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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Those in attendance...received a book called “The War Department Field Manual,” a compilation of Hegseth’s past speeches. In a forward written by President Trump, the troops were told: “As your commander in chief, I will not ask you to fight dumb wars.” Perfect www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Five Takeaways From Hegseth’s Speech
The defense secretary gave a “State of the Force” address to hundreds of officers and enlisted servicemembers at a Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va.
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Tim Healey @timbhealey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Setting the scenes for Red Sox-Yankees: Here they are again. Here they go again. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/28/s...
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whiskeyboy.bsky.social @whiskeyboy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gonna be a nasty weather weekend in Boston. Sox/Cubs games (which are still meaningful for the Cubs playoff chances) should move here to Pittsburgh, as PNC Park will be available. Lovely weather ahead here!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the White House to IMMEDIATELY restore the press credentials of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO reporters after President Trump barred the outlets from the White House. 1/
Screenshot of page 8 of a September 24, 2026 federal court order signed by U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. The order grants the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order and directs White House officials, excluding President Trump, to immediately restore the “hard pass” press credentials of employees of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO that were revoked around September 18, 2026. The temporary restraining order remains in effect for 14 days. The plaintiffs are also ordered to post a $1 bond by October 1, 2026. The page ends with “SO ORDERED,” Judge Kelly’s signature, title, and the date September 24, 2026.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
it is 64 degrees at Joint Base Andrews right now and yet Trump is wearing gloves are he greets President Xi
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
COLLINS: “2/3rds of 🇺🇸 don’t think we’re winning the war with Iran.” TRUMP: “I’m surprised CNN is here covering me. You shouldn’t be here.” COLLINS: “The UN let us in… When will the war end?”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
Mamdani stares into the middle distance as Trump responds to a question about his ban on the free press by ranting about his economic record and how great his war in Iran is going
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It's supposed to be an arts center, they have been removing actual artwork and replacing it with this propaganda kitsch. 2/2
A gold picture of Elon Musk with an inspirational quote. Musk looks like a skeleton. The quote is unreadable. Absolute fucking dreck.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr.’s health department halted publication of two Covid vaccine studies involving 12 million Americans. Draft findings reviewed by outside experts reportedly showed serious side effects were rare and benefits outweighed risks. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/fda-pulled...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Trump is seeking to destroy a memorial to a man because that man is not him. He is seeking to destroy a memorial to culture because culture does not embrace him. It’s really as simple as that."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family"
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John in the Mountains of Madden @mathletesfoot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
ape attack survivor
@pissvortex

Tried to flex this on a first date but the waitress
took it and asked what it was and why it said
"pissvortex" on it. I explained that it's called X
Money and she said they don't take that but
when I tried to explain she just kept laughing. I
told her just to try it so she did but it declined
which made her laugh harder. WTF @elonmusk
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/09/2026
A Cloudflare co-founder launched the company due to OPT. This crushing fee probably means Zatlyn starts Cloudflare or another company elsewhere. Add in all the int’l PhD grads who stay for postdocs, often on OPT. Lots of US Nobel Prizes come that way. This is a stupid and destructive policy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those keeping score at home: The Ohio GOP Senator who long refused to denounce his MAGA son-in-law who allegedly abused the senator's daughter and granddaughter is a *different Republican* from the Ohio GOP Senator who has long employed a white supremacist who likes to cosplay as Nazis.
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026
🚨 JUST IN: Iran-backed Houthis just SEIZED U.S.-made M-ATVs and MRAP armored vehicles after overrunning Mokha port on Yemen’s Red Sea coast
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“FREE ROSS” 🤦‍♂️ That’s Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road guy who got two life sentences + 40 years, partly over a darknet drug empire and allegations of murder-for-hire. Trump pardoned him. “Law and order,” apparently.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Reuters photographer @evanvucci captures Trump snapping at @ABC’s @rachelvscott tonight👇🏽 📸 Her crime? Asking why he has to bribe voters if his economic policies are working. 🤷🏼 Video of his tantrum (no other media defended her): www.threads.com/share/_rHmAx...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Because it’s make-believe, that’s why!! FFS, people Don’t be stupid
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court blocks a district court TRO that had through Missouri’s congressional maps into chaos. There are no noted dissents. This should mean that the 2022 maps, not the new HB1 maps, will be used. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/dueling-ru...
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026
26A326
ORDER IN PENDING CASE
PEOPLE NOT POLITICIANS, ET AL. V. ONDER, ROBERT, ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Kavanaugh and
by him referred to the Court is granted. The September 8, 2026
order entered by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in case No. 4:26-cv-1424 is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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whiskeyboy.bsky.social @whiskeyboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Based on ample (and growing) evidence, Elizabeth Holmes appears to be a sociopath. Anyone who gives her money at this point deserves what they get
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you have a problem with Mayor Mamdani attending the 9/11 ceremony you’re simply a racist piece of shit, I’m sorry, that’s on you, you’re gonna have to live with that until you figure out how to be a better human being
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Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🇬🇧🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Take THAT, all you lab conspiracists!!
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Everybody needs direct anger towards their reps. A "partnership" is the most insane spin on "we are gonna take the funds appropriated for medical research so we can blow some things up."
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/09/2026
Every time you think you can't possibly think less of JD Vance, he surprises you.
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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Discussed on @cnn.com @erinburnett.bsky.social the tragic deaths in PA and the need for political leaders to focus on responding to the measles outbreak with data, science, and compassion vs contributing to misinformation and confusion. www.cnn.com/2026/09/01/h...
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Trump’s new CDC Director excludes PA deaths from measles update | CNN
The CDC director reportedly ordered staff to omit two measles deaths from Pennsylvania’s official count, triggering a massive public health feud. HHS Secretary RFK Jr. accused Gov. Josh Shapiro’s staf...
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Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy @workers4democracy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Check your voter registration and be prepared to vote in-person. If this administration wants to steal democracy from us, they're going to have to fight us for it.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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House passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midterms
Continuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Mitch McConnell is dead. The burden to prove otherwise rests with the GOP, not us. Let’s proceed accordingly.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is such a good thread, and if one of you sends me creepy or distasteful corporate swag I’ll love you forever.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You can’t say you weren’t warned
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cool, cool, I have a couple quick questions -- who's in charge of preventing food-induced illnesses right now and how good a job are they doing?
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We live inside a machine capable of producing nearly incalculable human suffering, we watch it produce that suffering over and over, and neither the suffering nor our knowledge of it is sufficient to make the machine stop. I am overcome sometimes by the horror and the grief of belonging to it.
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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Kaepernick took an action for one season, and it cost him his career. Rodgers has spent a half-decade relitigating an anti-vaccine stance that costs him nothing and earns him a monologue on McAfee whenever he decides to take a shot.“ www.nytimes.com/athletic/753...
nytimes.com
Colin Kaepernick knelt quietly. Ten years later, everyone just performs (Gift Article)
Activism is different from speech. Kaepernick jolted the sports world, but in the following years, many have extracted the wrong takeaway.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 26/08/2026
“The American Cancer Society is now working on a national campaign to make more women and doctors aware that tube removal can help prevent most ovarian cancers.” My mother died of ovarian cancer. I’m glad to see this. And the science story here is also worth the read. 1/2 🧪
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Most ‘Ovarian Cancer’ Isn’t. And That Fact Can Save Lives.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Russell Vought’s OMB is inexplicably removing comments on the federal financial assistance proposed rule that mention how NIH research saved the life of Vought’s own daughter. Impeachvought.com
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Impeach Vought
We are current and former federal workers from across the government. We have witnessed first-hand the harm Russell Vought has inflicted on American communities. We are urging Congress to act now to p...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Easily one of hardest images of the 21st century. Instantly iconic.
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Grant Witness @grantwitness.org · 24/08/2026
Hello all! Grant Witness has a new website at grantwitness.org, and you can now subscribe to our newsletter and follow us at @grantwitness.org, or on whatever social feed you prefer (find them at linktr.ee/grantwitness)
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Grant Witness
An independent, up-to-date, grant-level record of federal science funding disruptions in the United States.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Pathetic — @nypost tries to shame Grace Ryan for having money yet backing candidates who want to fight for the working class and tax the rich As Hasan Piker regularly says, this is how wealthy people SHOULD behave. Stop glorifying greed @nypost y’all are oligarch propaganda.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So whenever someone tries to justify one race or ethnicity as being superior to another based on some sort of ”science” understand they are distorting or faking the data and appealing to our basic instincts of discrimination to divide us. This is not freedom of speech. It is behavioral racism.
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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