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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10h

In a filing yesterday in Kennedy Center case, Rep Beatty says defendants have “categorically refused" to provide ordered discovery on Trump’s threats to close or demolish the Center if his name doesn’t go back on the façade. … 1/2 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Perhaps most starkly, Defendants have categorically refused to respond to admissions regarding Plaintiff's Supplemental Authority, which addressed two separate threats by Chairman Trump to close or demolish the Kennedy Center if he was not adequately recognized.
Defendants objected and withheld a response on the basis that such information is outside the scope of discovery, despite this Court expressly authorizing discovery by minute order into that precise topic. On Defendants' telling, although "the information requested" is the " 'subject' of Plaintiff's Notice of Supplemental Authority and facially within the Court's minute order," it is not "related to the 'substance, justification, mechanics, and process' of the Board at its August and September meetings." This directly violates the Court's minute order which made crystal clear that this is a topic for discovery.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 12h

Mark Zuckerberg tells investors that his AI push is a huge success. But when it files its taxes, Meta tells the IRS its giant data centers are an experiment that might fail. Why? Because calling them an experiment lets Meta claim a tax credit meant for real research.

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 13h

Jon Husted was at the center of the biggest corruption scandal in Ohio history, receiving $3.5 million from FirstEnergy. He secured a bailout for FirstEnergy and raised your utility rates to pay for it.

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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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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 17h

If they get away with saying that journalism is a “national security threat,” you may as well trash the First Amendment.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The year started with the AI industry building a huge war chest to influence elections. It's ending with AI executives withholding campaign donations because they know they're toxic, and candidates bashing AI in their advertising. Political power is a two-way street. From me:

prospect.org

AI Has Become a Punching Bag - The American Prospect

Even the industry’s biggest tycoons are holding back on political spending, because itmight hurt candidates more than it helps.

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

KKKaroline can spill all the tea she wants, I'm still not buying her goddamn book!

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026

NEW: The criminal investigation into the "grand conspiracy" fell apart with everyone resigning because they failed to indict anyone, so now they're just going to make up a report about it. Pathetic. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

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Kash Patel commissions classified, internal FBI report to examine department ‘failures’

Sources tell MS NOW the ‘Patel Report’ may be the latest effort to re-write history in President Trump’s favor.

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sounds like a metaphor for Donald's Iran war.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

STEPHEN MOORE: We had much much higher inflation under Biden BERMAN: Let me stop you. Has inflation gone up or down since Trump took office? MOORE: Well, it was about 3.2% when Biden left office, it's 3.4% now BERMAN: So it's gone up MOORE: That is true

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/10/2026

Unelected Republicans in Georgia are asking Todd Blanche to declare their voting machines illegal. DOJ has no authority to interfere with state-run elections, but I doubt that will stop them from trying. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026

Xavier Becerra put the Steve Hilton contradiction right on the debate stage: enforce Trump’s federal immigration laws, but ignore California’s own protections? Then he dropped the hammer: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me.”

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

alternet.org

Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Aptera @aptera.us · 01/10/2026

A leaner path to production. ☀️ We now estimate approximately $25M to reach start of production, down from $40–45M previously, primarily reflecting the anticipated benefits of our partnership with Launch Design. Learn more → aptera.us/reduces-capital-requireme…

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“.. They’ve already started building,” Trump said. “.. That’s not true, according to TV6 Investigates’ review of Lee County land records. The review found no major property purchases tied to the project this year.” @kwqc.com #Iowa www.kwqc.com/2026/09/29/t....

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@thepoliticsbar.bsky.social @silversmith1.bsky.social @jodyhamilton.bsky.social @bobcesca.bsky.social I agree with y'all on the insidiousness of Fox (not) News. They might not take what they say seriously, but the True Believers who get their marching orders from the cable network certainly do.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.com

DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says

Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.

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Aptera @aptera.us · 29/09/2026

Efficiency has a shape.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Posted and…deleted. Atta boy Sean Hannity. You’re such a tool.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

NEW: Seems as though the full DC Circuit Court is poised to green-light Judge Boasberg's contempt investigation into the government for failing to turn the planes bound for CECOT around. Trump will then likely seek an emergency stay from SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Appeals court weighs fate of judge's contempt probe over Trump administration deportation flights

An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El ...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ethan Harper graduated from Harvard Law School and Andrew Ceonzo graduated George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School. Both were in their school's chapters of the Federalist Society. Their involvement (if any) in Sen. Schmitt's line of attack is unclear. I've reached out to both.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined "to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump" after a federal judge found that the attorneys misused the court system in "settling" his IRS lawsuit. www.reuters.com/world/us-app...

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Appeals court declines to pause sanctions against Trump lawyers in IRS settlement

A US appeals court declined on Tuesday to immediately block sanctions against lawyers for Donald ‌Trump who a judge accused of misusing the court system in settling a lawsuit the Republican president...

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What is it conservatives love to mockingly say to the rest of us?: "If you're not doing anything untoward, you shouldn't mind the transparency."

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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mike Lee grilled Jack Smith over subpoenas in the 2020 election investigation. In December 2020, Lee texted Mark Meadows that if a few state legislatures appointed "alternative slates of delegates, there could be a path." The senator was not a bystander to what Smith investigated.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026

The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a normal world, a massive data breach exposing the personal information of FBI agents would be a "-gate" level scandal complete with Congressional investigations and calls for resignations, but since we live in a reality show now, this won't be a story by tomorrow 🙃

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 28/09/2026

What does JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force have in common with Musk’s DOGE gambit? Both created online resources, ostensibly to show their purported successes, only to see their claims unravel under scrutiny. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.now

The embarrassing thing Vance’s fraud task force has in common with Musk’s DOGE gambit

Both initiatives created online resources that invited scrutiny. Both were unprepared for what happened next.

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm having flashbacks to the arguments in the 1960s by tobacco companies against regulation of their products.

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder: First-term Trump and then-Gov. Scott Walker touted Foxconn as a major employer for Wisconsin.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"When Lutnick appeared with Chung 2 days after 9/11, I took everything he said at face value. We were all so traumatized & he seemed so sincere. But now? You’ll excuse me, but I doubt every word that’s ever come out of Lutnick’s mouth—whether last week on Squawk Box or 25 yrs ago on Connie Chung."

gregolear.substack.com

Tear Jerk: The Guy From 9/11

“Who is Howard Lutnick and what is his greater purpose?”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If the nation wasn’t led by madmen, this would be a huge story. As it is, Trump’s offer to sell weapons to our most powerful adversary is just another sign of America’s national suicide.

nytimes.com

Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A fascist and a communist walk into the White House. Sadly, it's not the beginning of a joke. Trump is *the* joke.

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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump seeks to label Democrats as communists, but he was the one who rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping and kissed his ass. He is clearly Putin’s comrade and buying government stakes in private companies, so why aren’t more people calling out this bullshit? #ComradeTrump

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That day in July when I kept crossing paths with the Google Street View car.

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But who will play the role of the hell-raisin' wildcat drillers when we need them to plant a nuclear bomb on an asteroid headed for Earth? Robots? I don't think so!

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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hey, @bobcesca.bsky.social, Airplane! was in fact an almost scene-by-scene remake of the film Zero Hour!, re-crafted as a comedy, of course. collider.com/airplane-isn...

collider.com

'Airplane!' Isn’t Just a Parody — It’s Also a Remake!

It's a remake alright...and don't call me Shirley.

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Aptera @aptera.us · 27/09/2026

Three wheels. 🛞 Using three wheels lets us taper the body into a true airfoil, cut weight, and reduce rolling resistance. Every choice points to one goal: using as little energy as possible to get you where you're going.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

cornellsun.com

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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Tom Shafer @tomshafshafer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Donald misspelled 'bribe' again.

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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

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