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Ex-Arizonan mostly in Seattle. Don't mess with public schools, the environment, or my goddamned uterus. Find me elsewhere @Nshrubs@mstdn.social

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1h
“The gift of a $400 million aircraft from Qatar’s royal family stands apart because it involves a transgression the framers identified by name and for which they prescribed impeachment as the remedy: violation of the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause.”
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The Case for Impeachment: In a sea of graft, the gift of a $400 million aircraft stands apart | Opinion
The founders were crystal clear that accepting gifts from foreign governments was constitutionally prohibited and should lead to impeachment.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 56m
U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle is under investigation by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General. The probe comes as a longtime Trump donor accused Guilfoyle of asking him to pay her outstanding $100K Amex bill in exchange for access to senior administration officials.
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State Department watchdog probing Kimberly Guilfoyle amid alleged $100,000 demand - AOL
U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle and the embassy she leads are under investigation by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General, two people familiar with the decision confirme...
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 6h
If you are an NIH funded scientist and have not commented, you are agreeing that this change is a good idea. If, you, like me, think ditching peer review is a bad idea, take the 5 minutes and post a comment.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 4h
ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.
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The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 3h
An appeals court ruled this week the NC dog trainer may not share footage of a trooper fatally shooting her two trained police dogs during a 2024 car break-in on her property.
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NC woman told not to share video showing trooper shooting her dogs. She’s doing it anyway.
An appeals court ruled this week the NC dog trainer may not share footage of a trooper fatally shooting her two trained police dogs during a 2024 car break-in on her property.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h
The ABC News story is back up, and it includes a large correction/editor's note at the very top. On top of that, Nathan Lee's byline has been removed and replaced by a generic "ABC NEWS" one. abcnews.com/US/new-shipy...
Editor’s Note: CORRECTION: A version of this story published on Oct. 7 contained errors in the description of certain company investments, government contracts and event chronologies. After subsequent reporting, this version contains corrected information and additional context regarding some of those investments, contracts and events.

President Donald Trump and defense contractor Anduril Industries earlier this week announced a $6.6 billion investment to create a state-of-the-art shipyard in Maryland to manufacture components for Virginia-class submarines. 

While the project was welcomed by many, it comes amid concerns raised by Congressional Democrats about defense companies that have received investments from a venture capital firm where Donald Trump Jr. is a partner.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5h
Trump sanctioned the International Criminal Court while simultaneously easing sanctions on Russia which is massacring Ukrainian civilians. A masterclass in criminality and corruption.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): "At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early."
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 4h
Trump started a stupid & illegal war in Iran that has driven up diesel prices. Now he wants to bankroll Putin's illegal war against Ukraine by buying diesel from him.   One strategic disaster after the next. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel, suggests US may buy amid surging fuel prices
The move comes weeks ahead of the midterm elections.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 4h
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles’ daughter posts a pic at a training camp with a pro-Russian militia in Bosnia that specializes in destabilization… totally normal stuff! “The photo raises Q’s about White House links to the pro-Russian politician”🤔 www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h
NYT: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 13h
if you deny tenure to someone when they're on your faculty, you don't get to steal any of their shine when they go on to succeed in spite of you. Fuck off with this.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 15h
Y'all denied her tenure
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Call Me JR @callmejr.bsky.social · 14h
Link....just in case. Screw U ABC. web.archive.org/web/20261007...
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Trump sons' investments have won billions in Pentagon contracts since his election
The contract for a new plant in Baltimore is the latest linked to the brothers.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 15h
read the story of Trump family corruption that ABC News took down
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 17h
credit where credit is due, this is straight ahead factual and well written
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 13h
This isn't fringe talk—these creators reach hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Read the full investigation and watch the video clips on Confront The Hate. www.confrontthehate.com/p/the-distur...
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The Disturbing New Christian Nationalist Argument for Subjugating Women
How right-wing podcasters are leveraging a tragic Massachusetts case to push for patriarchy, end no-fault divorce, and repeal the 19th Amendment.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 13h
On The King’s Hall, Brian Sauvé boasts about restricting his wife’s internet access to a "walled garden of cute goat videos," blocking thousands of accounts, and monitoring her activity.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 13h
Right-wing Christian nationalist podcasters are using the tragic Massachusetts case of Lindsay Clancy to make a radical argument: women should lose the right to vote, end no-fault divorce, and live under strict male supervision. Here is a breakdown of what they are saying on video 🧵👇
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 15h
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h
If you do like public executions you should be excluded from polite society.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h
I could be wrong but pointing out that Republicans are, in fact, Nazis, and then explaining in detail why they are Nazis, might be an effective line of attack!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14h
Great piece by Lisa Needham for Aaron Rupar’s Public Notice: Trump meme coin investors, including rich foreigners, have lost $3.81 billion but gained an opportunity to bribe the president of the United States. It’s mindblowingly corrupt.
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Kris Wernowsky @kriswernowsky.com · 21h
When Gannett sent its sweaty AI goon to tell us to get on the train, or else, it was easy to pick apart. When it sent its content head to talk about its latest short-term solution, it was easy to see through. May you live long enough to tell them their ideas suck, and then leave for a better place.
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'We're actually an intelligence organization now': Inside USA Today's AI-fueled Palantir deal
The newspaper giant's leaders on saving journalism with AI and the furor over Palantir, which is helping target readers, speed up publishing, and more.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 22h
i want jon ossoff to ask mark zuckerberg why he makes a product marketed to perverts and i want him to demand an answer
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mike Rogers is bought off — $5M from corporations to run his previous campaigns. He only cares about power and going back one more time through the revolving door to make another $14M.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
he is notable in his personal life for bragging about committing atrocities he could not possibly have had anything to do with. stealing dishonor.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21h
INLAND EMPIRE (Lynch, 2006)
Trump in the oval with a woman who looks like she came out of the Backrooms
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/10/2026
Imagine being Blake Johnson, an Iowa father of 3, discovering your water has 3X the legal nitrate limit. He goes to Washington for answers, and Rep. Ashley Hinson, who takes agribusiness money, reportedly RUNS AWAY and hides behind a locked door. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Border Patrol agents tried to kill this protester at the Lochiel tree-sit blockade and there’s really no other way to read that.
One protester, who had chained themself to a gravel hauling truck for more than seven hours, shutting down wall construction yesterday, was covered in a Mylar blanket by contractors last night. Border Patrol agents started the truck, forcing the protester, who was chained near the back of the vehicle, to inhale carbon monoxide fumes for several minutes under the blanket. "Trying to suffocate them," said Kate Scott, one of the organizers who witnessed the incident.
"Then to make matters worse they began to drive the truck" Scott said, adding that she called 911 for help. A fire truck arrived but Border Patrol sent it away.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 09/10/2026
On Supreme Court term limits: Sen. Susan Collins: “Absolutely not. I’m sure that Troy wants to pack the court.” Troy Jackson: “I wouldn’t have to pack it if you didn’t put in Kavanaugh."
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don't know; I feel like it's pretty clear why living under queer-hating fascists would make people less likely to identify publicly as queer.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A document meant for a behind-closed-doors group of fossil fuel advocates earlier this year got right to the point: Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem” and environmental organizations are “opponents” thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...
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‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalists
New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How about now?
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 08/10/2026
Ocean temperatures in a key part of the Pacific just hit a record high, and federal forecasters expect El Niño to keep strengthening through the year’s end.
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El Niño is very likely to be the strongest since records began 75 years ago, feds say
Ocean temperatures in a key part of the Pacific just hit a record high, and federal forecasters expect El Niño to keep strengthening through the year’s end.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/10/2026
US suspending permanent residency program for Microsoft, Vance says reut.rs/4y6ZG5q
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US suspending permanent residency program for Microsoft, Vance says
US Vice ​President JD Vance said on ‌Thursday that the federal government was suspending Microsoft from a ​program that allows skilled ​foreign workers to gain permanent ⁠residency, citing alleged fraud.
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Nshrubs @nshrubs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And which stupid neoliberal asshole let this fascist out of prison? Oh, that's right - the same guy who LOVES charter schools more than public schools & claims to be a Dem.
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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I really hope they win and that Trump doesn't get his way.
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Utah environmentalists sue feds over plan to pave canyon with Native art
Environmental groups sued the Bureau of Land Management over plans to realign and pave a road through Utah’s Gate Canyon, likening the project to "constructing a highway through the Louvre Museum."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp gets off Bribe Force One moments ago after another long day of traveling with the guy she once said is "all that matters to me" (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty)
pic of a smiling Ms Harp disembarking Bribe Force One upon her return from Texas
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"It's crucial that people get an influenza vaccine," says Scott Hensley, a virologist at the University of Pennsylvania. "And this might be a year that people might want to get a vaccine early."
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An early flu season means it might be time to think about a flu shot
Flu season typically starts in October or November. But it looks like the flu started to pick up in September this year.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So after the White House spokespersons tried to justify his inexplicable remarks, saying that he wasn't calling for Iran to nuke Los Angeles and San Diego, Trump *doubles down* Literally daring them to bomb the California cities
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