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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17h
"The depravity and degradation continues to expand...The decision to let the public watch a man's execution is a barbaric new low for these ugly men who continue to ratchet down any basic human decency." open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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How Much Lower Can Hegseth and Trump Go?
A Saturday Prompt
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2026
7 shots fired into an SUV with a 5-year-old child in the back seat as the vehicle was moving away. Markwayne Mullin claims the driver “weaponized” his vehicle. Bullshit! “Weaponized vehicle” has become ICE’s go-to excuse for shooting folks. Where’s the evidence? It’s not in this new footage.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 15h
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
New Secretary of Lying Katie Zacharia says “Trump deserves credit for unilaterally trying to bring prices down all by himself” 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️ Welcome to the United States of North Korea
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GAU @deaidua.org · 13h
The German government has co-financed another massive delivery of specialized vehicles and equipment worth more than €1.7 million to the Kharkiv Regional State Administration. Full list with distribution 👇 → Vysokaya community’s municipal services: 1x IVECO flatbed lorry
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 19h
The epitome of greed is to have more money than you could ever spend in 100 lifetimes and still refuse to pay your employees a livable wage.
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MidnightMinute @midnightminute.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how he just violated the lawful sanctions passed by Congress, and more than half of Congress won't bat an eye.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 14h
F_ck ICE
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11h
Thank you to the beautiful city of Cadillac, MI💙🍂
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shit! 😳 Let’s make this nationwide.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 12h
Talarico soon to be endorsed by the concept of beef
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16h
Higher oil prices move money from drivers to shareholders. Oil companies are extracting roughly the same amount of oil, but the price per barrel keeps going up.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h
Legal experts say Christa Pike is the first person in the United States to survive one dose — let alone two — of lethal injection drugs. “There is nothing in the execution process that states are incapable of getting wrong,” said one death penalty expert.
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Why Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen Anywhere
The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 11h
Up until 2025, the FBI was circling around Susan Collins. Then, Donald Trump got elected and made the investigation go away. Now Collins is voting with Trump 96% of the time. Funny how that works.
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 11h
President Donald Trump said he will make a decision on whether to go ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a former Army major who killed 13 people in 2009, amid bipartisan criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s idea.
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Trump Says He’ll Decide Whether to Broadcast Military Execution
President Donald Trump said he will make a decision on whether to go ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a former Army major who killed 13 people in 2009, amid bipartisan criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s idea.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11h
NEW: The RNC is rushing to defend restrictive mail ballot rules in North Carolina. The move comes after the state’s GOP-controlled election board took extraordinary steps to muscle the rules through in time for the midterms. demdock.com/4AUOziZ
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RNC, state GOP rush to defend North Carolina's last-minute mail ballot restrictions
The rules would not have gone into effect for this election if the board had followed proper legislative procedure, Democrats say.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h
One day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals came out against the Pentagon’s plan to livestream an execution, Pope Leo has published a tweet reiterating the Catholic Church’s opposition to the death penalty.
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The death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person. The common good can be safeguarded and the requirements of justice can be met without recourse to capital punishment: effective systems of detention have been developed that protect citizens while at the same time do not completely deprive those who are guilty of the possibility of redemption.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 11h
Trump’s decision to buy billions of dollars of Russian diesel is a gift to Putin. It won’t solve America’s high gas prices, but it will put more money in Putin’s pockets to fund his war against Ukraine. Why does Trump keep siding with dictators instead of democracies?
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 11h
Overwhelmed by some of the same economic challenges as the people seeking their assistance, including skyrocketing costs of groceries and fuel, food bank officials say they are nearing a breaking point — and many blame federal budget cuts.
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Overwhelmed food banks face ‘heartbreaking’ choices amid rising hunger
The Trump administration’s cuts and changes to federal food benefits are driving record need in many communities, dozens of food banks told NBC News in a survey.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11h
“The Post reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting…Hegseth called that reporting ‘a complete lie.’ However, late Friday, the Pentagon raised the figure to include additional deaths.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops who died during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 17h
A Texas Democratic Governor Hinojosa is a real game changer for Texas and national politics
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12h
We went from $200 million and you will pay for absolutely none of it to $600 million *at a bare minimum* and you will pay for almost all of it No president has ever stolen more money from the American people
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 12h
Nine people are dead after a shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday night, city officials said.
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9 dead in Pennsylvania shooting, Erie officials say
Officials say the shooter is dead and there’s no ongoing threat to the public. Gov. Josh Shapiro offered his administration’s “full support.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
All that money electing politicians who will cut their taxes and slash benefits for everyone else. They’re definitely going to use AI to help everyone out though, they really mean it this time bsky.app/profile/rbre...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12h
Trump keeps breaking the law, & we & our partners keep beating him in court Just lately: his $1.8 B slush fund tossed, his mail ballot order blocked & the bogus charges against Davey Hearn dismissed for good Every round of it, in this week's @contrariannews.org publisher's note👇 -TN
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“Honey Please”— Stop Stealing From the American People!
How we are fighting the Trump & Cronies Top 10 corruption scandals: Publisher’s Roundup 88
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12h
Breaking news: The Pentagon acknowledged that the number of troops who have died in the Middle East during its operations against Iran is higher than previously reported, and updated the official count to include two more noncombat deaths.
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops killed during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the numbers of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h
I agree that this is a BFD. But I think it gives Trump too much agency. This was baked in for quite some time and I expect Lindsey Graham's death is what accelerated it. Putin is no doubt offering Trump a way out of his Iran disaster, which ALWAYS required scapegoating Ukraine.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 20h
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h
Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h
WATCH: Reporter Jake Pearson had an idea: Ask ProPublica editors for $$$, mimic the patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings and see if the app would encourage his recklessness. What he didn’t expect was how little pushback he’d get as he spiraled.
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I Gambled Away $10K to See If DraftKings Would Stop Me
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RalstonReports @ralstonreports.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The early voting blog is updated! Still not many votes in, but I have updated the charts anyhow to account for way less than 1 percent of the vote so far. Mail ballots will start pouring in very soon. The latest: thenevadaindependent.com/article/the-...
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The early voting blog, 2026 general - The Nevada Independent
Using actual data from those who vote early, we track November's marquee races, including those for Nevada's governor, congressional seats and state Legislature.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h
I think everyone is misreading the Diesel deal, according Trump too much agency. Putin got Trump to say something INSANELY stupid, no doubt in hopes of all the bribes on the table. This will solve none of the problems Trump caused the US. en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin
October 9, 202622:50
During the October 9 telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, considerable focus was on prospects for settling the Ukraine crisis, while the situation surrounding Iran and various aspects of bilateral relations were touched upon as well.

When discussing the state of affairs in the global energy market, the Russian side confirmed its willingness to supply oil and petroleum products to the US market and global markets at large. I am convinced this will have a positive impact on the entire global economy.

An agreement was reaffirmed to maintain personal contacts between the presidents of the two countries and to continue cooperation across their respective administrations, security services, and agencies.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h
Only the best people 😕 Abolish Ice
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h
🔥 “What did HIS health care book say? Did you read it? He doesn’t have one. I actually write my ideas down… he takes money from Blue Cross Blue Shield.” Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social eviscerates Mike Rogers on health care, and expertly makes the case for #MedicareForAllNOW
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 18h
Guantanamo Dispatch: All Four Defendants’ Confessions Are Now Suppressed in the 9/11 Case at www.justsecurity.org/160118/guant...
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All Four Defendants’ Confessions Are Now Suppressed in the 9/11 Case
A military judge on Wednesday threw out the last disputed confession in the case against the suspected 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo Bay.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 18h
Another lawsuit filed against Big Oil for climate damages, this time by Brazil's national prosecutor: "The costs of climate damage should not fall solely on society and on those who lost everything in the tragedy." www.afp.com/en/brazil-pr...
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Brazil prosecutors sue Shell for $108 mn over deadly 2024 floods
Brazilian prosecutors on Friday filed an unprecedented lawsuit against oil giant Shell's subsidiary in the country, demanding $108 million in...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19h
The President of the United State... Donald J Trump. "It should have been me"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18h
Remember Me review – narrow view of two photographic centuries is like a history of food in three ham sarnies
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Remember Me review – narrow view of two photographic centuries is like a history of food in three ham sarnies
There are 700 works from François Pinault’s collection on display – more than half of them by Irving Penn – but it’s a blinkered selection and annoyingly didactic
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18h
It is against US federal law for troops to be deployed around polling places. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... JTF-DC: “We are aware of imagery circulating online of service members standing near a ballot drop box - members are directed not to monitor or secure polling locations,”
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18h
#earlyvote morning update 10/10: at least 3 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳🎉 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
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UF Election Lab: 2026 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today in Politics, Bulletin 477. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 477. 10/9/26
… Trump announced today that he and Vladimir Putin have reached a deal to tamper with the American election where the US will fund the genocidal Russian war machine by buying massive quantities of oil...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the biggest routine lies by the Trump admin is that if someone in detention gives up, they'll be immediately deported and can leave detention. That is just completely false.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Despite knowing Clint Massie was abusing girls for years, church leaders never reported him to police. It felt like “a group of people who are not just trying to protect someone — but something,” the DA said. “They have enabled something awful here.” (Published Nov. 2025 w/ @startribune.com)
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Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
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