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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 26/09/2026
We’ve paid down more than $12 billion in debt, eliminated the old bill backlog, and grown our Rainy Day Fund from near zero to more than $2.5 billion. We have given Illinois a stronger financial cushion to protect taxpayers, invest, and grow even during hard times.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
"'We have confirmation due to communication between Kate and Wilber that he’s in Pearsall for interrogation and still has the bullet lodged in his body. He’s received no pain medication and had to sleep on the floor.'"
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ICE Shot a DoorDash Driver in the Back in Austin
Rather than getting him medical help, they carted him off to an ICE detention complex—and the bullet is still in his back.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/09/2026
Shameful behavior by the Cornell administration. Again.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/09/2026
"rare authority" being... breaking the law?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
Talarico: "Corrupt politicians are profiting off a corrupt war and Texans are literally paying the price ... this war in Iran is a disaster. It is killing Americans, driving up the price of gas and diesel, it is wrecking our moral standing around the world. And it must end."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
"Refugees, many of whom have fled the very dictatorships the right holds up as symbols of Communist or Islamist evil—Iran, Cuba, Vietnam—face confinement in hotels repurposed as prisons; beatings and threats by guards; lack of adequate food..." In America.
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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door
“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care.” H/t @ameshaa.bsky.social
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Talarico should do this every day until the election. It’s a good bit, and Paxton will be able to better relate to the rest of us getting all the text messages from Talarico.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If there were a strategic Democratic opposition …
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/09/2026
An overlooked DOJ document argues that nothing should stand in the way of AI companies—not even copyright laws, Alex Reisner reports:
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America’s Hypocritical Take on Intellectual Property
An overlooked DOJ document argues that copyright suits against AI companies should be widely dismissed.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/09/2026
"This is an administration with zero policy expertise, zero patience for collecting evidence, and zero interest in getting the right solution. They care only about what talking points will get them through the next news cycle, tomorrow’s consequences be damned." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-loil...
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Trump L’Oil: A Fake Fix for High Diesel Prices
His proposal to ban exports of U.S.-made diesel is likely to backfire spectacularly.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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CNN @cnn.com · 26/09/2026
A data breach of the Pentagon's vast HR system has exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information of current and former military personnel, raising counterintelligence concerns among national security experts. cnn.it/3VwCAaU
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/09/2026
Millions of Americans will take action on October 17 to make it clear to the regime that we won’t sit by while they threaten to sabotage the midterms. Join a No Kings event to drive massive early voting and recruit tons of volunteers to help protect our elections: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
(around a map showing the more than 1,000 events planned for the next No Kings on October 17) NO KINGS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
MAKE A PLAN TO VOTE EARLY!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Americans submitted public submitted comments calling on Trump to stop politicizing research funding. The Trump administration's EO ignores the will of the people, doing an end run around Congress & around what voters want. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Key senators reject White House proposal on NIH grants
Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/09/2026
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social and @mpolymer1.bsky.social explain why Russia doesn’t need a full-scale invasion of NATO territory to test the alliance, and how even a limited strike could be designed to see whether the alliance responds when Article 5 is put on the line.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026
A new report tracks the series of donations AI executives made before Trump scrapped a major regulation. trib.al/DgqPjNx
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Trump Quietly Killed AI Safeguard After Accepting Millions
A new report tracks the series of donations AI executives made before Trump scrapped a major regulation.
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Stevenof1 @stevenof1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a Reminder...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: For the third time, the Supreme Court shut down efforts by Missouri Republicans to use a new congressional map in the midterm elections that are already underway.
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Supreme Court for the third time rejects Republican redistricting push in Missouri
A Republican effort to use a new congressional map that would eliminate one of the two Democratic-held districts in the state has again failed in court.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BREAKING: #SCOTUS once again freezes the lower federal courts’ rulings in the Missouri redistricting case—and affirms that, as the Missouri Supreme Court held earlier this month, Missouri will use the 2022 map in the November elections. There were no public dissents.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pairs well with Marcy explaining how the egregious cases against Broadview 6 likely began because of MAGA's chief racist X troll.
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DOJ is invoking Trump v. US in an attempt to dodge accountability for the Broadview 6 case
YouTube video by emptywheel
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"In the Donald Trump White House, summits are hazardous excursions during which the interests of the United States are shoved aside by a president whose cringe-inducing admiration of dictators makes these meetings into rituals of American humiliation." Well, I can't disagree there. Alas.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 23/09/2026
President Donald Trump disclosed 1,156 securities transactions made on his behalf in July, totaling between roughly $79 million and $270 million, CNBC calculated. cnb.cx/4yPHQoi
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 23/09/2026
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, says he disagrees with the “lavish welcome” planned for the China’s Xi Jinping, whom he calls an “oppressive dictator.”
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Senate Armed Services Committee chair criticizes Trump-Xi meeting
Republican Sen. Roger Wicker says he disagrees with the “lavish welcome” planned for the Chinese leader, whom he calls an “oppressive dictator.”
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Gentlemen, our 29% approval rating is too high. Let's start take away people's health care."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/09/2026
@stuartpstevens.bsky.social tells @timmiller.bsky.social Democrats should stop being tentative about attacking the war and Republicans who backed it. "They should not shy away from that... Walk with a little swagger... confidence is contagious."
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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
As Americans struggle…
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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok #1 is the thing I was trying to figure out how it happened
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We are contemplating 1st & 5th Amendment litigation against White House for refusing to issue @briankarem.bsky.social press day pass despite properly submitting numerous requests. If you are a journalist & have been similarly denied (or ignored), please reach out to me.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Which gave rise to the recognition of enforced disappearance as an international crime. openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
US Intelligence has definitively linked commercial Chinese satellite imagery to the Iranian attack on a Jordan airbase that killed 3 US service members. 1/
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davidmeuse.bsky.social @davidmeuse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
GOP immigration judges are the best friends child traffickers could have—with the possible exception of an administration that is actively covering up for a man mentioned 38,000 times in the Epstein Files. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/21/m...
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These children used to be safe in immigration courts. Now, judges are ordering them deported. - The Boston Globe
Using removal orders as a tool to fast-track children out of the country is dangerous and unfair, lawyers for unaccompanied minors say.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If executive branch creates a system so that people under government control can be located and then just stops listing some people in that system — despite their still being under government control — that should be a five-alarm fire for the other branches, the states, and the public.
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Justin Levitt @justinlevitt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
28 USC 2284 could not be clearer: "A single judge shall not . . . determine any application for a preliminary or permanent injunction." In addition to any of the reasons SCOTUS had the _last_ time they stayed this trial court, there's the (new) fact that the trial court has no jurisdiction here.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Seamus @wiredtexan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/t...
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Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I. (Gift Article)
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organize themselves.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
SCOTUS, Congress, and the Trump Ballroom Fiasco talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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SCOTUS, Congress, and the Trump Ballroom Fiasco
It’s Too Easy to Blame Only SCOTUS The Roberts Court rightly gets...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 01/09/2026
Register now for a screening of the second chapter of Deportation Inc.: Investigating the Business of Migrant Removal, followed by a panel discussion featuring @tylermcbrien.com, @nickturse.bsky.social, and @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social. 📅Thursday, September 24 🕐6:30 PM EDT 📌Washington, D.C.
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Deportation Inc.: Investigating the Business of Migrant Removal
A Screening and Panel Discussion of the Second Chapter of Deportation Inc.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Excited to join this event later in the month!
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