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Ed Forgotson

@thecrowtoldme.bsky.social
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h
ICE has ordered 6,650 pairs—and says it'll ignore any bans.
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In streamed an army of cops...and, trotting after them, Nate Cavanaugh, along with more DOGE people. “They are ordering the D.C. cops around like their own private army,” said Colin. “I didn’t see that coming. I didn’t see the police taking sides.” www.wsj.com/politics/mic...
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Essay | Exclusive | Michael Lewis on the Lone Security Guard Who Resisted DOGE
In an exclusive excerpt from “Blockers,” the inside story of the high-stakes D.C. standoff where security chief Colin O’Brien fought off DOGE operatives.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h
Too many people in the media give Trump props for "transparency" because he talks to reporters frequently. But he lies most of the time and often ignores questions. A day after he talked about letting Iran destroy Los Angeles and San Diego, he won't even explain what he meant.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
Trump ignores a question about "what did mean when you said 'let them take out Los Angeles and San Diego?'"
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 16h
Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17h
When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it
NYT: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it."
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 18h
Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵
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Starbucks retreats from green goals amid drive for $2bn in cost cuts
Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 17h
Pennsylvania surpassed 1,000 measles cases Monday, crossing a grim milestone to rank among the largest U.S. measles outbreak in decades. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/health/penns...
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Jerome @fjerome.bsky.social · 17h
Couldn’t someone ask him?
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ohhleary @ohhleary.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
After spending the past five days in Shanghai, I think we have to amend “cities aren’t loud; cars are loud” to “cities aren’t loud; internal combustion engine cars are loud.” Astonishing how much quieter the streets are here, where the majority of vehicles are electric.
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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 20h
And you thought that you had rights just because the Constitution says you do!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h
i also read his op ed on originalism in the WSJ and i would love to know how presidential criminal immunity emerges from the structure of the constitution, especially when the literal authors of that constitution insisted that a president could he tried and even straight up executed
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20h
7/ Among the most jarring trends we found: 36 U.S. citizens were not allowed to contact their family or a lawyer.
36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20h
What is America.gov? Currently, a chatbot that searches government websites and collates the answer using Grok and Gemini AIs. Also, the type of tech that might impress someone who does not understand tech in government. e.g. the WSJ coverage that sounded much like the Trump press release.
WSJ headline that mirrors Trump announcement for America.gov
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h
Page One in Philly:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h
(FT) - A sharp sell-off in US government bonds is starting to reverberate across corporate America, forcing companies to overhaul their borrowing plans and even raising the spectre of defaults among the most lowly rated businesses. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7c7c...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h
3/ 100+ Americans have been held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. They say they were profiled — detained because of their skin color, accents or jobs. “ICE isn’t looking for criminals. They’re looking for Latinos,” one said.
100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h
2/ Federal agents have detained at least 70 children and teens who are American citizens. Some were handcuffed or zip-tied. In one instance, a 15-year-old with disabilities was handcuffed outside a school in Los Angeles when agents mistook him for an alleged gang member.
At least 70 U.S. citizen children detained, some of whom were handcuffed
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 22h
Oh brother.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 21h
Matt Gaetz is a 3rd generation Republican politician whose primary accomplishment is life is being born the son of a wealthy 2nd generation GOP politician. His grandfather served in the 14th Traffic Regulation Group during WWII. He was the train master of the White Pass and Yukon Route.
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He clutched a photo in the mud so the country would still be here. Not so a later generation could skip the midterms and let the gavels flip.
YOU MUST VOTE RED.
The border. The ballot. The classroom. Democrats already blocked photo ID. They want the courts packed and the gates open again. A stay-home vote is a blue vote. Show up. Vote the WHOLE ticket.
The foxhole was the hard part. November is the easy one. Do not waste it.
YOU MUST VOTE RED
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Your great-grandfather did not sleep in a foxhole in some foreign land clutching a photo of your great-grandmother so you could vote communists into office.
Vote red.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A dropped vial at a biological weapons laboratory in remote Siberia releases the plague. This may be the second most serious threat Putin has unleashed on the world following his invasion of Ukraine. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wages are at all-time lows, and profits at historic highs, as a percent of GDP. The backlash against A.I. is a backlash against unchecked inequality. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com Chart:
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1) this is true of almost every enterprise: doing a thing has both costs and benefits. if we only did costless things we wouldn't do very many things 2) why the fuck would you say it like this tho
the world should accept some bad things happening
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BrianB @brianb99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What a surprise.. bsky.app/profile/news...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. following the illness of an employee at an anti-plague research institute in Irkutsk.” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got really annoyed that so many stories about the "Cornell 7" case don't link to the underlying court documents. So I compiled the key filings from Jane Doe's civil suit and from a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them here: annabower.substack.com/p/read-the-c...
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Read the “Cornell 7” Documents
I compiled key court filings from Jane Doe’s civil suit and a separate suit brought by one of the accused. Read them on Slip Opinion.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/10/2026
Imagine having a degree from Harvard in philosophy and sneering at people for worrying about funding for their "precious liberal arts degrees."
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 05/10/2026
Just ten coal mines – less than 1% of the world's total – are estimated to cause nearly 5% of the total 41,400 preventable deaths caused worldwide by ozone formed from coal mine #methane 🫁 Identifying these coal mines is the first step 🔎 ember-energy.org/lat...
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Follow the money yourself: open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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This tool makes everyone a campaign finance expert
Introducing PaidForBy.info, a new app created by Popular Information
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CNN @cnn.com · 04/10/2026
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a suspected dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died. cnn.it/4i2BCfj
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/10/2026
After inspectors turned the lens back on him, the Federal Housing Finance Agency head moved to slash its budget.
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Bill Pulte said he was cracking down on fraud. Now he’s firing the investigators.
After inspectors turned the lens back on him, the Federal Housing Finance Agency head moved to slash their budget.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”
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Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/10/2026
"Here we are, back in this terrible place, just forty-one years after Brett Kavanaugh became a Delta Kappa Epsilon Deke, and eight years after his confirmation to the Supreme Court. How did we get here?" buff.ly/K3eqEvg
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How Could Such a Thing Still Happen in a Country with a Frat Boy Supreme Court Justice?
“I’m just thinking out loud here, but maybe a political party that has dedicated the last forty years to taking away women’s rights could also give some thou...
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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe that's "SI" czar
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We're gonna win big, and we've gonna shove it up their ass"
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pope Leo says AI lacks the "spark of humanity" — and wants artists and the church to fight back www.axios.com/2026/10/02/p...
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Pope Leo says AI lacks the "spark of humanity" — and wants artists and the church to fight back
The church and artists must ally, he said, "to safeguard our humanity."
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The Unlicensed Farm Got Little Punishment. www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 03/10/2026
With inflation still a % point over target, any independent Fed governor should see this as a signal to hit the brakes harder. That’s why you don’t do this unless the economy is very weak and needs liquidity.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good end-of-FY coverage by the Times. The amount of unspent funds has wiggled but it was pretty clear for some time now that NSF was simply not going to spend a substantial portion of its congressional appropriation this year.
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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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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 03/10/2026
In a possible blow to the Trump administration's efforts to charge noncitizens with voting in U.S. elections, a judge has dismissed a federal case against a Jamaican national accused of illegally voting, finding the law she was charged under is unconstitutional.
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Judge says federal law banning noncitizen voting is unconstitutional
In a possible blow to the Trump administration's efforts to charge noncitizens with voting, a judge has dismissed a case against a Jamaican national accused of illegally voting, finding the law she was charged under is unconstitutional.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As refineries shut down, there would be a genuine shortage of gasoline, driving up prices well beyond anything seen thus far. A sharp drop-off in US gasoline refining would destabilize both domestic and international markets. That's what's called a "self own." 3/3
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To produce gasoline, refineries MUST produce diesel. If Trump were to implement a diesel export ban, within a month refineries would have to begin closing because there would be no space to store the 40 million barrels of excess diesel that can’t be exported. 2/3
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A short lesson on diesel exports: Each day, the US produces about 1.3 million more barrels of diesel than it consumes and ranks among the world’s largest exporters of diesel. The high price of diesel in the USA is NOT due to a shortage. The price is high because it is set by world markets. 1/3
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Nacho Tébar @nachotebar.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm team coyote (and I own a domestic cat): Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species across the World | Scientific American share.google/X9u9TlJxwYl3...
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Cats Kill a Staggering Number of Species across the World
Domestic cats are cherished human companions, but a new study shows the enormous breadth of species the felines prey on when they are left to roam freely
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Ellen Clair Lamb @eclamb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My brother, a shipbuilder, says that it would shock people to know the extent of legal and illegal painkiller use among his colleagues.
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