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Disaster response/relief volunteer. For Frodo. Fear nothing. 💙💛

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12h
⚡️ Russian drone strikes Kyiv nuclear institute housing research reactor. The strike, which occurred at around 6:18 p.m. local time on Sept. 30, sparked a fire that was quickly extinguished. No one was injured in the attack, according to a statement.
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Russian drone strikes Kyiv nuclear institute housing research reactor
The strike, which occurred at around 6:18 p.m. local time on Sept. 30, sparked a fire that was quickly extinguished. No one was injured in the attack, according to a statement.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 9h
The SAVE Act will NEVER become law in the United States of America. Republicans tried to jam through Trump’s SAVE Act: the most devious anti-voting rights legislation ever dreamed up to purge millions of voters from the rolls.
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Alix Paultre @smartalix.bsky.social · 10h
Exactly this.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 13h
You pay your taxes. Meta calls its fucking data centers an “experiment” and claims billions in tax breaks. Then politicians lecture working people about handouts. Corporate welfare gets a loophole; struggling families get a sermon. Tax these greedy bastards.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h
This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.
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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 14h
Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?
Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances" 

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10h
QTWTAIN Marvellous piece by @mtkonczal.bsky.social in which he carefully examines, and completely demolishes, claims that Trump's deportations have helped native-born US workers. A lesson for the UK obviously. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/can-we-fin...
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Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are Helping Native-Born Workers?
Shoot the moon! Ten hypotheses, ten charts, and no payoff for native-born workers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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RQ Skye @rqskye.bsky.social · 9h
🤦🏻‍♀️ They have nothing better to do?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h
A win! A D.C. Superior Court judge has permanently barred Jeanine Pirro’s office from prosecuting a former Olympic canoeist over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Reflecting Pool
A judge in Washington has agreed to permanently dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s not even sunset. Thanks for admitting you’re on Urals time zone
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
The idea is that, since USPS trucks are constantly traveling anyway, they can be used as a way to collect data, eventually potentially across the nation.
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
The American people want lower energy bills, and they want more clean energy. Our permitting reform plan gets us a long way toward both of those goals.
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Heinrich, Lee, Capito and Whitehouse Press Conference to Discuss Bipartisan Permitting Reform Deal
YouTube video by Senate Energy Dems
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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 30/09/2026
Most stories we've heard said this quake was over by the time they knew what it was, and that's okay! Once you realize it's a quake, please react accordingly. Drop, Cover, and Hold On appropriately for your situation! Practice with millions during the #ShakeOut! Register at shakeout.org!
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Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills
Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills help people in homes, schools, and organizations worldwide improve preparedness and practice how to be safe during earthquakes. Register to participate in your state or country's drill at www.ShakeOut.org.
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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 30/09/2026
Wild to see a video of fish reacting to the earthquake yesterday! Thanks @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social! How did YOU react? Did you Drop, Cover, and Hold On?
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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Culture shock: The Kennedy Center was solvent until Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed. Huh. Then again, everything he touches turns to shit, so actually, no surprise at all. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bishop also asked me during his little off script Q/A if my Stanford Computer Science degree was hard or soft science. I remember my lawyers and I trying to figure out at the break what the hell he was trying to get at… like, this idiot thinks I’m not smart enough to do my own work?
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Their convoluted theory was that my advisory role on CISA’s advisory board in 2021-2022 was somehow an operational role where I coordinated w/ social media platforms & helped CISA make platforms take down content (in 2020). All of that is absurd & why they never released my HS committee transcript.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here’s an article in the Missouri Independent with my first reactions re: Schmitt’s public records requests of me. It talks about Schmitt teaming up w/ the Gateway Pundit, who went on to sue us. It was finally dismissed (we won!) earlier this summer (2026). missouriindependent.com/2022/11/21/m...
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Missouri AG aligns with St. Louis conspiracy theorist in social media lawsuit • Missouri Independent
Jim Hoft, founder of the conspiracy website Gateway Pundit, was added as a plaintiff in Missouri AG Eric Schmitt's social media lawsuit.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He proceeded to ask me about Renee DiResta and allege that she was somehow running my whole research program. (He thinks she’s a CIA operative.) This was an interview with the Homeland Security Committee in June 2023.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If only there was video for Dan Bishop accusing me (during a Homeland Security interrogation) of being some kind of spy due to the gap in my resume (1997-2007). Bishop: “Where were you during that time period?” Me: Looks around the room very confused. “Uh.. playing professional basketball?”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 30/09/2026
Ponomaryov declined to confirm or deny whether he had been tipped off, but said that the allegations mark “a new level of escalation” by Russia.
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Garry Kasparov and Ilya Ponomaryov Targeted in Alleged Assassination Plot in U.S., Report Says - The Moscow Times
A Russian intelligence network planned to assassinate exiled opposition figures Garry Kasparov and Ilya Ponomaryov in the United States this summer, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported Tuesday.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More importantly, the way Schmitt has responded is to double-down. Right after his fiasco he hit the MAGA news/vlog circuit claiming that he did indeed uncover Jack Smith perjuring himself - Then he plays JUST the part when he makes the accusation, skipping the humiliation. This is NOT leadership.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some are defending Schmitt with "haven't YOU ever made a mistake?!?!" Of course I have. Many. But there's a difference b/t a blogger & a US Senator w/a staff of 60 - any of whom could & should have fact-checked before an accusation that could land a man in prison. www.alternet.org/jack-smith-h...
alternet.org
Republican strategist blows top after GOP's self-inflicted Smith humiliation
GOP adviser Shermichael Singleton was indignant at his party's embarrassing faux pas.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you need a refresher about the issues involved in release of Vol. 2 of Jack Smith’s report, you’re not alone. The case was briefed months ago, but has been sitting on the court’s docket waiting for oral argument. I wrote about it back then: joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-pas...
joycevance.substack.com
Trump's Past Is Catching Up With Him
We’ve discussed Trump’s ongoing efforts to prevent the release of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the now-dismissed classified documents prosecution against the president.
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Paul Sullivan, Veteran @paulvetdem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Marx: Certifiably crazy candidate “A #MAGA-backed ministry leader vying to be #Colorado’s next #governor once laughed about slamming his wife into a door, recounted how he threw his toddler across the room and declared that God gave him a ‘gift’ for violence” www2.thedailybeast.com/christian-wa...
www2.thedailybeast.com
‘Christian Warrior’ Candidate’s Dark Past Revealed
Fresh videos and posts unearthed by the Daily Beast have placed the Republican under growing scrutiny as the midterms loom.
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St. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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ICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.
The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm also waiting to see if the men are actually in Somalia.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Received a phone call this morning letting me know they started moving people from Guantanamo Bay to Somalia late last week. Working on getting in contact with them now.
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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Instead of admitting that Eric Schmitt brutally missed the mark by confusing two different basketball teams while trying to catch Jack Smith in a "gotcha moment," some MAGA tastemakers are doubling down.
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MAGA Media Is Trying to Spin Senator’s Brutal Gaffe Into a Win
Eric Schmitt humiliated himself while trying to corner Jack Smith during a Senate hearing. The right is running cover for him
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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LOL
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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 30/09/2026
Practice Drop, Cover, and Hold On: Protect your melon. Join millions – register for free and learn more at www.shakeout.org/washington
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The Great Washington ShakeOut
Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills help people in homes, schools, and organizations worldwide improve preparedness and practice how to be safe during earthquakes. Register to participate in your state or country's drill at www.ShakeOut.org.
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Washington Emergency Management Division @emd.wa.gov · 30/09/2026
Lots of folks felt that earthquake yesterday. Had it been stronger, there's a chance people might have fallen and gotten hurt. That's why we suggest people drop to the ground if possible -- an essential part of drop, cover and hold on.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's the last day of the quarter everyone! Have links below to support the most important battleground races across the country. Let's rally for our courageous candidates and gritty state parties all across the country, and make this a big day! 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/its-the-la...
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It’s The Last Day Of The Quarter. Let’s Rally For Our Battleground Candidates And Party Committees Today And Make Sure They Close Strong!!!!!!
We need to have a big day peeps. Decisions on ads, where to put final resources will be made based on the q3 fundraising totals for candidates and committees. Let’s be Hopium strong for them today!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 30/09/2026
Dangerous flooding risks move out of the Desert Southwest and into the Plains today as tropical moisture streams in. With up to 6 inches of rain, considerable flood impacts are possible. Avoid travelling through flooded or vulnerable areas, and remember to #TurnAroundDontDrown
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/09/2026
A video falsely claiming to show a long queue of Muslim women waiting to sign up for free childcare has been liked thousands of times on social media. But the clip actually shows the women waiting in line for a modest clothing sale in Amsterdam.
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Video shows Muslim women queuing for a clothing sale, not free childcare – Full Fact
The video has been widely shared on social media alongside the false claim that it shows women in headscarves lining up to enroll their children into free public daycare.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1/ Another AI-generated video falsely depicting Russian 'control' north of Lyman has been publicised by disgusted Russian warbloggers. It's part of a "plague" of AI "neurocontrol" that prominent warblogger Rybar condemns as "inept, half-baked information warfare". ⬇️
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kikime2.bsky.social @kikime2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As in they'll "swipe" and data you enter and add it to their Big Brother database?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump is using the launch of the new AI-powered America .gov to push the SAVE Act. He says the site will make it easy to get documents like replacement Social Security cards and passports, so Congress should pass the bill. Apparently, getting the paperwork will be as easy as a swipe.
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emtoo.bsky.social @emtoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It will almost certainly be on SNL this weekend.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 29/09/2026
It's the final week to help shape our next community-curated merch. Got a design idea? Send it our way. Not an artist? No problem. We’re also looking for tagline ideas for T-shirts, bags and hats. What makes you think of Bellingcat? Tell us by Friday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Various bellingcat merch design mockups. Reads: We Want You To Design Our Merch
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 29/09/2026
4 years ago, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social joined UNITED24🇺🇦 In addition to fundraising drones and robots for Ukraine’s defenders, he’s never stopped advocating for our country, using his voice to warn Ukrainians about air alerts. Giving us hope. Thank you for your Force that’s always with us!
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russian disinformation campaign is actively using AI-generated deepfakes and voice-cloning to create fake videos of recognizable Hollywood celebrities attacking the Democratic Party. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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upalag resists @upalag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amy Klobuchar is almost as good as Jack Smith! She will cut you and you won’t even see it coming! She will be our next governor in Minnesota. But she also would make an excellent Attorney General!
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 29/09/2026
🔴 A Russian strike drone targeted an area near the Yahodyn border terminal on the Ukrainian-Polish border. The blast wave from the explosion damaged the entry checkpoint building at the terminal, according to Ukrainian officials.
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A. Sharpie @asharpie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SCHMITT: Mr. Smith, did you attend a Green Bay Packers game? SMITH: No. but I once rode in a Packard at a classic car show. SCHMITT: So you admit it! SMITH: I admit I rode in a Packard. SCHMITT: And was that in Green Bay? SMITH: No. SCHMITT: But it could have been? AM I CORRECT??!!
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