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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2h
The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.
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Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)
The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.
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a moveable beast… @moveablebeast.bsky.social · 2h
Apparently getting traction in London and Netherlands now?
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a moveable beast… @moveablebeast.bsky.social · 2h
Big fan of all your podcasting over the years. Have you done a podcast episode on PVT solar/thermal systems like Virtu? Fascinating idea…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h
From @theathletic.com: LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting the Polymarket prediction market as he will from playing basketball. The deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions.
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LeBron’s Polymarket deal may not break NBA rules, but it raises uncomfortable questions
LeBron James will make nearly four times as much promoting a prediction market as he will for playing basketball.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h
“.. The only major economy that has seen its 10-year bond yield rise more than the U.S. this year is France, where Ed Yardeni says the government there ‘may be on the verge of a full-blown debt crisis.’” 🇫🇷 @kopack.bsky.social
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
Paul Krugman: The cesspit of corruption that is Donald Trump’s presidency is finally getting the attention it deserves. It’s about time. And if a massive blue wave sweeps Washington on November 3rd as polls now suggest, Democrats should put corruption front and center of their agenda in Congress.
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The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption
And fighting it should be at the heart of the Democratic agenda
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 7h
to me the most interesting bit is at the end: “Putin has passed the point where he could simply halt the attack on Ukraine without jeopardizing his power base at home,” the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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German Spy Chief Sees ‘New, More Dangerous’ Threat From Russia
Germany’s foreign intelligence chief said the country has become a prime adversary in a “shadow war” with Russia and risks being drawn into conflict as the Kremlin’s military ambitions grow.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h
If Democrats think winning back congress this year and the presidency in 2028 is enough, they are sorely mistaken. We'll be right back where we're at in 2032 with an even more fascist and white supremacist Republican party. It's not enough to win power.
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 17h
Have we talked through whether Red states or Trump try to steal a close election or two in the Senate?
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Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 19h
I think that evacuating strategic bombers from an allied nation 3400 miles or so from the conflict area is probably a bad sign.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 16h
Where is the so-called "silent majority" of true Christians who say they're appalled by this nonsense? Silence is complicity.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 04/10/2026
The generic ballot average keeps moving left, closing in on D+9 after standing at D+4.9 on July 20. That would put the national environment to the left of 2018.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Vote against all Republicans to stop them from stealing from you.
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump, 2016: "When we win ... we will be able to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare. ... And we will do it very, very quickly." Trump, 10 years later: "We will pass a truly great health care plan." Still no health care plan.
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When the Supreme Court says you're above the law and the media happily surrenders its objectivity in service of maintaining access the incentive structure to engage in this kind of grifting is quite high!
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Funny that people don't mention LeCun's skepticism about LLMs and AGI/SI. It's hard to argue that he is not an expert or that he doesn't know what "frontier" models are capable of.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 04/10/2026
The nation’s top programs are shelling out astronomic NIL paydays to top prospects. Some of the deals have backfired spectacularly. on.wsj.com/3TKeEQX
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The College Football Stars Who Banked Millions—and Completely Flopped
The nation’s top programs are shelling out astronomic NIL paydays to top prospects. Some of the deals have backfired spectacularly.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal @us-political-news.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the existence of the case for the first
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the existence of the case for the first time.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good evening to Juan Linz. Presidentialism was a grave mistake. Impeachment is literally the only mechanism we have. Failing to even try to use it is total failure. A constitutional order like this, in the face of such unprecedented corruption & constitutional crimes, is not really worth saving.
Juan Linz space astronaut memeLinz, perils of presidentialism.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Prof. Eliot Jacobson: The final results are in and 2026 came in 2nd place behind 2023 for the total number of days with global surface temperature above 16.0°C. 2023: 128 days 2026: 126 days
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Former managing director at BGC Group/British banker-turned-whistleblower Simon Andriesz, the man who told the FBI about Lutnick/BGC’s “financial irregularities,” fraudulent 9/11 charity, and revealed Howard Lutnick’s secret business partnership with Epstein in Adfin, has been found dead.
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Whistleblower who outed Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 04/10/2026
"Liberalism in the twenty-first century must take a hard line on democratic rights for all, proportional representation for historically oppressed groups, free and fair elections, and relentless animus against political entities and institutions that threaten these." (from August 2025)
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Liberalism for the 21st Century
We must stop shadowboxing old enemies and focus on reactionaries holding the daggers to our throats today.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/10/2026
Soaring diesel prices take their toll on US farmers in midwest corn belt
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Soaring diesel prices take their toll on US farmers in midwest corn belt
Fuel costs are biting for crop growers, trucking firms and a host of other industries as Iran war stokes record prices
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It was the biggest story anywhere for 3 months in 2024 and now you cannot get anyone in the media to care about it at all
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump promising a healthcare plan 11 years into his political career of promising this is just a mockery of all of us
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Post-human necropolitics by the numbers www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
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Marc Riggsbee @marcriggsbee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The current president is an indecent, incompetent boor.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Father Constantine, head of Jaffa's Greek Orthodox community, says he was handcuffed and arrested after confronting an officer during a police operation. 'I'm in shock at where we've ended up,' he says. Yet police attacks on Christian ministers are increasingly common in Israel.
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'They told me to take my clothes off': Jaffa priest recounts police abuse
Father Constantine, head of Jaffa's Greek Orthodox community, says he was handcuffed and arrested after confronting an officer during a police operation. 'I'm in shock at where we've ended up,' he say...
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TaraT @tarat33.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump tries to rid his administration of oversight. Again. "Mr. Pulte has announced plans to make even more significant cuts, with reductions so severe that agency staff told Congress they would cause the inspector general’s office to “wind down its operations”
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Housing Official, Who Targeted Trump Foes, Cuts Watchdog Office (Gift Article)
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, moved to slash his agency’s inspector general’s office. Democrats called for his resignation.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As someone who does teach con law, the idea that the Republicans on the Roberts Court are just too committed to "originalism" is farcical. You will search the opinions in Shelby County or Trump v. US (inter many alia) in vain for even the slightest trace of it
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“I wish there were people from the other party here. I just, I beg them I plead with them to support humane immigration policy,” he said. “It breaks my heart that some of them claim to be followers of Jesus, and what they're doing goes directly against the gospel…" religionnews.com/2026/09/30/a...
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As Springfield prepares to bury Haitian student, sympathy surges and deportations continue
(RNS) — From US senators to John Legend, many are voicing support for the city’s Haitian community, even as neo-Nazis marched downtown Saturday.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For the past year, Defend Public Health member Dr. Benedicte Callan @benecal.bsky.social has led our Whopper of the Week effort that highlights a falsehood by RFK Jr. and why it matters. We will never run out of material. Here she writes about the lessons learned from her Herculean efforts.
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Opinion | Lessons From a Year of RFK Jr. Disinformation
His lies hide an ugly political agenda that is disastrous for public health
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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s wasn’t me
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
@crampell.bsky.social tears apart Trump’s promise of $5,000 checks if Republicans win the midterms, noting they already control the White House and Congress and could send the money now if they wanted to.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes, the president leaked Tom Cotton's cell phone number, but you should not sign Tom Cotton up for Act Blue donation requests or testosterone pill scams or other things like that, because that would be very funny.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Catherine @accomplishedseer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The corruption is obscene. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
32 days before the midterms, Donald Trump has attacked Republican Sen. Tom Cotton twice — including publishing what appears to be Cotton's cell phone number — over his lack of support for the Daylight Saving Time bill.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GS: Consensus estimates show decelerating revenue growth for the median S&P 500 company Our economists estimate that nominal GDP grew 6% YoY in Q3, similar to Q2. Dollar just a 1pp tailwind
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The FHFA IG's office warned these last-minute budget cuts imposed by Dir Bill Pulte will force the OIG to slash staff by up to 80% -and discontinue the office’s mandate to investigate mortgage fraud What is Bill Pulte covering up this time? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Bill Pulte said he was cracking down on fraud. Now he’s firing the investigators.
After inspectors turned the lens back on him, the Federal Housing Finance Agency head moved to slash their budget.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Americans (shooting one another, going bankrupt from healthcare costs, imprisoning one another, getting fat sitting in their cars, electing deluded grifters to office): "We're really worried about European civilisational erasure" www.economist.com/europe/2026/... From The Economist
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Why MAGA hates and loves Europe
Three big reasons explain the New Right’s hostility to Europeans
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