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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24m
BREAKING: In an interview w/Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia admits that despite describing herself repeatedly as a lawyer and working as General Counsel for a non-profit she has never been licensed to practice law and failed the California bar.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 38m
"Armstrong, who serves as comms director for Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA), was a member of a chat while at the U-Pittsburgh where members swapped Nazi memes, jokes about the Holocaust and racist stereotypes..." www.rawstory.com/ryan-mackenz...
rawstory.com
Republican's top aide exposed in group chat with Nazi memes and racist rhetoric: report
A top aide to a vulnerable Pennsylvania Republican was in a college group chat that traded racist and antisemitic memes, a report says.Arnaud Armstrong, who serves as communications director for Rep. ...
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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 19h
When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h
Playbook reports that Trump is considering replacing Susie Wiles, the last thing from preventing his Admin from REALLY going off the rails. He wants to blame SUSIE that people hate him and is considering promoting Stephen Miller, one main reason why people DO hate him. www.politico.com/playbook
Trump’s phone-a-friend inquiries have picked up with the approach of the November election, as he expresses private frustration with his feeble poll numbers.

One senior elected Republican official who received a call from Trump said the president had raised “the first honest questions about Susie.”

Trump has floated several people who could replace Wiles as chief of staff: The senior elected Republican official said the president had mentioned Stephen Miller, his deputy chief of staff, and Randy Levine, the president of the New York Yankees, as an outside-the-building option.

Trump is also considering Steve Witkoff, Bill Pulte and Kevin McCarthy, people close to the president told us. Allies of McCarthy, the former House speaker, have been arguing that he could help Trump handle a hostile Democratic Congress.
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somuchblue.bsky.social @somuchblue.bsky.social · 5h
Recently spoke with a Ukrainian here in Richmond VA who said this is true of both Russia & US though he also said watching TV in US makes one brain-dead so i am not sure exactly where he falls on the demand/supply line here!
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 7h
In Kyiv and Brussels, they are outraged by this US approach to negotiations. Officials emphasize that the war can only be ended by putting pressure on Russia, and the Kremlin will use any support to replenish the military budget.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 7h
Even when Congress isn’t in session, they work for us — and our loved ones and neighbors can’t wait on protections from ICE. Your representative could provide the 1 signature needed to advance a bill to give legal protections to Dreamers, TPS holders, and other long-term residents ICE is targeting.
action.aclu.org
Pathway to Citizenship Now
ICE has shot and killed people in our streets. Dozens have died in ICE custody. These aren’t isolated events. We need solutions today and the Dream and Promise Act is a critical piece of that. Take action now
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 6h
The Trump administration has slowed the application process for would-be citizens, deciding 73% fewer naturalization cases over the past year — extending wait times for immigrants hoping to cast a ballot, reunite with family members, or be protected from deportation.
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Citizenship Approvals Plummet a Year Into Trump’s Second Term
The Trump administration has slowed the application process for would-be citizens, deciding 73% fewer naturalization cases over the past year — extending wait times for immigrants hoping to cast a ballot, reunite with family members, or be protected from deportation.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h
Haven't found much in English about the organizing that produced this in Brazil but @btnewsroom.bsky.social has this translation of a @brasildefatomg.bsky.social article peoplesdispatch.org/2026/04/15/b...
peoplesdispatch.org
Brazilian workers mobilize in capital to demand an end to six-day work week : Peoples Dispatch
The mass mobilization comes a day after President Lula da Silva presented a new law to the National Congress to end the 6x1 work week, a new effort in the years-long struggle for the same.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 9h
To understand how the Trump administration behaves and makes (and unmakes) policy, you have to understand that it comes from a constant battle between incompetence and evil. Their policies are usually a combination of both in different measures.
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 9h
“Two states are paying a great price for trusting in the USA—Saudi Arabia and Ukraine (and through Ukraine, Europe as well). Both states are getting bombarded by their enemies and are either being abandoned by the USA or, in the case of Ukraine, are seeing these attacks being supported by the USA”
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 8h
While the far right was inventing conspiracy theories that James Talarico snuck off to an Ohio mental health facility, Talarico raised $64 million of mostly small-dollar donations. www.politico.com/live-updates...
James Talarico announces record-breaking $64M haul
With the largest third-quarter Senate fundraising ever, Talarico’s campaign has now raised more than $134 million.

Adam Wren
Adam Wren

10/15/2026, 5:55am ET

Texas Democrat James Talarico raised a staggering $64 million this summer — the largest third-quarter haul of any Senate candidate in history.

The national Democratic darling raised more than $134.3 million since launching his campaign in September of 2025, according to figures shared first with POLITICO. More than 1.3 million donors contributed, the campaign said, as Democrats slowly reconcile themselves to their long-held but often fumbled dream of gaining a statewide perch in Texas. About 97% of those donations were of $100 or less.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Drone strikes didn't take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe It
A viral rumor illustrates people’s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 8h
one way you can tell the men running china are in fact real communists: they have returned to the great communist tradition of oppressing communists
liberalcurrents.com
China According to China
The Pax Sinica to which Xi Jinping aspires will be no imperialism-free paradise, but a world made safe for autocracy and domestic terror.
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somuchblue.bsky.social @somuchblue.bsky.social · 7h
Reining in criticism of Trump would accomplish zilch
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 18h
While visiting the UK the Ukrainian president said the apparent decision to curb access to Elon Musk’s satellite communications system was a boon to Russia
thetimes.com
Zelensky: My people are dying after Trump’s Starlink betrayal
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 18h
REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old. scoop by @garnethenderson.com
autonomynews.co
‘Destructive’: Nearly $13 Million in Family Planning Grants Go to Anti-Abortion Doctors
Millions in federal funds earmarked to train health providers will go to doctors with links to crisis pregnancy centers and the Heritage Foundation for programs focused on infertility and “body litera...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18h
Voting early takes your name off the call, text, canvass, and email lists. #VoteEarly
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22h
Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h
her colleagues are really gonna show their asses in the coming days.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h
"The most obvious and arguably most important principle at stake here: Nobody, not even a president, gets to bribe the voters. Yet that is precisely what Trump appears to be doing."
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Donald Trump Is Buying Votes at $500 a Pop
He’s calling it an Obamacare “refund,” but it’s nothing of the sort.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h
what i think is interesting about the position articulated here is that it is, in the abstract, not particularly new or groundbreaking: it's just the basic right-wing nationalist position of any given continental power
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21h
Excellent summary of the present state of relations between Russian and American oligarchical clans. Please read and share. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/10/2026
damn. wow. i had no idea. we should send more weapons to ukraine.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
forever-wars.com
The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/10/2026
This 7-term congressman - chairman of the House Freedom Caucus! - thinks he can tell a reporter at a press conference it’s illegal to record him. They’re all really mean, but so many of them are also so incredibly stupid.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...
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ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American Prospect
Under ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I like this framing. It gets at the asymmetry of the conservative civil society and the 70 year attack on the public sphere.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Many Starlink terminals in Ukraine are financed by Poland. Its Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski has put Elon Musk on notice regarding the evolving situation.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Trump regime has suppressed government data about impact of the big ugly bill, hiding it from voters prior to the election. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Administration delays release of IRS data showing impact of GOP tax cuts
The tax agency was supposed to release detailed data on this year's filing season in July. Months later, it's still unpublished.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Excellent piece by @jamellebouie.net
Rank-and-file Democrats — and, I’d wager, a substantial portion of the voting public — do not want compromise and cooperation. They want accountability. And if we hope to confine Trumpism to the ash-heap of history, then accountability is the only choice there is to make.
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Inflation comes in HOT. September inflation surged to 3.7% year over year, with core inflation also exceeding forecasts. Prices jumped 0.6% in just ONE MONTH. Meanwhile, real earnings fell 0.5% in September.
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Brittany Page @brittanyepage.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"At Musk's current estimated net worth of $1 trillion — a thousand billion; a million million — dropping $366 million is the equivalent of one of those median-income-earning households spending $32."
ctinsider.com
The 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?
Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
European politicians won't even get off X (neither will ours), but this should prompt an EU-wide attempt to expel Elon from the continent. And we need one here, too. You have to be Walter Isaacson to miss what's going on.
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François Heisbourg @fheisbourg.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Europe & Ukraine are 100% dependent on the US for so-called SEW ( shared early warning ) . A complex european multi-tier programme (JEWEL) isn't due until the 2030s. An interim gestationary satellite using proven French infrared technology could be lofted promptly but no decision has been made.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.
"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump and Musk are doing their best to help Putin kill Ukrainians. kyivindependent.com/this-cannot-...
kyivindependent.com
'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says
Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A very interesting point to bring up to AI bros: "If you can’t say “genocide” on any of the major platforms, yet those are the ones all of the Big AI tools used as their training data... well, then the AI tools sure aren’t very likely to know much about genocide, are they?" via @anildash.com
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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/10/2026
Dibs on the watch for Saturday.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"The Pentagon has named one of its own public affairs officials to run the publication Stars & Stripes, and he will keep his Pentagon job while doing it. This places a single official inside both the office that shapes the military's message, and the newsroom charged with covering it independently"
military.com
Pentagon PR Official Takes Over Stars and Stripes Months After Editor, Publisher Kicked Out
Christian Devine, an executive director and principal adviser in the Pentagon's public affairs office, was appointed weeks after terminations.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
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somuchblue.bsky.social @somuchblue.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
When i complained once about matching my husband's dress socks as they came out of the dryer, a male friend suggested replacing them with one brand only & i eventually did so. You won't look back!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
‘Phantom’ Data Centers Are Demanding More From the Power Grid Than They Need www.wsj.com/business/ene...
wsj.com
‘Phantom’ Data Centers Are Demanding More From the Power Grid Than They Need
Utilities are imposing higher electricity rates and collateral requirements to identify legitimate data-center projects to better plan their own investments.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: The Trump admin just cut the time that a refugee has to submit a formal response or an objection to a Notice of Intent to Terminate refugee status from the current period of 30 days to just 10 days. This new rule, issued without the normal notice and comment process, goes into effect tomorrow.
Screenshot of the first page of the Federal Register pre-inspection copy of the interim final rule. Text as follows:

This document is scheduled to be published in the
Federal Register on 2026-10-14 and available online at [links]

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
8 CFR Part 214
[CIS No. 2870-26; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2026-0529]
RIN 1615-AD26
Removing Deference to Prior USCIS Determinations of Eligibility
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, DHS.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services (USCIS), proposes to remove 8 CFR 214.1(c)(5), which generally
provides that USCIS gives deference to a prior approval involving the same facts when
adjudicating a request to extend a petition for an alien’s employment or stay. This change
would better align DHS regulations with the statute, which places the burden of proving
eligibility for all immigration benefits on the petitioner, applicant, or beneficiary;
strengthen adjudicatory review; and support agency priorities to improve the integrity of
the immigration system and better protect the interests of U.S. workers.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/10/2026
bruh
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
dah, dah, everything has a price
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somuchblue.bsky.social @somuchblue.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I have a clear & distinct memory of her dancing in a tent on 1/6/21
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you live in the following states, TODAY is the last day to register to vote before the midterm elections: –Kansas –New Jersey –Oregon –West Virginia –Louisiana (online only) Go to IWillVote.com for more info
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
NEW: Texans spent decades steadily tearing down the church-state wall, claiming it is a myth meant to obscure America's true Christian roots. Now, Trump is helping them export their playbook nationally. The result: A federal bureaucracy remade in their Christian nationalist image. (Gift link)
texasmonthly.com
Texans Spent Decades Tearing Down the Church-State Wall. Now They Have Trump’s Ear.
Dan Patrick calls the separation of church and state a lie and has worked to infuse Christianity into Texas institutions. Trump is helping him take that strategy nationwide.
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