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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Democracy Forward has launched an investigation into the use of public funding for highly political television ads aired recently by the Trump administration. The organization filed today a series of FOIA requests. @democracyforward.org democracyforward.org/news/press-r...

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump has asked Xi whether he would like to buy American weapons, said David Perdue, the American ambassador to China, in a television interview on Sunday. This is a shocking idea even by Trump’s standard of stupid ideas. China is our greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival and a foe.

nytimes.com

Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)

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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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beijing this month rolled out a five-year plan to dominate the global biotech industry. Hard to believe, but Trump is assisting Xi Jinping at the same time by hitting U.S. biotech companies with new tariffs. This will raise drug prices for Americans and drive more investment to China. 🎁🔗

wsj.com

Opinion | The U.S. Tariff Attack on U.S. Biotech

New Trump border taxes arrive Tuesday and are a gift to Xi Jinping.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We the taxpayers are paying for Trump’s latest political ads. The creepy spot “This is the final battle” is unnervingly reminiscent of his speech on the Ellipse on January 6, 2021. We know what happened then.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Beginning October 1, some of the cuts to SNAP and Medicaid mandated by “the One Big Beautiful Bill Act” take effect. The cuts will bring new eligibility requirements and hardship for tens of millions of low-income Americans and people with disabilities that depend on the programs.

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SNAP and Medicaid Will Change Dramatically in October: What to Know

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the justices’ willingness to issue rulings via the “shadow docket”, saying it undermines the public’s faith in the judicial system. As she spoke at UDC, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett dined with Trump and Xi Jinping at the White House.

theguardian.com

Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes supreme court’s handling of emergency docket

The associate justice called out her colleagues in a speech she made at the UDC school of law, hours after Trump filed his latest request

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

theguardian.com

Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes supreme court’s handling of emergency docket

The associate justice called out her colleagues in a speech she made at the UDC school of law, hours after Trump filed his latest request

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

BREAKING: A potentially devastating ruling by SCOTUS thirty nine days before the election. The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can deploy an expansive online system that contains data about millions of Americans and allowed states to use the data to purge voter rolls.

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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

Critics have said the data could lead to U.S. citizens being kicked off the voter rolls, but the justices noted the law prohibits broad voter purges in the weeks leading up to an election.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“In the Donald Trump White House, summits are hazardous excursions during which the interests of the United States are shoved aside by a president whose cringe-inducing admiration of dictators makes these meetings into rituals of American humiliation.”—Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social

theatlantic.com

Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits

He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The whole day today and last night Chinese journalists enjoyed access to the White House complex and all events while the American press was blocked from attending most of the time. Trump praised the Chinese press which is idiotic: there is no free media in communist countries, only propaganda.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

CNN journalists access denied again for the state dinner with Xi. Trump is playing a cat and mouse game with journalists and with the American audiences in violation of judges order. This is despicable and unlawful behavior.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Judge Kelly ordered at 12:58am on Thursday early morning the immediate reinstatement of access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico journalists to the WH complex. Betsy Klein of CNN reports that her and her colleagues access was still denied at 8am up until 11:50am.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: All three organizations, MS NOW, CNN, and Politico are still denied access to the White House. Their journalists who tried to enter the White House complex had their passes confiscated. Is Trump going to ignore Judge Kelly’s order? www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...

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MS NOW @ms.now · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore White House access for now to journalists working for MS NOW, CNN, and Politico. The president had already indicated he would appeal any loss.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Judge Kelly’s 8-page decision. The judge granted the plaintiffs the restraining order that they asked for. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Judge Kelly ordered Trump to temporarily restore White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists. The judge said the removal of the reporters’ press badges was likely done without constitutionally adequate due process. He expressed skepticism about the “national security” argument.

nytimes.com

Court Blocks Trump’s White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico (Gift Article)

Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued a temporary restraining order and told the White House to immediately restore the press credentials for the employees of the three news outlets.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Teachers are defying state laws to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. “I’m personally Christian, but professionally, a secular teacher,” said Taria Usher, a kindergarten teacher in a district near Houston. “Publicly funded classrooms are not the place for religious tenets to be put up.”

theguardian.com

Not set in stone: teachers are defying mandates to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms

Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

President Trump is reportedly looking for a way to stick his name on Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.—where former President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed in 1865. Figures, Trump has been obsessively comparing himself to Lincoln. newrepublic.com/post/215753/...

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Trump Now Seriously Considering Slapping His Name on Ford’s Theater

Trump’s aides reportedly want him to rename the historic building where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For years, the strategy among U.S. allies was to wait President Trump out. Now many are preparing for a world in which the United States is no longer indispensable. The shift may be the most consequential legacy of Trump’s foreign policy. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

theatlantic.com

America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave

They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Before Iran carried out its attack that killed three US troops in July, Tehran acquired high-resolution satellite images of the base in Jordan from Chinese entities. Nonetheless, today Trump rolled out the red carpet for Xi at the airport. Trump simply cannot resist communist tyrants. 🎁🔗

wsj.com

Exclusive | U.S. Links Chinese Satellite Imagery to Iranian Strike That Killed Three Troops

The finding deepens U.S.-China tensions ahead of the Trump-Xi summit as officials examine possible Chinese help tracking American warships.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Police bodycam footage shows an officer arriving at the scene of ICE shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez. Pérez was taken to a hospital in Austin and then promptly moved into ICE detention, even though he still has a bullet lodged near his spine and is in much pain. www.cnn.com/2026/09/22/u...

cnn.com

Bodycam footage shows officer arriving at ICE agent-involved shooting | CNN

Police bodycam footage shows an officer arriving at the scene of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-involved shooting in Austin, Texas. An ICE agent shot a Venezuelan man in the back while he was ...

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This administration is targeting the most vulnerable Americans and is inflicting as much pain on them as possible. Trump and his henchmen seem to be feeding on cruelty.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

JD Vance and other Trump administration officials said Tuesday they plan to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees from public healthcare exchanges, alleging that the individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program. The process by which people were designed for removal is not clear.

npr.org

Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims

White House officials allege these individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program or do not exist. Vice President Vance said the move would save $2.2 billion.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

theguardian.com

Not set in stone: teachers are defying mandates to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms

Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

newrepublic.com

Trump Now Seriously Considering Slapping His Name on Ford’s Theater

Trump’s aides reportedly want him to rename the historic building where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

theatlantic.com

America’s Allies Are No Longer Waiting for Trump to Leave

They now figure isolationism and protectionism will be U.S. foreign policy for a long time to come.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

wsj.com

Exclusive | U.S. Links Chinese Satellite Imagery to Iranian Strike That Killed Three Troops

The finding deepens U.S.-China tensions ahead of the Trump-Xi summit as officials examine possible Chinese help tracking American warships.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

cnn.com

Bodycam footage shows officer arriving at ICE agent-involved shooting | CNN

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This administration is targeting the most vulnerable Americans and is inflicting as much pain on them as possible. Trump and his henchmen seem to be feeding on cruelty.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

npr.org

Trump administration to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud claims

White House officials allege these individuals were fraudulently enrolled in the program or do not exist. Vice President Vance said the move would save $2.2 billion.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump signed a deal with the leaders of Greenland and Denmark ending a standoff that has soured the US relations with European allies. The deal builds on a 1951 treaty between the US and Denmark. It excludes any idea of “Trump owning Greenland” and emphasizes territorial sovereignty of Denmark. 🎁🔗

wsj.com

Here’s What Trump’s Greenland Deal Means for the U.S.

The agreement will clear the way for an expanded U.S. military presence on the Arctic island.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Good news! The Arch de Trumph will be weaponized, apparently! ‘There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World.’ You know, for once, I think the president is right.” @petridishes.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Oh, Good, Trump’s Arch Will Store Military-Grade Weapons

Here are 13 other very normal places to store munitions.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation died, a casualty of his purge of the FBI. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tom Nichols about Republicans losing their fear of Trump: “It reminds me of all the petty, authoritarian regimes where there’s absolutely no break in support for the leader until the day there is.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tom Nichols on what Americans hear when they look to the national leader: “Shut up you whiners. It’s a small price to pay. It’s not a big deal. Groceries aren’t that expensive. And then he goes off about sharks and electrocutions.” @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ICE has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding thousands of detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, an unannounced move that has made it far more difficult for lawyers and relatives to find them. In other words, ICE is now disappearing people. apnews.com/article/ice-...

apnews.com

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

wsj.com

Here’s What Trump’s Greenland Deal Means for the U.S.

The agreement will clear the way for an expanded U.S. military presence on the Arctic island.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

theatlantic.com

Oh, Good, Trump’s Arch Will Store Military-Grade Weapons

Here are 13 other very normal places to store munitions.

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

propublica.org

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Houthis are moving to seize strategic heights in Yemen that would cut the Red Sea coast off from areas held by Saudi-backed forces after Trump called off US strikes on the group at the last minute. Over the last few days, Trump flip-flopped several times about strikes on the Houthis.

theguardian.com

Houthis move to seize strategic terrain after Trump calls off airstrikes at last minute

US president reportedly changed his mind over Saudi Arabia’s pleas for assistance as bombs were being loaded

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

UNBELIEVABLE: A three-judge panel of the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals said Missouri should use the new Trump-backed congressional map in the November election. Both the US Supreme Court and the Missouri Supreme Court have already ruled *twice* against the new map.

theguardian.com

Appeals court rules in favor of Trump-backed Missouri congressional maps

Supreme court, which has twice blocked maps from being used in November, likely to have final say in legal fight

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Brian Stelter: “The entire American press corps seems united in a way that I have not seen in a long time.” @brianstelter.bsky.social

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Joint statement of the White House television pool members, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC:

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” Bryan Boughton of Fox News, wrote in a note to television pool members. ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC have long shared the responsibility of providing coverage of presidential events.

nytimes.com

Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of Trump After White House Bans CNN (Gift Article)

The move was an escalation of President Trump’s showdown with the White House press corps after he moved to bar journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico.

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