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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 3h
SCOOP: Last week the National Design Studio announced a new AI website, America.gov. Turns out some NDS workers are on loan to the government and are actually employed by a newly formed nonprofit, founded by the general counsel of SpaceXAI who is himself a DOGE alum. www.wired.com/story/myster...
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 3h
Good morning team. ICE must be abolished.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h
“.. defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made, according to the government's official contract reporting. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13h
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h
*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
“.. Distressed leveraged loans … a nearly 90% jump over the past 12 months ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22h
I will give them this, ending the trump era with the mother of all rug pulls would be extremely funny
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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 21h
The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 18h
Btw: Tom Tiffany, running for Governor of Wisconsin, is chairman of subcommittee on federal lands. He wants to destroy this rule. He's also got a 100% pro-Trump voting record in Congress. So, after you weigh in against this rule, chip in to help David Crowley beat him, and sign to volunteer.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 18h
"The Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, opening 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, destructive timber harvest and energy development." Today is the last day for public comment. Weigh in: defenders.org/roadless-rule
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The Roadless Rule
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 19h
SCOOP: While Trump was crisscrossing the USA last week trying to help the GOP stave off a midterm washout, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska advising its pro-Russian government on election issues. James Blair & Chris LaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
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Amid Midterm Crunch, Trump Advisers Took Time to Help Russia-Aligned Government (Gift Article)
James Blair and Chris LaCivita, who are leading the president’s congressional campaign operation, traveled to Republika Srpska to provide election advice.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h
President Trump’s super PAC doesn’t plan to reimburse the government for taxpayer money spent on ads praising his presidency, officials said.
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h
*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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Wes Siler @wessiler.bsky.social · 23h
Trump has ordered creation of a SHARK FORCE to kill sharks and seals to benefit the success rates of recreational fishing. It's part of a raft of insane measures intended to convince hunters and anglers to vote Republican: wessiler.substack.com/p/a-cynical-...
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A Cynical Reading Of Trump’s Big Hunting And Fishing Access Orders
Let’s rank the realistic possibility of any of this, including the new SHARK FORCE, actually happening
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 21h
A Cayman Islands source gave Blum incriminating intel on 20 ultrarich Americans defrauding the US Treasury. He took it to the IRS in Miami, where a special agent looked over the documents and told him to get lost. Blum had expected gratitude. “This whole thing is a career killer,” the agent said.
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Oligarchs are robbing America blind, and the IRS is powerless to stop them
The Wealth Defense Industry and its politicians have seen to that.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. days after co-founder Palmer Luckey was named to a Pentagon future weapons task force.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/a...
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 06/10/2026
Kansas agriculture and rural communities need immigrants, but system has failed them | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg
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Kansas agriculture and rural communities need immigrants, but system has failed them • Kansas Reflector
Blame for the lack of immigration reform to meet the needs of workers and the agriculture industry lies squarely with the federal government, and change must happen, one farmer said in response to Sep...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
California is set to become the first state to ban the production or installation of man-made quartz, amid mounting cases of a lethal lung disease among workers who carve the material for kitchen countertops.
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California Prepares to Ban Quartz Countertop Production
The state would be the first to block an industry that has been connected to a deadly lung disease in workers.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
More than $10 million in taxpayer-funded ads have run since September, according to AdImpact, the ad-tracking service.
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Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads
The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 05/10/2026
I've written about this before. This is the "Superman will save us" mentality. It allows people to rationalize not trying because they will be saved by someone else who does try. It's this weird little quirk where game theory meets psychology.
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How should a democratic society respond? Our data, our resources > our control and our profits
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And with a five-year statute of limitations, those who are buying subscriptions risk potential criminal prosecution for insider trading in the next administration.
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: Ken Paxton's office is investigating pediatricians for vaccinating children. He alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"An American polity increasingly turning against Trump has started to connect the degradations of his presidency to the Court that enabled many of them."
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Opening Day at a Court That Never Closed
The Justices face sharp public disapproval from identification with Trump’s autocratic rule.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's been such a long few years, I'd forgotten this particular rape accusation against Hegseth. The woman told police she may have been drugged. Hegseth, who was married to one woman and had just had a baby with another, said it was consensual but paid her $50k to settle. He was confirmed anyway.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is all hands on deck! Pneumatic plague is airborne and nearly always fatal if untreated. Wiped out 150 million, half of Europe, way back when. Treatable with antibiotics, but we don't have enough antibiotics. Also from a lab in Russia, where they still have weaponized plague. Total nightmare.
motherjones.com
Reports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcher
Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Would be very easy for the NYT to simply write those three words in the hed, dek, &/or lede. Pure factual reporting. No value judgments at all.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Indivisible Colorado @indivisible-co.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
youtu.be/LQYnlg4pO9o @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Investigated Starlink - The Corruption They Found Will Shock You The U.S. was supposed to spend $40 billion to build internet in rural America, then Elon Musk got a huge chunk of that money redirected to Starlink. #MuskStealsOurMoney #Scamlink
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We Investigated Starlink. The Corruption We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more. Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don’t want to build long-term relationships. They don’t care about America’s reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN report hurt Jared's feelings, but numerous outlets, including @motherjones.com, have detailed his vast global conflicts of interest.
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Does Jared Kushner know what a conflict of interest is?
In Israel and elsewhere, the line between his diplomacy and quest for wealth is fuzzy at best.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These summits are too embarrassing - and too dangerous, with Trump's instability - and the country would be safer and better off if our president weren't hosting them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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C.R. Denis @crdenis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Monday: a $15b Iowa steel plant that has "already started building." No permits, no land purchase, no financing. Wednesday: a $50b Korean pipeline investment. Seoul says it only agreed to start talking. Two deals in one week that exist as announcements. The press event is the product.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please show me the statutory or constitutional authority that this man holds to do anything that he is actually doing
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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gift link. Rewriting Nixon’s Watergate story allows DOJ to reject the ethical reforms that followed. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal
A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
The Pentagon office will “sponsor and oversee research, technology, and analytical tools to support and assess spiritual fitness, spiritual readiness, and spiritual resilience.”
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What to know about Hegseth’s new Office of Religious Affairs
“Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reuters v. Barron’s. 🤓 @barronsonline.com @reuters.com www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Annihilating Iran”—which can only mean the widespread use of thermonuclear weapons against Iran’s nearly 100 million citizens—is, I’m afraid, the Chekov’s gun of Trump’s second term. He has spoken too often and too explicitly about unleashing such wanton destruction for it to be an idle threat.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Why did ICE just spend $16.7 million on electric shock gloves? @hurwitz.bsky.social investigated. Watch:
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
One of the Trump family’s businesses is on its way to becoming a bank. And it’s set to be regulated by a government entity whose leader was appointed by, you guessed it, President Donald Trump.
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Why Trump’s crypto business wants to become a bank
Sen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is required reading --- stunning even for him. He's way worse than even in January, when he gave that creepy interview to the NY Times. The stress is accellerating his decline.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Solid chance Openai goes belly up and takes softbank and oracle with it. Couldn't happen to more deserving companies.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/10/2026
Openai is blowing through cash spending on datacenter buildouts and hoarding gpus and other data center components for demand that will likely never materialize. This will be the bubble of the century.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
Swing-and-a-miss: MLB rescinds idea to host baseball game in national park after backlash
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Swing-and-a-miss: MLB rescinds idea to host baseball game in national park after backlash
Officials in Wyoming had called notion to host game in Grand Teton national park ‘deeply unwelcome’
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. Seoul had expressed its regret to US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ‘that what was reported today went beyond what had been agreed,’ he said.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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