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@thompra.bsky.social
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If you can read this you are following too closely. Refugee from twitter but still have real estate there. On the side of good.

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When Schmitt called Jack Smith a “Dirtybag!” he was simply projecting like MAGA Republicans do every damn day!
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 19h
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a misuse of taxpayer dollars that likely runs afoul of anti-propaganda law. to.pbs.org/46W8fFh
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Homeland Security spending $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a ...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20h
Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ Russian drones are attacking us right now ‼️
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 19h
Sean Hannity posted a clip of Sen. Eric Schmitt grilling Jack Smith — then deleted it after footage emerged showing Schmitt had the wrong city, the wrong league, and the wrong night.
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'This is what you like!' Fury after Sean Hannity backpedals defense of Jack Smith attack
Fox News host Sean Hannity sparked fury Tuesday after he deleted a controversial post on his social media account. Hannity posted a clip from an exchange between former special counsel Jack Smith and Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) from a hearing held Tuesday. In the clip, Schmitt accuses Smith of attendin...
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rrrrrrrachel @thompra.bsky.social · 19h
Every time I read about how the senator shat the bed, I laugh a little harder.
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😂😂 Historically, this ALWAYS worked out. /s
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 29/09/2026
Hey hot take but I actually don’t give a fuck if expelling a rapist from school “ruins his future”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h
Gas is averaging $4.45 a gallon. Trump’s Iran war drags on. And Republicans are scrambling. Trump is campaigning in Alabama and Oklahoma — deep red states he won easily. Republicans are even defending Mike Johnson’s district, which Trump won by 34 points. That’s not strength. That’s sheer panic.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21h
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know this is shocking, but it never seems to work out for them when Republicans bring right-wing internet conspiracies into courtrooms or committee hearings where the opposition actually gets to see their “evidence” and respond to it. They fare much better with the cultists on X.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 23h
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/09/2026
Trump wants to be a dictator. But that is not how the law works in our country, Marc Elias says. “The courts need to step forward and prevent a blatant disregard of Congress’ statutes.” Keep watch on the people rewriting the rules. Sign up for free: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 29/09/2026
Every three months like clockwork, $40 billion rotates between two ETFs in a trade that lets foreign investors dodge US taxes
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A $40 Billion ETF Shuffle Helps Foreign Investors Dodge US Taxes
Every three months like clockwork, $40 billion rotates between two ETFs in a trade that lets foreign investors dodge US taxes
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Dale Walls @dalewalls1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They CHOOSE to ignore it’s definition!
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The actions are the latest examples of experienced counterterrorism agents being sidelined or pushed out of the bureau entirely, leading FBI veterans to question whether the bureau’s capabilities to prevent terrorism have been significantly weakened." www.ms.now/news/fbi-ste...
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FBI agents probing threats against Stephen Miller’s wife demoted
“Director Patel did not order this decision,” Darren Cox, the assistant director of the FBI’s Washington field office, said in a statement.
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rrrrrrrachel @thompra.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are living through a sick parody with demented clowns being celebrated and running the show (into the ground)
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Netanyahu made a trip to UAE yesterday, pleading with President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed to publicly deny Haaretz and NYT reporting that he personally warned him, 10 days before October 7, 2023, that Hamas was planning a major attack. The UAE refused. apnews.com/article/isra...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Putin’s reward for bombing hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, public parks and museums and killing children is to get invited to the G20 Summit by Marco Rubio.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
"Ohio is not Minnesota. I was only on the ground for a short period of time and it was obvious that there are plenty of people who are happy to see Haitians being criminalized, arrested, and deported."
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The Hard Lessons of Springfield
There are plenty of people happy about what is happening to the Haitian community.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's something special about a man falling asleep on live television three minutes after calling his predecessor "Sleepy Joe."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump had $400 million in his PAC and he STILL decided that he needed to steal taxpayer money to pay for campaign ads for the midterms.
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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 27/09/2026
Kash Patel's leadership is being questioned after the FBI director was outsmarted by teen hackers.
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Kash Patel's 'disturbing' leak proves FBI 'leadership is lost,' insiders say
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 27/09/2026
Taxpayer-funded Trump ads draw bipartisan scrutiny ahead of midterms
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Taxpayer-funded Trump ads draw bipartisan scrutiny ahead of midterms
TV ads featuring Trump are expanding nationally, prompting bipartisan questions over whether they comply with restrictions on taxpayer-funded publicity.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 27/09/2026
‼️ FACT: Federal law bans armed civil or military officers from voting locations. However, Trump administration officials have repeatedly threatened to send armed federal agents to the polls to intimidate voters at the polls.s. Here’s how Democrats are fighting back ⬇️
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Democrats, voting advocates mobilize to stop Trump from sending federal agents to polls — or anywhere near them
Democrats and voting advocates are going on the offensive against the Trump administration’s threats to send armed federal agents to the polls as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterm election...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 27/09/2026
A former senior CIA officer says the Trump administration is taking a dangerous risk by moving federal law enforcement off counterterrorism and onto immigration.
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Ex-CIA official warns Trump risking 'mass casualty event' by playing 'very dangerous game'
A former senior CIA officer says the Trump administration is taking a dangerous risk by moving federal law enforcement off counterterrorism and onto immigration. He also warned that it could end in a "mass casualty event."Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA senior operations officer, posted the warni...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to emancipate white people from Black elected officials—but not to help Black people elect officials—signals its fundamentally racist priorities.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes it is.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People in Oleshky have no food and are surviving on grass and weeds, a desperate measure that won't even be an option in the winter. Real pressure must be applied to Russia to allow people to evacuate!
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 27/09/2026
House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections. to.pbs.org/4hjKHyI
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House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump administration. Impeachment is an option
“There is a cost to the American people of the out-of-control corruption,” said Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who is in line to become House speaker if Democrats win control at the Ca...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/09/2026
The Trump administration plans to sharply scale back fuel-efficiency rules for new cars and light trucks, gutting one of the government’s most significant efforts to reduce gasoline consumption and speed the transition to electric vehicles in the U.S.
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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules
New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 26/09/2026
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) faces an ethics complaint over her husband's role at an insurance lobbying group, as a new poll showed her trailing her Democratic Senate rival.
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Key midterm Republican rocked by ethics complaint as she slips behind Dem in polling
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) faces an ethics complaint over her husband's role at an insurance lobbying group, as a new poll showed her trailing her Democratic Senate rival.Brian Lemek, executive director of the watchdog group Defend The Vote, asked the House Office of Congressional Conduct to investig...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
The White House is burning public funds on political advertising—which even Republicans are condemning.
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You're paying for Donald Trump's new ad
Love me, love me, love me.
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Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
C'mon Newsweek - we all know that the only times Collins "breaks" with Trump is when she has political cover. Her "rebellious" votes are on measures that the GOP already has enough yea votes, so she can pretend to vote against Trump for political gain back home. Collins is just another MAGA stooge
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Honor your oath of office or resign. @trialrun2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She only breaks with Trump when party leaders give her permission. When her vote won't change the outcome. This b.s. is not journalism.
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Birdie, Beginning @srslymagenta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"is it more expensive? Consumers are so confused!" No, we're not. We know it's almost doubled. We know it's ridiculously more expensive after the tariffs. We know they are price gouging in some instances and, for farms, barely surviving. We are barely surviving.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 26/09/2026
The Supreme Court just let Trump use a flawed database to purge voters. It was never built for elections. Marc Elias explains. Stay in the know: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/4y5MY7n
Open AI headquarters in San Francisco is pictured. Headline reads: "OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites." Photo credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state. (Published Oct. 2025)
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Wendy the Woke @nomorex61.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Sheikh Mohammed had called Mr. Netanyahu in late September to tell him that…Hamas was planning to launch an attack” Another old white man, willing to sacrifice the lives of so many to retain power. #Sheshed www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Free p*ssy upstairs.” The fact that the 7 fraternity boys from Cornell had to write an “I’m sorry” assay as an option as punishment for forcibly intoxicating & gang raping a young girl is what is deeply wrong with our society today. www.lawcommentary.com/articles/cor...
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Cornell Sued After Student Says 7 Fraternity Members Drugged and Gang-Raped Her, Some Faced ‘Essay’ Discipline | Law Commentary
A former Cornell University student has sued the school after alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and gang-raped her at a fraternity house, accusing Cornell of responding inadequately af...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
These are the 7 Cornell fraternity boys who ruined that young girl's life. Matthew Ingalls Jonathan Newell (also spelled Johnathan Newell) Winston Lee Gillio Lopes Diego Sarabia Scott Norris Scott Kretzschmar www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did you know that the United States officially withdrew from the Human Rights Council last Friday. The day after a UN group accused the Administration of multiple war crimes in Iran. Seems like something shithole countries do.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Nursing Home Owner Stole Workers' Social Security and Medicare Money He was sentenced to 18 months and $4.4M restitution. His mother bought a Pardon at Mar-a-Lago. Trump is selling pardons for $1 Million. Congress won't stop him. VOTE Out All Republicans #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Timothy Mellon, heir to Gilded Age tycoon Andrew Mellon's fortune, gave nearly $200M to elect Trump and Republicans in 2024 and over $20M so far this midterm cycle. Tax dynastic wealth now.
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Rep. Richard Neal @neal.house.gov · 25/09/2026
Trump’s Administration has repeatedly failed to keep your data safe. Now, this decision lets Trump use your SSA data for something it was never meant to do: verify voter eligibility. Your data should be protected, not misused as a tool in Trump’s voter suppression agenda.
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