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Safe in my bubble, lurking to see what needles are heading my way. Voracious reader - news, self-help and sci-fi/fantasy. I try not to judge, but I do have opinions...

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 4h
Doomed😳
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
Ever. #MedicareForAllNOW
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 18h
In response to Michael Tracey's request for Jane Doe's name, this image was created by Brittany Alexander for anyone who would wish to use it as their profile picture on any social media account. Medusa is often seen as the ultimate archetypal victim of institutional betrayal. #WeAreJaneDoe
B&W image of Medusa with the words We Are Jane Doe
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h
Brainstorm: How do we use this to taint everyone getting funding from Musk. "Backed by the guy demanding the right to disseminate fake pictures showing you naked"?
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 1h
Don’t raise your sons to be rapists, or to aid those who do. Teach them to intervene.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 1h
“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here...” www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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I C Humans @mrmedinawokeaf.bsky.social · 1h
Trafficking children must be a hell of a business since all these billionaires are eager to have a stake in it. Regardless of the consequences.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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President of Spiders @spiderpresident.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every Secretary in this admin is the worst middle manager you’ve ever had, where they have no idea what the real job is or what the people they’re in charge of actually do, so they lock in on stupid, unimportant things to make assuage their egos and feel ‘in charge’
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We've paid enough for his illegal involvement in our government. Nobody wants this bastard in there. We have enough of them right now. Call your representatives.☎️
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 02/10/2026
“Girls don’t need curfews. Rapists need consequences.” Women in India are taking their rage over violence against women to the streets. 🔥 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/10/2026
A US government effort spanning intelligence agencies, the FBI and the Justice Department sought proof that voting machines were used to rig the 2020 election. It ultimately found no evidence votes were altered reut.rs/4hHBkcA
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Matt Royer 🤘🏼 @mattroyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now I’m no statistician: but is a 10 for 300,000 a good conviction rate or even evidence of a trend for that matter? Would batting a 0.00003 be considered a good average?
Now I’m no statistician: but is a 10 for 300,000 a good conviction rate or even evidence of a trend for that matter?

Would batting a 0.00003 be considered a good average?
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No one cares about humanity until it directly affects them! Shame on this rogue SCOTUS! #Pinks ⚖️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICE goon shot a person. (again) They're detaining him w the bullet in his body They enhanced their Official Lie ("weaponized their vehicle") w details & oh so shockingly the victim is the dangerous one ICE is terrorizing society. Their enablers need to go. 34 days iwillvote.com
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Man Shot by ICE Agent Is Charged With Assault
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez was shot by an ICE agent. Now the Justice Department is charging Pérez.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump is fully intending for the Kennedy Center to be his 7th bankruptcy. This isn't mismanagement, this is deliberate destruction in revenge for Trump not being able to make it a tribute to himself. www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
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Kennedy Center 'in free fall' as Trump allies max out credit and spend opera funds: WaPo
President Donald Trump took control of the Kennedy Center 19 months ago. Since then, the center has used up nearly every financial cushion it had, and one arts management expert says it now appears to...
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump must have been sounding it out!!! 🤣🤣🤣
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hegseth says “anti-American losers in our media” are committing “treason” by not obediently amplifying his Iran war lies. He hasn’t held a war briefing for reporters at the Pentagon since May. Which means he hasn’t justified his actions to the public, even though he’s conducting a war in our name.
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In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran
In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
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Paul fulbrook @paulfulbrook74.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When a Nation elects a rapist, that Nation is teaching its children that raping women, children, or animals in Kash Patel’s case is not abhorrent behavior.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 28/09/2026
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amid all the coverage of it, this Washinging Post column does the best — for me — in explaining why the Pool fights matter. Via @brianstelter.bsky.social See the original: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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The Nose Knows @tinat333.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Utilities have a "duty to seve", which is apparently being used to guarantee "new" customers access to power, but for some reason doesn't protect existing customers from being dropped. Something smells rotten, here. Is “obligation to serve”... fair: share.google/C6Uzbr4kfBLf...
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Is “obligation to serve” an obstacle to fair electric markets?
For decades, a governing business paradigm for electric utility companies has been the “duty to serve,” or “obligation to serve.” This, distilled, is a moral and legal requirement to make no ...
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the culture we're dealing with. It's not new, and it's far worse than any of us can imagine. We are not angry enough. #EndRapeCulture #Pinks
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
El-Sayed’s interviews are the new Masterclass on how to highlight how Republicans are predictable & pickle-brained. He broke the mold. He bet that on the day that we won, Trump, JD Vance, Mike Rogers etc. would go on talking about his name & faith. He's getting my vote in November. #pinks
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Petisia @petisia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Painful Glimpse into Our History of Injustice ― just a few of the countless times the U.S. justice system has failed the Black community. For centuries, we have endured systemic injustice and have been denied equal protection under the law.👇🏾 blackamericaweb.com/2026/09/22/t... #BLM #HISTORY #PINKS
Image of Emmett Till with the caption, “Emmett Till’s killers were paid thousands to lie about his death.”

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black teenager from Chicago who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in August 1955 while visiting relatives. Till was accused of whistling at or offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in a local grocery store. Days later, Carolyn’s husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam, kidnapped Emmett from his great-uncle’s home, beat him, shot him, and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, insisted on an open-casket funeral so the world could see the brutality inflicted on her son, and images from the funeral shocked the nation.Photo collage (from left to right) of Denise McNair, age 11; Carole Robertson, age 14; Addie Mae Collins, age 14; and Cynthia Wesley, age 14 ― who all were killed in the racially motivated attack by the Ku Klux Klan against an African American church active in the ongoing civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama.
 
The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing took place on September 15 1963, just 19 days after Dr. Martin Luther King gave his “I Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington, in Washington, D.C. Four young girls, Denise McNair, age 11, and Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins, all age 14, were killed in the racially motivated attack by the Ku Klux Klan against an African American church active in the ongoing civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama.A 4-framed collage of Medgar Evers and a family portrait and his family at his funeral with the caption, “62 years ago today, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated. His murderer was convicted 30 years later.”

June 12, 1963: Medgar Evers is assassinated. He was 37. Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go," he was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; it ricocheted into his home. He staggered 9 meters before collapsing. Evers died at a local hospital 50 minutes later.Image of Yusuf Hawkins with the caption, “Yusuf Hawkins was fatally shot on August 23, 1989, after being taunted and chased by a mob of white youths in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.”

On August 23, 1989, 16-year-old Yusef Hawkins and three friends went to the predominately white Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, to inquire about a used car for sale. While walking through the neighborhood, the four Black boys encountered a group of 30 white youths gathered in the street. Armed with baseball bats and at least one handgun, the white boys set upon the Black boys. Yusef was shot twice in the chest and was later pronounced dead at the nearby Maimonides Medical Center.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Please share. #Pinks
girlyfeminist girlyfeminist
l've been a SA advocate for decades:
NEVER go to campus resources for a SA. Call a rape care hotline/program (off campus), get a SA advocate (they're free), go to a SART hospital for care (and evidence collection if you choose).
They activate the police. Schools have NO business in this process and will minimize and bury it. It's a criminal matter, not an administrative matter.
Period. No exceptions.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE is a for-profit human trafficking enterprise. Abolish ICE. "A $172.6 billion industry thrives in the shadows of our global economy, profiting from human suffering. Human trafficking generates profits that rival some of the world’s largest corporations" ourrescue.org/resources/hu...
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The Dark Market Economics of Human Trafficking | Our Rescue
Human trafficking generates $172.6 billion in dark market economics. Explore how this global crisis impacts business, markets, and human rights.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I agree with some points, not all. 1. America's world leadership is slipping due to the continued assaults on science. 2. Meanwhile. China ramps up its R&D spending. Now, Beijing accounts for 1/3rd of the world's clinical-stage drugs. 3. The NIH budget should be increased.🧵 🧪 archive.today/DtX6y
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | I’m a Republican senator. America needs more science, not less.
America should invest in NIH medical research, not retreat from it.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey @nytimes.com headline writers: Stop using the word “struggles”when what you mean is “fails”.
A bunch of New York Times headlines: * The New York Times
'Zombified' C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission 7 hours ago
@ The New York Times
Trump Struggles to Find Leverage With Xi Over Chinese Exports
1 day ago
@ The New York Times
Europe Warns of Russia's Hybrid Attacks but Struggles to Counter Them
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The New York Times
D.H.S. Leader Lost His Pick to Head ICE, as He Struggles to Prove His Toughness
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An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran's Defiant Leaders
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
"Refugees, many of whom have fled the very dictatorships the right holds up as symbols of Communist or Islamist evil—Iran, Cuba, Vietnam—face confinement in hotels repurposed as prisons; beatings and threats by guards; lack of adequate food..." In America.
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing
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Lynn ❌👑 @tnblue.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SCOTUS added another nail to the coffin of voting in this country. Too close to the midterms to do anything if you're wrongly 'purged'? maybe. Please continue to check your registration status. TX has already found hundreds incorrectly purged.
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Why the Supreme Court’s latest pro-Trump ruling is unlikely to affect the 2026 election
The ruling is a victory for Trump, but federal law limits what he can do before the midterms.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Your regular reminder that news norms at mainstream outlets are a rightwing subsidy. 👇
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sen. Ron Wyden about ICE facility for kids in Alexandria, Louisiana: “Since the day he took office Donald Trump has been going out of his way to endanger migrant children and leave them at risk of falling into horrific cycles of trafficking and other abuse." www.thequeenzone.com/exclusive-to...
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Exclusive: Top Senate Dem Responds to Christian Faith Group's Plea for Oversight of New ICE Facility for Kids
Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, has responded to a Christian faith group that...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026
this is, so we're clear, the kind of stuff unrealistic AI doomsday scenarios are intended to overshadow in the press half-cooked automation layered onto already very broken systems in a country too corrupt to have working regulators
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here is the opening paragraph of the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan that the six MAGA justices just overruled, to their everlasting shame: www.headsupnews.org/i/203459883/...
This case implicates two fundamental rights that protect Americans from government overreach: the right to privacy and the right to vote. In the past year, several federal agencies have joined forces to create a centralized federal database that contains the private information of United States citizens, including Social Security numbers, citizenship status, and other sensitive data. But decades ago, Congress put protections in place to prevent precisely this type of centralized data bank. And the record in this case shows that the federal agencies that created this database knew that the database violates those statutory protections. The agencies were scrambling to comply with an Executive Order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification. So they haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable. Since then, states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information. All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: SCOTUS allows DHS to use its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database with Social Security info, staying a district court order that had vacated the new policy. Justice Jackson dissents for the three Dem appointees. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Pentagon, one of the most secure locations on earth is three miles from Arlington, and visible from the site. Andrews AFB which houses AF-1 is only a few miles away, also one of the most secure bases in the planet. No one needs snipers on the arch except to target tourists or demonstrators.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I found this messaging to be quite effective. #BlueWaveIn40Days
Hi, kids. This is your Mom. Remember to vote on 11/3. If Trump cuts my Social Security and Medicare, I'm moving in with you!
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 24/09/2026
Chinese communist state media gets through the gate. American journalists get punished for reporting. A federal court gets ignored. That is a fascist assault on the free press, in broad daylight. Don’t let them bury this. The press needs backup & silence is exactly what this regime is counting on
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
axios.com
U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Murphy: "On April 30 -- a Thursday -- Reynolds makes an $8m donation. On Saturday, they have lunch w/POTUS & tell him they want a change in rules for flavored vapes. The president calls FDA commissioner & HHS sec, & on Tuesday new guidance is issued paving way to the sale of flavored vapes ... "
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 24/09/2026
Don Jr.-backed drone-parts manufacturer congratulates Eric Trump-backed drone manufacturer on winning a DoD contract.
Unusual Machines
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More momentum for XTEND. 🚀

Congrats to the team on another important U.S. defense milestone. Proud to be an investor and supplier. 🦅

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XTEND has been awarded Phase III of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone (MKLD) program.

The award follows XTEND’s recent Gauntlet II top-performer selection under the Drone Dominance Program.

Read more: xtend.me/xtend-secures-…
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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Peter Thiel -mentioned in 3,000 Epstein file documents -exchanged 2,000 emails with Epstein -swapped strategies with Epstein to avoid the IRS tracking their hidden wealth.. is the guy who helped the vice-president in key moments in his career.
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