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Melissa

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Avid reader, life-long North Carolinian, believer in Democracy.

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Charlie Davis @charlespdavis.bsky.social · 3h
Local Iowa Report Provides Scathing Fact-Check of Trump's New Steel Mill: 'That's Not True'
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Local Iowa Report Provides Scathing Fact-Check of Trump's New Steel Mill: 'That's Not True' — Mediaite
Donald Trump announced a "done deal" to build a $15 billion steel plant in Lee County, Iowa, but local media reported that Trump's claims "don't match reality."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
Trump: "They came up with the word 'affordability' ... it's phony" (Note that the crowd isn't into Trump's affordability denialism at all)
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h
The Trump administration has moved to cripple Title IX protections against sexual assault and harassment on the same day New York prosecutors reopened the investigation into heinous allegations of a fraternity gang rape at Cornell University. trib.al/QewniBV
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Trump Weakens Title IX Rules Amid Cornell Gang Rape Investigation
The Education Department has just weakened protections for sexual assault victims in schools.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 10h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Forbes @forbes.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth announced Project Meridian on Wednesday, explaining the initiative will identify weapons and technologies for soldiers and propose solutions to test and implement the weapons.
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Pete Hegseth Taps Elon Musk For Military Weapons Development Project
Hegseth announced Project Meridian on Wednesday, explaining the initiative will identify weapons and technologies for soldiers and propose solutions to test and implement the weapons.
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A 3-year-old no receipts program allows House members to supplement their $174,000 base salary by expensing food and housing costs while in Washington on official business, no specifics disclosed. House members spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024.
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The House reimburses lawmakers for D.C. expenses. See who spent the most.
Taxpayers spent 21 percent more last year on the program, which helps cover the costs of food and lodging in Washington, a Post analysis found.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Airport security employees checking boarding passes and IDs at airports will no longer be allowed to sit down while working, according to the union representing them. cnn.it/4hFPkng
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026
Breaking news: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to announce deeper cuts to the military’s top ranks, reducing the total number of positions for general and flag officers by as much as 20 percent, officials told The Post.
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Hegseth to cut more generals, admirals in bid to remake military’s top ranks
The defense secretary is expected to announce that the number of top officers will be reduced by as much as 20 percent, officials said.
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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/us-ta...
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joe Scarborough: It’s important we now have documentation that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run ads for their political party.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…
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What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign 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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“National Park Service Deputy Director Frank Lands visited Grand Teton National Park this week and looked at three potential locations for a baseball park within the park’s boundaries” WTF 🤬 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
washingtonpost.com
Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 President Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said. FREE WSJ GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | Trump Rejects Iran Ceasefire, Expects Renewed Bombing After Midterms
The president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands.
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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Next time you’re struggling to pay for gas or groceries, remember this image.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 26/09/2026
The company said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission sites. on.wsj.com/3Vw0FP5
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OpenAI said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission websites
The company said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission sites.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Referring to the Chinese president, the host asked “If you were president, would you throw him a big dinner?” “I would not be throwing him a dinner,” Trump declared. “I’d get him a McDonald’s hamburger.” 😂 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jak...
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Jake Tapper Digs Up Clip of Trump Mocking Obama-Xi State Dinner: ‘Get Down To Work’
CNN’s Jake Tapper aired an old clip of President Donald Trump blasting then-President Barack Obama for hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner in 2015.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
that 18 percent seems really well represented in the news and on social media bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026
Taxpayers are funding a campaign-style ad for Donald Trump, @mviser.bsky.social reports. “If the use of taxpayer dollars seems odd—and it should—the explanation that the White House gave me is even more bizarre," he writes.
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Trump’s Public Service Announcement: ‘Love Me’
Taxpayers are funding a campaign-style ad for the president.
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Melissa @melissadotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Amen ❤️ youtube.com/shorts/SSB88...
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Obama on an all-women government: "They'd be better"
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans are laser focused on making life more affordable for you.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump admin to immediately restore access for news organizations that Trump banned.
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POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: Heads of major AI firms warn the UN that without intervention, "AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole".
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Heads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanity
The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Republicans are rolling out their October Surprise for the midterms early. They really got us this time. bsky.app/profile/fact...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump has now got the US economy on the same track as his Atlantic City casinos.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/09/2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the invite has already been extended. trib.al/wZwUjEv
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Trump Invites Putin to Attend G20 Summit at His Golf Club
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the invite has already been extended.
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Ivan Ehlers @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... Piece I wrote in today’s Los Angeles Times
latimes.com
Contributor: The 'super' El Niño is here. Trump chose to be unprepared
The federal government should be doing a lot more to prepare for what’s coming.
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Melissa @melissadotcom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is new, pay attention.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/09/2026
NEW: Donald Trump made 1,156 personal financial trades in July. It should be illegal for the president to trade individual stocks - period.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🥹😍🤩✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👀🗣️🫦✌🏽🔥💟💙💟💙💟💙
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: JD Vance and admin officials are set to announce that they're removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage — claiming that they were fraudulently enrolled in the program, according to three people with knowledge of the forthcoming announcement.
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Trump officials plan to cut hundreds of thousands from ACA, claiming fraud
Vance targeted ACA enrollment as part of a broader administration crackdown on suspected fraud.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
this is a genuinely crazy story
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Eric Holder @ericholder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s time do a bit of a “freak out”. How many times are these hacks allowed to go back - on truly specious grounds - in attempts to get the results they want ??? Missouri is already printing ballots. 🤦🏽‍♂️
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Melissa @melissadotcom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Indeed, nearly a year after Trump responded to an Epstein question by a female Bloomberg journalist with the words, “Quiet, piggy,” the mainstream media has finally said it back to him.” The latest must read from @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/fox-news-f...
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Fox News finally stood up to Trump
The president’s war on the free press blew up in his face today as his favorite network went dark on him in solidarity with CNN.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
$XAL $JETS
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Melissa @melissadotcom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Apparently lots! Ground stops abound at the major airports today. Correlation or causation? Things just getting better and better for us.
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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hitler and other top Nazis inspect a scale model of a planned triumphal arch in Berlin, circa 1939.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our national symbols matter, and they belong to all of us—not just one man. A big thank you to everyone who turned out to protect the Kennedy Center this weekend. Keep going.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
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‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months ahead of its expected peak. The latest data shows the temperature rise at the heart of El Niño in the Pacific ocean has now reached 3.05C. That is higher than the 3.02C set in late November 2015, the previous high set in the 150 years of modern records. This temperature is measured against the average of 1991-2020. Continue reading...
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