JP Smiley

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nytimes.com5 Takeaways From Our Investigation of Trump’s Waivers for Polluters (Gift Article)Chemical plants and other industrial facilities had been required to curb their toxic emissions. A New York Times investigation shows how they got out of it.

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nytimes.comTrump’s Attacks on Voting Raise Fears He Will Try to Challenge Midterm Results (Gift Article)Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.

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wsj.comHigher Deductibles, Bigger Premiums: Rising Healthcare Costs Hit EmployeesNew data shows the cost of family health plan grew 5%, while workers’ contributions increased by 9%.

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nytimes.comA Billionaire Wanted a Trump Pardon. His Family Gave Alina Habba a $50 Million Deal. (Gift Article)Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Ms. Habba, a lawyer close to President Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

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axios.comExclusive: Ramaswamy doubles down on explosive ad featuring rival's mother, despite backlashRamaswamy is gambling that the deeply personal attack by Amy Acton's mother will resonate with voters.

i don't think i've ever seen a campaign do a murder-suicide before (decent chance this drags down the entire GOP ticket in the state)

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the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

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Reuters

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Supersized heat waves used to be rare. No longer. A Reuters data-driven examination of global temperatures reveals the emergence of what we call heat storms. They now swarm the planet, upending life around the world. reut.rs/4zBUXtM

nytimes.comTrump Announces $8 Billion Plan to Cover Farm Losses (Gift Article)Under the Harvest Fuel Relief program, the Agriculture Department will provide economic aid for farmers hurt by high diesel prices.

Funny how our rugged individualist free-market Republican farmers and ranchers are also basically communists www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/b...

theguardian.comKey player in false Talarico rumor has history of online posts invoking Nazi GermanyRyan Amacher, who played role in bid to damage campaign, has also made antisemitic and racist posts on social media

Lake Oswego not sending their best www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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nytimes.comOpinion | Elon Musk Is Beyond the Pale (Gift Article)How is it possible that he is still part of the Republican mainstream?

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nytimes.comTrump Signs Order Exempting Russia From Sanctions Law (Gift Article)The sanctions were part of a measure that was named after Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July.

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wsj.comUkraine Says New Limits on Starlink Are Disrupting Its Military OperationsUkrainian officials say the limits imposed on the terminals have blunted their ability to attack Russian targets and intercept drones.

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nytimes.comTrump Adds Another Giveaway to His Midterm Pitch: Pardons. (Gift Article)The president has stepped up his offers of financial rewards to voters with just weeks until the midterms. On Tuesday at a rally in Alaska, he announced pardons.

Weird article analyzing tweets during an El-Sayed/Rogers debate without ever mentioning that X is owned and actively manipulated by the Republicans' biggest donor www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

wsj.comExclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate RaceTrump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms

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nytimes.comOpinion | What Happens When You Can No Longer Fight a Wildfire? (Gift Article)This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.

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Philip Bump

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None of this is surprising but it is a good dissection of how the White House and its allies generate victim-narrative bullshit.

nytimes.comHow the White House Manufactured a Narrative About a Trump Aide’s Call Logs (Gift Article)A release of selected records from the classified documents inquiry is a case study in how omitting context can create political ammunition.

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nytimes.comOpinion | Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached (Gift Article)The president’s despotism is itself a constitutional offense.

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Laura Bassett

@lebassett.bsky.social

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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The Associated Press

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Major League Baseball has decided not to consider Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming for a game. The idea faced strong opposition from environmental groups and the local community.

bit.lyMLB won't consider game at Grand Teton National Park, says was only conducting initial due diligenceMajor League Baseball has decided not to consider Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming for a game. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred sent a letter to local officials and community leaders, stating that MLB had no formal plans to play there.

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nytimes.comTrump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says (Gift Article)President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.

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absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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David Roberts

@volts.wtf

Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.

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open.spotify.comGrandma and Robert De NiroNina Winder-Lind · Wild Love · Song · 2026

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22 Sept

nytimes.comOpinion | Climate Catastrophe Is Still on the Table (Gift Article)Harrowing temperature increases remain unnervingly possible.

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22 Sept

theguardian.com‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warnNew report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

share.googleTrump administration paid $9.5 billion in leave for federal employees in 2025, due to DOGE-era buyout programAccording to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published Tuesday, the use of paid administrative leave increased by 435% from 2023 to 2025.

17 Sept

Trump administration paid $9.5 billion in leave for federal employees in 2025, due to DOGE-era buyout program - CBS News share.google/HQTJ7o6KJLeE...

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16 Sept

nytimes.comTrump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs (Gift Article)The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.

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Reuters Legal

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15 Sept

FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers he changed the bureau's hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who had been forced to have sex with animals reut.rs/4yFCKuV

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15 Sept

nytimes.comRussian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party (Gift Article)The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.

reut.rs'Thelma & Louise' makes London stage debut as creator says tale remains timelyMore than three decades after "Thelma & Louise" became a cult classic, an adaptation of the Oscar-winning film is making its London stage debut, with creator Callie Khouri saying the issues at its heart remain unresolved.

15 Sept

Beckett: I can't go on, I'll go on Thelma: let's keep going

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'Thelma & Louise' makes London stage debut as creator says tale remains timely reut.rs/4AevFTB

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14 Sept

pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME”

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: SCOTUS denies the Trump administration’s request to enforce the new U.S. Postal Service rule for the 2026 elections. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com

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@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

14 Sept

crypto, car dealerships and MLMs. ripe targets for political and policy reasons.

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Abdul El-Sayed

23 Aug

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Peter

@notalawyer.bsky.social

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

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Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Ben Collins

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Christopher Webb

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Replying to @erininthemorning.com

I’m all for calling Democrats out. Loudly! But telling people to withhold their votes in this political environment isn’t accountability. It’s handing power to the people you claim to fear most. We tried the “let them lose and they’ll learn” strategy before and we got Trump as a result.

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David Roberts

@volts.wtf

11 Sept

Here's what I think about when I think back on 9/11. The attack happened on the watch of a Republican president who had been warned, repeatedly & explicitly, that an attack was coming. He dismissed those warnings.

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10 Sept

Trump: "We're making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend. Congratulations."

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9 Sept

nytimes.comAt 9/11 Tribute, Trump Adds New Claim to His Disputed Role After Attack (Gift Article)President Trump has long sought to position himself close to the Sept. 11 recovery effort and has made a series of questionable and provocative statements to burnish his political brand.

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8 Sept

Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."

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5 Sept

theguardian.com‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrikeExclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic