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Bob King

@bkingdc.bsky.social

Deputy managing editor at POLITICO, interested in climate change, energy, transportation, technology and cybersecurity. Pennsylvania native and displaced Floridian. https://www.politico.com

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Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social & me: As his confirmation to lead DOJ hung by a thread last week, acting AG Todd Blanche told faith leaders on a private call that he was preparing to take action to roll back abortion access nationwide. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Blanche pledged abortion pill crackdown in private religious call: ‘We’re putting practices and policies in place’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

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Bob King@bkingdc.bsky.social · 2d ago

SCOOP by @politico.com's Alfred Ng: More trouble brewing for the Federal Trade Commission as Republicans on House Energy and Commerce seek ideas on overhauling the agency, little more than a month after the Supreme Court erased its independence from Trump: www.politico.com/news/2026/08... #FTC

House Energy and Commerce seeks input on FTC overhaul

A Republican-led information request asks how Congress should change the consumer protection agency after a series of adverse Supreme Court rulings.

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Bob King@bkingdc.bsky.social · 4w ago

I just woke up from a dream about a lost season of Parks and Rec shot entirely in black and white, featuring mysterious images of birds, menacing conversations with Russian mobsters in bars and hospitals, and a blurring of the actors' TV and real-life identities. And now I wish I could watch it.

Bob King@bkingdc.bsky.social · last mo.

A mile and a half from the algae-plagued Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, another pool along the National Mall has somehow escaped such problems: www.politico.com/news/2026/06... This one is managed by the architect of the Capitol, not by the Trump administration's National Park Service.

The Lincoln Memorial should be green with envy: This reflecting pool stayed clear

The Architect of the Capitol has long toiled to keep the Mall’s other body of water from falling into disrepair.

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Bob King@bkingdc.bsky.social · last mo.

"For centuries the people had built and created, always honorably, always honestly, even for serf-owners and nobles. Yet no one, from the days of Ryurik on, had ever heard of wrecking. But now, when for the first time all the wealth had come to belong to the people, ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago: "For centuries the people had built and created, always honorably, always honestly, even for serf-owners and nobles. Yet no one, from the days of Ryurik on, had ever heard of wrecking. But now, when for the first time all the wealth had come to belong to the people, hundreds of thousands of the best sons of the people inexplicably rushed off to wreck. (Section 7 did not provide for wrecking in agriculture, but since it was impossible otherwise to explain rationally how and why the fields were choked with weeds, why harvests were falling off, why machines were breaking down, then dialectic sensitivity brought agriculture, too, under its sway.)"Bild
Politico@politico.com · 2mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: A top Polymarket executive sent hundreds of thousands of dollars — and likely more — to social media influencers from left to right. One influencer says Polymarket wrote posts for them to share on X and asked them to promote specific bets.

‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds

The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.

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Bob King@bkingdc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One productive use of scarce energy, land and water resources is to Google nonsense phrases like "Pentecostal wombat" and watch its AI just make up shit as the answer.

Google's nonsense response to a nonsense question.
Bob King@bkingdc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Brendan Carr's early reopening of Disney's eight TV licenses is his most aggressive effort yet to check the big networks, and the realest manifestation to date of Trump's calls for yanking licenses of broadcasters he dislikes. By John Hendel for @politico.com: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Brendan Carr takes on Disney — and escalates Trump’s media war

The FCC's abrupt move to reconsider the licenses of eight ABC-owned television stations is the agency's first real effort to carry out a frequent threat of President Donald Trump.

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