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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4h

Setting aside that Of Course he is an obvious Republican, to the extent that he looks like the living embodiment of Manifest Destiny ‘Staying Quiet’ is & should be treated as adopting a firm political position. One of tacit acceptance of violence & oppression It’s not neutrality, you chose a side.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

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.

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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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: ICE over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote. The internal documents, obtained by the Democracy Forward, showed that ICE's investigative arm also contemplated sending undercover agents to investigate the organizations.

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ICE probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.

The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

God everything is so DUMB.

United States
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PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Land of the free, home of the brave

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Can they make it any more obvious???

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

with each passing day it feels more surreal to be an independent journalist. like playing with a toy train while vanderbilt owns the railways.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026

every other fucking president has to choose their words very carefully to avoid misunderstandings, i am not giving our big wet special birthday boy a pass for being unable to articulate a thought

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026

the crowd he was in front of interpreted him to mean that he didn’t give a shit about iran destroying LA or san diego and he either didn’t notice or didn’t care that they were into that, regardless of what he meant and the whole thing’s a lie anyway, what are we doing

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026

i don’t really give a shit about straining to interpret trump’s meandering, word salad horseshit, he’s the president of the united states, if he’s being misinterpreted, that’s his problem

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, I don't need to be good. That's another perk of being a citizen. This is my home, and if I want to track mud in, put my feet up on the table, and metaphorically belch every time I enter the room, I'm free to do so (within the constraints of our ridiculously overbroad criminal codes).

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hold up, I'm confused, probably because I'm nauseous. The passports aren't for visitors, they're for citizens. I don't need to be welcomed, because this is actually my home. On a visa, this would make sense, tho still be tyrannical. On a passport, it's incoherent.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 06/10/2026

NEW: Paramount Skydance completes its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery creating a Hollywood heavyweight called Skydance and handing CEO David Ellison control of one of the world’s largest entertainment companies.

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Paramount completes $110B Warner Bros. merger to form Skydance

The deal puts CEO David ‌Ellison in control of one of the world’s largest entertainment companies.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“.. The catch? Children and their parents can’t pick the stocks or reject donated shares, and they can’t sell for five years.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/10/2026

Tour guides across D.C. say their business has cratered this year. Adding to the downturn, guides say, is that many tourists are angered by President Trump’s attacks on allies, the imposition of tariffs, and his visa and immigration policies.

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Tour guides lose business as D.C.’s reputation and landscape change under Trump

Guides say bookings have plummeted in 2026 amid renovations, closings and a charged political climate.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All but one of the 53 Senate Republicans voted to confirm anti-vax crusader RFK Jr. as health and human services secretary. When you vote for Republicans, you're voting for measles.

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” –Brett Kavanaugh, Vasquez Pedromo v. Noem

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Again, the Republicans need to be kicked out of Office, for rolling over and showing their bellies to Trump on Appropriations. You impeach Vought because it is probably carnage in the budget.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Again, he thinks it is fine to move around money in the Executive Branch, ignoring Congressional appropriations, because that is what he has been doing since destroying USAID. How was this any different?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(FT) - A sharp sell-off in US government bonds is starting to reverberate across corporate America, forcing companies to overhaul their borrowing plans and even raising the spectre of defaults among the most lowly rated businesses. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7c7c...

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh brother.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The US fled from a UK base in fear of an Iranian drone attack. UK found a specific plot against this base, but there’s nothing uniquely vulnerable about it. The US has many similar bases in various locations. Going to run away from all of them? Rely on intel sniffing out every plot in advance?

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Potential Iranian Drone Attack Led to Exit of U.S. Aircraft From British Air Base

According to U.S. and British officials, 12 B-1 Air Force bombers from R.A.F. Fairford air base were withdrawn because of the risk of a drone attack ordered by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 06/10/2026

Jan. 6 defendants are “the best of America,” says recently departed Trump DOJ official Ed Martin.

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JG Conley @jconley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Congrats to Jared Polis for setting this convicted felon free to engage in further criminal conspiracies to subvert free and fair elections

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This may be the first time U.S. forces have retreated in Europe during a major conflict. Not before the Nazis. Not before the Soviets. Not before Al Qaeda. Not until the Trump administration.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This my new top candidate for a post which I would never believe could possibly be true if I could send it back in time to myself to read in 2016. It's a sick joke. They have managed to turn a refugee resettlement system which should be a matter of national pride into a parody of itself

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

JUST IN: DOJ files brief w/11th Circuit to overturn ruling quashing subpoena for list of Fulton County election workers. Special prosecutor twice misspells "North" in own title. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

but anyway all I did was bike to the gym, get dinner near the gym, and take the metro back and I’ve seen ~50 armed soldiers

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is both bad, as it was in 2016, & also it's the only way to get to a grand bargain on SCOTUS reform. Fire with fire. The GOP could've made other choices, & Neil Gorsuch should never have accepted an illegitimate seat. But he did, so here we are. The norms & duct tape have already been shredded.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is an important article. The authors argue: What we’ve seen is reversible—but only if we have two parties that commit to defending democracy.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump suggested tonight that Iran could "take out" American cities: "It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take— let it, let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every day, there is a development that would end the career of any other politician, but which in 2026 is just another day ending in “y.”

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

anyway if your state is sending soldiers here do give your gov a call and tell them I sent you

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

so incredibly massively fucking tired of this

Three National guard soldiers walking through a metro station

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump calls Natalie on stage, checks out her legs, calls her "perfect," then floats creating a reality show w/ her -- & other lowlights from his rally tonight in Nebraska (Including Trump saying of Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is very small price to pay")

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

certainly a choice to make fun of people for liking lettuce right after presiding over a historic multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis that sent a bunch of people to the hospital and killed a few

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026

Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."

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