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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If ever the need for justice is at its zenith, it’s when government agents kill people in the streets, whether American citizens, documented immigrants, undocumented immigrants, or visitors to our country. These killings MUST be fully investigated. And, if the evidence warrants it, prosecuted.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NEW: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says six "Trump-affiliated" companies have responded to her inquiries and "distanced themselves" from Trump's sweetheart IRS immunity deal. She has shared copies of responses by Polymarket and Kalshi
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
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Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And the answer is NOT to say, wow, the zillionaire got away with it. It is to find ways to make this a liability (which Musk's support already was in WI in 2025). Make every Republican in states he's running in disavow his crime and USAID deaths, for example.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Let me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
From page full of headlines about things going to hell in Iran.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/07/2026
Holy shit! Jim Jordan is reduced to stammering when Kasie Hunt presses him on why he continues to support Max Miller despite credible allegations that he abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here's one of the first moments of grotesque dishonesty. Bill Barr CONTINUED the object of impeachment, framing Hunter and Joe Biden, while it was going on. Trump turned on Barr, but not for another year. And hiding that hides his first term abuse.
Three paragraphs. 

The first talks about Trump's impeachment acquittal.
The next talks about revenge against witnesses.
The third talks about being "fed up" with people including Barr.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is the first passage of Maggie and Swan's book. Consider the agency it sets up. Democrats. Partisanship. Why not focus on the "irony" that Maggie had done propaganda for the man for years? Why make this about Democrats, rather than her complicity?
THe opening passage of Haberman and Swan's book. it focuses on Democrats.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
As you read all the explanations for Kevin Warsh's faceplant the other day (this is from @pkrugman.bsky.social), remember that Warsh is the one person--aside from JD--that Trump would have a really hard time firing. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
On Wednesday Kevin Warsh, who Donald Trump selected as Fed chair, played the starring role. His job was to explain why the Fed didn’t raise rates in the face of inflation that is persistently well above its 2 percent target.

By all accounts he bombed. In particular, the bond market, the ultimate reviewer, really didn’t like Warsh’s performance. As the chart at the top of this post shows, the 30-year Treasury rate spiked and the dollar fell slightly. In plain English, this was the equivalent of bond market traders running for the exits.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
And @ossoff.bsky.social has been absolutely brutalizing Mike Collins for his ties to neo-Nazis. Just over and over and over. A lesson how to make far right ties a political liability. www.c-span.org/program/camp...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Also note: there are two OTHER stories about GOP male abusiveness that are making news. There's the claims of INSANE abuse by Max Miller, House Rep from OH, who stands accused of abusing Bernie Moreno's daughter. www.signorile.com/p/is-rep-max...
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Is Rep. Max Miller threatening to out Sen. Bernie Moreno for having sex with men?
Moreno won’t call for the resignation of Miller, his son-in-law, accused by Moreno’s daughter of domestic abuse. Is it MAGA loyalty, or is it Miller’s threat to uncover something about the senator?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A simple Google search says Jamie Raskin, Richard Blumenthal, & Gary Peters all took oversight actions last year re treatment of Tate brothers. Then Yassamin Ansari wrote a letter on July 23--again more oversight. None of those efforts made Moira Donegan's July 27 column claiming Dems were "silent."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Here's how the beginning of the (very long) article pitches Ellison as a cautionary tale, the personification of the AI bubble, possibly about to burst.
Ellison did cash in, at least at first. He signed the Stargate deal with Altman, putting him in business with the hottest young executive in the A.I. industry. He opened one of the world’s largest data centers in Malaysia, which has provided by one estimate more than one-fifth of China’s A.I. computing power, and developed plans to build another one in the United Arab Emirates. Oracle became a major investor in the U.S. division of the social media app TikTok. Ellison also moved into a whole new realm of influence. In 2024, he backed his son David’s $8 billion bid for Paramount, the owner of a major Hollywood studio as well as CBS News. And in 2025, he helped finance David’s $111 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the owner of a far bigger studio, dozens of cable channels and CNN. The Ellisons appeared to be building a very new sort of tech and media empire for the A.I. age, and Ellison’s wealth was soaring. Last September, he briefly became the richest person in the world.

But his big bet on A.I. was built on an astronomical amount of debt in every imaginable form — bonds, letters of credit, asset-backed securities — available in seemingly unlimited quantities, because the more you spent building A.I. infrastructure, the more you would earn, or so the logic went. Computer theorists called it the scaling hypothesis. It held that advancements in A.I. were directly tied to the generation of unprecedented amounts of computing power to process unprecedented volumes of data. Reaching the holy grail of artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., when computers match or surpass human thinking at any task, was going to require bigger data centers and a lot more of them. It all came down to capital expenditures — capex, in the lingo of the Valley. Whoever controlled the most computing power would control the A.I. economy.

But lately, some investors and analysts have started questioning the scaling hypothesis or at least asking if all this spending is sustainable. The …
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This NYT profile of David Ellison ends with something I've been wondering: Was he so willing to hold off on the Warner acquisition bc he can't afford it anymore. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...
David Ellison’s $111 billion bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery was also running into trouble. Twelve state attorneys general sued to block the deal, and a judge granted them a temporary restraining order. Soon after, Paramount Skydance announced that it was delaying the acquisition, citing the continuing court case. Ellison’s $45.7 billion pledge to back David’s bid represented a much larger percentage of his net worth than it did when he made the commitment less than a year earlier. It would be a bad time to sell, or borrow against, his Oracle shares if he needed to. The C.E.O. of everything had fallen pretty far.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Oh, and Heidi Blake's very brave report. Do read it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
ProPublica on how far right Paul Ingrassia forced FBI to return phones to the Tates. www.propublica.org/article/andr... Donegan: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Raskin: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center... ProPublica on Blumenthal and Peters (which was a response to THEIR OWN good report). www.propublica.org/article/paul...
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Ranking Member Raskin Demands Answers on Trump Administration’s Role in Helping Tate Bros. Leave Romania Despite Facing Rape and Trafficking Charges
Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2025)-Today, Rep.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Did Fauci throw scalding water on your daughter, though? Did he put a gun to her head? Did he break your granddaughter's collarbone? Has your daughter just put out a restraining order against Dr. Fauci? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fact-checker issues blistering audit of Trump's 'everything is cheaper' lie #AlterNet
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Fact-checker issues blistering audit of Trump's 'everything is cheaper' lie - Alternet.org
President Donald Trump spoke this week about how he's saved the economy, falsely claiming that everything is cheaper thanks to him. CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale issued his own audit of Trump's rank exaggeration. "These eggs, I remember eggs, eggs were like 4 or 5 times higher than they were a few ye...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It’s worth repeating on a regular basis: the Trump administration’s corruption is truly unprecedented. I get why Trump is seeking bribes. What I’m less sure about is how the bribers think this will end. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-corrup...
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The Corruption Is the Point
An awful lot of folks are okay with bribing Donald Trump, his family, and his administration. What will the reckoning look like -- or will it happen at all?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 31/07/2026
I questioned Anthony Fauci under oath during COVID. I asked questions. He answered them. That's what congressional oversight is supposed to look like. What Republicans did to him this week wasn't oversight. It was a humiliation ritual. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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I Questioned Anthony Fauci during COVID. What Rand Paul Did To Him This Week Was A Disgrace.
In 2020, I wanted answers. This week, Senate Republicans tried to destroy him for a viral clip.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Two back bench US House members who’ve found a unique way to push back on Trump In viral form Just filed: youtu.be/SYyir3Ab33s?...
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EXCLUSIVE: Meet the Reps. Going VIRAL for SHREDDING Trump’s Cabinet
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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NPR @npr.org · 18/08/2025
JUST IN: The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October. n.pr/3UuKeyZ
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Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage
The right-wing news channel Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election. A trial had been scheduled for October.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The dc occupation is not about stopping crime, it’s about intimating journalists, judges, and legislators. We need to call things as we see them. Peace isn’t war. Up isn’t down.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 22/07/2025
If House Republicans think they can just shut down floor votes and adjourn for 6 weeks and America will just stop talking about the Epstein cover up during that time, they have another thing coming.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2025
one of my biggest online pet peeves are people treating random posters like they are representatives of entire political parties. the guy who was quote posted isn't a professional democrat or visibly associated with the democratic party! he's just a guy voicing his opinion!
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🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Americans remain blissfully ignorant and perpetually unaware of the voices heard in this article. Please amplify. Add AltText please and share!! "All of it stems from fear, whether it be prosecuting or from losing money...." #indigenous #NativeVoices
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The Tucker-Ted Cruz interview goes off the rails when Ted calls Tucker an anti-Semite and Tucker calls Ted a “sleazy feline.”
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 19/06/2025
As someone who has been threatened for serving in government, the political violence in Minnesota this weekend—and the reaction to it—has been weighing heavily on me. I hope you'll take the time to read my reflections. wiczipedia.substack.com/p/on-politic...
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On Political Violence in America
The Minnesota murders should be a wake up call. Will they be?
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myfriendscallmeT @myfriendscallmet.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
x.com/thedailyshow...
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The Daily Show on X: "TONIGHT: Jon Stewart hears from investigative journalist @carolecadwalla about how tech broligarchs are trying to build an authoritarian surveillance state using AI and your data https://t.co/V7EsCOCIgu" / X
TONIGHT: Jon Stewart hears from investigative journalist @carolecadwalla about how tech broligarchs are trying to build an authoritarian surveillance state using AI and your data https://t.co/V7EsCOCIgu
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x.com/thedailyshow...
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The Daily Show on X: "Full interview with @carolecadwalla: https://t.co/K1ncQoslVL" / X
Full interview with @carolecadwalla: https://t.co/K1ncQoslVL
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
April 1st!!! Wisconsin Lets not let Elon buy this election
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Concerning …
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Barbara Rybolt 🐸 @barbararybolt.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
#ProudBlue #Resist Here, finally, is actual evidence that “DOGE is not just making recommendations, but directly taking actions it is not legally or constitutionally allowed to make,” including … “suspension of agency funding…dismantling of agency operations…firing of agency personnel.” Bravo!
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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
RFKJr Sec of HHS is an anti-vaxxer and promotes debunked treatments for all kinds of diseases. Here is a fact- cod liver oil is not a fucking treatment for measles. The outbreak in Texas is not usual, it’s a large outbreak not seen in decades. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #VaccinesWork
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
…unvaccinated school-aged children. There is a staggering lack of public health facilities to TEST for measles. Rural West Texas communities and state officials are now scrambling to respond to the fast-growing measles epidemic — 198 confirmed cases quickly…
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Abbeth 💙💫 🔔 @abbeth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Update: Dow is now down 1,000 points.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025
Vance is heckled while speaking to the National League of Cities
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Nature loving woman @itiswolfgirl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
youtu.be/l3t0D7fYuhc?... Right on, best musicians in the world right now
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Donald Trump & Elon Musk Diss ft. Eminem, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ice Cube, Dre, The Game
YouTube video by Hollywood Remix
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is a bloodbath. We’ll be fortunate if it’s only a recession.
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Ty Ross @cooltxchick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The economy is crashing faster than a SpaceX rocket…
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Top 'Washington Post' columnist resigns, accusing publisher of killing piece
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned today, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of its opinion pages.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The dismantling of a once great newspaper and the reputation of Jeff Bezos continues. Just a pathetic small man with money. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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WaPo columnist quits and accuses publisher of killing op-ed critical of Bezos
Ruth Marcus said that the publisher’s decision to spike her column ‘underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been da...
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elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Peeps💙Keep up the pressure on Elon! His empire is taking a hit ! Says Harvard Business School professor ! Automotive revenues at Tesla in the 4th quarter, has been declining by 8% from a year earlier,Let’s ruin his profits👏🏽👏🏽 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #DemsUnited www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-ne...
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Elon Musk's empire 'may be starting to wobble': Harvard Business School professor
While Elon Musk is still the world's richest man, Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai believes that his fortunes are far shakier than they appear on paper.Writing in the New York Times, D...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2025
checking in on state media 👀
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I take no pleasure in reporting Canada is really mad at our completely incompetent government
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