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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15h
Absolutely 👇 This.......
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h
The Trump administration broke federal law by withholding more than $78 million Congress had approved for healthcare research, according to a Government Accountability Office report. The watchdog found that HHS violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't think we'll ever be done with the "I fucking told you so's." The Food Research & Action Center reported that these changes would weaken safety nets and worsen food insecurity for low-income families: frac.org/blog/project...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become ambassador to Greece when she asked a donor for $100K to pay AmEx, in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail. “It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to AmEx.” Gift link. 👇 www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16h
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Defend Democracy @finalreckoning.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/10/2026
NEW: A 26-year-old man has become the de facto advocate of last resort for families who are homeless in Arizona’s most populous county. As ProPublica’s @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social reports, it’s a scene that’s “both heartening and disconcerting.”
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Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.
Austin Davis, 26, has become a lifeline for some homeless families in the Phoenix area who’d otherwise wait months for shelter. His work has highlighted how the system to care for local families who a...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TRUTH 👇........
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A BFD. As people get ready to fill their heating oil tanks for the winter, they learn it will cost 80% more than last year. Your early Christmas Gift from Trump and the Republican Party is that your Christmas present budget will now go to their friends in the oil business.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can just one reporter please ask Trump to name the “eight wars” that he settled? 🤨
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Grateful to join Senator Murray’s Public Health for America Working Group The work ahead is vital: restoring trust, strengthening the institutions that protect us, and reaffirming a simple idea—that public health is a shared promise we make to one another @murray.senate.gov
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A Public Health-Minded Senator Asks: What Comes After Trump and Kennedy?
Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pay teachers a fair wage. Pay paraprofessionals who help support our kids a fair wage. Make sure our schools are safe, clean, warm, and dry.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul @ilattygeneral.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's no reason for the Trump administration to take away protections set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Fuel efficiency standards would be weakened and gas prices would go up.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Over a dozen states have important voter registration deadlines today. Check your registration and make a plan to vote at IWillVote.com. Then ask friends and neighbors to do the same.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is now a standard part of Trump's campaign stump, a direct threat to voters: if you elect Democrats, I won't send you FEMA money, and I may take away your Medicare and Medicaid, too. These transcripts will be useful for litigation to follow.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's what I'm talking about. Dave Grohl recognized Jack Smith as a hero. 🔥
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Absofreakinlutely They Should......
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 04/10/2026
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent and branded a “domestic terrorist” by DHS — all for just warning her neighbors and speaking her truth during Operation Midway Blitz. She deserves true justice and accountability from the federal government.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed. Do not forget this.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026
When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 04/10/2026
This calls for shifting away from Trump, the insufferable person, and focusing on Trump-World’s devastating attack on the welfare state, neofascist battle against civil liberties, cultural parochialism, and xenophobic-imperialist foreign policy.
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Can America Recover From Trump-World?
For a forest to recover from a fire takes more than planting a few new trees. Rolling back what amounts to a domestic counterrevolution is a daunting task, and it is easy to be misled.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you want to see a witch hunt, watch Sen. Erik Schmitt attack Jack Smith. Schmitt makes false accusations, suggests being in Atlanta proves conspiracy, and when it becomes clear Smith was not in Atlanta at all, persists in name-calling. And no, he has no shame. www.nbcnews.com/video/republ...
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‘A total dirtbag’: GOP senator mistakenly accuses Smith of perjury over NBA game
Former special counsel Jack Smith’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing became tense after Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., presented a text message to Smith that he suggested showed he was in Atlanta for a b...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
Arlington Cemetery is hallowed ground. A final resting place for our fallen heroes who were brave enough to serve. How dare this five-time draft dodger dishonor them by trying to erect a monument to his own vanity? Veterans will not let him get away with it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A win! A D.C. Superior Court judge has permanently barred Jeanine Pirro’s office from prosecuting a former Olympic canoeist over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Reflecting Pool
A judge in Washington has agreed to permanently dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 01/10/2026
COMMENTARY: The ACLU of West Virginia announced a lawsuit last week over the unconstitutional underfunding of public schools. I’m not exaggerating when I say this may be the most important case we have filed in my 10 years with this organization, writes Eli Baumwell of ACLU-WV.
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The promise of a free education is fundamental to our democracy
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