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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social tells @mpolymer1.bsky.social how Alina Habba’s wedding put FBI Director Kash Patel in the same room as a former FBI informant suspected of being a double agent. "These MAGA weddings are like the Star Wars Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 10h
Trump has said the Iran war is almost over at least 60 times. It's been 212 days. 19 service members are dead, 800+ wounded, $43 billion gone. We counted every broken promise with @votevets.org.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5h
just a reminder that Schmitt hired the guy who was too much of a Nazi for Ron DeSantis
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• This article is more than 2 months old
Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 4h
Kurt Olsen, an attorney involved in the probe, resigned on Monday, two people familiar with the matter tell NBC News. Others assigned to the effort to uncover a “grand conspiracy” have moved on to other projects.
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Key DOJ lawyers departed Trump ‘grand conspiracy’ probe amid pressure to produce, source says
The investigation has been focused on law enforcement officials who scrutinized the president.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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Rep. Lloyd Doggett @doggett.house.gov · 28/09/2026
ICE continues on a brutal and lawless rampage leaving a US citizen injured in Illinois. The Austin shooting on Sunday was hardly an isolated incident. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
nytimes.com
U.S. Citizen Injured During Mistaken Detention by ICE Near Chicago
The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself. He was taken to a hospital with head and neck injuries, local police said.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Look at the record,” Ken Paxton today urged undecided voters in his Senate race when weighing who to support. “It’s people’s behavior that you need to look at & say, ‘Are they for real?’” Paxton was indicted on 3 felony charges + impeached by his own party in 2023. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
huffpost.com
Indicted On 3 Felony Counts, Ken Paxton Urges Voters To ‘Look At The Record’ Of Candidates
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The public won’t even notice until things are gone. A road becomes a line on a map. A drilling lease becomes an economic statistic. A weakened regulation becomes a press release celebrating deregulation." www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...
explorebigsky.com
Dispatches from the Wild: Project 2025’s assault on the wild | Explore Big Sky
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Project 2025 was never merely a campaign document. It was a blueprint for dismantling the laws, agencies and scientific safeguards that protect America’s air, wat...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amind the hoopla over RFK Jr's MAHA movement and his and Hegseth's fixation on testosterone levels, the reality is that the 2nd most widely used pesticide in the USA has been proven to cause chemical castration and even sex change in various animals. Naturally, no research on people.
theguardian.com
Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strong headline in this editorial in the Marietta Journal in Ohio Ohio is grappling with a 3rd measles outbreak
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CommonSense @comminsense.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CNN hasn’t mentioned the Epstein files in weeks. With Bari Weiss coming on board, they may never report on them again.
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Jane Roe Has Hope - Pro-choice Adoptee @janeroehopeful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
9 years ago: apnews.com/article/6d45...
apnews.com
Trump announces $10 billion Foxconn plant in Wisconsin
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that electronics giant Foxconn will build a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin that's expected to initially create 3,000 jobs, the largest economi...
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is so weird. I was JUST at the grocery store this morning and I thought, "You know what would fix these prices? A new steel mill in Iowa that might be running by 2030." Our prayers are answered! www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Trump to Unveil Planned $15 Billion Iowa Steel Project
The announcement comes as the president is looking for wins ahead of a tough midterm election for Republicans.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
45 million acres of roadless national forest. Trump wants bulldozers and logging trucks on all of it. Once a road goes in, the wild is gone for good. Tell Congress to stop him: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/09/2026
Most experts agree: diesel export ban MAY initially lower prices in SOME areas of the US, the south and midwest. But long term would backfire both in our national security (including alliances) and in price. Global Diesel prices would eventually skyrocket as a result and those prices would hit us
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joe Scarborough: It’s important we now have documentation that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run ads for their political party.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/09/2026
Interesting. The Phillipines pivoted to the US, away from China, and now, under Trump, are beginning to regret it www.worldpoliticsreview.com/philippines-...
worldpoliticsreview.com
The Philippines Chose to Align with the U.S. Now It Regrets It
Despite Manila’s efforts, it is increasingly evident that Washington cannot be trusted to uphold its commitments.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Amazing detail in this @wsj article about Kimberly Guilfoyle, US ambassador to Greece: she told a Greek minister, in a conversation about the collapse of the Romanian government,“We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here." www.wsj.com/articles/kim...
wsj.com
The Mystery Man Shadowing Kimberly Guilfoyle as She Pushes Deals Across Europe
Christos Marafatsos works as an energy lobbyist while also closely advising the U.S. ambassador to Greece.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The fraternal alliance between the Sandinistas and the CCP remains strong, and it's basically all about mining for gold. www.ft.com/content/4526...
ft.com
Gold-rich Nicaragua hands Chinese miners rights to a tenth of its land
Dozens of mining concessions deepen Beijing’s strategic foothold as it tussles with US for influence in Central America
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The pay for a US Secretary of Defense is $246000 a year. They don’t even bother to hide the corruption these days
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Trump lies: "Oil will come dropping down as soon as Iran gives up, as soon as the war is over, which will be soon. Prices for groceries have come way down for Biden. Almost every price has come way down. And remember one thing -- oil is less expensive now than it was under the Biden administration."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is crazy! How may direct, urgent warnings were there? www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
theatlantic.com
Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
houstonchronicle.com
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
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paulaptb @paulaptb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Youtube preview of the new Elon Musk documentary. (Blocked on other social media sites.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Stu Duncan @studuncan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Direct YouTube link youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10?...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
propublica.org
I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social did the country 2 big favors this week His talk with the Nvidia CEO revealed a shallow, glib, defensive man (and thus a technology) nowhere near safe maturity His talk with Abdul El-Sayed revealed a humane, responsive, and morally rich man ready for leadership
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GATES: “.. AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths. .. There’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“.. He lost any equity in this debate because of his selective enforcement, his lies and now because of the hypocrisy of his approach to China. .. He’s not a reliable narrator.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned of an impending Hamas attack in 2023 by the UAE. The information wasn't passed on to Israeli security officials.
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials said.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Trump, for over a decade: "I wouldn't give him a state dinner." This week: A full state dinner at the White House for China's Xi Jinping, complete with the arrival ceremony, a gift, and billionaires everywhere.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So, it turns out that now CNN and CBS News are under the control of the Ellison family, they are considering asking Elon Musk to join them. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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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/...
nytimes.com
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge (Trump-appointed Stephanie Gallagher) has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. She's ordering the government to return him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump brushed off the concerns and said that no building codes apply to White House construction. "I am the code," Trump said.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Washington Sun: Sen. Maggie Hassan is asking the U.S. Secret Service how the reported diversion of more than $350 million dollars from its budget to Trump's ballroom has impacted the service's operations.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An update from ProPublica: Susan Collins Dismissed Our Reporting as Old News. Some of Her Claims Aren't True.
propublica.org
ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/09/2026
Here’s what to know about voting in the midterms: ✅You can vote by mail. ✅You don’t need to bring a passport or birth certificate to vote. ✅It is illegal for ICE or federal troops to be at the polls. Make a plan to vote, and vote early if you can. bit.ly/3UjBBrc
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paulaptb @paulaptb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hope this is true. bsky.app/profile/norm...
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