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@johnhpage.bsky.social

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@johnhpage.bsky.social

They are running out of criminals “Unfilled Senate-confirmed positions have reached their highest number since President Ronald Reagan was in office,” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.comTrump administration faces record vacancies in Senate-confirmed postsThe Trump administration has a historically large number of vacancies in Senate-confirmed positions, even as Republicans face the prospect of losing control of the chamber in the midterm elections.
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@johnhpage.bsky.social

That’s just what Galileo said! (About RC AI)

Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃@caseyexplosion.bsky.social

It's always someone else's idea, quickly and cheaply cloned. I'm sick to my eyeballs of endless AI anomaly hunt games. If AI is enabling something fresh, enabling new concepts and ideas, then I haven't seen it because that tiny spark of creativity is being drowned out by an endless ocean of slop.

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Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Jenny Cohn
@jennycohn.bsky.social

Leonard Leo ally Tim Busch has called SCOTUS the “Leo Court,” explaining that Trump “radically changed” the direction of SCOTUS by appointing (anti-abortion) justices “shepherded” by Leo, who he says is “one of the big supporters of the Napa Institute” (founded by Busch). 1/

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

JD Vance running around the country saying he’s fighting health care fraud while his nominee for the senate in TX who he completely supports is partying in Dubai with a guy whole stole over $300 million in health care fraud and gave Paxton $190,000. This is the Republican Party.

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✨🐝🌻🕊️AstraeaMK🕊️🌻🐝✨
@astraea-mk.bsky.social

Are they getting better treatment than the soldiers injured in Iran? Were they prioritized?

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Erik Prince's mercenaries wounded in Africa on a private contract are being treated at Walter Reed—at least 20 of them—just as if they were US uniformed service personnel. Outrageous. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

dailymail.comAt least 20 killed or injured, including popular UFC fighter in AfricaBlackwater founder Erik Prince's private security forces suffered a devastating ambush in the Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving around 20 people dead or wounded.

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Senator Ron Wyden
@wyden.senate.gov

My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.

meidasnews.comEXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302sSenator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
Puffin <8647/>
@johnhpage.bsky.social

🤬🤬🔥🔥🔥 “a sprawling set of oil fields, refineries and gas stations around the world owned by Lukoil, one of Russia’s biggest energy companies.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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barbisblue
@barbisblue.bsky.social

Austin Smith pleaded guilty to filing forged nominating petitions during his 2024 re-election campaign. He knowingly submitted petitions containing falsified signatures, including that of a deceased woman, to secure a place on the primary ballot.

theintellectualistofficial.substack.comArizona Lawmaker Who Warned of Election Fraud Pleads Guilty To Forging His Own Campaign SignaturesRepublican Austin Smith publicly questioned election integrity and election procedures. In court, he admitted to forging signatures on his own campaign petitions.

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SassySenora701
@sassysenior70.bsky.social

"Peter Thiel: -mentioned in ~3,000 Epstein file documents -exchanged ~2,000 emails with Epstein -swapped strategies with Epstein to avoid the IRS tracking their hidden wealth This is the guy who helped our vice-president in key moments in his career."

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

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 🧵

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The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social

“We are fed up with ICE & DHS telling us lies… NO MORE TRAFFIC STOPS BY ICE.” Wilber’s lawyer says he was sideswiped and shot by ICE without any clue who they even were — and ICE then immediately lied about what happened (again)

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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)
@covid19disease.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: University of Florida Scientists Develop an mRNA Cancer Vaccine That Reprograms the Immune System to Hunt Down Cancer Cells Without Genetically Engineering Immune Cells Outside the Body Led by Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D.

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Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comHomeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower allegesThe searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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@johnhpage.bsky.social

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin - ProPublica apple.news/AnJKBzsh_TKG...

apple.newsDonald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin — ProPublicaThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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@johnhpage.bsky.social

Here we go Trump destroys Kennedy Center business by shuttering it (WNO and NSO have gone elsewhere) then says he can magically unbankrupt it by putting his name on it. Pure Mafia. Kennedy Center Warns of Bankruptcy Unless Trump’s Name Is Added www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/a...

nytimes.comKennedy Center Warns of Bankruptcy Unless Trump’s Name Is Added (Gift Article)The caution, contained in a draft resolution to the center’s board, comes as a federal judge decides whether President Trump’s name should remain off the building.

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Kelly
@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

Another example of ICE targeting the most vulnerable among us. Loreto Javar has stage 4 cancer and has a valid green card. ICE grabbed him in June and he’s missed multiple chemo appointments and suffered a blood clot. They will kill this man if they don’t release him.

wsws.orgICE kidnaps 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer at citizenship interviewLoreto Javar has missed cancer treatments, developed a blood clot and suffered rapid weight loss during more than two months in ICE’s Tacoma concentration camp.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him)
@hansilowang.bsky.social

My latest @npr.org story: A whistleblower report says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting that could “derail” the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed. Key parts of USPS' plan are currently blocked by a court order

npr.orgWhistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midtermsA whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail voting that could "derail" the midterm election if courts allow it to proceed.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼
@ifindkarma.bsky.social

Replying to @ifindkarma.bsky.social

“It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a ‘real’ billionaire in a way he never was before, and it will be solely because of the public office.” @swin24.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/swin... bsky.app/profile/thor... bsky.app/profile/ifin...

youtu.beTrump thinks it was 'stupid' to not cash in more during first term: Rolling StoneYouTube video by MS NOW
Adam Rifkin 🐼@ifindkarma.bsky.social

“If you read or share only one article today, make it this: HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 … Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of power of the office for self-enrichment.” @leahmcelrath.bsky.social No paywall: archive.is/ZmfJC

nytimes.comOpinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion (Gift Article)The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.

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Democratic Activists
@democratswin.bsky.social

#DelaneyHall I visited Delaney Hall again. During my time there, one innocent man was released and reunited with tearful family members. Another family, with the husband and father detained for over 10 months without due process, told me their story. We cannot allow this to go on any longer.

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Chris⚖️Justice
@chrisjustice01.bsky.social

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

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Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social

Exclusive: Trump DOJ appears to have hired lawyer convicted of hacking election sites to check ‘integrity’ www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comExclusive: Trump DOJ appears to have hired lawyer convicted of hacking election sites to check ‘integrity’Levin’s involvement in election monitoring could offer a hint of the kind of personnel who will staff the operation this fall, when the DOJ has said it will send 1,000 monitors to the polls.