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I am sorry, the government you have elected is inoperative. -Gil Scott-Heron Devote the rest of your life to making progress. -Epictetus #EndCitizensUnited

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026
British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.
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How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
John Roberts learns the reputational consequences of buying high on Trump www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/john...
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John Roberts learns the reputational consequences of buying high on Trump - Lawyers, Guns & Money
For many years, John Roberts’s life at his Maine retreat was a trip to the Planet Cornball [gift link]: John, who has spent over 20 summers on Hupper Island, a refuge about 90 miles northeast of Portl...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An all around weak -- but not tragic -- payrolls report for September. +29k jobs created, about 60k below expectations. Revisions made both July and August look weaker, too. Over the past 3 months, we've an average of a mere +17k per month.
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Lissa Gray Art @lissagrayart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's National Black Dog Day! Every year hundreds of thousands of dogs are euthanized in the US through no fault of their own. Unfortunately black dogs are often the first to be put on death row 😢 Please consider opening your heart and home to a black rescue dog 💙🐾 #nationalblackdogday #dogs
black rescue dogs
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2026
NEW on “Paper Trail”: Under Trump 2.0, the White House has often ignored Congress to carry out its agenda. Entire agencies, like USAID, have been gutted. ICE has grown explosively. Behind it all is one man: Russell Vought. 🎧 Listen to our latest episode:
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Who’s the Shadow President?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. 92 percent of the 2025 tariffs were passed on to US producers and consumers in the form of higher prices, compared with 81 percent for the 2018–2019 tariffs." @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 01/10/2026
Oh so an immensely powerful man isn’t allowed to enjoy carefree vacations, just because some of his neighbors notice that he has presided over a rollback of their rights and the destruction of the constitutional order? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest.
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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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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
His priorities are showing. When gasoline prices spiked, Trump stood on the sidelines. When diesel spiked, he jumped into action. Who is he trying to serve?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/09/2026
A data breach of the Pentagon's vast HR system has exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information of current and former military personnel, raising counterintelligence concerns among national security experts. cnn.it/3VwCAaU
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(Bloomberg) - US manufacturers installed roughly 38,500 industrial robots in 2025, a year in which they simultaneously cut more than 100,000 human jobs. @blsuth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Possibly the best example of American democracy and governance in the era of Trump.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you want to know how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FEDWATCH: “.. there’s little standing in the way of a move toward 5.30% in the near term. But that’s not where the move should end. .. the technical upside for the 10Y now sits near 6.25%.”
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tonight I took the car and drove across all of Kyiv, just to see how my beloved city feels at this time. It’s a strange feeling.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It is happening here
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/09/2026
The theme of Trump’s second term is his using the power of the presidency as though it’s his own. That manifests in tantrums booting media outlets from the White House. More harmfully, it also manifests in blocking federal funding to states that didn’t vote for him. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“.. The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Andrew Levesque @andrewlevesque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... This is not the first time Russia has attempted to squirm its way into trump Jr.’s world. During the 2016 campaign, Junior received a message from an associate who worked with the son of another Russian oligarch….
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Time to revisit Trump-Russia collusion
Or better yet, complicity.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
28 years ago.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Anyone associated with trying to tear down the Center—workers included—should be held legally liable. Whether or not he’s immune—no one else is. Make it hard to “play along.” Make it hard for “yes men.” Add a price.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "When I said with Jesse Watters that I'd rather have good roads and good schools than have a billionaire make a second billion, I know that resonated with a lot of folks who might not agree with everything else I had to say."
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 18/09/2026
Congressional investigators are scrambling to explain how F-35 jet parts loaded with classified stealth tech vanished into Hong Kong on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's watch.
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Classified stealth tech lands in Hong Kong after bizarre Pentagon blunder: report
Congressional investigators are scrambling to explain how F-35 jet parts loaded with classified stealth tech vanished into Hong Kong on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's watch.The parts have been missing since June, Politico reported on Friday. A shipment of F-35 components headed from Australia to t...
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is so insane I cannot believe this is real. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Supreme Court's "shadow docket" allows justices to effectively make rulings in secret without explaining their decisions. Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court? www.propublica.org/article/supreme-…
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scientists warned for years: if we clear 20-25% of the Amazon, we cross the point of no return. We've already cleared 17%. We are right on the edge.
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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 18/09/2026
The President says he is going to ban CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House. He’s trampling on our Constitution and the freedom of the press. His corruption is staggering–and his attempts to cover it up won’t work.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
DEUTSCHE: “.. we’ve now reached a point where 50% of newly published articles are predominantly AI-generated.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 17/09/2026
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📌“He was quickly over run and the elephants trampled him into the earth and all that we found was basically a very large blood stain around the clothing he was in.” Good news is hard to find these days, friends. Enjoy!
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Poacher tried to shoot rhinos but was trampled to death by elephants instead
An armed rhino poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park was trampled to death when a herd of elephants charged as he lined up a shot for the animals’ lucrative horns
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am suing the Attorney General of the United States. In my opinion, the judge in my case has been strategically laying the foundation for contempt.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
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New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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