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Linda R

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 14h
Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly said this to me, six years ago: “I don't know how he’s not in an institution somewhere, whether it’s jail or a nuthouse. He’s a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn’t a lie.” Trump has only gotten worse since.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h
And recall that Gen. Kelly bought this book while he was chief of staff because he wanted to understand, and wanted others in the White House to understand, the nature of Trump's psychiatric disorders 👉👉 www.abebooks.com/first-editio...
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 4h
Narrator: Senator Collins voted to confirm both Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullin as Trump’s Homeland Security chiefs.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 8h
Globally, Canada is tied for most liked country in the world while the US is fifth most disliked country, after Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Israel.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7h
Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h
The Trump regime is paying your tax money to Elon Musk through lucrative government contracts, and then Musk is giving hundreds of million of dollars to the Republicans so they'll keep doing that. It's how oligarchs and Republican politicians scam the rest of us.
theguardian.com
Elon Musk becomes biggest political donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent
Musk’s midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h
Bloomberg:Career staff at CFTC concluded there was ample evidence to suggest that massive insider trading occurred on commodities transactions around specific points during the Iran War, and they referred the matter for enforcement. Then political appointees demanded that they retract the referrals.
bloomberg.com
CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 6h
Has this guy forgotten that he personally wrote an entire album of overtly political songs? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...And_...
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...And Justice for All (album) - Wikipedia
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 6h
People go to concerts for fun escapism, not to hear politicized lyrics like: “Soldier boy, made of clay / Now an empty shell / Twenty one, only son / But he served us well / Bred to kill, not to care / Do just as we say” Or: “Don't tread on me / Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail”
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kennethgray.bsky.social @kennethgray.bsky.social · 6h
Same old, same old.
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Trump has spent 13 years promising a health-care plan
YouTube video by Washington Post
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Dan Smith @dlsmith.dev · 6h
Weirdly, he said the exact same thing, almost word for word, 3 days ago. I guess he’s just reading prepared remarks now?
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ctrl+alt+RESIST @ctrlaltresist.com · 7h
The "truly great healthcare plan" is back, baby. Nine years, zero plans, one broken promise on repeat. The man's healthcare strategy is hoping you die before the midterms so the premiums don't matter. Two weeks, folks. Two weeks.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 7h
STILL WAITING… From his 1st term!
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h
Okay, Katie Zacharia's claim to have passed the bar in China appears to be collapsing very fast. The South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (paywall) just published this. www.scmp.com/news/us/poli...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h
Gosh, anyone know anyone who voted to approve all of this?!?
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 7h
It is genuinely funny that Fox is so high on their own supply that they don’t seem to understand that letting dimwitted right-wing cranks show the country their whole asses for a few days was purely a benefit to Talerico.
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Yana 🇺🇦 @yanadear.bsky.social · 10h
notice how no one has put pressure on russia to end the war no one
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fca2nd.bsky.social @fca2nd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This all comes on the heels of the senate GOP grilling Jack Smith over his subpoenas of congressional phone logs. Imagine if the subpoenas had authorized raids on all of their homes instead.
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coalminephoenix.bsky.social @coalminephoenix.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Jeffries statements are just weak. This isn’t a “transparency “ problem. This is a complete abuse of power that is in line with the baseless accusations that started Trump’s political ascendancy with the birtherism.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Who funds the Neo Nazi AfD? Overwhelmingly, it's the Kremlin and Russian interfaces.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 12h
KITTEN ADOPTION KLAXON Gravy needs a home in the Baltimore/DC area ASAP, preferably one with other young cats. After the sudden death of her only sister, she really craves playtime with other kittens. Gravy is fully vaccinated and spayed, cuddly and playful, and learns what is ok and not ok fast.
gray kitten sleeping, curled into a cinnamon roll shapegray kitten sitting on a wooden letter box, looking up expectantlygray kitten lying on her back reaching her paws out to yougray kitten smiling into the sun
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 8h
Victor Marx is out with a new direct-to-camera appeal: "What if everything negative you'd been told about me isn't true?" Except nearly all the "negative" reporting on Marx is based on his own claims made on video.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20h
in an alternate universe where storefront space remained cheap and wealthy people were taxed at a sane rate this man is a moderately successful trading card game store manager and outside the handful of shop regulars he subjects to his petty tyrannies he's leaving everyone else well enough alone
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h
The impact of Trump's diesel deal with Putin: prices rise as the market recognizes that this deal has no meaningful impact. www.nbcnews.com/business/ene...
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Diesel futures jump, signaling higher prices to come despite Trump’s Russia deal
“Absolutely stunning price spikes in wholesale diesel today,” a top energy analyst said.
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Grammyrulz @grammyrulz.bsky.social · 9h
"the question has shifted from where Talarico was to why his team let the narrative spiral unchecked when they had the receipts the entire time." Why are they not curious why Republicans would make up such a stupidly outlandish lie in the first place?
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John Tarley @johntarley.bsky.social · 10h
Bar exams are given in late July. Her LinkedIn says she went to China in August. It's plausible that she took the bar exam and failed.
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Anthony Zurcher @zurch.bsky.social · 10h
Remember when conservatives went nuts over Tim Walz teaching English in China and helping kids study abroad there. I guess he should have given legal advice to a Chinese firm instead.
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Kim Sherrell @web.kim · 9h
It's being reported that she represented herself as a lawyer on CNN, Fox News, and other places. That's apparently a misdemeanor.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
If you recognize Kliger's name, it is probably in this context: he manually shut down life-saving aid from USAID. In between his DOGE work and starting his defense start-up he was appointed to the DOD as - brace yourselves - chief data officer. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
The way in which DOGE fucked up the IRS - *massive leadership turnover *1 in 4 employees gone, more in tax enforcement *loss in trust of the public *employees fearful of reporting wrongdoing - all of that remains, increasing deficits & reducing performance. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-rea...
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Things Really Are Getting Worse at IRS
Data show damage to service quality and taxpayer privacy in a more politicized agency
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
The DOGE people were idiots unable to think about second order effects. Lets use IRS data to round up immigrants! That data comes from immigrants who voluntarily pay about $66 billion a year taxes. What happens to the deficit when they are too scared to pay taxes? budgetlab.yale.edu/research/pot...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
6. DOGE lied and the government lied to the press and in court about what was going when it came to the stealing of data (l). As @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social wrote in her review of the state of the IRS, more than 90% of the data was improperly shared. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/things-rea...
He was too busy doing his job to notice when, on 11 February 2026, the Washington Post reported that the IRS had shared with the Department of Homeland Security the tax data of 47,000 undocumented workers. On the heels of the Post’s scoop, a federal judge hearing a case on the subject summoned the IRS lawyers who had previously sworn that the agency had rebuffed the DHS demands. Under questioning, the lawyers confessed that the agency had lied to the court and that it had in fact shared the data. “The IRS violated the [Internal Revenue Code] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to Ice,” the judge wrote in her opinion.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
4. DOGE officials were told datasharing under certain conditions was illegal. The most obvious is IRS data. Need an act of Congress to share. They did not care.
Everyone in the agency knew that its data was valuable. That was the reason for the strict laws that prevented it from being exploited for profit or political gain. “He said this in a way that he expected everyone to clap when he was done,” said Kathleen.

“No one said a word.” The people around the table – a group that included a woman who had worked at the IRS for 54 years, or 53 years and 50 weeks longer than Gavin Kliger – looked down, or away. Kathleen felt embarrassed for Gavin Kliger. But now it was clear what the meeting was about. Gavin wanted, in his words, “to explore how we can share our data with other agencies”.

Interestingly, he never once mentioned Ice or DHS. Instead, that week, he sought to share data with himself, by trying to access files detailing IRS contracts with outside consultants that also contained taxpayer information. Kathleen denied him access.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.
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Space Nutella Sales Rep @friendpanda.bsky.social · 10h
DHS is a blight on Fourth Amendment protections and the Patriot Act needs to be repealed.
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SyimonTemplar😇 @syimontemplar.bsky.social · 9h
DHS has been a failure since its inception. Its soiled record speaks for itself. Widespread corruption, nepotism, racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, permeates the agency from the top /down.
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Adam Bowen @theadambowen.bsky.social · 10h
Homeland is a very Dubya coded word, a pathetic attempt to cover up for his massive security failure and 3000 American deaths in one day. Getting rid of DHS is another way of removing the stain of Dubya and his corrupt administration. You can’t disconnect Dubya from Trump.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 13h
After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.
commondreams.org
After Raid of Ilhan Omar's Home and Latest Deadly Shooting, Delia Ramirez Plans Bill to 'Dismantle' DHS
"For 23 years, since its inception, DHS has been utilized by the government to target and persecute those they consider the public enemy," Ramirez said.
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LindaFly @lindafly.bsky.social · 22h
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 12h
Meta has censored more than 1,000 pro-Lula accounts during the Brazilian Presidential Election. Evidence shows that the social media giant clearly interfered in the election. paydayreport.com/meta-censors...
paydayreport.com
Meta Censors Over 1,080 Pro-Lula Accounts During Brazilian Presidential Election
Evidence shows the social media giant clearly interfered in the Brazilian Presidential Election
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h
WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."
In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 13h
USA: Trump secures emergency pre-election diesel from Russia China: 626-mile electric car fully charges in 9 minutes
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 11h
The richest man on earth just broke his own record for buying an American election, and almost nobody noticed. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12h
BREAKING: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint over the outrageous raid on Ilhan Omar's home Officials can't use criminal power to affect an election. This is the textbook case @democracydefendersfund.org & @rwpusa.bsky.social👇
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 12h
It Begins.
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🔞EcchiPaint @ecchipaint.bsky.social · 19h
They've only maintained the illusion of "profit" by buying and selling from each other, they aren't extracting enough money from people and non-ai businesses. every piece that fails is one step closer to having nobody to cycle money through, which means the bubble pops.
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JazzComposer @jazzcomposer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Aug 19, 2025 post: "What will happen if 20 AI companies are each building capacity for 10% marketshare?" This describes a bubble caused by over-investment in a new technology. If demand destruction occurs (e.g. AI produces incorrect or inconsistent output) the bubble burst can be soon and deep.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 13/10/2026
Character.AI files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US, agrees to sell some assets to Disney for $20M, and plans to keep operating as it completes the sale (Rhea Rose Abraham/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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