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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h
Top bidders to attend Trump meme coin dinner appear to be based in foreign countries www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-m...
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Top bidders to attend Trump meme coin dinner appear to be based in foreign countries
At least 52 $TRUMP holders moved funds through crypto exchanges that bar U.S. customers.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1h
Ships in Hormuz strait hit by worst spate of attacks since start of war www.ft.com/content/a4ab...
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Ships in Hormuz strait hit by worst spate of attacks since start of war
Twenty-four tankers and other vessels targeted by Iran in two weeks, including six on Sunday alone
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14h
Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.
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Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 16h
Group cheered as woman was sexually assaulted at University of Chicago frat house, police report says. From @sophiesherry.bsky.social and Rosemary Sobol, via @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/1...
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Group cheered as woman was sexually assaulted at University of Chicago frat house, police report says
The 21-year-old woman told police the assault happened during a party at the Alpha Epsilon Pi house, according to the report. Her account was backed up by two friends, who stated they intervened by ba...
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della05.bsky.social @della05.bsky.social · 18h
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Two years later is missing from this headline.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h
WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."
In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 13/10/2026
And with that we have our first dead AI startup
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Skittles Scary Skeletons ☕ @skittles6.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I literally saved this video earlier.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22h
Add another Democratic candidate who has taken an anti-trans stance this campaign. Virtually everyone missed this one. Adam Hamilton's US senate campaign in Kansas called transgender girls "boys," opposed athletics, and was in favor of a surgery ban. Haven't seen this one reported anywhere yet.
Democratic response is fractured
Although the Republican attacks are unified, Democrats’ responses are not.

Some candidates have publicly distanced themselves from Republicans’ most extreme accusations. Turek in Iowa and Talarico in Texas both said they oppose gender affirming surgeries for minors, without arguing for a broad ban on medical treatment. 

Tyson Brody, a spokesperson for Hamilton’s campaign in Kansas, said Hamilton does not think girls should “compete against boys” in sports and that gender affirming surgeries shouldn’t be performed on children.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#AZ Trump's 300K metric ton beef import surge crashed Gila County cattle prices—ranchers rebuilding after drought now undercut by subsidized foreign beef timed for midterms. NCBA & USCA warn it sidelines US producers, threatens safety. Our ranchers deserve better than being campaign props. #Pinks
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Asked?
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Blonde Woman Holding Back Laughs
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Kash Patel Colluded with Russian Spies to Frame Jim Comey, and He Probably Will Again emptywheel.net/2026/10/11/k...
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Kash Patel Colluded with Russian Spies to Frame Jim Comey, and He Probably Will Again - emptywheel
Kash Patel has spent almost a decade using Russian disinformation to try to frame Trump's adversaries -- first Hillary Clinton, then Jim Comey. That means, when Kash goes to Russia this week, they wil...
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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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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here's what Trump judge Gary Brown said in a filing ON MONDAY about Brenan Cuni, who almost shot a kid in NYC. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
After the Court required a further submission to explain this incongruity,
respondents submitted an affidavit from Brenden Cuni, a Supervisory Detention and
Deportation Officer with ICE, who was responsible for conducting the background
searches. DE 20-7. Cuni was notified “some time before 5:50 PM” that “Petitioner was detained.” Id. ¶3. He searched five separate federal databases, all of which “yielded
negative results.” Id. ¶5 (emphasis added). Cuni then “issued and signed the I-200,
Warrant of Arrest, and checked off the boxes relating to ‘biometric confirmation of the
subject’s identity and a records check of federal databases . . . .’” Id. Of course, since the
records checks were negative, it was undeniably false, though represented as true in the
warrant, that “biometric confirmation [and] records check of federal databases
affirmatively indicate” that the petitioner lacked immigration status. DE 7-1. Cuni
explains that ICE then processed the petitioner, and in so doing, entered his data into
those various databases. After processing (and after the warrant was signed and
executed), Cuni ordered another officer to run “a second records check of the electronic
federal databases, which then yielded positive results . . . because Petitioner’s information
was now part of the system.” DE 20-7 ¶7 (emphasis added).
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There's Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack (most people forget he was prosecuted, but acquitted, in a case that accused him of shaping US policy for UAE for big contracts) failing to disclose a financial tie in his confirmation disclosures. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump envoy kept financial ties to firm behind $15 billion Hormuz-bypass oil pipeline plan
Thomas Barrack, a top US diplomat in the Middle East, advocated for a firm run by his business partner to take part in the development of an oil pipeline from Iraq to Syria, three people said, activit...
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Audrey Hepburn Playful Spin
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We want law and order, but that doesn’t mean we want ICE shooting and killing people. Also, we do not believe a word that comes out of your mouth. Thank for your attention to this matter.
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I guess we are here now.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/10/2026
This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is insane. Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says (Gift Article)
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/10/2026
This November, Colorado voters will decide on anti-trans ballot measures. Now, Colorado's leading medical societies have formally condemned the surgery ban for transgender youth and announced their position against them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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"Vote NO": Colorado's Top Medical Groups Formally Oppose Anti-Trans Ballot Prop. 135
There is not a single major medical group in the country that endorses blanket government restrictions on gender-affirming care like the one outlined in Prop. 135.
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good for you!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
💔🕯️💔🕯️💔
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.
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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But of course. These are the only deals Kushner is doing. The ones to make money for him, trumps, & the oligarchs. And in the process let’s just hand over Ukraine b/c they don’t have a money deal to hand us. They won’t pay Trump under the table like Russia will. This is what Trump is about, money.
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Sophie Scholl @moller2025.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lest we forget....
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Brooklyn Kennedy Scott @brookekennedyscott.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Contact Chi Phi headquarters demanding all chapters shut down immediately: 404.231.1824 educationaltrust@chiphi.org chiphi@chiphi.org Robb@chiphi.org Nick@chiphi.org Landry@chiphi.org chiphi@chiphi.org
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With Trump huffing up the ramp right behind him.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"What Palantir can’t do is stop government agencies from sharing information with each other, which Trump ordered them to do in March. ELITE, the app they created for ICE, sources its data from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which manages Medicaid." via @kalwradio.bsky.social
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Nurses rally in San Francisco against Palantir’s work with ICE
Nurses marched in San Francisco on Wednesday to protest Palantir’s involvement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is a good day. Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The IMF issuing a statement to reassure the public that bond markets are "functioning in an orderly manner" is highly unusual—and risks raising more questions than it answers. #economy #markets #bonds #yields
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Rebecca @rebeccab312.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ABC news calling the fang rape of a student group sex? WTF is wrong with you?
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😸 Hugo the pink cat 😸 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The worst part is that HE'S NOT EVEN a doctor. He's a therapist. He doesn't have medical training. He never actually took the hippocratic oath. Dude is cosplaying as a medical expert when he's never even come close to medical school.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN
A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jamie Raskin calls out the shitty ads as a crime (this was cited by CNN and other stories). This is the kind of Xitter post that I beg of @raskin.house.gov or other MoCs to cross-post over here -- not least bc more people over here are likely to magnify it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
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The White House is currently airing this video as an ad during commercial breaks on Fox News. 

It looks and sounds like a political spot and includes a disclaimer stating that it is paid for by the U.S. government.

The soundtrack: as images of Trump flash across the screen,

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Sue Me @superberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cartoonist: Clay Bennett
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THERE IT IS: Group of January 6 riot defendants have filed each filed federal civil lawsuits in DC seeking taxpayer-funded compensatory and punitive damages for alleged violations of their righrs They claim they were "targeted..and punished" for "protected expressive" activity
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
But an increasing proportion of arrests have been made by local law enforcement in partnership with ICE, via 287(g) agreements. In many regions, it can be difficult to know when local officers are conducting routine policework or immigration enforcement. In many cases, they are doing both.
A chart showing immigration arrests by local police, which have increased steadily since ICE's new enforcement strategy began in April 2026, reaching its highest amount above 200 arrests per day in late June 2026.
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