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US House Equality @ushouseequality.bsky.social · 15m

We're going to need a new telecommunications act that shaves the billionaires down to size.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27m

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 9h

if the Hispanic turnout in texas is in line with what @tbonier.bsky.social is seeing in early voting elsewhere, this election could be a hell of a ride.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Rep. Beatty is challenging the Kennedy Center's invocation of the qualified "presidential communications privilege" in refusing to turn over a vast array of communications with Trump & even documents "touching on" Trump communications during discovery. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When Defendants filed their motion to vacate the preliminary injunction and for summary
judgment, they initially relied on evidence of what Trump told Defendant Matthew Floca. See,
e.g., Defs.'s Mem. in Supp. of Mot. 4, ECF 88-1; Defs.'s Statement of Undisputed Material Facts 14, ECF No. 89-2; see also Suppl. Decl. Charles Matthew Floca 1 6, ECF No. 29-3. But after
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Plaintiff served written discovery, the Department of Justice pivoted to a sweeping claim of
presidential communications privilege to bar any inquiry into those communications, or indeed
into any inputs and instructions the Kennedy Center's staff received from its board chair. The
Department now refuses to provide any documents held by the Kennedy Center even touching on
communications between the Chairman and management and intends to block all inquiry into those
communications in depositions. Plaintiff does not bring this motion lightly. The Department's sweeping assertion of privilege, however, appears to be unprecedented. Donald Trump is the chair of a non-profit corporation's board, and his decisions and directions lie at the heart of that board's
actions which, in turn, are the subject matter of this case. Allowing Defendants to hide behind this unwarranted assertion of privilege would obstruct the search for the truth, frustrate the Court's discovery order, and undermine public confidence in these important proceedings.

Having appointed himself to the Kennedy Center's board and having assumed the office
of Chair, Donald Trump undertook the obligations placed on him by the Center's organic statute
to safeguard and protect this sacred memorial to a fallen President. Trustee and board chair are
not roles that must be performed by the President of the United States and, indeed, never have been
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in the Center's history before now. Nor are the staff at the Kennedy Center anything like the close presidential advisers whose conversations executive privilege protects. The Court should not
permit Defendants to evade accountability as trustees by abusing a privilege constructed for other
purposes, not the chairmanship of this non-profit entity. Plaintiff therefore respectfully requests the Court compel the production of responsive documents and written production Defendants improperly withheld.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h

Hastert ain’t dead

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Tom Bonier @tbonier.bsky.social · 11h

This is pretty wild. While the total turnout in VA so far is 23% below where it was at the same point in '24 (expected, given that '24 was a presidential year), total Hispanic turnout is almost 50% ahead of the same point in '24.

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H.Arendt @harendt.bsky.social · 10h

This should result in immediate impeachment and removal and it’s horrifying that he won’t face any consequences at all for saying this.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 10h

👀

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15h

Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 16h

Reminder that Vice President JD Vance has said that he considers Curtis Yarvin a friend

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, 100 percent. There's no reason why a Democratic House can't defund both the Office of Remigration and third-country deportations more generally. As I reported recently, here's what's being discussed: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

It's weird but I was in London thus summer and did not hear a single person ask: what would Hitler do? Maybe the company Yarvin keeps might explain why he keeps running into the Hitler-curious.

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US House Equality @ushouseequality.bsky.social · 12h

Maybe the media properties that ran the ads complained about it because they didn't want to be subpoenaed for running them.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13h

Trump calling his Super PAC “my money” will make bribery charges a snap. Both accepting and making. Like the entire crypto industry for starters. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...

nytimes.com

Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads (Gift Article)

The president said that his PAC, MAGA, Inc., would pay for TV ads promoting him that had been paid for with taxpayer money.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 13h

The commander-in-chief, speaking in Nebraska, suggests he wouldn't mind if Iran destroyed two of California's largest cities. www.c-span.org/clip/campaig...

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 13h

Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14h

RFK Jr. shut down the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, MD last year and then decided to move it. Does anyone know if operations have resumed, as promised? They do a lot of really important work on high-risk pathogens.

niaid.nih.gov

Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick

IRF-Frederick serves as a responsive and collaborative resource that facilitates multidisciplinary research to understand, treat, prevent, and eradicate diseases caused by novel, emerging, and highly ...

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Courthouse News @courthousenews.bsky.social · 15h

Consumers asked the Supreme Court to preserve separate ownership of the companies while their lawsuit moves forward, warning the justices that irreparable harm will occur if the deal is allowed to close on Tuesday. @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/consumers-fi...

courthousenews.com

Consumers file Hail Mary at SCOTUS to block Paramount-Warner merger

After state attorneys general settled their lawsuit against the controversial merger, a group of consumers pleaded with the high court to intervene to keep lawsuits against the deal alive.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15h

Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.

wbaltv.com

Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state

Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 19h

This is extremely interesting from an anti-autocracy / anti-retribution perspective. Obviously, you can pressure loyalists to say publicly they won’t convict, but you just need a few defections for them to give each other cover.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 17h

Fed. judge accuses ICE agents of "apparently perjurious testimony," fabrication of evidence, false statements, fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents' authority, and more. Case involves the accidental arrest of a U.S. citizen who had to get stitches. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So, the thought is that after issuing a fraudulent arrest warrant stating that petitioner’s information was part of the system when it was not and indicating that he could be biometrically identified even though they had not collected the information to make a positive match, Cuni attempted to reconcile these falsehoods by subsequently collecting the information, adding it to those systems and, after issuing the warrant, searching the databases again to “find” him.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 16h

meanwhile on Xitter...

Curtis Yarvin post on X on 10/5/2026: "Every time I’m in the UK I hear this. More and more people asking, subtly or straight out: what would Hitler do?

As if it was that easy. Have you looked around you? Man, Hitler wouldn’t even know where to start" 102.3 k views, 4:11 a.m. 74 replies, 51 shares, 997 hearts, 95 saves.

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 18h

Found the perfect screengrab to use the next time someone tries to tell me I’m missing out on important discourse by not using Elon Musk’s mircoblog site

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h

1️⃣ Arizona You're hearing about AZ less, but: —Dems defending Gov. —Election denier running for SoS. —Also: AG, treasurer, school super, corporation commiss —Can Dems flip legislature, get trifecta?! —Many ballot measures, e.g. voter ID. —City elections—Phoenix, South Tucson...

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 20h

GM says hybrid vehicles are coming: "We're not tone deaf to our customers" by Mike Wayland @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/10/05/g...

cnbc.com

GM says hybrid vehicles are coming: 'We're not tone deaf to our customers'

Hybrids are growing in popularity, as sales of the vehicles keep climbing.

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 20h

The reporting on these companies buying up overstock and out of print books to feed the beast, and purposely destroying them in the process to both save a buck and prevent their competitors from getting access, also belies any pretense of altruism.

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US House Equality @ushouseequality.bsky.social · 17h

Like I told Gladys last week, the Schumacher's kitchen cabinets from Network again?

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h

CONCLUSION: This is all in/from my cheat sheet to November's elections, so don't miss exploring and bookmarking it. And there's a lot more on the ballot across these states! So check your voter registration. And then check your sample ballot. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

boltsmag.org

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2026 General Elections - Bolts

Congressional races will take center stage on Nov. 3, but they’re just the tip of what to watch. Prosecutors and governors, attorneys general and sheriffs, school boards and mayors, utility... Read Mo...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 23h

Pete Ricketts believes John Arias’ PTSD was justification for his actions. What’s his excuse for Jeffrey Epstein?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h

5️⃣ Indiana —The SoS race may be most intriguing (open, indie, a Bayh running) —Dems need to flip Senate seats if they're to block future gerrymander. —A congressional reach state for Dems. —Keep an eye on Marion County prosecutor/sheriff.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20h

9️⃣ Ohio As you all know, it's a big one. —Major Senate battleground. —Dems hope to flip the governorship. —Key House races. —Many other state offices in play and open (e.g. SoS) —That also includes two supreme court seats. —Control of some counties (e.g. Montgomery, Lorain) —Data center measures

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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 20h

“A group of power-hungry politicians has voted to put a set of highly deceptive propositions on your ballot this November. They want to make voting more difficult, hollow out our schools with funding cuts, and institute blanket mandates in school sports.” story via @caitlinsievers.bsky.social

azmirror.com

Progressive PAC launches $1M campaign against ‘deceptive’ GOP-backed ballot propositions

Arizona ballot propositions: A progressive PAC is spending $1M to defeat four GOP-referred measures before Nov. 3.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

Updated this piece about abuses in grants/contracts: Noem gave $900 million in no-bid contracts to the company of a donor, Salus, which in turn was telling other contractors they had to pay her boyfriend tens of millions if they wanted to get govt contracts. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

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Governing without Accountability

Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

Dems honestly should just lie about this right now so Alito (a dumb guy who doesn't actually know how anything works) doesn't figure out that he needs to retire in the lame duck if the GOP loses the Senate

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch.

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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 21h

The preemptive conflation of accountability for the current crime spree in the White House with tit for tat Democratic weaponization of justice is gonna make me throw things. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

Trump’s opponents are planning efforts to reverse his changes to presidency

As the midterms approach, some of the president’s foes are working to ensure his aggressive approach to executive power doesn’t outlast him.

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's waaayyy too many.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...

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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record

According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23h

I love when White House reporters assure us that Karoline Leavitt was an entirely different person off the record as if that's not key to the whole Trump regime's press manipulation strategy.

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