Matt Pryor @pryor-politics.bsky.social

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Fox News points out that Trump’s claim about all the Iranian leaders being dead is undermined by the fact his administration is negotiating with Iranian leaders right now
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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The party that claims to be bravely defending “Western Civilization” from its supposed imminent destruction by barbarian hordes, has empowered a guy who eats roadkill to shut down research on one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs in decades.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social
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NEW: US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to provide Iran with air defense systems in a matter of weeks, CNN reported. Beijing is expected to ship shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles known as Man-Portable Air Defense Systems.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-11/us-intelligence-shows-china-set-to-supply-iran-arms-cnn-reports?taid=69d9f0ac6196360001553d87&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&embedded-checkout=true
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social
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2/ and I think it’s safe to predict that these people will service connections to the interests that value timber more highly than those that value, say, water filtration, much less backpacking.”
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social
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Per The New Yorker, the reorg “shuts down the Service’s nine regional offices and relocates its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City” where the “Service will now have, instead of a regional headquarters, a ‘state coördinator’ in the capitals of states where it has large holdings...
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social
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I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com
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NEW: The DNC just passed a resolution condemning dark money donations - including those to AIPAC. A member of the DNC proposed a resolution condemning dark money through AIPAC, but the DNC panel rejected that and expanded it to include all dark money donations.
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Behold, the gift of John Roberts.

www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office-d7274d32
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social
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"This pattern raises serious concerns that certain market participants may have had access to material nonpublic information regarding a market-moving geopolitical event..."

www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5780569/betting-polymarket-iran-investigation-lawmakers
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Canada is also saying that Lebanon has to be included in any peace framework

This is huge

Because when Canada says it, it really means 100 other countries are saying it, but they don’t have the clout to say it and they need Canada to say it for them
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@sarahspain.com

bekahdayyy.substack.com/p/a-message-from-amanda-the-epstein
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
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BUTTIGIEG: The strait was open before they started this

KERNEN: They were close to having 11 nuclear weapons!

BUTTIGIEG: We had other ways of dealing with them

KERNEN: Like what? Obama's way?

BUTTIGIEG: That worked

KERNEN: That didn't work!

BUTTIGIEG: Did they get a nuclear weapon under Obama?
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#polisky share far and wide: @apsa.bsky.social Statement on the Proposed Elimination of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation

apsanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/FINAL-Dissolution-of-SBE.pdf
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social
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The Quiet Revival report was retracted after YouGov acknowledged problems with bogus survey respondents. In this NYT story, I comment on why the initial report got so much attention.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/britain-christian-revival-survey.html?searchResultPosition=1
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com
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Since the U.S. and Iran agreed to a temporary ceasefire on Tuesday night, Israel has continued to pummel Lebanon with air strikes, killing more than 300 people. What is the end game? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Dz2ZOo
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social
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Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu.

Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran?

Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.
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DONALD TRUMP: "Well, the war didn't go so great, but did you notice? Nobody is talking about Epstein anymore."

MELANIA TRUMP: "On it!"
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Kitty is helping 😹
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social
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Todd Blanche, Acting Attorney General and head of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), has opened an investigation into the NFL on whether or not they’re using “anticompetitive tactics that harm consumers.”

Because…priorities.

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Naturally.

@reuters.com 🇷🇺
www.reuters.com/business/energy/iran-war-doubles-russias-main-oil-revenue-9-bln-april-reuters-calculations-show-2026-04-09/
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Fortunately the global economy isn’t interconnected, so problems happening in — wait really? you sure? it’s awfully big — Asia will not make for any problems in North America.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social
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CBS News has a bombshell interview with a U.S. soldier who survived the deadly attack in Kuwait on the first day of the way -- he says Pete Hegseth is lying about the attack and that the base "was unprepared to provide any defense for itself." www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-war-kuwait-drone-attack-survivors-us-army/
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/pete-hegseth-military-diversity/686734/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8PSoJi6eIEuz1lFNlAWRUqM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social
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NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.

Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social
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this was a bad idea from people that are unbelievably high off their own supply
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World reacts to ‘brutal’ Israeli attacks on Lebanon amid US-Iran ceasefire aje.news/nocf03
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Middle East ceasefire in serious doubt as Israel assaults Lebanon and Iran blocks oil tankers

Inclusion of Lebanon is significant difference in interpretation of truce agreed at 11th hour on Tuesday

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/middle-east-ceasefire-doubt-israel-lebanon-iran-oil-tankers
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
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Hegseth: "God deserves all the glory. Tens of thousands of sorties, refuelings, and strikes, carried out under the protection of divine providence. A massive effort with miraculous protection."
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social
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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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