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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

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US Mint takes down video of meeting criticizing proposed Trump 24K gold coin

A coin advisory committee called the design for the America 250 coin something only produced by "kings or dictators."

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Somebody clip the Cuylle three hits shift so I can feel good about something.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

"This column reflects the personal views of the author and does not represent the position of the Daily Caller." Hilarious. Ingersoll was with the Daily Caller for a decade, serving as its editor-in-chief until January 2025. And they're trying to act like they barely know him.

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Why does homes.com have a Trump propaganda outfit? www.homes.com/news/declari...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Worth a watch here…

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Jake Manger @jakemanger.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Every “free” file converter online = your files sent to some random server. So I made my own. Runs locally as an app on Mac, Windows and Linux. Now 1,100 users use it for 3,742 types of conversions.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

If you’ve felt hopeless lately, read this and set your next seven days on fire (the productive kind).👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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50 Reasons to Keep Your Hope...and Turn It Into Power

The facts that beat despair...and the moves that change outcomes.

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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Luke Farritor. Portrait of a Young DOGE Coder Dismantling America’s Institutions

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

This story I wrote about DOGE is imo an example of how journalism (and court records) can be used to “prove” something that’s an open secret. When it published, people were like “but we already knew that.” Ok, that wasn’t the point! The point was proving it. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...

lawfaremedia.org

On DOGE, Directives, and DOJ

A new court filing reveals the most compelling evidence yet that the government has been spinning a fiction about DOGE in federal court.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/07/2025

In light of Tulsi’s recent ridiculous claims, a friend just posted this old explainer from 6 years ago about the scope of the Russia investigation that I’d completely forgotten about! 😂 youtu.be/o-CCxLmkn-w?...

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How the Mueller Report is Like a Pizza

YouTube video by MSW Media

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Rob Talks Nonsense @robtalksnonsense.com · 18/07/2025

This is fascinating. Weaponizing the DOJ indeed. reposted the images with alt text to encourage @gregsargent.bsky.social and others to do the same.

Schiff flatly denies the claim. His spokesperson says Schiff has always been open about owning year-round residences in both Maryland and California. Keeping one residence in a home state or district and renting or owning a second place to stay in or around D.C. is standard for members of Congress.

But where did the allegation initially come from? A Los Angeles Times reporter obtained a memo authored by the Fannie Mae Crimes Unit and sent to the head of the Federal Housing Finance Authority (FHFA), which oversees the government-backed Fannie Mae. The memo lays out the basis for those charges, but as the Times piece on this reports, the memo nowhere says that Schiff committed “fraud,” as Trump claimed.

Even more interestingly, the memo also says this inquiry resulted after the FHFA’s office of inspector general (OIG) made a “Document Demand” from the Fannie Mae Crimes Unit—a demand for documents related to “all” loans “associated with” Schiff.

Experts in how inspectors general function said in interviews that this chain of events seems unusual and troubling. The FHFA inspector general obviously investigates mortgage fraud, they noted, but they asked how—and why—this inspector general might have come to make this specific request involving this specific U.S. Senator’s loans.

“From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular,” Michael Bromwich, a former Justice Department inspector general who’s still well regarded by government insiders, told me.

Making this stranger, these issues involving Schiff have been aired before, during his 2024 Senate campaign, when multiple of Schiff’s Fannie Mae loans and residences came to light. As CNN reported at the time, his spokesperson argued that it was appropriate to describe both residences as primary because they both function that way for the Schiffs (and also to distinguish them from a vacation home).

The Fannie Mae memo itself is squirrelly with its charges. It claims that Schiff “possibly” misrepresented his homes on multiple loans. Read through Trump’s whole tweet on this and it’s clear that someone or other created a tidy package of these charges and handed them to Trump—or whoever wrote this tweet—to translate into this missive. How did that happen?

Experts also point out that the memo shows that the response to the inspector general’s request was forwarded to the head of FHFA—William Pulte, a Trump political appointee and loyalist.

“It is extremely unusual for the response to any IG document request to go to the head of the agency rather than back to the OIG—I have never heard of that,” Bromwich told me. “So far as I know, it is unprecedented for such raw information to be forwarded to the White House. Responses to OIG requests simply don’t go to the White House—ever.”

Did anyone at the White House urge this inspector general to make this document request involving Schiff? Did anyone at the White House quietly hint to Fannie Mae that it should criminally refer this matter to DOJ? Is anyone making an offhand suggestion to DOJ that it open a criminal investigation on this basis?

“The creation of an investigation into a high government official is extraordinarily unusual for a Fannie Mae inspector general,” Don Kettl, former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, told me. “What drove this through the bureaucracy? What drove it to DOJ? How did the story find its way into the president’s social media feed?”

Making this worse, this tactic is already emerging as a model. As Talking Points Memo’s David Kurtz points out, Trump alleged mortgage fraud against New York attorney general Letitia James, who sued the Trump Organization for fraud, via similar channels. “Inspectors general are supposed to serve as checks on the president, but it looks like Trump is weaponizing them to attack his political opponents,” Brown University professor Corey Brettschneider, an expert on presidential power, tells me.

Meanwhile, over at The Bulwark, Jonathan Last writes about another sordid tale involving a former FBI special agent who was pushed out because he was friends with someone on Trumpist FBI director Kash Patel’s enemies list. As Last notes, this couldn’t happen without little-known functionaries below Patel being willing to carry out dubious orders.

So on this Schiff matter, are any Trump political appointees at FHFA or Fannie Mae proving, shall we say, very receptive to White House suggestions of investigative targets? Are they eagerly moving these suggestions through the bureaucracy?

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Wondering how Gary Gait didn’t know Owen Hiltz could do this? @chrisrosie22.bsky.social

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

After NATO liberates us from MAGA we need to stand up the the Government Agency of You (GAY) where we give Greta the same unchecked power and access we gave Musk.

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Trump taking his rage over Elon out on California

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Some women want love. Some seek power and money. Some seek attention and fame. Me? I just want to know who the administrator of DOGE really is. My manifesto, my magnum opus—“The WITAOD Chronicles”—is out now. ⬇️ 👇 www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The WITAOD Chronicles
Anna Bower
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 4:06 PM
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One woman's maddening search for the head of a non-existent federal
agency.

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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"If the far right are using subterfuge to gain ground in politics, then it makes sense to turn their tactics back on them." From Last Month>> www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

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A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right

The long read: Working for Hope Not Hate, I infiltrated an extremist organisation, befriended its members and got to work investigating their political connections

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Alanna M @alannamodeling.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

She was on the fence when deciding to build her nest 😂

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

A black mirror where doge steals sensitive personal data and feeds it into an AI that accesses all their devices to create digital blackmail

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onion person @junlper.beer · 28/04/2025

incredible pull from one of these groupchats of people controlling the entire world

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/04/2025

If Trump's "new" Ukraine "peace plan" sounds familiar, it was in the Mueller Report. A lot.

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Jim Ray @jimray.net · 21/04/2025

This piece by @anamariecox.bsky.social about why culture feels flat, corrupted, and inhumane now is so deep, generous, and so *good*. I thought about it all weekend and have read it twice now, feels like one I'll return to many times.

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How the Radical Right Captured the Culture

Blame Hollywood’s “unwokening” and the extraordinary rise of right-wing podcasters on slop: intellectually bereft, emotionally sterile content that’s shaped by data and optimized for clicks.

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NPRExtra @nprextra.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s fucked up im praying this is just trumps latest pump and dump

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LLFella 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @lizafella.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🧵 These aren't my words. I came across this compelling post on LinkedIn, and wanted to share it. * * * * * * Yesterday I was fired by Trump’s DOGE team, which means I finally get to tell my story ⬇️

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

These past two months have been like telling someone not to touch the hot stove because they’ll get burned but instead of listening they say you’re wrong and slap their hand on the burner while you watch as it chars and smokes as they grimace and try to keep a straight face.

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Any person who ever had an accidental security violation should have it wiped from their record immediately.

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New York Rangers (Unofficial) @notnyrangers.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

POV: you’re watching Sam call J.T.’s empty netter. 🤩

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

NEW: According to the @nytimes.com, the Trump administration is planning to argue that its invocation of the Alien Enemies Act allows it to enter the homes of any person who they believe are subject to the declaration WITHOUT A WARRANT. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

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Administration Officials Believe Order Lets Immigration Agents Enter Homes Without Warrants

It remains unclear whether the Trump administration will apply the law in this way. But such an interpretation, experts say, would infringe on basic civil liberties.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Elon Musk doesn't want you or his investors to see this video. It would piss him off bigly if you shared it because Tesla's already in something of a death spiral. By the way, it's a fantastically interesting video & includes Space Mountain technology & Disney secrets. youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?...

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Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?

YouTube video by Mark Rober

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.

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Sick of this shit @philbert94839.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Schumer: Courts have ruled Elon Musk usurped Congress and violated the Constitution by dismantling USAID. Here’s why Democrats need to fight against Trump and Musk to make sure it stays closed.

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is sickening

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

NEW today from @miamiherald.com: more men sent to El Salvador on Saturday have been identified by their families, including a 27-year-old who entered legally at a port of entry in 2023 through the CBP One app and a 29-year-old father of a baby born here last year. Neither have any criminal record.

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Trump sent these Venezuelans to El Salvador mega prison. Their families deny gang ties.

The day after he was arrested while working at a restaurant in Texas, Mervin Jose Yamarte Fernandez climbed out of a plane in shackles in El Salvador, bound for the largest mega-prison in Latin Americ...

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The Alien Enemies Act lets a president remove people when “there is a declared war” The judge didn’t permanently stop Trump from removing the immigrants Or even keep him from detaining them He simply ordered DHS cease deportation efforts for 14 days to make sure the government follows the law

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We have another case here of US Marshals assisting DOGErs in making forcible entry into a govt chartered independent agency to which it has not clear right to enter. The key point here is that there’s no court order for the Marshals to enforce. So here’s my question. Did the Times confirm that …

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

(🔐) Please understand that this is neither a stunt nor a casual conversation. It’s long, fully sourced, includes reams of hard data—among much else, on anticipated casualties—and takes into account the best intel we now have on Trump, Musk, and their political plans. I hope you’ll share this widely.

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BREAKING NEWS: The Artificial Intelligence Elon Musk Funded Now Asserts That There Will More Likely Than Not Be a Second U.S. Civil War This Year or Next

In conversation with the only author who’s both a bestselling Trump biographer and bestselling Musk biographer, Grok finds a 70% chance of civil war. A transcript of the lengthy conversation is below.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

@stevevladeck.bsky.social here working smarter, not harder.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:

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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you’re in the US, you can watch PBS for free using the app. There’s a series of documentaries called American Experience that’s really good—each is about a different event in history. Go watch The one about the Gilded Age in season 30. It feels so familiar, it’s genuinely eerie.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I've been writing a series for PBS about men whose style I admire. This week's entry is George Plimpton, arguably the last American to dress in that old patrician style that has been replaced by tech titan outfits. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

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America Chose the Monster

We all make mistakes.

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