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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 11h
Klobuchar: “For a US senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team … and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag, is something that deserves an apology.”
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12h
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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tsandler.bsky.social @tsandler.bsky.social · 5h
Trey and Fish on Marimba Lumina rules. @phish.com
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Phish - 7/22/2016 - "Scent of a Mule"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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You Must Remember This @rememberthispod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Listen to the first episode of our new series "The Bisexuals", which traces the early years of Libby Holman from being a Jewish girl in Ohio to the heights of Broadway as a racially ambiguous torch singer and bon vivant: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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Broadway Blackface & Harlem Sex Tourism
Podcast Episode · You Must Remember This · S21 E249 · 1h 13m
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tsandler.bsky.social @tsandler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is fun as hell
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From the phish community on Reddit: Trey and John Mayer peaking during WGTYM, 9/27/2026
Explore this post and more from the phish community
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
12/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said. One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇
Sen. Susan Collins, wearing a blue suit and red shirt, stands in front of a 3D-printed boat while holding a broken champagne bottle during a publicity event. The boat has the University of Maine logo and is emblazoned with the text "3Dirigo." Behind Collins are a group of applauding people, including a woman holding a Guinness World Records plaque.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
8/ Facing years in prison, Kao recounted the cafe meeting to the FBI in 2022, hoping to reduce his sentence by revealing the scheme. What he told them has never before become public.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
4/ To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sends an initial $150K to the pro-Collins super PAC (1820 PAC) using a shell company. Reed knows Kao is behind the donation. “Very smart,” he says in an email viewed by ProPublica.
Emails Between Martin Kao and Scott Reed, Discussing Contributions to the Susan Collins Super PAC, 1820 PAC

“Hi Scott: Had a chance to discuss 1820 with my CFO and attorney last night. They are suggesting setting up a separate new LLC to make the donations. Name of new LLC: Society of Young Women Scientists and Engineers.

In my personal real estate investments, we often use LLCs that can be set up to "facilitate" transactions. They are super vague and very difficult to get any background info on. Totally legal and typically used in real estate transactions to conceal the identity of buyer/seller. Wanted to get your thoughts/concerns.”
— email from Martin Kao to Scott Reed, Nov. 22, 2019

“Very smart and glad your counsel understands. Thanks for doing this.”
— email from Scott Reed to Martin Kao, Nov. 22, 2019

“Great! We will proceed on getting this set up ASAP. Have a nice weekend.”
— email from Martin Kao to Scott Reed, Nov. 22, 2019
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm disappointed this settlement appears to be yet another massive media consolidation deal that could raise prices for consumers, reduce content diversity, and weaken editorial independence. Here is what I'll be watching closely ⬇️🧵
Screenshot of FCC Commissioner Gomez statement
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
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FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez @agomezfcc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The FCC just let some of the most repressive governments in the world indirectly control nearly all of a combined Paramount-Warner Bros. An investment this large in one of America's biggest media companies doesn't just buy equity, it secures influence over what gets said and what gets made.
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Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
2 million California homes sit in high-risk fire zones, most built before modern fire-safe standards. Climate change is making it worse. Read the full plan: xavierbecerra2026.com/priorities/protecting-our-families-communities-from-the-next-wildfire-disaster/
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
two different paragraphs, two different sections but encourage you to click and read the unsealed (pink) of both of them together. And stop and think about the impact and harm to news media and civil society. /8
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 16/09/2026
News: Spokane is launching a new Emergency Streets program that will rapidly deploy traffic calming within 72 hours of any fatal crash. The program is intended to slow down drivers and increase awareness while crews evaluate whether factors like street design factored into the crash.
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Spokane to begin using traffic calming devices following fatal collisions
On a dark and rainy February night last year, Sarah Rose of Spokane remembered thinking, as cars sped past her, that conditions were creating a high danger for pedestrian and driver conflicts. As her ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026
“We don’t actually know if [automated license plate readers are] functioning in the way that they’re supposed to in terms of helping public safety, but we do know that they are definitely invading people’s privacy,” EFF’s @sairahussain.bsky.social told @lancasteronline.bsky.social.
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Lancaster County lawmakers support regulating Flock cameras
Across Lancaster County, video cameras are recording the license plates of passing cars, along with their vehicle make, model and paint color, and storing that information in searchable databases.
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Scott Marks @bizarchive.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The final timing for tonight's Down With Disease: 35:30. It's the longest version ever (passing 7/11/25's DWD at 34:12) and the 25th longest song in #phish history.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For years, Alaska officials prosecuted (& persecuted) a community of American Samoans in the city of Whittier, threatening them with years in prison for the crime of voting. You may have read about this when we covered it in Bolts earlier this year. HUGE NEWS: Alaska just dropped all charges.
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After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15/09/2026
“Fix the Wayback Machine!” We’ve heard you. The Wayback Machine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/a...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
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Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🏈 GB 22 - 39 MIN FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1097th unique final score in NFL history.
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Scorigami @nflscorigami.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR FINAL ✅ That's Scorigami!! It's the 1096th unique final score in NFL history.
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Phish @phish.com · 09/09/2026
"Light" → "Everything's Right" from Phish's Summer Tour closer on Sunday night at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Denver, CO. Now Playing at YouTube + LivePhish With → youtu.be/_Y7MPHln624
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Phish - 9/6/2026 - Light → Everything's Right (4K HDR)
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Flock cameras have no place in Texas. They can piece together an exact map of your behavior — the places you went and how long you were there. Flock calls this “pattern-of-life” mapping. Texans call it something else: government overreach.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 28/08/2026
Jobs as a fair income distribution system broke 50 years ago and will only continue getting worse because of the amount of income that flows to wealth and the way wealth buys politicians. We need to tax wealth, distribute Universal Basic Income as a national dividend, and get money out of politics.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.
They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/08/2026
3 days after a prominent AI investor and his wife donated $1 million to a PAC boosting Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s reelection campaign, Lombardo publicly endorsed the state’s booming data-center buildout. A week later, the PAC collected another $1M from the wife of a data center developer.
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Nevada Governor Endorsed Data Centers Days After AI Investor Donated $1 Million
The revelation comes as the driest state in the nation grapples with data centers’ enormous resource demands.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"...a little area where you slide the book into, remove your fingers from the area, and then you press a button, and it just comes down and slices it." www.404media.co/inside-the-w...
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Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training
An interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3.
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tsandler.bsky.social @tsandler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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ICE arrests mother and daughter at Florida hospital after car crash
Agents arrest women who ‘almost died’ after they were hit by vehicle and their car flipped over four times, family say
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 25/08/2026
I can’t imagine looking into the eyes of a ONE-YEAR-OLD with no legal representation and thinking that instructing them to file any type of document is some form of justice.   Where is the humanity in this?   And it’s being done by *our* government in *our* name.
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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application
The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/08/2026
Emporia Kansas has dropped its criminal case against Lux Claridge, a high school teacher who was arrested for clapping during a city data center meeting. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Update from @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/charges-drop...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: ICE data released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that more than half of all ICE arrests are now people with no criminal record; no prior convictions or pending charges. In the first week of August, 55% of all ICE arrests were of people with no criminal record.
Chart showing monthly ICE arrests by criminal record, January 2025 through July 2026. The chart shows total ICE arrests rising steadily from January 2025, then peaking and falling from January 2026 to February 2026, stabilizing, then rising again in June and July to record levels. Meanwhile, the composition of ICE arrests becomes more and more weighted towards people with no criminal record, and in July 2026, the majority are people with no criminal record.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026
We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
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tsandler.bsky.social @tsandler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@samtlevin.bsky.social @theguardian.com
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Revealed: How undercover agents spied on anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota
One agent’s aim was to ‘gather intelligence regarding any organized networks of conspirators’
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 24/08/2026
Mike Schur: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Existential for Writers
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Mike Schur: The Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Is Existential for Writers
Let’s begin with a statement of fact: mega mergers in Hollywood are bad for writers. They’re also bad for actors and directors, for production designers and caterers, for carpenters and Teamsters and electricians and set decorators. They are bad for consumers, who get fewer choices in entertainment controlled by fewer bosses with narrower worldviews. Mergers are bad for local businesses, who lose paying customers from disappearing productions. They are bad for high level TV and film executives, and entry-level assistants, and everyone in between.
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A judge ordered a 1-year-old, with no lawyer, to file an asylum application. A private company, accused of torture, received a contract to track down unaccompanied children. The govt. considers plans to build a new shelter for 3000 immigrant kids. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/22/t...
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How Trump and ICE’s Latest Tactics Target Immigrant Children
Officials claim to target the “worst of the worst.” But several agencies are now focusing on tracking and detaining children.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026
If you think this can be reformed, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with you.
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 22/08/2026
ALARMING: Polk County’s 287(g) partnership let local deputies act as ICE enforcers inside a hospital. Grace and Giulianna were kidnapped and handed to ICE while seeking medical care. Hospitals cannot become hunting grounds for immigration arrests. Share this.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
The Trump administration claimed it found more than 250,000 noncitizens in just four states, all led by Democrats. But a ProPublica investigation shows the government's pursuit of illegal voting cases has produced meager results.
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Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...
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Cait Conley @caitfornewyork.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On Mike Lawler’s watch, five data centers have been built across the Hudson Valley, and he has also voted to ease restrictions on them. No surprise that the former utility lobbyist has complete disregard for the harm these data centers cause to our communities.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It was 98° at 12 noon in Delano CA, as two "swampers" work together to load packed grape boxes onto a truck under the blistering sun. Each box weighs 22 lbs. They carry two boxes at a time for a combined weight of 44 lbs. In one day, they can easily load 2,000 boxes. #WeFeedYou
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tsandler.bsky.social @tsandler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@jessecoburn.bsky.social @propublica.org cc: Ruth Talbot "One thing is clear: Vast sums are funneled into developing costly weapons systems that often come in over budget, get delivered behind schedule or are rendered obsolete by the time they’re finished — if they’re finished at all."
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Alaskans yesterday approved by a massive margin new campaign finance rules. A combo of state courts plus GOP politicians had made it so there were no more caps on how much wealthy individuals can donate directly to candidates. This citizen initiative just brought them back:
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After Years of Runaway Spending, Alaskans Vote to Reinstate Cap on Campaign Donations - Bolts
Five years after a federal court ruling introduced unlimited spending in Alaska elections, voters there hit back on Tuesday, defying their Republican governor and approving new limits that restrict th...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/08/2026
We unmasked the cops who misused Flock to spy on their spouses. Their police departments weren't checking their searches, so we did it for them. One just got arrested. Here's how we did it. Gift link: wapo.st/4xSDfS4 witth all stars @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.com
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