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I'm a retired large bank corporate lender. Married for 50+ yrs, proud of our two daughters. Very concerned about Americans who do not read or fact check. Trump gets away with lies because many Americans are willfully uninformed. Please be one that reads.

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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 1h
www.pgpf.org/article/how-.... "The unsustainably high nat'l debt poses a risk to our econ future & young Americans may have the most to lose.Just starting their careers, young people already face huge econ headwinds- high cost of living, job market uncertainty & student debt." Stay informed & vote!
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How Does the National Debt Affect Inflation, Housing Costs, and the Job Market for Young People?
The unsustainable national debt poses a risk to our economic future, and young Americans may have the most to lose.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 5h
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u.... "Jim Pasek, a retired pharmaceutical plant maintenance worker who lives in the tiny town of Gobles, Mich., was baffled by a president he has voted for twice. “He’s not making sense,” Mr. Pasek, 80, said. “It confuses me, and then I just get disgusted and tune out.”
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How Trump Has Alienated Republican Voters Ahead of the Midterms (Gift Article)
Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 20h
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Analysis | Trump gets caught in the weave and hands Democrats a target
The president’s misinterpreted comments about Los Angeles and San Diego created opportunities for his foes and confusion for his allies.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Opinion | ‘This Is Nuts.’ An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit. (Gift Article)
David Robinson, who wrote OpenAI’s safety protocols, resigned last week over safety concerns.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.npr.org/2026/10/06/g.... "FBI counterintelligence squads, specialized units dedicated to tracking & ferreting out foreign spies — have been hit with deep cuts across the country, even as the U.S. faces a growing array of adversaries intent on stealing the nation's secrets.." Gross incompetence.
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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202.... "And the style of judging he defends, w/ he has practiced for decades,has now acquired currency: It dovetails with a Trump-era New Right conception of law that is unshackled by restraint & focused solely on conservative victory." I call this extreme partisanship.
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Zombie Originalism
Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o.... The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements SS records have never been used in connection with voting, & they are known sometimes to be incomplete or out of date. This could have been a potential tool for mass disenfranchisement of legal voters.
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Opinion | Trump’s Try, Try Again Supreme Court Strategy (Gift Article)
Supreme Court decisions that were small comfort in 2026 will turn out to be no comfort at all in 2028.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1.... Felon Trump will violate any law in order to retain R majority.He tried to strong-arm the USPS nto regulating mail-in balloting, threatened to withhold FEMA relief funds from states that don’t elect R candidates,offered $5K to voters if Rs win.Took taxpayer $.
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Using the Power of the Government to Win Elections
The Trump administration is breaking a fundamental promise of political impartiality.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u.... "The unprecedented blitz of self-enrichment by Trump, his family & his friends since he returned to the WH last year has become so extensive, so profligate and so brazen that he has effectively moved the goal posts of what is considered out of bounds."
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How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)
The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Opinion | This is the most powerful technology ever. Don’t fail to imagine the risk.
The history of banking and nuclear power suggests safety rules can strengthen rather than cripple American industry.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u....
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
wapo.st/4i1szva. Con man, lying Trump takes advantage of the very people who believed & supported him. Trump thinks his voters will buy into anything he says & sells. Deep down, Trump disrespects his voters. Trump pardoned 3 crypto execs within 10 mos - all to facilitate his personal enrichment.
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Trump loses favor with crypto fans who call him out for cashing in
The president’s 2024 campaign leaned into crypto to attract young men, a demographic that is deserting Republicans in the midterms.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u.... The idiot fearmonger thinks this is the only way to win. Trump doesn't even know the true definition of communism! He just uses it as a scare tactic. Sociopath Trump has undermined the rule of law and made our country more corrupt, more apt to take assets by force.
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202.... Trump's incompetence & impulsivity bites him in his bulbous orange ass constantly! He rarely, if ever, thinks about unintended consequences. It's just one screw-up after another. Congressional Republicans: you are complicit! You are spineless enablers.
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What Is Trump Doing?
Poll after poll shows that Trump’s presidency is not going well. And he has only himself to blame.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Economist: Gift Article "THE AI BOOM MEETS A NEW KIND OF CRYPTO SCAM." www.economist.com/finance-and-... Many crypto card providers do not seriously try to verify the identity of their cardholders. That has left them open to abuse by criminals and sanctions evaders.
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The AI boom meets a new kind of crypto scam
Payment cards linked to cryptocurrency accounts may enable Chinese purchases of American AI models
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o.... "But govt.will get involved; govt.will have to get involved & right now that’s petrifying.We have in the Trump adm not only a PARAGON OF RANK INCOMPETENCE (Iran, ICE, the Reflect Pool, you name it) but also proof that Amer voters can support serially such madness."
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Opinion | Behold the Paragons of Rank Incompetence
Behold the paragons of rank incompetence.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u.... No...it's not enough! "After a summer of surprises — of A.I. agents escaping the “sandboxes” designed to contain them, hacking into other cos & engaging in activities behind the backs of their creators — why would anyone think these protections are sufficient?"
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Trump’s Voluntary A.I. Policing Echoes What Biden Did. But Is It Enough Today? (Gift Article)
President Trump’s plan to let A.I. companies police themselves comes amid mounting examples that they are failing to put safeguards on the technology.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
share.google/VdjAQzAKekmn.... MS Now: Senator Eric Schmitt was warned about Jack Smith's texts and used them anyway!!! Stupid and a cheater.
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Opinion | Eric Schmitt's embarrassing pratfall is all part of the GOP’s vicious campaign against facts
Jarvis DeBerry: We're laughing at Eric Schmitt, but the U.S. Senate is the joke
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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ezraklein on Instagram: "Can we leave A.I. safety to the existing laws and legal system, assuming criminal liability and reputational risk will keep compani…"
Can we leave A.I. safety to the existing laws and legal system, assuming criminal liability and reputational risk will keep companies from releasing anything unsafe? That’s the Trump administration’s view, and Jensen Huang’s view. When I posed it to Bill Gates, he was incredulous. “I almost can’t believe you’re asking that,” he replied.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t.... Zuckerberg says Meta’s A.I. is a tremendous success. 'BUT WHEN META FILES ITS TAXES, IT TELLS THE I.R.S. A DIFFERENT STORY. IT CLAIMS THAT ITS A.I. DATA CENTERS ARE A GIANT EXPERIMENT THAT COULD FAIL...SO THEY CAN GET A TAX CREDIT. WTF!! Trump has cut I.R.S budget 😡
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
share.google/1xe0NOjMtyxJ.... Deep down, I think many Rs are shamed by a man who exemplifies courage, speaking truth to power. Jack Smith said he would not be silenced. Meanwhile several Republicans humiliated themselves, notably Senator Eric Schmitt who got all of his "supposed" facts wrong.
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Live updates: Jack Smith says his investigation proved ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ that Trump engaged in ‘serious crimes’ | CNN Politics
The former special counsel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where GOP members of the committee have accused him of “abuse of authority.”
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
share.google/ZemOxIDv6D43.... The top Democrat on the House’s intelligence committee, Jim Himes, is warning defense contractors about a “likely” investigation into whether corp donations to Trump’s ballroom project were solicited in exchange for govt contracts or access to the Trump adm.
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House intel committee could investigate defense firm contributions to White House ballroom - Breaking Defense
Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, sent a Sept. 28 letter to a defense trade group warning of a "likely" probe into the project.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/.... A narcissistic sociopath like Trump is particularly dangerous. "When Trump looks at a map, he doesn’t see nations. He sees property." "When Trump is frustrated about something he can’t control, he lashes out at friends harder than he does enemies."
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Why Trump Has It Out for Canada
When the president is frustrated, he lashes out at friends harder than he does enemies.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u.... Experts in Russian disinformation have spotted some social media campaigns in recent weeks that use AI to create fake videos of Hollywood celebrities denigrating Democrats, esp. in swing states. Trump defunded the group charged with preventing foreign influence ops!
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Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds (Gift Article)
The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o.... Rigged, Fraud, Fake, Hoax only refer to facts that Trump doesn't like. "Laughable is what all of this would be if it weren’t such an ugly reflection of the state of American politics." Some Americans choose to believe whatever the leaders of their tribe tell them.."
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Opinion | Trump’s Most Durable Lie: Election Rigging (Gift Article)
“Rigged.” “Fraud.” “Hoax.” The president is a broken record.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u....
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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)
In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u.... Federal law, renewed annually in appropriations bills since the 1950s, bars agencies from using taxpayer money for unauthorized "publicity or propaganda." Democratic appropriators say the ads violate section 718 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026.
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Trump’s 2024 ‘Final Battle’ Ad Returns, Funded by Public Money (Gift Article)
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0.... "By the time Trump returned to office in 2025, the national debt had reached $34T. Trump & R-led House & Senate he helped usher in could have restored fiscal discipline. Instead, they made the 2017 tax cut permanent, again without comparable spending offsets".
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Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore
Blame Trump for rising borrowing costs.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2.... The U.S. & Russia worked together to strip human oversight requirements from a global U.N. pact aimed at regulating AI in weapons systems. The U.S. & Russia removed the requirement that humans review military targets chosen by AI before launching a strike.
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u.... "It is not legally binding & does not set rules for what countries should do during pandemics. But its universal endorsement would have signaled a powerful expression of global political commitment to the issue.
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U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics (Gift Article)
Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t.... You know what would be great? If AI meddled with Trump's ill gotten $billions and used the money to pay down the national debt that Trump so negligently increased to help himself and the wealthy. I bet that would get Trump's attention focused on guardrails.
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites (Gift Article)
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0.... The author is spot on: presidential summits can be useful but not when Trump is involved. In Trump's case, summits are "hazardous" b/c Trump is all too willing to do what benefits him personally at the expense of the country. Trump is corrupt & cannot be trusted.
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
share.google/AHWMWBZJyyJH.... Today, SCOTUS on Fri. agreed to let the Trump adm resurrect a nat'l citizenship database using SS info for voter verification. SCOTUS overturned a lower court from collecting individuals’ SS #s, citizenship status & other private info without the individuals' consent.
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Supreme Court greenlights national citizenship database ahead of midterms
President Trump’s baseless election fraud claims surrounding widespread noncitizen voting have led to a slew of legal battles ahead of the November election.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Xi acknowledges risks of AI even as Trump dismisses them
Trump has dismissed the idea of an international agreement on AI, but his Chinese counterpart on Thursday said both countries must “manage AI for good.”
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Opinion | Trump’s Failure to Lead Is Costing America and the World (Gift Article)
Trump’s flailing presidency leaves Americans with the thinnest of hopes for this week’s summit: that he does not further damage the national interest.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b.... "The Trump administration barred journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from entering the WH grounds on Thurs. morning, hours after a federal judge (a Trump appointee) ordered the immediate restoration of their access." SCOTUS: this is what you have wrought! 😡
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White House Still Bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico Despite Court Ruling (Gift Article)
A federal court ordered President Trump to reverse his ban on the three news outlets around 1 a.m. Thursday, but none were granted entry later that morning.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
wapo.st/4hk45vL. Trump, the dangerous unstable narcissist, really thinks of himself more as a king than a president.Trump has utilized sweeping exec.orders & unilateral declarations, such as renaming geog.features, building monuments to himself, starting wars w/o C consent & imposing illegal tariffs
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u.... NYT: "The podium of the U.N. was an unusual setting for the leader of a global superpower to threaten to “annihilate the Islamic republic” of Iran or to declare that, in another conflict, “to the victor belong the spoils.” The antithesis of why the U.N.was created.
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Trump Threatens Annihilation in Iran in UN Speech and Lays Out Winner-Takes-All Vision (Gift Article)
President Trump’s speech at the U.N. General Assembly amounted to a rejection of the founding concept of the United Nations.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Midterm elections & Medicaid cuts: Dems should be hammering Rs about how Trump's "Ugly Bill" will decrease Medicaid funding but emphasize HOW TRUMP & THE COWARDLY Rs DIDN'T WANT THE FALLOUT TO NEGATIVELY AFFECT THE MIDTERMS SO THEY CRAFTED THE MAJOR CUTS TO BE IMPLEMENTED AFTER THE MIDTERMS.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b.... Trump's corruption has cost our country $Bs! The Trump adm has held up the publication of an annual I.R.S. estimate of unpaid taxes, a delay that could mask the fiscal cost of the steep decline in the agency’s ability to audit the rich." Result: huge deficits!
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Billions in Taxes Go Unpaid. Under Trump, the I.R.S. Won’t Say How Much. (Gift Article)
The absence of the annual estimate on the tax gap could make it more difficult to assess whether more taxes are going unpaid since President Trump took office.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u.... DJT, Jr became a partner 1789 shortly after Trump won the election. 1789 & investments tied to Trump Jr. & his brother Eric secured $Bs in no bid direct fed contracts, defense grants, & favorable regulatory shifts. A Russian oligarch pays for DJT's wedding party!
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Republican Senator Urges Congress to Investigate Donald Trump Jr. (Gift Article)
In a letter, John Curtis of Utah called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena the sons of President Trump and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09.... Trump is truly delusional and dangerous as he uses the word annihilate.Trump added, “Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness for generations?”Those aren't the words of a normal functioning person, much less a president.
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U.N. Live Updates: ‘Annihilate’ Iran or Strike a Deal, Trump Says to General Assembly (Gift Article)
President Trump said that Iran had been “the bully of the Middle East, but they are the bully no longer.” Earlier, António Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, called on the General Assembly to end c...
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
wapo.st/4dNg0Rw Trump's corruption permeates our government. Trump who knows nothing about AI and unintended consequences, has contradicted the subject matter executives who are a thousand times smarter than he is! Why? Is it because he & his family have heavily invested in the AI economy?
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Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown
Trump’s decisions as president on one of the most consequential policy debates of his administration could affect the value of his personal investments.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09.... "In a complaint filed Mon. morning in U.S. District Court for D.C., CNN, MS NOW & Politico said that the “Constitution does not allow a president or any other govt official to deprive the press of their 1st Amendment rights...." Stupid Trump cites NO INACCURACIES!
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Trump Live Updates: White House TV Pool Suspends Trump Coverage After CNN Ban (Gift Article)
CNN, MS NOW and Politico said they would sue to regain access to the White House. They argued in a joint statement that President Trump’s decision to block them violates the First Amendment.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
wapo.st/477c8qR Fareed: "Capability must not outrun control."Fareed hosts Mustafa Suleyman, author of the book, "The Coming Wave".There are more and more incidents where AI broke control barriers because it was unilaterally focused on achieving its goals. This is a watershed moment & we need action.
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Opinion | The biggest AI debate now misses the point
Race ahead or pause? The real question is how to build human accountability.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump’s EPA must reinstate $7 billion grant program for solar panels, judge rules www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump’s EPA must reinstate $7 billion grant program for solar panels, judge rules
District court rules that Biden-era Solar for All grants that help lower-income families and communities install solar panels cannot be terminated.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09.... Journalists from CNN, MS NOW & Politico had their badges confiscated when they attempted to enter the WH grounds on Saturday, a stark escalation in President Trump’s ever-expanding battles with the news media that sets up a significant legal and constitutional clash.
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Live Updates: CNN and MS NOW Reporters Denied White House Access After Trump Announces Ban (Gift Article)
President Trump announced a ban on Friday on the outlets, whose coverage he deems unfair. The move will likely be challenged in court.
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You’ve been given free access to this story from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Soaring bond yields, gaping deficits and towering debts: what could go wrong? www.economist.com/finance-and-...
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Soaring bond yields, gaping deficits and towering debts: what could go wrong?
The rich world is flirting with fiscal disaster
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Steph @stephinformed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Battle with Trump is sending Canada into the arms of the E.U.
The head of the E.U.’s executive branch is proposing “associate membership” for Canada, as Ottawa also pursues new trade deals with China.
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