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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19h
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 19h
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 23/09/2026
Who exactly is spending billions of dollars to try to sway the outcomes of the midterms? New York Times’ Theodore Schleifer, Kareem Crayton, and Dan Weiner join The Briefing with Michael Waldman to discuss what to do about big money and corruption: bit.ly/3VMWGh6
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Are the Midterms for Sale? (with Theodore Schleifer, Kareem Crayton & Dan Weiner)
We are weeks away from a consequential midterm election, which will set the course for the president’s final two years in office and beyond. Yet we have no w...
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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What to know about the deadly impacts of US cutting foreign aid
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Why the Paramount Merger Fight Collapsed
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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'Bribed and bullied': Fury as states clear massive MAGA-friendly media merger
Paramount has cleared a major hurdle in its push to close its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the largest merger in Hollywood history.The agreement with 12 state attorneys general ...
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Tonight’s Supreme Court ruling is a victory for the millions of American citizens who rely on mail voting. The Trump administration tried to use the postal service to interfere in our elections: it failed. 1/2
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For an explainer on what we’re talking about — see here: boltsmag.org/mail-voting-...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Supreme Court refuses to lift the injunction against Trump’s plan to mess with mail voting. Only Alito and Thomas dissent. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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The EPA stopped sharing whether the air you breathe can give you cancer.
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Why We MUST Tax Billionaires | Gabriel Zucman on the Wealth Tax and Prop 40
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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President Trump wants to control how elections in the U.S. are run, and local officials are worried
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Status @status.news · 11/08/2026
NBC News once vowed to keep its best journalism free, but the news outlet is now putting its exclusive and enterprise reporting behind a digital paywall—and not everyone inside the company is thrilled, we have learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/nbc-news-p...
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The Peacock’s Paywall
NBC News once vowed to keep its best journalism free, but the news outlet is now putting its exclusive and enterprise reporting behind a digital paywall—and not everyone inside the company is thrilled...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 05/08/2026
This country was not meant to be ruled by the whims of presidents and justices, but rather governed by a strong, forceful Congress. trib.al/KxQKI8V
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How to Save Congress From the Supreme Court
Much of what ails us can be blamed on the steady degradation of the legislature as the other branches of government grabbed power for themselves. It’s time to start undoing the damage.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
What did you miss tonight? Bolts' elections guide has been updated with the final results of dozens of elections that took place on Tuesday — even as you wait for the final result in Michigan. Here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 04/08/2026
The leader tells a lie everyone knows is a lie, and the machinery of the state sets about forcing the rest of us to repeat it—all the way to the felony prosecution of an innocent bystander. trib.al/HlX7AZm
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Think Jeanine Pirro Acted Honorably in the Hearn Case? Think Again.
Some gave her credit for belatedly doing the right thing. But she had no choice, and she’s still a disgrace.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Wage Discrimination | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 28/07/2026
CBS News ran a claim that "thousands of 9/11 victims' families" want Mamdani banned. The petition organizer told a journalist she has no actual list and the 300 figure was just an estimate. CBS News has since corrected its coverage
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Bari Weiss’ CBS News retracts ‘brazen lie’ after false smear of progressive Dem: report
Bari Weiss’ CBS News New York was forced to remove a line from its coverage of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani after journalist Judd Legum identified what he called a “brazen lie” about the progressive Democratic mayor, Legum reported Tuesday.CBS News’ report centered around a petition launched b...
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...
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Inside the Democratic Socialist uprising - Niskanen Center
Candidates affiliated with (or sympathetic to) the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) have recently won several Democratic primaries.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 23/07/2026
“The American people picked up about 95% of the costs of those Trump tariffs,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “I just want to know if you … are making even the slightest effort to try and get some of that money back into the pockets of American families?” trib.al/o7Vn218
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
😳 Jacob Helberg—who left his position as an advisor at *Palantir* to join the Trump State Dept—spearheads the international “Pax Silica” initiative. In May, he discussed it w/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale: “Jacob Helberg on Pax Silica & the New Global Order in the AI Age” 1/
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Ep 154: Jacob Helberg on Pax Silica & the New Global Order in the AI Age
Listen now | Jacob Helberg is leading the State Department's efforts to secure critical supply chains and win the global AI race.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The framing here is notable: “a concerning sign” … “for the U.S. economy.” Not for “the U.S. health care system.” Not for “people’s health and stability.”
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patrick mcneil (he/him) @patrickryne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I encourage you to read more about Benjamin Flowers — the Trump loyalist, anti-civil rights extremist who will be confirmed tomorrow to the 6th Circuit. It should be alarming to everyone that this man, who is 39, will be on the bench for many decades. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/anti-civil...
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Anti-civil rights extremist Benjamin Flowers could soon be a federal judge for life
Flowers compared gender-affirming care to the eugenics movement and said the conventional view of birthright citizenship is “wrong.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Arizona’s primary results offer a stark reminder that, over half a decade after the 2020 contest, Republican voters in this key swing state remain in thrall to Trump’s election denialism. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/ari...
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Arizona primary results show denialism’s lasting hold on GOP
Arizona’s primary results offer a stark reminder that Republican voters in this key swing state remain in thrall to Trump’s election denialism.
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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You Opened a Credit Card ICE Now Knows Where You Live
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Subpoenas over New York Times report on Air Force One raise press freedom concerns
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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We looked through Trump’s 20,000 stock trades. He’s putting Pelosi to shame.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71
Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.Over his Senate career, Mr. Graham led two influential committees, Judiciary and Budget.

As head of the Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also played a critical role during the 2016 fight over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court, aiding in Republicans’ success in blocking the pick.More broadly, Mr. Graham was instrumental in advancing Mr. Trump’s effort to reshape the federal judiciary.
During his tenure at the helm of the committee, the Senate confirmed more than 200 federal judges, including Ms. Barrett, cementing one of the defining conservative judicial legacies of the Trump era.As chairman of the Budget Committee, Mr. Graham played a central role in translating Mr. Trump’s domestic agenda into legislation. He oversaw the budget resolution that allowed Republicans to advance much of the president’s sweeping tax, immigration and spending package without support from Senate Democrats.

The effort required months of negotiations among warring factions within his party before the tax package became law last year. Mr. Graham, along with Republican leaders and the Trump administration, embraced budget reconciliation as the party’s primary vehicle for enacting Mr. Trump’s agenda at a time when Republicans lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Those efforts became a defining accomplishment of Mr. Trump’s return to Washington with a Republican-controlled legislature, and highlighted not only the growing influence of Mr. Graham within his party but also his transformation from Trump critic into a steadfast and outspoken ally.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Interesting choice by NYT to publish an op-ed bemoaning America’s projected population decline by a guy who’s massively racist against immigrants and compares IVF to “Nazi eugenics.” The “pronatalists” only want more of a very specific kind of person in this country. It gives the game away.
The Population Forecasts Are Grim. Theyre Still Too Optimistic.
By Lyman StoneIt's difficult to articulate the extent to which Somalian immigrants are a *unique* problem.
Other immigrant groups may not always have stellar outcomes, but there are almost none who as persistently have the absolute worst outcomes in every country they move to as Somalians.FWIW I think attacking IVF really is a massively losing political position, and I say that as someone with serious moral concerns around
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I think if you must attack IVF, you would argue against discarding embryos as a form of Nazi eugenics, not on the basis of personhood.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A represenative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...
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Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport...
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/05/2026
critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Worst part: he's maybe the least-bad Trump pick because he's in the traditional 'regulatory capture / nepotism' mold of bad GOP picks. He's a lawyer (Jones Day) for the businesses he's supposed to regulate and a buddy of Don Jr, but maybe not a eugenicist who wants people to die like RFK Jr.
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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pestoriesfeed.bsky.social @pestoriesfeed.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Congress Can Restore Voting Rights
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