Suzanne Kelleher
@srkelleher.bsky.social
Reader, writer, curious traveler. Em dash defender. 🖋️ Staff writer at Forbes. 📚 repped by Jenny Bent and James Mustelier at The Bent Agency.
Summer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.
Sean Duffy’s Road Trip Sponsors Spent $100 Million Lobbying Congress Last Year
Summer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.
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What a surprise, the alleged abuser was jacking himself up on testosterone.
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LadyFluffyOrca 📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦@ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · yesterdayYou really have to feel for these poor dogs! 😹
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
“‘Summer is nearly over and the American people haven’t seen a single episode of this reality TV show—so what did the corporate sponsors who helped fund this road trip actually pay for?‘ Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., told Forbes in an email.” Good scoop here from @srkelleher.bsky.social !
Forbes@forbes.com · yesterdaySummer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.
Of course it’s breaking the law! But as a joke of a country that can’t even prosecute a blatant coup, I have no doubt this will continue unchecked.
Oh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d agoUFC cage match on the White House lawn: Pirro v Burgum. Trump MCs.
I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
“May” is doing a whole lotta work here. And we can lose the “experts say…”
NPR@npr.org · 4d agoThe president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Experts say the service may violate insider trading laws.
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d agoAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
Among potential 2028 contenders, Newsom seems the most committed in trying to turn Trump's allies into his own allies, hence constantly kissing the assess of the worst people in the country, like this gift for the Ellisons. Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see how the Dem base likes that.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 5d agowhen it comes down to it - @gavinnewsom.bsky.social bends the knee to big money and billionaires. This time he is bending the knee to billionaire monopolists - pushing for a media merger helping the right wing media project.
ICE arrests at airports are up in recent months as details emerge about an agreement with TSA to share travelers’ personal data.
TSA Is Helping ICE Ramp Up Arrests At Airports
ICE arrests at airports are up in recent months as details emerge about an agreement with TSA to share travelers’ personal data.
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this is troubling! we can’t rely on either detection software or “hunches” because people are biased; consider the handwringing about “proper” language, what constitutes the “literary,” etc. it’s already a pattern that it’s being used against writers of color — 3 Black authors, in this case.
$2m crime novel deal collapses amid questions over AI use
Agents withdraw Jerry Falade’s hotly anticipated debut after saying they can no longer authenticate ‘how the manuscript evolved’
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Trump’s shakedown aide says she sometimes becomes “uncomfortable” while demanding millions of corporate dollars which are used to unlock government favors.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 5d ago“the boss wants this money" from @wsj.com, a deep dive into the extortion operation run out of the White House gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Todd Blanche is as corrupt as his boss. He know how rich this slush fund would make right-wing lawyers like himself. It would also fund far-right legal orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom to do things like ban contraception or overturn Obergefell. www.salon.com/2026/07/31/t...
The real reason Todd Blanche won't drop Trump's slush fund
The acting attorney general made $10 million as the president’s defense attorney
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So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
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"In just four months, the borough’s four police officers have pulled over and checked the status of dozens of motorists — mainly commercial truck drivers — and turned over 32 arrestees to ICE" important @willbunch.bsky.social dispatch from area where I grew up www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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NEW: Under Bari Weiss, CBS News has shifted to the right to try to grab some of Fox News' audience. Not only have they failed to do that, but they've driven off so much of their core audience that CBS Mornings is now perilously close to getting beaten by Fox & Friends. zeteo.com/p/mamdani-de...
Exactly. We are already seeing what would happen
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoThe Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.
ICE arrests at airports are up in recent months as details emerge about an agreement with TSA to share travelers’ personal data. www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
ICE Arrests At Airports Surge With TSA Help
ICE arrests at airports are up in recent months as details emerge about an agreement with TSA to share travelers’ personal data.
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ICE arrests at airports are up in recent months as details emerge about an agreement with TSA to share travelers’ personal data. www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...
ICE Arrests At Airports Surge With TSA Help
ICE arrests at airports are up in recent months as details emerge about an agreement with TSA to share travelers’ personal data.
forbes.com
Building the new generation Air Force One presidential jets has become a painful financial thorn in the side of Boeing.
Boeing Lost Another $280 Million Last Quarter On Overdue Air Force One
Building the new generation Air Force One presidential jets has become a painful financial thorn in the side of Boeing.
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More than one third of seats installed in Boeing 737 MAX jets pose a safety risk, according to the FAA.
FAA Flags 31,000 Improperly Installed Seats On Boeing 737 MAX Planes
More than one third of seats installed in Boeing 737 MAX jets pose a safety risk, according to the FAA.
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