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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3h
Watchdog finds no criminality in Fed renovation that drew Trump’s scrutiny
nbcnews.com
Watchdog finds no criminality in Fed renovation that drew Trump’s scrutiny
The Fed’s inspector general did fault the central bank’s board for mismanaging costs. Trump blamed ex-chair Jerome Powell and said he “should be forced to resign.”
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 11h
And who knows the private healthcare industry better that Rick Scott, former CEO of Columbia/HCA? www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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HCA - THE HEALTH CARE COMPANY & SUBSIDIARIES
IO PAY $840 MILLION IN CRIMINAL FINES AND CIVIL DAMAGES AND PENALTIES
Largest Government Fraud Settlement in U.S. History
WASHINGTON, D.C. - HCA-The Healthcare Company (formerly known as Columbia-HCA), the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal conduct and pay more than $840 million in criminal fines, civil penalties and damages for alleged unlawful billing practices,
Attorney General Janet Reno announced today.
Today's agreement is the largest government fraud settlement ever reached by the Justice Department.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 16h
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com
US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.
cnbc.com
NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't have
A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.
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Molly Crane-Newman @mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump accepting defeat, here memorialized www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/29/t...
nydailynews.com
Trump formally accepts defeat in $5 million E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse lawsuit
The July 9 release of funds to Carroll was triggered after the nation’s highest court declined to take up Trump’s appeal at the end of its term in June. Trump tried to claw back the money and asked th...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today wasn’t the first time Eric Schmitt tried to use sports to go after someone only to have it blow up in his face because he knows nothing about the teams he’s talking about.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And he got dunked on so hard that he deleted it
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congress’ top Democratic appropriators demanded answers from the Department of Homeland Security and threatened investigations Tuesday as more details of the egregious shuffling of taxpayer dollars surfaced.
talkingpointsmemo.com
Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself
‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the...
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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Fella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe Sen Schmitt's staffers should have watched more Sesame Street when they were kids🤷‍♀️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)
photo of Schmitt's team holding up a poster board that made false claims about Jack Smith's whereabouts in February 2024
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Texas, the voter registration deadline is coming up next week. If you live in Texas and want to vote, be sure to check that you are registered properly — even if you you think you did what you had to. A statewide database to check: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The kicker is you can tell it would never even dawn on this Republican senator or his staff that a man might want to go to a women’s sporting event. But protect women’s sports or something!
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The law and order party, folks
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Bonesito @bonesito.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When someone accuses me of going to a Hawks game.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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kathmitchell.bsky.social @kathmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW: Sen. Eric Schmitt exposed Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan. Schmitt's erroneous effort to catch Smith in a lie resulted in Smith confirming he went to see Clark's Iowa Hawkeyes play the Terrapins in Maryland in 2023. w/ Chris Marquette www.politico.com/live-updates...
politico.com
Sen. Eric Schmitt pins down Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan
It appeared that the Missouri Republican misinterpreted a text message reference to the "hawks."
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kathmitchell.bsky.social @kathmitchell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Before New York defined him, Paris trained Hopper’s eye. In Stairway at 48 rue de Lille (1906), steep diagonals and shadow turn ascent into drama—an early blueprint for his city scenes.
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Diana Lucifera 🌟 @dianamcqueen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what it looks like when you're popular for good reasons.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WASHINGTON — Eight U.S. Marines were injured two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile attacked the ship they were operating on in the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If he understood economics, he’d realize that encouraging only degrees that make the most money now will flood the labor market so those jobs don’t have to pay as well, and leave fewer qualified candidates for the low-paying jobs that they have to compete by becoming high-paying.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
trib.al
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So many times we see this. Where illegal cancellation of congressional appropriation becomes one weird trick.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“.. a surreal week in the life of Washington. The president of the United States barred American reporters .. and rolled out a literal red carpet for the communist president of China ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MAGA, GOP, Please explain to me again how this makes America great.
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SABUCH @sabuch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please take a moment to read. Below is a list of clinical trials that are at risk of being canceled because of this #AuthoritarianRegime. 
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Attorneys for a man tased by ICE in Danbury, Connecticut, last month said in a court filing that they had a similar experience when they tried to visit him in the hospital.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 21/09/2026
yall, ICE shot *someone else* in austin, TX today. the guy in question is still alive but has serious wounds do not let this go silent or ignored. people already stopped talking about lorenzo araujo's murder, do not forget what ICE is doing as it murders and assaults innocent people
apnews.com
ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
Local authorities say a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, where anti-ICE protesters gathered at the scene.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Statement from the Radio Television Digital News Association:
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026
That’s a load-bearing assumption, Dr Strangelove. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
program.
sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the
familiar with the incident said.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also
"almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese
nations.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Am I crazy or is this just the status quo?
Nick Schifrin: BREAKING: Officials on all sides who have been briefed on the US-Denmark-Greenland deal tell me they are happy with the details.
A senior State Department official and a regional official briefed on the deal say the highlights are:
- Provides US permanent basing, access, and overflight rights
- Bans non-NATO bases
- Screening mechanism for investments that would allow a block on Chinese, Russian investments
- Greenland population can choose its political future
- No territory transferred to the US
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is with tremendous sadness and sense of loss that we regretfully share the news that @penncssm.bsky.social senior research fellow, and my close personal friend Joseph Romm has passed away unexpectedly. He will be sorely missed here. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...
web.sas.upenn.edu
Remembering Dr. Joe Romm
It is with great sadness that the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media shares news of the passing of PCSSM Senior Research Fellow Dr. Joe Romm. Please find below an obituary prepared ...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Hands Around the Kennedy Center. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/hands...
actionnetwork.org
Hands Around the Kennedy Center
Details to come.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Re-upping in honor of WB today:
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kathmitchell.bsky.social @kathmitchell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: “I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza. Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.”
Ms. Rachel Instagram:

“I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.
Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day.
We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.”
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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Highland Light, North Truro - 1930 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten…
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise E. Bettens Fund
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
goddamn that feels good to hear
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 17/09/2026
HOLY SHIT NEW IMPACT CRATER ON THE MOON This crater is 222 m (728 ft) across, and formed in spring 2024. Statistical modelling tells us this is a 1-in-132 year event. So the last time a crater this big formed on the Moon was 1894.
A large crater with bright rays is situated in the centre of this image. The dark, pockmarked lunar surface makes up the background.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump: "I could've banned fishing. The power of this office is crazy. I could've banned fishing. I think I'm gonna do that."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friday’s Page One. @financialtimes.com 🇨🇦
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