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The CFTC was ordered to retract its recommendation for further investigation into the suspicious oil trades during the Iran war. trib.al/LRKJASp

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Trump Official Tries to Kill Report on Perfectly Timed Oil Trades

The CFTC was ordered to retract its recommendation for further investigation into the suspicious oil trades during the Iran war.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org & partners just sued ICE over a nasty catch-22 ICE detains people, takes their IDs & work papers, releases them, keeps the papers. Now they can't work & risk getting picked up again for having no ID We're going to court to get it ALL back -TN

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026

The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

🚨Holy crap! Ken Paxton partied on New Year’s Eve 2024 in Dubai with his girlfriend and two U.S. fugitives (Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail) charged in healthcare fraud/embezzlement schemes. Ahmed, a major donor, gave about $190,000 to Paxton’s campaign — including after his indictment.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026

holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"

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404 Media @404media.co · 12/10/2026

After someone said "Hail Satan," an Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city." www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...

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'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting

Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."

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Jeremy White @jeremywired.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

IT'S A TRAP! Elon made a bit of a boo-boo on X yesterday, and some bad people no doubt turned to the dark side tried to have a bit of fun with his Grok Bot Star Wars Lego order. Read all about the attack of the clones on @wired.com by clicking below www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him

Musk, we find your lack of security disturbing.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 12/10/2026

For years, the Trump admin has launched slanderous attacks against Rep. Omar. This morning, the administration sent federal officials to raid her home. We cannot and will not accept this unprecedented abuse of power. I stand with @repilhan.bsky.social. apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Agents search Rep. Omar's Washington home in criminal probe as she vows she won't 'be silenced'

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar says she will “not be silenced” and calls a search of her Washington home the “latest escalation” in President Donald Trump’s “intimidation” campaign.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

FEDERAL AGENTS FINALLY LEAVE REP. ILHAN OMAR'S HOME AFTER MORE THAN FIVE HOURS

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We’re having a Wizard of Oz moment on social media right now so pay attention. Yesterday, Ukraine attacked data centers belonging to Yandex, Russia’s biggest tech company.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Defunct Spirit Airlines is trying to sell decades of employee records to Google for AI training. EPIC counsels Abigail Kunkler and Mayu Tobin-Miyaji explain why “the law has not stepped up to protect worker privacy” and what regulators, unions and Congress can do.

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Spirit Airlines Is Selling Its Workers’ Data. That Can’t Fly.

Spirit’s bankruptcy makes clear what privacy advocates have warned about for years, write Abigail Kunkler and Mayu Tobin-Miyaji, both counsels at EPIC.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This seems like a very bad idea

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future

Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.

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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🇷🇺🇺🇸The first shipment of Russian diesel is arriving on the US East Coast less than 24 hours after the announcement that sanctions would be lifted. The Russian tanker MINERVA left St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 22 and appears to have been heading toward the US East Coast throughout this time.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Loading straitjacketed humans onto aircraft like cargo

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404 Media @404media.co · 09/10/2026

"It's making me dumber." At 404 Media's three-year anniversary, we got into how we report our stories. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social talks about how he was able to talk to developers at Google about how forced AI use was making them feel stupid. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Vj...

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Megabyte Mike @megabytemike.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You mean all these years I could have been openly hacking government systems without consequence? Oh, that's right... Not a billionaire

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drink

The console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders.

In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink

A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump's DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin after an ICE agent shot a man in the neck: "I'm not sorry."

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026

Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read

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Megabyte Mike @megabytemike.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ARE THEY GOING TO SEARCH FOR DOGS WITH FLOCK NOW?????

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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly not acceptable

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Megabyte Mike @megabytemike.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

FAA is gonna have a fun time with this one

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026

a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

El-Sayed: "Under Trump and Hegseth, you're seeing extremes that you never would have imagined. The idea that you want to livestream somebody's death for children to watch is truly extreme ... I don't want that to be politics as usual."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.

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Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)

Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

JD Vance's close friend and ideological inspiration, Curtis Yarvin: "What if OpenAI solves the Jewish problem"

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