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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Trump administration gave a high level security clearance and unprecedented access to your sensitive PII and financials to a kid who ran foreign CSAM boards, was fired from his only prior real job for stealing company data, and was linked to a Russian cybercrime ring.

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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026

this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines

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How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

“We are not terrorists.”

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Thufir HaWTF, MD 🦀 @thufirhawtfmd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How many people have been arrested and jailed by the regime for social media posts purporting to advocate violence? And this hateful asshole just goes out and publicly fantasizes about the murder of millions.

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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...

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U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union

(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kash Patel, Usha Vance, Vivek Ramaswamy: any comment on this? bsky.app/profile/lets...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026

To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Best part is when Schmitt gets angry that she points out he has the team wrong, as though he's the one who was wronged bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"

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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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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How it started/how it’s going

Trevor Lee
@VoteTrevorLee
Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in Utah

BREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
516296... #utpol @KSLcom @KSL5TV

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.

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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.

Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him

theguardian.com

Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case

Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This point has been exhausted, but it really is worth sitting with: under any other administration in recent memory, the ejection of disfavored news outlets followed by flagrant disregard of court orders would get wall-to-wall coverage and end political careers.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Contempt.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump take beef

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/09/2026

It's happened, Trump has officially cracked the 20's with his approval rating. 29% of Americans approve of Trump.

Screenshot of a post on X by InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) showing Donald Trump's job approval ratings from an American Research Group poll conducted September 16–20. The post states approval at 29% and disapproval at 68% (Disapprove +39), noting it as the lowest approval recorded with any pollster in either term.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 21/09/2026

Trump approval hits 29% in a poll for the first time ever. 29%. Twenty. Nine.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/09/2026

The Kennedy Center was financially stable until Trump took over: "In the fiscal year ending in 2024, when the center was led by President Deborah Rutter and a bipartisan board of trustees, it brought in about $40 million more than it spent" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

theatlantic.com

What the Kennedy Center’s Tax Return Reveals

A previously unseen filing captures the state of the institution seven months after Donald Trump’s takeover.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

mmygod

the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky post

today's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New contender for the ultimate "Imagine if Obama said it" submission

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My grandfather, who is 102 and a medical doctor, has told me about the times before polio was cured. Most years, upon returning to school after summer’s break, there would be some children would didn’t make it back to school because of polio.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn't hold back. These centers are a blight on higher education and we should say so. dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...

“Center for Intellectual Freedom is a really Orwellian name because they’re forcing mandatory classes on students who don’t want it,” Ray said. “Just as a matter of pure consistency, if closing African American Studies was just a financial decision, the center should be closed.” Ray said universities do a better job fostering free thought than any other institution — including churches, workplaces, and the military.

“You can say and do things at universities that you cannot do anywhere else,” he said. “So the notion that universities are a problem when it comes to free speech is just a lie.”

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New photos reveal widespread damage at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East caused by Iranian attacks. www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...

cbsnews.com

New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks

The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.

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Taryn @thayden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore…. make it make sense. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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MicroSoft Word Champion @incompetentweiner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I want blood

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A violation of states' laws: "investigators effectively posing as individual voters by using personally identifiable information compiled from both internal and external sources, such as birth dates or partial Social Security numbers, to look up voter records" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...

nytimes.com

Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud

Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.

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Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A good rule of thumb is to assume there's at least one Nazi/Groyper working on every Republican campaign in the country. That is what the Teenage Republicans/College Republicans/Young Republicans have become. It's been this way for almost 10 years and people still don't get it.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A recurrent theme in this excellent story about China’s progress is that people there regard Trump as essential to their success, including his ability to drive scientific talent from the US www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

In Beijing, a think tank at Renmin University recently published an assessment titled
"Thank Trump," which wryly hailed his efforts to hasten the "twilight of an empire," by undermining America's alliances, civil service, scientific institutions, and democratic credibility. In the past two years, the international approval rating of the U.S. has dropped nearly forty points, according to a worldwide survey by the Alliance of Democracies; in multiple polls, China now rates higher than the U.S.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Biden really did deliver on this just for Trump to destroy it

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This thread asks why Trump saying “I'm going to try to cheat like hell..." isn’t getting as much media attention as his obviously farcical $5,000 proposals. They ignore it when he says crazy things that are true, and take seriously the crazy things he says that are not. Sanewashing.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 11/09/2026

A very handy cheat sheet for those with people in their lives who might fall for Trump’s $5,000 dividend promise. Remind them that this is the 16th time he’s made such a promise in the last two years…and that no check ever materialized the first 15 times. Via @alexsjacquez.bsky.social on X.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2026

“To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.” -Shirer, Rise & Fall of the Thrid Reich, p. 375

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

You can report Dumold Trump and his followers to Florida's Voter Fraud Hotline dos.fl.gov/offices/elec...

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Election Crimes and Security - Florida Department of State

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Everyone still using X is using a website that produces and distributes CSAM. It is disgusting and immoral and nobody has any excuse for not being fully aware at this point.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The president had ordered summary executions of sailors who he believes are involved in drug trafficking, and shipped alleged members of a violent drug gang to be slave labor in a notorious extra jurisdictional prison. But he pardon Ulbricht, convicted drug kingpin accused of hiring hitmen.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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