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Politics and economics with sidelights in photography, astronomy, tennis, and the Canadiens...

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Michael Iantorno☔️✊ @michaeliantorno.com · 5h
"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“
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The workers at Wizards of the Coast are teaming up
Workers at Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering demand ownership of personal work made off the clock.
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CNN @cnn.com · 3h
Jane Doe's lawyer Thomas Giuffra reveals that just before speaking to CNN's Anderson Cooper, his client has received a phone call threatening the life of Doe and her family. Giuffra said the call had left him in "shock." Read more: cnn.it/4hK2QWD
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 4h
"Around 70 percent of this year’s voucher recipients were already enrolled in private or home- school. Vouchers are costing the state about a billion dollars this year alone, and could ultimately end up costing $4.4 billion annually."
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h
a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests
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Power Vibe · by NoMAGA @powervibe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oversight without consequences is mostly theatre. The real question is whether Democrats will restore the tools—antitrust enforcement, labor rights, public-interest regulation—that make corporate power answerable.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So telling that TV leaves TV for dead, taking the Emmys off broadcast to Amazon streaming. Mass media writes its own obit. Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Emmys Move to Prime Video in Six-Year, Global Deal Worth Around $15 Million a Year
The Primetime Emmys are set to Prime Video in 2027 via a six-year, global deal worth around $15 million a y.ear
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"DSA and other progressive orgs appear to have figured out how to combine progressive policy stances, national fundraising networks, and 'we are the real Democrats' messaging." excellent @nberlat.bsky.social piece. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
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Progressives Are Winning
Everything is still horrible. But there are hopeful signs.
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 23h
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Roger Hallam @rogerhallam.com · 06/10/2026
1. CORRECTION: It's not "some really bad years in a row", it's really bad years for the next 50,000 years, starting from ... NOW. "Some of our wheat yield is down by 40%, it is pretty horrendous. There have been some really bad years in a row," he said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Essex farmers worry about future after 'worst harvest in years'
One farmer describes it as "horrendous", another says there will be "struggles ahead".
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h
“.. A lot of people in the investment community had hoped he was the adult in the room,” said Stephen Myrow, a former Treasury official. Investors are “starting to see him as acting more and more like Trump…and that’s shaking confidence in him.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 17h
Elon Musk is back in Washingto. Musk will help lead "Project Meridian," a study meant to shape "the future of U.S. military warfare." Hegseth handed the role not to a general, but to a defense contractor who'll profit from the very recommendations he'll make. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/m...
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Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to help Pentagon with warfare initiative, Hegseth says
Pete Hegseth, in remarks about the state of the military, announced a project led by two GOP-supporting tech executives to examine military capabilities.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 12h
With the $11 billion merger of Paramount-Skydance with Warner Bros. Discovery, just five corporations now control 90% of the U.S. media landscape. Ali Velshi explains why mega media mergers pose a threat to democracy.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 12h
Contemptible, unforgivable stuff from Tillis here. He just doesn’t seem to care if kids die. At minimum, he seems wholly ignorant of any of the basic facts around measles and childhood vaccines.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 8h
this is real, USG censorship, ironically in the context of a conference about disinformation
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 15h
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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Priyanta Emrith @habsinhighheels.bsky.social · 15h
No comeback in the books for the #Habs tonight as many of Montreal's bad habits from last season [costly giveaways, getting outshot and not playing better at home] reared their ugly heads again. #Hurricanes win 6-4
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m2c4 @thesoundings.bsky.social · 15h
Slaf is holding on to the puck too much... #habs
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h
Party of limited government: we will pass a law to resolve internal family disputes.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 15h
Jackson: "healthcare is hard for most people, and you made it worse by advancing the OBBBA" Collins: "I had to go without health insurance. In 1994. When I was running for governor" Can't have the choice put in starker terms than that, Maine!
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21h
Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he covered ongoing violence by settlers against West Bank olive farmers. u.afp.com/S9Fe
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 16h
‘If one or both of the labs gets their lunch eaten by the much-cheaper open source models, then not only will the demand for the hyperscalers’ compute shrink, but their non-operating income from their stakes in the labs will fall meaningfully.‘ econjared.substack.com/p/a-budding-...
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Law360 @law360.bsky.social · 19h
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters. www.law360.com/artic...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h
anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 17h
You have to “execute” the instruction under the Take Care Clause, not “ignore” the instruction. This is the same twinkly-fairy stuff they pulled in the first Trump impeachment.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 16h
Journalists who do not count the zeroes and compare them to the proper magnitudes are not bystanders or generalists, but accomplices in the disinformation bullshit machine. The release is one day of world output and one-fifteenth of the total Hormuz-closure gap over the four-month period of... 1/
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CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Justin’s subheadline: “Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels [of oil reserves] turns out to be leftovers from March”; not new, not large, not enforceable...
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m2c4 @thesoundings.bsky.social · 16h
Another bad second period for #habs...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
“.. Oil market turmoil will continue beyond next year, executives said at the conference on Monday, as it could take years to refill inventories on top of meeting global demand.” @reuters.com ⛽️ www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17h
Deeply Distressed US Loans Rise to Highest Level Since Pandemic, JPMorgan Says www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Deeply Distressed US Loans Rise to Highest Level Since Pandemic, JPMorgan Says
The deeply distressed tail of the leveraged loan universe has grown to levels not seen since the beginning of the pandemic, with technology the single biggest sector under pressure.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 17h
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
(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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Brian Young @brianyoungan.bsky.social · 23h
Forever, there's been this weird idea that if the GOP can build a coalition that includes the racists and minorities, they will really be tough to beat. And, I guess! But shockingly, that coalition can't hold
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h
This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17h
When it's discovered that a politician committed domestic violence they can - resign in shame <------ right answer - pretend to be sorry - deny it - brag about it <----- where we are apparently
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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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
“.. Without it, you do have that $200-a-barrel scenario, so it is pretty important it continues,” he said. “There aren’t any more inventories to drain in the west.” @financialtimes.com ⛽️ www.ft.com/content/95db...
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 18h
SpaceX is basically daring lenders to pony up $40 billion so it can buy Nvidia chips on what sounds like a cocktail napkin www.ft.com/content/d3f5...
Musk's limited financial disclosures have kept some investors away from SpaceX debt in the past.
Investors who SpaceX has previously approached about financing its multibillion-dollar chip purchase said they only received a short two-page deal memo with pictures of outer space and an arrow pointing out that the company was going to build data centres "somewhere in the universeẠạ
"How are we supposed to take that to the
IC?" one of the people said, referring to the in-house investment committee that
approves transactions.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Incredible.
Analysis. Does a sex assault claim kill a political career? It depends.

Ghraham Platner’s swift exit followed Eric Swallwell’s similar departure from the California governor’s race, but Republicans have taken a different tack.
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m2c4 @thesoundings.bsky.social · 17h
Freddie Freeman getting hot... #dodgers
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h
SENTIMENTRADER: “.. S&P 500 closed at a record high. With twice as many lows as highs on the NYSE. Here's every date the S&P closed at a record and the NYSE low/high ratio was > 2: 6/22/29...2.1 12/3/99...2.0 12/21/99...4.2 12/22/99...4.1 12/23/99...2.3 12/29/99...2.4 10/6/26...2.6”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18h
Troy Jackson: "Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helps set the fire and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out."
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 22h
The function of modern media is laundering and reformatting this insane man's statements for the public so they don't have to confront reality. The fact that *this person* holds the world's most powerful office and we allow it to continue raises so many hard questions we just choose to ignore it
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22h
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The horseshoe is alive and well in Saxony-Anhalt, just as it is in the United States. AfD wins state parliament speakership in Saxony-Anhalt with far-left backing
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AfD wins state parliament speakership in Saxony-Anhalt with far-left backing
“The era of political firewalls should be a thing of the past,” the newly elected president said after taking office.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 18h
Whether Trump reimburses taxpayers for the money he stole in producing these illegal ads doesn't change the fact that he stole $20m from all of us to illegally run ads to fluff up his bleak electoral prospects. Jawdropping abuse of power by the worst American leader in our history.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 18h
And this is why she should have stayed in jail www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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