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Patty from MI

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The cryosphere is in trouble due to climate change, and it's accelerating loss. "Glaciologists in the Alps considered 2% of ice lost in a single year to be 'extreme'. This year has seen an estimated 5.5% disappear."
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Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss
Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 01/10/2026
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can keep deporting people to countries they are not from, with as little as 24 hours heads up before their flight, and the court decided this secretly.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More precisely, Kash Patel was paid $25,000—and Rudy Giuliani $100,000—by a pro-Russia propagandist who led a project financially supported by Putin's office. To get the full story, see my new book, "How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Go to HowRussiaWon.com.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. How has MAGA Inc. raised an unprecedented amount of money? Let’s review:
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 29/09/2026
"Don't ever get immune to the inhumanity and dehumanization of what the Trump/Miller project is doing to children and families."
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'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences
Children as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we allow this injustice to continue? The Trump administration's fast-tracked deportations are a violation of due process for these vulnerable children. #StopDeportingChildren
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.againstallenemies.net/p/whos-reall... New free post: Who's REALLY on the Ballot In 2026
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Who’s Really On The Ballot In 2026
In 44 days, the people who made Trump’s destruction possible finally face the voters.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
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The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No mercy for MAGA. Not now. Not ever. www.againstallenemies.net/p/no-mercy-f...
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No Mercy for MAGA.
Not now, not ever.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
What an odd moment in United States history. A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government. Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
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A Trump 2024 Campaign Ad Returns, Now Brought to You by the Government (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.
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Patty from MI @patty-frommi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump's 3rd-country removal scheme is not getting enough attention. It's absolutely insane that deportees are being sent to authoritarian dictatorships like Myanmar! WTF. With no ability to contact family or lawyers, they are being held indefinitely, without charge, trial, or conviction. Madness!
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the 4th episode of the 5-part Legal AF podcast on my new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Kash Patel," we dive deep into a large cash payment Kash Patel received from a Kremlin-linked propagandist the year before he became FBI chief. It's a BFD. Check out HowRussiaWon.com
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Kash CAUGHT in SECRET $25,000 PAYMENT?!?!
YouTube video by Legal AF
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William Turton @williamturton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In 2024 the former CEO of a defense contractor made a stunning confession to two FBI agents. He alleged that was the ringleader of a massive pay-to-play operation, bribing senators with campaign contributions in exchange for govt contracts. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Counterintelligence experts told us it’s no secret Russia has long been trying to penetrate the Trump family inner circle, so a Putin-linked oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding raised all sorts of red flags. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: propub.li/47fu7eJ
“The expert take was … if you are the president’s son, you don’t get into a place where you are indebted to a Russian oligarch who is funded by the Russian state.” - Brett Murphy, ProPublica reporter
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/09/2026
It’s now hard to determine where thousands of people are after they’ve been taken by ICE. trib.al/Yb8i23b
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ICE Just Made Thousands of Detainees Vanish From Its System
It’s now hard to determine where thousands of people are after they’ve been taken by ICE.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/09/2026
The resignation last week by Joseph diGenova tells us: Even this hacky Trumpist wouldn’t do what Trump and Todd Blanche wanted him to do. trib.al/xFWIkoN
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Why an Old Trump Loyalist’s DOJ Departure Is So Devastating for Trump
The resignation last week by Joseph diGenova tells us: Even this hacky Trumpist wouldn’t do what Trump and Todd Blanche wanted him to do.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How can anybody vote for her? I mean, seriously. What a liar and a fraud. This is brutal.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 17/09/2026
Late last year, the U.S. began paying Equatorial Guinea to accept deportees from third countries despite its documented history of human rights abuses. The conditions the deportees are being held under amount to "deliberate cruelty," writes Tutu Alicante.
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America Sent Them Into a Dictatorship's Torture Chambers, Then Looked Away
The United States is deporting third-country nationals to Equatorial Guinea despite its documented pattern of human rights abuses.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Massie exposes the hypocrisy: Some members get to vote against bills they know will pass, giving them a convenient campaign talking point without changing the outcome.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
President Trump wants control of the midterms. Also, he made a new pledge!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
💰 Since joining Trump’s Cabinet, Lutnick and his family’s net worth has more than doubled to around $7.3 billion, according to @forbes.com estimates. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
New in PN: The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure "The words coming out of his mouth reveal a man completely deluded and awash in fictions of his own making. And as long as he’s surrounded by people who will let him live in that world, we’re all stuck in here with him."
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The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure
It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.
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Patty from MI @patty-frommi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The powers previous presidents amassed are now being turned against us. We’re here now because we were too arrogant, or naïve, to think that was possible." Gift article from NYT -- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/09/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Sept. 10, 2026 ~ Until 2027 "August 2026 was a remarkable month in the global climate record. It was both the warmest August and the warmest month ever recorded, with global temperatures reaching 1.65°C above pre-industrial levels." climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-a...
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Copernicus: August was the world’s joint hottest month on record, pushing global temperatures back above 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
August 2026 was the joint warmest month ever recorded, tied with July 2023.
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...
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Fascists Really Believe It
Millions could die because of ideas intellectually and morally equivalent to the ‘lizard people’ conspiracy theory.
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Patty from MI @patty-frommi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Yikes, this is wild... "A.I. safety experts were even more alarmed. They saw in the Hugging Face incident the first real-world example of an A.I. system’s successfully escaping human control, commandeering resources and scheming to cover its own tracks." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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Patty from MI @patty-frommi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Republican social media troll farms, clipping and astroturf operations. Warping American minds since 2016. Great reporting by The Atlantic. Gift article. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Inside a Conservative Operation to Hijack Your Social-Media Feed
A service run from Latvia offers payment for short, social-media-friendly clips designed to look like grassroots GOP support.
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Patty from MI @patty-frommi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thomas Massie named names on the House floor! Epstein co-conspirators youtube.com/watch?v=V2US...
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) Names Epstein Co-Conspirators
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Patty from MI @patty-frommi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is wild. USPS is apparently cooperating with Trump’s illegal plan to mess with mail-in voting.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Honestly, the USPS has NOTHING, 100% NOTHING to do with elections. The USPS has one and only one job. Mailing mail. They are not arbiters of who gets a ballot. If a state sends a box of ballots to the USPS, they are required by law to deliver the phucking mail. The stupidity is mindnumbing.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/08/2026
Reporting live from the Canadian Department of “What the Fuck Are You People Doing?”
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/08/2026
"ICE tactics, already sadistic, are looking increasingly like torture," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social. "The slim avenues to legal recourse and the refusal of transparency or accountability by the perpetrators of de jure and de facto torture are driving detainees to desperate measures..."
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ICE’s tactics look increasingly like torture | Judith Levine
Plans for gloves that can deliver electric shocks underline the homeland security department’s sadistic practices
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Patty from MI @patty-frommi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
1) Trump himself negotiated the USMCA during his first term and touted it as a great achievement. This agreement "should" still be in effect. 2) Trump is creating problems and tensions with Canada for no reason. 3) He is dead serious about the "51st state" thing. globalnews.ca/news/1203145...
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U.S.-Canada trade talks have collapsed. Carney says these 3 issues torpedoed them | Globalnews.ca
Tariffs of 50 per cent on billions of dollars of Canadian goods are now in effect after talks between the United States and Canada collapsed on Friday night.
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Patty from MI @patty-frommi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
From the Lancet re USAID de-funding: Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14,051 ,750 additional all-age deaths, including 4,537,157 in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II.
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/08/2026
BIg Beautiful Bill
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
WATCH: “Don Jr’s company has taken in over $3.4 BILLION in DOD contracts…” @HunterBiden tells Bill Maher about BILLIONS the Trump family has pocketed, as Trump takes us to a war nobody wanted — except for Netanyahu… and Maher😕 (H/T @bluegeorgia.bsky.social )
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today's cartoon by Nick Anderson. "The federal debt has doubled since Trump first took office in 2017, and he’s added more to it than Biden..."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ossoff: It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust.
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