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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Mel Baggers @melbaggers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
E. Jean Carroll told us this.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BBC: Eight US sailors assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln attempted suicide, Navy says
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Diesel futures fell after Trump announced a “massive” European oil release.⁣ ⁣ Then traders read the actual G7 statement, and the entire price move vanished.⁣ ⁣ Turns out the massive release was mostly a PR stunt. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels turns out to be leftovers from March.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Employer health-plan costs are projected to surge 11% in 2027, the steepest baseline increase since 2003
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Barbaric.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pathological liars just can’t stop lying. Trump: “I’m the only president that donated his salary. They pay me $550,000 a year.” The presidential salary is $400,000. JFK and Hoover donated their salaries and didn’t rob the country blind.
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Mel Baggers @melbaggers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But what is law today, anyway?
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Beginning in 2027: “If your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, music, & cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest.” newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this: @airbagmoments.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Extraordinary." It's time for NYT to dip into its strategic adjective reserve.
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Mel Baggers @melbaggers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
National security is now the excuse for everything. Your honor, the President had to make those personal stock trades because of national security.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MedicareForAllNOW
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Musk showers GOP with cash while defending racism in court www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Musk showers GOP with cash while defending racism in court
Multibillionaire Elon Musk’s political action committee is increasing its spending on House and Senate races as part of his attempt to help Republicans hold on to their majorities in the House and…
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born2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/09/2026
House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections. to.pbs.org/4hjKHyI
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House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option
“There is a cost to the American people of the out-of-control corruption,” said Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who is in line to become House speaker if Democrats win control at the Ca...
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Right on schedule.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump started “renovating” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in April. After spending $19.2 million of taxpayers’ money, it appears he’s abandoned it.
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Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another priority for Trump was painting the exterior columns white in place of what he had deemed a “fake gold color.” Former employees report that the center diverted money — $1.4 million — that had been allocated for the waterproofing repairs to finance the $4.4 million column repainting project.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trumpism is a cult.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?
Getty pic of Xi and TrumpTrump TS post featuring the mentioned edit of Monica Crowley's faceoriginal pic image of MonicaTrump TS post which shows Natalie's face where Monica's is on the original. very weird
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Democrats are again insisting that Trump release the text of his deals with drug companies. @wyden.senate.gov: “Here we are, months later, with six written requests, legislation to compel release, and a Cabinet secretary’s commitment. And I have not seen a single page.”
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Democrats again demand Trump’s drug-price contracts following Post report
Lawmakers say they cannot judge the effectiveness of the administration’s initiative to lower drug prices until the contracts are released.
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Senators Mark Warner and Brian Schatz will tomorrow try to force the Senate to approve AI safety legislation mandating testing review of models pre deployment www.washingtonsun.com/congress/war...
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Two Democratic Senators Will Try to Force a Vote on AI Safety
The push comes amid growing urgency to respond to the rapid growth of AI.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The White House says it banned Politico for using anonymous sources. One of the examples it cited was their own background briefing in which the White House itself provided the anonymous official. @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is the dumbest thing in the world. The fraud is that people are paying for insurance and they’re… healthy?
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When the Cincinnati Post shut down, it oddly had an effect on local elections. Fewer people ran for office, voter turnout fell, and incumbents became more likely to win. That's useful context for Trump's choice to ban 3 news orgs from the White House newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/what-econo...
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What Economists Know About Kicking Out Reporters
Trump banned three news organizations from the White House last week — and there’s a research literature on exactly where that leads.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Moscow supermarket Tucker Carlson gushed over during his infamous visit to Russia was an Auchan. Putin has now placed Auchan’s Russian assets under his control. I wonder if Tucker still thinks Russia is the paradise he sold us. apnews.com/article/russ...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
4) The kind of funny accounting that can crash markets. www.ft.com/content/7f11...

1. Meta pioneers residual value guarantees ...
2. Broadcom brings the structure to AI chips ...
3. Nvidia takes residual value guarantees to a new scale ...
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Source: FT reporting, company filings • **Nvidia may offer up to 25% residual value support, deal by deal, under programme targeting $500bn

	
As their AI spending plans begin to outrun their cash flows, tech companies have become more focused on managing their balance sheets in order to keep their investment-grade credit ratings and maintain access to the deepest pools of low-cost corporate debt.

Overall, Morgan Stanley analysts have tallied more than $3.1tn in off-balance-sheet commitments and credit support by seven hyperscalers and chipmakers.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/09/2026
"Trump fired the director of the FBI. He’s trying to fire a governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Trump put his face on U.S. currency, in bald contravention of the law. He attempted a fucking coup. Don’t tell me what can’t be done."
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Impeach Them. All of Them.
Hegseth is only the beginning.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 18/09/2026
In a Manhattan federal courtroom today, a lawyer for the Trump administration argued that Article II of the Constitution lets the president fire a federal employee because he’s Black, and there’s nothing a court can do about it. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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DOJ says recent Supreme Court ruling shields Maurene Comey firing
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BLOOMBERG: “Flawed intelligence, outdated imagery, overreliance on A.I. contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab… Within hours Pentagon personnel knew 🇺🇸 was responsible…” 😳
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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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WAPO is reporting that at least four more service members have died in the war in Iran than DOD is publicly acknowledging. CNN is reporting that the US almost seized a Chinese vessel because AI incorrectly identified it as containing Iranian nuclear material. Clown show.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Trump claimed he's "banning the free press" & added "we're repressive also" when asked about China's lack of press freedoms during bonkers event where he struggled to stay awake, demanded kids get 5 vaccine shots instead of 1, and rambled incoherently in response to basic Qs Here's a supercut:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026
Q: "Xi is coming next week. China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world. What signal does it send that you're trying to bar journalists from the White House?" Trump: "I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also. We get fake news."
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Mel Baggers @melbaggers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We’re also looking at Bigfoot and the Bermuda Triangle
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Reporters were barred from recording video” — Um What? PSA: The moment you obeyed that command you stopped being “reporters” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026
Read Mikhal Zygar on Umar Kremlev, the oligarch who helped pay for Don Jr's wedding zygaro.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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Mel Baggers @melbaggers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is mafia speak for “Nice little court you’ve got here. Shame if something were to happen to it.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And here are Trump Jr's remarks at Doha, which merit study in light of ProPublica's disclosures of yesterday:
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/09/2026
Rep. Casten: “President Trump said…we’re taking in a lot of money...from Venezuela…That would suggest flows to U.S. persons.” Bessent: “This is one of the largest assets.” Rep. Casten: “You can't testify...whether or not those are flowing to U.S. persons?” Bessent: “Uh, no.”
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