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Margaret E. Ward

@margareteward.bsky.social
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Human. Boat rocker. Leadership consultant. Journalist. NYer in Ireland. Sharing trusted news sources & experts reporting on breakdown of US Democracy. #ireland #irish #leadership #business #democracy #resist #american #democrat #irishbluesky #broligarchy

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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
‘Traitors to creation’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on the far right’s apocalypse alliance www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...
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‘Traitors to creation’: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on the far right’s apocalypse alliance
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excellent interview here by @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy about new book End Time Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social naomiklein.substack.com/p/astra-and-...
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Astra and I talk to a warrior against oligarchy, Robert Reich
We talk about the long road that has brought us to end times fascism, and why it’s time for a “triple disarmament” movement
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"[The global arms industry] is committed to shredding men, women and children in the name of ’national security’. This book explodes that myth with harrowing testimony and investigations into how the civilians of Gaza and Yemen are paying the ultimate price..." — Antony Loewenstein Pre-order now!
Making a Killing:
How the West Profits From Slaughter in Gaza and Yemen
by Jack Cinamon, Andrew Feinstein and Ruth Rohde
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22/09/2026
Billions in dark money are flooding the election — and voters don’t know who’s behind it. bit.ly/4d1GYVr
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$1 billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/09/2026
The Republican Party in particular must finally loose the chains of its political and moral enslavement to Donald Trump and separate itself from the MAGA political party cult. The writing is already on the wall, Republicans. trib.al/MCKHSTS
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/09/2026
“This is the most corrupt administration not only in American history, but more corrupt than I could ever have imagined a president would be able to get away with to the extent that he has."
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Al Gore: Trump administration is the most corrupt in history
The former vice president rebukes Trump’s attack on Iran and condemns the administration’s dismantling of climate regulations.
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Source: Bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘kill chain’ that destroyed an Iranian school and killed children and teachers share.google/hqI1tiE5o4lu...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For this week’s Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke to cognitive linguist Matthias J. Becker about the launch of Digital Hate Review, a new open-access journal built to connect the dispersed disciplines studying online hate. Becker is the publication’s editor-in-chief. Listen/read here:
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Matthias J. Becker on the Launch of Digital Hate Review
Digital Hate Review aims to give a new home to research, analysis and argument on a range of issues at the intersection of tech and public discourse.
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Worth a read if you want to know what’s really happening…
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Excellent reporting here by Rachel Lavin on the ongoing impact of racist riots and arson attacks in Belfast, digging into the data, and the human stories behind the numbers and trends.
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After Belfast burned: What happened to immigrant families whose homes were attacked?
At least 88 families made homeless in June’s race riots – most have not returned home
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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 14/09/2026
"Why does every move we make in the twenty-first century somehow have to enrich a handful of fascist oligarchs who wish to destroy us, even though we are — until they replace us with AI bots — their best customers?"  — Gil Durán @gilduran.com
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The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...It’s an o...
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm one of the speakers at this event in the National Library on 24 September, so if that isn't enough to put you off, do come! You need to register but it's free.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really happy to say that today's episode of @npr.org's Code Switch is wide reaching interview with me about the current state of police surveillance, the harms being caused by this system, and the deep history of how we got here.
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Why we’re all being watched : Code Switch
There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s... “Its proponents are actively willing an apocalypse, or a wave of interconnected apocalypses brought forth by climate change and financial chaos, to hasten us towards a post-democratic world in which only a rich few survive to prosper.”
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 12/09/2026
They are corrupting democracy She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of power
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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NPR @npr.org · 11/09/2026
In the Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest documentary, director Alex Gibney investigates the rise of Elon Musk and says what's behind Musk's success are distressing truths. n.pr/3UMLdOh
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From DOGE to space lasers, Alex Gibney peels back the many layers of Elon Musk
In the Oscar-winning filmmaker's latest documentary, director Alex Gibney investigates the rise of Elon Musk and says what's behind Musk's success are distressing truths.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the past 25 years, I've represented many New Yorkers who suffered injuries as they worked to help our city heal after 9/11. Despite grave risks to their own well-being, they went to Ground Zero, every day, to repair our streets, our homes, our lives These unsung heroes must never be forgotten
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 11/09/2026
Today, we remember. We remember that 25 years ago, the world stood still. We remember the 3,000 people who left home that morning and never returned.
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lessons for a happy retirement from a year interviewing Ireland’s top leaders www.irishtimes.com/business/wor...
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Lessons for a happy retirement from a year interviewing Ireland’s top leaders
One well-known chief executive says there are two questions you should never, ever ask your partner when you retire
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/09/2026
Today, I was proud to join New Yorkers for the 9/11 Day of Service at the Intrepid Museum. September 11th is a day we remember the terror and loss our city endured. It is also a day we remember the extraordinary courage, kindness and generosity New Yorkers showed one another.
Mayor Mamdani volunteers at the Intrepid day of service. He is wearing a suit and a blue hair net.
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ireland needs to wake up & pay attention to this. Data centres guzzle water, electricity, they pollute & they’re noisy. Why are we welcoming them in here?!
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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 02/09/2026
UN warns of ‘irreversible damage’, even if global warming peaks at 1.5C
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UN warns of ‘irreversible damage’, even if global warming peaks at 1.5C
The damages of climate change are being compounded by inaction; yet even if global warming slows, the harm is permanent. A new UN report highlights the dangers the world can expect if our governments in and out of the EU keep on this path
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is such a perfect portrait of the blatant corruption at work in my now-authoritarian home state. It has everything - even hurricanes. My favorite detail? This was so shady that even *Rick Scott* took a firm line against one of the people involved. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/g...
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Grand jury finds DeSantis administration "misappropriated" $10 million in taxpayer money to Hope Florida
A Florida grand jury found the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money for political purposes.
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Fascinating in terms of the ‘time tax’. How Welfare Became a ‘Tool of Humiliation’ www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | How Welfare Became a ‘Tool of Humiliation’
Accessing public benefits often requires navigating a burdensome amount of paperwork and bureaucracy — what the journalist Annie Lowrey calls “the time tax.” On “The Ezra Klein Show,” she explains why...
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly invested in people and community - www.instagram.com/reel/Dcemr5i...
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Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In report findings that surprises no-one 👇🏼
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Kathleen Alves @katalves18c.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dollyland employees, both part time and full time, receive 100% of tuition covered. Healthcare, medical, vision, retirement benefits, childcare. A saint that walked among us. Every other wealthy person should be ashamed of themselves if they don't live up to Dolly standards.
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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can listen to the first episode with Manizha Khan here - she was Dean of Dentistry at an Afghan university when the Taliban took the country back in 2021 - but the story of how she got there is absolutely incredible podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
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Manizha Khan Part 1: One woman’s escape from The Taliban
Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 19 December 2025 · 1hr 6min
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against #datacentre boom - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... "datacentre larger than the village itself – 35 metres high, with an area larger than 100 football pitches" what could be the problem...?
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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Why am I still shocked!? Because it’s shocking from an historical perspective apnews.com/article/trum...
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US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States.
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Don Haider-Markel @dhmarkel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
U.S. Military Kills 2 People in Attack on Boat in Pacific. The United States has killed at least 223 people since its campaign of boat strikes began nearly a year ago www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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U.S. Military Kills 2 People in Attack on Boat in Pacific
The United States has killed at least 223 people since its campaign of boat strikes began nearly a year ago.
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Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Good news for the truth!
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 24/08/2026
Simple lessons in economics.
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our dystopian future: A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. (Gift Article)
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Not compatible with Net Zero. What devolution/democracy? Local councils bypassed, people ignored by Ministers chasing growth. Datacentres produce few long-term jobs, guzzle energy.
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Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint
Exclusive: Planning documents show annual emissions from North Ockendon project would be equivalent to 8,480 flights to New York
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fascists Really Believe It: so wake up before millions die www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
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Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Perfect image of Trump’s disinformation strategy.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10/08/2026
Eighty-nine percent of voters — overwhelming majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents — say corruption is responsible for policies that benefit billionaires and big corporations at the expense of the American people. bit.ly/4apvVns
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Poll: Voters Want Solutions for Government Corruption
Overwhelming majorities across parties see corruption as a major problem and back measures to limit self-dealing by officials and the influence of money in politics.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 10/08/2026
See this human spirit?! Meanwhile corporations price-gouge us and make inflation worse...
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rainey reitman @reitman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Penlight Prize is the first step. My hope is that, in the coming years, publishing FOIA-based investigations outside the paywall becomes the default at news organizations across the country—even when the rest of the publication remains subscription-only. raineyreitman.com/2026/08/10/p...
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Penlight Prize Offers $25,000 Award to FOIA Journalism Outside of Paywalls
I hear a lot about what’s broken in the economics of online journalism. It’s a topic that’s always coming up at SF happy hours I go to, maybe because so many of my friends are former journalists or…
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
‘Spermageddon’: The male fertility crisis we need to talk about www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Margaret E Ward: The fertility crisis no one is talking about
Pro-natalists in the US and Europe blame women for population decline, but the data tells a different story
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Margaret E Ward: Falling birth rates show women want kindness, not 'strong men' www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Margaret E Ward: Falling birth rates show women want kindness, not 'strong men'
Margaret E Ward says that safety, respect and genuine partnership matter far more to women than dominance or status
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"The artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic is doubling its spending on the midterm elections to $40 million, ramping up the conflict between warring factions of Silicon Valley over how to regulate the transformative technology."
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Anthropic Doubles Midterm Spending to $40 Million to Push AI Regulation
The move ramps up a conflict between warring factions in Silicon Valley over how to regulate the transformative technology.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/07/2026
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Margaret E. Ward @margareteward.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Why fixing the workplace is harder than reaching Mars: my latest Opinion piece for the Irish Examiner. (Mick Clifford is away) @irishexaminer.bsky.social
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW
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A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.
On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"$21.5 million paid by ABC, Meta, Paramount and X to settle lawsuits brought by President Donald Trump is missing or has been spent without explanation" Surprise! www.ms.now/news/trump-l...
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Democrats push Trump library to account for millions in lawsuit settlement funds
Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Melanie Stansbury are calling for answers after they noted discrepancies in the president’s financial disclosures.
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