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Left liberal; ally; SDSU grad; Dodger *and* Charger fan — for balance; ink-stained wretch in a previous life.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17h
Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Paul Loop @ploop52.bsky.social · 15h
The Republican Party is responsible for all this. They chose an ignorant, cruel, impulsive, malignant narcissist to lead them and then, with a weakened and feckless news media helping, fooled enough low-information "independent" voters to put him back into office. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/w...
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Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Airport Attacked Again, After Days of Houthi Strikes
The strike on Saturday was the deadliest attack in a Gulf Arab country since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February, and forced the airport to temporarily suspend operations.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
July 31: Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to launch assaults on US troops October 9: Trump is doing a diesel deal with Russia (which can now use that money to provide intelligence to Iran in launching assaults on US troops)
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EXCLUSIVE * FOR SUBSCRIBERS IRAN WAR Russia is sharing valuable electronic intel with Iran, officials say, as U.S. war drags on Russian satellite surveillance and signals intelligence are likely allowing Iran to better defend itself against U.S. airstrikes and refine its own aerial assaults, officials said.Donald J. Trump O @realDonaldTrump

a I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP 117 ReTruths 323 Likes

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The lying liars at DHS said ICE agents tried to block Oscar Belgal from driving away, and believed their lives were in danger. Lies. Always lies.
Agent not in the path of the car, pulls out gun
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Jesse Watters: High gas prices because of the Iran War are worth it because "all of those big oil companies - they are making so much money"
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 09/10/2026
New Colorado newspaper founded by political consultants, one of whom is a city council member, reports @coreyhutchins.bsky.social. coloradomedia.substack.com/p/new-colora...
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New Colorado newspaper launches founded by political consultants. One sits on city council.
The news behind the news in Colorado
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is so true from @mjtoma.bsky.social: "It took some guts for Ossoff to decide to make his central attack on Collins his racism...but Ossoff has pressed the point of Collins’s bigotry relentlessly." Big 2028 implications. newrepublic.com/post/216452/...
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Jon Ossoff Just Delivered Maybe the Greatest Debate Zinger in Ages
Yet again, the Georgia senator showed in Thursday’s debate that he knows how to throw haymakers. Until someone else proves otherwise, he’s the front-runner for 2028.
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Paul Loop @ploop52.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This feels like a threat.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“among editors who rely on freelance writers, it has become common knowledge that our inboxes and pitch forms are absolutely inundated with AI slop of one form or another.“ A great story by @tomzellerjr.com who has been kind enough to let me write for Undark and does not need this slop and fakery.
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Fake Caroline.
Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW in Ragebait: I take a deep dive into David Ellison's evolution from trust fund kid whose daddy funded a movie just so he could act in it to becoming one of the most powerful media tycoons in recent memory. A true avatar of the "Failed Actor Theory." zeteo.com/p/is-this-fa...
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Is This Failed Actor Nepo-Baby Now the Biggest Media Mogul Ever?
Good evening, and welcome to this week’s ‘Ragebait.’
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Ten tankers were struck inside the strait from Sept. 28 to Oct. 4. That is the highest number of strikes in any week this year, compared with a previous weekly high of six. On Thursday, after a strike deep in the Persian Gulf, "Brent crude rose 5% to more than $105." www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Tanker Attacks Push Deeper Into Gulf, Rattle Oil Markets
A strike near Qatar, far from the usual flashpoint at the Strait of Hormuz, raises fears of wider disruptions.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NYT predicably reports that "Mayor Zohran Mamdani ignited intense anger from Jewish groups on Wednesday." That's *some* Jewish groups. Or Zionist groups. Not all Jewish groups. Not all Jews. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/n...
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Mamdani Draws Anger With Oct. 7 Statement Denouncing Israel’s Gaza Attacks
After calling the anniversary of the attacks on Israel “profoundly painful,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani denounced Israel’s military action in Gaza, prompting criticism from some Jewish leaders.
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Paul Loop @ploop52.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social Thank you for net letting Thom Tillis off the hook with his false equivalence, his self-exculpatory excuse making. With the exception of a very small number of issues, he was a reliable enabler of the most corrupt U.S. president in history. And then he quit.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
DOJ's Civil Rights Division once attracted the best of the best. These are the worst of the worst. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u... Good article, but for the pathetically weak nut graph that says their work histories "might have disqualified them from being hired in the past, former officials said."
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks (Gift Article)
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Too many people in the media give Trump props for "transparency" because he talks to reporters frequently. But he lies most of the time and often ignores questions. A day after he talked about letting Iran destroy Los Angeles and San Diego, he won't even explain what he meant.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dictator Move of the Day. (This is my second DMOD today. It's a busy day for authoritarians.)
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Hasidic Jew, with the sidecurls, hat, and everything, is being deported. For the alleged crime of antisemitism. For peacefully protesting Israel. Where he is a citizen; and to which he is being deported.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A Democrat got drunk once. A Republican made his fortune swindling sick people. We report, you decide. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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The Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country
The candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as ...
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Paul Loop @ploop52.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Paul Loop @ploop52.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@beatwithari.bsky.social Thank you for having right-winger Thom Tillis on, so he could expose himself as a feckless, both-sides-do-it quitter. Apparently, he thinks he's got enough contrarian juice to take some sort of presidential run. I hope corporate donors waste a lot of money on him.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I dare AG Sulzberger and Joe Kahn to read this paragraph and tell me any of it is inaccurate — and then tell me they still think both-sidesing is a morally defensible thing to do and that history will look kindly upon them.
Partisan polarization is not the greatest threat to U.S. democracy, but a symptom of a deeper struggle over who belongs and deserves equal rights. Rapid gains by racial minorities, women, and LGBTQ citizens have produced an ethnonationalist backlash whose adherents now wield
disproportionate power through the Republican Party. This conflict has intensified partisan animosity and moral disengagement, but a "both sides" diagnosis obscures the asymmetry between a faction seeking to reverse social progress and those resisting it. Polarization is therefore less the disease than democracy's immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic movement.
Suppressing that response in the name of civility would only strengthen the movement and imperil pluralistic self-government. The United States can still become its most inclusive democracy, but only if leaders defend equal rights and voters hold accountable those who will not.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026
At a panel on AI slop and got this email. This is the cost, making hundreds of thousands of people a day try to decide if they are talking to a real person or not.
Hi Damon,
I know you are likely not actively job searching, so l will keep this brief.
Your progression from digital newsroom leadership into product management, particularly building McClatchy's product organization and establishing its first Product Design and UX Research teams, stood out for a very specific reason.
1 am a Sr Executive Search Consultant working with leading organizations across media and technology, and I am currently conducting a search for a Director of Product at the New York Post.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026
AI-induced ADHD is gonna be a diagnosis.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 30/09/2026
The first U.S. federal appeals court to examine fair use in AI training has sided with Thomson Reuters, upholding its landmark copyright win against the AI startup Ross Intelligence. buff.ly/UclLmsM
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Federal appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters’ landmark AI copyright win
On Tuesday, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters, upholding the company's landmark win in a copyright infringement case against the now-defunct legal AI startup Ross…
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth says “anti-American losers in our media” are committing “treason” by not obediently amplifying his Iran war lies. He hasn’t held a war briefing for reporters at the Pentagon since May. Which means he hasn’t justified his actions to the public, even though he’s conducting a war in our name.
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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran
In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now seems like a good time to say that the more I look at what doge did with USAID the more it looks like a straightforward eugenics project and Elon’s protests that he didnt know anyone might die seem doubly evil
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“For the last year and a half, the people of the United States have witnessed the suffering of the undocumented in our midst, purposely and strategically magnified by our government, and for the most part, we have simply passed on by.” www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-losing…
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Desperately needs something like “The comment was clearly racist, although in what way was hard to immediately determine.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump says ‘only Hispanic’ could survive fall at ballroom site
Trump invited attendees of a Hispanic Heritage Month to be among the first to walk on his ballroom floor.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here‘s your reminder that Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home early so they wouldn’t have to vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment before the midterms. Republicans were terrified that they’d have to face voters and explain why they were covering for a racist, sexist, war-losing piece of crap.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know that scene in The Godfather where Michael goes to the trattoria bathroom, retrieves a pistol, and shoots those 2 guys in the head? This is 100X better. Maybe more.
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Paul Loop @ploop52.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just cant get enough of this.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Many thanks to @theunpopulist.net for reposting my piece on Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration, which really needs more attention. This agency announces right in its name that white nationalism is the basis for US immigration policy: www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...
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Stephen Miller Is Paying Monstrous Dictators to Admit Expelled Immigrants
A Democratic Congress needs to urgently investigate this abuse of taxpayer dollars that were actually meant for refugees
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The Professional Left Podcast @proleftpodcast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1023: Life During Wartime
" This ain't no party, this ain't no disco. This ain't no fooling around "    --  Talking Heads ...
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The Professional Left Podcast @proleftpodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Professional Left Podcast Episode 1024: The Magic Word
" Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. "    --   Groucho Marx ...
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😔 😡 on my daily dog walking route
Sign: ICE kidnapped a community member here
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Lancet: DOGE is responsible for millions of deaths. WSJ oped: DOGE Works. Let’s Keep It Going.
OPINION • COMMENTARY
DOGE Works. Let's Keep It Going
A cadre of gifted, creative and patriotic thinkers can uncover wasteful spending and reduce federal debt.
By Tyler Hassen
Sept. 16, 2026 12:29 pm EDT
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Startling speech by a city council member after newsroom cuts at the Lexington, KY Herald Leader. Urge you to watch, listen and learn of the bond that a good newspaper can create without losing its independence. Owner: Hedge fund Chatham Asset Management kiesow.net/how-to-talk-... via kiesow.net
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How to talk about the local news crisis: We are all worse off.
Last week, McClatchy rolled out the latest round of destructive cuts to its local reporting staff. The cuts themselves are barely newsworthy within the industry at this point, though the futility of '...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The federal agents Trump let loose in Washington DC to make the city “safe and beautiful” are arresting Black men for petty crimes. Am I nuts to think this is worth a news story or two?
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Status @status.news · 14/09/2026
Ted Cruz's ESPN cameo got him booed off the air, left staffers "embarrassed," and sparked questions about equal time, in what we have learned is the latest source of friction inside and outside the network. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/espn-ted-c...
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ESPN’s Cruz Control
Ted Cruz's ESPN cameo got him booed off the air, left staffers "embarrassed," and sparked questions about equal time, in what Status has learned is the latest source of friction inside and outside the...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
From @status.news: 60 Minutes debut episode drew 7.94 million viewers, 1.58 million of which were in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 year old demographic. Overall, viewership was down 21% compared to last year's premiere, which averaged 10.03 million viewers. I think this is the right view to take:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump on his Iran war: "You have a higher gas -- it's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that. It's a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more."
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The propagandists who cashed in on lying about the 2020 election being stolen are now being forced to settle defamation suits and apologize to the people they smeared.
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MAGA influencers are still paying for the Big Lie
Dinesh D'Souza, James O'Keefe, Scott Presler and others face legal liability for election shenanigans
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
9. America is awash in lawlessness and impunity. Are the Democrats ready?
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
7. and subjecting detainees to conditions described by some as torture. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
6. including literal babies, www.notus.org/immigration/...
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
5. detaining this month as many as 50,000 immigrants, apnews.com/article/bord...
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ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July. That marks the highest single-month total during the second Trump administration.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
4. ICE is totally rogue, arresting the father of a sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, apnews.com/article/uss-...
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He was waiting for his son to return from the USS Lincoln. Then Border Patrol arrested him
The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
3. Billionaires are openly bribing the president for the right to rob taxpayers. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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