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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 38m

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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 23h

Oh come on. On an official document?

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Sage Of Time🇵🇷 @sageoftime.bsky.social · 2h

Oh look, another Sherrill+6% po— WAIT IS THAT RASMUSSEN???

Poll Tracker 📊 @polltracker.bsky.social · 4h

NEW JERSEY POLL - Governor

🔵 Mikie Sherill: 46%
🔴 Jack Ciattarelli: 40%
🟡 Other: 4%
⚪️ Not sure: 9%

Rasmussen Poll

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1h

America needs, at some point, to start prosecuting white collar crime.

The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 1h

Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Via ProPublica: thenevadaindependent.com/article/elon...

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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 2h

What is that strategy? Doing what Trump tells him to do?

Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 3h

Good to take out those non-partisan civil servants.

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 3h

So today's Substack about the impact of tariffs concluded:

"in many ways the level of the tariffs is less important than the huge uncertainty Trump’s policies have created. And that uncertainty hasn’t abated at all."

Ya don't say. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation

Yes, tariffs are hurting us. No, Trump wasn’t right.

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 3h

GOP doing GOP things -- taking away jobs from people.

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: It looks like the number of federal layoffs -- so far -- is over 4,000, we've learned from court documents

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 3h

The Court, blocking Trump's deployment of Texas NG to Illinois: "not even the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one state’s militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3h

Cryptocurrencies tumbled after US President Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China and export controls on software, with more than $3 billion in positions liquidated within the past hour

Crypto Sees More Than $6 Billion in Liquidations

Cryptocurrencies tumbled after US President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100% tariff on China and export controls on software, with more than $6 billion in positions liquidated within the past hour.

bloom.bg

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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 3h

Is that better or worse? He's instructing AG to take action., which she did. Does it matter whether communication demanding action is public or private?

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4h

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is using our tax dollars to buy Argentine pesos to bail out the country's failing libertarian economy.

My friend Rohit Chopra explains how this will hurt struggling Americans here at home.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 8h

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4h

Merry Christmas!

Time to start hand-making the presents for the kiddos America.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

oh no

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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration fires government workers when the government is open or shutdown. Seems like an odd attempt at leverage.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 8h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 4h

America First???

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The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

Hegseth announces Qatar will build air force facility at U.S. base in Idaho

The move is a sign of increasingly close ties between the U.S. and Qatar.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Jim Whitney @jimwhitney.bsky.social · 4h

The reports of exiting after this year just underscore how unserious this whole thing was from the beginning. No grasp of the challenge ahead and apparently not a lot of desire to actually figure it out.

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 12h

Painting the White House whiter: Trump targets Black officials for firings, while in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

WSJ: “.. the portion of subprime auto loans that are 60 days or more overdue on their payments hit a record of more than 6% ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Politico @politico.com · 12h

Trump’s public instructions to AG Pam Bondi weren't subtle: He named three public figures he's long detested and urged the DOJ to prosecute them immediately.

Now, less than three weeks later, two of them are under indictment: former FBI Director James Comey and New York AG Letitia James.

How Trump’s message to ‘Pam’ got exactly the results he wanted

Donald Trump has long called for imprisoning his opponents. For the first time, he has a Justice Department willing to do his bidding.

www.politico.com

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