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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4h
October 4, 2026
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October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 7h
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h
We have to crush these sociopaths. The problem is that many Democrats take money from them, which means they will get bailed out at our expense in the next 2-4 years.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h
Not sure if the point of Angela Paxton’s video was to cause people to search Angela Paxton’s name only to find out that she helped facilitate Ken Paxton’s corruption for many years before ultimately filing to divorce him on “biblical grounds”, but that’s what happened.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
Really cool tool from @popular.info to crowdsource who is paying for what campaign ads. paidforby.info
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 9h
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VoteHub’s 2026 Midterms Forecast
VoteHub is a political media organization that aims to provide top-notch, innovative coverage in three key areas: election reporting at a detailed level and in real time, public opinion survey…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h
Link: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
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Remedies for a Constitutional Crisis Harvard Law Review
Introduction In a constitutional showdown with the executive branch, the courts may seem to have limited remedial options. Once we reach a point where...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h
An interesting paper given that Judge Perry just named Baude as amicus in the Broadview 6 case to write what I fully expect to be an argument about whether judges are helpless when DOJ breaks the law.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10h
For the folks who are still in my mentions telling me this was a hoax: The military doesn’t move strategic bombers for funsies. There was clearly specific intelligence that necessitated emptying Fairford of B-1s.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 11h
Morgan is a national treasure and if you don’t follow her whisper videos you should. She is like the narrator in my head.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h
Trump is holding the G7 at his own golf resort so he can shovel more money from the US treasury into his private pocket, and collect from other governments, too. This time no one says a word about it, even though everyone thinks it's record-breaking corruption and sleaze.
nytimes.com
How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20h
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h
Iran destroyed naval base in Bahrain, we just withdrew (under an agreement Biden made) from Iraq, and now Whiskey Pete has cut and run from the UK. But sure, we're winning the war.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h
This is a better post about Rufo than Chait's, promise. emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/c...
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Christopher Rufo Whines about Being Named as the Propagandist Who Rationalized Alleged Klan Act Violence - emptywheel
The lawsuit by Renee Good's family likens the mask Jonathan Ross wore the day he killed Renee Good to hooded Klan terrorism prohibited by the Klan Act.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14h
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h
Cool, cool. Lots of reporting that theres a suspected pneumonic plague outbreak in Russia, and several hospitals are under forced quarantine. Obviously, it’s Russia, so accurate information is scarce.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 16h
Our future A.G. wearing his Bruce Springsteen T-shirt at the Power to the People Concert. ✊
Photo of Jack Smith at the Power to the People Concert.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 17h
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14h
This is sad news. Simon was a big help with this story that showed Howard Lutnick apparently lied about his business entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein—a story that deserves more attention. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h
“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”
thebanker.com
Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 15h
Shame on us 🗽😔
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3 Minnesotans deported to Somalia after a month at Guantánamo
Nine men, part of a group of a dozen held in U.S. facilities in Guantánamo Bay, have been deported to Somalia.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 14h
NEW: SCOTUS Justice Alito told Fox News that growing court reform talk is really just "a concerted effort to intimidate the court." His comments come amidst eroding public trust in the court and several recent opinions he wrote that decimated voting rights. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
I think you start by impeaching someone whom GOPers hate, like Whiskey Pete. See how that goes in the Senate. Given THEM someone to scapegoat for losing their majorities.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h
This video describes how Trump and Bill Barr and Rudy Giuliani CONTINUED the effort to frame Joe and Hunter Biden, in the very weeks of impeachment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49s...
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Selling Justice | The Blackmailing of Joe Biden | Episode 10 | Ball of Thread
YouTube video by L O L G O P
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h
Remarkable: an industry that is dying because it can't compete in the market writes a Republican president, asking him to keep the industry alive by brute force, and he says, ok. What would it take for the GOP to lose its reputation as the "free market" party? Seriously, what would it take?
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The Coal Industry Asked for a Rescue. Trump Obliged.
In a previously unreported letter, a top lobbyist floated the idea of using emergency powers to keep aging coal plants open.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h
Angie Nixon wants to know which eyeliner Vice President J.D. Vance uses: “His eyes look so beautiful. They pop.”
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h
If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 20h
The fraternity brothers in the group chat who cheer violence? That behavior is being modeled by the president of this country. I cannot stress this enough — Trump is teaching young men how to be abusive every time he opens his mouth.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14h
Justice Alito is confusing a desire to reform the court with an effort to intimidate it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h
Now who do you think would be test driving a hack to hijack oil tankers arriving at the heart of America's oil industry? 🤔 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Hackers Breached Propulsion System of US-Bound Oil Tanker
FBI and US Coast Guard investigators have found evidence that hackers accessed the propulsion system of an oil supertanker as it was approaching the Texas coast this summer, according to US officials ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
HASSETT: If people were unhappy, it'd show up in the data TAPPER: It seems to be showing up in the data, just not the data you're looking at
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 17h
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Despite having having far more people, Russia also has about an equivalent GDP to California minus Los Angeles and Santa Clara County. Seems pretty low T and beta!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h
But Hegseth wants to give troops testosterone injections because that’s what is supposedly needed in our military.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h
Russia Russia Russia Never Stopped Russia Russia Russiaing emptywheel.net/2026/10/04/r...
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Russia Russia Russia Never Stopped Russia Russia Russiaing - emptywheel
Russia's interference in the 2016 election is not the past. On the contrary, the latest news shows how much Russian has simply relentlessly pursued the very same plan it put in place starting a decade...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h
Texas-based Dynamic Frontier Holdings, linked to Konstantin Sokolov, RU-US businessman who was a private donor to Trump’s $350M WH ballroom, received authorization from the Treasury Dep to complete an acquisition of Teghut, one of Armenia’s largest copper mines, involving sanctioned Russian bank.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We will pass the death penalty for large scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and anybody who ever kills a police officer or law enforcement official"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is batshit. This is vastly worse than any Biden decline. Trump has come unglued. He's a danger to the republic.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 3, 2026
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’ve been really vocal about my concerns re: AI (particularly autonomous weapons) - that’s *starting* to get more attention now that the people who fucking built it are speaking out, but there’s still a lot that isn’t being talked about.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think there will be any moving on. This is a criminal administration and should be treated as such.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’ve seen no evidence that’s true. If he did, we likely would have nuked Iran. There’s a lot of misunderstanding of how the ‘codes’ work in reporting surrounding this - POTUS’ voice and the card he keeps in his pocket is all he needs to authenticate a strike. And he has near unilateral authority
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