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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BREAKING: We won! And we get discovery into this crazy demolition threat to boot. Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social and to my colleagues at DDF and WLG. Formal statement to follow.

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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

President Trump is placing simultaneous pressure on the five pillars that stabilize modern democracies: the Federal Reserve, the courts, U.S. alliances, law enforcement legitimacy, and public trust, creating systemic risk. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-presid...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

👀👀👀👀 Karl Rove says he’s voting Democratic in Texas because the “GOP’s stables need cleaning” Yes. That Karl Rove.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.

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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich

Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing about Bo French's appalling, racist comments on that picture of the UT game: 90% of UT Austin students are Texans. Almost all of those students of color are likely from the state. Texas is really, really diverse. Much more diverse than its leadership.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/09/2026

The important question is no longer whether the United States has the military capability to destroy. It is whether those tactical actions are moving the United States toward a defined political objective. NEW from @markhertling.bsky.social:

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The Iran War Is Moving Too Fast for Washington to Keep Up

America’s friends, partners, and enemies are making decisions now without waiting for the Trump administration to respond.

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...

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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this makes prescription drugs MORE expensive by exempting them from government price negotiations. unprecedented corruption at a massive scale

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just further enshrining the canonical conservative belief that being called racist is worse than being racist.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Buttigieg: "I was shocked to hear Speaker Johnson just now saying 'we shouldn't be rushing, shouldn't be moving too quickly on this.' You know what is moving quickly? AI. For Congress to sit on its hands is deeply dangerous it to the American people ... what have they been doing this entire time?"

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime. Ballots have already started to be sent out. The threats to free and fair elections are real and growing more serious by the day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/here...

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Here is Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms

We are less than two months until Election Day for the most important midterms of our lifetime.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone who's lived with an addict knows the one thing that's always true: The dose goes up. What worked last month doesn't work today. A Yale researcher says revenge runs on the same circuit as cocaine. Apply that to the last 6 months and see what it predicts about the next 6 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Beto O’Rourke stood outside the Texas GOP convention tonight and said what everyone in that room already knows: they scare you about immigrants and trans neighbors so you don’t notice the pockets getting picked. Tarrant County just cut 92 polling places. Connect the dots.

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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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/09/2026

"I would not recommend giving them credentials." The GOP's media team tried to keep The Bulwark out of Trump's midterm convention. @sonnybunch.bsky.social got in anyway. His dispatch from Dallas:

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Fear and Loathing Among the Fearful and Self-Loathing

What I saw at Trump’s tribute to Trump in Dallas.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026

Current and former officials involved in the talks on civilian harm reduction called the Trump administration's absence “humiliating” and “dangerous,” pointing to reports of rising civilian casualties in Iran following strikes on schools and homes.

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Empty Seat: U.S. Absent as Western Powers Meet on Wartime Protections for Civilians

A multinational group meets this week at NATO headquarters in Belgium to discuss protections for civilians during combat. Even though the U.S. co-founded this effort, no American delegation will be in...

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“I came to this country to pursue my education. I didn’t come here to commit a crime or hurt anyone,” he wrote on Instagram. “Yet now I’m walking through the streets of the United States with a GPS monitor on my leg, carrying a feeling of shame & humiliation that I never imagined I would experience”

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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro... The EU rejected this beef due to safety standards, but it’s being imported to the U.S. duty-free anyway. Why are we lowering standards on what we eat? If it isn't safe enough for the EU, it shouldn't be on our plates!

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Brazil And Argentina Will Send Tariff-Free Beef To U.S.—Despite Quality Concerns

Brazilian beef was recently rejected from the EU for failing to meet quality standards and 30,000 pounds of Argentinian meat was recalled in Texas and Florida this summer.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nothing in this @cnn.com piece about Elon Musk's extremist views and the questions and complications they will surely bring for Ken Paxton who must, of course, now be asked to disavow the support of a racist who advocates the Great Replacement Theory and other white nationalist ideas. Not a word.

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Musk has started spending money to help Ken Paxton. Will it help change the course of the Texas Senate race? | CNN Politics

For months, Texas Republicans have anxiously awaited the arrival of national resources to help boost Ken Paxton, one of the GOP’s most vulnerable Senate candidates.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Why would the Pentagon have addressed the munitions shortage when official US policy is the military was decimated by Biden but then turned into the strongest ever by Trump, and the key to war is straight white men doing pushups, saying "warrior" a lot, changing the name of DoD, and posting online?

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Sense & Synthesis @sensynthesis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Exactly. The complicit, GOP-controlled Congress could end this, and it chooses instead to enable it, ceding its powers to unitary executive and effective dictatorship. Vote in midterms early and in-person, and help others do the same.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

An *agreement* to shift to a sum appropriated by Congress is an “appropriation” and if we had an actual opposition party in Congress, it would sue to invalidate this *agreement.*. And it is sure enough time to say, if the Republicans won’t do this, the Democrats will.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

Mandated Islamophobia “The board members will debate a recommendation that students learn about early Islam through the lens of “the Prophet Mohammed’s brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes, the normalization of slavery, and the taking of female captives as harem slaves.”

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Divisive rewrite of Texas social studies set to conclude

Final debates on proposed changes will come after years of deliberations about race and religion in the classroom.

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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Or just build data centers that produce a surplus of renewable energy, don't drain the public water supply and don't pollute the environment. They have more than enough capital to build these responsibly and set a new standard for the industry. They just are choosing not to.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

He should be on the list for impeachment post midterms

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Pierre Leblanc (Retired) @colonelleblanc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Observing the actions of the Trump administration, allies and trading partners are voicing concerns about separation of powers, rule of law and the rise of corruption in the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...

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Opinion | King Donald Is Dethroning the Dollar

The dollar’s roll as the world’s reserve currency is threatened by the erosion of our institutions under Trump.

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Trump's financial disclosures show that he purchased up to $500K in Boeing stock. That same day Boeing received an $880M contract from the U.S. Navy. When will the SEC do its job & investigate Trump’s apparent insider trading? He's using the presidency to enrich himself.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The regime changed the law so they could "just enforce it." The Holocaust was legal, so was chattel slavery. The Trump administration spread racist lies about Haitians during the elections, the kind of lies and bigoted misinformation that historically proceeds genocide.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/08/2026

A Trump official diverted firefighting resources to a fire on his private ranch. He got 9 aircraft for the 7-acre fire while the 90,000 acre Grasshopper fire in Oregon got about the same. These guys kneecapped wildfire prevention and now they’re diverting what few resources remain for personal gain.

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Trump official faces inquiry over claims he diverted wildfire resources to his own property

Exclusive: Michael Boren, a senior official overseeing the US Forest Service, is accused by Democratic senators of ‘inappropriate interference’

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

All the Massive Public Health Failures Under RFK’s HHS, Ranked talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

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All the Massive Public Health Failures Under RFK’s HHS, Ranked

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Melinda🗽🇺🇸 @melindajean.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The regime doesn’t want the U.S. Dollar to be the reserve currency = they want to devalue the dollar….sounds fun, but like everything else this regime does, they have zero idea & don’t really give a shit about the huge negative consequences until it’s too late. roninsana.substack.com/p/what-im-wa...

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What I'm Watching So You Don't Have To

First Things First

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Captain Jack Sparrow @captain-jack-sparrow.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@gkmizuno The US buying its own debt will just devalue the currency. The US can cope with a huge debt only as long as other countries value the dollar as the 'go-to' currency for bonds. "In order to free up the money to buy yen, Japan has been selling US government bonds – known as treasuries […]

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Alienate our allies ✅ Tank the market ✅ Devalue the dollar ✅ Dismantle the federal government ✅ Kill 🇺🇸 tourism ✅

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Sense & Synthesis @sensynthesis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Engineering the downfall of the $USD? I feel like this isn’t getting the attention it should be. (Also, I’d love a good reason to discuss the theory, so please educate me.) substack.com/@theleahfiles substack.com/@theleahfiles

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Sense & Synthesis @sensynthesis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

City of Dallas folks, you’re not imagining it: Adelson’s influence is at work here, too. #saveDallasCityHall

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“This will definitely mean higher food prices…With corn prices rising almost 20 per cent this year, it will eventually make its way to the consumer.”

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US grain farmers face worst crisis in decades as Iran war sends costs spiralling

Middle East conflict adds to strains in America’s heartland months ahead of midterm elections

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CityGirlie @oaktownhappy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Duh 🙄

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

From the official DHS account. Doesn’t get much more un-American than this. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If we defeat fascism, one bit of fallout will be that the more backward states that decided to triple down because they stupidly decided that fascism was permanent will be left in the dust. It will be especially evident in states like Texas that were only half backward. Smart folk gonna bolt.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Howard Lutnick's neighbors keep wondering whether he was behind a deal to sell out their building to a Saudi firm. I got secret texts and a corporate intel report slipped into my mailbox. Turns out, the neighbors were right to wonder. NEW in @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/story/pierre...

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Sell Thy Neighbor: Inside the Real Estate Deal Scandalizing NYC’s Pierre Hotel and Its Glitzy Residents

Everyone from Michael Eisner to Tory Burch to Larry Ellison owns an apartment—maybe two—at the landmark hotel overlooking Central Park South. New reporting from Vanity Fair—including a secret dossier,...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Imagine an administration so evil it *intentionally* makes citizens worry about where their next meal is coming from. Well, guess what? You don’t have to imagine. That evil is our reality.

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