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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h
In the last hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man's firm at a substantial markup, documents show.
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h
El-Sayed on Fox: "There is this argument you try to make often is that the best way to take this problem on is more war. How has that worked out for us? The war in Iraq which this channel spent years and years pressing -- has that made us safer? Are we more safe because of the war in Iran?"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13h
NEW: The Supreme Court on Monday reversed two pro-voter decisions in cases related to Washington’s legislative redistricting, sending them back to a lower court for new proceedings in light of the Court’s decision earlier this year in Louisiana v. Callais. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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With Voting Rights Act gutted, Supreme Court vacates discrimination finding against Washington map
The Supreme Court sent two redistricting cases out of Washington back to a lower court for new proceedings in light of its Louisiana v. Callais decision, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Ac...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h
it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h
the other thing is that this is a totally incoherent and arbitrary standard for deciding who has rights and who doesn't. you could say the same, for instance, of alito's vision of inviolate "religious liberty" or expansive gun rights.
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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 21h
No mention of Leonard Leo enormous role in this case. Start? Leo is funded by and represents big oil billionaires. Middle? Leo fronts file a blizzard of amicus. Finish? Six Leo Supremes will rule. My grandchild evacuated during Marshall fire. This is personal. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/c...
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A Supreme Court Battle Over Climate Change Begins
The justices are about to hear a lawsuit that could determine whether the oil industry faces billions of dollars in liability for damages caused by global warming.
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For those who may have missed my new @atrupar.com Public Notice piece yesterday about Diesel Don, here you go: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Diesel Don is tanking the GOP
Record high prices are one of Trump’s defining political failures.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, if the 🇺🇸 media covered the GOP as it actually is, & the way foreign far right authoritarian parties are covered, behavior like this would spark a wholesale change in 🇺🇸 political journalism. This? It won’t even make headlines tomorrow, & the Sunday shows will platform a dozen GOP politicians.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you're in these 3 states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Alaska Rhode Island South Carolina Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check everything is in order. Do it now. And there's a lot to vote for across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
A member of the National Guard shot and killed a man in Memphis and it barely made a ripple in our discourse.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Democratic Mayor of New York and his Republican rival join together for a public service announcement recommending that New Yorkers all get th seasonal flu vaccination and an updated COVID vaccination. A really remarkable thing that got little public attention. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
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Mayor Mamdani holds hands with onetime rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot in Fort Greene
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Exposing Trump's scheme to illegally withhold aid to coerce Ukraine into lying to help Trump's reelection got the aid released. Important point. I don't know how some Dems talked themselves into thinking the best way to counter criminality is to let it slide, rather than investigate and expose it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This K is alive and well! Labor compensation vs. corporate profits JPMAM
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statman-stu.bsky.social @statman-stu.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Almost every policy acted upon by MAGA/GOP is a simple & WRONG answer for society or the common good. It’s specifically designed to help the wealthy & powerful: -Tax cuts (1%) -Drill, baby, drill (oil investors) -Guns, everywhere (1% & gun sellers) -Cut gov’t services (1%) -Cut public education
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mishandling appropriated funds in this manner is a felony.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Dems getting better at this
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
for the late night crowd!
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you know who are the most precise scholars on the distinctions between a genocide and war crimes. The prosecutors at the ICC. Their indictment charges Netanyahu, rightly, with war crimes up to and including crimes against humanity. So not apologists. You know what charge they did not level? Yup.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
* GERMAN CHANCELLOR MERZ: WE ARE PREPARING FOR MAJOR HYBRID ATTACKS BY RUSSIA, WE WOULD RESPOND QUICKLY AND VERY CLEARLY @reuters.com
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
👇🎯 ~Everything we need to do to fix 🇺🇸 democracy can be done through normal legislation (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), & pretending we're going to amend the Constitution is delusional & unserious fan fiction. Want to fix SCOTUS? Here's the agenda, all done by one simple bill: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- No clerks
- No building
- No shadow docket
- No docket control at all in fact 
- No pay raises
- 25 justices
- 47 justices
- 101 justices 
- Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback
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g.h. kirsch @gh-kirsch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let me see if I've got this right. The team of lawyers who stole an election in Florida, and gave W the presidency, are now the Scotus team at the center of the GOP theft of our democracy.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 01/10/2026
Oh so an immensely powerful man isn’t allowed to enjoy carefree vacations, just because some of his neighbors notice that he has presided over a rollback of their rights and the destruction of the constitutional order? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eric Schmitt's mission to deflect Jack Smith's testimony away from Trump's criminality was a success
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/10/2026
President Trump publicly congratulates company in which President Trump owns shares. www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/u...
Congratulations to the GREAT Boeing Company for producing a plane, the 737 Max, that was able to withstand G Forces and Strain far beyond what it was designed and expected to do. It was an amazing show of precise and powerful structural planning and design. It is about time that The Boeing Company, which builds, by far, the finest commercial airliners in the sky, was given credit for this airplane’s incredible “genius!” To Kelly Ortberg, and all of his officers and associates at Boeing, congratulations on a job well done!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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David Szakonyi @szakonyi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Impeach the FCC chair for dereliction of duty
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Justice Kavanaugh, please explain to me — and Christa Pike— how this is an “interim” decision? Justice Barrett, please explain to us how this is merely a “preliminary” ruling?
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/10/2026
Failing up ..."Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare. A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This man is a thief playing a thief’s game.
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Fed-up Republican @feduprepublican.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Almost like SCOTUS was just going through the motions before they rubber-stamped their pre-determined decision.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They are very brave with their friends at home and cowards with their enemies abroad, and no democracy can last with elites like this. We will fall, one way or another, if they are not removed soon.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a case to be made that the Democrats do not do anything to help Trump voters who are feeling the pain of Trump's corruption while exposing Trump's corruption to a maximal degree. Here, Raskin explains that his focus as chair of the House Judiciary will be on bribery and insider trading.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What would the remedy be for bribery on the scale we are seeing right now? What does a government of the people do for the people given the fact that criminals are stealing from the people? Answer: TAKE THEIR MONEY. ALL OF IT.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
> @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/h...
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some of those above and others, like Ron Johnson, actively participated in encouraging a violent insurrection. Many who knew it was the fault of Donald Trump still caved and refused to convict him of it. But Eric Schmidt is a special kind of immoral evil. He besmirches the Senate I revered.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s one thing to rely on faulty evidence while thinking you have a gotcha moment. It’s another thing to start by slimming the witness, gloating, while you lie, being smug afterwards, and refusing to apologize. Schmitt may not be the worst Senator – Mike Lee, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz are contenders. 2
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 30/09/2026
The Senate rejected the House-approved Stop Insider Trading Act that would have banned federal lawmakers from trading individual stocks. www.washingtonsun.com/congress/bill…
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Bill Banning Lawmakers From Trading Stocks Dies in the Senate
Democrats largely opposed the Republican-backed effort, citing loopholes and voter ID “poison pill.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Most Americans are pro-immigrant,” Talarico says. “Throughout US history, immigrants have always made us richer and stronger.” Trump's barbarities have opened the way to a new consensus. Talarico is giving voice to it in moral language that Dems can learn from. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Talarico has an immigration plan that in its broad strokes is very humane and pro-immigrant. He says our border should be like a "front porch" with a "lock" and a "welcome mat." Both of those are important. The "welcome mat" in his plan deserves more attention. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've obtained new data showing that in 3 House districts in South Texas, big majorities of Latinos are swinging hard against Trump on immigration. This is where the "multiracial working-class realignment" behind Trump restrictionism was said to be happening. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The next Congress can & must fix this: - No clerks - No building - No shadow docket - No docket control at all in fact - No pay raises - 25 justices - 47 justices - 101 justices - Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is nothing at all in the Constitution about how many Justices there must be, let alone that Congress must fund a building, clerks, etc. If the Wizards want to play Calvinball with the law & the words in the Constitution, then Congress can & should play hardball with all the stuff that isn’t.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No one is contesting whether third-country removals are *ever* permitted; the litigation is over whether individuals are entitled to notice & an opportunity to prove that they face torture or other mistreatment in that country before they can be removed. Good luck figuring that out from the tweet.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There is a cottage industry on that other site of people in official government legal jobs affirmatively misstating or misrepresenting what rulings are about and then expressing surprise that anyone could possibly disagree. Just the latest example—from the Solicitor General of Iowa:
“Can President Trump use lawful authority granted by Congress to deport illegal aliens to third countries? The Supreme Court has stayed an order saying no twice, now stayed a permanent injunction for a third time. Oddly, 6-3 despite a similar posture to the Missouri First map”
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Finally, I'm hoping the Democrats privately encourage Senator Schmitt to apologize and, if he doesn't, it would be a great time to ask him to do it when the cameras are rolling and vote to have his words taken down. And be petty AF about it.
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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also, there's a good chance that Democrats will control the Senate in January and be able to choose which hearings they hold and I hope people remind Senator Schmitt that his bar for accusing a witness of perjury was this low.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
vicarious cringe for a Republican Senator, that's new for me also really humanizing for Jack Smith tbh who has a very natural reaction to whatever the fuck this is
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