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B. R. Erdmann

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Retired in Madison Wisconsin. Long-term Dem Voter, Support Indivisible and mental health legislation. Please, 👎No Porn, No Crypto, No BTC. If you have something to say or contribute, I will follow you. I write only if it adds to the conversation.

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B. R. Erdmann @msnberd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did banks fail to report suspicious Epstein financial transactions? substack.com/@aaronparnas...
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Major Exclusive: Trump DOJ Buries Secret Epstein Interview, Trump Hit With Large Court Losses, Scrambles to Muzzle His Own AI
Good evening.
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A Moveable Feed @amoveablefeed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New issue is out! 🎉 "The AI Pause That Should Change the Question" — I had a lot of fun writing this one and I think it might shift how you're thinking about the whole debate. Come take a look 👇
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The AI Pause That Should Change the Question
OpenAI’s delayed model is less a setback than a governance test OpenAI has reportedly scrapped the release of its newest next-generation AI model after...
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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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B. R. Erdmann @msnberd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Are you confused about what is happening in Yemen? That's very understandable. Here is a description of the complexity of competing regional and international interests that makes a mess of it all. substack.com/@teeashby/no...
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“WE LOST”: Security Insider DROPS BOMBSHELL on Trump, Israel & Saudi’s FAILED War in Yemen DDN
“How did a ragtag mountain militia in flip-flops hijack global trade and fight off multi-billion-dollar armies?
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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This week, Brooke and I did something we rarely do on @onthemedia.bsky.social... we spoke to each other on mic! We're hoping to make our banter a more common element of the show :)
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Joe Brian 🇺🇦 will win @mrjoebrian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BIG BRAIN!
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
And a witness spotted a forklift repeatedly crashing into the building’s pillars. trib.al/aBI4bhm
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Photographer Exposes Trump’s Kennedy Center Plan—and It’s a Bombshell
And a witness spotted a forklift repeatedly crashing into the building’s pillars.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/09/2026
Exclusive: Egypt’s top spy flew to Israel shortly before October 7 with a dire warning about Gaza, Vivian Salama reports.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/09/2026
A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday. to.pbs.org/3TneNte
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Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court as 3rd-country deportations are thrown into question
A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appe...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
About damn time
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B. R. Erdmann @msnberd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just like this election is only a beginning, the Epstein files are only the beginning look onto a corrupt international system. bekahdayyy.substack.com/p/epsteins-n...
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Epstein’s Network is Alive and Evolving
What happens when you stop looking at the people at the center — and start looking at everyone who kept showing up around them?
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Adam Mockler @adammockler.com · 24/09/2026
As soon as Epstein got mentioned it was a wrap for them 😂
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Flood Congress: Roberts: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Hegs: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Yose: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... AI: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... 45M: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... FS: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Epstein: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/09/2026
Already burdened with the need to fulfill strict requirements mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, state governments all across the country are about to face even higher costs. trib.al/DyCx59t
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Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” Bill Is About to Screw With States’ Budgets
Already burdened with the need to fulfill strict requirements mandated by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, state governments all across the country are about to face even higher costs.
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Lenny Weaver @weaver60.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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B. R. Erdmann @msnberd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Based on how the Republicans blame everything in the world on Joe Biden, he must have been the most powerful president in history!
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/09/2026
The major U.S. television networks launched what was described as a boycott against TV pool coverage of President Donald Trump on Monday after the White House dropped CNN from the network’s scheduled pool assignment.
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TV Networks Decline Pool Coverage After Trump Bans News Outlets from White House
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are suing the Trump administration for banning their networks from the White House.
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B. R. Erdmann @msnberd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
substack.com/@legalaf/not...
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Legal AF (@legalaf)
Epstein Survivor Dani Bensky: I met one woman who had been to 42 Trump rallies—she’s very well known in the community. And she said that when Trump had said, “Are we still talking about Jeffrey Eps...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW EPISODE: Everywhere I go, I'm asked two questions: what is Trump going to do next, and am I worried? The answers have been keeping me up at night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mWl...
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Something is Keeping Me Up at Night
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/09/2026
🎥 NEW: Marc Elias is often asked two questions: 1. What is Trump going to do next? 2. Is he worried? The first one is easy: Trump himself has said he plans to seize control of vote counting in the midterms. The second one is harder — and it's the one that's been keeping him up at night👇
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Something is Keeping Me Up at Night
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.
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JoonyMoon @junefaver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
124 letters between us and 15,000 on a deal nobody was supposed to hear about. Take a minute and close it: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/09/2026
Epstein survivor Dani Bensky gets emotional reflecting on the bipartisan push for transparency: “Our world is so polarized right now and it is so divisive.” “When you just boil it down to base level of, like, ‘R*ping little girls is bad. Can we all agree on that?’”
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Billionaire Leon Black wired Jeffrey Epstein $158M, hid a stack of NDAs, and sued Congress to avoid testifying under oath. How a unanimous 41-0 smackdown just blew his legal shield to pieces: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-had-...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE thought they could ignore a federal judge and secretly hold a man a thousand miles away. Massive mistake. A Scalia-clerk judge dragged their director into court and exposed 210 broken orders they tried to hide: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-had-...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/09/2026
Donald Trump appeared not to have even read the order before he went to sign it. trib.al/DA54Vi2
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Trump, 80, Is Shocked by What’s in His Own Executive Order
Donald Trump appeared not to have even read the order before he went to sign it.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/09/2026
Welcome to the Golden Age (via Biblical Activism/IG)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes — Also this should’ve happened after “quiet piggy”, etc (Also would’ve been nice if the Tennessee press corps had stood with us when Speaker Sexton banned us from TN GOP leadership pressers instead of voting to keep us out year after year)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nailed it 👇🏽 🎯 #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 20/09/2026
President Donald Trump is failing to meet many of the most consequential challenges of his presidency, and those failures have left the world feeling like it is "coming apart," according to one political strategist.
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Trump's 'breathtaking' corruption has world feeling like it's 'coming apart': strategist
President Donald Trump is failing to meet many of the most consequential challenges of his presidency, and those failures have left the world feeling like it is "coming apart," according to one political strategist. Trump faces multiple crises ranging from the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the rapid adv...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.' — Anne Frank
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B. R. Erdmann @msnberd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Please read the thread
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Half Moon Rising @half-moon-rising.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you're angry about Flock, Axon, and ALPR surveillance, but not against anti-trans laws, you haven't connected the dots on how the right-to-privacy is central to democracy. #TransRights #Privacy #Dignity #Democracy
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/09/2026
Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky describes the isolation she experienced and the realization that came from finally seeing the scope of the case: “It’s weirdly vindicating to sit here and see in the files like, ‘Oh no, I’m not crazy. This really happened and it happened to so many people.’”
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So damn wrong on so many levels 😡
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👏👏👏👇
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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The only thing out of Dems’ mouths for the next six weeks should be: Donald Trump single-handedly drove up gas prices by starting a senseless war, and it will only get worse if you re-elect Republicans
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Allegations against Lauren Boebert include sexual relations with Congressional employees, hush money payments, and thousands of dollars in misused official and campaign funds. Here's the redacted complaint: media.coloradotimesrecorder.com/wp-content/u...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”
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UNBLVBL @unblvbl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026
Erection interference?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy. Don't believe me? Look at this chart.
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The Hidden Danger of America's Wealth Gap
Taxing the rich is absolutely essential to saving our economy and our democracy.Don't believe me? Look at this chart.
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B. R. Erdmann @msnberd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As goes Wisconsin, so goes the nation. substack.com/@benwikler/n...
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Red alert: Wisconsin in 2026 determines what happens nationwide in 2028—and it’s in danger
Two multibillionaire pro-Trump mega-donors want election denialists to run Wisconsin. You can stop them.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When the White House Correspondent’ Association made Trump the guest of honor at its dinner, it was telling him it was willing to take any abuse he chose to inflict.
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