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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3m

In Germany, ties between the Neo Nazi AfD and the Kremlin are uncovered on an almost daily basis.

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 7m

If the govt. shutdown lasts another few days, the Current Employment Statistics survey & the Current Population Survey that provide data for the official monthly jobs reports won’t be undertaken. Meaning we will miss at least two months’ of job data at a time the economic situation is … uncertain.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20m

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22m

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 56m

The hearing was rife with warning signs for prosecutors. The judge set a faster-than-requested trial, despite millions of pages of discovery. He emphasized he would not let DOJ drag out the case with disputes over classified evidence
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www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1h

NEWS: James Comey pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that followed President Trump’s demand to prosecute.

The judge set a Jan. 5 trial date — but Comey is expected to try to kill the case before it starts, including by disqualifying Lindsey Halligan

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22m

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 41m

On First Amendment grounds, the SupCt seems likely to knock down states’ bans against professionals’ talking about gay “conversion” with patients. But doctors in Texas and many other states can be prosecuted if they even mention “abortion“ to their patients. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Supreme Court sharply questions law banning conversion therapy

The Supreme Court sharply questions a Colorado law that bans efforts to change minors’ sexual identity, suggesting it violates therapists’ free-speech rights.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 1h

Pretty sure my interview with Copeland revealed him for who he really is, but in case you haven’t seen it: youtu.be/9LtF34MrsfI

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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 57m

Donald Trump Jr. allegedly stands to reap handsome profits from his dad’s radical overhaul of the way consumers purchase pharmaceutical drugs.
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-drug-...

Trump’s Drug Overhaul Set to Line Relative’s Pockets

A firm that stands to reap huge profits from the MAGA administration’s prospective overhaul of pharma sales has a top member of the Trump clan on its board.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

The Independent ridicules Benny Johnson, a podcaster whose operations are funded by the Russian Ministry of Propaganda, and who has emerged as a Trump favorite appointed to the White House press corps. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume

Trump has claimed Portland is ‘war-ravaged’ - but residents and local authorities dispute that

www.independent.co.uk

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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 1h

Joan Kennedy, Who Married Into a Political Dynasty, Dies at 89

The wife of Senator Ted Kennedy for a quarter of a century, she both basked and struggled in the reflected glare of a family constantly in the spotlight.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Joan Kennedy, Who Married Into a Political Dynasty, Dies at 89

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MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 1h

Unfortunately, more are being added to the list every day.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

To appease Trump, Harvard welcomes Nazis and their followers. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

Conservatives at Harvard: "we need a diversity of views on campus."

The diversity of views in question:

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Alt text: Screenshot of a Harvard Crimson news headline that reads, "Harvard College Will Ignore Student Magazine Article Echoing Hitler Unless It Faces Complaints, Deming Says."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

The Kremlin's new film feature, Толерантность (Tolerance), presents Europe as a bubbling hellhole in which gays and lesbians have rights and bigots, racists and hooligans face repression. It beats the drum for the invasion and conquest of Europe to liberate the Europeans from themselves.

Пропагандистский фильм о Европе «Толерантность» с Захаром Прилепиным собрал в прокате сто тысяч рублей Бюджет, по оценкам экспертов — не меньше 200 миллионов — Meduza

Писатель Захар Прилепин сыграл серийного убийцу, противника европейских либеральных ценностей, в фильме Андрея Грачева «Толерантность». Это картина о вымышленном европейском государстве, где общество ...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

The Nobel Prize announcements become an opportunity to remind the world of the severe damage Trump is doing to science and scientific research. bsky.app/profile/en.a...

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 13h

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

Ross Douthat has this just right. Adolf Hitler becomes Reichskanzler—1933; his thousand-year Reich reaches its end—1945. Twelve years.

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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 13h

House aide undercuts Mike Johnson's claim he'll swear in new Dem immediately: report

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

House aide undercuts Mike Johnson's claim he'll swear in new Dem immediately: report

A House leadership aide undercut Speaker Mike Johnson's claims that he plans to swear in a new Congressional lawmaker as soon as possible. Earlier on Tuesday, Johnson told CNN that he would move to se...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13h

Boston Globe. “Longstanding policy” is federal law passed in 2019. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 13h

Finally, a clear message explaining what’s worth fighting for against Trump Republicans and their cruel, sociopathic cuts.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s grant of critical rights in Alaska to the company coupled with the federal government making a huge investment to help it float. Forbes reports.

Billionaire Trump Donor Paulson Scores Windfall Thanks To Government’s Investment In Trilogy Metals

One of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters on Wall Street owns a stake in the tiny mining business that tripled overnight on news of the government’s investment.

www.forbes.com

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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 14h

ICE Barbie Triggered by Man in Chicken Suit on Portland Trip

FOWL PLAY
www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-k...

ICE Barbie Triggered by Man in Chicken Suit on Portland Trip

MAGA influencer Benny Johnson pointed out the dressed up demonstrator to the Secretary of Homeland Security.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

Aleksandr Dugin, Putin's brain, looks in the mirror and sees war, war and more war in Russia's future. And he's convinced this is a wonderful thing: “What awaits Russia in future? War awaits Russia. We must turn towards war. It is woven into the pattern of our destiny."

Putin's philosopher exalts war

“Russia’s War” is the latest literary offering from Russia’s favourite crank philosopher, Alexander Dugin. It is not a book about Russia’s war against Ukraine. It is a book about wars and warriors as ...

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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 14h

"But actually, when the bill was signed back in 2019, during that last shutdown, it wasn't just for that shutdown, it was for future shutdowns," Collins said. "So federal workers wouldn't get caught in this dispute between Republicans and Democrats."

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Wake Up America @claudiner66.bsky.social · 14h

Jim Jordan's voting record hurled back at him by Kaitlan Collins: 'Not the law you signed'

www.rawstory.com/kaitlan-coll...

Jim Jordan's voting record hurled back at him by Kaitlan Collins: 'Not the law you signed'

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins clashed with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday night over whether furloughed federal workers will receive back pay once the government reopens. Jordan joined Collins on her ...

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 15h

"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

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