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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"But Her Emails" he cried softly

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Apr 2

What the actual f*ck?!!!

“Members of Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.“

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say

Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

wapo.st

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napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social @napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social · 20h

This is the float from the opposite direction. It is a weird mashup of God knows what.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 23h

Trumpers didn't send lawyers to a bipartisan briefing on their ship bombing campaign, apparently because there's no cogent legal argument for a military campaign against vessels posing no military threat.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22h

Should definitely be interesting to watch the Donald The Dove contingent explain away Trump's warmongering here. Good @swin24.bsky.social reporting: note voices of caution being sidelined:

Zeteo @zeteo.com · 23h

“Trump has been ramping up his wars - both in his militarized crackdowns at home and his military adventures abroad.”

@swin24.bsky.social explains how Trump and his advisers are getting increasingly serious about bombing Venezuela to destabilize the Maduro regime.

Read: zeteo.com/p/team-trump...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: More than 100 federal judges have now rejected the Trump administration’s new policy to lock up nearly everyone facing deportation — including 12 judges appointed by Trump, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Only 2 judges have sided with ICE.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

More than 100 judges have ruled against the Trump admin’s mandatory detention policy

A POLITICO review of the rulings shows judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan have rebuked the administration’s new interpretation of immigration law.

www.politico.com

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 2d

Nearly nine months after Trump became chair of the center and more than a month into its main season, ticket sales for the Kennedy Center’s three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been in years…Tens of thousands of seats have been left empty. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover

Nearly nine months into Trump’s oversight, sales for the three largest performance venues are the worst they’ve been since the pandemic, according to a Washington Post analysis.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 2d

The US cancelled Trump’s planned Budapest summit with Vladimir Putin after a Russian memo to Washington holding firm to hardline demands on Ukraine was swiftly followed by a tense call between the two countries’ top diplomats, said people familiar with the matter. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin Budapest summit axed following Moscow memo

Russian foreign ministry’s maximalist demands for ending Ukraine war led US to scrap planned meeting

giftarticle.ft.com

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Hans de Vreij @vreij.bsky.social · 2d

'Built in the shadows and launched at night, Ukraine’s long-range drones are rattling Russia' apnews.com/article/ukra...

Built in the shadows and launched at night, Ukraine's long-range drones are rattling Russia

In rural Ukraine, attack drones are assembled in secret to strike deep into Russia. These drones target oil refineries, fuel depots and military hubs, stretching Moscow's air defenses.

apnews.com

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 2d

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is rebuilding its armaments and battered ranks, defying the terms of a cease-fire agreement and raising the prospect of renewed conflict with Israel, according to people familiar with Israeli and Arab intelligence. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Hezbollah Is Rearming, Putting Cease-Fire at Risk

The Lebanese militant group is rebuilding its battered ranks and armaments, defying the terms of the cease-fire and raising the possibility of renewed conflict with Israel.

www.wsj.com

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 1d

Good to hear unless this is just disinformation so that Maduro isn’t ready for air strikes.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Trump says he is not considering strikes within Venezuela reut.rs/4otkhgg

Trump says he is not considering strikes within Venezuela

President Donald Trump on Friday denied he was considering strikes inside Venezuela, even amid reports that the United States may expand its counter-drug campaign in the Caribbean.

reut.rs

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 2d

As I pointed out, Trump's policy toward Venezuela is incoherent. On the one hand, he's trying to topple Maduro. On the other hand, he's allow Chevron to provide revenue for the regime. wapo.st/3X1jhE0

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

www.pbs.org

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Ville Kostian @kostianv.bsky.social · 1d

" #Ukraine says it hit a key fuel pipeline near Moscow that supplies Russian forces" - #Russia
apnews.com/article/russ...

Ukraine says it hit a key fuel pipeline near Moscow that supplies Russian forces

Ukraine’s military intelligence said it hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army.

apnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Imagine that. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 1d

This really illustrates Trump’s lack of interest in both history and character, and his commitment to the enshittification of everything. This looks like what people imagine a “rich” hotel bathroom is, while simultaneously echoing one of those bath fitter things on TV they do in an afternoon.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is

I renovated the Lincoln Bathroom in the White House. It was renovated in the 1940s in an art deco green tile style, which was totally inappropriate for the Lincoln Era. I did it in black and white polished Statuary marble. This was very appropriate for the time of Abraham Lincoln and, in fact, could be the marble that was originally there!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

I'm being entirely serious when I say that this is one of the core commitments of reactionary politics: demand all the privileges, refuse any of the responsibility.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "It's their fault. Everything is their fault."

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 1d

Trump finally came up with a replacement for the Affordable Care Act: No healthcare.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Obamacare has turned out to be a disaster as I've been saying for years. It can be fixed or redone. People don't get good healthcare and their premiums go up every single year. So we should change it. Obamacare is bad healthcare at a very high price."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

My god, WHAT is in those Epstein files that has him so terrified of swearing in Vote Number 218?

“I will not bring the House back to session until the Congress negotiates a budget that it needs to pass” is pretty much a pure pi-r-squared circle.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

We saved a copy of the original sentencing memo in the Taylor Taranto case

Here it is:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

The US House of Representatives committee calendar for October 2025

It's .... quite something

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”

Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

theintercept.com

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Todd Stein @toddstein.bsky.social · 1d

The Fugitive Slave Act legalized bounty hunting.

It’s crystal clear what Make America Great Again really means.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”

Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

theintercept.com

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