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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2h
And now this: GOP "staff on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave Sen. Eric Schmitt a warning: The texts they had obtained from the Justice Department ... were 'unvetted.' ... Schmitt used the texts anyway." www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Rebuild Local News @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social · 3h
Historic development for local news! 🚨 @governor.ca.gov has signed the Community NEWS Act (AB 2222) into law, creating the nation’s largest state investment in local news by total dollars. Learn more: www.rebuildlocalnews.org/gov-newsom-s...
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Gov. Newsom Signs Nation's Most Ambitious Law to Strengthen Community News
The Community NEWS Act (AB 2222), sponsored by Rebuild Local News, creates refundable tax credits to help California news outlets retain and hire local journalists
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 6h
Whatever else he might do in the next few hours, fantastic news that Gavin Newsom signed this bill to support local journalism. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Newsom signs landmark bill aimed at giving lifeline to struggling California newsrooms
Assembly Bill 2222 will create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2h
One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 5h
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
Reup: Yesterday Chuck Grassley claimed to be outraged that, along with all the other comms Jack Smith obtained when accessing devices of witnesses and criminals, he got journalists' request for comment. Chuck is trying to cover up how Trump defrauded MAGAts. emptywheel.net/2026/09/30/c...
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Chuck Grassley and Far Right Propagandists Covering Up How Trump Defrauded MAGAts - emptywheel
Far right propagandists and Chuck Grassley are outraged that journalists' communications -- communications that showed Trump defrauding MAGAt voters -- were among the things Jack Smith obtained from t...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2h
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h
The more this debacle is reported out, the more it’s clear that the Republicans and the DOJ are doing what they accuse Biden and his DOJ of doing. And the more they chase after “evidence” to prove their fantasies, the more the rest of us are burning up economically under their incompetence.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h
Here is the definition of politicized law enforcement.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h
1. The texts came from the DOJ. 2. Grassley knew about them. 3. Grassley did not include the texts in the memo to the committee. 4. Grassley did not share the texts with the Dems on the panel.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2h
Darline Graham is bragging that she cast the deciding vote to confirm Blanche.
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M Carbone @ladolcevitaone.bsky.social · 2h
This Chuck Grassley? The alleged unindicted seditious co-conspirator??? 🤔
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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 5h
Jesus. Christ.
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302 LAPD officers cleared $300,000 last year. At the NYPD, four times the size, 15 did.
Nearly half of LA's $300,000 earners held officer or detective titles, and among the Police Officer IIs in that group, average overtime topped regular pay.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 5h
The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h
Trump is now running pro-Iran War propaganda commercials on Fox News paid by for taxpayer dollars
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 2h
Again, it bears repeating: this is the best that whiteness can do. Multiracial, multicultural and multi religious democracy produces strong men who can lead. Whiteness produces Peter Pans.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2h
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h
Reminder: Hegseth's "no beardo" policy is just his not-so-subtle way to push out Black troops.
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If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h
JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.
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Judge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records Fight
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23h
I have one house.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h
“There’s now all this talk about potential world-ending disasters that AI could bring. But my investigation of violent attacks from Canada to Florida and beyond shows that harm fueled by AI is already here.” Read Mark Follman's four-part investigative series here: tinyurl.com/2wmf2ezb
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EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI's ChatGPT Told School Shooter How to Evade Its Own Safeguards
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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Alicia Ault @aliciaault.bsky.social · 1h
A fifth person has died from measles in Pennsylvania. #IDsky #EpiSky #pediatrics #MMR #vaccines
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Pennsylvania reports 5th measles-related death in the state
The state’s outbreak is the largest in the U.S.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1h
Truly chilling how much the justices love killing people.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
An important message from the Reich minister for propaganda and popular enlightenment. www.reuters.com/world/us-fcc...
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US FCC chair says government ads featuring Trump do not raise concerns
The chair of the Federal Communications Commission said on Wednesday ​that taxpayer-funded television ads featuring President Donald Trump are not improper ‌and do not raise any red flags.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
See what I mean when I say the system is rigged?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6h
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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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 7h
Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has been officially cleared of any criminal wrongdoing or administrative misconduct by the Federal Reserve’s Inspector General. Another Trump enemy vindicated. @anntelnaes.bsky.social
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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 12h
He does have the magic touch when it comes to bankrupting businesses.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23h
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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Strautz1 @strautz1.bsky.social · 21h
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Ally Raymond @allyraymond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😆😆😆 #stupidantivaxxers
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h
The MTA on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign imports are on track to add $1 billion to the price of New York’s new train cars and buses. gothamist.com/news/mta-say...
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MTA says Trump's tariffs added $1B to cost of NYC's new train cars, buses
New York's train cars and buses are manufactured in the United States, but they rely on loads of components manufactured all over the world.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 9h
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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h
If you've ever wondered how ridiculously profitable tech companies avoid paying taxes . . .
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Democracy USA @oilgaschemicals.bsky.social · 9h
Hey Texans ... How many homes do you own? Paxton...has 15 Talarico.... Has 1.. Vote Talarico...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 13h
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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404 Media @404media.co · 11h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
🚨MUST-WATCH: "Health care has just become another industry for the minting of money... The system is deeply broken." Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social tells @ezraklein why he supports MEDICARE FOR ALL, and how to get it done. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/Dd64m6e...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h
I hate it when news media suck up to newsmakers by trying to wish things into existence. Two examples: The media chorus that Rahm Emanuel is presidential material and Axios pushing Eric Schmitt as the next vice president. Start reporting real news. Stop trying to make fetch happen.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball while answering questions from reporters
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h
It is actually completely clear from context clues.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16h
Go For It Ladies.......
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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