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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20h
Even America.gov agrees: Donald Trump drove up your gas prices.
In one Word, did Donald Trump's war in Iran drive up gas and diesel prices for Americans?

America.gov: yes
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h
Q: "Cattle groups are warning that ICE crackdowns in Kansas…are bringing up prices. Any comment?" Trump: "ICE has done a fantastic job."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 29/09/2026
GAO has a new report about how agencies gave DOGE staffers vast access to sensitive data and largely refused to verify to GAO that proper security controls were in place. The most remarkable part is the agencies' displays of pique & rancor toward GAO for asking questions. www.gao.gov/assets/gao-2...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pentagon's public tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased this week without explanation from Trump's Defense Department. The total number of troops now wounded during the war is 861, according to DCAS.
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In case facts still matter… Receipts: www.census.gov/newsroom/pre...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/4y5MY7n
Open AI headquarters in San Francisco is pictured. Headline reads: "OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites." Photo credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW: Trump’s ballroom? Actually it’s a ‘military complex.’ Trump’s arch? Also a ‘military complex.’ That press ban? A national security move. The president keeps cloaking pet projects in NatSec rationales — and judges are increasingly looking askance. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump’s ‘magic words’: National security
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 24/09/2026
"Paid for by the US Government" just means paid for at the expense of American taxpayers. Trump is setting your tax dollars on fire for ILLEGAL political propaganda.
washingtonpost.com
Trump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’
A TV ad boosting President Trump and saying that it was paid for by the U.S. government is airing in two major markets despite a federal law against using tax funds for "propaganda."
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: MS NOW, CNN, and Politico have filed a notice of noncompliance with the Temporary Restraining Order Judge Kelly issued on Trump's media ban and are asking him to set an immediate hearing.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
White House is violating court’s order with impunity, and CNN, MSNOW, and Politico are heading back to court. DOJ’s options are to admit incompetence or confess contempt of a court order and the rule of law.
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Adam A. Marshall @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Breaking: CNN, MS Now, Politico have moved for an emergency hearing before Judge Kelly, noting reporters for their orgs were turned away from WH this morning
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yikes, Tim Tebow — the latest Pablo Torre/Mother Jones investigation has questions about “Life Surge”, a company Tebow is a face of that’s taking Christians deep into debt with real estate investment classes that cost as much as $40,000🤔 (victims: “a scam”) More: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Unreal. White House apparently continues to block access to the reporters. Judge Kelly has ordered them to explain what’s going on by 12:30 pm et.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Whoa! Did Secret Service fail to get the memo or is the White House violating the court order? Either look is bad – either incompetent or contemptuous. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access
The Secret Service confiscated a POLITICO reporter's press pass Thursday morning despite a federal judge’s decision hours earlier that a media ban appeared to violate the constitutional due process ri...
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Secret Service is explicitly subject to the TRO in case anyone is wondering.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: Some CNN staff have been unable to gain access to the White House. CNN reporter Betsy Klein and a photojournalist were denied access to the White House grounds in the 6:00 a.m. hour. There was no reason provided for the refusal. www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/p...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Court rules White House must restore access to media outlets, and Secret Service bars them anyway. I’ll discuss the legal implications on @msnownews.bsky.social at 9 am ET.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING on MS NOW: MS NOW White House reporter Laura Barrón-López has been denied entry to the White House despite the court order restoring press access.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
404media.co
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/09/2026
UPDATE: They steal billions from us to build robots that kick the crumbs out of our mouths.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Kelly has ordered the government to RESPOND to the CNN/MSNOW/Politico TRO by TOMORROW, and a hearing is set on the Temporary Restraining Order motion for WEDNESDAY at 3:30 PM.
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Senator John Hickenlooper @hickenlooper.senate.gov · 21/09/2026
Why can’t this guy fantasize about lowering gas and grocery prices instead of painting everything gold? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
Trump Fantasizes About Dipping Iwo Jima Memorial in Gold
Donald Trump posted an image to Truth Social depicting the Marine Corps War Memorial, also know as the Iwo Jima Memorial, coated in gold.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The decision by the major television outlets not to participate in the White House pool today in response to Trump's self-declared "ban on the free press" will leave the most TV-addicted president in our history without network cameras recording his every utterance and movement.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shut up about the gas & diesel prices, peasants! ⛽️ Be happy we’re spending hundreds of millions on a ‘military complex’ Arch Of Trump nobody wanted or asked for! 🤷🏼
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Next: The Kennedy Center becomes a nuke launching pad!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
WATCH: “That did not happen.” @SteveScalise caught lying 🤥 to ABC that Biden banned 400 news orgs from the White House as he tries to cover for the toddler-in-chief’s authoritarian attempt to ban outlets that don’t glaze his every move
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/09/2026
Breaking News: President Trump said his D.C. arch would house drones and snipers, as the administration appeared prepared to justify another construction project by citing national security.
nyti.ms
Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers
The president’s announcement on Sunday echoed his justification for the White House ballroom: that the project was necessary for national security.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump has learned that if he invokes “national security” he can hoodwink the courts.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
This is Eugenics. Couple amping up the libido of their chosen specimens with their bid to lower the standards on human research subjects’ informed consent and mass deportation, and what other conclusion can be reached?
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump does CNN & MS big favor by putting it so bluntly. Government discrimination on the basis of viewpoint is virtually always unconstitutional: “Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied access…after Trump announced a ban on three news organizations because of reporting he disliked.”
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge orders Kennedy Center to provide 30 days' notice before major physical changes to building, including demolition.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CBO analysis: The Iran war has cost the U.S. $38 billion as of August 1. That’s >$246 million per day, on average. CBO says the war has raised inflation and global energy prices, citing reduced traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and says it’ll raise interest rates on treasuries.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15/09/2026
Blanche: "As far as President Trump's Truth about the justices, he is very frustrated…He has every right…The idea that President Trump shouldn't be allowed to communicate to the American people his frustration, I don't share that."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Kash Patel repeatedly refused to say whether Trump won the 2020 election (he did not) when asked by Sen. Peter Welch.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 15/09/2026
“The government is not going to disclose what it’s destroying,” John Brennan’s lawyer said in court on Monday. “There’s a lot of really underhanded stuff going on in this investigation.”
nbcnews.com
Trump loyalist subpoenaed John Brennan before resignation last week
The former CIA director’s team is trying to convince a federal judge in D.C. to force the Justice Department to preserve records they may use to make vindictive prosecution accusations.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NARRATOR: "The funny story about the so-called 'Russia! Russia! Russia! Hoax' was that it turned out the connections between Russia[!] and the Trump Family were far deeper and numerous than was originally thought."
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Their disgusting hypocrisy would be funny if it weren’t so fascist
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Judge Luttig lays out a kind of constitutional Armageddon for January 3, 2027: “The 1st moment of constitutional crisis will come when, sometime before the 120th Congress has been gaveled into session,the loyal temporary clerk refuses to list Democrat representatives-elect on the clerk’s roll…”
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
ms.now
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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/09/2026
Trump has promised checks before. They never came. @crampell.bsky.social explains why the new $5,000 “dividend” would cost a fortune, fuel inflation, could already be passed by Republicans if they wanted, and is practically an engraved invitation to scammers. lnk.thebulwark.com/4hmsG44?utm_...
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s Joe-over.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
lemonde.fr
France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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