Ron A.

Ron A.

@ronangerer.bsky.social

A lawyer, for better and worse. Committed progressive.

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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project EmergesInterviews 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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Interviewed Erik Allen Ford, co-founder of Buck Mason, a brand I think is doing cool stuff at the moment. We talked about building a company around nerdy menswear products, Erik's love for vintage, and why so many great heritage brands have lost their way. pod.link/blamo/episod...

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🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

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Other presidents need to speak up. The time for normal deference is over.

Keith Edwards@keithedwards.bsky.social

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

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Oof.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

SUSAN COLLINS: My heart goes out to the family of the man who was shot in Biddeford. My Duran Guerrero TROY JACKSON: Well the man's name was Johan Sebastián Guerrero. That was his name.

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Troy Jackson: "Sen. Collins says that she voted against it 9 times, but she didn't have the votes. Well, that sounds like then we probably ought to have Democrats in charge of the Senate so we have the votes to stop this war and hold Donald Trump in check. It sounds like Republicans won't do that."

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That $366 million Elon is spending to try and convince voters that Congress should stay Republican? It's more money than McCain's 2008 campaign spent. But it's also, relative to Musk's net worth, the same as a household at the median income spending $32.

ctinsider.comThe 2026 question: Which is more powerful, money or people?Elon Musk has spent $366 million this election cycle. Philip Bump examines what that kind of money can buy in American politics.

That’s not how voting regulation works. Thats not how any of this works

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "If you terminate the filibuster, we will never lose an election again because we'll have really good safeguards. All strict."

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VERY important point from my colleague Sam Bagenstos - the 2026 Senate races will determine the future of the Supreme Court and federal courts more broadly. Which means the 2026 Senate race in MICHIGAN could determine the future of the Supreme Court

Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social

"The election for Michigan’s next U.S. Senator ... may well decide which party has a majority in the Senate. And control of the Senate will determine the direction of our courts." David Jaffe and me in the Detroit Free Press today. www.freep.com/story/opinio...

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It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social

Republican US Rep Brian Fitzgerald tweets that he will introduce a bill to block purchases of Russian oil. Don Bacon (R-Neb) tweets that he will co-sponsor. Obviously this won’t happen during campaigning recess (and Trump could veto anyway) but interesting push-back on Trump.

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They think we’re all idiots As Jon Stewart says — if the goal is guaranteed income and jobs, why wait? Why is it only “socialism” if we don’t hand them trillions of dollars first?

Arresting folks based on asking where were you born is insane.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

With the help of Republican officials, ICE has quietly arrested hundreds of people in Florida per day. Watch the latest dispatch from journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) out of southwest Florida:

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The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

independent.co.ukTrump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating WatergateA burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon

We’re about 2 months from every DOD employee going to a @reagan.com email address. 😂

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Enter a new core of cadets. To meet this critical need we are partnering with a new crop of premier higher ed institutions, including LSU, Liberty University, Tuskegee University, Mississippi State University, and Hillsdale College."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Marco Rubio: "Anything that had a chance of making money in Cuba was controlled by the Cuban military and the Cuban communist party to line the pockets of a handful of individuals at the expense of the entire country"

Gross

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Herbert Kickl, the leader of the FPÖ, a party founded by a group of former Warren-SS officers, received a warm welcome in Netanyahu's Israel, where the Likud Party sees itself as a natural ally. Kickl offers no apologies for the Holocaust by the way. www.spiegel.de/ausland/oest...

How does private insurance work is, like who was president in 2020, one of the burning questions of our time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Assistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."

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A portion of collection taken at today’s beatification Mass of Fulton Sheen will go to Catholic Charities USA. The Trump-Vance White House gutted the Church’s refugee resettlement program and just shut down a Miami shelter for migrant children that had operated since 1961.

thelettersfromleo.comTrump Administration Strips Catholic Charities of $11 Million After Attacking Pope Leo XIVIn a grave attack on religious liberty, the Miami facility named for the priest who sheltered 14,000 Cuban children during Operation Pedro Pan will shut down in three months.

This is part of why Congress chooses to go to war.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO SAYS 'I WANT TO BE CLEAR: THE UNITED STATES NEVER TARGETS CIVILIANS. EVER', ADDING THAT WHILE IN WAR 'SOME CIVILIANS GET CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE', THE U.S. NEVER TARGETS THEM, AND SAYING THE COUNTRY THAT DOES TARGET CIVILIANS IS IRAN.

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NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

The guy is so obviously out of his depth. And insane.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

“I will end that war in 24 hours. I’ll stop all those lives from being lost. There will be no more bombing of Ukraine and everyone will be happy. It wouldn’t even be tough because I know just what to say to each of them. It may not even take 24 hours.”

It’s a sign of how poisoned our politics are that you have Scott saying he’s too dumb or lazy to govern AI and Salazar making no effort to rebut these very valid points. They don’t think they have to convince anyone. They can do whatever they like and they’ll get every conservative vote

a lying, obfuscating and performatively memory-challenged Florida woman ran into a @jimdefede.bsky.social buzzsaw Jim keeps her honest with ease. take notes media. 🧢 @nycjim.bsky.social @whodat35.bsky.social

Just because Rick Scott is too dumb or too lazy to care, does not mean the rest is us need to be.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."

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Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…

I think this is cover for the fact that their businesses are not sustainable and they need a plausible off ramp to decelerate

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. It was a rare display of unity by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who have been spending tens of billions of dollars to develop evermore powerful artificial intelligence models.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

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So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

LMAO this guy is being featured at Trumpapalooza because Trump pardoned him

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Since 1981, Democratic presidents have overseen the creation of 3 times as many private-sector jobs as their Republican counterparts. Excluding Reagan, the net private-sector job growth of the past 3 GOP presidents is zero.