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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In addition to Elon Musk, the other major source of funding for Ken Paxton's campaign is persons and entities with legal matters currently before the Texas attorney general, that is, Ken Paxton. That's illegal. But pay-to-play is how he operates. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Ken Paxton took campaign funds from donors with interests before his office

The Texas attorney general and GOP Senate nominee received contributions from parties in cases he was involved in, some predating his current competitive race.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

A good quick summary of how Trump uses the criminal justice system as a tool to advance his political position.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Best community note of the day.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Following his meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Mon, Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Services, USA, released a statement saying "any Catholics assigned to the firing squad" for the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan "request to be excused from this action contrary to the teaching of the Church.”

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Archbishop Broglio Issues Statement on Proposed Execution Livestream - Archdiocese for the Military, USA

Archbishop Broglio has issued a statement on the proposal to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Today would be a good day for top editors in our major news organizations to call a meeting to announce to their staff that yes, this is fascism, and they should report and write accordingly. From August 2024: presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch

The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Trump's new press secretary has a penchant for circulating Russian disinformation and propaganda. Ms Zacharia reshared a Truth Social post in 2022 that claimed Putin was fighting a secret network of powerful Left-wing elites. “Putin is at war with the CABAL – and the Ukraine is in bed with them.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

And yet, he's proudly Peter Thiel's boy, and Thiel makes no secret of his sexuality, and he serves under Donald Trump who now streams an average of 3 homoerotic exclamations every day... Plus, don't you just love the eyeliner? bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ben Jennings, The Guardian

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

An excellent exploration of the remarkably illiterate rhetoric of Marco Rubio in Athens by WSJ regular William Galston. www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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Opinion | The Pagan Nationalism of Marco Rubio’s Athens Speech

The secretary makes serious arguments, but he leaves out Jerusalem.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This send up of David Brooks is pitch perfect. bsky.app/profile/mcsw...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Note that leader around the world have chimed in with expressions of concern and support for the pope. The Trump White House remains uncharacteristically silent. And the silence says a lot. www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-le...

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Pope Leo diagnosed with lung cancer after undergoing surgery, Vatican says

Tests confirmed a diagnosis of lung cancer for Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican said in a medical update after he underwent surgery.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Konstantin Sokolov is a Russian oligarch with close ties to Oleg Deripaska... and oh, somehow along the way he secured a US passport, which makes it lawful (sort-of) for him to shovel money into the pockets of Donald Trump and other members of this family.

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A Ballroom Donor, a Sanctions Waiver, $201 Million in Public Money: The Mystery of Konstantin Sokolov

Ever since he contributed to the White House ballroom project last year,...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here's how this works: Netanyahu sells Pegasus software to friendly powers who use it to spy on their political opposition. Whatever the buyers of the Pegasus software get, Netanyahu gets it all too. And he then uses it to shake down people he dislikes. Quite a scam. And financed by the US,of course

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Komisja Pegasusa kończy pracę. 10 zawiadomień do prokuratury na urzędników z czasów PiS

Komisja śledcza ds. Pegasusa przedstawiła raport końcowy ze swoich prac. Złożyła dziesięć zawiadomień na byłych ministrów i szefów służb, a prokuratura właśnie potwierdziła jej ustalenia: dane z inwig...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Portland Press-Herald: why we know that the corruption allegations leveled at Susan Collins are correct—the firm that was at the center of the whole grift is still working for Susan Collins. If she disapproved, she would have fired them long ago. www.pressherald.com/2026/10/13/s...

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Susan Collins still working with operatives tied to straw donation scheme

Fundraising consultant MacKenzie Dolan's firm, The Morning Group, is providing services to Collins and her super PAC.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cuz grifters gotta grift: Kimberly Guilfoyle edition. In mid-2025, just as Kimberly Guilfoyle was scrambling to clear massive American Express credit card bills, she solicited a $250,000 car loan payment from several wealthy Greek businessmen to pay off her luxury Mercedes G-Wagon.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle 'holed up' inside Athens estate

The 57-year-old ambassador's mounting ethics scandal continues to worsen, as the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal fresh revelations exposing Guilfoyle's murky personal finances.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

As a good Southern Baptist deacon, Mike Johnson believes in the prosperity gospel: that Jesus Christ will insure the wealth and health of his faithful Southern Baptist followers. And that appears largely to take the form of dark money from mysterious PACs. Mike is every bit as sleazy as the worst...

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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife ministers to Hill staffers, but nonprofit funding is a mystery

Kelly Johnson’s counseling services are the centerpiece of an organization that does not disclose its donors.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Palantir got its UK contracts the old fashioned way: it bought them. The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk.

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The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials

The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption ri...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Did the WHCD perp actually fire any shots at anyone? It seems not. The Post analyzed the video. A security officer fired on Cole Allen four times. He missed each time. There is no evidence of Allen ever discharging a shot. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Video shows moment Secret Service officer fired at correspondents’ dinner suspect

Surveillance footage reviewed by The Post provides the clearest picture yet of the seconds after the alleged gunman bolted through a checkpoint inside the hotel.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The flow reverses, as Americans flock to European universities and Europeans exit from American schools. "Applications from the US to Sciences Po’s bachelor’s program surged 52% this year, while the number of Sciences Po students applying to study for a year in the United States has plunged by 50%”

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In France, American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Trump Era

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

How Peter Thiel turned to Team Epstein to generate £670 mn in UK security contracts for Palantir

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The last two DOJ filings about the WHCD perp invite all the inferences that Joyce Carol Oates makes here.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Approximately 0% of all Americans see a threat against the life of Donald Trump in these seashells.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Emiratis leave OPEC and others are sure to follow. “This is the beginning of the end of Opec,” said Saul Kavonic, an energy analyst at MST Financial. “Saudi Arabia will struggle to keep the rest of Opec together. We could see other members follow suit, including Venezuela.”

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‘The beginning of the end of Opec’: can the oil cartel survive the UAE’s exit?

Abu Dhabi’s surprise decision to leave the oil cartel raises doubts over its future

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Putin's Finance Minister Anton Siluanov: with UAE out of OPEC, it will be much harder for us to fix petroleum prices together with our friends Trump and Crown Prince Bone Saw. interfax.com/newsroom/top...

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

White Christian supremacist court. White Christian supremacist President. White Christian supremacist Congress. And the result is the most profound series of setbacks for the rights of people of color and women in over a century. It is a nauseating time to be alive in America. Fight back harder.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Marco Rubio prepares to announce the news Epstein-Trump passports. H/t @Garrett Epps

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Patrick Chappatte, Boston Globe

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

relationship with his later friend and protector, Crown Prince Bone Saw. When FBI agents went through his town house vault, they found a stack of blank Saudi diplomatic passports the crown prince had given him as a present.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Liberty Financial, announced that it had partnered with a virtual-currency venture called AB, one of whose projects—a planned “blockchain”-themed resort—had been led by two men sanctioned in the US crackdown. They became Trump business partners, and the criminal charges were over.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Last fall, the Trump administration announced criminal charges and sweeping sanctions against what it said was a transnational criminal syndicate that had stolen billions of dollars from Americans and others through online scams. Less than a month later, the Trump family’s crypto company, World

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Crypto Venture Linked to Men Sanctioned in Scam-Ring Probe Partnered With Trump Firm

The Trump family crypto company’s stablecoin, USD1, is deployed on the AB blockchain network, and a planned AB resort in East Timor had been led by two men sanctioned for alleged work with a U.S.-desi...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We just want affordable gas and groceries.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The King rebuked Trump five separate times, but Trump appears not to have understood a single word of it.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Here are the leading accounts disseminating the RIS Storm-1516 disinformation products

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Russian disinformation manufactured by the Russian intelligence services continues to flood X since Elon Musk acquired it. Here Bloomberg studies just one of those disinformation accounts and its success in permeating particularly MAGA accounts. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Russian Disinformation War’s Most Potent Weapon Is Bending Realities

Storm-1516 campaign uses fabricated videos, phony websites and anonymous influencers to spread tales about election fraud, corruption and sexual abuse.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Grandpa confuses Iran and Ukraine. A very telling slip-up.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What an utterly bizarre circumlocution from Todd Blanche. It suggests they charged him with something for which they have no evidence whatsoever. So why not simply charge him with what he did, in fact, do? bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ilya Somin addresses something which has, up to this point, drawn absurdly little attention: "Trump's shameful policy of deporting Russian dissenters fleeing Putin's regime. It's unjust, illegal, and damaging to US interests. But consistent in those respects with Trump's other refugee policies."

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Trump's Shameful Effort to Deport Russian Dissenters Fleeing Putin

The administration seeks to deport them back to Russia, in spite of overwhelming, moral, legal, and strategic reasons not to do so.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What next? The Cold Cell and waterboarding? What's the need for this stuff? Even Putin allows people to confer with their lawyers in private.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

LULAC makes Callais worse: Justice Alito's Callais opinion purports to preserve claims in which there's evidence of racially discriminatory intent. But this is the same Court that simply waved its hands at a district court's *detailed* factual findings of exactly such evidence in the Texas case.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/04/2026

Florida’s constitution prohibits partisan gerrymandering. Republicans are trying it anyway, @russellberman.bsky.social reports. While other states have held public redistricting debates, Florida’s efforts to redraw maps have been marked by secrecy and obfuscation.

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Florida Republicans Are Gerrymandering. They Just Can’t Say So.

The state constitution prohibits redrawing maps for political advantage.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

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