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Chaka Nawe @chakanawe.bsky.social · 7h
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h
BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 4h
Asset Managers just shorted 10-Year Treasuries at the 2nd fastest pace since 2023 🚨 🚨
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
very weird -- Newt Gingrich was on Hannity tonight, but Hannity didn't even mention the fact that Hegseth bizarrely included him today (along with Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey) as a co-leader of "Project Meridian" (whatever that is)
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4h
Artificial intelligence agents tried to hack into a Canadian government site, researchers said, adding to the growing list of incidents in which AI agents probed or hacked corporate and government computer systems without being told to do so.
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AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, researchers say
The finding follows OpenAI’s confirmation that its misbehaving AI agents probed U.S. government websites and hacked an Australian government site.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4h
AI Leaders Sign Trump's "Self-Policing" Pact & Eric Schimitt's Ambush Backfires youtu.be/Rb0KxHkguOo
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AI Leaders Sign Trump's "Self-Policing" Pact & Eric Schmitt's Ambush Backfires | The Daily Show
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4h
Eric Schmitt ignored a flashing warning sign before his big flub.
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GOP Goon Hit With Fresh Humiliation After New Bombshell
Eric Schmitt ignored a flashing warning sign before his big flub.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 4h
AI agents tried to hack Canadian government website, research firm says reut.rs/3VozHJh
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AI agents tried to hack Canadian government website, research firm says
AI agents tried to hack into a Canadian ​government website, an AI ​research firm said on Wednesday.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Ossoff on Mike Collins: "This is a congressman who called for executing immigrants by throwing them out of helicopter. He is a fanatic and Trump puppet."
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 4h
This is preposterous as it is monstrous Pike survived the execution procedure and now her lawyers, unable to reach the governor or state AG office, are rushing an emergency motion to the Tennessee Supreme Court in their *car* seeking an order to get her medical care
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
"Republicans hoped to discredit Smith’s prosecutions of Trump & foster a narrative he weaponized the DOJ at the behest of Biden. And they hoped to catch him in some way that could be fashioned into the perjury indictment Trump has demanded over and over. But Schmitt’s f*ckup didn’t help the cause."
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Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith
When gotchas go disastrously wrong.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h
The state has reported its fifth measles-related death. trib.al/hDNsA4d
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Pennsylvania Nears 1,000 Measles Cases as RFK Jr. Remains Silent
The state has reported its fifth measles-related death.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4h
A viral flub by Sen. Eric Schmitt may be having a ripple effect on his staff.
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Big Promotion in Limbo for Staffer of Humiliated MAGA Senator
A viral flub by Sen. Eric Schmitt may be having a ripple effect on his staff.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h
We need to focus on the fact that Senators Kennedy and Grassley participated in this charade and soiled themselves badly in the process. They need to apologize to the witness, and to the American public for their serious misconduct. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 4h
Mike Johnson aides and other congressional staffers planned to take a luxurious official trip to Europe just before the midterms.
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MAGA Aides’ Champagne and Ferraris Pre-Election Trip Busted
Mike Johnson aides and other congressional staffers planned to take a luxurious official trip to Europe just before the midterms.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I am incredibly skeptical of Florida, but I still think people should give money to Angie Nixon. It's a really tough race, but she's doing the work…She is an all-out grinder and she's also pretty funny. She's a good, charismatic candidate."
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 4h
OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems that could be used to reproduce the reasoning and capabilities of the company’s most advanced models.
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OpenAI Blames Moonshot for Mass Data Extraction on Its AI Models
OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems that could be used to reproduce the reasoning and capabilities of the company’s most advanced models.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h
UPDATE: At a call with the federal court tonight, "the state [of Tennessee] represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion."
ORDER finding as moot 123 Motion to Expedite. At a conference call with counsel for all parties, the state represented that medical personnel have begun to administer medical care as requested in the motion. This is the complete order of the court. There is no document associated with this docket entry. Signed by District Judge Clifton L Corker on 9/30/2026. (Corker, Clifton) (Entered: 09/30/2026)
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 4h
U.S. taxpayers funded another high-octane, government-sponsored ad across cable news channels premiering Wednesday night, this time promoting President Trump’s war with Iran.
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White House Premieres a New Taxpayer-Funded Ad Lauding the Iran War
The Trump administration has spent millions on campaign-style ad spots over the last week.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 4h
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reported at least $250 million in income and other proceeds in 2025, much of it tied to businesses he left after joining the Trump administration, according to his annual financial disclosure.
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reports more than $250 million in income last year
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick unwound his ties to Cantor Fitzgerald as the billionaire financier joined the Trump administration.
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The Economist @economist.com · 4h
Reliably Republican counties skew older, but they have significantly higher death rates even after adjusting for age, as our charts show
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In MAGA-land people are dying faster than they are being born
Our analysis suggests Trump country is only growing because of migration
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 5h
MS NOW has relentlessly scrutinized Trump’s new ads, but now it’s preparing to air them nationally on Thursday Execs stressed the independence of ad sales and editorial in a Tuesday meeting, but some staff worry viewers will “hate this” www.status.news/p/ms-now-tru...
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MS NOW’s Trump Ad Dilemma
Trump tried to ban MS NOW from the White House. Now, his administration is planning to spend taxpayer dollars to reach its viewers, and inside the network, Status has learned, some are "pissed."
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3h
Senate Democrats are challenging the legality and prudence of the Pentagon’s plan to take a stake in a Venezuelan oil company, laying the groundwork for a potential probe into the arrangement.
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Exclusive | Democratic Senators Challenge Trump Officials on Pentagon’s Venezuela Oil Deal
Ranking Senate Democrats on the foreign relations, energy, banking and armed services committees question the deal crafted by top Trump officials.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 3h
BREAKING 🚨: France France's 30-Year Bond Yield jumps to highest level in more than 24 years 👀
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Nominal News (Pawel Langer) @nominalnews.com · 5h
Higher education is often accused of not creating real value. It prompts a core question: do colleges actually develop skills, or just signal the abilities students already have? #HigherEd #EducationDebate
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wooded Path - 1865 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h
House lawmakers spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money on meals and lodging last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024 — under a reimbursement program that doesn’t require them to provide receipts, a Post analysis found. See who spent the most:
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The House reimburses lawmakers for D.C. expenses. See who spent the most.
Taxpayers spent 21 percent more last year on the program, which helps cover the costs of food and lodging in Washington, a Post analysis found.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 3h
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it was launching a "Default Loans Support Center" for student loan borrowers who've fallen behind.
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Treasury launches student loan support center as new data show 9.3 million borrowers in default
The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that it was launching a "Default Loans Support Center" for student loan borrowers who've fallen behind.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h
On Trump's approach to AI regulation: "It’s almost an unprecedented level of irresponsibility at a historic moment from the executive branch of the federal government."
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Eric Schmitts the Bed
Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.
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No Arguing Allowed @noarguingallowed.bsky.social · 9h
The main purpose of this speech was to get b-roll footage of him speaking in front of the Patton flag for his Presidential campaign commercials
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h
The funniest thing about this is every Special Forces operator of the last generation — the exact kind of “warfighter” Hegseth purports to idolize — has the world’s most massive beard. That’s entirely the look of today’s supersoldiers.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 8h
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The GOP’s Schmitt Show: A Blunder Wrapped in a Debacle, Inside a Fiasco
The Jack Smith “gotcha” was a Faceplant for the Ages.
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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 8h
"Every Russian escalation should make Moscow’s position worse," the Editorial Board writes. "Attacks on Ukrainian cities should bring greater pressure on Russia. Attacks on Europe should produce greater European support for Ukraine."
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Opinion | De-escalation with Russia requires a bigger show of Western strength
Only counterpressure, not concessions, will lead Russia to lay off Ukraine and NATO.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h
The Trump administration bought advertising space on CNN and MS NOW, running taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Trump, even as the president barred both cable networks from the White House grounds — bans that have been paused by a federal judge.
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Trump buys ads on CNN, MS NOW as he fights to bar them from the White House
Taxpayer-funded ads denouncing the “deep state” and “globalists” aired locally on the two cable networks Trump has sought to ban from White House grounds.
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CNN @cnn.com · 30/09/2026
Millions of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on President Donald Trump’s hagiographic ads, according to estimates by a leading political ad-tracking firm. And a total of $20 million has been allocated for the effort, which watchdog groups have deemed illegal. cnn.it/4z9Lt96
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Missile alerts cost Ukraine $45m for every hour they halt businesses
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Missile alerts cost Ukraine $45m for every hour they halt businesses
Figure cited by minister highlights trade-offs Kyiv faces as it tries to keep normal life moving amid Russian strikes Missile alerts are costing Ukraine an estimated $45m (£34m) for every hour they bring business to a halt, according to the country’s economy minister, as Kyiv searches for ways to keep the economy running under an intensifying Russian bombardment. Russia has increasingly targeted the infrastructure underpinning Ukraine’s economy, striking industrial sites, warehouses, logistics hubs and datacentres in what Oleksandr Kravchenko, the minister for economy and the environment, described as an effort to “destroy pretty much the entire economy”. Continue reading...
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Barchart @barchart.com · 30/09/2026
Oracle's $ORCL Credit Default Swaps just jumped to highest level in history, while the company remains one downgrade away from junk status 👀
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Total Belt to Ass in Michigan for the Democrats in Marist #MISen Abdul El-Sayed 51% Mike Rogers 44% Democrats have a +9 advantage on the generic ballot in Michigan #MIGov Benson 53% John James 41% maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...
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The Marist Institute for Public Opinion (MIPO) is a survey research center. MIPO is home to the Marist Poll and conducts polls on politics, the economy, sports, technology and more at the local, state...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio: "The straits are open!"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio: "From the very beginning, President Trump has made abundantly clear that the issue of Greenland is not about territorial conquest."
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A group of immigrant parents filed a class-action lawsuit against President Trump, arguing that his latest attempt to uproot birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment and more than a century of Supreme Court precedent.
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Second Lawsuit Filed Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Rules
The class-action suit challenges Trump’s newest executive order seeking to strip citizenship from children of certain classes of parents.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio: "Anything that had a chance of making money in Cuba was controlled by the Cuban military and the Cuban communist party to line the pockets of a handful of individuals at the expense of the entire country"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter: “Republicans are about to be completely wiped out in the midterms. This is going to be a bloodbath like we haven’t seen before.”
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 29/09/2026
Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing: Reuters
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Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing: Reuters
Anthropic plans to warn IPO investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.”
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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