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Rick @a-trout-stream.bsky.social · 7m
She is smiling the whole time
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 1h
Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize. Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.
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Glenn D Stockard @gdstockard.bsky.social · 7h
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Glenn D Stockard @gdstockard.bsky.social · 6h
She should be in an adjacent cell!
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 7h
We are watching in slow motion the things that happen before ethnic cleansing happens. People get that, right?
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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 9h
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Rick @a-trout-stream.bsky.social · 29m
Since 9/11, we have become more and more like our enemies.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 15h
The pattern is simple and it is everywhere now: donate to Trump or do business with his family, and the rules stop applying to you. Skip the donation, and the rules suddenly apply with a vengeance. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 1h
Release the Epstein Files. #JusticeForTrumpsVictims #EpsteinFiles #EPSTEINS4EVER #Pedophile47 #TrumpIsADictator #TrumpIsCorrupt #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles #EpsteinDidntCommitSuicide #EpsteinTrumpPedoFiles 🖕🖕🖕🖕
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
Endlessly corrupt. He does nothing that doesn’t benefit him personally. Ever.
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Trump purchased up to $5 million of SpaceX bonds days before major space order | CNN Business
Right before launching an effort to slash red tape for commercial space transportation, Trump last month purchased up to $5 million of bonds issued by SpaceX.
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Rick @a-trout-stream.bsky.social · 12h
I think I will send mine to the Democracy Docket that is fighting Trump in numerous court cases. www.democracydocket.com
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Democracy Docket
Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 14h
Surprisingly my wife and I each received a $90 Medicare rebate deposit this morning Wow, what should we do with our $90 bribe from Donald Trump? For those that can afford it we should donate $90 to a Democratic candidate of your choice. My wife and I will send ours to Talarico #USDemocracy #PB
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 17h
Trump accounts bought bonds tied to a Georgia coal plant. 57 days later,he exempted it from stricter pollution rules. His money is tied to a plant he can let pollute more. Families shouldn’t have to wonder whether their lungs lost to his wallet. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 15h
#CostOfTrumpsCorruption Here we have Part of the Donald J Trump Pledge of Allegiance
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Brad Reed @bwreed.bsky.social · 14h
The president of the United States is inciting a fucking pogrom.
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John Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“And by freedom I mean all the money I stole”
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.
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MayhemMel! @melindameyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n... If the middle class on down is to thrive, Universal Healthcare isn't just an option it's a necessity. We can no longer afford for profit insurance. They're literally killing us.
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'Medicare for All' message attracts midterm voters buckling under medical bills
Midterm candidates are talking up Medicare for All, and in a poll 2 out of 3 Americans said they support it. The phrase speaks to a desire for radical change, though many don't really know what it is.
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Lavonne @loveon9.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Grandmother Tree, a cottonwood. Lochiel, AZ, border wall. bsky.app/profile/fift...
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TriciaE @triciae80.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We have a lunatic in the White House! And what he said was not a joke and it was not funny. That’s not how a real president behaves. Of course he is not a real president. He is a DANGEROUS, demented lunatic!!
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shame in the family!!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s not a political party or a presidential administration. It’s just a giant bucket of dodgy schemes by morally reprehensible people.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When he’s never held accountable, THIS happens. I can’t wait for him to learn that isn’t true. (Also—doesn’t it sound like something a spoiled little kid would say? Like, literally?)
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CNN @cnn.com · 07/10/2026
Barack Obama is set to hit the campaign trail for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed later this month, years after El-Sayed criticized Obama’s presidency at times as a failure, saying it left the country no “better off.”
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Abdul El-Sayed's Obama criticism resurfaced ahead of campaign rally | CNN Politics
Former President Barack Obama is set to hit the campaign trail for Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed later this month, years after El-Sayed criticized Obama's presidency at times as a failure, saying it left the country no “better off.”
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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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey look, more blatant corruption. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
In Arizona, a Democratic congressional candidate, Bernadette Greene-Placentia, says she was raped while trying to repair campaign signs this summer.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Either there’s rule of law or there’s not. Either we are defined by a system of justice that holds the guilty accountable or we aren’t. Either we have a democracy that limits abuse to define our public life and the rights of citizens or we have a country collapsing into strongman authoritarianism.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
🎥 NEW: ICE never wanted you to see the internal documents it released last week. Why? It went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents to target nonprofits for registering voters. Marc Elias explains how deeply ICE has become involved in elections under Trump's second term👇
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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump is a disgrace to the office and to humanity. He has ZERO respect for the military. He is grossly incompetent and unqualified to be our commander in chief. What an embarrassment. That lying, treasonous, corrupt, racist, pedophile deserves the 25th, but the REPUBLICANS are spineless cowards.
San Diego has one of the largest concentrations of US Navy and Marines Corps forces in the world and serves as a hub for the US Pacific Fleet. 

San Diego County is home to over 110,000 active duty military members and roughly 60,000 military children. 

It's home to more than 200,000 veterans and retirees.

"Let them take out San Diego. This is a small price to pay." ~ Donald J Trump
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can you say the SAME?! 🤚
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These two lawsuits brought by Renee Nicole Good’s family are exceptionally well-written and legally compelling. Well worth the read, I promise. I break down both complaints in this episode: youtu.be/2kU7_-Yt-Ig?...
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Trump HIT With TWO NEW LAWSUITS Over DEADLY ICE SHOOTING!!
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Mr. Elias @theeliasrework.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Republicans know that Jared Kushner's investment firm is the largest shareholder in an Israeli financial company with at least $456 million invested in 9 firms supplying Israel's military. Every Republican must be voted out .
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Christine Kinser @ckinser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🆘THEY’RE GOING 2 KILL MALACHI Hurry! A shy, friendly family 🐕‍🦺 for 7 years, lived w/kids. They said, “He is always happy&curious, If u show him that u are happy, he can feel it, he takes that energy&shows it right back.” An empathic pup He’s scared there. He can feel the bad energy🤬 🙏Repost
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/10/2026
"Trump’s second term has been a protracted demolition of his image as a populist every bit as thorough as the destruction of the East Wing." ICYMI Mona Charen:
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Trump’s Populist Image Is Dead
That’s the price of corruption.
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Zoli Aswad Osaze @zaswadosaze.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
thedemocraticcoalition Great question.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There it is! 🎯
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 03/10/2026
It's actively insanity inducing to be a survivor and a feminist right now because in the face of the sheer ubiquity of sexual assault and the lack of consequences for it, we're all being besieged by demands that we think of the rapist men, forgive the rapist men, cleanse the souls of the rapist men
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Protestor holds up sign as Trump’s motorcade passes on its way to the rally in Mobile, Alabama earlier this evening Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty
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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#5EyesVsDarkEyes
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026
ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 02/10/2026
Lara Trump said the president “really hates the way that things have gone with Iran.”
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Even Trump’s Daughter-In-Law Thinks The Iran War Could Cost Him The Midterms
Lara Trump said the president “really hates the way that things have gone with Iran.”
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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ga36542.bsky.social @ga36542.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
😳😂😂😂😂 old grandpa is demented!
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Andy Paterson @agpat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why the KKK has not been outlawed, is anybody's guess, money and power is at its core. Why PHON has not been outlawed, is anybody's guess, money and power is at its core. Both are white supremist, racist hate groups that blame immigrants for the lack of community & infrastructure developments.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family sues US government over her killing in Minneapolis
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Renee Good's family sues US government over her killing in Minneapolis
The 37-year-old woman was killed by an immigration official during a federal crackdown in Minneapolis in January.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congresswoman @replamonica.bsky.social just gave birth to her second child, a baby girl. The weaponized Trump DOJ is prosecuting her for simply doing her oversight job. She has been threatened with 17 years in federal prison. people.com/rep-lamonica...
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Rep. LaMonica McIver Gives Birth as Trump’s Justice Department Threatens Her With 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Incident
Rep. LaMonica McIver gave birth to her second child, a baby girl, on Oct. 1, her office said in a statement. She currently faces prosecution by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department for allegati...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
DOOCY: If Paxton is telling people the convention hurt his poll numbers, why go to Texas? TRUMP: Welll, I'll tell you why. We have to win this election. That convention was a tremendous success. We beat the NFL by four times.
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