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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11h

"The White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign as U.S. ambassador to Greece, after The Wall Street Journal reported that she had solicited $100,000 from a Trump donor in the run-up to her confirmation hearing last year." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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White House Asks Kimberly Guilfoyle to Resign

The Wall Street Journal had reported that the U.S. ambassador to Greece had solicited $100,000 from a Trump donor.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11h

"The arrangement, which President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called “a gift” to President Putin, directly undercuts years of effort by dozens of countries — including the United States — to cut Russia off from the money that fuels Mr. Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine."

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11h

"European and British officials were stunned by President Trump’s unexpected announcement that he had made a deal with President Vladimir V. Putin to purchase Russian diesel fuel. But they were in a bind on how to respond. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...

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U.K. and Europe Recoil From Trump’s Diesel Deal With Putin (Gift Article)

Shocked by the U.S. agreement with Russia, which Ukraine has called “a gift” to President Putin, officials in Europe have coalesced around a cautious diplomatic message.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11h

"As Trump’s family business pulls in record money from new ventures helped by his policies ... about 6 in 10 U.S. adults believe he is either illegally profiting or doing something unethical but not illegal."

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11h

"Elon Musk, the world’s only trillionaire, has quietly become the biggest known donor in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in Congress." apnews.com/article/elon...

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Elon Musk quietly becomes biggest known donor in midterm contests as he tries to save Republicans

Musk has become the biggest known spender in the 2026 midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Though the GOP focus on Omar’s background dates back years, the search of her home happened three weeks before the midterms. The DOJ "has historically sought to avoid public investigative actions involving a candidate within 60 days of a primary or general election." apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Agents search Rep. Omar's Washington home in criminal probe as she vows she won't 'be silenced'

Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar says she will “not be silenced” and calls a search of her Washington home part of President Donald Trump’s “intimidation” campaign.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

" “You know, I can deliver the world to you. Which you deserve,” she said, according to the recording. “I’m going to make you a lot of f—ing money,” she said at another point in the exchange with the businessman."

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"She was being blocked from attending an upcoming dinner being held for Eric Trump, and she wanted to enlist an American businessman who was on the guest list to help get her in the door.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"According to people who heard the conversation and an audio recording reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Guilfoyle was flexing her connections to wealthy Greek businessmen in January as she made an urgent request.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Kimberly Guilfoyle, as America’s newly minted ambassador to Greece, boasted at Davos about her close ties to two Greek tycoons and said they were bankrolling her high-rolling trips around the world. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Exclusive | At Davos, Kimberly Guilfoyle Boasted of Private Jet Trips, Luxury Stays

A recording captured the U.S. ambassador saying that Greek businessmen were paying for her travels and pleading for an invitation to an event with Eric Trump.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"... 49% of likely voters surveyed said they planned to vote for Haaland or had already done so, while 42% of voters said they intended to vote for Hull. The remaining 9% of voters said they had still not decided who they planned to vote for ... ." www.abqjournal.com/news/journal...

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Journal Poll: Haaland holds lead over Hull

With Election Day nearing, Deb Haaland leads Gregg Hull 49%-42% in New Mexico’s governor’s race.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Republican gubernatorial candidate Gregg Hull faces an empty podium in what would have been the only debate in the New Mexico governor's race. Democratic candidate Deb Haaland was 200 miles away meeting with farmers. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/electio...

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‘It should have been a debate’: Hull faces empty podium as Haaland meets with farmers

Thursday’s debate was a one-man show as Democrat Deb Haaland was absent, citing a prior commitment. Republican Gregg Hull answered questions and said it should have been a real face-off.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I began reading banned books as a kid before I even knew people liked to ban books. You might say banned books helped make me who I am. Take that however you want. 😁 Read banned books. #BannedBooksWeek apnews.com/article/book...

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PEN America: Nearly 12,000 school book bans in a year, a record high

A new study from PEN America reveals that there were nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools over the past year, the highest since tracking began five years ago.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What is it to mean to be human, to be conscious, to lead a good life, to be virtuous. Those are at the core of an education centered on the humanities.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This story highlights the importance of the type of education that strengthens a person's (and community's) skill at thinking through deep questions that have been with humanity for thousands of years.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I agree with one of the participants in these sessions: Anthropic and other AI frontier companies should have had these conversations and been thinking profoundly about virtue and how to cultivate it at the beginning in the design phase, and not as an add on after the fact.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"What would it mean for humanity’s future if artificial intelligence systems possessed a consciousness that rivals our own?"

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The religious scholars had come to hear about technology’s next frontier. Now they were being confronted with a mind-bending existential question of almost unimaginable weight: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...

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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is no indication Mr. Kushner or Witkoff stand to profit. But the pending deal represents an "intermingling of personal business ties with geopolitics, even for an administration that has regularly dismissed concerns about potential conflicts of interest." 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 (Gift Article)

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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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The decision not to examine additional evidence or seek additional inquiry beyond a single incomplete campus police statement departed from how complicated sex crimes investigations should be handled, said former prosecutors and other experts. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...

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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence (Gift Article)

Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Hiring dropped from a revised 133,000 in August, the Labor Department said. The unemployment rate rose to a still-low 4.2% from 4.1% in August. "Economists had expected September payrolls to come in around 90,000."

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The power plant would have a 2.45-gigawatt capacity — an unprecedented industrial load in New Mexico, roughly the same amount of power used by all Public Service Company of New Mexico customers."

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Project Jupiter, Oracle and OpenAI’s controversial Doña Ana County data center, will connect to a proposed natural gas fuel cell plant, which developers call a microgrid. www.abqjournal.com/business/new...

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NM lawmakers seek protections from data center power costs

New Mexico’s delegation urges utility regulators to keep data center expansion costs off household and small-business bills.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"About half of U.S. adults now say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about being able to fill their tanks, up from 39% in July. About half are also highly concerned about being able to afford food." apnews.com/article/trum...

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Most Americans blame Trump for high prices as midterms approach, a new AP-NORC poll finds

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans blame President Donald Trump for persistently high prices, while only about 2 in 10 approve of his handling of the cost of living.

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Trip Jennings @trip-44.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Australian officials said they were not alerted to a June incident in which A.I. agents accessed nonpublic parts of a data portal containing information on Medicare, the country’s universal health funding scheme, "until nearly three months after the fact." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/w...

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OpenAI Apologizes for Australia Medicare Hack

The company detailed how A.I. agents gained access to four government websites and acknowledged mishandling its response.

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