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Ernest Hemingway's three words on how bankruptcy occurs also applies to how democracy is lost: "Gradually, then suddenly."

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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 12h
It's documented: rising fatalities and severe injuries linked to electric scooters and bicycles are a nationwide crisis, stretching far beyond major hubs like New York City into smaller cities, towns, and suburban communities. And all of it was predicted. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
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As E-Bikes and Scooters Surge on New York Streets, So Do Fatal Crashes (Gift Article)
More than two dozen people have died in crashes involving electric bikes and scooters in New York City this year. Officials are moving to address a growing safety crisis.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"A person needs a place—any place—to escape the feeling of being trapped." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Gaza’s Open Horizon
For many of us, the need to be in contact with the water has grown as the space around us has been constricted.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
John Kennedy interrupted almost every one of Jack Smith's replies & concluded with "You make me wanna throw up in my mouth." Please proceed, Senator. Throw up in your mouth to your heart's content. If it prohibits you from speaking, it can't come soon or often enough. youtube.com/shorts/CoHUf...
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Kennedy: "You make me want to throw up in my mouth"
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I don’t know if Trump or Miller have ever read Mein Kampf, but I do know that their hideous philosophy is shockingly similar to that detailed by Hitler ...and a large number of people and institutions are collaborating with [their] project..." www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Impersonated Hitler at the United Nations
It was just one more of many examples of the president mirroring a fascist leadership.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Companies whose sole purpose is to harvest consumer data would probably cease to exist if Congress had passed adequate privacy protections. Companies should not get a gold star for refusing to [algorithmically] gouge customers; they should be required not to." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Gouged: why Americans are being ripped off – and what to do about it
How can we fix our pricing crisis? Economic sociologist Lindsay Owens urges tough new rules – and a consumer uprising
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The first reconstruction came after the Civil War, the second was the civil rights movement, [Rev. Frederick Douglas] Haynes said, and the third would be a response to the “demolition derby” of the Trump administration.' www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Update from J. David Goodman
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"After yet another fatal strike in Kyiv, with yet another body covered by a sheet and then carted away, Ukrainians again took stock of Russia’s effort to bomb them into submission." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Russian Drone Strikes Ukraine’s Science Academy, Causing Fire in City Center (Gift Article)
A Russian jet-powered drone hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences, the source of almost all of the country’s major scientific discoveries.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If Andrew Bailey truly believes that Crash Patel can, will or ever had any capacity to “ensure strong organizational accountability, and [aim to] restore public trust...” then I have a bridge I'd like to sell him. And I'll throw in the Ginsu knives. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Andrew Bailey, a Deputy Director at the F.B.I., Leaves His Job (Gift Article)
Mr. Bailey, who was part of a three-person leadership team atop the bureau, lasted barely a year.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indifference is the greatest form of contempt and when it's rooted in self-dealing corruption, abuse of power, juiced by mendacity, lawlessness and malice you've got Trumpworld. Meanwhile back in this world: meidasnews.com/news/they-do...
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"This is the opposite of Trump, a governor [Gavin Newsom] moving to close the door on the kind of self-enrichment that has come to define the current occupant of the White House, even as Trump’s own meme coin continues to cost ordinary Americans billions." meidasnews.com/news/newsom-...
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Newsom Signs Sweeping Anti-Corruption Package Cracking Down on Meme Coins, Crypto Fraud, and Self-Dealing by Public Officials
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of anti-corruption and consumer protection legislation, MeidasTouch has exclusively learned, delivering one of
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The institutions Russia has built behind the front lines [in Russia-occupied parts of Ukraine] are hardening. For Russia, they are the groundwork of annexation. For Ukraine, they are an obstacle, even if Kyiv one day wins those territories back." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The Hidden State Russia Is Building Inside Ukraine
Russian occupation authorities are doing everything possible to make Ukrainian lands unrecoverable.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Put simply, Justice Jackson's "bright side" depends on Republican state and local election officials following federal law, and on the Supreme Court holding firm if election deniers try to purge voters. If the past is prologue, the signs are not hopeful." shorturl.at/RGh9j
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Justice Jackson found a bright side. I am not sure I see one.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Voters who reject DJT because they've realized he's just another politician who doesn't deliver on his promises, welcome aboard but he's not just another politician: he's a deranged, corrupt authoritarian ruled by a pathology of mendacity and zero ethical grounding. www.rawstory.com/trump-267794...
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'Danger for Trump': Maggie Haberman spills convos with 'freaked out' Republicans
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said Saturday that Republicans are panicking about November, and she shared what one of Donald Trump's voters told her about the president."I was in Miami last ...
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"If people can communicate like this, then how can speech be properly controlled? If people can understand one another just by scratching a bow across taut strings—perhaps this is a form of witchcraft. No place that tolerates it must be permitted to stand." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Kennedy Center Is the Most Terrifying Building in America
This place is much too dangerous.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Five words I am sick of seeing or hearing: "Do more on the app."
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Junior hasn't "tightened control," he has deliberately set out to destroy the CDC as anything but an instrument of his pet theories. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Not only is the immediate price for bucking Trump small; it actually works. It’s one of the only things that can really disarm him. Trump’s own furious reaction to the media’s stand against him neatly underscores the point." Too bad so many "elites" folded early. newrepublic.com/article/2158...
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Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Turn right for the gift shop and turn left for the arsenal.” And look directly at Trump and his rubber-stamping minions for the crazy. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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How Militarizing the Triumphal Arch Could Backfire for Trump
Adding drones and snipers to a planned monument may not work the way the president hopes.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The American Psychiatric Association (APA) was the first to capitulate to a destructive regime that demanded scientific organizations to be anti-scientific and democratic institutions to be anti-democratic, setting a dangerous precedent." Yale fired her. bandyxlee.substack.com/p/we-almost-...
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We Almost Brought Down the Trump Presidency—which is Why I and My Colleagues have been Sidelined and Silenced
Crisis in Leadership Leads to Existential Crisis
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"When you can buy your way out of any mistake, when you can fire anyone who disagrees with you, when your social circle consists entirely of people who need something from you, the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat
For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.
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Clay Bennett @claybennett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
9/26/2026- SCOTUS www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/se...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire pressed Overton on vaccines, asking her if she believed Trump could “ever be wrong about something.” Overton didn’t answer the question directly, instead saying that she “had the privilege of working for the president.”' newrepublic.com/post/215869/...
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The FDA’s Overton Window Problem
Heidi Overton’s confirmation hearing featured discussion of mifepristone and vaccines. But the agency’s problems go way beyond that.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Even more astonishing, this bit of state-run, taxpayer-funded propaganda that promises to destroy communism aired the same day Trump was rolling out a literal red carpet for Xi Jinping, an actual communist." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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Trump Orders America to “Love Me” and Sends Us Taxpayers the Bill
Taxpayers are footing the bill for a Fox “News” ad glorifying the president, as lawmakers question whether federal law has been crossed…
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“What he is arguing is, why should I have these people, what right do they have to be embedded in this building? They can cover the White House. They just can’t have a desk there.” Rubio's feeble attempts to justify this ban has all the holding power of a sieve. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Rubio defends Trump’s banning media organizations, arguing there aren’t ‘soldiers kicking down the doors’ of the outlets
“They’re just not allowed to work from the workspace at the White House,” the secretary of state said in an interview on “TODAY,” referring to CNN, Politico and MS NOW.
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Wetcoastgrumpa @wetcoastgrumpa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Duh, what do you mean?
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“There will be no facility like this anywhere in the World,” Mr. Trump said in a social media post. Yeah, dummy, for good [t]reason: it's evidence of a stark raving lunatic. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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Trump Says His D.C. Arch Would Be a ‘Military Complex’ Housing Drones and Snipers (Gift Article)
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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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"[The] threat is measles. And it might not be such a threat if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hadn’t spent so many years undermining faith in vaccines—or if, as health and human services secretary, he was treating the surge in cases like the big deal it is." Sicko. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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RFK Jr.’s ‘Medical Freedom’ Comes With a Body Count
Measles showed up at a children’s hospital. The health secretary showed up at an anti-vax conference.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Protester at the "Hands Around the Kennedy Center" rally holds up sign that reads: “WAR CRIMES CANNOT HIDE S£X CRIMES”
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“A journalist’s job is to interrogate and find truth, and if the truth... such as Trump being a felon, racist and someone who seeks to willfully undermine the will of voters and the rule of law, we commit journalistic malfeasance if we cover him with a neutral framing.” www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
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When neutrality is a constraint.
Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"[Dr. Henry David Abraham] cited the 'duty to warn' rule used by psychiatrists to take action if they believe their patient is a danger to others, calling on the 22 medical specialists listed in Trump’s most recent check-up to act as whistleblowers."
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“This idea that it is somehow beyond our power to use what is probably the single most elegant feature of the Constitution, which is its capacity to be amended—right?—is a complete failure of ambition and imagination,” Buttigieg said. He is one smart cookie. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Buttigieg: Democrats Need to Get Serious About Amending the Constitution
The former transportation secretary spoke with The Atlantic’s editor in chief about what comes next for Democrats should they win big in November.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Somebody’s up a ladder making a dead president disappear so you can get through the afternoon without feeling fucking inadequate." The disgrace this nation has made itself a party to must end. Before every last hope of salvaging our democracy does. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/the-nakedl...
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The Nakedly Needy Nero Who Can’t Leave Kennedy Alone
A president’s memorial held hostage by a madman who thinks the entire country owes him a fucking name tag.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"In one sequence that has drawn attention in early screenings, Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, raises the possibility that personal data obtained by DOGE could be used to interfere with the midterm elections." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/b...
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Searing Elon Musk Film Nears U.S. Release Amid Overseas Concerns (Gift Article)
Alex Gibney’s “Musk” will arrive in United States theaters next month. Universal says it remains committed to releasing it overseas but has yet to set dates.
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MinimumWageMan @minimumwageman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can not argue with this.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Alignment with human ethical values and practices is one thing, and it is vital. But another, mentioned less often, is containment. The creation of guardrails won't work with alignment alone. Verifiable and lasting containment is also essential to this effort. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/t...
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OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Of course, we want to align these things to our values, but the first thing is that we have to make sure they’re contained, their agency is limited, they don’t escape the box, they don’t reward hack, that they are controllable, and they follow our instruction." www.theverge.com/podcast/9964...
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Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Mustafa Suleyman on the AI safety debate, why AI isn’t consciousness, and how the industry pushes toward alignment.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AFP photographer Brendan Smialowski captured a photograph through the window of Air Force One Wednesday night in which Trump can be seen looking at a large posterboard emblazoned with the words “KENNEDY CENTER DEMOLISH.” newrepublic.com/post/215532/...
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Photographer Exposes Trump’s Kennedy Center Plan—and It’s a Bombshell
And a witness spotted a forklift repeatedly crashing into the building’s pillars.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Together, we stand at a pinnacle of national weakness atop a mountain of national rot that climbs ever higher, despite the MAGA hole being dug ever deeper." steveschmidt.substack.com/p/make-it-st...
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Make it stop
PLUS: How the Democrats must humiliate Trump
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Mike Johnson’s key job is to send the House packing: 1. Sept '26: Punting Hegseth Impeachment Vote 2. Shutting Down Floor Action on Iran 3. June '26: Halting Floor Agenda Over Trump's Voter ID Bill 4. Recess Triggered by Procedural Mutiny 5. 7/'25: Sidelining Epstein Files Vote shorturl.at/OrrY3
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House Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth Impeachment
Republicans are sending members of Congress home early to avoid a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Virtually all of the decisions regarding the development of AI have been made by a handful of the richest people in the world whose chief goal is to achieve even more wealth and more power than they already have, no matter what the impact their work has on ordinary people." Bernie Sanders
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Bessent agreed with Trump, saying the oil and oil money we’ve seized from [Venezuela] is “one of the largest assets to ever go on the U.S. balance sheet.” Billions and billions of dollars.' Yet he refuses to say "who controls that money and where it is." open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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Trump Took Control of Another Country’s Oil Fortune. Where the Hell Is the Money?
Trump boasts about billions from Venezuelan oil, but lawmakers are still fighting to learn where the money is, who controls it, and who’s getting paid…
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you for your attention to this matter...
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The entire regime is cringe, but this guy... Sen. Booker gets it right: “We don’t have an F.B.I. director, we have a lackey here, and frankly not even a good lackey, he’s an incompetent lackey. This is a mockery and a sham.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Kash Patel Suggests FBI Agents Could Go to Election Polling Sites (Gift Article)
Federal law prohibits armed federal officers or military personnel from being deployed to polling stations.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Musk is running a data-harvesting operation disguised as a voter registration checkpoint that may also direct you to other far right sites that have something else in mind. The site to use is vote.gov and collects no personal data. oligarchwatch.substack.com/p/the-hidden...
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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sixmile.bsky.social @sixmile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"I don’t intend to be overly sanguine about this Supreme Court. This is the court that shattered the one constitutional truth in the U.S. since 1789 that 'no man is above the law' and placed Donald Trump of all presidents above the law in Trump v. U.S." newrepublic.substack.com/p/the-final-...
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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