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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h

BREAKING: The 9th Circuit lifts a lower court order blocking Trump from federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard troops for deployment in Portland. However, the decision is unlikely to allow the administration to deploy soldiers to the city for now.

Judges Let Trump Federalize Oregon National Guard, But Block on Deployment Remains

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Are you going to work with your administration to designate antifa a foreign terror organization?

TRUMP: You mean anti-terror?

Q: Antifa

TRUMP: Antifa?

Q: A foreign terror organization

TRUMP: Would you like to see it done? I'd be glad to do it. Does everybody agree? It sounds good to me

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 4h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 4h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 5h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6h

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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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · 5h

Former Justice Kennedy speaks publicly for the first time about his son Justin's relationship with Trump. Justin worked at Deutsche Bank and helped arrange for Trump to borrow huge sums. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Charlie Sykes: Her stuttering evasions, insults, and faux bursts of performative outrage are like a fake orgasm—“loud, theatrical, sweaty, and meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego.” This is unfair to orgasms.

Reason For Hope Amid the Wreckage

If you woke up this morning with the vague sense that you were missing a goodly portion of your brain cells, it’s likely that you watched Pam Bondi’s performance yesterday before a Senate committee.

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thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 7h

Canada vs. America

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 10h

Racism Knows No Bounds

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Euronews @euronews.com · 13h

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Solar power named the world’s cheapest energy source

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11h

As Canada blows way past its international GHG commitments, Carney offers up a massive new pipeline for the tar sands to Trump.
This is the - Let's not fight, we can burn the planet together approach to international relations.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 12h

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA announced they'll be hosting their own Super Bowl half-time show with "fully Christian, American" performers. 🤣
Bad Bunny is both Catholic AND American. Just not "white enough".

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 10h

Trump is going to track Americans’ every move.

This is in addition to Palantir tracking us using our private financial, health and travel data, social media, donations — and more.

If you think they’re only tracking “illegals” or “Antifa,” then you haven’t been paying attention.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h

The guy we are saving with $20B bailout

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Valerie Steel @pagev2.bsky.social · 12h

Price tag on the new White House ballroom skyrocketed.

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 18h

MONTHLY SUMMARY September 2025, Boeing Field (Seattle, WA) ICE flight stops.
NOTE: 4 of the 12 regular flights went to Yakima instead.

I will start posting monthly summaries of ICE flight stops at Boeing Field, from July 2025 onward.

September 2025:

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 13h

Dutch courts fighting to make Facebook and Instagram useable again.

Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social · 13h

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h

Alzheimer’s reversed in mice. A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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