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Steven @ira78.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Labor Department reported that the US added 29,000 jobs in September, missing expectations. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% from 4.1% in the previous month. $7 diesel. There's that, so...........
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September jobs report live updates: US adds 29K jobs, labor demand 'flashing yellow'
The Labor Department will release a crucial jobs report on Friday, and it's expected to show the US jobs market remained sturdy in September.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fox Business: "The September jobs numbers do not look good… 29,000 jobs added is well below expectations… unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2% — A significant slowdown…” (From @atrupar.com )
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PositiveEnerG @positiveenerg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hit-by...
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Trump Hit by Brutal Economic Bombshell as Election Looms
The number of jobs added in September was well below expectations.
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Jim Messina @messina2012.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
-$4.40 gas -$6.37 diesel -Consumer sentiment at second-lowest reading ever -Just 29k jobs in Sept and Aug and July revised down -Mortgage rates at 7.28% A real golden age!
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tjpboston50.bsky.social @tjpboston50.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What did the US gain from Trump's last trip to China and Xi's visit this week to Washington?
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Woman Says Absolutely with Hand Gestures
ALT: Woman Says Absolutely with Hand Gestures
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tjpboston50.bsky.social @tjpboston50.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The UN speeches by the Prime Ministers of Japan and Spain were excellent.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court prevented a U.S. Postal Service regulation concerning mail-in ballots from going into effect, casting a decisive blow against President Donald Trump’s hopes of exercising federal control over the midterm elections.
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Supreme Court says Trump cannot enforce new mail-in ballot regulation
The decision means a Postal Service measure that could lead to ballots not being sent to voters won’t be in effect for this November’s midterm elections.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 10/09/2026
The appeals court's ruling dealt a fresh blow to the president’s attempted crackdown on mail-in voting before the November midterms
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US appeals court rejects Trump’s bid to impose restrictions on mail-in voting before midterms
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Indie Reviews 🇨🇦 @indiereviews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Canadian-made adult diapers are not being tariffed. Trump needs them too much. 😂
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 02/09/2026
Insults and bickering overshadow G-20 summit, as it comes to a close amid a global bond market selloff.
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G-20 Squabbling Overshadows Summit as Global Bond Markets Strain
The finance ministers’ gathering comes to a close amid a global bond-market selloff, spats over tariffs and public insults.
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tjpboston50.bsky.social @tjpboston50.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Apple Maps 👍 Google Maps 👎 Lake Ontario now and forever
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ᵀᴴᴱꀤNGᒪOᖇIOᑌᔕ¹🇨🇦 @inglorious.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
And likely waaaay before that. The Huron-Wendats have lived along its shores for over 700 years, and they named it. It was first written down by Europeans in the 1600s.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/08/2026
Members of this Montana reservation are finding it harder to pay mortgages, buy groceries and refill on gas amid the escalating tariffs standoff with Canada. Most of the tribe owns or works for businesses dependent on cross-border trade and tourism.
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A Native tribe’s way of life was threatened by Canada tariffs. More are coming.
Ranchers, taxi drivers and campsite owners on the Blackfeet reservation have endured two years of financial losses. They worry a new trade war will make things even worse.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/08/2026
For years, Bill Gates said he was optimistic that the world would become a better place thanks to AI. But in a new essay, Gates says he is worried that AI could do more harm than good.
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Bill Gates was an AI optimist. Now he’s scared of what could go wrong.
In an essay, the Microsoft co-founder sounds the alarm about artificial intelligence’s risks to safety and security, jobs and children’s well-being.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/08/2026
The quiet-spoken Canadian prime minister has spoken unutterable truths
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How Mark Carney’s speeches have become political earthquakes | Ted Widmer
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/08/2026
Bill Gates is loudly warning that A.I. poses a grave threat to jobs and human life, and that addressing the risks should be “the world’s top priority.” In an interview with The New York Times, Gates said the tech industry was knowingly downplaying those threats. nyti.ms/4qApGnH
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/08/2026
The McDonald’s in Kyiv’s Lukianivka neighborhood has withstood at least nine bombardments since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Its walls are pockmarked from shrapnel. But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations, still serves as a refuge in Kyiv.
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Inside the most bombed McDonald’s in the world
The walls are pockmarked from shrapnel and the golden arches melted at Ukraine’s first McDonald’s. But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations, still serves as a refuge in Kyiv.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/08/2026
Exclusive: Michael Boren, a tech billionaire who oversees the U.S. Forest Service as a Trump appointee, asked agency staff to escalate the amount of aircraft at a fire that started near his ranch in Idaho, according to two officials. wapo.st/4cInG79
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hundreds of candidates for House, Senate or governor this year have staked out policies related to AI or data centers on their campaign websites, according to a Post analysis. By @shiraovide.bsky.social, @ence.bsky.social & @kevinschaul.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Boren pushed for more aircraft to fight the fire even though “it was easily accessible by ground,” an official said. A Post analysis found at least some of the aircraft were diverted from fires elsewhere in the state. @abtran.bsky.social & Brianna Sacks www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
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Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch
Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 10/08/2026
Scientists have made clear that the elevated heat in the US was being amplified by the human-caused climate crisis
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July was hottest month ever recorded in US as heatwaves scorched country
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msjackson.blacksky.app @msjackson.blacksky.app · 28/03/2026
Updates on the Iran "excursion" according Cadet Bone Spurs and convicter felon Donald J Trump
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 08/08/2026
The US president’s profound ignorance of his enemy has led to an impotent cycle of empty threats, analysts say
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Bluster and backdown have turned Iran war into Trump’s own Groundhog Day
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/08/2026
For 81 years, a team inside the House Appropriations Committee investigated how federal agencies spent the public’s money. The problem is, an archive of the team’s findings is missing, and no one with the Appropriations Committee will say where it went.
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Watchdogs press House panel over decades of missing spending investigations
A coalition of groups is asking the Appropriations Committee to account for more than 80 years of work.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/08/2026
An organization representing career IRS employees have joined a lawsuit over the contentious settlement reached in connection with President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS, challenging a carveout that would give him and members of his family immunity from certain tax audits.
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IRS worker’s group joins Jan. 6 ‘slush fund’ suit, seeking to block Trump audit carveout
The National Treasury Employees Union argues career IRS auditors “will be given unlawful directions” to terminate tax audits because of a Trump administration decision.
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tjpboston50.bsky.social @tjpboston50.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Ignore polling.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/08/2026
News analysis: Soon after President Trump announced a new plan last week to deliver peace and security in Gaza, the Palestinian enclave instead experienced a spike in deadly Israeli bombings, which threatened to undermine hopes for long-awaited progress.
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Israeli Strikes May Undermine Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza
President Trump announced a proposal aimed at achieving the disarmament of Hamas and an Israeli withdrawal. Israel ramped up attacks on the Palestinian enclave.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/08/2026
Acting attorney general Todd Blanche formally rescinded the Trump administration’s proposal for a $1.8 billion fund for people who claim they were victims of political prosecutions. It’s a step toward becoming the head of the Justice Department.
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Blanche formally rescinds plan for ‘weaponization’ fund, in deal to advance AG nomination
Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) had threatened to vote against Todd Blanche’s nomination if their concerns were not addressed.
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Danger Mouse @dangermouse911.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Did he do it in writing? How about the immunity for Trump, his family, and corporations for tax fraud.
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Jon-in-NYC @nycnewsfeed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
He did not withdraw the legal settlement (which hold require Trump to sign off)- just the order to create the fund. With the settlement still standing nothing is preventing him from creating the fund right after he’s confirmed. It’s an empty gesture.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/08/2026
The U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro contradicted President Trump's repeated theory about the damage to the Reflecting Pool, blasting the Interior Department for the rushed and “botched” renovation. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
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In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
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CNN @cnn.com · 01/08/2026
The Justice Department is admitting that President Donald Trump's $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was flawed, and it is dropping the criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn, according to a new court filing. Read more: cnn.it/44Xems3
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 31/07/2026
US president tells reporters during Camp David cabinet meeting technology ‘a hard thing to give away’
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Trump backtracks from promise to let Ukraine build Patriot missiles
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
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‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This. This. This.
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It's time to leave the man alone.
One day in 2020, I went to a coffee shop.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/07/2026
Column by Philip Kennicott: I’ve visited the Smithsonian hundreds of times. Warnings aren’t needed. A recent executive order from President Trump may be laughable, but it shouldn’t be laughed off. wapo.st/4yLVqdo
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Fauci’s diary entries show the former government science adviser’s disillusionment with Trump during the Covid-19 pandemic, branding him “rambling”, “crazy”, “bumbling”, “incompetent”, “an idiot”, “a true embarrassment”, and “truly an obnoxious adolescent”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journal
Former top US health official wrote about challenging interactions with publicity-fixated Trump during Covid
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/07/2026
An appeals court on Saturday upheld a lower-court ruling blocking key parts of an executive order from President Trump to restrict voting by mail.
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Appeals Court Upholds Blocks on Trump Order Restricting Mail Voting
The ruling on Saturday was the latest rebuke to President Trump’s attacks on mail-in voting. The government says it may take the case to the Supreme Court.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 25/07/2026
Taylor Farms representatives contacted the White House last week with an urgent plea: They wanted to delay announcing a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history.
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Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall
Officials became convinced by FDA’s findings, and gave the agency the green light to make them public
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NEW: After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was stolen, the Trump White House still hasn’t found it. The @lawfaremedia.org team on everything Trump's election speech did not prove. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ever...
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Everything Trump’s Election Speech Did Not Prove
After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was stolen, the White House still hasn’t found it.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The moves are the latest sign that the G.O.P. has subjugated its entire legislative agenda, months before midterm elections, to the president’s obsession with cracking down on election fraud that he claims, despite evidence to the contrary, is rampant. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
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House Republicans Have Tied the Defense Policy Bill to Trump’s SAVE Act
House Republicans have tied their entire legislative agenda to President Trump’s voting restriction measure, as he has demanded.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When the president makes statements about the war, they are full of wishful thinking, hyperbole, and outright lies. The public needs to demand the truth from Trump and Hegseth. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The American People Need the Truth About the Iran War
The president and the Pentagon are not being upfront about what has happened in more than 20 weeks of hostilities.
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
SCOOP: After pardoning hundreds of allies over the course of his 1st 18 months back in the White House, Trump this month quietly rejected clemency applications from nearly 6,000 people who mostly lacked connections & had been waiting in a queue at the Justice Department.
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Trump Rejected Nearly 6,000 Clemency Applications Amid Hope of Pardon Wave (Gift Article)
Expectations were raised for a raft of pardons in connection with the country’s 250th birthday but the president granted fewer than 20 on July 3.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/07/2026
"It is not possible to have integrity and be loyal to Trump. The two are in direct conflict," writes @rbreich.bsky.social.
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The trouble with Trump’s latest nominees lies in one word: integrity | Robert Reich
As Todd Blanche, Erica Schwartz and Jay Clayton face the Senate, a fundamental disconnect becomes clear
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Roy Cooper’s Senate campaign may offer Democrats “a lesson about the effectiveness of politicians who don’t fashion themselves as revolutionaries, don’t dance along the culture’s fault lines and don’t have any big surprises in store,” Frank Bruni writes.
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Opinion | Enough Democratic Drama. North Carolina Has a Better, Boring Way.
There are important lessons in my state’s Senate race.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/07/2026
Congressman to run for seat despite Donald Trump backing Graham’s sister, Darline, should she choose to run
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Republican lawmaker Ralph Norman to join race to succeed Lindsey Graham in South Carolina
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/07/2026
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects
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Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own | Jamil Smith
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/07/2026
More than half of Americans disapprove of how the Supreme Court is doing its job, while 46 percent believe that the court is ruling on President Trump’s policies based on ideology rather than the law, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
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Nearly half of Americans in poll say Supreme Court bases rulings on politics
A majority of Americans disapprove of the job the court is doing, a Washington Post-Ipsos survey finds. Still, it fares better than the president or Congress.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 18/07/2026
As the bombing starts again, it’s clear the president has dragged the US into a limitless fiasco – and the world into an economic quagmire, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Trump, not Iran, is the world’s greatest danger. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction | Simon Tisdall
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Untangling what Trump said about China, which does not match what the newly declassified documents say about China. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
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Trump Released Documents on China and the 2020 Election. Here’s What We Know.
President Trump claimed that China had tried to acquire American voter data. Possessing such information would not allow votes to be manipulated.
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