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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
There’s an open secret in Major League Baseball: MLB teams routinely make handshake deals with young Dominican players, an informal system that has created perfect market conditions for predatory moneylenders. Watch @ggarciaroberts.bsky.social break down his investigation 👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
footage is making the rounds on Facebook of a canvasser wearing a Stronger Maine shirt (a super PAC that supports Susan Collins) stealing a package yesterday
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A true hero 💔👇
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...
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Jacqui @jamelle33.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/08/2026
Reporting live from the Canadian Department of “What the Fuck Are You People Doing?”
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 13/12/2025
When I first introduced my bill to ban stock trading in Congress 5 years ago, only a handful joined us. Since then, we’ve built a movement of bipartisan reformers committed to ending the corruption once and for all. The time is now Speaker Johnson. Put the bill on the floor.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
John Fetterman and Clarence Thomas have the same sugar daddy. theintercept.com/2026/07/15/h...
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Harlan Crow Maxed Out Campaign Donations to John Fetterman
The Republican megadonor had come under scrutiny for his ties to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, while the senator drew ire for supporting Israel.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
El-Sayed: They’ve taken to calling me dangerous. If you’re a worker who wants our economy to work for you, I’m not dangerous. If you’re AIPAC and want to send our money abroad, you damn well better believe I’m dangerous.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A perp in the Biddeford, ME murder is being identified
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
AOC: This is an inhaler pump. Can you guess what the great innovation was that made it worth preventing this from going generic? It’s this little plastic piece right here. That was a major part of the new patent they filed to extend exclusivity and prevent this life-saving drug from going generic.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
101 former judges have asked New York disciplinary authorities to investigate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging ethics violations tied to his conduct at DOJ. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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101 Former Judges Ask the New York Bar to Investigate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche
Today, 101 former judges filed a complaint, asking the New York State Bar Attorney Grievance Commission to “initiate an investigation into Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche (Registration No.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, had a few words for Senile Satan at the G7 Summit.
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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Not my best work, but felt like this was what's on the menu for Bsky today.
Rodger Rabbit shoe being dipped into the green waters of DC.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 11/06/2026
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
.@eggerdc.bsky.social: "So thoroughly poisoned are the minds of Trump’s base voters by now that they no longer need to see even pretend evidence to believe his claims that this or that election are rigged." Read the latest Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Get Ready for November’s ‘Stop the Steal’
Republicans’ reactions to the Los Angeles mayoral race preview their reactions to the midterms.
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Emma Jean Kitty @emmajeankitty.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Veteran Firefighter Dies of Lung Cancer After Being Denied Insurance Coverage for Treatment: ‘It’s So Cruel’ “I believe, wholeheartedly, that they expedited his death,” said former San Francisco Fire Department chief Jeanine Nicholson of her colleague's tragic ordeal people.com/firefighter-...
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Veteran Firefighter Dies of Lung Cancer After Allegedly Being Denied Insurance Coverage for Treatment: ‘It’s So Cruel’
Ken Jones, a retired firefighter, claims he was denied insurance coverage for critical cancer treatments before his death. His story has sparked calls for reform in the insurance industry.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"The Court’s behavior in the Louisiana and Alabama cases over the past six weeks can’t be reconciled with or explained by any coherent understanding of what Purcell supposedly stands for. ... The overall pattern reveals justices behaving in a way that has no obvious explanation other than politics."
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231. The Death of Purcell's "Principle"
There is no coherent defense of the "Purcell principle" that can be rationalized with the Supreme Court's recent behavior in the AL and LA redistricting cases.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
REP. @aoc.bsky.social on Trump going to the Knicks game even though fans don’t want him there: “It has already been a vibe killer, because now MSG has to shut down the watch parties… sometimes you decide not to go to things so other people can enjoy it.”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Is there a single picture of Bari Weiss that doesn’t look like she’s trying to explain something you already know, but in condescending academic language.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/06/2026
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/06/2026
the single biggest takeaway i have from this interview is that on top of being profoundly incompetent, bari weiss and her flunkies at CBS are genuinely terrible human beings. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026
What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Scott Pelley has been fired by new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/06/2026
Hochul: "I was actually surprised to see the president and Gov. Abbott with their memes of me -- they're dunking me on the court -- that they're supportive of men and women competing in the same sport together. I found that very interesting."
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Jim Harbaugh chastised Abdul Carter about being “political,” but didn’t say shit to Jaxson Dart. Harbaugh is hard core MAGA. Mystifies me that any Black person would play for him.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/05/2026
Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it. 

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families.

Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress. 

Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves. 

I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.
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The Braes o' Bonúll @bonullbraes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Apparently Netanyahu has been admitted to hospital. I sincerely hope it's nothing trivial.
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Boring Manager Rob 🅅 @bourboninexile.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The problem with being a con artist is that once it becomes widely understood what you're up to, the jig is up. #MEpolitics
Letter to the editor.
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
💥 Ukraine eliminated a ton of Russian fascists in Oleshky, right on the south banc of the Dnipro River in occupied Kherson region.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Nearly half of Republicans say they approve of Trump's $1.8B slush fund; about a quarter say they're "not sure."
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The crosstabs on the latest Fox News poll showing Trump 22 points underwater (39 - 61) astound me. Trump is underwater w/ white men, white women, white w/o college degree, white women w/o college degree, Catholics, urban, suburban and rural voters. Only positive with white men w/o college degree.
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David Seligman for Colorado Attorney General @seligmanforag.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I’m calling on the General Assembly to vote to reconvene for special session to impeach or censure the Governor. Governor Polis commuted Tina Peters’ sentence after the legislative session, likely in an effort to avoid accountability for misconduct. The people of Colorado demand accountability.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Progressive candidate for Colorado AG calls for censure or impeachment of Gov Jared Polis (D) for giving clemency to Tina Peters
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
🔥 Russia: Solnechnogorsk fuel pumping station on the Moscow Ring Oil Product Pipeline is severely damaged from Ukrainian drone strikes. It supplied 2,000 tons of motor fuel daily to the Muscovites, representing 8.4% of total motor fuel consumption in Moscow.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:
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227. "We're All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This"
The Supreme Court has not only accelerated the race to the partisan redistricting bottom; it is directly responsible for the chaos we're seeing on the ground.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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SCOTUS used faulty racial voter turnout data to shred Voting Rights Act in recent ruling
The ruling that upended the Voting Rights Act was based in part on a false data analysis about Black and white voter turnout.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Sen. Sherrod Brown wins Ohio Democratic primary for US Senate, setting up race seen as crucial for national party.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Join me today on Thinking Live for a conversation with Lawrence Lessig on Super PACs and dark money in politics. April 30th, at 3:15 ET, snyder.substack.com, with @lessig.bsky.social
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Text: Thinking Live with Lawrence Lessig on Super PACs and dark money in politics.
3:15PM ET, April 30
On snyder.substack.com
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The Justice Department's latest indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/04/2026
Hungarian oligarchs begin fleeing the country, transferring assets, in anticipation of corruption investigations giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
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Hungary’s business elite pivots away from Viktor Orbán
Several loyalists have moved overseas while others vow to form ‘constructive co-operation’ with incoming premier
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