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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To everyone who's stood by my friend Davey Hearn: he's so grateful & so are we Davey says if it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody, & you showed up like you knew it @democracydefendersfund.org, @washlitgroup.bsky.social & Steptoe are proud to stand w/ him & w/ you Davey on GMA👇 -TN
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This day is a victory!" Mary Dohrmann, the attorney for former Olympian David Hearn, reacts to the judge's full dismissal of Hearn's case
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Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A 3-year-old no receipts program allows House members to supplement their $174,000 base salary by expensing food and housing costs while in Washington on official business, no specifics disclosed. House members spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024.
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The House reimburses lawmakers for D.C. expenses. See who spent the most.
Taxpayers spent 21 percent more last year on the program, which helps cover the costs of food and lodging in Washington, a Post analysis found.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/10/2026
Ben Parker slams Pete Hegseth: "You’re not a Fox News host anymore. Your job should be trying to win over America’s enemies, not alienating your fellow Americans."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle. "The state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen."
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From 15,000 to 185 to Zero: Trump’s Claims of Illegal Voting in Nevada Fizzle
It was the Trump administration’s latest stumble in its effort to find proof of widespread noncitizen voting, despite decades of evidence that it is extremely rare.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/09/2026
Nearly 170,000 pounds of meat products are being recalled because they were falsely labeled as having gone through federal inspection. The affected products were produced before Sept. 22 and may have false USDA inspection labels that say “EST. 1363.”
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Nearly 170,000 pounds of raw meat recalled for false inspection labels
The affected products were produced before Sept. 22 and may have false USDA inspection labels that say “EST. 1363.”
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kings grant privileges. Constitutions grant rights. The difference is stark. And un-American. Today, a Judge held a hearing on whether the press can still criticize the president. Here’s what happened: joycevance.substack.com/p/king-trump...
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King Trump: Privileges, Not Rights
It’s all about whether the press can criticize the president
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nuclear regulation developed for low-chance, high-risk scenarios. Similar to the risk of AI. A simple place to start is mandatory incident reporting. If something goes wrong, everyone gets to know. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…
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How Much Would You Pay to Prevent the AI Apocalypse?
And what economists say we should spend. Hint: we're nowhere close.
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🧵NEW: Kennedy drew $4 million in book advances from Tony Lyons, a publisher who also runs MAHA groups that accept $$ from health companies with business before HHS. The advances were set the month when Kennedy dropped his presidential bid to back Trump: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Kennedy Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA (Gift Article)
A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: An Iowa state court dismisses President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer (represented by @thefireorg.bsky.social) and the Des Moines Register newspaper, a victory for First Amendment rights. Opinion here: www.fire.org/research-lea...
This case sets a President, a member of Congress, and a former state senator against a pollster and a newspaper, and it arises out of an election. A case of that kind invites the reader to look for a political result. The Court’s role is narrower. It is to sit as an impartial arbiter, to apply the law without passion or prejudice, and to rule without regard to the politics of the day. As such, the only question before the Court is whether the Petition states a claim the law recognizes. At its core, the Plaintiffs’ Petition seeks to stretch both Iowa statutory and common law beyond their current bounds, turning speech that enjoys the highest category of First Amendment protection into a liability. After considering the parties’ arguments, the Court must conclude that the protection is too great and the reach is too far. The case must therefore be dismissed.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
NEW: 8 sailors aboard the Lincoln attempted suicide per a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Congress. That is “incredibly high”. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
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Eight sailors assigned to US carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy secretary tells Congress | CNN Politics
Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
OBAMA: “Imagine if I had kicked out Fox News”
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump treats WH reporters like shit. They should respond in kind. No more deference. Talk back to him. Tell him he just lied, and didn’t answer the question. Correct him. Confront him with reality. Ask him why he surrounds himself with sycophants. Ask him if he’s lying or just crazy.
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Lew @toolew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These morons are so good at lying. It’s embarrassing
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/09/2026
Markwayne Mullin: "We're arresting pedophiles every single day"
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New episode of #Sistersinlaw podcast up now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Jill Wine-Banks @jillwine-banks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stop Demolition Man. #SistersInLaw analyze the SCOTUS ruling stopping Trump’s mail-in voting executive order, Trump’s egotistical nonstop attempt to take over the Kennedy Center, and Katie Phang’s win and Blanche’s loss re Epstein files, and answer your qs. LINK: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
YouTube video by Hamilton
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2026
The president chalked the ban up to what he called unfavorable coverage, and he threatened that bans on other media companies could be coming. n.pr/475xZPo
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Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
The president chalked the ban up to what he called unfavorable coverage, and he threatened that bans on other media companies could be coming.
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Lew @toolew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Omg! It never stops!
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Lew @toolew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OMG! It never stops.
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Lew @toolew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I guess he has to explain his “joke” to his not so bright maga base???
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White: Eight of Ken Paxton’s assistants turned him into the FBI for fraud... They sued and won $6 million. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He’s a criminal.
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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 16/09/2026
Secretary Hegseth deserves to be impeached. Even Republicans know it; that’s why they canceled votes to avoid having to go on the record and vote on his impeachment.
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Lew @toolew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wow. Tell us where to shop for ground beef that’s $2/lb. They all so out of touch.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/09/2026
The rise in rulings on the “shadow docket” has been driven, at least in part, by Trump’s losses in lower courts. “The patterns show a court going out of its way to enable Trump,” one scholar said. “That’s the real blow to the court’s credibility.” (Published July)
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court REJECTS Department of Justice effort to restore U.S. Postal Service mail-in voting rule. A huge victory for voting rights and free and fair elections. A defeat for Trump and his scheme to rig the elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
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🚨 State of California et al v. United States Postal Service et al
Learn more here.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just like Mike Rogers in Michigan and Tommy Tuberville in Alabama, Roger Marshall is a Florida Man who doesn’t even live in the state he represents.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is how they described MLK when he directly quoted Jesus, too.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Damn they're sensitive about Epstein. 👀
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 12/09/2026
Waymo pulls over robotaxi after detecting riders were carrying assault rifle
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Waymo pulls over robotaxi after detecting riders were carrying assault rifle
Waymo does not allow riders to carry weapons in its vehicles
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Earlier this week, Judd reported on a new Elon Musk scam. Musk is spending millions of dollars pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which advertises itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine. Judd joins us tonight to explain: joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
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Five Questions with Judd Legum
American journalist, lawyer, and political writer
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) told a federal judge Friday it’s appealing a scorching court order against President Donald Trump’s attempt to sue himself to create an almost $2 billion fund for his political allies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Attorney General Blanche said Trump’s ‘weaponization fund’ was dead. Now DOJ is appealing
The DOJ said Friday it's appealing a judge's finding that Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own administration was "improper."
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Rob Bon Vivant🌊 @77sunnyandclear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You cannot make this stuff up. The GOP’s Dallas midterm convention put Ross Ulbricht—the Silk Road founder convicted on 7 federal counts, including narcotics trafficking and money laundering—on stage. Trump pardoned him in 2025. TWO LIFE SENTENCES. And THIS is who they’re putting on a pedestal?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: 20+ Republican leaders just endorsed James Talarico over Ken Paxton.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 10/09/2026
Hasbro on DHS’ use of Optimus Prime in their deportation slop.
Alt text: Screenshot of an Instagram post from the verified account "hasbro." The post is a dark gray graphic with white text reading: "Optimus Prime is a beloved character who represents humility, leadership, compassion and justice. Hasbro is aware of the recent posts using his likeness. These posts were done without permission and do not represent the Transformers brand or Hasbro." A Hasbro logo is centered below the text.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Does this $5,000 check come after we get the DOGE and tariff checks? How many times can people believe the same lies and con job over and over? This will be studied for years: how people can be so gullible.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/09/2026
John Fetterman, who refused to attend a funeral for three PA police officers because it was too long, speaks to Trump's midterm convention:
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The notion that Trump and his MAGA minions are free to reset reality and write text to match their own ends (as despots have historically done), has become one of the Trump regime’s most pernicious characteristics.
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LuciSkyDyme @luciskydyme.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Voters of Kansas, do you really want to re-elect this guy? Charged 18% interest and went after people who couldn't pay him... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Roger Marshall Sued 700 Patients for Debts; 81 Were Arrested. Now He’s a Senator. (Gift Article)
Patients sued by Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas were routinely charged 18 percent interest, The Times found. Some had bank accounts garnished.
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