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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk www.propublica.org/article/raw-...
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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 11/10/2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX has fallen months behind on a roughly $70,000 restaurant tab, leaving the owner struggling to pay staff and bills, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX blasts off without paying $70k restaurant tab: report
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has fallen months behind on a roughly $70,000 restaurant tab, leaving the owner struggling to pay staff and bills, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.“We’re the blue-collar guys cooking this food, hustling to make this work for these young kids making like six figures, and this ...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 10/10/2026
11-3-26: Stain Removal
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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CNN @cnn.com · 09/10/2026
Just two days before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, President Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX, a major federal contractor run by Elon Musk, according to ethics filings made public on Thursday. cnn.it/4rRrZU0
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News for 38 Year Olds @newsfor38yearolds.com · 10/10/2026
Trump establishes committee to investigate Federal Reserve's Lisa Cook in latest effort to fire her PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump… Subscribe →
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Trump establishes committee to investigate Federal Reserve's Lisa Cook in latest effort to fire her
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE is a lawless and reckless operation—detaining more than 500 U.S. citizens. They're violating Americans' constitutional rights and then gaslighting the public about what we can see with our own eyes. These are textbook authoritarian tactics. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Source: www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s taken too long, but judges are now wise to the shenanigans of DHS, which include bond rigging to prevent release. Opinion: buff.ly/edMcYMR
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump saying he's okay with Iran nuking an American city looks to be just another oh-that-wacky-Trump instance, not even a nine-day's wonder.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 06/10/2026
New: As Trump's meme coin dangled a gala dinner with the president for its top buyers, the wallet holding the creators' tokens moved ~$70M of $TRUMP to an account where it can be sold. @jeffstein.bsky.social for @washingtonsun.com
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Trump’s Meme Coin Firm Wants You to Buy. Insiders Are Preparing to Sell.
Trump personally made more than $600 million from his meme coin last year.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alabama Republicans voted against funding the bridge. Biden got the money approved. The bridge got built. Now Trump wants his name on it, and Republicans have made that the priority. Vote against it. Take credit for it. Put your name on it.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hours before Kristi Noem left her job as DHS secretary, her agency bought five planes from a donor at a huge markup. They were supposed to fly deportees but have sat idle. Another symbol of waste and fraud under Trump. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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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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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 05/10/2026
ICYMI: the court records show more than ICE's announcement did. Before ICE arrested Julian Curo-Churata in Maryland, he had an asylum case in court and had gone to his June hearing. austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur... @immigrantjustice.bsky.social
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐀𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝟗 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 🚨 What the fk are we doing? How can we sit by and let this happen? It's up to US to push back on this, because silence is complicity! We have a month before the election, so volunteer & recruit friends! #ICELawlessness
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“.. The department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
El Salvador continues to imprison ICE-Gestapo deportees from the US even after the major backlash of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case with quite a few people disappearing entirely. This would be called crimes against humanity. Every MAGA official who allowed these atrocities to happen should be jailed.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Letting people get potentially tortured while you decide if it is actual torture is a hell of a position to take.
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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 30/09/2026
GOP senator airballs perjury claim against Jack Smith over apparent Hawks/Hawkeyes mix-up (NBC News) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026
A bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials — including the Kennedy Center — was blocked Monday night in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
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GOP senator blocks bill to stop Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center
The bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials was thwarted in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
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The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump has hundreds of millions of dollars socked away in his political action committees, but he's using our tax dollars to pay for his political ads.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The System Is Broken - Paxton called the FBI to charge 7 alleged illegal voters. - Texas needed a vendor to fix a bug blocking 178,000 Voter Registrations it never sent to Counties. Updated your license online lately? Check Voter Registration before Oct 5. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
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Thirty Years of Republican Rule, And They Still Can't Mail A Form To A County
If you updated your license online in the last year, check your voter registration before October 5.
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Democrat House Committees (mirror) @demhousecomms.govpeeps.us · 27/09/2026
Ways and Means Democrats tweeted: Instead of approving $73 billion for Trump’s war in Iran, Republicans could’ve extended ACA premium tax credits, lowering health care costs for 20 million people – and still had $42 billion to spare.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. From the archives:
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
these are pogroms israeli settlers are carrying out pogroms against palestinians in the west bank
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An 87-year-old woman lived in the same Madrid apartment for 70 years. Then a real estate firm bought it and forced her out. The housing crisis is global because the underlying logic is the same: your home is someone else's investment vehicle.
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87-Year-Old Evicted From Her Home Tells Spaniards to ‘Fight’ to Avoid Same Fate
María del Carmen Abascal, whose case has become a symbol of Spain’s housing crisis, appeared in a video from her hospital bed after police officers removed her from her apartment.
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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 27/09/2026
So..... Republicans are truly fucking idiots. I mean literally insurance is, in case shit happens. He's just saying 35 percent of people not using it means they actually didn't because they didn't get sick. But these GOP fuckwits using it as a reason to cut it
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon Musk is shutting down the Catholic Bishops in Brazil account on X to help the right-wing win the election there paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Guardian: survivors allege girls as young as 15 were exploited in a group Trump's FCC chair belonged to for years. Carr denies knowing. Ask GOP senators if that's good enough for a man regulating your family's airwaves. Silence keeps him there. #TrumpsCorruptCongress #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Ukraine did not choose this war. We chose not to die." -President Zelensky 🇺🇦 NEVER stop supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"China is way, way, way ahead in terms of multiple players engaged in the #charging competition,” said Lei Xing, an independent analyst of China’s auto industry based in Easthampton, Massachusetts apnews.com/article/chin... #DonaldTrump #AfD #ElectricVehicles #EVs #ActOnClimate
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Chinese auto companies race ahead on EV technology, achieving 5-minute ultrafast charging
Major Chinese auto group Geely has unveiled new ultrafast EV charging technology that can recharge a battery from 10% to 70% in just 4.5 minutes.
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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A pocket rescission is an illegal line item veto. It’s the president canceling the lines of spending he doesn't like. Republicans said they would never let this happen. Well here it is. If they have any integrity they’ll join us in ending this practice.
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Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal
President Trump moved to cancel almost $1 billion in spending that was approved by Congress, marking the second time his administration has employed a rarely used tactic that some lawmakers in both pa...
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/09/2026
Aylin says she fled her home country after her life was threatened. She sought refuge in the US but was deported to a country where her sexuality puts her at risk. cnn.it/3Vw5GqT
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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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Angie🦋🚫👑📎 @aes14.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
😡😡😡
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another heater from The Onion theonion.com/dog-cant-bel...
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Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
WASHINGTON—Reflecting on the past fling and remarking how time had flown by, local golden retriever Daisy told reporters Thursday that she could not believe the guy she hooked up with 10 years ago was...
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
that time when black men from greensville sc enlisted for ww1 & their wives wanted to stay home & take care of their kids & other community folk in need but white officials "no, no, no!" & called them "loafers" and said they had to do domestic work for white folks or be fined or jailed.
newspaper headline saying "negro women to be put to work" or face severe punishment.
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