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Rusty Republicans and Ruthless Democrats
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Rusty Republicans and Ruthless Democrats
Kate and Josh talk September surprises for some Republican incumbents, SCOTUS’ return...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 5h
TPM's @emineirmakyucel.bsky.social was up on the Hill this afternoon as senators headed in to vote on the bill. She caught Sens. Murphy & Warner, who each slammed the measure and the GOP’s last-minute attempts to do clean up on its past support for accelerated nationwide AI development. More here:
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Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Husted’s Campaign: ‘A Proxy for Corruption’
‘They Are the Party of Data Centers’ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 5h
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has some major data center skeletons in his closet from his time as lieutenant governor of Ohio.
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Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Husted’s Campaign: ‘A Proxy for Corruption’
‘They Are the Party of Data Centers’ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 5h
The bill would have merely *encouraged* our nation's Big Tech oligarchs to cover the cost of rising utility expenses tied to data centers and AI model training.
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Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Husted’s Campaign: ‘A Proxy for Corruption’
‘They Are the Party of Data Centers’ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 6h
An IRS proposal to add a citizenship and work authorization question to a crucial tax form coincides with Census Bureau efforts that would use tax information to exclude most immigrants from the 10-year population count.
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New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power
A proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 7h
Josh Marshall: A lot of these bright red states have gone a pretty long time without a seriously contested partisan election, and it shows. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rusty...
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Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values
This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 8h
The proposed bill would also prevent the president from attempting to use a pocket rescission in the future.
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Senate Dems Will Attempt to Stop Trump White House’s Latest Illegal Pocket Rescission 
Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Budget Committee...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 8h
Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines
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Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines
In my recent writing about LLMs and AI, I’ve mainly focused on...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 11h
And I think he's right. People are repulsed by the regime. I'll also note that white evangelicals are some of the biggest supporters of Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown, so I get Talarico's strategy here. See: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/homan-s...
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Homan Stumps for Georgia GOPers by Promoting ICE Brutality in Speech to Evangelicals
In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt just kept doubling down on his Jack Smith conspiracy even after that painful moment in the hearing. Now, we have concrete evidence he misunderstood his own evidence. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've uncovered some definitive proof Eric Schmitt's supposedly blockbuster texts were not about an Atlanta Hawks game. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-evi...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 11h
Yesterday's developments in three important Trump II cases are datapoints in favor of a tentative working theory that appeals courts are slowly coming around to the urgency of the current moment.
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Appeals Courts Slowly Awaken to Trump II Threat
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back In the defining legal struggle of...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was no “109 Row 1” at the Atlanta Hawks game Senator Eric Schmitt was fixated on today talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 13h
5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/5-...
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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury
By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen...
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 12h
If a claim doesn’t implode quite as spectacularly as this one did, it’s easy enough for the right-wing influencers who promote it to brazen it out for audiences who may never make contact with reality. Initially, that seemed to be the plan.
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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury
By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14h
They’re campaigning on keeping them out of sports, even in states where trans students have been blocked from competition for years.
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Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Banning Trans Athletes
This story was originally reported by Brooke Migdon of The 19th. Meet...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14h
Schmitt's staff may have set their boss up for a big day around his big moment. But, to echo another famous conspiracy theorist, the intel on this wasn't 100%.
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5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury
By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congress’ top Democratic appropriators demanded answers from the Department of Homeland Security and threatened investigations Tuesday as more details of the egregious shuffling of taxpayer dollars surfaced.
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Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself
‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
Democrats are aggressively sounding the alarm about the matter, arguing it is not just the usual Trump corruption but likely "illegal propaganda."
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Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself
‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values
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Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values
This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries where they have no ties and where they may face violence.
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Supreme Court Cosigns One of Trump’s Most Inhumane Immigration Practices
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread text messages when he attempted to corner former special counsel Jack Smith during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The top line: The en banc court is likely to rule against the Trump administration and allow U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to proceed with a contempt of court inquiry.
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A Critical Moment for the Rule of Law
This morning the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments...
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"If I could just bring a politician with me to stand in the front hall of a nursing home” and see how people react when they realize they can vote again, a disability rights attorney said. “I wish they could see that and realize how important the work is.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-massi...
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‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
@emineirmakyucel.bsky.social and @jragazzo.bsky.social talk about Mike Johnson's claim that this was the "most productive" Congress ever, GOP infighting, and what will happen if the Dems retake the House: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS05...
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Congress Is Leaving Town. What Do Lawmakers Have to Show for Themselves? | TPM Live
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restrict voting access.
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‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
Josh Marshall: Two things appear to be moving in unison, on a downward trajectory: consumer confidence and the Republican position on the national generic ballot.
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Perfect Storm, Brought to You by Donald Trump
As I noted a week ago, we can’t know whether the current...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
STARTING NOW: Emine Yücel has chronicled all the congressional drama this session. Join her on YouTube Live to hear about how the Senate is spending its final week on the Hill, how GOPers are planning to mobilize their demoralized voters + more
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TPM Live: Congress Is Leaving Town. What Do Lawmakers Have to Show for Themselves?
The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this week. Join TPM's congressional reporter Emine Yücel for a chat about what Congress has actually done — and failed to do — this session:
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TPM Live: Congress Is Leaving Town. What Do Lawmakers Have to Show for Themselves?
The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this...
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paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On why this isn't really gonna be a Tea Party of the Dems talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-all...
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Why All the Handwringing About a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Was So Misguided
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. As...
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The mother of all “investigate the investigators” retributions suffered another major blow with the resignation of Kurt Olsen as top prosecutor. Olsen’s departure marks the 3d top prosecutor in a row to leave the probe—tho his departure seems markedly different. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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The Biggest Trump Retribution Scheme Is Coming Apart at the Seams
Blanche Overpromises and Underdelivers The mother of all “investigate the investigators” retributions...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The mother of all "investigate the investigators" retributions in south Florida suffered another major blow with the resignation of Kurt Olsen as its top prosecutor.
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The Biggest Trump Retribution Scheme Is Coming Apart at the Seams
Blanche Overpromises and Underdelivers The mother of all “investigate the investigators” retributions...
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russ Vought's latest "pocket rescission" maneuver is wonky and may not get much coverage, but it's another major milestone in Congress ceding its power to Trump. Some Republicans (Susan Collins prominent among them) are vowing to fight back, but it's tbd how real that is. (I am skeptical.)
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Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress
Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say...
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Check out yesterday’s episode and follow the links in the description to see the great work done on this topic by our guest, @joshkovensky.bsky.social. The figures we discussed are sure to be critical in stirring chaos and confusion around 2026 midterms. Learn who they are before they make news!
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was a great episode of a great pod.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The White House is steamrolling Congress' power of the purse — its constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on television
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Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress
Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The insurgent left does not share Tea Party’s reactionary fervor to remake, or remove, much of the U.S. government. And the Tea Party movement was largely suburban or rural and, most importantly, white.
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Why All the Handwringing About a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Was So Misguided
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. As...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
Roger Marshall May Rue The Day: Arresting Pregnant Moms Edition
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Roger Marshall May Rue The Day: Arresting Pregnant Moms Edition
I’m figuring this will end up as a big mistake. You probably...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And while Rep. Tom Kean (R-NJ) did not directly criticize the retribution assault the Trump administration has waged against NYC/New Jersey, he distanced himself from it during a debate on Sunday night. More here:
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Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States
‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and...
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’ve got a new example of a vulnerable Republican trying to put some daylight between himself & Trump’s political toxicity this weekend — it also converges on a theme that TPM has been focused on during Trump’s second term, as he weaponizes the executive branch for his own political aims.
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Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States
‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
Kean is facing a tough reelection challenge from Democrat Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, in a race rating that Cook Political Report recently switched from a "toss up" to "lean Democratic."
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Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States
‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
@terrigerstein.bsky.social: If workers for just this one company in this one city are owed $115 million dollars, just imagine how much workers are owed everywhere else. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/whats-m...
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What’s Missing From Coverage of the Massive DoorDash Worker Settlement
This op-ed is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
@joshkovensky.bsky.social joined @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social of the Posting Through It podcast to talk about the influencer grifters boosting the Trump admin's agenda open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We've got another great ep of the show coming for everyone on Monday morning. This one features @joshkovensky.bsky.social, who joined us to talk about the cast of content creators making state propaganda with the Trump Administration www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky | Posting Through It
144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky by Posting Through It on Patreon. Join Posting Through It's community for exclusive content and updates.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What do Nick Shirley, Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Katie Daviscourt, Savanah Hernandez, and Tyler Oliveira have in common? They make clickbait in service of, and sometimes collaboration with, the Trump Admin. Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky
Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · September 28 · 1h 12m
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday for wrongfully deporting a Salvadoran young man last month for the second time — after he had already been unlawfully deported in March, then returned to the U.S., before being removed again.
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Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation
Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
Losing Money But Making It Up in Volume? More News from the AI Front
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Losing Money But Making It Up in Volume? More News from the AI Front
Here’s our text for the day on the LLM/AI “boom”, which is...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
Despite decades of precedent, Republicans have long aimed to count students at their parents’ homes instead of where they reside during the academic term. The pandemic created the perfect opportunity for Republicans to pursue this agenda.
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How Republicans Used the Pandemic to Try to Upend Census Residency Rules
The census makes politics. Representatives are allocated to states based on the...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 27/09/2026
An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
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An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
I want to flag your attention to this note written by computer...
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