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Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

FT: “OpenAI’s Computing Deals Top $1 Trillion”

@financialtimes.com
#IHopeYoureRight
www.ft.com/content/5f6f...

“.. 4,000 flights in the U.S. on Monday have been delayed, including 29% arriving flights at Denver, 19% of Newark flights and 15% of Las Vegas ..”

@cnbc.com #Shutdown
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/s...

NEW — The remaining American members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla being held in Israeli prison have been freed, a family member of one confirmed to me. They were driven to the Jordanian border and will be staying the night in Jordan before flying home.

Video of them today saying “Free Palestine”:

YouTube video by emptywheel How Kristi Noem is giving away $400K in "free" medical care

As right wingers make shit up about free medical care for "illegals," don't forget the medical care necessitated by Kristi Noem's goons.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ddz...

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Israeli warplanes launch multiple airstrikes on the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood in southwestern Gaza City.

CBS leans further right with disturbing new hire to run news division CBS News is expected to drift further to the right after the outlet’s parent company announced on Monday that anti-woke reactionary writer Bari Weiss would be taking on the role of editor-in-chief. Pa...

CBS leans further right with disturbing new hire to run news division www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

RSM: “.. Uncertainty over economic policy has returned to levels reached during the 2020 pandemic ..

“.. weighing heavily on small and medium sized firms that are now reducing their headcounts while large firms have slowed their hiring to a crawl.”

@joebrusuelas.bsky.social

APOLLO: “.. the labor market is at a standstill, where workers are not getting hired or voluntarily changing jobs.”

Citadel’s Griffin Calls Rush to Gold as Safer Asset ‘Concerning’ Citadel’s Ken Griffin said investors are starting to view gold as a safer asset than the dollar, a development that’s “really concerning” to the billionaire investor.

GRIFFIN: ".. We’re definitely on a bit of a sugar high in the US economy right now."

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Legacy newspapers: "Print media is dying, and the public will suffer for it."

Also legacy newspapers: "We can't offend the government with information and framing that helps the public."

@repshontelbrown.bsky.social
delivered a #CupOfJoe with a latte facts.

“Donald Trump’s only expertise on crime is committing it not preventing it”

Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Punishing Abrego Garcia for Challenging Removal to El Salvador Read more here.

A federal judge ruled that senior DOJ officials' comments created a "realistic likelihood" of vindictiveness in its criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Abregio Garcia is now entitled to a hearing to argue for tossing his case on these grounds. https://bit.ly/48jnA4D

SEAN DUFFY: Burbank -- zero controllers came to work. I don't support that. They should come to work. They're supposed to come to work. But ...

KILMEADE: They didn't even miss a paycheck yet. So why aren't they coming to work?

Donald Trump's "golden age" is feeling suspiciously similar to the final moments before the Great Depression, so let's start there. Listen to Andrew Ross Sorkin on the LP podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiLFRZS-QGM

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities. In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account. These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

Accurate. 😂

Grassley to Bondi: "It's all pointing out the wrong of using the power of government to go after people -- political people you don't like. We're pointing this all out because we can't have this repeated in the United States."

(He's somehow not talking about Trump ... )

Uhm…92% of Black women clearly did.

You may not get why Black women vote the way they do, but you will be well served to follow our lead.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@aoc.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Bondi set to give testimony to Congress at first hearing since Comey indictment Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before a Senate panel Tuesday amid mounting concerns that the DOJ under her leadership is being weaponized to go after President Trump's perceived enemies.

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before a Senate panel Tuesday amid mounting concerns that the DOJ under her leadership is being weaponized to go after President Trump's perceived enemies.

I know it's tiresome to play the "imagine if the parties were reversed" game, but thinking about how Republicans (and right-wing media) would be reacting if a Democratic-controlled House was refusing to swear in a newly elected *Republican* member may be the apotheosis of this particular meme.

The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

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