreme pleasure in reporting it. (Not "doxing" -- that's a total canard)
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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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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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Roger Marshall has sent a 'cease-and-desist' letter to Adam Hamilton saying Hamilton's ad featuring a former patient of Marshall's talking about his debt collectin practices is 'defamatory': kansasreflector.com/2026/09/28/r...
kansasreflector.com
Roger Marshall alleges defamation in new ad about former Kansas patient arrested while in debt • Kansas Reflector
Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene, but the jury convicted Carter, a Black man, based on the confession and two witnesses who said he bragged about killing Olesen, who was white. Those witnesses later recanted.”
apnews.com
Man ordered released on bail after decades on Utah’s death row after DNA tests show no match to him
A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man to be released on bail who spent decades on death row after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.
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carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pretty clear that the Trump admin is really relying on this new strategy to attack more communities while getting less public backlash than before
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After further reporting by @nataliaecm.bsky.social, we now know this error affected at least 200,000 should-be Texas voters. What a mess.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 26/09/2026
Social Media Shutdown: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Reportedly Rejecting Ads for Four-Hour Long Elon Musk Documentary
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Social Media Shutdown: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Reportedly Rejecting Ads for Four-Hour Long Elon Musk Documentary
YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, along with X, have reportedly rejected ads for Alex Gibney's four-hour long look at Musk. The post Social Media Shutdown: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Reportedly Rejecting Ads for Four-Hour Long Elon Musk Documentary first appeared on Mediaite.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/09/2026
I've been thinking about this photo all day. Considering how the Trump administration is constantly ranting about Communists, and how Pete Hegseth is always nattering on about our WARFIGHTERS, it's genuinely crazy to me that this image exists. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-kowt...
Screenshot of a Getty photograph captioned: "U.S. military personnel unroll the red carpet at the bottom of the stairs of an Air China plane carrying Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on September 23, 2026. (Kent Nishimura / AFP via Getty Images)" Above it, also in the screenshot, is a paragraph of text from a Bulwark article that included that picture. The text reads: "That was certainly the sense conveyed by the ceremony as a whole. There was the televised spectacle of American service members on their hands and knees, smoothing wrinkles and picking specks of dirt off the 100-foot long red carpet that had been unrolled for Xi, as Chinese officials looked on approvingly from the door of their airplane before their leader descended the stairs."
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
nytimes.com
‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms
A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oh my god I had missed this www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...
whitehouse.gov
Mass Deportations Are Improving Americans’ Quality of Life
In just one year, President Donald J. Trump’s ironclad commitment to securing our border and enforcing our nation’s laws is liberating Americans from the
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Page One in Milwaukee: @mcbridetd.bsky.social
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/09/2026
A Trump appointee said the administration would end a federally required review of how President Trump’s planned arch would harm historic sites. Preservationists and advocacy groups had been consulting with the administration on the planned 250-foot arch.
washingtonpost.com
Trump officials end review of how arch could harm historic sites
A required consultation process with local preservationists is being terminated, a Trump appointee said Thursday.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If we’re honest with ourselves about who we are as a country, the reality is this goes back far further than Iran-Contra, or Watergate & Cambodia, all the way to U.S. Grant’s original sin of exonerating the racist traitors, Robert Edward Lee & co., at Appomattox in 1865 From Ron Chernow’s “Grant”:
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
nytimes.com
From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨PARAMOUNT ASKED ELON MUSK FOR AN EQUITY INVESTMENT AMID PURCHASE OF HBO, WHICH HAS STREAMING RIGHTS TO THE "MUSK" DOCUMENTARY🚨🚨🚨
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