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S Faust

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Voter. Reader. Genealogy researcher. Theater-goer. Campervan owner. Pet-spoiler. Grandchild-doter. Haver of strong feelings about Oxford commas and wingless balrogs.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
> @cnbc.com #Tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/i...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8h
i would think the secretary of state might be a little more informed about possible corruption with the us ambassador to greece or at least a little curious
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h
when we published the following years ago, team trump vehemently denied our (accurate) reporting that trump had been privately saying he wanted partial videos of executions for like psa campaigns or some shit www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House
The former president wants to expand the use of the death penalty, and expand the federal government's options for carrying out death sentences.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8h
The last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
This is shameful. It speaks to a character that enjoys turning power into violence. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Tom Emmer refers to Somali-Americans as "enemy combatants" and says they should be "rounded up and put in jail"
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h
Iran sometimes does public executions but I can't find evidence they've ever televised one. It seems like North Korea, China, and Saudi Arabia have also never televised or livestreamed any executions. Looks like the U.S. will be in a club of one if Pete Hegseth goes through with this.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
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S Faust @sfaust.bsky.social · 8h
"parenting"? yeah no
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 13h
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
The U.S. re-joins an exclusive club
Screenshot of a list citing human rights organizations such as Amnesty International identifying four countries that have recently or historically carried out public executions: Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia. The text describes public hangings in Iran, executions under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, reported public executions in North Korea, and Saudi Arabia’s historical use of public beheadings.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9h
Rubio is petulantly annoyed because he gave this big speech in Athens about The Future of Western Civilization -- and coincidentally, on the very same day, his ambassador to Greece gets caught soliciting a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit-card bill.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 8h
Of course Hesgeth and his warped concept of strength is behind this bsky.app/profile/robe...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 9h
And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.
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🕸️ Cobweb Curtains For Zoosha 🦇 @brianvan.bsky.social · 8h
I can’t stress enough that swatting should be treated like attempted murder
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h
The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.
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S Faust @sfaust.bsky.social · 8h
Megyn Kelly is trash.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10h
Artificial Intelligence.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h
The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 15h
RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h
Sarah Rogers Is the Foreign Censorship Threat She Warned Against emptywheel.net/2026/10/08/s...
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Sarah Rogers Is the Foreign Censorship Threat She Warned Against - emptywheel
By bullying the EU to withdraw funding from the Disinfo2026 conference, Sarah Rogers engaged in the kind of retaliation DOJ had assured Judge Boasberg they would not do.
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S Faust @sfaust.bsky.social · 10h
He thinks he's "one of the good ones."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h
come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h
Is it good when you admit your military strategy is timed to elections?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h
my main comment is, do they remember who won the battle of the alamo bsky.app/profile/dber...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
FCC Chair Andrew Ferguson touts the administration's work to "protect white American men from discrimination"
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026
This is the most 2026-ass lede. Perfect encapsulation of the entire era.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Guillfoyle was pretty clearly trading on her connection with Trump to solicit payments in order to help a Republican donor get the IRS to quash a tax dispute. Massively corrupt! We used to take this sort of shit seriously!
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S Faust @sfaust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He wants to see trauma. He fantasizes about mass death.
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S Faust @sfaust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Is this the best that was yet to come?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When you offer a bare bones, factual description of what Guilfoyle has been up to, it sounds absolutely insane. But here we are: America's government under the Trumps. People of Greece, if you are listening, we are sorry. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...
Here is what happened: the former girlfriend of the President’s son asked an aspiring Republican politician for $100,000 to settle her credit card bill right before her Senate confirmation for an Ambassadorship, which she seems to have been awarded as a break-up present from the Trump family. (The son has since married, with the celebrations partially financed by a Russian oligarch with ties to Putin). She had previously received $300,000 from the donor for what seem to be largely unfulfilled promises of political favors.

As Ambassador to Greece, she has been pushing other countries to do business with an oil-and-gas lobbyist who has been attending her official meetings, and suggesting that the US could bring down the Greek government any time they wanted.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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The Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tropical Storm Isaias is strengthening steadily and it appears on a course for the Gulf Coast between Biloxi and the Big Bend of Florida, with special focus between Mobile & Destin. We break down the expected evolution and impacts as expected this evening. Below or at theeyewall.com.
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Tropical Storm Isaias appears destined for somewhere near the Florida Panhandle
Folks, especially between Mobile and Destin and perhaps just east should be preparing for a landfalling hurricane Friday night.
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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 07/10/2026
In the last 24 hours, Elon added $5,423,645.66. New totals include: $13,131,789.48 vs @jamestalarico.bsky.social $6,308,848.86 vs @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social $5,117,111.82 vs @abdulelsayed.bsky.social $1,991,872.98 vs @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social $1,176,301.42 vs @troyjackson207.bsky.social
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026
All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 08/10/2026
Among Eric Deters’ other hobbies: Getting arrested for chasing his nephew in his pickup truck.
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S Faust @sfaust.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Alarming!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The top three stories in tonight’s newsletter really say it all jessica.substack.com/p/congressio...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kim Guillyfoyle asking a donor for $100K to cover her credit card debt before starting in her new role as Ambassador to Greece. "Deters didn’t ultimately make the payment, telling Guilfoyle it would cost him his marriage." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn. What an icon. RIP
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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George Glass @georgeglass89.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
lol once again
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 07/10/2026
“Adrian should have had access to a process that was independent, trauma-informed, and transparent.” Featured: Months after this soldier's tragic death, his family still has questions. Not just about how he died, but whether he got the legal rights he was owed as a sexual assault whistleblower.
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A Texas Soldier's Death Casts Doubt on Federal Whistleblower Protections
Adrian Martinez reported a sexual assault two years before he was found dead on a Hawaii Army base. The Vanessa Guillén Act is supposed to protect soldiers like him.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb
Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
🎥 NEW: ICE never wanted you to see the internal documents it released last week. Why? It went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents to target nonprofits for registering voters. Marc Elias explains how deeply ICE has become involved in elections under Trump's second term👇
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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026
the supreme court: "stop saying we declared trump a god-king, presidential immunity was a limited and reasonable ruling" trump, constantly: "I am absolutely a god-king and I can do anything I want at any time"
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Mary Tuma @marytuma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Texas reproductive rights advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing its much anticipated maternal death report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027: Background here: www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mor...
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A ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’: Why the State's Maternal Death Report Was Pushed Until After Midterms
Advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing the annual report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I can do whatever I want” says the guy who denies dozens of sexual assault allegations.
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