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David Sobotta @ocracokewaves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All you need to know about the morally bankrupt Republican Party. Need further confirmation, check out the Jack Smith hearing.
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KeepItReal @keepitreal24.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump got the content that he wanted. Even though it is a lie. Russian-paid Benny Johnson has posted the lies, got community noted instantly, and still has the tweet up.
Benny Johnson tweet repeating a lie told by Senator Eric Schmidt that Jack Smith was at an Atlanta Hawks game, when in truth he was at an Iowa Hawkeyes game in a different state.
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Rebecca Rauber @defeatthefascists.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even after being caught in this should-be-humiliating mistake, apparently he went on the Charlie Kirk show after to be congratulated by the hosts for “owning Jack Smith.” #GOPLies #NoFascistUSA
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Roland-y-Baby ☮️🙏☮️🙏☮️ @roland-baby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Democrats will not win in the next election. This Jack Smith crap is on schedule. They brought this up to divert from the Files. What I watched, they didn't let Mr Smith answer much. And many usa citizens will forget all this when gas prices go down at election time. They are pure evil.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RUSSIA PLANS TO CUT FUNDING FOR WELFARE, EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE IN 2027, FISCAL DOCUMENTS SHOW
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Darline Nordone (Graham) is an idiot. Gaslighting cooze using her late brother’s name to gain sympathy. I have no sympathy. She’s lying about the law. JACK: “Your brother was a patriot and would have likely been a witness in our case.”
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
The move marks the fourth military expansion this year as Russia's war in Ukraine seemingly stalls.
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Why has Putin added 15,000 new soldiers to Russia's army?
The move marks the fourth military expansion this year as Russia's war in Ukraine seemingly stalls.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29/09/2026
Mark Gurman: Apple considered replacing ~5,000 AppleCare customer service workers with AI-powered agents, but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Cheri Quinlan @cheriquinlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The bottom line: Schmitt’s supporters will have only heard what Schmitt and his team put forth. That’s the sad reality.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While facing the threat of an export ban?
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Anna Kaminski @anna-writes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Hamilton ad begins with Meischa Zimmerman, who said she was arrested while eight months pregnant for missing a $50 payment to Marshall. She was paying roughly $50 a month to account for 18% interest on nearly $3,600 in total debt, according to court records. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/28/r...
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Roger Marshall alleges defamation in new ad about former Kansas patient arrested while in debt • Kansas Reflector
Lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican running for reelection, sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former pa...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another prisoner had his leg chopped off with an axe. According to the Russian mercenary, all of the prisoners died during these "training exercises." He was in Mali from September 2023 to April 2024.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A former Wagner fighter, now in Ukrainian captivity, said Russian mercenaries in Mali used captured Africans as live subjects for brutal "tactical medicine training." In 2023-2024, Russian instructors deliberately maimed African prisoners, after which the mercenaries practiced stopping bleeding.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fed's Barr: I do not see a clear trend toward a timely return to 2% inflation.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fed's Barr: We should be prepared for serious short-term disruptions in the labor market from AI.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 29/09/2026
BREAKING 🚨: Housing Market U.S. 30-Year Mortgage Rate soars to 7.58%, the highest level since November 2023 📈 🏡
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
But prosecutors need to communicate with the public more.” END/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
TILLIS: is there anything you would have done differently? JACK: yes. One thing I was taught is you only do your talking in the courtroom. But if you stick to that, people can unfairly malign you and you can’t respond. But there are things being said that are untrue… 1/
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
7.58% mortgage rates...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 29/09/2026
⚡️ Putin signs latest decree increasing Russian military staff in wake of monster military budget, looming mobilization. Compared to the most recent figure from July 2026, the decree increases total staff by only around 15,500, is the fourth such incremental raise announced this year.
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Putin signs latest decree increasing Russian military staff in wake of monster military budget, looming mobilization
Compared to the most recent figure from July 2026, the decree increases total staff by only around 15,500, is the fourth such incremental raise announced this year.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Jack Smith hearing is such a transparently stupid attempt by the GOP to energize their base. It’s clearly backfiring. And barring some massive change in the war or the economy, nothing is going to save them in the midterms. They’re desperate for attention because their own voters are depressed.
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was totally baffled by this—I thought maybe I missed something. Because why would she go to police if she said it was all consensual? It turns out the DA was playing language games: Doe described what happened to her, and *prosecutors* made a legal determination that what happened wasn’t a crime.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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digitaldesert.bsky.social @digitaldesert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sounds like IP theft. Violating 18 U.S.C. § 1832 can carry up to 10 years in prison. But this is an ai dog, so the dog owner apparently gets off Scot free.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
The affordability crisis looks very different from their table.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What people who talk about “innocent until proven guilty” need to understand is that victims are actually the ones considered guilty while purposefully being held to an impossible standard.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would not be the first time the state retaliated against a victim for embarrassing them. It’s a pretty regular occurrence
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
Men—we need to talk: •Timothy Hudson raped & killed his stepsister—he got pretrial release •7 men at Cornell drugged, trafficked, & raped a woman—they faced no consequences •An American man annihilates his entire family—every 5 days Women are not safe around men www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
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Women Are Not Safe Around Men
This is a fact. The data is unambiguous and the solutions exist. The only thing missing is the will to act.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/09/2026
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a statewide disaster to address high fuel prices, allowing expanded use of dyed diesel, raising the allowable weight for certain truck loads, and suspending some federal diesel emission rules.
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Texas governor declares emergency to bring down fuel prices
Gov. Greg Abbott, in a tight reelection race, allows for commercial use of diesel normally reserved for agriculture.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 29/09/2026
56% of S&P 500 stocks are now trading below their 200-day moving average, the worst market breadth since March 📉 📉
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"A senior prosecutor working on the so-called grand conspiracy investigation into a wide array of President Trump’s enemies has resigned from the case, adding to the turmoil that has recently plagued the inquiry" On the heels of diGenova's departure. Along with lead FBI agent's departing the team.
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Second Prosecutor Quits Trump’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case
The resignation adds to the setbacks to the most sweeping effort by the Justice Department to fulfill the president’s desire to take revenge against the federal officials who have investigated him.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 29/09/2026
American households are getting pickier when it comes to what they spend on, creating winners and losers in the consumer industry.
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Consumers Quit Bowling, Arcades as Leisure Sector Stress Grows
American households are getting pickier when it comes to what they spend on, creating winners and losers in the consumer industry.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
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• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the biggest stories of 2027 will be the savagery of the GOP's Medicaid cuts. But the most indefensible cruelty has already begun, with disabled kids being ripped from their homes and sent to asylums, @matthewcort.land told me.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Adam Hoffman was convicted of raping his friend's young son. He should be in jail, but Paxton used his power to get him on a misdemeanor. That means he only served for 60 days, didn't have to register as a sex offender in Texas, and then left the state.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.tmz.com/2026/09/28/a...
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Cornell Student Diego Sarabia Loses Wells Fargo Job Amid Alleged Sexual Assault Case
Diego Sarabia, one of the Cornell students accused of sexual assault, is suddenly out of a job at Wells Fargo as prosecutors reopen their investigation of the alleged 2024 incident ... TMZ has learned...
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 28/09/2026
A new ad by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders put white men at the center of her state welfare work requirement policy.
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Far-Right Commentators Rage Over GOP Welfare Fraud Ad Featuring White Male Gamer
A new ad by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders put white men at the center of her state welfare work requirement policy.
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It really should tell us something how many of these institutions will tolerate abuse, but not activism.
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Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the cycle is already starting. they're gonna claim it never happened, they're gonna claim she asked for it, they're gonna claim drug use is consent, they're gonna say she's not a perfect victim and so no victim at all, but we know what happened because it keeps happening.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
@terrigerstein.bsky.social: If workers for just this one company in this one city are owed $115 million dollars, just imagine how much workers are owed everywhere else. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/whats-m...
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What’s Missing From Coverage of the Massive DoorDash Worker Settlement
This op-ed is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last...
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