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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 23

Listening to this interview of this whistleblower and it’s about as clearcut as you can ask for. Trump officials wanted him to lie to judges, claiming an immigrant was a gang member. He refused to. Then he was fired. This is why civil service protections, now being ignored, matter.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Jul 23

"A canary in the coal mine of the rule of law." This is an immensely important story about the DOJ being turned into an institution that is breaking the law at the behest of the President...the kind of story that would have tanked previous administrations. [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/p...

A D.O.J. Whistleblower Speaks Out

www.nytimes.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Jul 23

because he tried to cover it up, it's sexual, and so the political media is capable of recognizing it as a story in a way that it can't acts of open cruelty and evil against the poor or vulnerable

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Jul 23

Kind of amazing how of all the unpopular initiatives in the Trump administration (cuts to Medicaid, ICE raids, THE TARIFFS), he got Biden'd on the Epstein stuff.

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hello textee this is your good friend Barack Obama can I get a little gas money for France or wherever

Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · Jul 23

Barack Obama: if you don’t give me five dollars right now, I’m gonna kms

Weird donation text that reads “goodbye forever, we’re so sorry. Barack Obama just issued a dire warning”

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Spooky Strings and Sealing Wax (and other frightening stuff) @strings.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is 100% true by the way, the Confederate government BEGGED the planters to plant food rather than cotton so they could feed the troops who were fighting to maintain the means by which the planters got rich but they all refused because cotton had a higher profit margin

Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · Jul 23

Honestly I would crush this assignment bc I’d make a show all about how the CSA would collapse in like five years from “every planter a city-state” libertarian frenzy. In fucking real life they starved in an AGRARIAN STATE bc they were too fucking Line Go Up brained to grow crops you could eat.

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Porco @redpig5.bsky.social · Jul 23

The MAGA ideological commitment to hydrocarbon energy is as self-defeating and nonsensical as they portray the liberal commitment to clean energy to be. They are shutting down mostly done projects with no replacement or something more expensive!

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jul 23

DOE says it terminated the loan guarantee for a big transmission line between Kansas wind farms and Missouri. well done Josh Hawley

Department of Energy Terminates Taxpayer-Funded Financial Assistance for Grain Belt Express

WASHINGTON— The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the Loan Programs Office (LPO) has terminated its conditional commitment for the Grain Belt Express Phase 1 project, a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line intended to connect wind and solar capacity across Kansas and Missouri. The conditional commitment, which would have provided a taxpayer-funded loan guarantee of up to $4.9 billion dollars, was issued by the Biden administration in November 2024 – one of many conditional commitments that were rushed out the door in the final days of the Biden administration.

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Porco @redpig5.bsky.social · Jul 23

Some 75 year old is gonna buy this for $50k and then never drive it, and be so happy about it.

Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · Jul 23

350-Powered 1968 Chevrolet Camaro Coupe

Bid for the chance to own a 350-Powered 1968 Chevrolet Camaro Coupe at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #202,718.

bringatrailer.com

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · Jul 23

Abundance for the many is about making essentials affordable by all means necessary.

Great conversation about the need for a new economic policy agenda that goes beyond removing blockages and waiting for corporations to do the rest.

thedigradio.com/podcast/actu...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jul 23

"Geotab found that the average annual degradation rate of modern electric vehicle batteries is just 1.8%. That’s 22% better than five years ago" insideevs.com/news/733987/...

EV Batteries Can Outlast A Vehicle’s Lifetime With Minimal Degradation, Study Finds

The battery degradation rate in modern EVs has gone down by almost a quarter in the past five years.

insideevs.com

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · Jul 23

A right-wing lunatic from the Five Towns placed IEDs in Manhattan and on a subway line after tagging the president in a tweet about bombing New York City.

The Post (predictably) and Times do not feel that these are details that their readers should know. Weird!

www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/me...

techargeaole nal gun to shoot into steal.
3. On or about March 27, 2025, MICHAEL GANN, the defendant, posted the
following message on X and tagged @POTUS, the official X account for the President of the United States: "Dear @POTUS, I'm thinking just now here in NYC that it's too bad that the wall
wasn't built before the National Guard would have to come here for the Protests and Riotation or would you just drop a bomb on this place while and because they seem to be coming and coming?"
4. On or about June 5, 2025-just hours before MICHAEL GANN, the defendant,
was arrested with one of the IEDs on his person GANN posted the below message to Instagram:

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is very cool. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/w...

Watch Octopuses Team Up With Fish to Hunt—and Punch Those That Don't Contribute

The collaboration across species reveals a surprising social behavior of octopuses, researchers say

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 23

I always loved this 2019 interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's best friends where he complains people are being very unfair to his friend Jeffrey because he had a disease called being a huge pervert not unlike tuberculosis.

www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

Was it a struggle for him? Did he ever—

I wouldn’t say struggle. He didn’t struggle with it. He was in a position financially to yield to it, big time. But nevertheless, he could not help himself. I’ve seen him do things which he couldn’t—couldn’t help himself, he was afflicted with it. If he had tuberculosis it wouldn’t be called a perversion, would it? Because he coughed too much?

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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m beyond sick of these useless fucking cowards. My god.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Jul 23

Our political media is simply not equipped to handle a situation where the voters were unambiguously wrong in a way which morally implicates the electorate.

Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · Jul 22

A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · Jul 23

By charging Americans 15% tax to buy Toyota, but charging GM 50+% tax to import their raw materials, Trump is *crushing US manufacturing*

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · Jul 23

Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · Jul 23

Venus Williams literally a millionaire working for healthcare coverage

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Jooli-AHH! Ghoulia 🎃🍂🔪 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · Jul 23

Starting the day with my sanity meter already precariously low

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jul 23

“NATO expansionism is not a U.S. imperial plot designed to humiliate Russia but something driven significantly from the bottom-up by nations with well-founded fears of Russia.” www.liberalcurrents.com/moyns-muddle...

Moyn's Muddle on Ukraine

Moyn makes both historical and moral errors in his analysis, and at times he uncritically adopts Putin’s perspective.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Jim Has Fun @jimhasfun.wnyrpg.com · Jul 23

Yes you did, I remember this one from before he was even nominated!

Future Imperfect

truthout.org

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Jul 23

The hollowness of MAGA intellectuals was exposed last month. The hollowness of other foreign policy mandarins was exposed this month. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

The End of Foreign Policy Ideas?

LOL nothing matters in the Ideas Industry right now.

danieldrezner.substack.com

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kate @katewitko.bsky.social · Jul 23

that's a little on the nose 🌽

MyRadar @myradar.bsky.social · Jul 23

Heads up in the Midwest and Great Lakes:
A slight risk (2/5, yellow) of severe storms stretches from South Dakota to Upper Michigan.

Strong winds are the main concern, but a tornado or two is possible, especially in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · Jul 23

“Israelis' eyes and ears have become accustomed to all this horror. But this is not just another elaborate "war routine"…The new foundation of Israeli belief states that the existence of the State of Israel depends on the elimination of Gaza.” -Zvi Barel/Haaretz

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Israelis used to value human life. The Gaza war changed that | Opinion

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www.haaretz.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Jul 23

Cuba now brings the number of countries globally where trans people have the right to gender self-determination to 22.

Cuba Will Now Allow Trans People to Change Gender Markers Without Bottom Surgery

A new law allows trans Cubans to update their identification cards by request without providing proof of genital surgery.

www.them.us

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Jul 22

‪Never forget that the real hero in all this is the Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown.

It was Brown's three-part investigative report that led to Epstein's arrest.

Without her dogged work, Epstein might still be raping children.

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social

Meet Julie K Brown, the woman who brought down Jeffrey Epstein

It was by focusing on his silenced victims, says the dogged Miami Herald reporter, that she was able to help bring the billionaire sex offender to justice

www.theguardian.com

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Jul 22

what this makes me think about - with regard to right now - is how so much of the information about Trump and Epstein that’s resonated in recent weeks is old stuff, widely and publicly reported. but a lot of it didn’t break through to lots of ppl in their information environments

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Jul 22

As Iran Deports a Million Afghans, ‘Where Do We Even Go?’ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/w...

As Iran Deports a Million Afghans, ‘Where Do We Even Go?’

www.nytimes.com

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