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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

Soliciting information from officials is a journalist's job.

The Pentagon's new press policy would make reporters "stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable," explains @npr.org's Tom Bowman.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 16h

These are the corrupt clowns we went into business with when agreeing to host the World Cup.

a man with a mustache is making a funny face and says oh man

ALT: a man with a mustache is making a funny face and says oh man

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 1d

Just discovered that apple icloud inexplicably deleted most of my icloud drive files back in April and there's no way to recover them. Cool! thanks apple

Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 1d

Ok gotcha 👍

Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 1d

I was hoping he’d get his first goal before being sent down but oh well. He wasn’t quite ripe yet.

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 1d

Props to UBC. 🇨🇦

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 1d

Is it politics for LA to declare a state of emergency to help immigrant residents? It seems like it’s national politics that have been imposed on your hometown from without.

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 1d

“Unless they invent digital god and completely transform the entire global economy, like, really pretty soon, they’re inevitably going to run into some hard accounting realities.”

davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

davekarpf.substack.com

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 1d

“Joel teaches us that knowledge and the institutions that cultivate it are the fundamental drivers of economic growth and prosperity.”

Maybe we should listen to this guy and support our knowledge-cultivating institutions.

news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025...

Joel Mokyr wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Nobel recognizes Mokyr’s theory on sustained economic growth

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad the hostages are back but

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

israel has already broken the ceasefire

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 2d

Destroying the Voting Rights Act has been the life's work of John Roberts

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

Probably unrelated. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

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Mike Moore @go4mike.bsky.social · 3d

It’s happening

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 3d

Carney selling out our digital sovereignty just to provide OpenAI with cheap electricity and water would be phenomenally stupid

Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

Canada has a long history of being surprisingly provincial. However, relinquishing digital sovereignty without a fight represents a strategic misstep in the broader project of nation-building, as technological autonomy increasingly shapes economic security, cultural identity, & political legitimacy.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 3d

lol that’s actually pretty awesome

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 4d

The English Revolution was in no small part sparked by King Charles I routing around parliament to find everything he wanted through non/legislative means, despite that being why Parliament exists. Over a century later, American colonists aware of this explicitly gave their Congress power to stop it

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 4d

I thought of Raffi too. Also played for both teams. Kane stayed on his feet though!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 4d

What an incredible finish from Muller at the death for #VWFC!!! Huge win, LFG

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 5d

We decided the word for arranging Halloween skeletons into various scenes in the front yard is “Necroscaping”

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 4d

@laurencewatt.bsky.social There will likely be street events all over false creek and downtown, all within walking distance. You didn’t even mention transit connections. You reported a hotel is going in across the street; Moshe implied that land should be parking instead! Honestly very strange

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Matt Foulger @mattfoulger.bsky.social · 4d

Hi @laurencewatt.bsky.social thanks for covering the financial issues around hosting the World Cup. But I think you accepted Moshe Lander’s claims uncritically. The idea B.C. place would be better suited to host if surrounded by parking lots should have been balanced by a more informed expert.

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