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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 21h
Disagree. Ds should always run as underdogs.
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/10/2026
"Starve the universities, feed the churches." The Trump administration is using IRS rules to punish institutions it sees as hostile and reward the ones it sees as friendly.
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Trump Is Reshaping IRS Rules to Defund Minority Programs and Empower Churches
His motto is to use state power against his enemies and help his friends in the nonprofit world
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/10/2026
A Former Right-Winger’s Guide on How to Defeat Her Old Side Democrats will ignore Sarah Longwell’s communication advice at their peril By Paul Crider www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-former-ri…
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A Former Right-Winger’s Guide on How to Defeat Her Old Side
Democrats will ignore Sarah Longwell’s communication advice at their peril
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For state law. Piece concerns potential for mischief in AZ, GA, MI, PA, WI because of who the R candidate for governor is. Fed law that governors sign the certificates of ascertainment of appointment of electors transmitted to Nat'l Archivist and electors (i.e., the counts that Congress ratifies).
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CNN @cnn.com · 10/10/2026
"Again, President Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize," writes CNN's Daniel Dale. Again, he keeps complaining about his non-victory at length. Again, his griping is centered on the false claim that he 'settled eight wars.'" | Fact Check cnn.it/4yGj8XQ
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just a reminder that whenever Trump says that inflation started with Biden, what he neglects to say was that it was a result of efforts to offset his incredibly botched handling of COVID and the economic consequences it triggered.
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Maybe not-Republicans are more civic-minded?
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thread:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Golden age?
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
As one does when speaking from the womb before birth?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Notice how Trump did not repeat this lie, one of his favorites, when his boyfriend Xi was here.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Thanks be to God that we no longer have to live under the tyrannical yoke of the woke radical left language police.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The White House considers anyone that uses the term, "Artificial Intelligence," as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term,
"Super Intelligence," THE ENEMY! President
DONALD J. TRUMP
524 ReTruths 1.73k Likes
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you're a star.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you’re wondering who exactly Trump and Republicans are looking out for…it’s probably not you. (@itep.org) itep.org/impact-of-trump-policies-o…
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's Uptown. Live with it.
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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 08/10/2026
The garda security operation to protect US President Donald Trump's two-day visit to Dublin and Clare cost the force an estimated €30 million. jrnl.ie/7187321t
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Garda security operation for Donald Trump's two-day visit cost an estimated €30m
Commissioner Justin Kelly gave the figure as he was appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) today.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 08/10/2026
The U.S. is experiencing its worst measles outbreak since 1991. These graphics show the scale of the crisis.
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Measles is surging in the US. These graphics show how bad it has gotten
The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991. Since the beginning of last year, large outbreaks have been reported in several states, including Texas, Utah, South Carolina and, now, Pennsylvania.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 08/10/2026
The Trump admin refused to invite international election observers for the first time in over 20 years. As concerns about the Trump admin undermining election integrity escalate and the midterms quickly approach, this is a troubling decision.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wag the Don
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Monopolization: great for executives, terrible for everyone else.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 07/10/2026
The EPA plans to roll back regulations on methane emissions and other greenhouse gases for the oil and gas industry. www.washingtonsun.com/energy/epa-me…
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EPA Plans to Roll Back Emissions Regulations for Oil and Gas Companies
The Trump administration is “days not weeks” away from undoing Biden-era methane gas standards.
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts. Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Since Trump took office, @publiccitizen.bsky.social has tracked the admin's retreat from enforcement against corporate lawbreaking. Today, our new report documents the admin's cancellation of investigations, lawsuits, & penalties against more than *200* corporations. www.citizen.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Cascade of Canceled Corporate Enforcement Against Over 200 Corporations - Public Citizen
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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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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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/10/2026
US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
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US households pay 62% more for water than they did a decade ago, study finds
For-profit water corporations, federal cuts and climate crisis are ‘supercharging water rate hikes’, study co-author says
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's the math. That jacket looks like 1.25 jackets.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 06/10/2026
"Rep. McCaul's Wife Trades Stock in a Counter-Drone Contractor Profiting From His Laws" Peter Castagno for @sludge.bsky.social
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Rep. McCaul's Wife Trades Stock in a Counter-Drone Contractor Profiting From His Laws
CACI stock has risen more than 70% since Linda McCaul's first purchase, as the contractor wins counter-drone contracts, including a spot on a $1.5 billion DHS program operating under her husband's 201...
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some of you are still buying bananas instead of making your own, hmm?
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Campaign Legal Center @campaignlegal.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We filed a complaint alleging President Trump violated federal campaign finance laws based on his repeated, explicit claims indicating that he controls and directs the super PAC MAGA Inc.
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Campaign Legal Center Alleges President Trump Is Breaking the Law by Directing Spending of $400 Million War Chest During 2026 Midterms
WASHINGTON — Last week, Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that President Donald Trump violated federal campaign finance laws based on his repe...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
You often hear that clean energy is not replacing fossil energy, only adding to total energy, and thereby not reducing emissions. ("There is no transition," they say.) It's nonsense. Read this post from @zekehausfather.com about how much FF has been displaced by renewable energy:
theclimatebrink.com
What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And a big chunk of the Navy.
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Big "if" there.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 02/10/2026
Many of the companies Trump bought or sold stock in are corporate giants that his administration helps regulate or that do business with the federal government. www.washingtonsun.com/money/donald-…
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Weapons, Oil, AI: Trump Made 1,156 Personal Financial Trades During July
Many of the president’s stock purchases and sales, which span numerous industries, were not disclosed by a federal deadline.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 03/10/2026
The NSA told lawmakers that it is spending billions of dollars in taxpayer funds this year testing advanced AI models, according to two sources familiar with classified intelligence estimates. www.washingtonsun.com/technology/cl…
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Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models
The price tag is significantly higher than previously known.
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N E Azil @neazil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
*backronym
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Bill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him
Cuts Would Put IG Office Out of Business In a move that...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
One of the Trump family’s businesses is on its way to becoming a bank. And it’s set to be regulated by a government entity whose leader was appointed by, you guessed it, President Donald Trump.
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Why Trump’s crypto business wants to become a bank
Sen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And on it went, with Hegseth spinning one bad idea after another, and managing to insult any number of Americans in the process. A bad idea hamster www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Pete Hegseth, Idea Guy
His State of the Force address was a partisan disgrace—with a few good ideas buried in it.
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/10/2026
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 01/10/2026
Large data centers can consume up to 5 million gallons per day; a recent study modelling water use in African data centers found that ChatGPT-4 used up to 60 liters of water — or a standard washing machine cycle — to produce a 10-page paper. Read more: www.semafor.com/article/09/3...
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Africa’s data centers prompt water consumption fears
A petition by civil society groups to South African authorities highlighted concerns over a lack of awareness around data center water consumption.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gift link to Lina Khan’s op ed on regulating AI. While existing law can provide some accountability, it is absurd to think private companies can police themselves. Give Congress funds to hire real experts and legislate, just as we do with other dangerous products. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Opinion | Trump Wants A.I. Companies to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong? (Gift Article)
Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
"Trump’s older sons tied to drone firm importing Ukraine war tech for Pentagon Powerus' president...said he wants the firm to serve as a ‘one-stop solution’ for the Pentagon by supplying foreign technology with an ‘American face’" Guessing these are said American faces?
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Trump’s older sons tied to drone firm importing Ukraine war tech for Pentagon
Powerus' president and a former US Army Special Operations intelligence analyst said he wants the firm to serve as a ‘one-stop solution’ for the Pentagon by supplying foreign technology with an ‘Ameri...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey you, Europe, You know how we started a war without telling you, failed badly, and hurt all our economies? No, after we tariffed you, lectured you that Russia isn’t a threat, and demanded territory. Okay. So. Weaken yourself to rescue us or we’ll hurt our own economy more and you’ll be sorry.
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