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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 11h
And unwind it all & reveal all of the players. We need to know who was complicit & who ignorantly jumped on the bandwagon. Those in the former group should face some sort of social if not legal repercussions. Same in the US w/ Trump who's also a Russian op. Press that knowingly promoted this shd
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
At the time, Trump was planning on doing a diesel export ban. Everyone said it would backfire. Trump said that would be a problem to deal with in DEcember. emptywheel.net/2026/09/24/d...
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"December problems:" The Iran War Is a Reality that Exists Outside Trump's Attempt to Con the Election - emptywheel
Trump's consideration of a diesel ban is not about solving the problems the Iran War has caused. It's an attempt to sustain the con until December.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The ship of diesel Putin sent Trump left on September 22. September 23 is when Trump's invite to G-20 was announced. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We hope he’ll accept’: US invites Putin to G20 summit at Trump golf club
Invitation announced by Marco Rubio is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and EU countries
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22h
Having watched these for more than a year now, I can tell you the young people almost always look back bsky.app/profile/gill...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20h
Imagine being three weeks out and going on twitter with “boom! Years overdue cookie bill paid!” as your message of the day.
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Sunflower state of mind @blueintheheartland.bsky.social · 20h
lol. Then he tries to act magnanimous by saying they paid double but they paid less than the interest he charges women in rural Kansas for medical procedures. It’s be over $2000 in interest if figured on what he charges and that’s without 6 years in penalties. 🤡
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h
Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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popiam.bsky.social @popiam.bsky.social · 16h
Ummm...Lewis is well known as a Christian apologist, PJ. His trilogy is very plainly written in that vein. Who do you suppose Maleldil is if not Jesus?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h
soon they’ll wheel Trump out to the beach waterline and he’ll command the tides to stop rising and falling.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ramaswamy Campaigned With Pastor Who Says ‘Satan’ Is Using Islam to Launch ‘War’ Against America talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ramaswa...
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Ramaswamy Campaigned With Pastor Who Says ‘Satan’ Is Using Islam to Launch ‘War’ Against America
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio, campaigned earlier this...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
when your campaign is going awesomely
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planet. Lewis held that the Earth's inhabitants are under quarantine, prohibited in our present (i.e. fallen) state from reaching any other planet, to prevent our spreading evil.
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popiam.bsky.social @popiam.bsky.social · 23h
The concept of an AI, and its overlords striving for immortality by avarice and cruelty, were the focus of C.S. Lewis' novel THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH, the last installment of his celebrated "Space Trilogy". If Lewis was correct, and I firmly believe he was, there will never be any human travel to 1/2
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This seems to me like a kind of formalism - one side isn't sure, the other side is, ergo the latter has more hubris, unwarranted certainty etc. But the substance here deserves a hearing. The serious suggestion that LLMs might be self-aware/conscious etc is the pretty huge claim that requires some...
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is an enemy of the West and everything it stands for
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also, buy @benwikler.bsky.social's book, where he discusses this.
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Senator Tammy Duckworth: "Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unmarked lunatics with guns attack your car when your kid is with you— you drive off too. Anyone who say otherwise is a liar. They almost killed the kid. What the fuck are we doing? 😳🇺🇸
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Keep saying it: The backlash against Harmeet Dhillon for eliminating all affirmative actions so people who look like her can replace white boys at UT will be something to watch.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
NEW from me: The National Association of Evangelicals (along with several other religious groups) are now joining the USCCB in condemning Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth’s plans to publicly execute Nidal Malik Hasan, also saying doing so promotes a “culture of death.” religionnews.com/2026/10/09/h...
Walter Kim, president of the National
Association of Evangelicals, told RNS that while he affirms the "need for justice" regarding Hasan's crime, "at the same time, a live-streamed execution by firing squad risks turning one of the state's most solemn responsibilities into a public spectacle, promoting a culture of death, rather than a culture that upholds the dignity of every human being."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026
Exclusive: Sen. Darline Graham, the Republican Senate candidate in South Carolina, has pledged to crack down on China. But her husband, Larry Nordone, has management roles in two companies that rely on Chinese manufacturing, company filings show.
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Darline Graham opposes Chinese manufacturing. Her husband’s job relies on it.
The senator and sister of the late Lindsey Graham has said the U.S. must “stop depending on Communist China for things America can make ourselves.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Can we say Benny is officially out of the closet now?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think everyone is misreading the Diesel deal, according Trump too much agency. Putin got Trump to say something INSANELY stupid, no doubt in hopes of all the bribes on the table. This will solve none of the problems Trump caused the US. en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...
Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin
October 9, 202622:50
During the October 9 telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, considerable focus was on prospects for settling the Ukraine crisis, while the situation surrounding Iran and various aspects of bilateral relations were touched upon as well.

When discussing the state of affairs in the global energy market, the Russian side confirmed its willingness to supply oil and petroleum products to the US market and global markets at large. I am convinced this will have a positive impact on the entire global economy.

An agreement was reaffirmed to maintain personal contacts between the presidents of the two countries and to continue cooperation across their respective administrations, security services, and agencies.
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wizardkitten @wizardkitten.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hey Michigan peeps - who was that? Anyone know?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fixed it for Trump.
Trump's post announcing a diesel deal with Russia. I've covered up false claims he made with grey boxes, and in yellow text written what is true, including that "receiving bribes from Vladimir Putin" is his greatest priority.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But Article 14. Lest we forget one of the reasons the UN was created. “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” www.un.org/en/about-us/...
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated...
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does he realize how absolutely pathetic he seems to all women?
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So freaking racist. Period.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not everything can be blamed on migrants! Imagine!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.
"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family. 

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator 

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of: 

➡️ defunding the police 
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets 
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors 
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections 

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Despite being the “go-to person” in her department, Sharon Davis was fired from her job at the FDA after 24 years of employment. She and more than 95,000 Black women were affected by the massive job cuts led by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. bit.ly/4hPDwP3
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A 'Gut Punch': Black Women Fired by DOGE Work to Overcome Shame and Self-Blame
This story is a collaboration between MindSite News, Capital B, The 19th, and The Nation, and was edited by MindSite News. Photographs by Kuwilileni Hauwanga When Sharon Davis opened her email at 5 a....
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Figuring out why Ossoff is so effective is an interesting task. I think he's mastering a kind of stern dignity that is uniquely compelling in contrast to the clownish cruelty of the other side. I think the other person who's kind of hit on the same thing is AOC, though in a different register
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It think the answer is dominance politics, bitch slap politics. The messages resonate. But he’s effectively performing displays of dominance. He made Collins look not shamed or criticized but hapless and stupid.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Yeah and Trump's a hydrant
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Your regular reminder that the job of an ICE officer is dramatically safer than the job of a regular cop, such that not a single ICE deportation officer has been killed in the line of duty since 1949 (and that was actually a stabbing inside an INS jail in Hawaii, not street enforcement).
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...
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Opinion | No One Was Paying Attention to Gina Hinojosa a Month Ago. Now Republicans Are Worried. (Gift Article)
The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.
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Laura @gobosox54.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m looking forward to this. Jen Rubin is always great!
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scoop: In 2014, Ken Paxton sat for a deposition where federal lawyers quizzed him about his growing wealth and investment tactics. The depo has never been made public. We got a copy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Inside Ken Paxton’s Private Testimony About His Money
A leaked deposition from a fraud inquiry in 2014 provides insight into the Senate candidate’s growing wealth and his tactics for defending himself.
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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