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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · Aug 4

Top staff for Indiana’s lt. governor played a video showing a lawmaker’s wife seemingly topless, apparently using an AI program to alter the woman’s real performance at a state talent show hosted on April 9, according to multiple people familiar with the incident.

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Topless deepfake video roils Indiana office, lawmaker's wife targeted, per sources

Indiana lieutenant governor denies existence of deepfake video, accuses fired staff of fabricating story, but adds that viewing porn in office is fireable offense

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 1d

Hell of a chat w/ @jaaavis.bsky.social on the show today, with the backstory on a 2020 phone call Carrie Coyner detailed in which she said Jay Jones said police should die. (Jones says this never happened)

Jarvis knows Va politics inside and out, check it
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Virginia Shocker! Jay Jones, Carrie Coyner and a 2020 phone call

Brandon Jarvis joins to explain what's happening in the Jones scandal swamping the Virginia elections

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 1d

Coming up on the show at Noon today! @jaaavis.bsky.social details his big scoop on Jay Jones and Coyner

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Virginia Shocker! w/ Brandon Jarvis

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 2d

On the show Tuesday: A Virginia election shocker?? @jaaavis.bsky.social joins to explain a true October surprise

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LIVE SOON: Virginia Shocker! w/ Brandon Jarvis

Starting Oct 7 at 12:00 PM EDT

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 2d

Today, The Memory, Whole! Top News Updates to start the week grounded: Ghislaine Maxwell, Abrego Garcia, War in Chicago

Tune in at Noon ET on  Substack
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LIVE SOON: The Memory, Whole - Key News Updates

Starting Oct 6 at 12:00 PM EDT

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 5d

Unplug in confidence! On the show today, The Bullshit Countdown, Seven Stories before you hit the weekend

Tune in at Noon ET

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 6d

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 7d

Today on the show at Noon ET, Dr Tom is in, with a medical regimen to clear your head and ground your feet

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 8d

BREAKING: Government to shutdown after midnight - by @juliegraceb

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BREAKING: Government to shut down after midnight

Senate Democrats block Republicans final vote ahead of shutdown starting Wednesday

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 8d

Trump to military brass: Please clap

a man speaking in front of a crowd with a sign that says trusted leadership for a stronger america

ALT: a man speaking in front of a crowd with a sign that says trusted leadership for a stronger america

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 8d

Me and @Eleanor_Mueller on how little the shutdown threat is mattering to voters - as seen most vividly in the NJGov/VAGov races.

CW is that Dems will be hurt by a shutdown, and might want to avoid it to protect Spanberger/Sherill. Not so! www.semafor.com/article/09/3...

US shutdown isn’t landing in key 2025 elections

In Virginia and New Jersey, both parties see other advantages and are making other campaign plans.

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Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social · 8d

Ran three years ago today.

‘It’s My Curse and My Salvation’: Trump’s Most Famous Chronicler Opens Up

For Maggie Haberman, owning the Trump beat has defined her career for better — and for worse.

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 8d

Jeffries to Trump: "say it to my face"

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Hakeem Jeffries slams ‘racist and fake’ video posted by Trump

"When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face," the House minority leader said.

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 8d

Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says. 
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Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules

The efforts to detain and deport noncitizen activists earlier this year represented an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment, the ruling says.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: I interviewed Leonard Peltier at his new home in North Dakota.

Now 81, he has a LOT to say about his ~50 years in prison, why he thinks Biden bucked the FBI to finally release him, how Indigenous people are "in danger" under Trump, and his next chapter. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

‘We’re In Danger’: Leonard Peltier Has A Warning About Trump

In a sit-down interview, the Indigenous rights activist reflects on his nearly 50 years in prison, why he thinks Biden bucked the FBI to free him, and how tribes are “in danger” under Trump.

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 8d

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass American Cities Should Be ‘Training Grounds’ for Military

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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass American Cities Should Be ‘Training Grounds’ for Military

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 8d

Today at Noon ET, @juliegraceb.bsky.social reports on what's coming in the government shutdown. Tune in!

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LIVE SOON: Shutdown Countdown, with Juliegrace Brufke

Starting Sep 30 at 12:00 PM EDT

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 8d

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chad WarMile @chadwarmile.bsky.social · 9d

amplifying this by commenting, hey @bsky.app and @support.bsky.team -- how do we connect #Streamyard or some other platform for livestreaming? Twitch? YouTube? anything? Please tell me which API to use and I'll go learn how to use it #bluesky #help #APIs #twitch #YouTube #streaming #livestreaming

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9d

Statement from plaintiffs Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat and Kate Neeper after Judge Lamberth suspended Kari Lake's layoff order for Voice of America, which was supposed to take effect tomorrow:

Statement from Widakuswara v Lake plaintiffs: Patsy Widakuswara, Jessica Jerreat, Kate Neeper:

We are extremely gratified by Judge Lamberth's order suspending the RIF process, which means our termination will not take effect on September 30.
We believe the wholesale silencing of VOA broadcasts and the removal of critical staff and expertise go against what Congress intended. Our colleagues and our lawyers look forward to further proceedings before Judge Lamberth.

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Taegan Goddard @politicalwire.com · 9d

I spoke to Julie Mason on her fantastic radio show about this week’s likely government shutdown.
politicalwire.com/2025/09/29/more-on-the-looming-government-shutdown/

More on the Looming Government Shutdown

I spoke to Julie Mason on her fantastic radio show about this week's likely government shutdown.

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 9d

This 2028 Dem energy is remarkable, like 2016 Rs in a mirror - big followings developed early around just about anyone (Cruz, Rubio, Walker) who would spit fire compared to the old guard. And then, of course, were all washed away by someone who can't stop shitposting

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9d

The reason I'm short Buttigieg for 2028 is not because of any Buttigieg fault. It's because early state Dems will be excited, post-Biden, to meet any younger Democrat who can talk confidently and is not collapsing. Here you have Dems excited about Rahm bc he has "fire in the belly."

Michael Whitney @michaelwhitney.lol · 9d

This is so fucking funny for a myriad of reasons, not least of which Iowa doesn’t go first anymore??

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9d

There is no problem to which Rahm is the solution. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 9d

Wowzas, the backstory on Tom Homan’s alleged $50,000 bribe

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How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9d

What I mean is, Dems are familiar with Pete because of 2020 and bc he was the guy Biden admin put on TV bc Biden was too old to do persuasion.

When the Shapiros and AOCs and Moores and Pritzkers and Beshears show up Dems will discover that they actually have many younger Dems who can talk.

Worst Episode Ever @jacaissie.bsky.social · 9d

Is Buttigieg not younger and can talk confidently? I'm not understanding this.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9d

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Tom LoBianco, Raconteur, reporter, author, 24sight News @24sight.news · 9d

Today on the show at Noon ET, DNC vice chair @shasti.bsky.social lays out the Democrats’ new strategies to fight back

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LIVE SOON: DNC vice Chair Shasti Conrad

Starting Sep 29 at 12:00 PM EDT

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