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Joe Williams @a19marvet.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
remembering www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Face... and honoring his dad, who also was a very special Marine (Raider).
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A lot of my content is about the horrors of Russia's war against Ukraine. This is the reality we live in. And yet, there is light, love, strength, hope even in these very dark times. I think this video captured the essence of this very well. 📹: marina_christina / Instagram
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Inkdreamer @inkdreamer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The war of my youth as well. Visiting the memorial in DC, walking in from the edge felt like stepping into dark water, rising over my head, taking my breath away. I was drowning in memory and grief.
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🦇 Batsy Cline 🦇 @batsyjcline.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Four family members died in Vietnam. One was there for a month, one 8 months, another just a few days. One KIA on the USS Frank Evans. All died for our country. None were suckers or losers. Frank J Madrid KIA in 1 mo Frank D Madrid KIA in 8 mo Andrew Pacheco KIA <1 mo Joe Gonzales KIA <2 mo
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Elaine @depink.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
My brother’s name is on the wall. He also was a proud Marine killed in action three weeks before his 19th birthday. Unimaginable to think a bunch of rich, privileged men in Congress watched American teenagers get slaughtered and still chose to do nothing to stop the war.
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Welp... I'm back in texas as of today. Pray for me. @texasmando.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Any time I went there, I got about 30 feet away and started crying. So much pain.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#MemorialDay The Vietnam War Memorial The war of my youth My brother's war who served as a proud marine When you visit the "wall" it takes your breath away Did you know there are 58,318 names on that wall Did you know 33,000 were just 18 years old The wall spans 500ft. 72 panels HONOR THEM !
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan decides that democracy is too much of a bother. He doesn't want to take the sort of risk his buddy Viktor Orbán did with contested elections. So it's time to outlaw Turkey's long-time governing party and arrest its leaders. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Turkish police storm opposition offices after leaders ousted
Officers forced their way into the building days after the party vowed to defy a court ruling removing its leaders.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
How many distractions later and we’re still waiting for Congress to do its damn job. Trump signed the bill. Release the files. It’s that easy. Click below to remind your Reps we aren’t going anywhere!
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Tell Congress: Demand Acting AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now
Contact Congress today!
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The public pressure campaign to block Trump’s slush fund is working! Their offices might be closed but their inboxes are wide open! Pile it on!
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Tell Congress: Block Trump's heist of taxpayer money for his felon-to-felon slush fund
Contact Congress today!
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Trump’s Justice Department just created a $1.8 BILLION taxpayer-funded slush fund…to pay off the Jan 6 rioters and his criminal allies. This is straight-up theft from your wallet. Congress can stop it — but they need to hear from us NOW.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Many of those who supported Trump’s unconstitutional war on Iran did so on the stated premise that he could get a better deal with the Iranian regime by using force as a negotiating tool. There was no good reason to believe Trump could accomplish this. This is the path Cruz and others endorsed.
Sen Ted Cruz complains about Trump’s Iran deal
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Over a decade of insisting that verifiably restricting Iran's nuclear program was terrible, because unilateral US force would achieve so much more. It hasn't. The JCPOA advocates were always right. Cruz, Graham, FDD, etc. bear responsibility for this disaster (but will likely never acknowledge it).
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The new Hungarian government under Péter Magyar expects to have a positive relationship with Israel. But that doesn't extend to Prime Minister Netanyahu, who will be arrested and delivered to the Hague to stand trial as a war criminal if he sets foot on Hungarian soil. www.jpost.com/internationa...
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Hungary to stay in ICC, warrants for Israeli officials still in place | The Jerusalem Post
This decision comes a month after Magyar stated that if Hungary remains an ICC member and a person wanted by the court enters its territory, “that person must be taken into custody.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Jacobs: The War Powers Resolution of 1973 is very clear. After 60 days, the president is required to withdraw troops from hostilities unless Congress acts. Congress has not acted, and yet it is day 73 and my constituents are still in the region.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/05/2026
🎉 Today is my birthday! 🥳 If you'd like to help me celebrate, here's a list of charities working to make the world better that could use some more support. 🫶 www.astrokatie.com/birthday
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Birthday 2026 — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST
Page listing charity donation sites for my birthday, May 1st
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The damage is IRREVERSIBLE Trump just destroyed an ancient etching believed to be 1,000 years old in Arizona's Cabeza National Wildlife Refuge The etching in the sand is known as an intaglio (carved) THEY KNEW IT WAS THERE THEY DIDN'T CARE May Karma Strike hard This could have been saved
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of people are in the streets in DC as part of the #MayDay day of action and solidarity. We refuse to cooperate with a regime that is killing people, ignoring the law, and destroying our rights.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
You're really terrible at this, JD. All of it. Everything. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
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Sarah Ironside 💙 @sarahironside.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I am not a perfect person, but at least I can wake up every day knowing I didn't vote for concentration camps and millions being stripped of health insurance and food assistance.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Kerry Kennedy @kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
(5/6) Yet the Trump administration still targeted him under false pretenses and sent him into torture for nearly four months. We cannot let these stories be forgotten. The secret agreement between the U.S. and El Salvador is still in place.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Led by Pete Hegseth, the Trump administration pushed to increase the ‘lethality’ of US war operations, a move that appears to have led directly to hundreds of unnecessary civilian deaths, including the bombing of a girls' school in Minab where 180, mostly young school girls, were killed.
independent.co.uk
Trump ditched plans to avoid civilian casualties before Iran strikes: report
The Trump administration has pushed to increase the ‘lethality’ of U.S. war operations, a move critics say will lead to more civilian deaths
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
And this is why our elected GOP leaders don't help ordinary Americans, they help their big donors.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is hideous and horrible, and the people pushing for it deserve to spend the rest of their lives in a cage.

Lewis Bollard
@Lewis_Bollard
Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates.

Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of pork from crated pigs — laws the conservative Supreme Court upheld in 2023.

Over 85% of Democrats and Republicans oppose these crates. Voters have backed ballot measures to ban them in state after state.

The pork industry knows it can't win a straight vote on this. So it's burying the provision in an 800-page bill and hoping no one notices.

Contact your senators and representative today and tell them: oppose the farm bill unless the Save Our Bacon Act is stripped out. You can reach them at http://senate.gov and http://house.gov — it takes two minutes and it matters.
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 09/03/2026
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
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Statement of Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, “A Call to Conscience” - Statements - Archdiocese of Chicago - AoC Portal
As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes fr...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Are you kidding me right now? Who knew bombing a country over a thousand times in the middle of negotiations, killing its leader, even a former president, somehow doesn’t count as an act of war? Is this guy drunk?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).
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Steve Postman 🇨🇦 @steve1970peng.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Eisenhower
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Something lovely in a rough day. baltimorebeat.com/young-baltim...
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Young Baltimore writers share their favorite literary spaces in the city
CHARM (Ryan Scott, 8th grader at ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School)  CHARM, the voice of Baltimore, the voice of youth When you’re there, tasks feel complete, like the stars in the night. Work...
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/02/2026
Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a 56-year-old blind Muslim refugee who survived genocide, only to die at the hands of the US Govt during the holy month of Ramadan As an American Muslim lawyer who supports Rohingya refugees, I cannot tell you how much this devastates me😓 www.qasimrashid.com/p/dhs-left-a...
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DHS Left a Blind Man and Refugee to Die in the Cold
Another reminder we must abolish ICE and end DHS in its current form
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Joe Williams @a19marvet.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
’Going in their honor’: Vietnam vets to visit key battle sites for first time since war’s end Read more at: www.stripes.com/veterans/202... Source - Stars and Stripes
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‘Going in their honor’: Vietnam vets to visit key battle sites for first time since war’s end
Veterans returning to Vietnam to tour battle sites in Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue and Ho Chi Minh City.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/02/2026
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/02/2026
My adolescence can be precisely described by the fact that I learned to touch-type by hanging out in a busy X-Files chat room on CompuServe where I had to break typing speed records to get my deep and insightful comments in before the conversation moved on
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A U.S. Marine who fell overboard into the Caribbean Sea while deployed on the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima was declared dead last week after a three-day search, according to the Marine Corps. www.stripes.com/branches/mar...
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Marine declared dead after falling off USS Iwo Jima in Caribbean Sea
A Marine who fell overboard into the Caribbean Sea while deployed on the USS Iwo Jima was declared dead after a three-day search.
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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How the military criminalized blackness in Vietnam: my essay on an eye-opening new history of the war. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/b...
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How Vietnam Inflamed the Civil Rights Movement
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
“My 15 mins of fame. Lmao.” -- Border Patrol agent, texting someone to brag about shooting a woman multiple times in Chicago. Imagine almost killing someone and then responding with a "laugh my ass off" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different.
"It’s time to get aggressive," a Border Patrol agent said shortly before Marimar Martinez was shot five times.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 06/02/2026
Russia has killed over 650 Ukrainian athletes and destroyed at least 15 Olympic training bases. 🧵 1/12 ⬇️
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
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