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Tami Halcomb

@tamihalcomb.bsky.social
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Oklahoma State University Universität Regensburg The University of Texas at Austin League of Women Voters - Austin (TX) Area --> LWV St. Croix Valley (WI)

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h
Remember the Metaverse? Tech’s Hunger for the Next Big Thing Long Predated AI talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/remem...
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Remember the Metaverse? Tech’s Hunger for the Next Big Thing Long Predated AI
We’ve been following this conversation here in The Editors’ Blog about what...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h
gift link www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 3h
Congress must try to determine whether the race to build ever more powerful AI led to system failures that compromised digital security. bit.ly/4xLckHb
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How Congress Should Investigate Threat from Rogue AI Agents
The government must evaluate systemic failures with an eye toward establishing meaningful regulation.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 3h
The NYT dropped 5 major Senate polls this morning — and they tell you exactly why the GOP is freaking out about the Senate. Alaska: Peltola up 50/43 Texas: Talarico up 51/45 Ohio: Brown up 49/46 Kansas: a 45/45 tie Iowa: Hinson up 48/47.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h
Portugal prosecutors probe legality of US use of Lajes base in Iran war reut.rs/4ze4lnj
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Portugal prosecutors probe legality of US use of Lajes base in Iran war
Portuguese prosecutors said on Saturday they had opened a probe into the legality of the centre-right government's authorisation of the United ​States' use of the Lajes Air Base in the Azores during ‌the Iran conflict, following a complaint by an opposition party.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 3h
Russian authorities still haven't confirmed reports that a 28-yr-old woman in Shelekhov died of pneumonic plague. But the local hospital is quarantined, a nearby city briefly warned residents not to travel there, & local pharmacies are running short of key antibiotics. t.me/Baikal_Peopl...
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Люди Байкала
Не ездить в Шелехов из-за чумы попросили власти Байкальска — и через два часа удалили пост. РЕН ТВ стер пять публикаций об инфекции 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛ...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3h
If you have ever wanted to learn more about the German Democratic Republic, from it creation to its collapse in 1989, you can check out my recent book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 3h
36 years ago, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist as a state and was absorbed into the Federal Republic of Germany. The two German states had been divided since 1949.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
About 45 min after Judge Bastian ordered reinstatement of Roger Rogoff as US Atty for WD Wash, Trump appealed. (Rogoff was appted in July to a persistent vacancy, but Trump fired him < an hour later. Bastian says Rogoff must stay till there's a Senate-confirmed successor.)
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Rufo often gets treated as a "respectable" conservative. His latest podcast episode — framing Indian-Americans as a problem in need of solving — is more evidence that he shouldn't be.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
What Hoskins did was not Trumpian fire and brimstone, bellowing about the criminality of Democrats and immigrants to try to overturn elections. It’s the unsexy, quietly effective cheating made possible by placing party loyalists in key bureaucratic positions.
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Old-School Republicans Are Responsible for Trump’s Attempts to End American Democracy 
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise The Missouri gerrymandering fight felt...
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 02/10/2026
Drei Festnahmen, Durchsuchungen in mehreren Ländern: In einer internationalen Operation sind Ermittler gegen mutmaßliche Internetkriminelle vorgegangen. Die Gruppe soll vor allem in Deutschland aktiv gewesen sein.
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Internetkriminalität: 16-Jähriger soll zentrale Rolle in Ransomware-Gruppe haben
Drei Festnahmen, Durchsuchungen in mehreren Ländern: In einer internationalen Operation sind Ermittler gegen mutmaßliche Internetkriminelle vorgegangen. Die Gruppe soll vor allem in Deutschland aktiv gewesen sein.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% ahead of the November midterms.
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US adds disappointing 29,000 jobs and unemployment ticks up to 4.2% in September
U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a time of discontent over the high cost of living and the state of the economy.
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W Social @wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
#WInTheMedia 🇩🇪 Can W become a real alternative to X? BR24 speaks with our CEO Anna Zeiter about verified humans, privacy and why Europe needs its own social media infrastructure. Read the article (in German)
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Wie die europäische Plattform "W Social" X ersetzen will
Der neue europäische Kurznachrichtendienst W Social will vieles anders machen als US-amerikanische Soziale Netzwerke. Mit höherem Datenschutz und weniger Hass und Falschinformationen auf der Plattform...
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 02/10/2026
Nederland is seeking $20 million in philanthropic funding to complete its $120 million purchase of Eldora Mountain Resort after prospective bondholders raised concerns about debt, interest rates and poor snow years.
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Nederland seeks $20M in donations to complete Eldora Mountain Resort purchase
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The GOP plan for this fall is to swamp races with dark money and turn the racism dial up to 100
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNBC on the September jobs report: "A bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see two month revisions down 60,000 ... average hourly earnings -- this is a big miss. Big, big miss. We were expecting up three tenth. This comes in at one tenth."
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not a Libertarian (because I'm no longer 14), but i put myself in the mind of an Ayn Rand acolyte for this quiz. 9 states would let me start a school with no experience, no tests, no core curriculum, etc. See where you can open your dream academy: projects.propublica.org/private-scho...
You could open NextGen Free-Range Academy in Texas and eight other states.
Your school’s name comes from your answers to Question 3, “No. I want the freedom to teach whatever I see fit, whether it’s Scripture or homesteading,” and Question 10, “Cool tech words like ‘NextGen.’”
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Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For many local governments, administering federal food benefits is increasingly becoming an unfunded mandate, @gillenmartin.bsky.social explains.
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Big, Ugly Changes to SNAP Are Hitting County Budgets
For many local governments, administering federal food benefits is increasingly becoming an unfunded mandate.
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Jenna Jacobson wins, power could shift in Wisconsin's State Senate for the first time in a generation. Guess what that means?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My man looks like Poochie the Rockin' Tech Support
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Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal
Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's time for the media to stop referring to these positions as "radical leftist."
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Tom Evans @angsto2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Al Franken Mug:
"I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.
-AI Franken"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
LOL -- Trump tries to shout out Ted Cruz in Texas and *not a single person applauds* for him. Not one!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 02/10/2026
🏛️ LOSS: A challenge to a Florida voter registration policy has been dismissed by a Trump-appointed judge. Civil rights groups say the “exact match” policy unlawfully disenfranchises eligible applicants due to minor errors — disproportionately burdening voters of color: demdock.com/3TysEgC
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 02/10/2026
“I just wanted to do something good, and everyone is making it seem like I’m doing something wrong,” one temporary caregiver told @caitlindickerson.bsky.social, who reports on the babies left behind by Trump’s deportations and the individuals trying to care for them.
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 02/10/2026
Donald Trump just made a huge problem for the beef industry. trib.al/aJ4ISd1
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Trump Sneaks Massive Blow to His Allies Into Latest Executive Order
Donald Trump just made a huge problem for the beef industry.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive.
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Good Authority @goodauth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is society too soft and feminine? 🤔 Republicans think so. See the data here. The latest by @tesler.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/republi...
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Republicans’ fascination with testosterone in three charts
From policy changes to campaign attacks, testosterone is a GOP talking point. Here's what's behind this partisan fixation.
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't think this line got as much coverage as it should have.
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JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’
A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance...
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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 02/10/2026
Tennessee's governor suspended upcoming executions after this week's botched execution of Crista Pike, the second such failure in the state since May. @brennancenter.org's Jamie Muth details the state-by-state legality of the death penalty.
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Death Penalty Laws, State-by-State
Although the death penalty is legal for federal crimes, the validity of the punishment under state constitutions and statutes varies widely.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Tami Halcomb @tamihalcomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Appeals Courts Slowly Awaken to Trump II Threat talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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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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Tami Halcomb @tamihalcomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power talkingpointsmemo.com/news/new-irs...
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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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Tami Halcomb @tamihalcomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Russ Vought Insists He Has a Neat Trick to Override Congress. It’s More ‘a Confession,’ Experts Say talkingpointsmemo.com/news/russ-vo...
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Russ Vought Insists He Has a Neat Trick to Override Congress. It’s More ‘a Confession,’ Experts Say
Following a failed bid by Senate Democrats to block it, President Donald...
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Tami Halcomb @tamihalcomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Husted’s Campaign: ‘A Proxy for Corruption’ talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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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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Tami Halcomb @tamihalcomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Republican Senator - Ron Johnson of Wisconsin - Greenlights Russ Vought’s Latest Impoundment talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/re...
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Republican Senator Greenlights Russ Vought’s Latest Impoundment
A Republican Gives a Thumbs Up to White House Effort to Seize...
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Tami Halcomb @tamihalcomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values 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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I tried, years ago, to engage seriously with FIRE's director about issues like self-censoring & viewpoint diversity on campus. I predictably didn't get very far trying to explain that his arguments were fraught with selection bias & the limits of student surveys. Quite clearly he still doesn't care.
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Opinion | Is the University of Austin Just a PR Stunt? (Published 2021)
Can a new university fix academia’s problems? Or will it just create another ideological bubble?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
FIRE's rankings are wildly unserious & not in good faith. Yes, sure, we let Chris Rufo come to lie about higher ed & then get an F in political tolerance in allowing controversial speakers. We invite the FIRE director himself, & get a D. It would be funny, were it not so sad & predictable.
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UW-Madison given a D in college free speech rankings, up from last year
The University of Wisconsin-Madison ranked 61st overall, climbing 40 places from last year’s Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s ranking.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 30/09/2026
Former Attorney General Eric Holder talks with @davidfrum.bsky.social about the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, the battle over gerrymandering, and more. Watch the full episode of “The David Frum Show”:
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How Trump Could Threaten the 2026 Election
Former Attorney General Eric Holder on the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act and whether the 2026 midterm elections will be free and fair
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why has the GOP been so procedurally extreme for so long? Because Republicans radicalized themselves against the government they were working within. There was a real logic to it, quite apart from the awful substantive vision. Now, Dems are working in a government fully corrupted by Donald Trump...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Three more tankers were just struck in the Strait of Hormuz as Trump’s Iran war drags on. Now a Republican senator in a battleground seat who voted against pulling U.S. forces out is trying to explain away his vote.
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Trump’s Iran War Leaves Three More Tankers Struck as Husted Tries to Rewrite His Vote
As fuel costs climbed and commercial ships again came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, Ohio Sen. Jon Husted blamed Iran, Russia, and congressional Democrats after voting against an order to pull U....
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 30/09/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to announce further cuts to the number of generals and admirals serving in the military in an address set for Wednesday, the Pentagon confirmed. to.pbs.org/3U0Q26z
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WATCH LIVE: Hegseth delivers State of the Force address, expected to make cuts to top ranks
President Donald Trump or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth already have fired or pushed to retire more than two dozen military leaders since taking office, including the Army's top uniformed officer, Ge...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Fox News agrees to host a debate between me and Ken Paxton — because the people of Texas deserve it. They're just waiting on Paxton to agree. Ball's in your court, Ken.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 30/09/2026
In the first entry of their three-part "Boots off Ballots" series, @americanprogress.bsky.social's Dan Herman and Devon Ombres outline the laws prohibiting the U.S. military from interfering in elections.
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Boots Off Ballots: The Law
Federal law and the Constitution are abundantly clear: efforts to involve troops in U.S. elections are anti-constitutional and illegal.
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