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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h
This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 9h
The number of just cartoon level crimes that are eventually going to emerge when we can finally investigate is going to be incredible.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h
Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 13h
An initiative on the ballot in Washington State this fall would require families to pay for their daughters to have a genital exam or other sex test if they want to play sports AT ANY LEVEL, and the left is sleeping on it. I talked to KUOW:
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Polling shows ban on trans girls in girls' sports could pass in November
Washington state voters will soon weigh in on a ballot measure to ban transgender girls from playing on girls’ school sports teams. The initiative is controversial, but national and local polling sugg...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 14h
The ICE arrest data I've looked at points the same way. In July, more than half of the people ICE arrested had neither a criminal conviction nor a pending charge, the highest share since the administration began. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-su…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
So the AI users are going to feed our original work directly into the chatbot and make it different enough to avoid detection, rather than using chatbot output trained on our work. Eg - recently, I found out Electrek was just copying my blog posts for profit on their website, to run ads against.
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Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co)
WTF is this - @fredlambert.bsky.social from @electrek.co just ripped my post and reworded it? And even generated some garish slop to use as a header?? Did he do this manually or did a chatbot just do…
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 18h
The Trump administration will start selecting lawyers for unaccompanied minors. Meaning the judges work for Donald Trump, the prosecutors work for Trump, and now the attorneys representing children will work for Trump. This is a rigged system that will result in more untold horrors for these kids.
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 06/10/2026
Uh, whoa. But if you're curious as to WHY the Kansas Senate race — which features Methodist megapastor Rev. Adam Hamilton as the Democratic nominee — is suddenly a toss up, I went down and spoke to and members of his church last month. What I found was striking: religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas
LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: October 17 marks a global event called “Origin,” focused on Earth regeneration. Rather than a movement to directly influence climate policy or polluting companies, Origin promises change through synchronized prayer and body movement. Behind it? A fossil fuel heiress and an anti-vaccine doctor
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Exxon Heiress Aims to Regenerate the Earth With Spirituality
The great-granddaughter of one of America’s wealthiest oilmen has teamed up with an anti-vax doctor.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
11-yo Andrés lived with his dad in Texas—but was deemed “unaccompanied” by ICE and sent to foster care. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids and keeping them in government custody,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 01/10/2026
totally normal to use $20 million in taxpayer dollars to air black and white Trump midterm propaganda on all the major broadcast networks definitely no red flags
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/10/2026
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that new pro-Trump TV ads paid for with government funds don’t “merit any sort of FCC review.”
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FCC head says government-funded Trump ads are ‘normal’ and ‘don’t raise any red flags’
Brendan Carr said the ads are “normal-course public service announcements” and nothing that would “merit any sort of” review by the Federal Communications Commission.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#ResistanceRoots Ann Jarvis was born on this day in 1832 in Culpeper, Va. She was a social activist who became a driving force for public health and community reconciliation during and after the Civil War. Her work inspired her daughter to create Mother’s Day, although she later opposed it. /1
Ann Jarvis. Jarvis’s activism was driven by civic and religious duty and personal tragedy. Several of her children died in early infancy, largely due to the preventable diseases that ran rampant through Appalachian border towns. Rather than retreating into despair, Jarvis channeled her loss into a determination to ensure other mothers would not have to endure the same heartbreak. Her work began as a public health education effort that transitioned to caring for sick and wounded soldiers during the Civil War. After the war, she focused on community reconciliation driven by a maternal desire to stop the cycle of violence. (Editorial note: It was difficult to find a photo of Ann Jarvis. There are many pictures of her daughter Anna, and many are mislabeled. However, I traced this one to a German-language Wikipedia page and to a History of American Women page that shows pictures of Ann and Anna side by side. I’m fairly certain this is legit.)
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 30/09/2026
Airmen criticize Air Force’s use of AI in suicide prevention training as ‘uncomfortable and odd’ trib.al/KAYPs8X
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Airmen criticize Air Force's use of AI in suicide prevention training as 'uncomfortable and odd'
The Air Force says incorporating AI-generated imagery standardizes the training, but some airmen criticize it as being “cold and unnatural.”
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Michael Scherer @michaelscherer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: NEW: John Fetterman's fundraising firm, MissionWired, quit working for him in June. So he started offering right-wing groups like RedMajorities and TrumpTruth a hefty commission to raise him money. Even Sen. Mike Lee has joined the rush for cash. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money Off John Fetterman
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
NEW: NextEra and Dominion Energy, two of America's biggest utility companies, are on the verge of merging. Electricity costs are already through the roof — and this deal could jack up costs even more. The Trump Admin should not rubber stamp this merger.
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Oregon Capital Chronicle @oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 30/09/2026
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call propaganda come under bipartisan attack. buff.ly/9HN3jTx
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Trump TV ads paid for with $20M in Homeland Security funds, Dems find • Oregon Capital Chronicle
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call…
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
STARES IN CONCUR: “House lawmakers spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money on meals and lodging last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024 — under a reimbursement program that doesn’t require them to provide receipts.”
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House members’ expenses surge in program that doesn’t require receipts
Taxpayers spent $6.7 million last year on the program, which reimburses lawmakers for food and lodging expenses in D.C., a Washington Post analysis found.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Kate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
Oil stocks in US strategic petroleum reserve fall to lowest level since 1982 reut.rs/4xTC8RM
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Oil stocks in US strategic petroleum reserve fall to lowest level since 1982
Stocks of crude ​oil in ‌the U.S. Strategic Petroleum ​Reserve fell ​to 283.8 million ⁠barrels last ​week, the ​lowest level since October 1982, ​according to ​data from the ‌Department ⁠of Energy.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wonder where all the free speech abolitionists are these days?
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This was the 28th time #SCOTUS has granted emergency relief to the Trump administration since 1/20/25. That matches the total number of grants during the entirety of the first Trump administration. And both of those totals dwarf the *four* grants of relief (two each) during the Bush & Obama admins.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!
Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 24/09/2026
A pro-Trump ad that said it was paid for by the U.S. government aired on Fox News in major TV markets. Ethics experts said it could violate federal law. on.wsj.com/4hm6XYW
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A pro-Trump ad that said it was paid for by the U.S. government aired on Fox News in major TV markets. Ethics experts said it could violate federal law.
The unusual ad, which said it was paid for by the U.S. government, aired on Fox News in major TV markets.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I want to emphasize once again that today in the Kharkiv region, Russia murdered six people who were simply sorting vegetables at a storage facility. With not one, but three drones! They also injured 12 others, some of whom are in critical condition in the hospital.
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Playboy @playboy.com · 24/09/2026
Guess what, they're already coming for birth control. From Katie Miller, Stephen Miller's wife calling it "poison" to her followers and other influencers promoting non-scientific messaging, our Playboy Gen Z sex survey found that 33% of young women are quitting because of social media.
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33% of Young Women Quit Birth Control Because of Social Media
Red-pill content is taking aim at hormonal birth control—and it's working. Playboy's 2026 Gen Z Sex Survey investigates.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026
More than 167,000 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products are being recalled nationwide because they were produced without proper inspection, federal safety regulators said.
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More Than 167,000 Pounds of Meat With False Inspection Mark Are Recalled
The raw pork, beef and goat products from Star Meat Delivery Inc. of North Carolina were distributed across the United States.
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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 21/09/2026
You should probably preorder KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN coming out Nov 10. Probably multiple copies. You can give them out as Christmas presents and make the world a better place. link.amazon/B00KDt3xD
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He literally just voted "no" on a resolution to end the Iran War
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 23/09/2026
hahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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mlklabor.bsky.social @mlklabor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨 SEATTLE HAS BANNED SURVEILLANCE PRICING ON GROCERIES! Grocery workers led the way to win this groundbreaking protection against AI price hikes.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just joining the Russian economic sphere I guess.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 18/09/2026
ICE’s ERO ONE is official. The agency is looking for 140+ intel analysts to work nationwide to locate immigrants, map their social networks, and help plan arrest operations.
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ICE plans intel units in every field office to research immigrants, map who they know
ERO ONE would task them with researching individuals and charting their associates for the agents who carry out arrests and deportations.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI
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funferall @funferall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
a long way to go, but it's coming along
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
God, can you imagine living in a country like this? Captured opposition parties that don't challenge autocratic abuses and exist only to take money and direct public discourse toward acceptance all while pretending there's nothing they can do? That sounds awful. Thank god we don't have that.
NYT's article on fake political environment in Russia: That controlled exercise in political theater is occupying the waking hours of thousands of Russian bureaucrats. Campaign teams are agitating for “opposition” parties that all conveniently support the war. Regional officials are organizing the nuts and bolts of ballots and turnout. Milquetoast candidates populate the airwaves of state television.
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