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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 8h
NEW. Phillips O'Brien explains the problem isn't merely Trump and Hegseth. "The military didn’t prepare for this war. So the military bears [some] responsibility for failures...And I don’t know now whether they are capable of speaking truth to power." youtu.be/-pp7dTdIB1U?...
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Phillips O'Brien on Ukraine, Iran, and What's Next
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 10h
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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The Capybaron @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 11h
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 10h
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7h
"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech
The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h
Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 7h
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon is slashing the military’s senior ranks by 20%. www.washingtonsun.com/defense/pete-…
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Hegseth Is Cutting the Number of Generals and Admirals by 20%
The defense secretary significantly expands his push to reduce the number of senior officers across the military.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 7h
Read John Casey's full column 👉️ bit.ly/4ywhHLS
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This scumbag's shame shows how low the GOP has plunged
In 1998, Rep. Dan Burton of Indiana, a truly loathsome character at the time but now almost angelic in comparison to today's characters, told the Indianapolis Star that Bill Clinton was "a scumbag" and that's why he was "after him."It was a really big deal. It sent shock waves through Washington. I ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 7h
Problem is, I think they believed, but didn’t give a damn.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 7h
I am a human being. Writing is the very most important skill and discipline students need to learn.
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h
The Supreme Court’s majority gave no reason for its literal life-and-death decision to wipe out an appeals court order issued earlier today and which was, on its face, intended to be temporary in nature. Sotomayor wrote tonight’s dissent. Order and dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Court's decision to vacate that stay interferes with the Sixth Circuit's routine administrative handling of a capital case and unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim. Worse, the Court grants such extraordinary relief solely to allow the State to execute Pike before litigation over her conviction has properly run its course in the lower courts. I see no reason to short-circuit the ordinary process of appellate review, particularly in light of the grave consequences of an erroneous de-cision. Tennessee's desire to expedite Pike's execution by a few days or even weeks cannot outweigh her "fundamentalinterest in [her] own life." Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U. S. 1,
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In capital cases, "[a]ppreciation of our own fallibility, and respect for the judgment of an appellate tribunal," demand caution before "acting irretrievably." Bowersox v. Williams,
517 U. S. 345, 347 (1996) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). Indeed, this Court often states that it is "'a court of review, not of first view?" McLane Co. v. EEOC, 581 U.S. 72, 85 (2017) (quoting Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7
(2005)). Today, the Court, as it has too often lately, chooses to overlook that principle precisely when it matters most.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 10h
This is the Republican playbook Convince your constituents that everyone lies, so it’s okay to lie Convince your constituents that every politician is corrupt, so it’s okay to be corrupt Convince your constituents that the government will never help them, so it’s okay when the government sucks
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h
"There’s no history of Americans in the Midwest worried about jobs going to Canada. There's no history of making Canada a kind of bugbear that is stealing from us." On pod, @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social is great on Trump's imploding effort to get MAGA to hate Canada newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Trump’s Fury at Canada Takes Darker Turn as GOPers Quietly Sound Alarm
As Trump’s trade war against Canada grows more unhinged, the author of a piece on GOP midterm woes explains how Trump’s anti-Canada derangement could alienate working-class voters.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 11h
FBI agents kept the man accused of planting the D.C. pipe bombs away from a judge until he broke down and confessed, his lawyers say. They also argue the agents used coercive tactics on Brian Cole Jr., who is autistic.
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FBI kept alleged DC pipe bomber from judge until mental break led to confession: filing
FBI agents kept the man accused of planting the D.C. pipe bombs away from a judge until he broke down and confessed, his lawyers say.Attorneys for Brian Cole Jr. made the claim in a motion filed Tuesday in federal court that asked a judge to throw out everything Cole told the FBI during his Dec. 4, ...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 11h
The Federal Reserve's internal watchdog said Wednesday that the agency has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors. to.pbs.org/3VjaqjH
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No criminal wrongdoing in Federal Reserve building renovation, watchdog says, but it was mismanaged
The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog said Wednesday that the agency has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump adm...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 16h
A prosecutor candidate in Washington says she decided to run after federal agents shot and killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti; a sheriff candidate in New York says he wants to “kick ICE out.” All over, local candidates say immigration matters to their bids.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h
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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump's brain is just flitting from topic to topic without him finishing a thought or speaking coherently. Get a load of this.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 11h
Under the new bipartisan permitting bill, AI data centers and crypto miners would have to report their energy use to the federal government for the first time. This is already required for other large energy users. Has been long sought for data centers by Elizabeth Warren and others.
SEC. 2114. COLLECTION OF DATA ON COMPUTATIONAL
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(a) DEPINITION OF DATA CENTER ENTITY.-
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"data center entity" means an end-user, or group of
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"data center entity" does not include computing or
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data storage equipment that is ancillary to a facility
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the primary purpose of which is commercial or in-
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dustrial activity other than an activity deseribed in
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paragraph (1).
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(b) DATA COLLECTION.—Not later than 90 days be-
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 12h
NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...
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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All
Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11h
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11h
The pre-Trump GOP was mostly tilting at windmills. But the fact that their underlying goal (unravel the New Deal) was bad and unpopular doesn't discredit extreme tactics per se. For instance, what if the goal is "rein in or deny legitimacy to Trump's government"? www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13h
NEW: Despite Trump fixation, Internal probe of Federal Reserve's building renovation project finds "At no point during our evaluation did we find reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of federal criminal law had occurred requiring a referral to the US Attorney General"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Axios @axios.com · 12h
NEW: A Federal Reserve watchdog found no criminal wrongdoing by Jerome Powell in its investigation of the central bank's expensive headquarters renovation
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Fed watchdog clears former chair Powell in renovation probe
The renovation became a flashpoint in President Trump's broader campaign against Powell and the Fed.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 12h
Nearly half of the time, links back to a website created under the Clinton administration, according to tests conducted by NBC News, often including less information than is provided by the older site.
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Trump’s new America.gov AI chatbot often links to a site launched under Clinton 26 years ago
The answers from the AI chatbot often duplicate what’s on the federal government’s existing sites, sometimes with less detail.
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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 12h
That's ironic, because Biden had to withdraw from Afghanistan by a certain time based on an agreement Trump struck and Trump wouldn't stop attacking him for doing so.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h
In case Americans getting ready to vote forgot about Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration killing people, and all of the other governmental lawlessness, Todd Blanche wants you to remember.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Q: President Trump in 2020 asked his DOJ to say the election was fraudulent. Do you think that is the role of the DOJ? BLANCHE: I think it's our job to investigate and prosecute (That's not a no!)
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h
“When Meta files its taxes, it… claims that its AI data centers are a giant experiment that could fail… It does this so it can tap into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation… [to enable Meta] to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion.”
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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14h
Trump's DHS Secretary, following the 58th death in ICE custody: "What we do at Homeland Security is not controversial"
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14h
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 14h
New reports reveal Meta has been classifying gigantic data centers as "pilot models" in order to secure a tax credit from the 1980s. The loophole has allowed Meta to avoid paying nearly $4,000,000,000 in taxes last year alone.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14h
In addition to seeking sanctions against them for violating the judicial canon of ethics, he is demanding that they all recuse themselves from any case involving the DHS because of obvious "political bias." This might be the point. www.cnn.com/2026/09/30/p...
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DOJ ramps up fight against federal judges after some in Minnesota speak to media about immigration surge cases | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is filing a judicial misconduct complaint against nearly all the federal judges in Minnesota, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Wednesday, in an escalation in tensions bet...
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 14h
The Attorney General just announced that the DOJ has filed a formal complaint against Federal District judges in Minnesota -- all but one of them, in fact -- because they did interviews with the NYTimes for this article. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump’s Minnesota Surge Threatened Democracy, Judge Warns (Gift Article)
In a rare interview, Patrick Schiltz, who served as the federal court’s chief judge last winter, called the administration’s actions “a grave threat to the rule of law.”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14h
New: USPS is to put cameras in its trucks that continuously record. This is to gather data on roads, signage, and to improve "community safety," the agency tells me. The cameras are marketed to capture passing license plates too, but don't run ALPR software www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...
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USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h
My three-year-old was watching the Jack Smith hearings yesterday when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why does the Senator think the nice bearded man was in Atlanta?" And when I told her "Because our Senate is filled with fucking idiots," she started crying.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NBC: “U of Michigan survey shows Americans feel worse about the economy than during the Covid-19 pandemic or 2008 financial crisis… Trump promised a ‘Golden Age’, but under Republicans Americans are struggling more than ever.” www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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