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Midwestern Rosarian

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J.D. but not giving legal advice. Trying to find post election solace, if there is any to be had

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
Weeks after Russell Vought told Congress that Bilt had fixed its problems without the need of CFPB enforcement, nearly 1,900 Bilt customers received mistaken debt collection notices saying they owed hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their cards.
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The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave.
Rather than investigate a buzzy fintech startup for throwing users’ accounts into chaos, the Russell Vought-led Consumer Financial Protection Bureau trusted that the company was “back on track.” Custo...
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A report from the GAO found the Defense Department wasted millions on food never eaten and tents never lived in while assisting Homeland Security's rush last year to build migrant detention facilities in Texas and Guantanamo Bay. From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:
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Military wasted millions on efforts to help with ICE detention facilities, GAO says
Billions were spent purchasing warehouses, rushing contracts and trying to establish detention operations in locations that didn’t meet regulations.
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Status @status.news · 30/09/2026
While Comcast announced plans to spin off NBCUniversal, we have learned executives have been privately weighing whether to hang on to their 12 local television stations rather than risk a fight with Donald Trump’s FCC. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/comcast-nb...
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Comcast’s Carr Calculation
While the company announced plans to spin off NBCUniversal, Status has learned executives are weighing whether to hang on to their local television stations rather than risk a fight with Trump’s FCC.
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Midwestern Rosarian @midwesternrosarian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack: Wow, that was one for the memoir.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies.
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Scrooge Jones @fitzador.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good summary of how wannabe JD Vance running mate Sen. Eric Schmitt today made a complete joke out of himself, then, in the Trumpian style, refused to admit he’d made an obvious mistake. 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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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Midwestern Rosarian @midwesternrosarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How this GOP fool doesn’t immediately turn tail and run to the nearest cave to hide in shame for the rest of his life is amazing
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schrödinger's model. Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
"Potential model awareness of our evaluation efforts creates a
significant limitation on our ability to assess model safety,"
Anthropic said in the prospectus, adding that models sometimes
develop unexpected capabilities during training that may not be
discovered until they have been deployed and have resulted in
significant safety incidents.

Al researchers have also warned that as models grow more
capable, they increasingly recognize when they are being
watched and adjust their behavior accordingly, which makes it
harder to monitor model behavior.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lower accountability reads as higher risk. When a town's newspaper closes those local governments end up paying higher interest rates to borrow. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
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FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump in 2015: I would not be throwing Xi Jinping a dinner. I would get him a McDonald's hamburger and say 'we have to get down to work.' We're giving him a state dinner and what he has done is sucked all of our jobs.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV.
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Pandas and Eagles and A.I., Oh My! Trump Throws a State Dinner for Xi
Altman. Musk. Huang. Bezos. They all came to the White House Thursday night, though you might not have seen it on TV.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social have a damning new story about how the Roberts Court is reviving Jim Crow, relying on the same legal tactics used to undermine the Reconstruction. A must read to understand the stakes of this election. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Cover of Mother Jones issue on the new Jim Crow
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 25/09/2026
@uaw.org says Mike Rogers’ claim that he “built” cars on an assembly line is “stretching the truth.” ❌ “The facility he claims he worked at didn’t assemble cars ❌ The car he claims he worked on didn’t even exist yet ❌ UAW has no record of him being a member” michiganadvance.com/2026/09/24/m...
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Mike Rogers claims he was an assembly line worker. The UAW said that is stretching the truth. • Michigan Advance
Rogers says he built Chrysler vehicles on an assembly line. Records show his work was at an aftermarket facility that modified vehicles after they left the factory.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stolen assembly line valor, Mike
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jon Husted has now voted 14 times to continue the Iran war. That’s 14 votes causing record high gas and grocery prices, and Ohioans are paying the price.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the criminal complaint released on September 23, US prosecutors said Oxygen Forensics and Reiber in particular allegedly told the US government that the Virginia-registered company had no foreign ownership or control and that its software was developed in the United States.
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US Firm Hid Russian Ownership While Selling Phone-Hacking Software To Pentagon, Officials Say
A US company that provided digital forensics and data-extraction software to the Pentagon and other government agencies was in fact owned by a Russian company that also sold software to Russian spy agencies, US authorities charged.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Scoop: Axel Springer boss Mathias Döpfner is facing fresh backlash from his journalists at POLITICO and Business Insider after snarkily dismissing their concerns about the company’s decision to honor MAGA billionaire Peter Thiel. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/peter-thie...
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Döpfner’s Thiel Tribute
At Axel Springer’s event honoring Peter Thiel in Berlin, the publishing boss dismissed his own journalists’ concerns and sat silently as Thiel attacked the press, fueling further pushback from staffer...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Both WaPo and @oliverdarcy.bsky.social are reporting that one of the stories the WH claims they banned Politico for was based off a background briefing (that is, they're complaining Politico reported what WH told them to). Darcy makes it clear JD was the background briefer in this case.
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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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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 23/09/2026
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ballooning security costs were partly covered by money from an office created to fight Black infant deaths.
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RFK Jr.'s soaring bodyguard costs covered with money for fighting infant deaths: WSJ
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ballooning security costs were partly covered by money from an office created to fight Black infant deaths.According to a Wall Street Journal article published on Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services told congressional appropriators earlier th...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
I thought it was the democrats that were going to ban hamburgers
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
alert the press: it is not normal for the president to be unable to stay conscious during televised events in the Oval Office
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey White House Correspondents' Association -- is *this enough?
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dana Bash directly confronted Homeland Security Secretary Markwaye Mullin Friday about a Republican lawmaker's claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement have "gone too far" with their arrests. Bash also caught him with his own jenky data, which is kinda fun to watch.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/09/2026
Trump bans CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House
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Trump bans CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House
US president has overseen an unprecedented restriction of access for major traditional news media since start of second term * US politics live – latest updates In his latest attack on the US constitution’s first amendment and the press, Donald Trump has announced that he is banning outlets CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage. In a post on his Truth Social platform on Friday afternoon, the US president said he was expelling the news outlets over what he called their “constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS!” and threatened that bans for others outlets could follow. Continue reading...
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026
Trump has shut down the government units that once tracked Russia’s disinformation and influence operations in U.S. elections. There are clear signs that Putin’s operatives are warming up to interfere with the 2026 midterm election. more from @davidcorn.bsky.social
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Putin Revives His War on American Elections
The Kremlin’s meddling has been most intense during presidential contests, but it has been aimed at off-year elections.
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Ford @ford422.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Did he coach a little league team and try to stop the game after three innings to preserve the apparent outcome?
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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As Bush v Gore clearly establishes if you are ahead, counting ballots injures you (offer applies to GOP pols only). end /s
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Midwestern Rosarian @midwesternrosarian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Disgusting self-dealing with US adversary Russia
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Midwestern Rosarian @midwesternrosarian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wait did a Russian oligarch close to Putin accused of kidnapping Ukrainian kids aka war crimes pay for Don Jr’s wedding reception? Yes, says Jr’s new wife and he is their dear friend who they are so grateful to!! @HunterBiden probably has thoughts
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/09/2026
Kushner on Ukraine: “President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.” Putin’s brain cell
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zohran Mamdani "was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end…Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began 'schmoozing.'" Per Steve Kastenbaum:
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Mayor Mamdani was the only senior elected official who stayed at the 9/11 memorial ceremony at the WTC until the end. It started at 8:40 AM, and concluded close to 12:30 PM. Most of the other current electeds left at various times. Former Mayors Bloomberg & Giuliani stayed.
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Mamdani stayed until the end of the memorial ceremony at which point he was seen talking with 9/11 victims' family members. All of the other senior elected officials left the 9/11 Memorial before the reading of the names concluded.
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The source tells me that V.P. Vance was the first to leave the VIP area, and other elected officials began "schmoozing." At some point, Mayor Giuliani's people started "bringing people over to talk with him." CORRECTION:I used photos in a previous similar post that were from 2025
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Rob Bon Vivant🌊 @77sunnyandclear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You cannot make this stuff up. The GOP’s Dallas midterm convention put Ross Ulbricht—the Silk Road founder convicted on 7 federal counts, including narcotics trafficking and money laundering—on stage. Trump pardoned him in 2025. TWO LIFE SENTENCES. And THIS is who they’re putting on a pedestal?
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/09/2026
📩 USPS rejected a Florida county’s mail ballot envelope design because two lines of text sat 0.236 inches apart — when there should have been a full quarter-inch between them. The envelope design was accepted on appeal. But here’s what the snafu shows us: demdock.com/4yyzC46
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 12/09/2026
Republican Michigan gubernatorial nominee Rep. John James received widespread condemnation Friday after releasing a 9/11-themed campaign ad attacking his Democratic opponent Jocelyn Benson, with critics blasting its central claim as false."Jocelyn
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Republican's ‘disgusting’ 9/11-themed attack ad earns widespread derision
Republican Michigan gubernatorial nominee Rep. John James received widespread condemnation Friday after releasing a 9/11-themed campaign ad attacking his Democratic opponent Jocelyn Benson, with critics blasting its central claim as false.“Jocelyn Benson stands with a radical left that says America ...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Today on 9/11, we remember and honor the lives that were taken from us in a terrible act of terrorism. Nothing can justify the murder of innocent civilians. Nothing. 1/
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not “socialism” when he does it. He thinks we’re all idiots.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Wow -- RNC video: "On June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." It only gets more unhinged and culty from there.
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe seemed to imply that voters voted for the proposed re-districting that the Missouri SCOTUS recently struck down. The new districts were drawn by the legislature. The proposed redistricting would have diluted the Black vote in Kansas City. RECEIPTS
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Media Matters reviewed Fox News' coverage from five of its evening "opinion" shows. We found that their Iran coverage collapsed over the summer, while references to socialism, the WNBA, and Fauci soared. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/ira...
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Iran coverage collapsed this summer on Fox News’ evening “opinion” shows
Six months into the war Donald Trump launched against Iran, the campaign “has deteriorated into a quagmire of the president’s own making with no clear goals, no obvious strategy and no end in sight” w...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026
The thing I kept thinking while I was working on this story was that Meta absolutely has the resources to keep this AI child abuse material off its platforms -- it's invested billions of dollars in securing top AI talent who could be assigned full-court-press to solving this awful problem:
If Meta were serious about proactively taking down the child abuse content, or detecting it at the time of upload, it would almost certainly be able to do so. 

In fact, AI systems could probably be helpful: the company has invested hundreds of billions of dollars toward building “superintelligence” — reportedly making offers to top talent in the industry that have exceeded a billion dollars for a single hire — with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying last year that “whoever gets there first is going to have a long-term, durable advantage towards building one of the most important products in history.”
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