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Thomas Edwards

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Media tech transformer, SMPTE fellow & Emmy winner, cloud solutions architect. Opinions are my own.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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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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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 3h
Breaking: US forces withdraw from their remaining bases in Iraq on Wednesday, raising fears they will leave behind ​a security vacuum, further embolden Iranian-backed militias and give the resurgent Islamic State group an opening to regroup. www.reuters.com/world/us-for...
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US forces exit Iraq, emboldening Iran's proxies and Islamic State
US forces withdraw from their remaining bases in Iraq on Wednesday, raising fears they will leave behind ​a security vacuum, further embolden Iranian-backed militias and give the resurgent Islamic Sta...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h
Mortgage rates print 7.58% @cnbc.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 11h
The bond yield story just keeps getting starker.
Line chart titled "10-Year Treasury Note" showing the yield on the 10-year Treasury note from late 2025 through September 2026. Treasury yields surged dramatically to 5.29 percent on September 29, 2026, the highest level in the period shown. This represents a sharp 130 basis point increase from the October 2025 low of 3.96 percent and a particularly rapid 45 basis point climb over just the final month. After trading mostly between 4.00 and 4.75 percent for nearly a year, yields broke decisively above 5.00 percent in September 2026, signaling a fundamental shift in borrowing costs and market conditions.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
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White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Thomas Edwards @mpeg2tom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was in a restaurant where they were playing vintage Tom & Jerry cartoons from the 1940’s. Why does this house have USB-A sockets?
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary. The Communist-ruled nation is considered by most policymakers and legislators of both parties to be the greatest military, economic and diplomatic rival of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Sarah H Praia @sarahhpraia.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Fuel theft, from the farm whose owner called the police. She said they were blocking her drive
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” a former federal judge said. “I don’t think...in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.” (Pub. July)
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Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct
ProPublica reviewed hundreds of cases in which judges criticized the actions of federal prosecutors. In many, judges expressed frustration that they can no longer take the government at its word.
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coastalgardener @coastalgardener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our current administration is lying about war news, and so much more. www.jpost.com/internationa...
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Eight US Marines injured in recent, undisclosed Iranian attack on ship in Hormuz | The Jerusalem Post
The Marines were not seriously injured by the Iranian cruise missile hit on the vessel, but they sustained smoke inhalation and showed symptoms of concussions, including headaches.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 26/09/2026
Trump posted a long screed today insisting that it was "fake news" that Florida gov candidate Byron Donalds had stripped his website of Trump. But it's easy to compare what the site used to look like to how it looks now. Sad that Donalds didn't even bother to put one Trump photo back up. Not one. 
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
amazing -- Karl Rove lists Paxton's scandals: "The corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?"
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: DOJ is recruiting military lawyers for October prosecutor posts supporting immigration related law enforcement surges in Manhattan, LA, & Sacramento, per Pentagon email reviewed by @BLaw. I’m told this is unheard of for SDNY. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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DOJ Seeks Military Lawyers for New York Law Enforcement Surge
The Justice Department is enlisting military attorneys as temporary prosecutors supporting law enforcement surges in Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Sacramento, according to a Defense Department email rev...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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MegaDox Legal Dox 🇨🇦 @megadox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“By virtually every metric — be it jobs, production, prices, tariff costs — every metric points to the same thing: US trade policy is damaging the US auto industry” #BoycottUSA #tradewar #tariffs
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US-Built Vehicles Drop to 28.4% of Canadian Sales as Tariffs Bite | EV
Sales of vehicles built in the United States fell sharply in Canada during the first half of 2026, extending damage from the cross-border tariff war that has forced automakers to reroute production aw...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One failed war isn’t good enough - Trump is now preparing for possible military action in Cuba.
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U.S. military lays groundwork for potential action around Cuba
Some units would "possibly [be] needed in 90-120 days," according to an internal Army message reviewed by CBS News.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1/ We're currently in a Covid wave, and naturally, I'm seeing a lot of questions about when this wave will reach its peak. Now, I can't tell the future, but when we look at the data, in some areas it's actually already peaked. In other words, the answer depends a lot on where you live.
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Thomas Edwards @mpeg2tom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“GOP lawmakers called on Trump to confront Xi over reports that China has provided military assistance to Iran and demanded that China produce real concessions on trade, especially U.S. agricultural exports” thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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GOP senators dismayed by Trump embrace of Xi after China helped Iran target US troops
Republican senators are expressing concern and dismay over President Trump’s lavish welcome of Chinese President Xi Jinping to a two-day summit in Washington after it was revealed earlier this mont…
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Statement from the Center for Space Environmentalism about space weapons: www.spaceenvironmentalism.org/actions/posi...
spaceenvironmentalism.org
CSE Opposes The Militarization Of Outer Space
The recent confirmation by the United States that it has placed offensive weapons in orbit is cause for grave concern about the long-term integrity of the near-Earth space environment. It is a turning...
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Thomas Edwards @mpeg2tom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Apparently “defund the prosecutors” - “the Justice Department has lost roughly 10,000 workers since the start of the Trump administration” thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Internal DOJ charts show agency bleeding staff as caseloads surge
A drastically diminished Justice Department workforce is struggling to keep up with its civil side caseloads, according to documents obtained by The Hill and NewsNation. A series of charts, apparen…
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Ben Paulos @paulosanalysis.com · 25/09/2026
Those radical communists at @reason.com lay out the impact of Trump’s trade wars on farmers, and the resulting political dissatisfaction. flip.it/vQWcbl
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The collapse of farm exports is the most underappreciated story in American politics
It was a direct result of President Donald Trump's trade war, as even the Department of Agriculture now admits.
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Isolde Ferretti @isoldeferretti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The U.S. bond market is flashing a major warning. The 30-year Treasury yield reached roughly 5.5%, its highest level since 2004
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U.S. Stocks End Flat as Treasury Yields Surge
U.S. stocks closed mixed as the 30-year Treasury yield hit 5.50%, its highest since June 2004, and oil prices surged.
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Thomas Edwards @mpeg2tom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Mortgage rates have just surpassed 7%” www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...
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Thomas Edwards @mpeg2tom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“US long-dated Treasury yields rose to their highest ​in more than 20 years on Thursday” www.reuters.com/business/us-...
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Global bond selloff deepens, as US 30-year yields hit highest since 2004
US long-dated Treasury yields rose to their highest ​in more than 20 years on Thursday, extending a selloff that has accelerated of late on worries that high energy costs, ‌resilient economic growth a...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction upbraiding ICE for mass arrests that have strained detention facilities and forced detainees all over the country into "overcrowded, squalid, and degrading rooms for excessive periods of time" www.nysd.uscourts.gov/sites/defaul...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Murphy: "On April 30 -- a Thursday -- Reynolds makes an $8m donation. On Saturday, they have lunch w/POTUS & tell him they want a change in rules for flavored vapes. The president calls FDA commissioner & HHS sec, & on Tuesday new guidance is issued paving way to the sale of flavored vapes ... "
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Thomas Edwards @mpeg2tom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R), who is running for Congress, said Monday his son’s father-in-law is being deported, saying the situation “not right.” (He must have missed the “mass deportation now” signs at the GOP convention) thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Paul LePage says ICE is deporting his relative
Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R), who is running for Congress, said Monday his son’s father-in-law is being deported, calling the situation “not right.” LePage, running to succeed outgoing Democra…
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Michael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 23/09/2026
“Local zoning regulations should be altered to make it easier to build more housing” polling at +32 among democrats
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New video of ICE agents ramming into car during traffic stop in Texas. Then shooting man in his back—from several feet behind. Agent who fired his gun does not appear to be in any danger from a "weaponized vehicle."
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For example here is one where they think they can out run a woman athlete in a sprint.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
'Unlike typical gene therapy, which alters a person’s genes to treat a genetic disease, antisense oligonucleotide [RNA] therapy, uses short strands of genetic material to target RNA produced by the gene and reduce how much protein is made.' Looking for good news. Advances in RNA science & med.
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First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment
Gene-targeting treatments could be used to treat other people with rare forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is noteworthy. Again, no compelling evidence supports the COVID lab leak theory. The furin cleavage site present in SARS-CoV2 was perceived as unusual, fueling the lab leak theory. But now we understand that other bat betacoronaviruses have it. 🧪 www.chemistryworld.com/news/does-th...
chemistryworld.com
Does the discovery of a new coronavirus upend the Covid-19 lab-leak hypothesis?
Sequence found in Sars-CoV-2 had never been seen in another bat coronavirus until now
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Mike @mike-umbkm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the Kennedy Center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent"
theatlantic.com
What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals
A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.
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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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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“In Lancaster, Devers’ clients are not talking about the political debate. Rather, their conversations center on the spread of measles — did she hear about the recent baby deaths, what should they do if they were exposed, does she have a vaccine with her?” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
inquirer.com
‘Babies are dying’: How Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak changed the vaccine mindset of this Amish country midwife
While top officials publicly spar over whether Pennsylvanians are dying of measles, a midwife in Amish country believes the outbreak is so bad she wants to be able to carry the MMR vaccine herself.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 18/09/2026
The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
JUST IN: The 1st Circuit rejects the Trump administration's 3rd-country deportation policy, finding blanket assurances from countries who say they won't torture U.S. deportees is not good enough. And the judges raise this point: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder. 💚✊
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