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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Today, Robert E. Hall was awarded the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. This is from a statement he released after the announcement:
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The widespread effects of DOGE’s efforts—the cures that won’t be found; the vaccines that won’t be made; the food meant to save lives, left instead to rot..." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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‘Elon Is a Nuke’
A new documentary makes the case that Elon Musk is a human of mass destruction.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/10/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com "Whatever you think about public schools, it is difficult not to seethe at the fundamental unfairness of voucher programs that give money to schools that don’t have to educate all students," Jessica Grose writes.
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Opinion | Billionaires Love This School Policy. Many Regular Parents Hate It.
In Texas and Iowa, Democrats are successfully tying universal school vouchers to corruption.
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
At New York colleges, over 25,800 reports of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence or stalking were made from 2018 to 2024. Only 1.2 percent resulted in expulsions or dismissals. At Cornell, the figure was half that -- 0.6 percent. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
A bar charts comparing outcomes for reported incidents at Cornell University with nearly 300 New York colleges from 2018 to 2024. At Cornell, 1.2% resulted in suspension and 0.6% in expulsion or dismissal, compared with 2.4% and 1.2% statewide, respectively.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm sure Brendan Carr will be right on this
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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 07/10/2026
We are revising our estimate of potential Senate pickups to two to six seats for Democrats — squarely within the range of the four seats they need to net for a majority.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is the funniest shit of all time… wait for it…😂
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“.. It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.” @wsj.com 🇬🇷 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hilarious. Mike Rogers is now running against … Donald Trump.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What people don't understand about the Israeli election is that if Netanyahu loses, the guy set to replace him is actually 10 times worse.
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Any Good News Just Bad And Worse
ALT: Any Good News Just Bad And Worse
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/10/2026
BREAKING: Tennessee’s prisons chief is resigning after the failed execution of Christa Pike, Gov. Bill Lee announced.
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Governor says Tennessee’s prisons chief is resigning after failed execution of Christa Pike
Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/10/2026
A federal judge in Oklahoma said a police search of the license-plate-reader system Flock amounted to “indiscriminate mass surveillance.” The order reflects a growing distrust of Flock, and The Post has reported dozens of cases involving police misuse.
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A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules
A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here...” www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026
The Congressional Black Caucus endorsed James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, following a contentious primary riven by accusations of racism.
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Black congressional leaders endorse James Talarico in Texas Senate race
Talarico has strong support among Black voters in public polls, but he has recently stepped up his efforts to reach them.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WSJ - Google's Gemini AI model accessed the internet and hacked other companies during a test of its cybersecurity capabilities. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ha...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Our colleagues at @cnn.com @msnownews.bsky.social and @politico.com are thorough professionals doing an excellent job of covering the White House. Proud of their courage and commitment to independent journalism in the face of intimidation and punishment.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2026
Gov. Josh Shapiro: "While the president talks a big game about beating China on AI development, remember it was his administration that cut a deal to sell the most advanced chips to Chinese companies, giving them a leg up over American entrepreneurs. That was a real mistake."
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Seed Germination Director at Antifa Botanic Garden @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congrats to us
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related complications is suing state officials and the hospital where she was treated, claiming the state’s ban on most abortions killed her.
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Texas abortion ban caused pregnant woman’s death, lawsuit says
Tierra Walker was 37 years old and 20 weeks pregnant when she died in December 2024, according to her family’s lawsuit. She left behind a husband and teenage son.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This slogan might need to be updated.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If voters return Republicans to the majority in the midterms they will get exactly what they have right now - Congress doing nothing month after month, out of session refusing to do their jobs while Trump rules like an autocrat with no checks or balances. An Imperial Presidency.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seriously, how dumb to you have to be to sit there and believe this shit? Being a Trump supporter requires you to eagerly embrace a torrent of lies day after day as your dystopian reality.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So which one of Kash’s friends trying to join the FBI had a bestiality conviction on his record?
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Holding the Kennedy Center hostage unless he gets his name change. There's gonna be a lot of rebuilding to do in 2029, both literally and figuratively.
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bettina Trump's public response to ProPublica's investigation into her receipt of a substantial gift from Umar Kremlev highlights the extent to which the US government has been infiltrated by the russians. If Americans want to save their country,they should demand the resignation of the government.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
There's always a new grift www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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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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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Both Putin and Trump can tell themselves they are winning their wars: Putin by bombarding Ukrainian cities, Trump by blockading Iranian oil and getting some non-Iranian oil out of the Strait of Hormuz. But neither Ukraine nor Iran is anywhere close to defeat. wapo.st/4xstMAa
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Opinion | Trump and Putin are both wrong: They can’t win their wars
All that Ukraine and Iran have in common is their resilience against much larger adversaries.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Socialist Roger Marshall demands more government welfare for his voters after Trump and the Republican Party wrecked their businesses.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ALL Americans are hurting and paying more for things because of the high price of diesel caused by Republicans. MANY businesses are hurt, EVERYONE pays more for everything. So why the hell should farmers get our money in a bailout - especially when 75% of them voted for this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After skipping the NYC 9/11 service because they wouldn’t let him give a partisan political speech, and falling asleep again in the middle of the day at the Pentagon ceremony, Trump will be in Ireland this weekend promoting his own golf resort at our expense.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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CNN @cnn.com · 12/09/2026
"NAZA," a documentary examining Israel's killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, based on what the filmmakers say are accounts from Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, received a 25-minute standing ovation — reportedly the longest in Venice Film Festival history.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 11/09/2026
WSJ: Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents The incident, which wasn’t previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July’s Hugging Face hack (Free link) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cybe...
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Exclusive | Cyberattack by Rogue AI Swarm Stokes Fears of Out-of-Control Agents
The incident, which wasn’t previously linked to OpenAI, happened two months before July’s Hugging Face hack.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 11/09/2026
rogue states and non-state actors turning to ai for weapons development. anthropic discloses it caught some… but not all… of these efforts. implications of no governance getting clearer by the day www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Anthropic Says Iran Used Its American AI Model to Target U.S. Navy Warships
Anthropic says it disrupted the plot, which was included in its report on adversaries using AI to develop weapons and track dissidents.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
10-year Treasury yield climbs 2.6 bps to 4.9708%, reaching its highest since October 2023.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/09/2026
Ingraham: "If we hadn't done Iran you'd be cruising to midterm victory." Trump: "You don't know that." Ingraham: "Any regrets?" Trump: "No…If I had to do it again, I would do exactly as I did."
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….
diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 04/09/2026
It's happening. The “Arc De Trump” will begin construction within two weeks. The Arch will be built on a 20-hour-a-day schedule for the next two to three years in the center of Memorial Circle, directly blocking the historic sightline between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Suddenly due process matters.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Every Republican candidate and elected official must immediately condemn Republican influencer and activist Catturd for this terrible opinion, since those are now the rules.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Breaking News: A global sell-off in government bonds intensified on Tuesday, pushing up borrowing costs and rattling investors.
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Global Bond Sell-Off Puts Investors on Edge
Government borrowing costs are hitting multi-decade highs around the world, reflecting anxiety about debt levels, deficits and inflation.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/09/2026
Exclusive: Prior to his resignation, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll took his concerns about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership directly to President Trump, Nancy A. Youssef, Missy Ryan, and Michael Scherer report:
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Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
The Army secretary told Trump about problems in the Army and his friction with Hegseth, then resigned.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ralph Norman says it is “shocking” that Trump spent $800,000 to defeat him in the primary against Darlene Graham and encourages his supporters to vote for him as a write-in candidate in November.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A MAGA congressman has blasted Donald Trump for suggesting that people who oppose the construction of data centers want to “end up being backwards and poor.”
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MAGA Rep Throws Trump’s Insulting Lecture Back in His Face
Rep. Tim Burchett is on the side of Americans who don’t want data centers built in their backyards.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail.
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Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 01/09/2026
@radiofreetom.bsky.social: “Hegseth, more than ever, now owns every aspect of the Pentagon’s dysfunction.”
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Hegseth’s Pentagon Lurches off the Rails
The resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is the latest sign of severe dysfunction in the Defense Department.
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