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Roger Sollenberger

@sollenbergerrc.bsky.social
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Politics reporter, guitar botherer. Luckiest hub and dad to Mr. Bugs aka The Moopus aka Mr. Moops or Mr. Moopus. Former @thedailybeast Tips: roger.sollenberger@protonmail.com

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“.. Mr. Paxton responds: ‘So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.’” @nytimes.com #TXsen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genuinely thought this was a one-and-done thing and he’d moved on so everyone would forget he said it
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Fuck that” >> “I’m Sherrod Brown, and I approved this message”
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let’s see how this one ages
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
The Justice Department said on Thursday it had ended its watchdog role in more than 50 cases enforcing racial desegregation in schools, mostly in the South. The changes are the latest in the Trump administration’s bid to overhaul civil rights enforcement in the U.S.
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Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases
Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Missing the “Ambassador Claims” part
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said. with @veritenews.org
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He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Christ, these people are monsters. Just monsters. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My “THIS IS WAR” t-shirt is getting a lot of questions from reporters that are already answered by the shirt
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Actually maybe ask him — for the first time! — about the woman who told the FBI in multiple interviews that he raped her and punched her when she was a child
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Outlets who aren’t banned should start asking Trump how he got so fat and why the First Lady never stays at the White House and how much he’s currently paid E. Jean Carroll and when was the last time he smacked his oldest son in the face etc
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription”
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Local news now reporting that the explosion caused “significant damage” to the building, “deeming it a total loss.” www.wctv.tv/2026/09/17/e...
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Explosion at Taylor County defense facility destroys building, no injuries reported
At the time of the explosion, deputies said one security officer and a main office employee were both present at the facility.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump: We’re about to end the war Vance, same day: That could trigger a worldwide energy crisis
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A person familiar tells me a building at Rep. Cory Mills’ grenade factory just exploded
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 17/09/2026
This is some societal decay shit for sure
Box of "Popsicle" brand hard seltzers in a liquor store fridge
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Russian intelligence felt confident that they could get away with assassinating dissidents living in the United States
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/09/2026
Federal prosecutors have accused five men of being part of a network that planned to assassinate Russian dissidents and others in the U.S. and abroad. The charges say that the plots were orchestrated by the Kremlin.
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U.S. Charges Five Men in Russia-Backed Assassination Plots
The defendants, three of whom were members of the Russian intelligence services, tried to recruit people for surveillance and murder for hire in the United States and other countries, prosecutors said.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Of maybe all the this fucking guys he’s the most this fucking guy
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A person familiar tells me a building at Rep. Cory Mills’ grenade factory just exploded
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Whitehouse grills Patel on Epstein 👇 WHITEHOUSE: Am I accurate in suggesting the missing 37 pages likely include FBI contemporaneous notes from interviews w/woman who said she was assaulted by Trump? PATEL: I don't know what you're referencing. We've produced 3.5m pages W: But not these 37
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Don Jr, looking like Gordon Gecko, is giving a convention speech about how grateful the audience should be for Trump’s “no tax on tips” and how they should fear big government spending while he’s taking hundreds of millions of their tax dollars
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ok so Trump is *promising* that he will pay every American adult $5,000 if Republicans win the House & Senate. And as I’m sure other astute observers are noting, that’s essentially a taxpayer-backed, congressionally unapproved $1.3 trillion bribe. He’s bribing the entire country—with our own money
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This one is cleared, and so is the defamation case against Nancy Mace — for her floor speech last year in which she accused men of rape — according to a federal court ruling this week
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
hey let’s check in with Kyrsten Sinema apnews.com/article/kyrs...
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Judge clears a lawsuit against Kyrsten Sinema under North Carolina's 'homewrecker' law
A judge has ruled that former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued under North Carolina's homewrecker law.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Elon Musk’s “America PAC” super PAC just reported what appears to be its first 7-figure expenditure of the midterms — and it’s for attacks on Talarico in Texas docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump today: “A lot of people don’t call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us.” He called it a war yesterday.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The contempt of AI from insurance adjusters gets at a serious problem with AI: it still constantly makes up stuff and it can't be trusted with data. Here's state of the art LLMs (including just-released Astra & Fable 5.1) still confidently barfing up wrong answers a third of the time.
AA-Omniscience Accuracy vs. AA-Omniscience Index
AA-Omniscience Accuracy (higher is better) measures the proportion of correctly answered questions out of all questions, regardless of whether the model chooses to answer · AA-Omniscience IndexAA-Omniscience
Description: AA-Omniscience is a knowledge and hallucination benchmark that measures factual reliability, rewards precise knowledge, and penalizes incorrect guesses or hallucinations. It provides a detailed assessment of a model’s ability to distinguish known from unknowns across diverse knowledge domains.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13029
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ArtificialAnalysis/AA-Omniscience-Public
Implementation:
The benchmark consists of 6,000 questions covering 42 topics, including Business, Humanities and Social Sciences, Health, Law, Software Engineering, and Science, Engineering and Mathematics.
Models are scored using the AA-Omniscience Index, which assigns points for correct answers, subtracts points for hallucinated responses, and keeps abstentions neutral, rewarding abstentions over incorrect guesses
Each answer is graded as either CORRECT, INCORRECT, PARTIAL_ANSWER, or NOT_ATTEMPTED based on the model's response and the ground truth answer. GPT-5.6 Luna (medium) is used as the grading model
Intelligence Index Integration: AA-Omniscience contributes two components to the Intelligence Index: (1) Accuracy - the proportion of correct answers, weighted at 8% of the overall Index, and (2) Non-Hallucination Rate - calculated as 1 minus the hallucination rate, weighted at 4% of the overall Index (a 2:1 split of AA-Omniscience's 12% share).
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Late to this story, but I’m open to hearing any evidence at all that Pete Hegseth is not a white supremacist www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
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Exclusive: Navy weighs renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, potentially switching it to Trump | CNN Politics
The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, three sources familiar wit...
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Amazing if this is because some outlet has a story cooking about the Fox-WH pipeline and sent Fox a comment request this morning
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Politico @politico.com · 03/09/2026
An ICE officer has been indicted on charges that he repeatedly lied to the FBI as it investigated a shooting in Minneapolis that left a Venezuelan man wounded.
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ICE agent indicted for lying about Minnesota shooting
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sky Bunker
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested by Bourbon County Sheriff's Office
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Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested by Bourbon County Sheriff's Office
The Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office arrested former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin Thursday at a film set in Paris, Kentucky.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/09/2026
NEW: Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be deported rather than wait in detention centers.
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These Judges Take Months to Decide If Immigrants Have Been Unlawfully Detained
Judges in some parts of the country have taken months to adjudicate immigrants’ claims of unlawful imprisonment, our analysis of 70,000 habeas petition cases found. Some detainees are asking to be dep...
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Maybe Venezuela really has been on Lutnick’s corrupt mind
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NEW: Former Trump body man John McEntee just registered to lobby for a Chinese AI company the Pentagon recently listed as tied to China’s military. McEntee failed his WH background check & defended TikTok. He’s the guy who said he gave fake money to homeless people. Filing: lda.gov/filings/publ...
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LD-1 Disclosure Form
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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Haitian Student, Despondent Over Ankle Monitor, Dies in Apparent Suicide
The 20-year-old was fitted with a tracking device under a Trump administrative initiative targeting Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not one not two but three consecutive ads at the top of Trump’s Truth Social feed for “free” $1,000 bills* with Trump’s face on them. *spelled “BILLL”
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Politico @politico.com · 01/09/2026
Republicans and Dems across Capitol Hill are getting a glimpse of AI’s latest power: its ability to churn out instant dossiers filled with details about ordinary Americans, from a gun store owner’s leaked email passwords to people’s visits to abortion clinics. And it’s freaking them out.
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Own a gun? Go to church? Do yoga? AI can find out in seconds.
A series of demos on the Hill has both Democrats and Republicans alarmed about artificial intelligence’s ability to plumb commercial databases for information on Americans.
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Shout out to the 11% who apparently have no access to the internet, television, or their own eyes. news.gallup.com/poll/713933/...
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Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/09/2026
Q: “The perception is that you're sitting now at Commerce and you're able to control what Cantor is getting…It looks like a conflict of interest.” Lutnick: “It's just not…And this is minor stuff anyway, you know that I am well to do. I don't worry about this kind of stuff.”
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Grok, did you just bomb a wedding
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Campaign genius JD Vance copping a crazy Will Smith line from 4 years ago
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