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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h
this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 10h
This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them. I needed a diagram.
Diagram showing how former White House crypto council officials Bo Hines and Harry Jung connect to the consulting firm NXUM, Tether and Tether US, the Fellowship PAC, Cantor Fitzgerald, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, including payments of $6.3M+ from Tether and $6.5M+ from the PAC to NXUM, and a loan from Tether to Lutnick.
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danny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 12h
YIKES #mesen #mepolitics
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h
(taps mic) (clears throat) "Skydunce" (stage dives)
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
“.. As the company’s shares have fallen more than 60% from that high-water mark, the trio have cashed out billions, including $2.4 billion this year alone.” @bloomberg.com $CRWV www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Trump suggests he is going to pardon everyone, including himself: "I'm allowed to do a self-pardon ... I don't want to see people that work for me go through years of nonsense"
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20h
A $330,000,000 ballroom fund backed by hidden bank accounts, shell companies, and anonymous corporate interests is an open bribery scheme.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 20h
Nice bit in this WAPO ballroom donor story where FCC boss Brendan Carr launches a bogus investigation into Dish Network then leverages it to force Charlie Ergen to shell out more for Trump's ballroom (the pressure on Ergen was also beneficial to AT&T and Elon Musk)
"Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, wrote Ergen in May to inform him that the agency had begun investigating EchoStar. Carr threatened to yank government licenses that were critical to the survival of the business, accusing EchoStar, owner of Dish Network, of not following through on promises it had made to upgrade its cellphone network.

The following month, Ergen met with Trump and Carr behind closed doors to discuss the investigation, according to Bloomberg. The outlet, citing unnamed sources, said the June 11 discussion included a brief exchange about Ergen’s political donations and whether he gave to candidates in both political parties.

The company referenced a June 11 meeting between Ergen and Carr in a regulatory filing and wrote that Trump “subsequently encouraged the parties involved to reach an amicable resolution.”

Ergen negotiated a deal to sell some of the company’s licenses to AT&T in August, subject to approval of the FCC and Justice Department.

Carr dropped the investigation the following month, thanking Ergen for his responses and for information he had provided.

In December, with the sale still pending, Ergen committed $12.5 million to Trump’s ballroom, according to the donation list. Records indicate Ergen requested that the source of the donation remain anonymous. The donation has not been previously reported.

He committed another $12.5 million in February, according to the list."
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Rachel Happe @rhappe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Holy Hell. I guess it’s time for the U.S. government to requisition and nationalize StarLink. Our military and government systems CANNOT be beholden to insane, racist, misogynistic private citizens just because they are billionaires.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h
Ex-boss filed a $12 theft charge against an ex-employee because she got a restraining order in response to his creepy behavior. Charge was never prosecuted, but it gave ICE an excuse to arrest and detain her. Congratulations to the 58 Democrats who voted for the Laken Riley Act. You own this.
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A disgruntled boss filed theft charges against her. When she went to court, ICE arrested her. | Baltimore Brew
BREW EXCLUSIVE: A $12.08 dispute over a McDonald’s meal leads to the arrest of a 25-year-old by ICE agents in the Carroll County District courthouse.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
“.. it wasn't just oil — without Energy's contribution, the m/m rate would have still been over 0.6%.” - SoFi #PPI
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
RBADVISERS: “.. Core Final Demand #PPI pierces 5% a level never seen in its history outside of the immediate post-pandemic period. New inflation paradigm? We think so.”
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 23h
Core PPI 5.0% YoY hasn't been hotter since Dec 2022
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/10/2026
Sen. Angus King says he sat down and made a list of everything Putin could possibly want from an American president. His conclusion about Trump? “This guy, this president, is doing almost all of them.” King then goes through the list. WATCH.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
More insider trading and war profiteering from inside the White House Billions made. Investigators were then told to stand down. Off the charts corruption.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Traitorous.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Retreating very strongly.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
theonion.com/man-who-drin...
Business Insider: AI
Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancerThe Onion in 2013: Man Who Drinks 5 Diet Cokes Per Day Hoping Doctors Working On Cure For Whatever He’s Getting
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 15/10/2026
Took 1 hour for the President to do the opposite of what he said … new record?
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Reporter: “You suggested Iran got a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school. You’re the only person in government saying this. Why?” “Because I don’t know enough about it. But Tomahawks are used by others. Numerous other nations have Tomahawks, they buy them from us.”
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The Ilhan Omar stuff is grotesque and feels worthy of impeachment by itself
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 14/10/2026
Parents, if you have dropped off a kid named Jimmy in the morning and picked up a kid named Janet at the end of the school day, please return to the school: You've driven off with some other family's child.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
a beaming Katie Zacharia and Natalie Harp look at Trump at he boards Marine One yesterday in Alaska (Alex Wong/Getty)
Trump gets on the chopper zoom in on Katie and Natalie's beaming faces
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
MAGAs at the Trump rally in Arizona chant "lock her up!" about [checks notes] Katie Hobbs
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/10/2026
I’m sure there’s no connection
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
JANNEY, on #CPI: “.. passthrough from higher diesel prices is hitting the core figures .. as producers gave up on an early end to the Middle East conflict. .. .. the real concern here is services ex-energy has hit +0.4% and gradually accelerated from early-summer.”
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Marc Caputo @marcacaputo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Exclusive: White House probes claims of missing Kennedy Center money —nearly $6 million. The 'MAGA blood feud' is a battle of Trump world titans: Alina Habba vs. Ric Grenell that unfolded Friday at the White House www.axios.com/2026/10/14/t...
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Exclusive: White House probes claims of missing Kennedy Center money in "MAGA blood feud"
"If there is missing money, this is a big, big problem," a senior administration official said.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump had people arrested to cover up his incompetence. An impeachable offense for any other president. For Trump, probably just about the 17th worst thing he did that week.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
every single thing Trump has done since coming down that escalator has been to help Putin but he just did a few head fakes to throw people off the scent
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)
From Doug Mills on X: White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia and Special Assistant to the president Natalie Harp join President Donald Trump in Marine One he arrived in Wasilla, Alaska yesterday.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Geez, fuel oil. 😞 @talsmith.bsky.social #CPI www.bls.gov/news.release...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
they all know the bottom is falling out and instead of trying to prevent that they are ripping out the copper wiring
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/10/2026
NEW: Inflation data came in and Donald Trump’s failed economic agenda has raised prices for Americans by 5.9%. That means families are paying $3,772 more thanks to inflation under Trump.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Oh you don’t say
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
In dollar value, the Venezuela oil scheme ($13 billion) is TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE worse than Iran Contra ($140 million, inflation-adjusted). It's impossible to overstate how much MORE corrupt Trump is than every single American who has ever come before him. We're completely without precedent.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Ukrainian soldiers in combat have access to Starlink satellite internet restricted
Outage of terminals managed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX comes as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine without any advance warning from US
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Ukraine said Elon Musk’s SpaceX restricted its Starlink satellite internet service w/o warning, disrupting Ukrainian military operations…Meanwhile, Russia unleashed an attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight, leaving at least 600,000 people without power - www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/r...
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Ukraine warns Starlink limits are disrupting military operations as Russia pounds its energy infrastructure
A ballistic missile has struck energy infrastructure supposedly covered by the "energy ceasefire" announced by Trump on Sunday, Zelenskyy said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
New in PN: Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization "With early voting underway, Omar got agents at her door at 6am, when her 14-year-old was inside, over a theory cooked up on an anonymous message board. Republicans never objected to weaponizing the DOJ. They just wanted custody of the weapon."
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Republicans learn to love DOJ weaponization
Just kidding, they always love it when they’re holding the weapon.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Memory stocks (in blue) now in a wicked divergence vs. hyperscalers (via Schwab) $DRAM
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Oregon far right activist who cooked up the fake “Talarico was in a mental health facility in Ohio” story has now moved on to fantasizing about “hunting down” Ilhan Omar.
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Can we hunt down a specific Somali politician?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.
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