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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. My take .. is not that we are on the eve of disaster but that important countries are losing room for manoeuvre .. As the late economist Herbert Stein famously said, ‘If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.’” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/a120...

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Frank Luntz @frankluntz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ground beef prices hit $7.16 per pound in August 2026, a +7.9% jump from 2025. That’s more than double the overall annual inflation rate of +3.4%, and nearly triple the rate for food overall.

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Beef Prices Rise as US Cattle Herd Remains Near Historic Low

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ground beef prices hit $7.16 per pound in August 2026, a 7.9% jump from 2025. That’s more than double the overall annual inflation rate of 3.4%, and n...

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Frank Luntz @frankluntz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

More than ¾ of Americans (76%) say the war against Iran has not been worth it. The 2026 elections will be about affordability, and voters see the Iran war as making it worse.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A lot of people On Here seem surprised by the flimsiness of far right attacks. Did any of you follow the Durham investigation? Or Schmitt's lawsuit on Xitter, especially the way he worked a hard drive he claimed was Hunter Biden's laptop into it?

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Doug Thompson @nwadoug.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People make this kind of stupid blunder when they want a "gotcha" so badly it affects what they see. A journalist making this mistake this badly would be fired for it and his news organization would be sued.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The bond yield story just keeps getting starker.

Line chart titled "10-Year Treasury Note" showing the yield on the 10-year Treasury note from late 2025 through September 2026. Treasury yields surged dramatically to 5.29 percent on September 29, 2026, the highest level in the period shown. This represents a sharp 130 basis point increase from the October 2025 low of 3.96 percent and a particularly rapid 45 basis point climb over just the final month. After trading mostly between 4.00 and 4.75 percent for nearly a year, yields broke decisively above 5.00 percent in September 2026, signaling a fundamental shift in borrowing costs and market conditions.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mortgage rates print 7.50% @cnbc.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

the Trump admin just made its 40th application to the Supreme Court for emergency relief, since January 2025 for comparison, the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden admins made a combined total of 25 shadow docket applications over the course of 20 years ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses

The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A couple quick observations here, which should be obvious. 1) insurance “risk pools” work by requiring younger/healthier people who make few or no claims to sign up and pay premiums alongside older/less healthy people who do, essentially covering their costs.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Read the document (Gift Article)

Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026

Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026

NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...

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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com

EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/09/2026

SCOOP: ICE is trying to ignore the appeals court decision striking down its third-country removal policy, using the thinnest of legal technicalities as a justification. It wants to expel a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic tomorrow. prospect.org/2026/09/23/i...

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ICE Is Trying to Ignore Court’s Decision Striking Down Third-Country Removals - The American Prospect

Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mother of Renee Good: I voted for Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the US, innocents like our family and the others here, against terrorists. Certainly not to accuse those of us here of being terrorists and take precious lives. This is madness.

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Doug Thompson @nwadoug.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Winner of my “ reposting this twice” award for today.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

STOP QUOTE TWEETING THE POLL ACCOUNTS THAT NEVER LINK BACK TO THE POLLS THEY'RE MENTIONING thank you

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zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Polls show people expect AI to at least advanced science. Navier-Stokes, right? AI may throttle science instead! It doesn’t always advance understanding, its glut overwhelms filters for quality, and its methods don’t fit medical research. Gift link to my NYT essay. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/o...

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The deepest, most serious mistake of the IR field is the concept of « Russia’s legitimate security concerns ». They don’t exist. Never have. Russia has not been threatened even vaguely in its entire post-1991 existence.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it's good to see solidarity in the white house press pool but it's nuts that it had to come to this for it to happen.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We don’t need our journalistic watchdogs to have “access” to Trump Everyone in the press room should walk out in protest … and source up.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Interesting thread about FAKE Natalie Harp photo.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026

Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to U.S. officials. Details surrounding the undisclosed deaths remain unclear. Read more: wapo.st/4y5VLXJ

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cautionary tale: I "checked" important fact w two AI systems: Name of political figure in a photo. —Gemini was absolutely 100% certain in its answer, on triple-check. And was 100% wrong. —Claude said it couldn't be sure. I checked w event organizers and got the name. Mistrust. And verify.

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Doug Thompson @nwadoug.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey, @prchovanec.bsky.social. How do you say "Remember the Maine" in Chinese?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Honestly you'd think a community formed by people who fled Twitter would be more concerned about the wild spread of conspiratorial thinking and insular self-validation, but I guess the issue with Nazi Twitter was simply that it was spreading the WRONG conspiracies and validating the WRONG ideas

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Alex Thomas @alexhousethomas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Rep. Steve Womack has announced the death of his mother, Liz Rider. She was 92 years old. "She raised seven children and loved each of us deeply. I was fortunate to share a remarkable relationship with my mother throughout my nearly 70 years on this earth."

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Doug Thompson @nwadoug.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI may be a powerful, reliable tool someday, but it ain’t there yet.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Pentagon will need at least five years to replace the missile interceptors it expended in the Iran war trying to defend U.S. troops and bases.-WaPo

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From the chief energy advisor of Gulf Oil.

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Alex Thomas @alexhousethomas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA has changed its rating for the 2nd Congressional District contest (Hill v. Jones) from Safe Republican to Likely Republican. Not a major change, but still a change the Jones campaign will like. centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

MERCX: “.. The cost of shipping 2 million barrels of oil jumps another 14.3% today to $18.15 per barrel. That move is already extreme. I think it gets even more extreme from here.”

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Doug Thompson @nwadoug.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Now all they have to do is get the postmaster general to follow the law.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has refused to allow mail-in voting restrictions for the midterms, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to revive a U.S. Postal Service plan. USPS is expected to continue delivering mail ballots as usual www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 11/09/2026

Sept. 11, 2001 recast immigration as a national security problem and a national security problem invites an intelligence solution: more data, more sources, and fewer barriers. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social traces how post-9/11 data-sharing policies have enabled today's immigration enforcement system.

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Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine

Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement.

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