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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 8h
Republicans giddily allowed President Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban to expire in 2004. After which, mass shootings exploded. This is America.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 11h
Umar Kremlev, who helped pay for Trump Jr.’s wedding, is tied to a group accused of abducting Ukrainian children and was honored by Vladimir Putin a month before the wedding. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/russian-wh...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/10/2026
i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
💥NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! TONS of NEWS DOJ & FBI emails I obtained reveal how federal investigators probed allegations in 2022 that President Donald Trump tore up presidential records & why a prosecutor declined to pursue a separate criminal investigation www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
An email from NARA's OIG to DOJ's public integrity prosecutor in 2022. 

I just wanted to close the loop on our end with this. My office completed a preliminary inquiry into the matter of the torn records from the Trump Administration and found that:
1. In June 2018, NARA warned the Trump Administration that the practice of tearing records was not permissible. The Trump Administration provided assurances that it would stop. In approximately March or April 2021, NARA determined that the practice had continued through the end of the administration.
2. From the very limited number of Trump Administration records reviewed by NARA pursuant to special access requests, only a very small quantity were torn.
3. Both classified (secret and top secret) and unclassified records were torn (including two partially torn records found in the 15 boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago).
4. The nature of the tears varied from partial, halves, quarters, and smaller pieces. However, no records were torn in a way that they were not able to be realigned and put back together.
5. Some torn records were taped back together, while others were placed in their multiple pieces and intermingled in accordion folders.
6 pra practice did not seem to follow a rhyme or reason, and did not appear to be a discriminant
7. There is no way for NARA to know who exactly tore the records, but it is implied by how the records were labeled and some records were attributed to President Trump, and recently one box containing torn records was attributed to Matthew Sheehan, former Deputy Counsel to Vice President Mike Pence.
8. As a side note, classified records were found intermingled with the unclassified records and isolated as necessary for proper handling.
Please let me know if given this additional information, this is a matter that PIN is interested in.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/10/2026
Mullin just said the quiet part on camera: they're stretching RICO over a sitting congresswoman so the statute of limitations stops applying. That's how you build a case when there's no crime, you pick the target first and invent a conspiracy big enough to reach her. Insidious.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The Kash Patel Impeachment Referral Inside the Employment Lawsuit emptywheel.net/2026/10/16/t...
emptywheel.net
The Kash Patel Impeachment Referral Inside the Employment Lawsuit - emptywheel
Buried inside the employment lawsuit filed by nine FBI Special Agents fired because they investigated Trump's stolen documents is everything Congress would need to impeach Kash Patel for lying to them...
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 15/10/2026
Congress needs answers about who made these bets, who had advanced knowledge of Trump’s decision, and why political leadership at the CFTC stepped in.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 15/10/2026
ICYMI: We sued Jared Kushner for breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures. The court cannot allow this to continue and must intervene.
citizensforethics.org
CREW sues to block Jared Kushner from acting as Trump envoy - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Jared Kushner is breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Nowhere in that long, rambling word salad would you ever get any inkling, if you didn’t know it, that Putin attacked and invaded Ukraine unprovoked & could end the war at any instant simply by… not doing that anymore.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/10/2026
Musk throws Trump under the bus
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026
In 1987 Trump visited Moscow. Since then, "He has changed his mind about abortion and crypto, he has supported different political parties, but his dislike of America’s democratic allies and his preference for Russia have remained remarkably consistent." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ms Rachel from the top ropes
From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
CNN and other news outlets reported on the court order immediately last night. But the DOJ claims that the relevant lawyers at the Department of Homeland Security "did not become aware" of the order "until this morning."
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interior Deputy Chief of Staff who called the Oct. 5 meeting has not been reached. "We tried everything to reach him, your honor," gov't lawyer says.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
NPS: "I do not have the total cost breakdown in my office." He adds that he doesn't know that anyone does. Asked how it was approved within one week, he said that that they modified an existing contract relating to the George Washington Memorial Parkway.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To be clear as to the above, I meant that they said they adhered to NEPA requirements — through claiming a categorical exclusion. (Although he couldn't explain more.)
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Is the contractor liable, if NEPA requirements weren't followed?
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
No president can abuse power alone: he needs a complicit Congress, and contractors to do the physical work. Riverbend's owner Logan Jones could have said "we can't start that fast", or "we need to wait for the court order". He didn't. You can call and tell him what you think. 2/ riverbendva.com
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Riverbend is proud to provide quality tree care, tree removal, pruning, pest & disease management, landscape maintenance, drainage, grading & lot clearing to northern VA.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump's highly unusual taxpayer-funded ads are off the air, at least for now. The lawyers who challenged the ads in court, and won a temporary restraining order last night, said the "blatantly unlawful political propaganda" had "no legal justification."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fox, probably being fed info from the regime, says the feds' search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home "stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child." In other words, it's fascist bullshit.
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Maybe they won’t remove the trees but just disembark them.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 09/10/2026
“Weeks before Election Day, the nation's campaign finance regulator can't enforce the law” @gabekaminsky.bsky.social for CBS News
cbsnews.com
Weeks before Election Day, the nation's campaign finance regulator can't enforce the law
The Federal Election Commission is down to just two members ahead of what's projected to be the most expensive election cycle on record.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The following GOP Senators are on 2026 midterm ballots and voted to confirm Kimberly Guilfoyle: Shelley Moore Capito Susan Collins Tom Cotton Bill Hagerty Jon Husted Cindy Hyde-Smith Roger Marshall Ashley Moody Pete Ricketts Jim Risch Mike Rounds Dan Sullivan Marsha Blackburn Tommy Tuberville
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is why, when Republicans use the word socialism to tag Democrats, it has no relationship with the actual definition of the word. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor .... He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government. 'No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. ... Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people.'"
npr.org
ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One simple way to see that neither the GOP nor the national media really cares about THE DEBT & only pretends to when Democrats propose spending on left-coded domestic policies is that neither CNN nor anyone else in the media is asking “How can we afford that?” about this incredible waste.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NYFed: By February 2026, Trump's tariffs had contributed 2.9 percentage points to consumer goods price inflation; without tariffs, goods prices would have fallen slightly. The tariffs raised the cost of imported goods AND their domestically-produced competitors.
libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org
How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices? - Liberty Street Economics
A look at how much of U.S. tariffs reach consumers and how quickly, tracing tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump is about to sell out Ukraine, basically the culmination of the 2016 influence operation, but that history has been memory holed. www.youtube.com/shorts/yDK-8...
youtube.com
Trump's Team Sells Out the US
YouTube video by emptywheel
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been arguing that Trump's fraudulent Fraud Task Force looked like Stephen Miller disinformation. www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...
Miller is also in touch multiple times a week with the Deputy Attorney General's office to discuss fraud and immigration cases, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For two months (as reported by the Atlantic)(April-July), the funds apportioned were only available consistent with the “available for obligation consistent with the FY 2026 President’s Budget.” The budget is a PROPOSAL, the appropriation is a BILL PASSED BY CONGRESS.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Collectively, the cases we’ve documented show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, it has run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens, too, and on a scale not seen in generations. Read our full story:
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump…
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/10/2026
The official rationale for Trump's $500 checks is that they are a “refund” going to people “overcharged” by the Biden administration for coverage. Yeah, no. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social:
lnk.thebulwark.com
Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop
He’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 07/10/2026
Cities are are filled with people rural America "failed to love and take care of"
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 07/10/2026
“The act of having wasted taxpayer dollars on these ads remains a violation of law. At the very least, Trump and his administration must reimburse the Treasury and face the consequences for violating federal law and the Hatch Act.” www.citizen.org/news/trump-m...
citizen.org
Trump Must Reimburse Treasury for Public Funds Wasted on Partisan Ads - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Facing significant backlash to his recent TV ads, Trump recently declared he will no longer use taxpayer funds to…
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
NEW: Rep. Beatty is challenging the Kennedy Center's invocation of the qualified "presidential communications privilege" in refusing to turn over a vast array of communications with Trump & even documents "touching on" Trump communications during discovery. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When Defendants filed their motion to vacate the preliminary injunction and for summary
judgment, they initially relied on evidence of what Trump told Defendant Matthew Floca. See,
e.g., Defs.'s Mem. in Supp. of Mot. 4, ECF 88-1; Defs.'s Statement of Undisputed Material Facts 14, ECF No. 89-2; see also Suppl. Decl. Charles Matthew Floca 1 6, ECF No. 29-3. But after
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Plaintiff served written discovery, the Department of Justice pivoted to a sweeping claim of
presidential communications privilege to bar any inquiry into those communications, or indeed
into any inputs and instructions the Kennedy Center's staff received from its board chair. The
Department now refuses to provide any documents held by the Kennedy Center even touching on
communications between the Chairman and management and intends to block all inquiry into those
communications in depositions. Plaintiff does not bring this motion lightly. The Department's sweeping assertion of privilege, however, appears to be unprecedented. Donald Trump is the chair of a non-profit corporation's board, and his decisions and directions lie at the heart of that board's
actions which, in turn, are the subject matter of this case. Allowing Defendants to hide behind this unwarranted assertion of privilege would obstruct the search for the truth, frustrate the Court's discovery order, and undermine public confidence in these important proceedings.Having appointed himself to the Kennedy Center's board and having assumed the office
of Chair, Donald Trump undertook the obligations placed on him by the Center's organic statute
to safeguard and protect this sacred memorial to a fallen President. Trustee and board chair are
not roles that must be performed by the President of the United States and, indeed, never have been
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in the Center's history before now. Nor are the staff at the Kennedy Center anything like the close presidential advisers whose conversations executive privilege protects. The Court should not
permit Defendants to evade accountability as trustees by abusing a privilege constructed for other
purposes, not the chairmanship of this non-profit entity. Plaintiff therefore respectfully requests the Court compel the production of responsive documents and written production Defendants improperly withheld.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
2/ This pathetic WaPo headline neglects to mention that the attorney general was investigating a *MAGA-aligned troll farm operator* when he was arrested. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...
washingtonpost.com
Bolivia arrests its attorney general after U.S. accuses him of narco corruption
Authorities arrested 14 people, including four whom they said were sneaking cash out of Attorney General Roger Mariaca’s home and into an ambulance.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Follow the money yourself: open.substack.com/pub/populari...
open.substack.com
This tool makes everyone a campaign finance expert
Introducing PaidForBy.info, a new app created by Popular Information
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
@amandacarpenter.bsky.social on why we should care about the big, beautiful ballroom:
lnk.thebulwark.com
Why You Must Care About the Ballroom
Trump is defying Congress and robbing the American people to build it.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia Russia Russia Never Stopped Russia Russia Russiaing emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/r...
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Russia Russia Russia Never Stopped Russia Russia Russiaing - emptywheel
Russia's interference in the 2016 election is not the past. On the contrary, the latest news shows how much Russian has simply relentlessly pursued the very same plan it put in place starting a decade...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
trib.al
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of interest.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/10/2026
Some Democrats are quietly preparing a new playbook to investigate members of the Trump administration after the midterm elections, should they manage to retake control of one—or both—chambers of Congress, @mviser.bsky.social reports:
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump is corruptly misappropriating taxpayer funds to pay for political ads. And rather than object, his GOP allies in Congress shrink in fear. Gift link: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
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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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
FDR v. Stephen Miller
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is getting a tiny bit of lift on TikTok. Watch it and heart it there, if you would!
tiktok.com
FDR v. Stephen Miller. "The doctrine that the strong dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies."
TikTok video by LOLGOP
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A Las Vegas firm paid $4 million for a ranch next to Yosemite. Now it wants Trump to hand it a road through the park so it can build a lodge. Nice return on investment. Tell Congress to kill the deal: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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