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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

John Roberts will want you to forget everything that happened this week at SCOTUS after he confirms that the first sentence of the 14th Amendment means what it says, please do not fall for it

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I guess this wasn't news last year because Haberman & Swan needed to make money publishing books instead of doing their jobs.

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Gabe Kapler actually came out and made it clear that he expected everyone to participate normally in Pride Night. This shit didn’t happen under Bay Area guy Bob Melvin. And it’s fucking San Francisco. The vibes are beyond rancid now. #SFGiants

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

NYT on Feb. 13, 2026:

The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.

NYT on March 16, 2026:

On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said.

Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/01/2026

The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Just from this morning's news. Nothing subtle or complicated about what's happening here.

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David Broockman @dbroockman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social: An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods. Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 10/11/2025

"When your enemy is making one catastrophic mistake after another, interrupt them and save them from any consequences they might face." –Schumer-Tzu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/10/2025

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Citizens waving American flags protest Trump violating the Constitution. MAGA: They’re Marxists who hate America. GOP operatives praise Hitler and joke about rape and gas chambers in their group chat. MAGA: Boys will be boys!

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The number of times an aspiring authoritarian was stopped through capitulation remains 0

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Supreme Court reform has to be a litmus test for every democratic congressional nominee in 2026/8

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2025

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Today in 1792 Alexander Hamilton described what has happened in the last decade.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 27/07/2025

As the author of the law that empowers the U.S. government to sanction Chinese and other officials for cracking down on free speech in Hong Kong, I agree with Rubio. Unfortunately, he has ZERO credibility after he locked up students in the U.S. for exercising free speech. (1/1)

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Howard Stern asked Trump how young Trump would go. When Quivers asks for his “age limit,” Trump starts out by saying he doesn’t have one — but then gives a point of reference that looks not great in any light, saying he would draw a line at “12 year-olds”: www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

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Trump’s Stunning Response When Asked if He Has Sexual ‘Age Limit’ Resurfaces as Epstein-Mania Boils

Trump's stunning response when he was asked if he had a sexual "age limit" has taken on a new dimension amid the fallout from the "Epstein Files" controversy.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show:
• Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. All 21 cases are represented by red squares, indicating that 0% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS.
• Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS.

Key takeaway box below reads:
“Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.”

Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Note how the Washington Post shrugs about whether it’s a slur AND accepts Trump’s frame that bankers are unscrupulous. If Trump dropped an n-bomb the Washington Post would say “Trump Uses Term Viewed As Slur To Describe Black Criminal Class”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Opinion | Yes, I voted for Trump’s megabill despite knowing it will harm my constituents. But if I hadn’t, I’d be primaried by someone who’d vote just like me but not give anti-Trump comments on background to The Times.

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Unlocked @unlocked.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I would not be surprised to see it come out that certain members of the Supreme Court had been secretly coordinating with the DOJ on how to frame arguments in order to dismantle constitutional rights.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

We really need to stop talking about this as some kind of looming threat rather than a process well underway. It’s not “close.” You have arrived at your destination. The order has been delivered.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Gavin Newsom called the National Guard deployment "unlawful." Good! If he believes the unit is still his to command, then he should order them to leave LA and return to their armory. Give the lawful order for them to stand down and dare the California Army National Guard to defy the governor.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Hate to be caught in the crossfire of my cameraman shooting news footage and the LAPD shooting me with a rubber bullet

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Some people condemn professional trolls who share child sexual abuse material. We prefer to take a vaguely amused, aloof stance that treats them as “characters” and denotes our contempt for people with beliefs or values. Tomorrow in the NYT.

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Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Democrats need to fucking run straight to the end zone with that Musk tweet about Epstein

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2025

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Feel like the President being obviously bribed in ways that violate the constitution should be a bigger deal.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

1/29/24: “THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET” 4/30/25: “This is Biden’s stock market”

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump
THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP — EVERYTHING ELSE IS TERRIBLE (WATCH THE MIDDLE EAST!), AND RECORD SETTING INFLATION HAS ALREADY TAKEN ITS TOLL. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
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Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump
This is Biden's Stock Market, not Trump's. I didn't take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden "Overhang." This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!
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Apr 30, 2025, 9:13 AM

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

DOGE will absolutely (on lost tax revenues alone) cost more money than any claimed savings

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Rani Molla @rani.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Waymo is now doing a quarter of a million paid rides a week, Google says. Tesla, which yesterday said it will have 99% autonomous ride market share, is doing 0 blog.google/inside-googl...

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Q1 2025 earnings call: CEO’s remarks

Read Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai's remarks from the Q1 2025 earnings call.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

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U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish

A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Why do people (here, NYT) still describe DOGE as a cost-cutting team when ... it hasn't? Just on lost tax revenues alone it's deeply in the hole. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Employees for the agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, were told in an email that they would be offered early retirement or deferred resignation after visits last week from *Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting team,* according to a copy reviewed by The New York Times.

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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Good, next need to hear “no legal authority to fire a Fed Chair” and “no comment” on monetary policy.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a) PROMIsITION
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.
(b) REPORTING REQUIREmeNT
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

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(d) PENALTY
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.
(e) APPLICABLE PERSON
For purposes of this section, the term "applicable person" means—
(1) the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2) any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Did I miss the part in this piece where it said Congress is where visa categories and policy are set. Because, y'know, it's like, a law? Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Team Building System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas

The project represents something of a shift in mission for Elon Musk’s initiative, from cutting government costs toward a new goal of generating revenue.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Breakdown of what just happened. Judge Boasberg 1) Finds probable cause of Trump officials' criminal contempt of his order to turn back flights. 2) Gives USG opportunity to "purge" the contempt. 3) If not and if DOJ will not prosecute, he "will appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt."

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