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The New York Times@nytimes.com

President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

THE 39 STEPS (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance calls El-Sayed "a little weasel who should shut his mouth and show a little gratitude"

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'

wsj.comIlhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her CitizenshipAuthorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

Your Quick Primer on Katie Zacharia’s False Claim to Have Taken the Bar Exam in China talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/your-...

talkingpointsmemo.comYour Quick Primer on Katie Zacharia’s False Claim to Have Taken the Bar in ChinaSince I was revising the post below as I got more information,...

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

President Trump floated the idea of renaming more bodies of water, following his efforts to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. “Before I get out, I think we should have an ocean,” Trump said at a rally. “And we need a great river.” https://wapo.st/47T8cKF

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

lmao

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social

Not a legal expert but seems like “adherence to originalism” has been highly selective, not remotely “blind.”

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

When Trump launched “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” without ICE facilities to accommodate it, inhumane overcrowding was inevitable. Judge Kaplan’s 9/24 ruling shows the results. Diagrams simulating a NYC holding cell in Aug 2025 look like slave ships. 1/5

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social

“While our past surveys documented that the president has lost significant ground with non-college-educated white voters, independents, non-voters, Hispanics, and young people, this month’s survey reveals Trump slipping significantly with his own party.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-23...

gelliottmorris.comPoll: Trump's approval hits a new low of 33% as Republicans sour; Democrats lead House vote by 10 with likely votersThe president's approval fell 11 points among Republicans last month, as he set another record low on prices at 21% approve

Edward Luce@edwardluce.bsky.social

"Out of spite for President Donald Trump, Carney is accelerating the decoupling of a trade bloc that has generated enormous prosperity for North America." Seriously, Wapo editorial - you're going with Canadian spite? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

washingtonpost.comOpinion | Canada’s great European misadventureDonald Trump is for now. A Brussels bureaucrat is forever.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I could've banned fishing. The power of this office is crazy. I could've banned fishing. I think I'm gonna do that."

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.

motherjones.comThe Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

escapedexplorer.bsky.social@escapedexplorer.bsky.social

incredibly concerning that not one but TWO close friends, both progressive-lib-left, whom I've known for 15+ years both independently and separately said they believe Israel was behind 9/11 in the last two days the information space out there is BAD, folks. get your friends off tiktok.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

INGRAHAM: They're calling that MAGA socialism in the New York Times TRUMP: Some people say, 'That's communism!' It's not communism. It's actually good entrepreneurship

The Onion@theonion.com

Trump Claims He Was Falling Man https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-was-falling-man/

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

‘THE ODYSSEY’ has passed $1 billion internationally. The first time a non-sequel or non-remake film has reached this mark since ‘Avatar’.

Common Dreams@commondreams.org

Answer Me This, Hakeem Jeffries: What Do Democrats Stand For? An open letter from Ralph Nader

commondreams.orgAnswer Me This, Hakeem Jeffries: What Do Democrats Stand For?Twice Democrats lost to the corrupt, chronically lying, corporatist, and failed gambling czar Donald Trump when you should have defeated him and his GOP handily. It is time for serious introspection, a change of attitude, and tactics.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com

Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely

Reuters@reuters.com

US tariffs on all cars and trucks, automotive parts and steel will be increased to 50% starting January 1, 2027, President Trump said in a social post after trade talks with Canada collapsed reut.rs/4qCWexx

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

NEWSMAX: What is your confidence level in Darline Graham when it comes to national security? REP. TIMMONS: Darline knows what it's like going through food line checkout. This is silly for us to talk about Taiwan. The position is very simple -- she needs to support the president

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social

The pearls are being clutched so hard they're turning into dust.

Raw Story@rawstory.com

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner notified the FBI of Jeffrey Epstein and reported that a Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by the late financier, according to new court documents reported this week.

bit.lyHugh Hefner tried to warn the FBI about Epstein — new docs show they ignored himPlayboy founder Hugh Hefner notified the FBI of Jeffrey Epstein and reported that a Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by the late financier, according to new court documents reported this week.The FBI reportedly ignored several of Hefner's tips about Epstein for 15 years, according to News...

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social

Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was

Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸@princetonyimby.bsky.social

The moral panic about e-bikes... "In New Jersey, the state legislature passed a law requiring registration, a license and, in some cases, insurance for anyone to ride an ebike...In this regulatory wild west, legal ebikes are caught in the crossfire." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comAre teens on ebikes the ‘new Hells Angels’? Not so fast, boomersExperts say better regulation is needed but that bad press about ‘motorized menaces’ puts the ebike revolution at risk