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Lisa Kirchner

@lisakirchner.bsky.social
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 22h
This corruption must be investigated.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 3h
A pardoned fraudster. Epstein's billionaire client. Trump's own officials. ICE's jailers. All four wrote checks to Republicans running for Senate. Corporate media never opened the filings. We did. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Trump’s Senate Candidates Really Hoped You’d Never Read This
Twelve names, all inside. Also: our plan between now and Election Day, five ways to fight back, and your invitation to our live election night war room.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Three of our four investigations ended at the same senator's campaign account. A pardoned fraudster. Epstein's billionaire client. ICE's jailers. Susan Collins took money tied to all three. Maine has 31 days to be concerned. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
We asked Dan Sullivan about the checks from Epstein's billionaire client. His Senate office sent us to his campaign. His campaign didn't return two calls. He's in three of our four investigations. Alaska votes in 31 days. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Michael Whatley ran the RNC for Trump. He turned up in three of our four investigations this week and still trails in every September poll we found. Trump's friends can write the checks. They can't make North Carolina like him. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Ashley Moody's campaign refunded four donors in July. The fraudster Trump pardoned that month wasn't one of them. Neither were the dozen GEO Group executives who gave after she voted for $45 billion in ICE jails. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Jon Husted voted yes on $45 billion for ICE jails. Sixty-four days later an ICE jailer's CEO maxed out to him. There's a fraudster Trump pardoned in his filings too. Ohio noticed. Sherrod Brown is up 8. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Mike Rogers' fundraising committee took $7,000 from a fraudster Trump pardoned. He has filed a report since the pardon. Refunds to the fraudster on it: zero. ICE's jailers put in $16,000 more. Michigan votes in 31 days. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Roger Marshall's campaign took money from Jack Abramoff's old business partner. Trump pardoned the man July 3. Marshall has filed a report since. Refunds: zero. One Kansas poll has him losing to a pastor. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Tom Cotton's campaign took a billionaire's money two years after the Times exposed his payments to Jeffrey Epstein. The House just held that billionaire in contempt. Cotton has had four years to give it back. He hasn't. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Ashley Hinson got a check from an ICE jailer's PAC, voted for $45 billion in ICE jails, then got three more checks. Check, vote, check, check, check. Marist has her down 8 in Iowa. The jailers picked a loser. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Pete Ricketts voted for $45 billion in ICE jails. Then the PACs for ICE's two biggest jailers each sent his campaign a check. He kept both. Nebraska is so grateful that one poll has him losing to a man with no party. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Ken Paxton's joint fundraising committee took $25,000 from one man. That man ran a company ICE pays to fill detention beds in Texas. Republicans fired a sitting senator to get Paxton. He's trailed in eight of nine polls since. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 2h
Darline Graham's campaign has filed exactly one finance report. It covers two weeks. An ICE jailer's former CEO is already on it. Some senators take years to get that comfortable. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22h
One senator writes ICE's budget. The two companies that profit from every ICE raid send her campaign checks. She cashes them. Nearly three decades of "concern," and the one thing she's never once been troubled by is the money. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h
The New York Times has a choice of whether to cover Trumpism as A) an amusing and colorful example of the oddity of American politics, or B) an existential threat to the future of everyone you know and love. Over and over, they choose A. They trivialize themselves.
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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 2h
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Are the Courts Finally Checking Trump's Power?
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pete Hegseth runs the Pentagon like a frat house with nukes. 8,954 of us have told Congress to impeach him. We're 46 letters from 9,000. Knock that out in the next hour. Send yours: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum Thinking about Corruption with Anne Applebaum Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Thinking about Corruption with Anne Applebaum
A recording from Anne Applebaum and Timothy Snyder's live video
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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stop the Presses The press wear ‘kick me’ signs and wonder why Trump kicks them The White House is emboldened to disrespect journalists because journalists disrespect themselves Mark Jacob substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The press wear ‘kick me’ signs and wonder why Trump kicks them
The White House is emboldened to disrespect journalists because journalists disrespect themselves
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m strongly recommending bestselling novelist Ric Patterson’s new nonfiction work, “Tripwires.” It’s a terrific read and a great overview of how we came to this time of crisis — and how we can avert irreversible catastrophe. — Laurence Tribe. Hint: Buy it now! thenewpress.org/books/tripwi...
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Tripwires - The New Press
In a trenchant work of nonfiction, the #1 New York Times bestselling author identifies a series of self-inflicted wounds on our body politic that have led to the current moment, and shows us how we ca...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Judge Luttig has again performed a great service to the U.S. Constitution and our republic by exposing the treachery the Trumpsters have planned for 1/3/27, the new 1/6/21, and wisely outlining what must be done to stop the evil coup in its tracks. judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/january-3-...
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January 3, 2027 - The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ezra Klein is right: RSI absolutely must be stopped before it’s too late. But here’s the question: how can we possibly ENFORCE a ban on AI’s recursively building improved AIs even if we and China agree on the terms of such a global ban — a very big “if” in itself? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/o...
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Opinion | This Is What I Fear Most About A.I.
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Harry Litman VIVA BOASBERG! —This Is a Crucial Week in the Fight Against Trump’s Assault on the Law Remember when the DOJ defied the judge who ordered those El Salvador–bound planes to turn around? Well, this week brings a new and important chapter in that story. newrepublic.com/article/2159...
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This Is a Crucial Week in the Fight Against Trump’s Assault on the Law
Remember when the DOJ defied the judge who ordered those El Salvador–bound planes to turn around? Well, this week brings a new and important chapter in that story.
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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Steady Trump’s Ban Is Backfiring As the media unites against him Dan Rather and Team Steady substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Trump’s Ban Is Backfiring
As the media unites against him
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spineless wimps. They never learn.
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
House leadership sent lawmakers home rather than let them cast a recorded vote on Pete Hegseth's unauthorized war. They are running cover for unconstitutional strikes. Force your representative on the record right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Pete Hegseth
Contact Congress today!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A sheriff grabbed 650,000 ballots. Gavin Newsom just made the next sheriff's order a felony. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BOOM! It's out! www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Great News That’s Terrible For Trump: Eight Wins, Starting With An Arrest
Your weekend reminder that the fight is working
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Lisa Kirchner @lisakirchner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Steady He Said, Xi Said Trump spent his day kowtowing Dan Rather and Team Steady substack.com/home/post/p-...
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He Said, Xi Said
Trump spent his day kowtowing
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, North Carolina Asian Americans Together, Down Home North Carolina and individual voters, Elias Law Group has SUED North Carolina over its last-minute restrictions on absentee ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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North Carolina mail ballot restrictions will cause ‘arbitrary disenfranchisement,’ new lawsuit warns
The suit follows the State Board of Elections' vote to pass new absentee ballot memos — skirting legislative review and ignoring significant public dissent — the same day the state started sending out...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/09/2026
Exclusive: The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was hired last year and was not wearing his body camera, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/S5VS6fih
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is JD Vance a key unnamed source for the New York Times? You might suspect so when its coverage depicts him as a responsible statesman and gives him distance from the Iran war disaster. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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Anonymous sources and the fluffing of JD Vance
When people leak to the press, their motives aren't always noble
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
By campaigning for pro-Trump Senate candidates, George W. Bush is working to prop up the dictator. It’s long been obvious to many of us that Bush is a piece of crap. This is further evidence.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No applications. No red tape. Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear just dropped $2.5 million to completely vaporize $250,000,000 in medical debt for 130,000 families. The letters hitting mailboxes right now: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-pick...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins is a crook. Trump covered up for her. ProPublica has the story.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
diGenova's resigning blow hit home precisely because it came from within the home team, and it made the obvious point that everyone, including Blanche, knows is true.
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A Pro-Trump Prosecutor Draws the Line
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MAGA loves to invent fake controversies, using its echo chamber to make people think there’s a real story out there. For example, the fake “Ohio pet-eating controversy” and bogus WNBA “transgender eligibility debate.” Media must stop metastasizing misinformation. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
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How MAGA invents ‘controversies’ and some media buy in
Journalists need to resist the right’s attempts to set their agenda
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Trump regime ordered West Point professors to purge their speeches and show "radical compliance." The federal court smackdown that just forced the military to surrender permanently to one brave professor: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-just...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He once told me that without the filibuster there is no democracy.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) tried and failed to force voters to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm elections. Now, several voters are demanding he pay $80 million in damages. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Missouri voters seek $80 million in damages after Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ redistricting debacle
Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) tried and failed to force voters to use a gerrymandered map for the upcoming midterm elections. Now, several voters are demanding he pay $80 million in da...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ProPublica reveals that a Russian oligarch spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding, even renting a private island. The oligarch "appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently." The Trumps are the most corrupt first family in American history.
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Rep. Jerry Nadler @nadler.house.gov · 14/09/2026
#NYFW is almost over, but there is still more work to do. Today I introduced the FABRIC Act with @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social to support garment workers and restore the US as the global leader in apparel production. nadler.house.gov/news/documen...
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Amid NYFW, Nadler & Gillibrand Reintroduce FABRIC Act To Support Garment Workers And Revitalize The US Fashion Industry
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Four Trump aides. Four different "Christmas gifts." I laid them next to the federal pay chart. What I found isn't a coincidence. It's arithmetic. And once you see it you can't unsee it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/newsom-tak...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This piece by @michelledbernard is very long, but also very, very good. All the way to the end. michelledbernard.substack.com/p/gayle-king...
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GAYLE KING WAS FLOORED THE LONE HOLDOUT IN THE LINDSAY CLANCY JURY WAS A BLACK MAN. I WASN’T.
Before we ask why one Black juror could not join the other eleven, we need to ask what Black Americans have learned about children, punishment, and which children America sees as innocent.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/09/2026
Online grifters, private companies, and far-right ideologues have transformed traditional American diplomacy, @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu writes. She explores how they’re wielding their newfound power:
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Donald Trump’s Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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