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TonyHQ @tonyhq1985.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11h
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Charged With Fraud, Lawsuit Says www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u... Gifted
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Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Charged With Fraud, Lawsuit Says (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2024 with two men wanted on federal charges, one of whom donated at least $190,000 to his campaigns. The extent of his ties to the men was unclear.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
“.. As the company’s shares have fallen more than 60% from that high-water mark, the trio have cashed out billions, including $2.4 billion this year alone.” @bloomberg.com $CRWV www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 15/10/2026
Ever wonder what corruption looks like in a single image? A picture is worth a thousand words – and this one says a lot about this administration.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“.. While Hines .. the President’s 29 year-old crypto adviser .. was leading the White House’s push to pass the Genius Act, Tether .. was steering millions of dollars to a business he co-owned ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 16/10/2026
“The law is finally catching up with the technology ag producers are using." The Nebraska Agricultural Data Privacy Act passed unanimously in April and took effect in July. Similar proposals emerging across the country reflect a wider fight about who controls and profits from agricultural data.
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In the Right to Repair Revolt, Nebraska Leads With Farm-Data Ownership Law
Farmers are organizing against equipment and seed companies profiting from their data and using it against them. Similar laws in other states have failed.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I don't know if history is going to repeat itself. However, I will note that the Gilded Age begat the Progressive Era. ... I will also note a new poll by the Associated Press that suggests the emergence of a new consensus in which Trump is becoming symbolic of our own 21st-century Gilded Age.
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Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 22h
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Our Congress Isn’t Following the Constitution | From American Conversations with @hcrichardson.bsky.social & Brian Poindexter, a union ironworker running to represent Ohio's 7th District. @poindexterforcongress.com Watch the full conversation on YouTube: youtube.com/live/AV5fjbFOmoU
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iammenotu @iammenotu.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Musk controls the US military. Putin controls Trump. All three need to lose all their power over the world.
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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 21h
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People Pointing at Cabbage Lettuce
Alt: People Pointing at Cabbage Lettuce
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
Wow -- Hannity is moving in for the kill: "Why not just say 'I went to Pepperdine Law School and then took a different career path'? Why get into this long drawn-out thing about the difference between a lawyer and an attorney?"
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21h
When immigration agents struck a man with an SUV in Houston over the weekend, they said they were chasing an undocumented Mexican man facing deportation and multiple criminal charges. But the photo they shared of their target was of a man whose family says he died almost a decade ago.
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ICE Agents Who Rammed a Worker in Houston Were Chasing a Dead Man, Family Says
ICE agents rammed a man during a pursuit in Houston, leaving him with a shattered leg. But a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter said.
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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h
Texas sued after glitch delays almost 600,000 voter registrations
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Texas sued after glitch delays almost 600,000 voter registrations
Voting registration organizations accuse Texas officials of failing to ensure eligible voters can register properly
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: With the threat of federal election interference looming large over the midterms, Senate Democrats plan to send more than 100 congressional staff to observe voting sites in nine states — the first program of its kind for the upper chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Senate Dems will send over 100 election observers to nine states for midterms
Observers will be on the ground to document voter interference efforts, along with threats against election workers, disinformation tactics and any other attempts to meddle with voting.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 14/10/2026
The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe on.wsj.com/4zBOcZ9
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The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It never ends with these people.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
So Musk is saying it was the Trump Admin who did it and the Trump Admin is saying it was Musk who did it.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Watchdog group @citizensforethics.org files legal challenge, asking court to block Jared Kushner from serving as Trump envoy They allege he's “breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/10/2026
Sen. Angus King says he sat down and made a list of everything Putin could possibly want from an American president. His conclusion about Trump? “This guy, this president, is doing almost all of them.” King then goes through the list. WATCH.
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
One would be forgiven for suspecting Trump has other, non-public reasons, for not wanting RU to lose this war.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
This photo says everything about why Trump keeps hiring unqualified worshipful young women (who look like his daughter)
Pic of Trump boarding Marine One with Natalie and Katie absolutely beaming at him
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article). 1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention. Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Trump is now signing pardons on stage at his rally in Alaska (note that the documents are brought on stage by Natalie!)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Please remember to vote! Your voice matters. 🌊
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Still waiting...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump isn’t fooling anyone about his corruption. The newest AP/NORC poll shows “about 6 in 10 U.S. adults believe he is either illegally profiting or doing something unethical but not illegal.”
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More Outrageous Weaponization of the Justice Department
They can’t contain their fascism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 13/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, hitting TEC-4 power station. Intelligence indicates Russia is preparing further ballistic launches, warns President Zelenskyy.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."
In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 13/10/2026
$9.37 for heating fuel in Kotzebue, a hub in the Northwest Arctic. We heat our homes with diesel in most of Alaska, and families here are bracing for a winter where they’ll have to decide between heat and food. It’s apocalyptic – and Dan Sullivan's votes are to blame.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My God, imagine getting laughed off the stage at a League of Women Voters event.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
While Mainers pay more for the Iran war, Susan Collins’ pockets deepen because of it. #MESen
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you like high gas prices, high groceries, no healthcare and endless corruption in D.C., then Cindy High Prices is right for you. But if you're ready for a new direction and a fighter for Mississippi, then I'm your guy. Let's go win on November 3rd! #MississippiMatters
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"It’s generally illegal for executive branch officials to play a role in awarding contracts that would have a direct impact on their own finances..." www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official
The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Seems relevant to me that the new White House press secretary, who supposed to convey accurate information, believes that elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood are sexually trafficking kids and eating people. 24 hours later, it hasn’t made it into mainstream coverage of Zacharia.
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New White House press secretary is a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist
Katie Zacharia, who was appointed White House press secretary by President Trump on Friday, repeatedly promoted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy on social media, accusing elites from the Democratic P...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“.. the repeated failure of Saudi air defences to protect airports risks doing longer-term damage to the kingdom’s image and its ability to attract foreign investors and tourists, both vital for the success of the crown prince’s economic plans.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bc73...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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How low can he go? Pew Research poll finds Trump’s approval down to just 30%.
When Trump’s second term began, roughly 1 in 20 voters who supported his candidacy disapproved of his job performance. Now, it’s 1 in 3.
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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is how all Democrats should speak to Trump.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/10/2026
Biggest takeaway from a decade reporting on the Trump's businesses: Norms ain't laws. And laws ain’t shit unless they’re enforced quickly and proportionately.
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