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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 2h
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 2h
"Starting today, if we want to log in to get information about our Medicare or Medicaid accounts, check our IRS status, or manage VA benefits, we will have to talk with AI - and not just any AI, but Elon Musk's Grok." -Janis Baron Read the whole article here: www.facebook.com/share/1KDPE8...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 12h
Sweet!! Jack Smith hits it out of the park. youtube.com/shorts/luyU7...
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Jack Smith: "I will not be silenced"
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 13h
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 13h
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 14h
Very good analysis of the proposed new testing for officers wanting to advance to command. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-pentag...
thebulwark.com
The Pentagon Has a New Test for Top Officers. It’s Not Clear Why.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s rationale was less than convincing.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 17h
"...demonstrators gathered not outside the presidential palace, a ministry building, or the national congress. Instead, they chose the home of a private citizen who currently holds no elected or appointed government office. Why?" steadystate1.substack.com/p/democracy-...
steadystate1.substack.com
Democracy Doesn’t Die When Strongmen Take Power. It Dies When We Accept Them.
The warning from Paraguay is not about one protest. It is about what happens when power becomes more important than institutions.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 18h
"The new push from the Defense secretary comes after he looked to cut the number of active-duty four-star generals and admirals in the U.S. military by at least 10 percent last year." thehill.com/policy/defen...
thehill.com
Hegseth to cut 20 percent of admirals, generals in major Pentagon overhaul
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to announce a 20 percent cut to slots slated for admirals and generals at the Pentagon as part of his push to overhaul the outlook of the department, two Penta…
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nice bit of sleuthing. See thread. bsky.app/profile/jonc...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Medicare Part D -- the government health insurance program's prescription drug benefit...subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, the administration announced Tuesday. Ending the subsidies may increase premiums for some by as much as $20 a month, according to KFF."
abcnews.com
Trump administration to end Medicare Part D subsidy program in 2027
The prescription drug benefit is used by millions of seniors.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"As a practical matter, the status quo is not changing. The Trump admin in Jan 2025 informally returned to enforcing the 2020 rules after the Biden regulations, which were briefly in effect for some districts...were struck down for good by a federal district judge in the final days of Biden’s term."
edweek.org
Ed. Dept. Officially Kills Biden Rule That Added LGBTQ+ Protections to Title IX
The Education Department reinstates 2020 Title IX regulations effectively in place since early 2025.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just called all my reps about Judge Luttig's warning, asking them to publicly state they would never support a plan to replace the Congressional clerk of court & refuse to seat new Democrat members of Congress. Sounds like the issue was not known to the staffers I talked with.
newrepublic.com
The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great explanation. bsky.app/profile/digi...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hmm- looks like the cattle industry now sees the effect of the aggressive, violent, skirting the law/breaking the law tactics of our current federal immigration enforcement. www.ksn.com/news/agricul...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Half a year after Trafigura began bringing Venezuelan gold into the United States, the company has been unable to resell it...That means that gold, meant to be a boon to U.S. business, instead sits in storage. Whoever buys and refines it would need to vouch that the gold has no ties to criminality"
nytimes.com
Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The move, called a pocket rescission, is illegal, according to the Government Accountability Office, an independent, non-partisan watchdog agency charged with providing federal agencies fact-based information." www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...
npr.org
What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Social and news media commenters seize on senator’s gaffe, with some characterizing it as a Freudian slip." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
John Fetterman accidentally calls himself ‘a lifelong Republican’
Social and news media commenters seize on senator’s gaffe, with some characterizing it as a Freudian slip
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets...the app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules, according to cybersecurity experts..."
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Everyone, because the role of verification used to be something the public trusted institutions to do on their behalf. As that trust has been lost, it has fallen into the lap of the public."
forbes.com
Why Bellingcat Wants Everyone To Become An Investigator
The founder of one of the world's best-known open-source investigation outfits on building it from a laptop, why anyone can do this work, and why democracies have misread the problem.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Have some fun this election cycle! Help promote revelatory look-alike websites for candidates with very poor money accountability and transparency scores. substack.com/@stockingthe...
substack.com
Stocking the Capitol (@stockingthecapitol)
TIME TO LOCK IN 2 minutes a day, for 7 days
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good presentation on U.S. sales of arms. Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1C43...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world,’” Mr. Perdue said on “Fox News Sunday” while discussing the state visit by Mr. Xi to Washington last week. “He actually asked President Xi would he like to buy some at one point.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"If Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to seat certified midterm winners in January 2027, Americans have a tested model from 1989. From 17 Nov to 29 Dec 1989, Czechoslovak citizens ended forty-one years of Communist Party repression through nonviolent strikes." wendy664.substack.com/p/the-coming...
wendy664.substack.com
The Coming Velvet Revolution: How 12 Million Americans Could Legally Force the House to Seat Every Winner
Czechoslovak students and actors ended a police state in six weeks without a single death. American workers, students, and voters can match that record in 2027.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"...there is the broad feeling in our country that the people should rule, continuously rule, and that public opinion, expressed by all constitutional means, should shape, guide, and control the actions of Ministers who are their servants and not their masters.” -Winston Churchill
leftrightusa.substack.com
Does Our Vote Really Make A Difference?
“Many people feel like their voices don’t matter, and that our political and economic systems are failing them.”
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Can anyone really disagree? I hope this is changing. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Ddb...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Throw out the war mongerers? That's pretty ironic. Some people said this commercial has aired several times during the Bills vs. the Chargers game. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"...councillors from the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party and the conservative CDU in Heidenau have voted to ban stumbling stones in their town..."Memorials should in future be placed at the city's Nordfriedhof cemetery to make it "impossible to step directly onto the memorial elements."
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why not? Seems like it needs regulating, and has for a while. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LOL substack.com/profile/3595...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Hoskins spent weeks arguing that the state was trapped by a crisis created by judges. By the end, he had been held in contempt, faced lawsuits from voters over the fallout and watched both the Missouri and U.S. Supreme Courts point back to decisions he made before the crisis ever arrived."
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court smacks down Denny Hoskins for creating Missouri’s redistricting mess
The finding is an especially rough ending to a redistricting saga in which Hoskins repeatedly tried to preserve Missouri Republicans’ 2025 congressional gerrymander — only to be rebuked by the state S...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet." www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
wsj.com
The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The back and forth began in July, when President Trump and Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, said they had identified more than 270,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in just four states: Nevada, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
nytimes.com
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. (Gift Article)
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is an interesting mindset around facing climate change. www.facebook.com/share/v/19YV...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"RFE/RL takes apart a Russian Geran-4 drone to uncover what makes the jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) faster, harder to intercept, and capable of operating deep inside Ukraine -- including foreign-made communications and navigation components." www.facebook.com/share/v/1Upu...
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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LeftRightUSA @leftrightusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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