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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
⚠️ GREENLAND GAMBIT UNDERWAY? “An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities.”
theguardian.com
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
2/At the same time, Kyiv and Belgrade plan to strengthen energy cooperation, and the president called for accelerating free trade zone talks to prepare everything needed for an agreement by year-end.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
❗️Due to Russian strikes, Ukraine has virtually no intact thermal power plants left and is entering winter under extremely difficult conditions, Zelenskyy said. He stressed that Ukraine seeks an end to the war and a just peace, using every opportunity to achieve it.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/08/2026
If you’re just waking up: the U.S. Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general at around 4:30am ET in a 50–49 vote.
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Reliable communications are vital on the front line. Ukraine’s Communications and Cybersecurity Forces ensure effective command, control operations, and help repel Russian attacks.
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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 30/07/2026
The world's wealthiest individual is once again deploying his fortune to influence the 2026 midterm elections in favor of Republicans.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 06/08/2026
NEW: @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom is urging Californians to use their voices to give the Trump Admin an earful! This morning, CA submitted formal comments opposing the Trump admin's attempts to force its corrupt offshore drilling agenda on CA — putting the state’s $51B coastal economy at risk.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 07/08/2026
“DONALD TRUMP IS THE LEADING SOCIALIST OF OUR TIME! WITH HIS GLORIOUS GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA OF GOVERNMENT-RUN BUSINESS! ALL HAIL COMRADE TRUMP!” — @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 07/08/2026
This is exactly how a public-private partnership should work. Automakers are matching state funds to make every dollar go further. The result: more Californians can afford a zero-emission vehicle, and we keep California moving toward a cleaner future.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 07/08/2026
China is not screwing around. The United States has become a footnote. Supply chains, manufacturing, influence — China is flooding the zone all across the globe. As California doubles down on our low carbon green growth efforts, the Trump admin is doubling down on stupid.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 07/08/2026
Donald Trump is temporary. California’s policies will continue well past his tenure.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Eliot Jacobson: As of August 5th, global sea-surface temperatures just set a new preliminary record high of 21.20°C. This breaks the previous record high of 21.17°C set on April 24, 2024.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Betrayed by the US, which stopped the delivery of long promised replacement ordinance, Ukraine scrambles to find alternative defenses to Russia's lethal missile attacks. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
lemonde.fr
Guerre en Ukraine : privé de bouclier face aux missiles balistiques russes, Kiev cherche la parade
La défense antiaérienne semble avoir épuisé ses stocks de munitions contre les missiles balistiques, fournies par les Etats-Unis et, dans une moindre mesure, par la France et l’Italie. Moscou en profi...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Good lede by @svdate.bsky.social: President Donald Trump has over the past year been snapping up America’s means of production—the literal definition of communism—even as he makes a habit of labeling virtually all of his critics and political opponents “communists.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
huffpost.com
Trump Calls Democrats ‘Communists’ While Acting Like One
Just call him Comrade President.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
$942 million is hardly sufficient to redress the damage Zuckerberg and company have done, but remember, this is just for New Mexico. www.wsj.com/tech/meta-or...
wsj.com
Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million to Address Harm to Kids From Social Media
A New Mexico judge ordered the social-media giant to create a new $567 million fund in addition to paying $375 million in previously determined civil penalties.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pubs and restaurants have started banning the wearing of Meta glasses out of concern about violation of privacy rights. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The News You Need, Friday, August 7th, 2026: • Trump's Pay to Play: Anduril Shows How It Works • Andreessen Horowitz Partner Boasts They Can Now Fabricate History Just Like In “1984” • Mandatory Testosterone Tests Are a Terrible Idea. A Doctor Explains Why. • Charting the Surface of the Sun
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The News You Need, Friday, August 7th, 2026
Thiel's Anduril funds MAGA to get Pentagon contracts, Justine Moore brags about fabricating history, Testosterone will be Pete's weird legacy, Russian drones discovered at Leipzig Airport.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is one of those stories widely reported in the region and chatted about by US journalists that somehow never make it into print or broadcast media in the US. But congrats to Atlantic for crossing the line.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Robert F Worth: One of Tehran's major objectives is to breed disaffection between the Gulf Arabs, Jordan and Washington. And they are largely accomplishing this. Peter Hegseth is their major ally since he keeps spouting anti-Arab bigotries that make the local press.
theatlantic.com
Iran Goes Looking for Love in Jordan
Tehran wants the Arab public to balk at the cost of allying with the United States.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
CBS and Bari Weiss may have created their own biggest competitor. Reports say journalists fired from 60 Minutes are planning to reunite with former exec. producer Bill Owens working bring on Scott Pelley, and other former correspondents/producers. This is how you do it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"As the name implies, the bill is intended to honor the legacy of the late South Carolina Republican and to punish Russia via sanctions. In reality, it does neither." It simply transfers more unchecked power to Trump, and he uses it to help Putin.
thebulwark.com
Senate Voting to Give Trump a Tariff Nuke
A bill supposedly aimed at Russia is really an unprecedented new tariff power grab—yet prominent Democrats are backing it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WSJ goes there, actually being the first major US publication to report on Trump's homoerotic exclamations
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The triumph of incompetence drawing on resources of the criminal class: "Put more simply: documents and interviews establish how a first-time contractor was paid millions of dollars to apply a novel solution designed by a golf club manager to a national landmark."
nytimes.com
How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington
A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How the Kremlin purchased Tenet Media and its whole stable of MAGA superstar podcasters, all for ready cash. And how it then furnished a copy of the Kremlin playbook, which Team Tenet then scrupulously follower. www.theguardian.com/audible-true...
theguardian.com
Did a rightwing US media startup unwittingly fall under Russian influence? A new podcast investigates
In the new series Influenced, investigative journalist Nicky Woolf looks into the rise and fall of Tenet Media. The story, he says, reveals how hidden forces are stoking the culture wars with divisive...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A Russian spy defects to Estonia and seeks asylum there. www.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...
yahoo.com
Exclusive: Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow
“The Russians have no idea,” Alexander Toots, the head of Estonian counterintelligence, tells me, laughing. “They have absolutely no idea he is here. You can be the one to tell them.” Toots was referr...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Alternative headline: corporate funded Republican group seeks to fragment Democrats so as to insure Republican victory in November.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pretty much what everyone suspected. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
wsj.com
U.S. Intel Links Russia to Explosive Drone at German Airport
American intelligence had already suggested Putin could test NATO’s resolve with a limited incursion in the coming years.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WaPo: in Tennessee, Black voters are enraged over GOP efforts to disenfranchise them. As a result, Democratic turnout for House primaries in Shelby County, Tennessee, a majority-Black county, surged to the highest level in a decade.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Hegseth decapitates another top general. Lt. Gen. Charles Costanza, commander of the Army’s V Corps, was removed from command in recent days. Apparently he makes Hegseth feel insecure. abcnews.com/Politics/top...
abcnews.com
A top US general in Europe abruptly removed from command
The circumstances surrounding his removal remain unclear.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Trump strategy is proliferation with business opportunities for Trump and Kushner, not anti-proliferation. Yet no one in the Washington commentariat appears to understand that.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Trofimov is correct. A third to a quarter of the firepower expended by the US in Iran, transferred to Ukraine, would have meant a Russian defeat in 2024-25. The mistake is both Biden's and Trump's.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump's Unhinged Attacks On Mail On Voting Trump's afraid of the Midterms. Vote November 3rd, no matter how many obstacles are in your path. substack.com/@senatorslot...
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Senator Elissa Slotkin (@senatorslotkin)
Last night, President Trump was back to tweeting about me. This time it wasn't about his efforts to criminally indict me, but my work to stop his Administration from curbing our right to vote by mail....
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Birdsong follows a fundamental law of human language www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...
scientificamerican.com
Birdsong follows a fundamental law of human language
A fundamental law of human language has now been found in both songbirds and whales
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 07/08/2026
The tracks for the passenger trains between Washington’s and Oregon’s largest cities are right next to the fire-ravaged building, which officials say is unstable. mrf.lu/21pJ1
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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Head Start has been an incredible success, helping over 30 million kids show up to kindergarten ready to learn. Gutting quality standards isn't "cutting red tape" — it's ripping away what makes the program work and giving up on the kids who need it most. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
Trump administration unveils major Head Start overhaul
The Department of Health and Human Services' proposed rule would remove certain federal requirements governing the 61-year-old program.
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FujiiPonta @fujiiponta.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thailand: A student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok on Friday (August 7), killing three teachers and three students and wounding several others, police said. apnews.com/article/thai...
apnews.com
Student kills 6 and wounds others in a shooting at a high school in Thailand, authorities say
A shooting at a high school in Thailand's Nonthaburi province on Friday killed at least 6 people and injured 15 others.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.
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Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
One vote. One senator to stand up and change their mind on Blanche. Your letters can make this happen. Use the link below to send one to your senators right now and urge them to find that vote. #RepublicansCutMedicare
actionnetwork.org
Tell Your Senators: Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General
Contact Congress today!
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Somebody helped Epstein run that ranch for 20 years. Somebody in Washington is very committed to you never learning their names. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/hes-huntin...
dworkinsubstack.com
He’s Hunting Epstein’s Accomplices
New Mexico’s attorney general just sued the DOJ to get their names
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“Accounts with links to the Russian military promoting far-right messages reached more than 500,000 people during the Ceuta migration crisis. Significant scale and coordination. Groups spreading disinformation are more organised and powerful than they were.” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds
Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message
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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“Deep reading, careful listening, and constructive conversing are harder to do than they used to be. And that is not because of some individual, professional, or generational failure.” Really excellent piece, found by way of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...
theamericanvandal.com
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Russia has attacked the Chornomorets Stadium in Odesa. Several people were injured. What do you say to that, Infantino? Still want to allow russians back?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SCHWAB: “.. The labor force participation rate has given up all gains since February 2021.” #LFPR
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 07/08/2026
Trump was asked about the missiles and Patriot systems needed by Ukraine, and answered with: We want missiles too, you know. When meeting Zelenskyy, he pretended to grant licenses to produce Patriots, adding “so they don’t complain we give them nothing”. Later, he said the licenses “won’t happen”.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
People everywhere are standing up to ICE. The First Amendment protects your right to film, photograph, protest and verbally express dissent during an encounter with any law enforcement agency - this includes local police, federal agents, and whoever these masked assailants claim to be.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“During the George W. Bush era, it was a massive presidency-defining scandal that the White House led the charge in manipulating and politically spinning U.S. intelligence to serve its destructive policy ends and launch its catastrophic war in Iraq. In…
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dua Lipa never said this. Yet this tweet has been up for 16 hours and has thousands of retweets and tens of thousands of likes. And the fact that it was posted by a very famous celebrity lends it credibility in the eyes of some people.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I think it's going to be shocking when we finally learn how much money the members of this administration have stolen. Whatever you can imagine it is, it is a lot more. At least it will make it easier to execute them eventually.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is concerning especially because some of the "designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations" do not actually exist.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/08/2026
Russia’s war machine wipes out lives, families, and the innocence of childhood.
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