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Michael Conte

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/04/2026
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
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Tim Britton (he/him) @timbritton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This Week in Mets: “But there’s no denying how frustrating it is for the fan base to hear the same the-talent-is-here rhetoric one year after the Mets cited it endlessly while giving away a postseason spot over the final months of the season to the 83-win Reds.”
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Mets quickly look and sound like the 2025 version
Plagued by mental mistakes and a slumping offense, the Mets insist there are better days ahead: "We believe in each other."
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
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Bread @jacobreaded.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What the fuck did you just fucking say about tribal sovereignty, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I authored the majority opinion in McGirt v. Oklahoma, and I’ve been involved in numerous statutory interpretations of the Major Crimes Act, and I have done over 300 land acknowledgements.
Neil Gorsuch laser eyes
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Headline from the Icelandic news: “United States Does Not Seem to Know What They Are Doing”
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Banda­ríkja­menn virðast lítið vita hvað þeir eru að gera - Vísir
Verð á Brent hráolíu er komið aftur yfir 100 dollara á tunnu og ríki út um allan heim íhuga nú aðgerðir til að mæta yfirvofandi orkuskorti vegna aðgerða Bandaríkjanna og Ísrael gegn Íran og hefndaraðg...
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
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Mamdani Chooses His Words Carefully After Alleged Terror Attack
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Last year, the U.S. was the only major destination to see a decline in international travelers. With increased scrutiny at the border, ICE violence and unpredictable policies, the new year isn’t looking better. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/t...
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11 Million Visitors Short: Inside America’s Continuing Tourism Slump
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people. The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
For this post to be about the United States and not Russia shows that there has been an absolute diplomatic revolution.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Literal Immaculate Reception
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Michael Conte @michaelconte.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This guy gets it
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The first US sale of Venezuelan crude was to a company whose senior oil trader donated to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and attended a White House meeting with the president last week. www.ft.com/content/da74...
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Donald Trump’s first Venezuela oil sale deal goes to megadonor’s company
Senior Vitol trader met US president at White House last week and gave millions of dollars to his re-election campaign
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Joe Sheehan @sheehannewsletter.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It’s been about 90 minutes since the news broke, and we already have all this information about Kyle Tucker’s business. We should have this same level of information about every team’s paper, too. It would change everything.
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Armin Samii @arminsamii.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.

“There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.”

“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.

In a statement, a CBS News sp
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Chelsea Janes @chelseajanes.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
They’ll be throwing Dunkin in the harbor tonight
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Caroline Haskins @carolinehaskins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
SCOOP w/ @dell.bsky.social: the FBI is warning law enforcement to look out for people impersonating ICE to facilitate other criminal acts Plus, some odd details I got via FOIA about a March incident in which an aspiring prank YouTuber allegedly impersonated ICE: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2025
this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...
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Fired By The Post
The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/09/2025
The Israeli military launched the early stages of a ground offensive to seize Gaza City overnight, an Israeli military official said Tuesday, as Palestinians in the enclave said they faced a night of relentless heavy bombardment.
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Israeli military begins ground invasion of Gaza City
Palestinians in Gaza City reported a night of heavy bombardment. A U.N. commission said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza; Israel rejected it as “falsehoods.”
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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"The visible health problems of the oldest president in American history barely registered in mainstream coverage," writes @passantino.bsky.social for Status_. But @nytimes.com 🐔, @wsj.com 🐔🐔 & other major outlets published dozens of stories about Biden's physical fitness while he was in office.
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Burying the Bruises
The White House insists Donald Trump’s visible bruises are nothing, but medical experts say the explanation doesn’t hold up. Why are the country’s biggest newsrooms silent?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 23/07/2025
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.
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Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files
Bondi told president at the meeting that Justice also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...
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Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts
At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Oh I saw it. Looked like he'd just fallen while water-skiing.
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Michael Conte @michaelconte.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
@davidjroth.bsky.social you’re almost certainly watching something better but I feel like you should know Dedniel Núñez just pitched a real good Wet Guy inning
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is the last thing Cardinal Bob saw before he went into the conclave and they made him pope lol
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!
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Heidi Przybyla 🎤✍️ @heidireports.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Keep sharing this because it is vital to understanding this moment. The timing of his entry into politics after this trip, the one position he’s held firm on (at odds with past presidents of both political parties) and the unraveling of the post-WW II world order. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
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The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow
In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son.
"Many more children will die in the coming weeks," said Margret Amjuma, a health worker who confirmed the deaths of Peter and Achol.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.
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Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker
New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%
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Alistair Hutton @twitonatrain.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My single favourite piece of polling of the last 2 years
Polling showing Net result for  people thinking "their local state" economy had gotten better with margins of 18 to 30 points

Same people thinking the national economy had got better was -30 points.

Dat swing.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student who was a leader in talks between demonstrators and Columbia University officials last spring, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents Saturday night despite having a green card, his attorney said.
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Palestinian protester arrested by ICE despite green card, lawyer says
Mahmoud Khalil is being detained as his lawyer fights for his release.
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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
You can watch Christiane Amanpour realize in real time on CNN just how seriously Canadians are taking the annexation threats.
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'My jaw is dropped': Canadian official's interview stuns Amanpour
YouTube video by CNN
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/03/2025
hey, can one of the reasonable centrist writers condescendingly explain to me again that it is overblown to call these people segregationists?
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Scoop: Scott Jennings is in the final stages of negotiating a new contract with CNN—and he's set for a big pay raise. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/scott-jenn...
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MAGA Money
CNN is set to reward its most recognizable MAGA pundit, Scott Jennings, with a lucrative new deal, a reflection of the state of television news in the Donald Trump era.
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/03/2025
When the Trump administration abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts and grants last week, it ended funding for programs around the world – including those that had been granted waivers by the State Department to continue their lifesaving work.
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Trump administration terminated funding for aid programs it said were lifesaving | CNN Politics
When the Trump administration abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts and grants last week, it ended funding for programs around the world – including those that had been granted...
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Jennifer Hansler @jmhansler.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A top USAID official was put on leave after a scathing memo detailing Trump political appointees' moves which blocked life-saving humanitarian work, which will “no doubt result in preventable death, destabilization, and threats to national security on a massive scale” www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/p...
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USAID official put on administrative leave for scathing memo blaming political appointees for affecting ‘life-saving’ work | CNN Politics
A top official at the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was put on leave after issuing a scathing memo blaming Trump political appointees for the US government’s inability to conduct lif...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
this appears to be the new regime oped page at wapo. WOW. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Zelensky must mend the breach with Trump — or resign
Zelensky's stubbornness has badly hurt Ukraine.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.” @apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/doge...
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Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money,...
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Sean Lyngaas @snlyngaas.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Cuts to democracy programs at home and abroad: www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/p...
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Trump administration cuts US efforts to support democracy at home and abroad | CNN Politics
In less than a month in office the Trump administration has simultaneously dismantled foreign aid programs that support fragile democracies abroad and put on leave federal workers who protect US elect...
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Jennifer Hansler @jmhansler.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
NEW: Five former leaders of USAID from across Republican and Democratic administrations spoke out against the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the humanitarian agency and called on “Congress to swiftly protect the Agency’s statutory role.” www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...
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First on CNN: Republican and Democratic former USAID leaders speak out against Trump’s attempts to dismantle agency | CNN Politics
Five former leaders of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from across Republican and Democratic administrations spoke out against the Trump administration’s attempts to dismantle the ...
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