Thank Leonard Leo and his blood thirsty Supremes for expanding gun rights. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/w...

American High School Students Are Selling Guns Bound for Cartels (Gift Article)

Drawn by money and status, teenagers in Arizona are buying, stealing and selling weapons destined for criminal groups in Mexico.

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Let's just be candid about what we have here: a sordid Senate deal to convey a hereditary sinecure. I understand Butler's confirmation hearing is scheduled for after the midterms, assuming the nomination is not withdrawn beforehand. reason.com/volokh/2026/...

Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.

Could This Actually End Citizens United?

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti

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I love James Talarico’s simple statement in response to groveling Angela Paxton’s deplorable lowlife political ad. She’s a insult to smart, honest and hardworking American women. She’s earned her place in hell. #Pinks #Voices4Victory

This is what happens when you re-elect a felon who believes the media is his enemy and he then gets his wealthy benefactors to buy major news and media outlets. 🤷🏿‍♂️ This should come to no one as a surprise.

G@gpatrick.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sums up my feelings. 

Americans pay billions to for-profit prison companies to incarcerate people. Their financial incentives reward keeping beds filled; some contracts pay even when beds are empty. Profits go to company owners and investors, not the public that funds them. That’s a profound conflict of interest.

Coincidence that the (alleged) suicide list continues to grow? Andriesz was the banker who (allegedly) linked Nutlick to Epstein. It’s way past time the unredacted Epstein Files are released. What unfathomable horrors are contained within them? The victims deserve justice. FINALLY.

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

You won’t believe who we found in a Trump +65 county.

The Deadline Is Monday Texas voter registration closes Monday, Oct 5. Miss it, you sit out November. Texas is the hardest state in America to vote in, and that's no accident. It's 150 years of laws built to keep the list short. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

How Texas Turned Voter Registration Into A Political Weapon

150 years of making it hard on purpose. Check your registration before Monday.

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O.M.G. See where people not voting has brought us? Asked whether he was thinking about running for president, Kennedy replied, “Yeah.” End this GOP nightmare once & for all, right NOW. Vote BLUE. So Foghorn Leghorn will not even think about it. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #BlueWaveIn30Days

Sen. John Kennedy says he’s considering running for president

The Louisiana Republican said he has not yet made a decision and that right now he’s planning on running for re-election in 2028.

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This is actually a good story by the New York Times' Peter Baker. But as usual, the editors ran it through their Euphemism Desk so the headline talks about Trump "moving ethical lines" instead of saying flat-out that the president is deeply corrupt and is putting your money in his pocket.

How Trump Moved Ethical Lines With His Ads, Businesses and Summits (Gift Article)

The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.

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I enjoyed this conversation.

Edwin Eisendrath@eisendrath.net · 23h ago

Longtime Chicago journalist @markjacob.bsky.social has dedicated this part of his life to rescuing journalism from it’s own timidity. One of his biggest concerns is how the press has still not fully confronted what is plainly in front of it: “the president’s brain is broken.” Watch:

Zelensky and Merz held a press conference in Kyiv. Germany is providing Ukraine a new support package worth over €1.3 billion, including weapons, funding for the energy sector ahead of winter, and financing for production of interceptors against jet-powered Shaheds.

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · yesterday

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit with a new support package, €1bn in military aid and €350m for energy sector recovery. An agreement on joint production of various drone types is also expected.

Darius Paduch was Jeffrey Epstein’s urologist. Paduch is also a sexually abusive physician who worked at Cornell for years. In 2024, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his crimes. Paduch abused at least 50 identified victims, many of whom were minors.

Erin Overbey@erinoverbey.bsky.social · 3d ago

i need everyone to pls read these pages from a letter Weill Cornell Medicine (led by Robert Harrington) sent rapist Jeffrey Epstein asking him to continue as their patient in 2019—a decade after his conviction!! they sent Epstein best wishes for his health😳 this is absolutely sickening… #cornell

Good news. Apart from the vote for the Latvia First (1!) party in the southeast. Latvia First is a far-right populist party that wants closer economic ties with neighbouring Russia and Belarus. It poles highest in the Russian-speaking southeast. In other words, Putin's excuse to invade Latvia.

Baltic Takes (formerly badbaltictakes)@baltictakes.com · yesterday

With almost all votes counted, Latvians have given a rare landslide to the United List of Andris Kulbergs. Of most interest to international followers: Kulbergs is very pro-Ukraine, NATO, Europe. He’s clear Ukraine must win, not just survive, and that Europe must step up to ensure its security.

Meant to post the 2025 Kennedy Center 990 - Schedule of Other Assets. The KC CFO who just resigned posted the $310M to Other assets - Federal appropriations held by US Treasury. $310M to revenue & other assets, not receivables.

Speculating. Possible Trump is jealous of David M. Rubenstein, Carlyle Group co-founder & chair? Trump replaced Rubenstein as Kennedy Center chair & his administration waffled for months on approval for a Carlyle-Lukoil deal. Maybe out for revenge is a better choice of words...

Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day.

Colin@colin-fraser.net · yesterday

Sometimes I head over to X to find an old tweet of mine or something like that and it’s shocking how evil it is now. The most inhuman putrid malevolent posts are all at the top of the feed. Literal Hell on Earth.

Hypocrisy is a virtue to fascists.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?”

Sure looks like the Secretary of the Interior is about to invoke emergency wartime powers to use taxpayer funds to build a bunch of data centers on public land, without any public input: wessiler.substack.com/p/whats-doug...

What’s Doug Burgum Doing With Defense Production Act Authority?

It sure looks like things are adding up for widespread data center construction on public lands, without public input

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You've been had, MAGAs.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3d ago

Kushner’s private equity firm is the largest stakeholder in an Israeli financial institution that invests in Israeli defense companies.

The "clashing work styles" being privacy and security, from the company that's suppose to self-regulate its AI models

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3d ago

Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles (Ashley Gold/Semafor) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

"The doctrine that the strong dominate the weak is the doctrine of our enemies."

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 2d ago

FDR v. Stephen Miller

"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)

What if a typo kept you from voting? In Florida, under the "exact match" policy, a typo or hyphen can stall your registration. Civil rights groups sued, but a Trump-appointed judge just dismissed the case. Help us keep covering the fights over who gets to vote: https://demdock.com/3T3Owjg

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

From a 2011 JP Morgan due diligence report on Jeffrey Epstein. They wouldn't drop him as a client until 2 years later. #EpsteinFiles

An FBI agent about Election Day: “I’m either going to be sick that day or they are going to have to fire me” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?

“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”

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Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap