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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"You know I'm something of a Senator myself."
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Spectacularly shameful, this. Good way to dissuade highly competent people from wanting to have anything to do with public service. www.c-span.org/program/sena...
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Now ChatGPT be all like “Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote…”
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 23/09/2026
Another defeat for Trump in court: His egregious lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer has been dismissed on First Amendment grounds. www.news10.com/news/ap-iowa...
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Iowa judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against Des Moines Register and pollster
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge on Wednesday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit accusing The Des Moines Register and its former pollster of misrepresenting the state of the 2024 presidential race, re…
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTGB...
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Slap & Tickle
YouTube video by Squeeze - Topic
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good point. It's not clear when the acts take place, relative to the hiring.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Noteworthy, and encouraging, that this kind of journalism still happens here.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If he were only hiring people who were forced to have sex with animals, one imagines the pool of potential employees would be extraordinarily small. I think we have a syntax problem.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
 I’m not sure whether there’s a better idiomatic choice for removing the tariffs, but I see your point. Your observation reminded me of my own bemusement at the fact that “slap” is frequently the word used when tariffs are put in place.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Especially when “slap” is both idiomatic and hilarious.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Noteworthy, and encouraging, that this kind of journalism still happens here.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Exceptional journalism from @newyorker.com on Jared Kushner's catastrophic diplomacy, conflicts of interest, arrogance. He represents "a new kind of Washington figure, for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Among other things, this means that, even if #SCOTUS *grants* a stay of Judge Talwani’s earlier injunction against the USPS rule (which seems increasingly unlikely), the rule would *still* not go into effect; the Court would have to freeze *this* injunction, too.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Undersean”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2026
The contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, not vandalism, caused the pool’s new blue liner to peel and break loose, documents show.
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It was amazing!! Paul Giamatti in a miraculous performance and Turturo also magnificent. I think the run is sold out but if you’re in town try try try to get in!!
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Deadline Today - Toronto Documentary Film Festival filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocum... We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options: audience feedback & interviews. —— #documentary #docfilmfestival
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Toronto/Los Angeles Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival
HYBRID Festival Mode: Entering it's 9th year, the Toronto & Los Angeles Documentary Festival now gives filmmakers 5 tiers to showcase and promote their film....
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I stand corrected. Those guys in the "Emergency!" TV are indeed firefighters as well as paramedics. So maybe they ARE the ones who escorted Trump to safety.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Weren't those guys paramedics? The President explicitly mentioned firemen.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"This would imply, at least theoretically, that the laws of physics themselves would break down under certain conditions: that, for example, water could be made to spontaneously explode." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/s...
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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’ (Gift Article)
The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field of higher mathematics.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Who's the publicist for this film? They're killing it! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/m...
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Elizabeth Holmes Documentary ‘You Can See Everything’ Upends Telluride
The comic Nathan Fielder and the filmmaker Lance Oppenheim teamed up to interview the convicted executive for “You Can See Everything.”
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Du Bois, Black Reconstruction.
The true significance of slavery in t he United States to the whole
social development of America lay in the ultimate relation of slaves
to democracy. What were to be the limits of democratic control in
the United States ? If all labor, black as well as white, became free were
given schools and the right to vote -what control could or should
be set to the power and action of these laborers ? Was the rule of the
mass of Americans to be unlimited, and the right to rule extended to
all men regardless of race and color, or if not, what power of dictatorship
and control ; and how would property and privilege be protected ?
This was the gre at and prim ary question which was in the minds of
t he men who wrote the Constitution of the United States and continued
in t he minds of thinkers down through t he slavery controversy.
It still remains with the world as the problem of democr acy expands
and touches all races and nations.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 04/09/2026
The Trump administration is using the “domestic terrorism” label and other tools to go after people and groups it views as political opponents — from anti-ICE protesters to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Here’s how. bit.ly/4h4cm7Y
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How the Administration Picks Its Targets, Then Picks the Crime
The administration is using the Antifa label and other means to prosecute its opponents.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hélas. A powerful artist, whose reinterpretations were revelations.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/08/2026
The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military says there are no plans to send troops to polling places during November's midterm congressional elections, addressing concerns among Democrats that the Trump administration could use the military to interfere with the vote. to.pbs.org/4gJaUGI
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U.S. has no plans to send troops to the polls in November, Gen. Caine says
The highest-ranking officer in the U.S. military says there are no plans to send troops to polling places during November’s midterm congressional elections.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Here’s hoping someone is writing a piece— it could even be a book— about the grand march of the Kristol father and son from left to right to left. A story about liberalism, about inheritance, about “intellectuals” & pundits, about media, about 100 years of American political history.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Here’s hoping someone is writing a piece— it could even be a book— about the grand march of the Kristol father and son from left to right to left. A story about liberalism, about inheritance, about “intellectuals” & pundits, about media, about 100 years of American political history.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Demonstrating once again that Lawfare is one of the best media organization in the country.
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Nancy Beiman @beiman-nancy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We used to sing that, accompanied by some fancy handclapping.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This works with any name! youtu.be/lFsLIR859zk?...
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Shirley Ellis | The Name Game ♫ | 1964
YouTube video by Mustang Sally
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/08/2026
Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
A black-and-white portrait of Dolly Parton with big blonde hair, sitting in a chair and smiling. A headline reads: "1946-2026: Dolly Parton." Photo by Jack Manning/The New York Times
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 25/08/2026
It is not up to the president what Penn Station is called. It is not up to the president what Dulles Airport is called. It is not up to the president what battleship classes are called. It is not up to the president what Flag Day is called.
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 25/08/2026
It is not up to the president what the Kennedy Center is called. It is not up to the president what the Department of Defense is called. It is not up to the president what the Gulf of Mexico is called. It is not up to the president what Lake Ontario is called.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The central problem with Chief Justice Roberts’s Friday afternoon “administrative” stay in the White House ballroom case isn’t just the lack of any clear standards for such relief; it’s that it’s hard to see how, *whatever* the standards are, this case could satisfy them. Me in today’s “One First”:
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245. Irreparable Harm, “Administrative” Stays, and the White House Ballroom
Chief Justice Roberts’s order in the ballroom case is a useful illustration of how standardless the Court’s approach to “administrative” stays appears to be.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just wait'll Hayek and Friedman hear about this!
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Of course he'll name it after himself, but I like to imagine DJT will be big about it and will christen it the "Thank you John G. Roberts Ballroom."
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hard to know whether the "national security" claim is cover for the vainglorious, wasteful, and incongruous ballroom, or the ballroom is cover for a sinister plot to create a Führerbunker from which to command an authoritarian coup.
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"the poets and the painters who reflect their given time" becomes "the poet and the painter far behind his rightful time"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections
"Stranger things have happened,” Trump said after a far-right media host implored him to declare a national security emergency on elections.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/08/2026
this is why there's national guard in the nation's capital
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Glen Hansard in conversation with Iarla Ó Lionáird. www.rte.ie/culture/2017...
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Glen Hansard talks to Iarla Ó Lionáird - striking a chord
"I was a messer, I was beginning to do things I'm not proud of," Glen tells fellow singer Iarla Ó Lionáird in Vocal Chords, a new music special for RTÉ Lyric fm, "and then music came and music just pu...
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Makes sense. How else is He supposed to get His message out?
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Thomas Bartscherer @tbartscherer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Politics ain't horseshoes.
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