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John Annese @johnannese.bsky.social · 2h
New today: An ex-NYPD cop has pleaded guilty to posing as an ICE official and threatening to deport a woman who rebuffed him romantically. "ICE will come get you and your family and you will always live poor. Matter of fact I will make the phone call myself." www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/30/e...
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Jilted ex-NYPD cop admits posing as ICE agent, threatening woman with deportation
Atickul Islam, 30, threw away his police career and possibly his freedom with text messages he sent, threatening to call ICE on the woman, then pretending he was the agency’s New York field office dir...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 4h
Democratic senators discovered Tuesday night that a draft permitting bill had been "changed substantially" without notice — setting up a last-minute standoff with Republicans that could affect offshore wind, oil, gas and infrastructure projects across the country.
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Trump fight goes sideways as last-minute change triggers late-night scramble: report
Democratic senators were sent scrambling Tuesday night after discovering the text of a draft bill designed to speed up federal permitting had been “changed substantially” without notice, a senior Democratic aide told Punchbowl News’ Joshua Siegel.In the works for months, the legislation is designed ...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 5h
Ken Paxton built his career on loyalty to Trump. New secretly recorded audio caught him saying Trump's midterm convention made "everybody's numbers drop" — right as he needs Trump's voters and Trump-aligned money to survive a Senate race he's losing.
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Disbelief as Trump loyalist becomes latest 'rat' to jump off president's 'sinking ship'
Journalists, analysts and politicians were left floored Wednesday after Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and GOP Senate nominee, became the latest prominent Republican to criticize President Donald Trump or his midterm strategies.“Rats jumping off a sinking ship,” quipped Jaime Harrison, forme...
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 1h
"A candidate is not holding a very strong hand when he is arguing that the pregnant woman arrested in front of her child during his practice’s debt-collection case actually owed more than the campaign ad said she did." www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
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With new defamation threat, Roger Marshall is making a bad story worse | Hudnall
The Kansas senator wants a damaging ad about his medical practice taken down. His response is giving it more life. From David Hudnall
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 3h
Trump goes for his perfect trifecta in this one; a barefaced lie, a large dollop of racism, and a big dose of insanity--all in one short quote.
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NPR @npr.org · 5h
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies. n.pr/46UKiy3
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How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.
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Courtney Bublé @courtneybuble.bsky.social · 6h
New: DOJ has filed a misconduct complaint against federal judges in Minnesota who spoke to the NYT about the administration's immigration crackdown in their state at the beginning of the year Blanche said this was "a clear violation of their ethical duties"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h
Trump promised he would halve energy prices within his first year in office
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 5h
🚨BREAKING: The bill failed to clear the 60-vote threshold to end debate in the Senate, 53-47. Every Democratic and independent senator voted against the measure. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP voter ID bill falls short in Senate
The floor stunt attempted to give Republicans facing tough reelection fights something to campaign on as voters sour on the GOP’s willingness to acquiesce to Trump on artificial intelligence, the war ...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 17h
When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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REN & STIMPY PT 2!! R&S’s backup account!! @sparkyomatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The picture on top is Mike Rogers mansion in Florida. 3.2 million and 2 yachts! The picture beneath is his Michigan home a 728ft home. It’s basically a fishing shanty. ( courtesy of Michigan Advance)
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees (Gift Article)
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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
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mickaarbor.bsky.social @mickaarbor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is fantastic..such a sycophant
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is piloting a training program for Wisconsin election observers to identify discrepancies with voting machines, as the GOP piles additional scrutiny on voting processes in the swing state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP trained Wisconsin election observers to target voting machines in pivotal swing state
The new RNC program appears to mark an escalation from typical poll watching activities.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Multibillion-dollar schemes like A7 are much easier when the United States simply gives up on countering Russian sanctions evasion. The Kremlin agent gloating in this story could show a bit more humility. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
During the Biden administration, the Treasury Department made cracking down on sanctions evasion a centerpiece of its effort to punish Russia. The department imposed thousands of additional sanctions, targeting companies and networks designed to move money around financial restrictions.

The pressure has largely disappeared. Since President Trump returned to office, the administration has removed more restrictions than it has added, according to a Times analysis of Treasury data.

That has made it harder for banks to screen for illicit activity, in part because new actors and organizations can spring up without fresh information. A7 shell companies, for example, have facilitated payments to companies that banked at major American and European banks, The Times found.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump voter: "I would call [Trump] a bald-faced liar. That's all I can say nicely. I've already retired from one company, and I went back to work to cover my insurance, gas, and the price of food that keeps going up…It really sucks."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From WSJ - The taxpayer money used to fund the ads that started airing last week came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an arm of DHS that oversees the Border Patrol and customs and immigration at airports, the people said. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
Sen. Booker: “This is an 8-year attempt to lie to the American people, and this is their closing argument, everybody. Right before an election, this is what they want to spend their time on, perpetrating a lie. This committee’s Republicans are more concerned with Trump than the truth.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.
Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@markwarner.bsky.social, D-Va., vice chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence, tells Morning Joe the war in Iran is “a disaster on every front.” He highlights rising prices, a radical regime ruling over Iran and no end to the conflict in sight.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait, was rolling out the red carpet for Xi a Chinese psyop too? I'm really confused about the GOP stance on China.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fox and the Trump administration are using the narrative of a new migrant “caravan” to drive attention back to border security, a rare issue where Trump and his party retain an advantage in the polls, but one whose salience has fallen. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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MS NOW @ms.now · 29/09/2026
SOON: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies to the Senate on his investigations into President Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged mishandling of classified documents. FOLLOW ALONG HERE: www.ms.now/liveblog/jac... WATCH HERE: youtube.com/live/H69_OqF...
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LIVE: Jack Smith testifies before Senate committee
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p... Hegseth has signed a memo directing the military to defend the midterm elections from foreign interference. US Cyber Command will “deploy advanced intelligence and cyber capabilities” to “identify, disrupt, and neutralize foreign interference in US democratic processes.”
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Hegseth directs military to defend US midterm elections from foreign interference | CNN Politics
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memo directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference, the Pentagon said Monday.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exceptional solidarity from ASU hockey players who have demanded their coach be placed on leave for essentially overseeing the murder of their teammate and have disputed the university’s findings. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
Seven Arizona State men’s hockey players asked the university’s president to place the Sun Devils’ coaching staff on administrative leave pending further investigation into the workout that left sophomore transfer Matthew Mayich on life support.

In a 26-page letter sent to ASU president Michael Crow on Monday and obtained by The Athletic, the players disputed numerous findings from the university’s initial review of the Aug. 20 workout, writing that Mayich did not receive water and was provided inadequate medical care after his collapse.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Candidate for Congress: 1.) Claims to have loaned his campaign millions. 2.) Has the same treasurer as Andy Ogles and George Santos. 3.) Has failed to file any financial disclosures for four years running. 👀 👀 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress
David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Things are looking so bad for Republicans that in Ohio they're trying to fool their ignorant voters into thinking Sherrod Brown is the incumbent and blame the current problems on him. Some voters will be dumb enough to fall for this. www.rawstory.com/jon-husted-s...
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GOP scheme to boost Senate candidate backfires by confusing their own voters
Ohio Republicans deliberately built a strategy around portraying Sen. Jon Husted as the underdog challenger rather than the sitting incumbent, hoping to capitalize on anti-establishment anger. Instead...
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Take it to fElon! He's dumping millions into 2026 elections, but scarce on public appearances to try to keep his villainous ass out of the conversation. Candidates, don't let him get away with $ & invisibility. 🦋 bsky.app/profile/wewi...
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'd like to see James Talarico wiggle his way out of this jam
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David Jolly @davidjolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BIG NEWS: Another new poll has us leading 48% to 46%. Be a part of history. Share the word, make a plan to vote, and let's get this done!
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
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Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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CatLady Lil @catladylil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Patrick Morrisey thought he could say "fake news" and make it go away, but he's not Trump. Trump isn't even Trump anymore. West Virginia hates Patrick Morrisey. www.wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_...
Facebook post for Governor Patrick Morrisey of West Virginia: 

The Gazette got it wrong. This Friday’s story intentionally misrepresented my administration’s energy plans without giving me a chance to address their claims and slanted coverage. 

Here's the truth: We are pursuing nuclear generation and manufacturing to bring high-paying jobs to West Virginia. Our recent application to the U.S. Department of Energy was part of that effort. We want to build on our existing strengths in coal and natural gas to create more jobs and opportunity, stronger communities, and a higher standard of living.

But West Virginia will not be a dumping ground for nuclear waste. Period.

I have directed my Office of Energy to ensure that every site identified in our final Nuclear Campus application is considered only for nuclear generation or manufacturing - not as a dump. 

I will keep fighting for investments that can bring thousands of high-paying jobs to our state. I will also protect West Virginia’s beauty and heritage. We can pursue new opportunities without becoming a dumping ground.

More energy jobs and manufacturing jobs are on the table. Nuclear waste dumps are not. We've had enough fake news.Response from the Charleston Gazette: 

Excuse us Governor Patrick Morrisey but you forgot to include a link to the article you claim "misrepresented" your administration's plans and that you dismissed as "fake news."

Don't worry, we've got your back!

And because we stand behind the reporting at the heart of this article and encourage all West Virginians to read it and draw their own conclusions, we've removed the paywall, making this piece of important journalism free to read for everyone.

Check out Mike Tony's story below and thanks for supporting local journalism.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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