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"SpaceX is a national security vulnerability. Something must be done about it." The case and some possible solutions in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Trump and Musk are just stringing Ukraine along and letting Russia attack it with impunity. And the American press is foolishly falling for blue smoke and mirrors, arguing whether Musk or Trump are responsible. Hint, they both are!

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

Susan Collins hasn't changed? From 1997 - 2016 she voted with the GOP on party line votes 59% of the time. In 2017 she voted with Trump 90% of the time. In 2025 she voted with him 95%. So many media folks desperate to make the pickle Collins finds herself in someone else's fault. #MEpolitics

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

In which @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes with great clarity: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

A post from Putin’s puppet.

Donald Trump set another record. There’s NEVER been an election (since polling began in the United States) where voters said “corruption” was their top worry. Until now.

The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

So the president claims not to know who did something that should only be doable, if at all, with the president’s knowledge, if not by the president himself.

⚡️️️️️️️Musk suggested Trump restrict Ukraine's Starlink service, Telegraph reports. Four sources familiar with the discussion said that Elon Musk approached U.S. President Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Ukraine's Starlink service on the battlefield.

What the fuck kind of false equivalency is this? Biden stumbled and stuttered in his speech, but he was never remotely as incoherent as this mentally scrambled dementia patient.

Richard Branson explains that Trump is Putin's dog.

Trump says we’re building “more factories and plants right now than at any time in our history.” Factory construction hit a historic record under Biden and has fallen 31% since Trump took office. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

"A U.S. president siding with the Kremlin is quite an October surprise. But in just the past few days, Trump appears to have fully turned against Ukraine." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Wall Street Journal reports on a New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife. One of the fugitives had donated $190,000 to Paxton. How much more can there be? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The Iran War is costing Americans $2,000 per household according to analysis by Moody's Analytics and Brown University.

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

NEW: AI Spend FALLS in the latest Ramp AI Index. Price cuts, in addition to cheaper and more efficient models at standard and lite levels, are pushing down the cost of using AI. And it’s not open-source. This decline is driven by competition between OpenAI + Anthropic. via ramp.com/data/ai-index

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

Trump misstating and touting a meaningless deal over Greenland, while the entire Middle East security architecture falls apart due to his own actions, is emblematic of this administration’s foreign policy.

Read the full story for more details on the wedding and Kremlev — including his earlier years in a Russian government-backed bike gang called the Night Wolves:

Cartoonist: Slyngstad

Ann Telnaes’ warning about media sane-washing of Trump’s insanity @anntelnaes.bsky.social (from her archives, almost two years ago)

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “From the top down, Trump is replacing the highly imperfect meritocracy of American public service with an idiocracy, and his corrupt idiocrats are creating profound short-, medium- and long-term harms to American national security,” our columnist David French writes.

Native-born labor force participation just hit its lowest August on record. Despite the admin's claims, deportations are not freeing up jobs for Americans — 600,000 native-born workers have left the labor force in the past year.

If I'm reading this correctly, the President is threatening the Fed with tariffs.

i know this is what "i never thought the leopards would eat my face" is exactly describing. but i'd argue what something like the Milo incident shows is that their version is even shallower than that. they're playing GTA and everyone but them is an NPC. life's barely real to them.

Pete Hegseth has failed in every mission except one: keeping his job. But firing or forcing out everyone else in the Pentagon will not make Pete Hegseth into the secretary of defense America and its men and women in uniform need. Me on Driscoll's resignation: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is both what you should probably expect if your fellow countrymen repeatedly empower an iconoclastic authoritarian movement and in and of itself, of course, completely bugfuck insane. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

“Of course he can! Special rules for the special boy!” — Always and forever, love, the Supreme Court www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump said we'd grow "like nobody's ever grown before." Bessent promised 3% growth by the end of 2026. Instead, growth decelerated from 2.8% under Biden to 1.8% thus far this year. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com Chart:

North Korea is hacking our infrastructure. Sending troops and weapons to kill Ukrainians and providing weapons and support to Iran. South Korea is a democratically ally.

Reporter: Family members of service members are concerned about conditions on the LIncoln. Trump: No they’re not. Reporter: Has the deployment gone on too long? Trump: No. Not nearly long enough.

Hidden in a carering cart Hooooooo boy www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

“Estonians have been able to pay taxes online since 2000. The United States was just getting there last year with IRS Direct File, a Biden-era pilot program that saved users time and money, but Trump killed it after lobbying by tax-prep and software companies.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

When the president makes statements about the war, they are full of wishful thinking, hyperbole, and outright lies. The public needs to demand the truth from Trump and Hegseth. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Treasury’s top tax policy official was forced out of his job after he warned that the White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials’ involvement in IRS audits www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Unearthed records just revealed that Ken Paxton owns 15 homes on a government salary. This includes luxury real estate in Hawaii, Utah, and Florida.

"The Republican senator from South Carolina was the epitome, the poster child, the quintessence of our era." - @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“When socialism finally came to America it wasn’t the lefty, Scandinavian version with universal health care and free college. Oh no. Instead, we got a command economy à la Chinese communism and it was ushered in by the right.”

“Binface” was asked if he’s been to Clacton: “No. I’ve learned from the current incumbent that’s not necessary.”