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SatelliteOfLove

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From various vidya gaem internet places since 1996. Sandlapper. Bitter Optimist. Tired of gullible and resentful people. Former Republican. Tree enthusiast. These are the times that try men's souls.

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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 2h
I think we need to talk more about how Axios has multiple reporters that openly collude with the Trump admin Wait sorry my handlers tell me if we point this out Barak Ravid will report us to the ADL
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 8h
Close to $780k recently hitting Brian Bengs in South Dakota
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Mike Johnson on cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid: "We did program integrity measures, took those people off the system, and you know what it did? It strengthened Medicaid. We have to do more of that work."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h
A bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials — including the Kennedy Center — was blocked Monday night in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
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GOP senator blocks bill to stop Trump from demolishing Kennedy Center
The bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials was thwarted in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 16h
NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The House vote in 2018 was about R+4.7, so uhh that’s quite a bit bluer. The last time Dems won the House vote in Ohio was 2008
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i hope people are ready for the pivot from immigration to domestic racial segregation among "polite" right wing spaces in coming years i give it til 2028 before the conversation goes from "heritage American" to "cultural homogeneity" to "i'm Just Asking Questions about interracial marriage"
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Jacob 🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭🐧🌻 @seagulljaap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The most bigoted among us who end up in politics often end up being the most corrupt. No sympathy for a bigot who maligned queer people while he cheated his way through life.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a day that ends in 'y' so there's a new Trump emergency application filed at the Supreme Court, this time seeking to enforce the administration's policy that restricts gender-affirming care for transgender inmates.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unearthed post reveals Texas Republican candidate Bo French, who made a racist post about UT Austin students last week, calling for the lynching of Barack Obama: “The penalty for treason used to be death. Even for a former president. #HangEmHigh.”
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
x.com/AnthonyAguero/…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 27/09/2026
"I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered,” McAfee acknowledged before my visit. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer. And I’m going against the grain here. I’m climbing a mountain they say you can’t climb." www.propublica.org/article/mark...
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rahm Emanuel, who has about a good a chance of being president as I do, has been profiled like 9 times in the last couple months in major newspapers. It really shows you how profoundly out of touch the people are that drive much of our national political discourse.
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At least 6 babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Donald Trump's Approval Among Trump Voters: 🟢Approve: 75% (-18) 🔴Disapprove: 22% (+17) YouGov / Sept 21, 2026 (% Change With Jan 28, 2025)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
9/ A month in, I was betting so much that DraftKings’ quick-tap deposit buttons had increased to $500, $750 and $950, making it even easier to mindlessly transfer money into my account. I was also getting pummeled with push alerts inviting me to bet more.
A pile of phone notifications from DraftKings layered on top of one another. Each notification offers a promotion or boost.A dropdown menu reads “Deposit” and shows dollar amounts for $500, $750, $950 and Other, along with a “Slide to Deposit” button.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
6/ The next day, an email popped in my inbox: 'Welcome to the DraftKings VIP Showcase.' I couldn’t believe it. My night of loss chasing was being rewarded. Reading the fine print, I was floored: The more I spent on long-odds wagers, the faster I’d advance through the ranks.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oligarch solidarity www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
Michigan CEO loses job after posting AI-made image of her family in ‘Lake America’ sweaters
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Michigan CEO loses job after posting AI-made image of her family in ‘Lake America’ sweaters
Jane Smith reportedly used ChatGPT to edit photo to show name Trump ordered US agencies to use for Lake Ontario amid trade war with Canada
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
(Trump-appointed, yes, but in Maryland and previously nominated to the same position by Obama)
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026
Exclusive: Classified documents provided to Congress include an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community that Saudi Arabia has not ruled out the option of developing a nuclear weapons program, U.S. officials told The Post.
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Saudis have not ruled out developing nuclear weapons, U.S. intelligence assesses
The sobering outlook has compounded concerns from some U.S. lawmakers about President Donald Trump’s agreement to assist the kingdom with establishing a civilian nuclear program.
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 25/09/2026
We had already requested comment from 14 sports figures who got paid to speak at/promote Life Surge (on account of allegations like the ones below). We've already exchanged messages with several of these people's reps. None of them has provided any kind of statement.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Arizona 1st Congressional district GOP nominee Jay Feely no longer has a photo of Trump on the homepage of his campaign site Before ... and after
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
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teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social @teamhamiltonhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Meischa was Roger Marshall's patient. This is her story.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/09/2026
really fascinating to see isgur conduct this interview as if conservative election mistrust has materialized out of nowhere or as if liberal claims of voter suppression are totally baseless. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Opinion | How Worried Should We Be About the Midterm Elections?
And how we learn to trust elections again.
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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the most honest Pete Ricketts ad we’ve seen.
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Rep. Jermaine Johnson @drjljohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of our bilingual volunteers connected with a Spanish-speaking neighbor while canvassing this week. Every South Carolinian deserves access to their right to vote. Fuel our listening tour with $15. secure.actblue.com/donate/drjer...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dan Sullivan, one of the GOP senators in a very competitive race, voted NO.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Chad Livengood @chadlivengood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
SCOOP: Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall attacked hospital leaders. Now they're targeting his most vulnerable Republican members in the November election. @craigmauger.bsky.social has new details on this escalating Lansing feud: www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Ossoff: "Sen. John Thune is coming to Georgia to campaign for the congressman. The senator therefore needs to answer whether he will denounce Mike Collins's extensive ties to white nationalism and neo-Nazi ideology."
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Pollcast - Poll Tracker @pollcast.net · 24/09/2026
New Maine Senate poll: The New York Times/Siena University/Portland Press Herald (Sep 22 - 619 LV) 🔴 Collins 48.7 (R+2.7) 🔵 Jackson 45.9 View the average ->
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/09/2026
Rosneft billions fed Kremlin-backed money laundering network ft.trib.al/s5Kpd9s
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Rosneft billions fed Kremlin-backed money laundering network
FT investigation shows the state oil group’s hard currency was at heart of Russia’s efforts to circumvent sanctions
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are two dieticians on local TV news right now talking about how you can buy potatoes and some cheap cuts of meat to really stretch your dollar and I feel like this is more devastating than any anti-Trump ad currently running.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026
Big subtext: Hamilton is proving to be a hard target for the GOP. When Vance attacked his faith, a local UMC bishop and 120 UMC pastors issued statements defending him. When his competitor Sen. Marshall called him a pastor who is "too woke for Kansas," Marshall's *own pastor* suggested otherwise.

But the attacks have also revealed the positive reputation Hamilton has forged among his co-religionists. Last week, David Wilson, the United Methodist bishop who oversees Hamilton’s regional conference, published a statement dismissing attacks on Hamilton by Vance and Marshall as “inaccurate and unwarranted,” describing them as an “invective against the church, of which Adam is the founding pastor.”“The language used, in effect, criticizes fellow Christians merely for living up to what Jesus taught in the Gospel texts,” wrote Wilson, who oversees the Great Plains Annual Conference.

A few days later, 120 UMC pastors from across the state signed a public letter to Marshall, urging the senator and the Vice President to tone down the rhetoric.

“When you attack Adam’s pastoral ministry, his home congregation, and our denomination as a whole, you sow seeds of division and dissent,” read the letter. “You tear at the fabric that is the body of Christ.”

And when Marshall derided Hamilton in August as a “megachurch pastor that’s too woke for Kansas,” Hamilton’s campaign quickly noted that the pastor of Marshall’s own non-denominational church has publicly referred to Hamilton as a “middle-of-the-road pastor who is willing to listen to all sides.”
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Pinky Herman @walkerbrown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DCCC about to go into OK-5 @purrtah.bsky.social www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p... (paywalled)
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Scoop: The anonymous source behind a POLITICO story that the White House is now using to justify a ban on the outlet was none other than JD Vance himself. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/white-hous...
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The Source Behind The Ban
The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned.
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roxtiron.bsky.social @roxtiron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨Breaking from @ACapaccio: The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia by UPS, people briefed on the incident said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China Is Holding Sensitive F-35 Parts Diverted to Hong Kong
The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed ...
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 22/09/2026
In primaries this year, Democratic turnout utterly dwarfed Republican turnout. But does it mean anything for November? It turns out the answer is very much yes. A new analysis from @donnermaps.bsky.social suggests that Dems are on track for a 13-point blowout in the House vote. Here's why.
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Massive primary turnout points to biggest year for Democrats since Watergate
There’s a remarkably close correlation between the primary vote and the House popular vote
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ashley (ravens 2-1) 🌹 @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
guys is everyone ready for yet another “Worst Poll Ever For Trump”?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“.. Trump’s support for the idea blindsided industry officials. Oil executives and lobbyists rushed to register their opposition .. But now, they said, it seems inevitable the U.S. will move forward ..” ⛽️ @wsj.com $OSX www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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