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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Congrats, Don, John, Mike, and John, you broke it.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WashPost: Taxpayer funded Trump political ads seen by many as illegal draw on government cash that was in part devoted to "memorials for officers killed in the line of duty."
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Campaign-style Trump ads use money meant for border security, memorials
The White House Office of Management and Budget added $20 million to the pot for commemorative events a day before DHS awarded an advertising contract of the same amount.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
🔴 Over the past month, Russia has launched a wave of sabotage operations across Europe and near its borders. 🧵 1/11 ⬇️
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/10/2026
When the U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday, the justices will kick off a new term featuring cases on climate change, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty. to.pbs.org/4j2FrlQ
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Supreme Court ready to tackle climate, immigration and gun rights. Here are 5 cases to watch
When the U.S. Supreme Court returns Monday, the justices will kick off a new term featuring cases on climate change, gun rights, immigration and religious liberty.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/10/2026
At least 57 people have died in ICE detention since the start of President Trump's second term — more than double the number of deaths recorded from the previous four years combined. ICE must be held accountable before any more lives are lost.
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Deaths in ICE Detention More Than Doubles Under Trump
Death rate could be higher if it includes hidden deaths of people released from detention that ICE is reporting under Trump administration.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This is what they asked for. Republicans have had so many opportunities to turn this thing around - there have been 20 war powers votes in the House and Senate since the war started in February - and they’ve just blown past every single off ramp.“
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Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Self-Promotion Just Backfired
An ad promoting the Iran War only serves to remind voters just how much of a disaster the war is, a baffling strategy just a month out from midterms.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Renee Nicole Good's family has now filed TWO lawsuits, alleging a conspiracy between Greg Bovino, Stephen Miller, & others to deprive people of their rights & killing Renee in furtherance of that conspiracy. Why discovery will bring accountability for Renee’s murder: youtu.be/2kU7_-Yt-Ig?...
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Trump HIT With TWO NEW LAWSUITS Over DEADLY ICE SHOOTING!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Americans: you are not outraged enough about this. Christians: this is absolute blasphemy www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Almost 80% of the votes cast in PA so far come from registered Dems, exceeding the Dem share from this point in 2024 and 2022. Dems could pick up 3-4 congressional seats in the state.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 03/10/2026
⚠️ Weeks before the midterms, Georgia's GOP-controlled election board is asking the Trump DOJ to declare the state's federally certified voting machines illegal. It's an extraordinary attack by unelected officials — and the DOJ has no legal authority to do it.
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GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal
The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
President Trump is referenced in FBI interview summaries tied to a woman who accused him of sexual assault decades ago, yet three of those summaries are absent from the Justice Department’s public release of its Epstein files. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/missing-ep...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 02/10/2026
NEW: Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation. A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (52%) now say they disapprove of Donald Trump’s handling of prices: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-02...
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Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation
In our September poll, 52% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents disapprove of Trump's handling of prices. That could be dragging down Republican Senate candidates in red states
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 03/10/2026
The disappointing jobs report has wide-reaching implications for consumer prices and interest rates, and it comes a month before Americans head to the polls for midterm elections. to.pbs.org/4hzS2KJ
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What a hiring slowdown signals about the state of the U.S. economy
U.S. hiring slowed in September as employers added just 29,000 jobs. The disappointing jobs report has wide-reaching implications for consumer prices and interest rates, and it comes a month before Am...
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Republicans are in real trouble, all over the country, but Donald Trump is on it, guys!” says Jacob Soboroff. “He clearly believes that he alone can stop the bleeding, when all the polls suggest he is the cause of it.”
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Trump campaigns in ruby-red states as Republicans SCRAMBLE to ‘stop the bleeding’
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Did they say, “Schwab!!,” like that guy in the commercials?
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 03/10/2026
🔴 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted unanimously to declare Russia’s State Duma illegitimate. The resolution urges restrictions on tourist visas for Russian citizens.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 23h
Spending for this year's midterms is accelerating as we get closer to Election Day. to.pbs.org/4ytcZOV
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Who's spending big, and where, in most expensive election cycle ever
Spending for this year's midterms is accelerating as we get closer to Election Day. Political correspondent Lisa Desjardins makes sense of the billions spent to influence who controls Congress next ye...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h
It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. (Published June)
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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
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Paul Ferguson @fergdawg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This. Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦 🌻
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Judge Sara Hill, N.D. Oklahoma, issued this decision on Thursday —>
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Orc Wizard @orcwizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The former Secretary of State, who took Kim Jong Un uncritically at his word, who got irate that Mary Louise Kelly could find Ukraine on a map and he couldn’t, is getting a teaching fellowship at an Ivy League school. Hm.
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Taipan @taipanfang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What are they so scared of
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Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 23h
Meanwhile in Russia: decorated state TV host Vladimir Solovyov outlined Russia's short-term and long-range goals. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJ4...
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Vladimir Solovyov outlines Russia's goals
YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor
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Alan Stamm @alanstamm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Increasingly, Trump supporters -- like Republicans in Congress who are out of their jobs because of him or businessmen who are being strangled by his tariffs -- are being forced to acknowledge the truth. "That's why we're seeing Trump's support in the polls unravel." - @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
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Another Bad Day in Court for Trump
Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 23h
The Justice Dept. says it released millions of Epstein files. But NPR reports FBI logs reference interviews tied to allegations against President Donald Trump that were not visible in the public archive. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/fbi-interv...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23h
ICE arrests of people with no convictions or pending charges more than doubled. Arrests of people with charges or convictions rose under 20%. DHS says it targets the worst of the worst. The data prove the opposite is true.
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ICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal History
The latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thread of the day
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Nancy @plaintanjane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
JD Vance’s double-down fell flat on South Floridians ears, and according to @jimdefede.bsky.social Florida Republicans are worried that @angieforfl.bsky.social is a very capable and sympathetic candidate and too close for comfort.
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 22h
The lifting of sanctions on Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman is more than just the story of two Russian billionaires. united24media.com/world/a-pris...
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A Prisoner for an Oligarch? Foreigners Become Russia’s Bargaining Chips to Dodge Sanctions
Russian oligarchs Usmanov and Fridman escaped EU sanctions through political leverage and legal pressure. Their cases could offer others a roadmap.
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Loretta 👊🏼🇺🇸🌺 @lmtoconnor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 22h
Russian soldier sentenced for raping 8-year-old girl he claimed to be ‘saving’ 🧵 1/3 ⬇️
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23h
Trump won’t take no for an answer. Not from voters or the loyalists he’s surrounded himself with. “He is assuming there will be no one in his administration to tell him no,” Marc Elias says. Attacks on voters work best when no one's watching. Keep an eye on Trump: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h
This part
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 22h
This guy seems a little desperate
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21h
A federal court in Texas on Friday issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend region. to.pbs.org/4iXeXSH
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Judge halts border wall construction in Texas’ Big Bend region for now
A federal court in Texas on Friday issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend region, in a victory f...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h
Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21h
tf did I just read
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Justice Dept. says it released millions of Epstein files. But NPR reports FBI logs reference interviews tied to allegations against President Donald Trump that were not visible in the public archive. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/fbi-interv...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Bellingcat's won 3 awards at the Online Journalism Award, two for Agents of Chaos, our collaboration with @calmatters.org and @evidentmedia.org calmatters.org/investigatio...
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Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s year of unchecked force
A visual investigation shows how five agents moved from city to city, with their tactics becoming more brazen at each stop.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1/ Humiliating scenes of Russian surrendering en masse to Ukrainian forces in the Lyman salient are continuing to produce recriminations among Russian warbloggers. One lays the blame on a "rigged" military hierarchy dominated by incompetent "sycophants and lackeys". ⬇️
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Slate @slate.com · 02/10/2026
Trump’s mental state just got put on full display. It’s not pretty. slate.trib.al/VCHJRGO
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Is Trump All There? A New Interview Gives Us Five Serious Reasons to Wonder.
We just got an unfettered view into the mind of the world’s most powerful person. It’s alarming, to say the least.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lol time.com/article/2026...
The one who taught at MIT?

I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest. I'm fine, and I understand that stuff. You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know, I'm a—I believe in genetics, frankly, and I understand. I understand it much more than I think any president would, because I do have an ability on this. I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.
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