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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/09/2026
We have found one thing Donald Trump is more popular than: Flock cameras open.substack.com/pub/fiftyplu...
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Americans are skeptical of Flock cameras
Plus, polls about the economy, the United Nations, and how often people lie
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
Parker Molloy just published this thoughtful piece tonight. It's worth a read imo. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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Trainwreck
Old habits, especially embarrassing ones, die hard.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 25/09/2026
Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units. on.wsj.com/47ilzUw
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Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing
Rarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Trump and Xi are set to conclude a superpower summit that has proven to be long on ceremony and short on substance. Little progress was made...If anything, the pageantry irked Trump’s fellow Republicans, who noted he campaigned on constraining China." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
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🟡 Semafor Washington, DC: Going it alone | Semafor
In today’s edition: The White House finds itself alone in not seeking governmental ground rules to govern AI, and how Trump’s diesel export ban could backfire.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
"Though widely assumed to be a bit of generic Texas swagger, the brassy pun was put out by the Texas Department of Transportation in 1985 in an effort to curb rampant roadside littering." buff.ly/ILXWbtP
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Don’t Mess with Texas
“Though widely assumed to be a bit of generic Texas swagger, the brassy pun was put out by the Texas Department of Transportation in 1985 in an effort to cur...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 20/09/2026
China’s Xi Jinping skipped a dinner of world leaders in India earlier this month because he was unwell, said people familiar with the matter, fueling speculation about his health days before a planned visit to the U.S.
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Xi Jinping Skipped One Dinner—and Sparked a Flurry of Questions About His Health
The Chinese leader felt unwell at the recent Brics event in India, reviving worries over who would succeed him.
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PANDA™ @pandanook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yep, that's pretty much the point.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
> @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10/09/2026
I heard Frank Luntz say essentially this on NPR this morning. Don’t totally understand the utility of interviewing people who just spin what the president said, by lying about what the president said
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Talked to @wired.com about a bunch of things, including: r/bald, Bluesky, Elon ruining twitter, why I live the inbox zero life, LLMs, and more. Here it is: www.wired.com/story/user-b...
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Want to Get Off Your Phone? Mina Kimes Suggests Having a Baby
“I think that's been the most helpful thing,” says the ESPN journalist. “So there you go, Zoomers. There's a reason to have children.”
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The initial market reaction to this Treasury announcement (CNBC reporting below) has been to push yields higher: The 10-year is currently trading at 4.845% (up 5 bps on the day), while the 30-year has reached 5.302% (up 6 bps). #economy #markets @cnbc.com #bonds #yields
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 09/09/2026
Republicans are putting an unpopular president at the center of their campaign to keep control of Congress. on.wsj.com/4xaV5Pv
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Republicans are putting an unpopular president at the center of their campaign to keep control of Congress
Republicans are putting an unpopular president at the center of their campaign to keep control of Congress.
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oil grabs the spotlight, but the commodity price rally runs much deeper. The Bloomberg Commodity Index is now trading at levels not seen in over a decade, powered by moves like copper printing fresh record highs (charts below). #economy #markets #copper #Oil #commodities
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Of particular note in the latest AAA data on US gas (petrol) prices (below): The national average price of diesel has risen to a new all-time high of $5.85 a gallon. #economy #markets #fuel #petrol #diesel
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 30/08/2026
Amid Iran fallout, inflation anxiety, immigration policy moving dramatically farther to the right than the public sanctioned, and *waves arms around* all the rest of this, a new poll shows one out of six Trump voters says they wouldn't vote for him again. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-30...
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One out of six Trump voters says they wouldn't vote for him again
Plus, a few articles on why polling isn't broken #ackshually, and YouGov’s LV-RV gap. Your weekly political data roundup for August 30, 2026.
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InsideEVs @insideevs.com · 25/08/2026
Toyota created an Electrification 101 program to bring curious employees up to speed on EVs. We sat in on a class.
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I Went To Toyota’s Employee Electrification Training. Here’s What Surprised Me
Just because you work at a car company doesn’t mean you’re a car nerd. For some employees, almost everything covered was new information.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
All ICE funding should be transferred to MRNA research and development . www.wsj.com/health/pharm...
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Novel Cancer Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning in First for mRNA
Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 19/08/2026
Publishing another big story on potential data fabrication by a prolific election pollster tomorrow at FiftyPlusOne. Subscribe: blog.fiftyplusone.news/welcome
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FiftyPlusOne | Substack
A website for non-partisan, data-driven political news and analysis, especially polling aggregation. Paying subscribers get access to data at FiftyPlusOne.news. Click to read FiftyPlusOne, a Substack ...
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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Kerry Wood, Behind-The-Back Eephus 😮
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The rumblings about Jon Ossoff are getting louder. Here’s why. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Jon Ossoff Cuts Through the Lies
Question by question, the profile of Georgia's senior senator is rising
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Trump officials admit they terminated funding for grants - education, energy, health, housing & infrastructure aid to states that did not vote for him www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump is threatening Canada with additional tariffs because wildfire smoke drifted into the United States. When America burns, Canada sends firefighters. When Canada burns, Trump sends tariffs.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 07/07/2026
USA waffled too much
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #BribeForceOne
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/07/2026
NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...
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DOJ Accidentally Sent Volume II of Jack Smith's Report to Outside Counsel
The kicker? The Outside Counsel they accidentally sent the report to is representing a woman they charged with a crime for taking Volume II out of the DOJ
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 02/07/2026
New court documents released in one of Anthropic's lawsuits against the Pentagon shed light on the underlying tensions between the government and one of America’s hottest AI companies. on.wsj.com/4gj7tbf
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
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Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
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Richard Bernabe @bernabephoto.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A New Episode of Beyond the Lens is now LIVE ⚡️ 118. On Location in Botswana with Karabo LeBronpeter: The Okavango Wilderness Project, Wildlife Photography, and Visual Storytelling Mentorship Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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118. On Location in Botswana with Karabo LeBronpeter: The Okavango Wilderness Project, Wildlife Photography, and Visual Storytelling Mentorship
Podcast Episode · Beyond The Lens with Richard Bernabe · June 9 · 54m
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M 💓🇺🇸🗽🌊🌈✨🧘‍♀️ @liveadivinelife.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A source at an Atlanta Midtown hotel tells 11Alive News that they projected $600,000 in #WorldCup revenue for June. As of May 27, the employee tells Chase that they only have $13,000 in reservations for that month. #FIFA #TrumpEconomy
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Midtown Atlanta hotel projected $600K in June revenue for World Cup, has just $13K booked, source says
Some hotels along with Airbnb hosts are seeing low reservations as the World Cup nears.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 27/05/2026
Meta Platforms has started the rollout of subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. on.wsj.com/4wRkXke
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Meta Starts Rollout of Subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram
The company said that Facebook Plus and Instagram Plus will be priced at $3.99 per month, while WhatsApp Plus will cost $2.99 a month.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
1. With poll after poll suggesting that the Democrats are going to win back the House and perhaps the Senate in the coming congressional elections, expect to see more discussion about the practical need to be nice to Americans who regret voting for Donald Trump.
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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Colbert’s final episode: 6.74 million viewers 💔
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Bob Meier @bmeier79.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
If you aren't watching 60 Minutes tonight, you should be. The first segment is about the stock market and comparing what's happening now to 1929. The protections put up after the 29 crash have been removed.
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Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
60 Minutes exposes a massive insider trading ring making millions by betting on highly classified US military operations in Iran with a 98 percent win rate. Washington insiders are literally using secret Pentagon intelligence to rig prediction markets! #cdnpoli
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀 (plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏
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Bat B @buckwheatmat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What if we taxed vehicles according to size
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𝓈𝓃𝒶𝓏𝓏𝓎 (enby arc) @dragonsnazzy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Nobody orders a sandwich or a hotdog with sauerkraut unless they REEEEALLY love sauerkraut. And yet, so many restaurants are scared to give you the appropriate amount. And they give you bland, not-sour stuff. If I order a Reuben, it's because I want half the goddamn sandwich to be sauerkraut.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 21/05/2026
No one went to prison over the Epstein files, but the guy who released the files got voted out?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Mina out here buying Jeopardy! buzzers on the dark web.
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Crisp @crisp91.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Researchers in Pompeii identified one Vesuvius victim as a Roman physician after scans revealed a hidden case containing surgical tools, coins, and a slate mixing plate inside a plaster cast from the 79 AD eruption
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Pompeii victim identified as Roman physician killed while fleeing Vesuvius eruption | Archaeology News Online Magazine
CT scans and medical tools hidden in a Pompeii cast identify a Vesuvius victim as a Roman physician fleeing the eruption.
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NBA Stat @nbastat.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This was called a foul on Cade Cunningham... in an elimination game in Conference Semi-finals. 🤬 #NBA
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The price of fresh tomatoes is outrageous! Many rotted on vine in California while ICE raids make it too dangerous for brown people to go to work, regardless of immigration status. Now tomatoes have to be shipped in from Mexico.
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Tomatoes, seafood and more: Why are these grocery prices soaring?
A historic oil shock has driven up supply chain costs, according to some analysts.
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Angeliki T. 💎 in NYC @ellinidata.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”
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Forbes @forbes.com · 15/05/2026
Xi Insulted Trump To His Face And In Front Of Cameras During Pivotal Meeting In China: Gordon Chang
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Xi Insulted Trump To His Face And In Front Of Cameras During Pivotal Meeting In China: Gordon Chang
On "Forbes Newsroom," U.S.-China relations expert Gordon Chang shared his response to President Trump's visit to China to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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