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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 20h
This should set off a siren in every defence ministry in Europe: there needs to be much more urgency about developing autonomous capabilities, not subject to US caprices, for early warning of attacks, countering ballistic missiles, communicating with forces or controlling offensive weapons.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h
Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.
thedailybeast.com
The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars
The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: Eight years ago today, Maine women begged Susan Collins not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. She did it anyway. He helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And today, she says she has no regrets. Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Lauren @mldritsme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think the term is pervasive societal failures.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait. Which country is he talking about?
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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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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/09/2026
Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract.
Unusual Machines
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More momentum for XTEND. 🚀

Congrats to the team on another important U.S. defense milestone. Proud to be an investor and supplier. 🦅

$UMAC $XTND #Drones #DefenseTech
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XTEND
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XTEND has been awarded Phase III of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone (MKLD) program.

The award follows XTEND’s recent Gauntlet II top-performer selection under the Drone Dominance Program.

Read more: xtend.me/xtend-secures-…
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“.. For years, the strategy among U.S. allies was to wait President Trump out. Now many are preparing for a world in which the United States is no longer indispensable .. regardless of who occupies the White House.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The chyron says it all
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Lauren @mldritsme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Now that he's confirmed for the 600th, and because the 600th is a Fazekas-helmed episode, and because she's sworn she won't use him in gimmicky stunts and wants to honor the characters, I'm a tiny bit less pissed they left him out of the 500th. A tiny bit. Lots of hopes riding on this though...
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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Anya @heyanyahere.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It always Ukraine who needs to do something, to withdraw somewhere, to give something up, to accept the situation and so on and so on. Russians don't need to do anything. Those damn Ukrainian warmongers, who don't want to die quietly!
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No Context Gillian Anderson @contextgillian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
OTD The X-Files aired for the first time.
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No Context Gillian Anderson @contextgillian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Happy Birthday to the Pilot episode of The X-Files
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Lauren @mldritsme.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Canada 1, State of Maryland 0. Ordered a copy of my birth cert in FEB. Meanwhile I sent the original (mom's wet-ink signature!) to Canada for processing. They received it April 3, sent it back Aug 25, and I had it back in my hands Sep 9. Still waiting on any hint of progress from MD...
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Be honest. If any Democratic president did this, what would be happening now
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elon Musk is supporting fascism in Germany — and in Texas. He‘s a threat to peace and freedom worldwide.
theguardian.com
Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If no one has standing to sue Trump in court to stop his lawlessness, then it’s imperative to elect members of Congress who will. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
newyorker.com
How Donald Trump Outmaneuvers the Supreme Court
In both the ballroom and the mail-in-ballot cases, the President has tested the Justices’ willingness to stop him in his tracks.
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dear American News Media: You constantly ask every single Democrat about some podcast dude. Couldn’t you, occasionally, ask Republicans about their biggest donor, who is a white supremacist?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
(nervously) what the fuck
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kligerman: The administration wants to argue, “We’re not building it for this election.” Well, why are you rushing it? Why are there people, like our whistleblower, who have come forward to say, no, they’re rushing to get it done precisely to have it ready for this election?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Food so good you grow an extra finger!
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our food supply is just MadLibs now. "_____ has been recalled due to possible contamination with _____."
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
APPLEBAUM: Instead of integrating drones, Hegseth is canceling drone battalion and talking about push-ups and facial hair. It’s really insane. I mean, if someone were paying him to undermine United States, or if he were a secret enemy, this is how he would behave. It's suicidal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For reference: When I had my background check it was held up because I had a speeding ticket from when I went home sophomore year in college that I forgot to put on my SF-86. I got grilled about why I didn’t disclose it (they eventually believed it was mistake). The FBI as we knew it is gone.
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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Both President Obama and President Biden taught Constitutional law. Under Biden-Harris, America had the world's strongest economy. GOP voters and nonvoters decided to obliterate it by electing a racist rapist in the pay of Russia.
Cover of The Economist: "The Envy of the World." Under Biden-Harris, America had the world's strongest economy. GOP voters and nonvoters decided to obliterate it by electing a racist rapist in the pay of Russia.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s not “an oil deal with Venezuela.” It’s Trump kidnapping an autocrat, refusing to hold elections, then leaving the remainder of the regime in place but only if they allow him to pillage their natural resources, which they are doing to remain in power oppressing the people.
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accidentalflyer 🇨🇦🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @accidentalflyer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Stealing the most valuable natural resource from a poor country that just suffered one of the worst earthquakes in history.
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Lauren @mldritsme.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This should go well.
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026
Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...
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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage
XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.
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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry was not the 80-year-old Home Alone 2 cast member we were asking for.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton on funding education and childhood literacy programs: My daddy was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Why does the Republican Party want to hide from Americans where their meat comes from? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
KBJ has them cold:
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Thee Nelson - Xitter escapee @cosmiquemuffin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Mamdani is so good at this. I hope every Democratic politician and strategist is taking notes. It's not rocket science: - Do good stuff - Act on criticism and feedback from the people you serve - Tell people and engage them in a fun, relatable way on social media
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A reminder for Democratic Party leadership: New research from Yale found that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. It's no surprise why the majority of Americans — including 90% of Democrats — support it.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden Biden. It's tired, dude. Nobody is buying it. Republicans control the presidency, house, senate, supreme court - have controlled the house nearly 4 years. These people NEVER accept responsibility. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh look, the “fiscal conservatives” are running the government again.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/08/2026
Trump pocketed $2.2 BILLION in 2025 while American families lost $219 BILLION to rising costs, according to a stunning new report. The numbers tell the story.
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Trump Pocketed $2.2 Billion in 2025 While American Families Lost $219 Billion to Rising Costs, New Report Finds
New calculations from the Joint Economic Committee, Minority, show a staggering gap between how President Trump fared financially in 2025 and how ordinary
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