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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
A bipartisan initiative to block Trump and Todd Blanche from embezzling $810 million from the Treasury under the pretext of a litigation settlement was blocked when Sen Ron Johnson (R-WI) objected, denying unanimous consent. wapo.st/3Vmagbk
wapo.st
Democrats fail to stop Trump from canceling $810M in funds approved by Congress
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) blocked the effort, meaning the Trump administration will succeed in eliminating the funding it deemed “wasteful.”
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 3h
WTF? www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 2h
chloe FREEMAN? come on
Chloe Renae Freeman, 33, of Whitmore Lake, was charged with instigating or assisting the escape of a person under arrest, according to a criminal complaint filed August 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a fine.

Freeman was working as a registered nurse at Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital when the alleged escape occurred on May 28, according to an affidavit filed with the complaint.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 12h
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h
everyone lucked the hell out on the terror attack today where the co-pilot stabbed the pilot, passengers took down the attacker *and* there seem to have been two off-duty pilots who were able to land the plane safely. Could have been one of the worst attacks for a while otherwise.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 11h
arstechnica.com
RFK Jr. says AI backs his anti-vaccine views. We checked—it doesn't.
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 11h
His entire personality is Dumbass High School Football Coach in an 80s Sex Comedy.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11h
For their public remarks about the Trump administration, all but one federal judge in Minnesota was hit with a misconduct complaint by the Justice Department on Wednesday. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
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'Particularly Egregious': DOJ Hits Wave of Judges With Misconduct Complaint
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 12h
You do run a country, you idiot.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14h
This isn't surprising news. It's from Martin Peers email newsletter at The Information. What's notable how much this is showing up in the tech press.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 14h
Where is Trump's new America.gov getting its answers? Often it's from the government's well-established web portal, launched by Bill Clinton 26 years ago and maintained since by career federal workers. Credit where it's due.
excerpt from NBC News story: In responses to 34 queries about basic government-related questions, such as how to get a passport or how to get food assistance, 14 of them linked back to USA.gov.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14h
The vibes this week are so weird
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NPR @npr.org · 14h
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies. n.pr/46UKiy3
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How Trump keeps undercutting his anti-communist message
The Trump administration has taken government equity stakes in more than three dozen private companies.
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 14h
9th Cir., 2-1, holds that Arizona's "Voters' Right to Know Act," which requires disclosure of the source of major campaign media spending, does not violate the First Amendment. Judge Bumatay dissents, arguing the Act violates the 1A as "originally understood." cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
Plaintiffs Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation bring facial and as-applied challenges to Proposition 211, alleging that the law’s compelled disclosure of the original source of campaign media contributions and their intermediaries chills their protected speech and associational rights and is unconstitutionally overbroad.  We affirm the district court’s dismissal of all claims.  Applying the exacting scrutiny standard, we hold that Proposition 211’s requirements are substantially related 8 AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY V. MEYER to the State’s vital interest in ensuring that the public receive accurate information about the sources of campaign media spending, that the burdens imposed by the law are modest and in proportion to the interests served, and that its provisions are narrowly tailored to the State’s informational interest.
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Rim Brake Monkey @rimbrakemonkey.bsky.social · 14h
You.  You. You are alive.  You still have to bring two forms of ID.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 15h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 15h
Was it funny to see the new White House AI chatbot, on its first day of operations, presenting the public with facts that completely contradicted Trump’s alternate reality and brazen lies? Actually, yes, it was. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
ms.now
On its first day, the White House’s new AI chatbot causes embarrassing troubles for Trump
America.gov, which the president described as “damn good,” presented the public with facts that were wholly at odds with Trump’s alternate reality.
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Allen Orr @allenorr.bsky.social · 18h
Trump did not retreat on mass deportation. He refined it. There are outsourced arrests, rushed hearings, and hidden cruelty. In darkness is the new strategy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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From mass raids to quiet crackdown: a timeline of Trump’s strategic ICE pivot
After switching tactics, federal agents are detaining and deporting record numbers of people from the US
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h
Grappling with Trump’s assault on the elections is a good reminder that his authoritarian desires are limitless, but his ability to impose them on the country is very much not. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh, interesting!
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amazing stuff here
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Conversation with America
Response ready. Sources are available. Use “Skip to latest response” to read it.
Is it accurate to say that the Big Beautiful Bill on average made the poorest people in America even poorer and the richest people in America even richer, when looking at total household resources? One word answer only, please.

Yes
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
US 30-Year Treasury Yield Rises to Highest Level Since 2002 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
US 30-Year Treasury Yield Rises to Highest Level Since 2002
Yields on the US Treasury’s longest-dated bond rose for a sixth straight day, crossing another key threshold amid a deepening selloff across global debt markets.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 29/09/2026
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Trump's AI admits he didn't win 2020 election, but doesn't want to call him loser.
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The problem with Hegseth's plan to fire everybody with a more successful military career than his own is that there'd be nobody left.
foxnews.com
EXCLUSIVE: Hegseth to double cuts to generals, admirals in major Pentagon shakeup
Pete Hegseth's State of the Force address doubles last year's cuts, targeting a 20% reduction in general and flag officer billets across all services.
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Tomato Szn @bskylife.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s not the most important part of this story but there is a Reel with film of Smith at the Iowa game in question. www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4epJb...
instagram.com
Senate In Session on Instagram: "We found the receipts. . . . . . @senericschmitt #jacksmith #proof #senate #hawkeyes #womenscollegebasketball"
436 likes, 41 comments - senateinsession on September 29, 2026: "We found the receipts. . . . . . @senericschmitt #jacksmith #proof #senate #hawkeyes #womenscollegebasketball".
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local St Louis radio station with the video evidence that Jack Smith was at Iowa Hawkeyes game in Maryland, not an Atlanta Hawks game in Georgia meeting with prosecutor Fani Willis. Shocking political hit job by Sen Schmitt gone awry.
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Corroborating evidence. Jack Smith spotted by the eagle-eyed Sean Malone at KMOX. Top left corner.
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I went through the broadcast of the Iowa/Maryland game on 2/3/24. A replay of Clark’s first 3 shows Jack Smith sitting in Section 109, Row 1.
Yet, @SenEricSchmitt is taking a victory lap on right wing media. I blocked the faces of who appear to be his family @kmoxnews
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 29/09/2026
Colorado sues to stop new immigration detention center from opening in Hudson coloradosun.com/2026/09/29/c...
coloradosun.com
Colorado sues to stop new immigration detention center from opening in Hudson
A lawsuit filed by Attorney General Phil Weiser asks a judge to throw out $530 million GEO Group contract with ICE.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment you realize you done fucked up.
Tweedle Dee looking bemused while Tweedle Dumb shoots him a withering look.
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Important: Relief from third country removal may still be sought in individual habeas petitions.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
> @variety.com variety.com/2026/digital...
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God he’s going to NE03 where he got 76% of the vote and Osborn barely cracked 33% omaha.com/news/nation-...
omaha.com
Trump coming to Nebraska next week to rally Republicans for Pete Ricketts
President Donald Trump's team confirmed to The World-Herald that he is headed Monday to Grand Island and the Nebraska State Fair's Pinnacle Bank Expo Center. Doors open at 2:30 p.m.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 29/09/2026
This is piling on, but there is no Section 109, Row 1 for Atlanta Hawks games in State Farm Arena.
A chart from GOP senate staffers showing a text message from Jack Smith's staff asking if Section 109, Row 1 was reserved for Jack.For basketball games at State Farm Arena, there is no row labeled "Row 1."
Instead, the very first row of Section 109 for basketball is labeled Row AA.
How the Rows Work in Section 109
The rows in Section 109 do not follow a standard numerical order. They are split into double-letter and single-letter configurations:
• Premium Club Seats (Closest to Court): The rows start at Row AA (the true front row of the section) and run through Row NN.
• Standard Lower Bowl Seats: The section continues further back with Row P through Row X.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Striking stuff from Nate Silver: Dem lead in House generic ballot matchup now approaching 10 points. Dems hold small leads in the polling averages in six big Senate races.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation. If asked to prosecute a former president today based on the same facts, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Republican or a Democrat.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The average voter thinks members of Congress are trading stocks all day from the pool on Epstein Island, and you're going to make them angry about this? Godspeed
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
big spike in sales today on the Sorry You Biffed It At The Senate Meeting greeting cards
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Everything I have learned about the rationalists is against my will.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can be certain this won't happen as presented because if this was straight business, the billionaire Indian involved wouldn't have participated in the dog and pony show. The presence of Export-Import Bank Chairman John Jovanovic should frighten every taxpayer. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/09/...
cnbc.com
Watch: Trump announces plan for $15 billion steel plant, would be largest in U.S. history
Trump's announcement with Mesabi Metallics comes as Americans' souring views of the economy are poised to shape the upcoming midterm election.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, about that steel mill promise…
S5 CHICAGO
DONALD TRUMP
'8th Wonder of the World":
Trump Speaks in Wisconsin at Foxconn Groundbreaking
The FoxConn factory is slated to open in 2020 and is expected to be massive, meant to produce LCD screens for televisions and computers
By Mary Ann Ahern and Sandra Torres • Published June 28, 2018 • Updated on June 28, 2018 at 5:28 pm
f$ 5 CHICAGO
NBC 5 INVESTIGATES
What happened to Foxconn? A look at the $1.2 billion spent and where it all went
It was supposed to be a giant manufacturing plant that would spur the growth of "Wis-con Valley.
Instead, it's a mostly-abandoned stretch of four lane roads and barren fields.
By Bennett Haeberle, Nathan Halder, Rich Moy, and Katy Smyser • Published June 3, 2025 • Updated on
June 5, 2025 at 6:02 pm
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What is being touted as America's largest-ever steel plant will be built in Iowa and owned by Essar Group, an India conglomerate. www.kcrg.com/2026/09/28/l...
kcrg.com
White House shares details of largest US steel plant coming to Iowa
The $15 billion mega steel plant will produce an estimated 10 million tons of steel each year once it’s fully online by 2030.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump shouts out Lockheed Martin and Raytheon (Trump reported owning $5.9 million in Lockheed and $6.9 million in Raytheon stocks at end of last year)
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
World's highest steel prices now. Politically motivated steel plant in 2030 (Maybe) share.google/zMW8dwTGfBED...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Art
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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 28/09/2026
the thing about Jensen Huang is that he will never ever ever not fundamentally be a guy who runs a graphics card company. Like sure yeah whatever scientific computing AI ok ok he learned everything he needs to know selling VGA cards with badly photoshopped box art at E3 in 1996
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