Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Contributing editor, Harper's Magazine; Lecturer, Columbia Law School; Attorney. Previously lived in Munich, New York, Moscow and London, now lives in Santa Fe, NM. Husband of Carol, groomer of Aisha.
“The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional.” www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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John Oliver lists off just some of Ken Paxton’s scandals: “Paxton spent nearly 9 years under indictment for securities fraud... He was also accused of bribery and abuse of office by eight of his own top deputies... But wait, because I'm still not done.”
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
Jordan Bardella, the leader of France's Pétainist party has a long history of antisemitic utterances which he really can't deny. What a shock. Mediapart compiles an impressive dossier. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...
« Les banques sont toutes détenues par des juifs » : Jordan Bardella face à ses écrits antisémites
« Mediapart » a mis la main sur des échanges de l’actuel président du RN, au début de sa carrière politique. On y découvre l’antisémitisme obsessionnel de celui qui rêve de devenir premier ministre. …
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Mike Johnson promises that a Republican controlled House means no oversight, no appropriations hearings, no new legislation, but lots of extended breaks and vacations so that no votes can be taken on things that bother Trump. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoMike Johnson on what Republicans will do if they hold the House: "What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already"
Researchers quantify the economic damage caused by climate-change-related heat stress on the global workforce go.nature.com/3TAJNWX
The cost of lost labour on a warming planet
Researchers quantify the economic damage caused by climate-change-related heat stress on the global workforce.
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Upshot of the Trump-Xi summit: China apparently is delighted to keep high tariffs on US agricultural products like corn, pork and soybeans in place because it doesn't want to buy American agricultural products anymore. It can meet all its needs from Latin America. In sum: nothing for US farmers.
Demand Boost for US Crops Still Unclear After China Tariff Cuts
A day after China announced tariff cuts across a slew of US agricultural products, crop traders are trying to parse whether — and how quickly — that will translate into a demand pickup for major grain...
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The man behind the conversion of government funds to run campaign ads for Donald Trump on Fox? It was Donald Trump himself. www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
Trump personally helped orchestrate taxpayer-funded ads promoting himself and his policies, source says | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump has personally driven the controversial, tax-payer funded video ads promoting himself and his administration’s policies, including helping select the imagery and videos used, a ...
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Donald Trump supports a new plan to offer Russia sanctions relief in exchange for the release of political prisoners—a move likely to outrage Ukraine, Europe, and even some of his allies in Congress.
A Most Trumpian Plan to Make Nice With Russia
Trump’s envoy wants to trade Russian political prisoners for U.S. sanctions relief, creating a path to business deals before the war in Ukraine ends.
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Trump's submission to the DC Circuit: "Put my name on the f*cking building, or I'm gonna burn it to the ground." bsky.app/profile/rpar...
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 2h agoLast night Trump filed his DC Circuit appeal seeking to rename the Kennedy Center. "[W]ithout appropriate recognition [for Trump], the Kennedy Center will" continue its "race toward physical & financial ruin. The stakes are existential." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Will Saletan: "After six years of Trump’s flagrant corruption, it shouldn’t surprise us that he’s diverting public funds to boost himself and his party. It’s just another legal and moral line he thinks he can cross with impunity."
Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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Lexington police say officers used their Flock camera database to try to find a car tied to a road rage case. It led them to the home of Samuel Penn, who had nothing to do with the incident.
Lexington police used Flock cams to find road rage suspect. It led them to an innocent man
Lexington police say officers used their Flock camera database to try to find a car tied to a road rage case. It led them to the home of Samuel Penn, who had nothing to do with the incident.
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How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
In an action clearly coordinated with Israeli police and military, more than 100 Jewish settlers went on the rampage in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, torching buildings and cars, and preventing the return of a Palestinian family displaced by previous settler attacks.
More than 100 Israelis go on rampage in Palestinian town
Jewish settlers blocked roads, set tyres ablaze and prevented the return of a Palestinian family in latest surge of violence in occupied West Bank
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We have a new high poll for Dems AFAIK of D+16 on the generic ballot among likely voters. I think pollsters are playing kind of fast and loose with these filters to only use decided voters but still. Holy hell
NYT unravels the dense weave of corruption underlying Trump's Iowa illusory steel mill investment: "Mesabi executives have leaned on a Trump-world insider as the company has sought to expand its footprint in the United States. The company hired Jason Miller, a longtime Trump adviser, as its
How a Planned Steel Mill in Iowa Reveals Trump’s Midterm Strategy
As President Trump travels the country, he is expected to focus on his economic accomplishments at a time when Americans have expressed deep frustration with his policies.
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Trump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go? Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/trump-orders-the-fcc-to-punish-a-reporter-where-did-all-the-ministry-of-truth-screamers-go/
Trump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go?
Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point out, this organization was named in the dumbest possible way by some incompetent people within the Biden administration, which only fed into the [ahem] disinformation around it. The program, a part of DHS, was an advisory group with no enforcement capabilities, and was tasked...
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The current technological revolution is fundamentally different from any that preceded it principally in that its benefits to humanity are extremely doubtful
With Trump's arrival in office, data center construction accounts for nearly all construction. This is not a healthy economy.
In an era of relentless demonization of trans people by the political movement now in power, is this sort of depraved behavior not in fact being empowered? www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN
A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...
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Jason Furman, Barack Obama’s chief economist, described him as a “credible Treasury secretary who has a real understanding of the global economy”. But Bessent has now transformed himself into the Baghdad Bob of bonds. He seems to be the biggest loser of the entire Trump cabinet.
The Beclowning of Scott Bessent
Another Trump enabler pays the price
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Is the biggest infrastructure investment in US history actually just a Ponzi scheme?
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 17h agoBreaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.
The News You Need, Tuesday, September 29, 2026: • A Heroic Israeli Attorney General Battles for Democracy • A Political Pope Who Hates Fascism • ICE Arrests Are Quieter But Rampant • Report from Beta Pictoris • Japan's Golf Courses Put to Better Use Read the Horton-Kaiser Report
The News You Need, Tuesday, September 28, 2026
A Heroic Israeli Attorney General / A Political Pope Who Hates Fascism / ICE Arrests are Quieter but Rampant / Newly Discovered Radio Signals Probably Aren’t From ET / Japan Converts Golf Courses Into...
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The difference between the practice depicted in “Checkout,” the comedy, and the unrelenting, unbearable horror described in “NAZA” is scale. Now, it’s industrial. That’s what makes it a genocide. It really is that unequivocal, and this is why “NAZA” didn’t need to use the word more than once.
Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband: 'I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right' trib.al/uh5mVzw
Politics latest: Burnham to suggest pension triple lock should be reviewed in next manifesto
Andy Burnham is to suggest in his speech to the Labour Party conference that the pension triple lock should be reviewed in the party's next manifesto. Sky's Jon Craig says there is a "huge backlash lo...
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@michaeldweiss.bsky.social tells @mpolymer1.bsky.social how Alina Habba’s wedding put FBI Director Kash Patel in the same room as a former FBI informant suspected of being a double agent. "These MAGA weddings are like the Star Wars Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence."
