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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
One person listed as a top donor to David Flippo's congressional campaign says they never contributed to the Nevada Republican. The Campaign Legal Center's Brendan Fischer says that "suggests very serious campaign finance violations.”
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David Flippo has close ties to accused fraudster whose company spent lavishly on his behalf
Arizona Land Reserve, which the Nevada Republican listed as one of his biggest assets on his financial disclosure, cut $50,000 checks to conservative groups that endorsed him.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026
We’re looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization — the extra layer of approval insurers require before covering a medical expense — impacts patients. We need your help. 👇
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We’re Investigating Prior Authorization. Help ProPublica Understand Your Health Insurance Denial.
ProPublica is looking into the ways health insurers’ use of prior authorization impacts patients. We need your help to figure out if the process is still leading to delayed or missed treatments, tests...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Alliances are not merely acts of charity toward strangers. They exist because countries learned that hostility becomes more likely when aggressors believe their victims will stand alone..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Tucker Carlson would have you forget the truth about Hitler. Don’t.
In a conversation with Jacob Rees-Mogg, the commentator played fast and loose with the historical record.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Update on the ceasefire Trump announced this morning.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yep, no question. Let's recall that those arguing that 2024 heralded a multiracial working class realignment were expressly using that to argue that Dems had become too liberal on cultural issues and immigration. There will never be any reckoning for any of it.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel wants a one-year fixed price “sole source contract" with the UFC "to provide defense tactical technical training to special agents." This isn't going to end well. govtribe.com/file/governm...
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JA DTTT Redacted.pdf – Sole Source Justification - Defense Tactical Technical Training (15F06726P0000813) | GovTribe
PDF posted Sep 30, 2026 for the federal contract opportunity Sole Source Justification - Defense Tactical Technical Training (15F06726P0000813).
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The @aclu.org launched its largest-ever investment in education electoral programs across 9 battleground states to ensure voters understand the critical races and ballot measures affecting abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, voting, & fair courts. And voters are paying attention. youtu.be/TZyPyQvMwtc?...
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Trump’s GOP PANICS As Their OWN VOTERS Prepare To FIGHT BACK In MIDTERMS!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“.. In Maine, the cost to fill a standard heating-oil tank as of Wednesday was $1,650, up roughly 80 percent from a year earlier ..” @nytimes.com #MEsen www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/10/2026
A bipartisan group of six senators on Sunday called for President Donald Trump's administration to "immediately reverse course" on a plan to purchase diesel from Russia as part of an effort to lower high fuel prices. to.pbs.org/4rZjAOk
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Bipartisan group of senators calls on Trump to 'reverse course' on Russian diesel plan
Four Republican senators and two Democratic senators signed onto the statement released Sunday in protesting the deal. They said the administration failed to consult with Congress or submit any explan...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In August, Trump purchased between $1m and $5m in SpaceX bonds. Two days later, he signed a memorandum setting out a new policy pledging US government support for space transportation companies: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The reason why you see a bunch of accounts all suddenly start posting the same phrase at about the same time is because there's a bunch of GRU interns at setups like this and they get a slack notification and start copy/pasting the marching orders given to them
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Can someone ask CBS News why Ted Koppel said that "Bannon's technically correct; they didn't have standing" in the 60+ cases Trump and his allies lost in 2020. This is verifiably false and is a GOP talking point. Many/most of the cases Trump lost were on the merits. Do they not fact check at CBS?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026
Trump’s rally in Syracuse was supposed to be a big show of Republican unity and enthusiasm. Instead, only 4 of 16 local Republican candidates and party leaders planned to show up. Even Mike Lawler skipped it. Oops.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New Trump rule set to go into effect Oct 22 -- may cause serious spike in prescription drug prices for millions of Americans: www.usatoday.com/story/money/... apnews.com/article/drug...
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The cost of drugs from Canada is set to soar for millions of Americans because of a federal rule
Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access due to a new customs rule.
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/10/2026
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems. www.wired.com/story/openai...
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OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NBC News: "Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: PROOF is now *unlocking* this major breaking news, because bots are swarming online lying about its contents. Here’s the truth, fully sourced: Trump agents working for Israel are covering up murders of Americans—and Trump refuses to stop this wartime Treason. Please SHARE this.
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2026’s October Surprise Has Arrived—and It’s a Treason Conspiracy Involving Trump and Israel
On both sides of the partisan divide, voters are angrier about the Iran War than anything—as reporting suggests Israel forced us into it. Now the issue is about to become a political atomic bomb.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
David Brooks’ nonsense & lying about Ossoff aged as well as his nonsense & lying about sorpressata & his nonsense & lying about food price inflation at Newark Airport.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11/10/2026
U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an "energy ceasefire" in the 4 1/2-year-old war, but he offered no details on it and Kyiv reported attacks by Moscow on energy sites after his statement. to.pbs.org/4igakCh
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Trump claims Russia and Ukraine agree to 'energy ceasefire' despite continued attacks
Moscow did not immediately comment. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that while his country “welcomed” the announcement by Trump as “good news for everyone,” Russia was still hitting energ...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha
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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great column from @philinvestigates.com on a very disturbing undercurrent within Christian nationalism: the rationalization of subjugating women. www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-distur...
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The Disturbing New Christian Nationalist Argument for Subjugating Women
How right-wing podcasters are leveraging a tragic Massachusetts case to push for patriarchy, end no-fault divorce, and repeal the 19th Amendment.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
Feels like someone is out to get her. And I love that for her. The best is yet to come.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is especially galling given how cavalier this administration has been about deploying the troops and how callous they've been about their well-being while they're there. Sailors are trying to commit suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln as the Millers soak up benefits meant for the military.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/10/2026
A grand jury formally charged Jaclyn Alatrash, the congressman’s partner of nearly two years, with grand theft.
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Rep. Max Miller's girlfriend was just indicted
A grand jury formally charged Jaclyn Alatrash, the congressman's partner of nearly two years, with grand theft.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026
After Felicia Vela and her two children were evicted from their Phoenix home in February, she called the state 211 line for emergency shelter. She said an operator told her it could take six months to a year to get shelter.
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An Arizona County’s “Housing Hub” Is a Dead End for Many Homeless Families
Family homelessness in Maricopa County has risen to its highest level in more than a decade. But shelters are full, and it can take months to get in, leaving parents with little to no help.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ICE has to be dismantled, with every single incident like this investigated and prosecuted.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's funny that all the famous marketing professors on the internet are so completely clueless about how they themselves look. The only thing I know about this person is that he routinely exposes himself as a dim-witted asshole. If that's his chosen brand, well, good luck with that.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The government is legally forbidden by a court order from converting the Roxbury site to a detention facility... But an NPR investigation has found signs that the facility is being used. The state's Office of the Attorney General is looking into similar reports..." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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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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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is exactly what ICE said: "Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck." Now watch the video. They're no other word for it: They're lying.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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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 administrati...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of raw dairy products.
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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
Check this watch map… 🚨 Michigan should not be a toss-up at this late stage, y’all. It’s a blue seat that we must not lose.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"But Achilles wanted glory!" No, he didn't. He very explicitly says, "fuck this, I hate Agamemnon, and I'm going home," until Patroclus dies. The entire point of the poem is his rage and grief. Can anyone read a fucking book, holy shit.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Absolutely insanity. How the hell can this person possibly be employed with this level of malicious lying? Unless of course that is what your network is all about. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Unilaterally Ends American Sanctions on Russian Energy Products and Announces That America Will Now Help Finance the Genocide Against Europeans in Ukraine; Russia and America Now Co-Rogue States, with America Funding Two Genocides and Russia One
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Newsletter time. Alito is on the ballot in the midterms, in case creeping fascism wasn’t enough of a reason to vote. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent gives Democrats another reason to vote in November. Plus: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Medicaid unmasked the racists.
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