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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h
We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This just keeps getting bigger.
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OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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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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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026
Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”
A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolitiy Precedent
Legislative Checks
Executive
Veto
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Executive Cheeks
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Washington's 2-Ter-in Precedent
Example 3: Impeachment Precedent Key 2016 - Declares political inconinitional comnoladunt precedions hutsite avothov Uncostitutional: Bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
pls find my edits attached thx
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There have to be so many prosecutions. This all can’t just be forgotten or papered over.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 am. I wish they would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish they would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars in the Middle East.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: not so fast Trump "Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Defying Court Orders on Vote by Mail"? We @democracydefendersfund.org are already litigating all this & we are going right to court to stop this outrage Judges hate it when you flout their orders  www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
nytimes.com
Whistle-Blower Says USPS Is Secretly Proceeding on Trump’s Mail Voting Plan Before Midterms
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE: A bombshell whistleblower complaint, submitted to Sen. Richard Blumenthal's office, reveals that the U.S. Postal Service allegedly kept building a new system to restrict mail-in ballots even after federal courts ordered it to stop it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySb4...
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BREAKING: Whistleblower Exposes Trump's Secret USPS Plan to Reject Thousands of Ballots at Once
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Holy shit next Dem president just demolish it. Don’t announce anything, just do it and by the time the (wrong) courts catch up to you and say rebuild it, sir, just don’t
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Mainstream Democrats want every member of the Trump regime tossed in prison and Jeffries is talking with Kushner about their common ground on immigration.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.? Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
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yubaba49.bsky.social @yubaba49.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Crazy how it is always a Republican.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/08/2026
Lagunas was identified on social media by community ICE watchdog Ismael Cordová-Clough one week ago. In both Chicago and Minneapolis, he has threatened people by telling them they won't "like the outcome" if they continue observing. We've watched his behavior escalate over the last year.
side by side of matching arm tattoo
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Axios: AI has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.

Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books — a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane — makes it easy to lose the thread. AI can help you pick it back up without starting over.
📖 I really got into using AI while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:

"I'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/08/2026
FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s latest financial report said Paramount gave him tickets to the 2025 Kennedy Center gala worth $12,390. He and his wife sat in skybox seats. Such seats sold for $125,000 a piece, according to Kennedy Center guidelines.
propublica.org
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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yubaba49.bsky.social @yubaba49.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@mta.info Hey thx for no warnings on Train Time or at Scarborough station re: Metro North trains arriving on different tracks! You left about a dozen people stranded! So much fun! And the conductors staring at us sprinting in vain as the train left the station was just *chef’s kiss*. 10/10
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Would like to see the reaction on if President Barack Obama had a private company that charged premiums to Wall Street traders so they could front-run the general public in markets on his presidential pronouncements.
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
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Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
Also guys no Dem senator is going to give yall the Hit Em Up-style rant you want about Lindsey Graham. Please.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The corruption is staggering in scale and scope, it doesn’t stop, and Republicans in Congress refuse to do any oversight because, as Mike Johnson admitted this week, they serve as a protection racket to cover up the crimes of the regime.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22/06/2026
Jon Ossoff: “ We see a faithless president self-dealing while he depicts himself as Christ, while he depicts the Obamas as apes.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/06/2026
The algae always comes back... meidasplus.com
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Sammi @sammiwells.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Oh so he's super sensitive right now that details are coming out about how hard he surrendered to Iran.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.” — U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
nbcnews.com
Kennedy Center official tells judge that Trump’s name has been removed from its building and website
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s handpicked board at the Kennedy Center did not have the authority to rename the venue.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
has anyone asked ted what “masculinity” has to do with anything
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
You sound unhinged if you say it out loud, but the acting Attorney General directed the IRS to stop all ongoing audits of Trump, but we know from leaked tax returns that Trump owes more than $100 million in unpaid taxes, so Trump is basically just giving himself a free hundred plus million dollars.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 21/05/2026
🚨Last night in House Appropriations, all Republicans present voted to allow THEMSELVES to get settlements from the January 6th Slush Fund. I am not making this up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026
New in PN: How Hennepin County unwound an ICE agent's web of lies "Thanks to video evidence, Minnesota could sidestep assertions that Castro, as a 'law enforcement officer,' should be considered more credible than his victims. And the charging documents detail the shocking extent of his lies."
publicnotice.co
How Hennepin County unwound an ICE agent's web of lies
Christian Castro is now the subject of a nationwide arrest warrant.
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fucking terrible idea, we need to do everything we can to undermine the idea that people shouldn't pay taxes. Taxes are not a punishment, taxes are how we contribute to the collective welfare of society.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026
VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Staggering corruption.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
GET YOUR TRADES IN! www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Trump says he called off new Iran attack at request of Gulf states
The US president says he is holding off on an US attack planned for Tuesday because
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Unreal. Now that Trump dropped IRS lawsuit, DOJ just announced a new slush fund for alleged victims of "weaponization." Two Qs: *Will there be *any* congressional oversight? Most reporting suggests not. *Would payments to J6ers violate 14A? Raskin explains here: newrepublic.com/article/2105...
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yubaba49.bsky.social @yubaba49.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
He belongs in prison. And if the Biden admin hadn’t been so hellbent on delaying his prosecution, for reasons that will never make sense to me, he would be.
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yubaba49.bsky.social @yubaba49.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I can’t stop laughing about this.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 07/05/2026
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Nick @sregorn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
just say you edit with AI, this is taking forever
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We have the party not in power, but we do not have an opposition party.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
So in the span of just over 24 hours, Todd Blanche: Made probably false claims about Cole Allen shooting a gun Got busted for lying about SPLC PERSONALLY announced charges criminalizing sea shell pictures It really is a reality TV show.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Let me get this straight: Bari Weiss has radically edited the new Trump interview on 60 Minutes? Let's not forget that Weiss lost her mind over standard editing of a Kamala Harris interview in 2024. But as Juliet shows, this Trump editing goes way beyond standard broadcast practices. Good grief.
I went through both and made a transcript of exactly what was included and what was cut from the shorter version that aired on network television. The final 13-minute edit that CBS broadcast on Sunday was a bit of a Frankenstein monster as the president was sometimes cut off mid-sentence while other sections were cut and moved around to give the conversation a better flow.

Throughout the longer un-edited interview the president gave disorganized rambling answers that were filled with false statements about foreign investment in the U.S., immigration, and the 2020 election. He also brought up transgender athletes more than once and trashed the Democratic Party and the members of the press.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Something Republicans and Democrats seem to always agree about is the need for more security. Enter the libertarians (thank goodness): reason.com/2026/04/27/t...
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The Correspondents' Dinner shooting is no excuse for more security theater
Calls for more aggressive security measures are evoking the post-9/11 security theater that brought us the TSA.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one
newrepublic.com
Judge in E. Jean Carroll Case: Yes, Donald Trump Is a Rapist
A judge rejected Trump’s semantic attempt to throw out the case.
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