Catherine Rampell

crampell.bsky.social

14 October 2026 02:50

Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Jesselyn Radack

jesselynradack.bsky.social

24 September 2026 02:36

When Louis XIV said “L'État, c'est moi,” it was as pretty apocryphal… www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Daniel Rothberg

danielrothberg.bsky.social

02 September 2026 17:27

California is about to do something really cool for local journalism, @mattdpearce.com writes. "This should be done for lots of reasons, but most importantly because local news acts like a 'public good' with all sorts of positive side effects..." mattdpearce.substack.com/p/california...

Carol Rosenberg

carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social

19 August 2026 15:34

Good morning from Camp Justice on Day 2 of these pretrial hearings in the USS Cole bombing case. Today we expect to hear from Aimen Dean, a former Al Qaeda recruit turned UK intelligence service informant turned consultant on extremism. He'll be testifying via video feed.

Democracy Now!

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17 August 2026 16:07

“The Nerd Reich”: Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/17/gil_duran_nerd_reich