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Lummus Cain

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Medicine-Science-Law-Government. Writer, Activist, Social Justice Seeker, Natural Born Leader, Optimist, Critical Thinker, INFP. Views are my own. When in doubt, choose the path less traveled.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 7h
BREAKING: A pilot on a diverted Israel-bound flight stabbed his fellow pilot in an apparent attempt to crash the plane, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says.
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Flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv diverted after emergency alert sparks alarm
Israeli media reported the incident was apparently related to a dispute between pilots onboard.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
NEW: California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But that’s not what happened.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Lummus Cain @lummuscain.bsky.social · 8h
This is the way a prosecutor shows up with the facts! If "former prosecutor" Schmitt had done ANY fact checking of his OWN "evidence," he could've avoided accusing Smith of perjury.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
New in PN: Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith "The GOP playbook relies on an absolute lack of shame, so Schmitt dutifully bellied up to the microphone to celebrate his flawless victory with the chuds keeping the grift alive in Charlie Kirk’s old studio."
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Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith
When gotchas go disastrously wrong.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Multibillion-dollar schemes like A7 are much easier when the United States simply gives up on countering Russian sanctions evasion. The Kremlin agent gloating in this story could show a bit more humility. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
During the Biden administration, the Treasury Department made cracking down on sanctions evasion a centerpiece of its effort to punish Russia. The department imposed thousands of additional sanctions, targeting companies and networks designed to move money around financial restrictions.

The pressure has largely disappeared. Since President Trump returned to office, the administration has removed more restrictions than it has added, according to a Times analysis of Treasury data.

That has made it harder for banks to screen for illicit activity, in part because new actors and organizations can spring up without fresh information. A7 shell companies, for example, have facilitated payments to companies that banked at major American and European banks, The Times found.
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Lummus Cain @lummuscain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you're not watching the WNBA...what's wrong with you? Listen to this fan. @wnba.com
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 29/09/2026
Let's see... --Mike Johnson: "We'll do the same thing the next 2 yrs we've done the last 2 yrs!" --Ken Paxton: "Praise me for letting a child rapist out of prison after 60 days!" --Roger Marshall: "I arrested a poor pregnant woman over $50!" --John Husted: "Poor people are too stupid to shop!"
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In case you're wondering what those accomplishments Mike Johnson thinks that Congress, under his leadership, delivered to the American people, he talks about it in (delusional) detail here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsoZ...
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Mike Johnson | Pray Vote Stand Summit 2026
YouTube video by Tony Perkins
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/09/2026
Almost immediately after his second term began, Trump started taking steps to try to control elections. “This is his fixation,” Marc Elias says. “This is the unifying force that holds the MAGA movement together.” They're betting you'll stop paying attention. Don't: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not saying that a guy who sprints to the front to defend every rapist and attack every victim is himself a rapist because I have no information upon which to base such a claim. But I would bet a million bucks that this guy would risk his life to keep any of us from seeing his hard drive.
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Kavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a federal violation of 18 U.S. Code 1512 if they engage in tampering with a witness, victim, or informant, such as by intimidating or interfering with their testimony.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CNN is granted access inside an immigration court hearing where dozens of children facing deportation, some as young as three years old, appealed to stay in the United States. Many of them facing the judge without an attorney representing them.
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 29/09/2026
OKLAHOMA CITY — Amid the largest single-year decline in decades for Oklahoma public school enrollment, the state’s largest district announced the potential closure of 17 schools as it grapples with a long-term trend of decreases.
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Tulsa school closures part of statewide picture of enrollment decline
OKLAHOMA CITY — Amid the largest single-year decline in decades for Oklahoma public school enrollment, the state’s largest district announced the potential closure of 17 schools as it grapples with a long-term trend of decreases.
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Darin Self @darinself.com · 28/09/2026
The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
Cait Conley: "What is wrong is you allowing Donald Trump to revoke Haitian TPS status…You allowed Donald Trump to come here and visit you. You go to the Oval Office. You go to his rallies. But you don't actually hold him accountable."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Twenty years after “An Inconvenient Truth,” the man still has faith.
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Al Gore on the global climate crisis: “We’re going to win this”
Twenty years after "An Inconvenient Truth," the man still has faith.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the 76,367th time: ME TOO DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH. It was the tiniest tip of the iceberg. A snowman’s tear. The tiniest fractal on a snowflake. Today, I wish for avalanches.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have never underestimated Trump’s lying, or his ability to spew bullshit. But he has in fact lost substantial control of his mind. And his ability to distinguish truth from lies—which was never really strong or important to him—is, at this point, de minimis.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've reported first-hand on steel mills in Korea, China, Japan, Illinois, and Mississippi. This is 100% not going to happen. Disagree? Bet me. (Though I'm against online betting. It's just not going to happen.)
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
Want to register to vote or check your voter registration status? We can help with that: demdock.com/4gRtE8P
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
🎉 More than half a million people registered or updated their registration on National Voter Registration Day! Drop a 🗳️ in the replies if you’re also registered and ready to vote in the midterms.
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Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.
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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cornell story is now on Good Morning America.
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G @monkeyes2.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Read this.. Open the link go to the editorial and read the brave words. We need brave journalists now. Do not let the names remain concealed as Cornell has tried to do. As happens far too often.
We refuse for this victim to be reduced to just another story.
Cornell has failed to protect its students. Cornell has failed to address the growing issue of sexual assault on campus with its pathetic task force. Cornell has failed the student allegedly raped by those seven men at Chi Phi in October 2024. Cornell has failed her. Cornell has failed us.
To Matthew Ingalls, Jonathan Newell, Winston Lee, Gillio Lopes, Diego Sarabia, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar:
We know who you are and we refuse to let you benefit from this University's concealment.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He needs a distraction from his failed tariffs, his failed war in Iran, his failed economic policy, and his increasingly debilitating physical condition
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I dunno what they think that’s going to solve, but he’s probably dumb enough to try it. Still gonna lose. 🤷‍♂️
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Way too close, but thankfully someone was paying attention and alerted the police before this got really bad. They reportedly tried to call RAF Fairford to report 3 suspicious vans, but couldn’t get an answer from the base.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just on time, there’s another fucking caravan. You can’t make this shit up. Anyone buying this is a complete moron
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Susan Collins has been lying to us for almost 30 years.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump’s extravagant spending could threaten the global economy and destroy trust in the dollar—and Republicans are enabling this, @davidfrum.bsky.social argues.
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Blame Trump for Rising Borrowing Costs
Lenders don’t trust the United States anymore.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/09/2026
The United States is deporting parents without their children, leaving babies behind in America, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. She spoke with the parents who don’t know if they’ll see their kids again, and the caretakers left to watch the children:
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MAGA candidate for elections office convicted on 9 counts of election fraud #AlterNet
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MAGA candidate for elections office convicted on 9 counts of election fraud
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Cornell gang r*ape case has me wanting to burn down everything. An ESSAY?! For drugging and r*aping a woman for SEVEN HOURS and advertising it on the fraternity group chat? And no one stopped it, called security, did a damn thing? ARE YOU FCKING KIDDING ME?
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar” Credit to Daniel Dale for this deep dive into Trump’s lies, the topics he lies about most; why MAGA loves the lies & the impact of the press failure to consistently fact check Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Natalie Harp shows Trump and Sen. Hagerty something on a laptop in their box at the Tennessee-Texas football game (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
pic of Harp holding a laptop, displaying something to Dear Leader and one of his sycophantic senators
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/09/2026
Lol at the ABC audio of the Texas - Tennessee game being filled with static right after they discuss the teams working with the Secret Service to ensure that they don't lose audio between the coaches and the players because of Donald Trump's presence
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Brad Davis @bgamer90.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hilarious timing for audio issues. Goodness. // #Texas #Tennessee 🏈
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Mad Hattie @mybad76.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump's bathroom breaks expected to cause 'headaches' for players as he heads to game www.rawstory.com/trump-267794... Fucker ruins everything. EVERYTHING.
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Trump's bathroom breaks expected to cause 'headaches' for players as he heads to game
President Donald Trump is going to Saturday's Texas-Tennessee game in Knoxville, and the Associated Press reports that Texas coach Steve Sarkisian is getting his team ready for the chance that its hea...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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