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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 1h

The leading group seeking the deal includes an American investor, Todd Boehly, who has donated $2 million to President Trump’s political causes; two Middle Eastern groups that have done business with Mr. Kushner or Mr. Witkoff’s family; and an arm of the U.S. government itself.

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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sherri 11/07 @17x2lizards.bsky.social · 1h

wapo.st/47AKXF2 By Aaron Steckelberg, Leslie Shapiro, Dan Diamond GIFT Trump has focused on remaking DC in this term, from blades of grass on the White House lawn to new monuments around the city He regularly directs the pres helicopter to fly over his projects, surveying his changes from above $$

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How Trump’s sweeping changes are remaking Washington

No modern president has done more to personally reshape the nation’s capital.

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Donald Trump's donors and business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

I definitely think it possible Trump would be so shameless as to appoint Aileen Cannon. Which makes the current timing of the hearing on lawsuit to liberate the stolen documents report, November 2, of interest.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2h

Relatedly: if you’re refusing to use AI for religious reasons, I want to hear from you. There are multiple ways to reach me via the link in my bio, or you can hit me up on Signal: jackmjenkins.60

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1h

The NYT dropped 5 major Senate polls this morning — and they tell you exactly why the GOP is freaking out about the Senate. Alaska: Peltola up 50/43 Texas: Talarico up 51/45 Ohio: Brown up 49/46 Kansas: a 45/45 tie Iowa: Hinson up 48/47.

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 1h

The second chapter of Deportation Inc. follows migrants as they are shuffled through a nationwide network of flights and facility transfers. Deportation, Inc. Chapter 2 is produced with @situ-research.bsky.social and @theintercept.com. youtu.be/OmUjt0ezisY

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sadele2 @sadele2.bsky.social · 16h

The ruling by Judge Leibowitz…appears to be the 1st time a fed'l court has found the ⁠1996 law a violation of the US Constitution. Judge wrote that under the US Constitution only states can set voter qualifications, not Congress. …it was up to FL not DOJ to prosecute her…

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

This story is written by staff journalist S. Baum @transvestigations.bsky.social

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

This Wednesday, Elon Musk called for the death sentence for transgender youth care providers. It was in reply to a post calling for full criminalization of all gender-affirming surgery. Musk is becoming even more radicalized in targeting trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers

Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 17h

In his new book 'Profiles in Cowardice,' Jacob Weisberg devotes his final chapter to John Roberts. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b... -Preening to be seen as another John Marshall. -Destined to be known forever as this era's Roger Taney.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

Among other reasons to follow and support them, @iamstevenhale.bsky.social and @nashvillebanner.bsky.social post the documents.

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sadele2 @sadele2.bsky.social · 16h

Judge Blocks #BorderWall Construction in #BigBend in #Texas The fed'l government “shall not build border barrier or related infrastructure, or engage in any construction or ground disturbing activities, in the Big Bend sector,” Judge Kathleen Cardone wrote 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

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Judge Blocks Border Wall Construction in Big Bend in Texas (Gift Article)

The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.

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sadele2 @sadele2.bsky.social · 17h

"The woman who wrote “Man in the Mirror” sang it to me" at the book launch at the 92nd St. Y of Anand Giridharadas's book with the same title open.substack.com/pub/anandwri...

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The woman who wrote “Man in the Mirror” sang it to me

Notes on the world echoing back at you

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 18h

From me, most before paywall, contrasting long Playboy interview w Donald Trump in 1990 w long Time magazine interview this week. TL;DR His crabbed world-view is the same. But his cognitive terrain is alarmingly shrunken This only makes him more dangerous. fallows.substack.com/p/midterm-co...

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Midterm Countdown, 33 Days to Go: Language from Our Leader.

It’s not just your imagination. Donald Trump’s active vocabulary, his train of thought, his ability to filter are all in rapid decline. We’re watching a leaky balloon as it deflates.

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧊✈️ Yesterday's Flight Map 👀

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🧊 Friday ICECAST – 2 OCT 26 ✈️ 7am — Adelanto CA 10am – Seattle/BFI, Fort Worth 🇲🇽 11am – Omaha, Ft. Benning GA, Indianapolis, Reno, Kansas City 12pm – Punta Gorda FL 1pm — Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Springfield MO, Tampa Outbound: 🇲🇽🇸🇻🇬🇹🇭🇳🇩🇴🇬🇭

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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 19h

🧊✈️ These are all ICE flights 👀

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now

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WIRED @wired.com · 18h

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. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...

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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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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 18h

"...intimidating protesters and observers. They did this, the filing says, by doing drive-bys of the observers’ homes and, in the case of at least one observer, requiring that she be referred to secondary inspection any time she tries to cross the border until at least January 2027"

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 18h

2/ Read that again: "No matter how thin the facts are"

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 18h

“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs. He wants the headlines,” one former official told Fitzpatrick, adding that Trump wants action “no matter how thin” the facts are."

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 22h

WaPo - More than a year after the Trump administration attempted to dismantle Voice of America, it is paying an estimated $1.6 million a week to keep 420 of its staffers on administrative leave. wapo.st/4j1UpbF

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Trump administration is paying $1.6 million a week to keep Voice of America staff on leave

Hundreds of VOA staffers have been on paid leave since the agency sidelined them in March 2025.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 18h

WSJ - The FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain and sent Flight 1073 diving toward the ground had previously been banned from flying by Oman over concerns he had adopted radical ideological views. www.wsj.com/world/middle-east...

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 20h

Many of the victims, incl young sales assistants from the Harrods shop floor, were transported to Fayed’s home and offices, at times by helicopter, where they were abused by the billionaire owner

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Almost half of Fayed abuse accusers are potential trafficking victims, MPs told

Exclusive: Met police say 70 women’s accounts have hallmarks of trafficking, suggesting case numbers could rise

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20h

Calling someone a terrorist would almost certainly be protected as rhetorical hyperbole, but of course Benny went further and made specific factual claims about them, which can certainly cross the line into defamation.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

There is no one in my time in the media who has more consistently given off the aroma of unethical striver than Benny. From Day One it was obvious what he was and it remains amazing that this has been a boon to his efforts rather than a hindrance.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h

Follow-up on a piece Bolts did last month! Newsom has signed this bill into law — it gives some parents who are formerly incarcerated a stronger chance to reunite with their kids. Parents separated from their kids helped advocate for the bill's passage, Victoria Valenzuela reports:

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California Gives Formerly Incarcerated Parents a Chance to Get Their Kids Back - Bolts

People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California's law blocking people with past convictions for violent felonies from reuniting with their children.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 20h

Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...

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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico

A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.

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sadele2 @sadele2.bsky.social · 20h

NY Early Mail #ballots in the mail (at least in my county) Early in-person #voting starts 10/24 "General Election, 2026 (11/03/2026) Your Ballot Was Mailed on 09/30/2026. According to the USPS, First-Class mail should be delivered in 1–5 business days." voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21h

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21h

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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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.

Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Baird's starting point for the show he puts on at Selfridges department store is an 1885 "electric telescope" from German inventor Paul Nipkow, using a perforated disk to split an image into a series of lines. Each line can theoretically be converted to light and transmitted. 2/8

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

March 25, 1925: Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of his "televisor," a primitive television, in London. The device that projects moving silhouettes is far from Baird's dream of transmitting movie-quality images but offers a fuzzy peek into the future. 1/8

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

that’s the face of Baird’s assistant in 1926, I think bsky.app/profile/100y...

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Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow @brienmcmullen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Others include Alexander Graham Bell, James Watt, his nephew Robert Watt who invented radar, John Baird who invented the working TV. Here's an article with a bunch more examples. The stereotype of the Scottish tinkerer was common. Scrooge McDuck. www.electrochem.org/ecsnews/scot...

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Scottish Scientists Who Changed the World - ECS

The ECS Conference on Electrochemical Energy Conversion & Storage with SOFC-XIV in Glasgow is right around the corner. With Scotland

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Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow @brienmcmullen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yet another Scottish inventor in this field. They were really on the forefront, weren't they?

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 October 1925. John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor, performed 1st test of a working TV system in his London lab where he successfully transmitted the 1st TV picture which was a greyscale image of the head of a ventriloquist’s dummy.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Infuriating. Loish’s art has been RIPPED OFF by AI, since the very beginning, because she is popular and well loved. Now it’s coming back around to bite her again

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/10/2026

One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.

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