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Everyone must pass a Civics class before taking office. Also, I grow lots of plants, especially hoyas 🌿🪴

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
and it is still infinity times better to be the kind of person who loves monarch butterflies, and the mosaic tilework on an ancient mosque, and kids whose names you'll never know running around a field kicking a soccer ball, than the kind who views them with indifference, but it is also painful
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Apparently some are not familiar with the story: Croesus of Lydia asked the Oracle what would happen once he attacked Iran. Oracle predicted: "a great civilization will die". Of course it turned out that the one that died was Lydia, not Iran. Seems relevant...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization
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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/04/2026
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
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@TXCat61 @txcat61.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 11/03/2026
"If your kid was in the armed services and you watched Pete Hegseth doing his WAR! shtick, what would you think? If it was me, I’d be sick to my stomach seeing that my child’s life was in the hands of a man with low character and lower intelligence." www.thebulwark.com/p/everything...
thebulwark.com
Everything Trump Touches Dies: Oil Edition
Futures curves and Fed rate cuts.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Jennings is a moral monster who clearly has no center. I’m glad Kasky didn’t put up with it, but there’s really no point in going on this show or any show where you know he’ll be. He’s just a liar and, frankly, a bully and a bigot.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This archived Twitter thread from Feb 2020 feels especially relevant. Women move through the world knowing that you can name a field of endeavor—any field of endeavor—and a few of the Great Men in it, & you'll find rapists. And that we are required to make some kind of peace with that knowledge.
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Ann from Allen @aainatx.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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@schumer.senate.gov
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+1!
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Separation of Church & State protects everyone's right to however they want to practice (or not) their faith.
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment. Infrastructure for a police state.
npr.org
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
There are now 59,000 people in immigration detention. Almost half have no criminal record www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-rec...
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ICE holding a record 59,000 immigrant detainees, nearly half with no criminal record, internal data show
ICE is holding around 59,000 detainees in facilities across the country, likely setting a record high, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 03/05/2025
A growing number of GOP-led states are restricting student voting access, from banning campus polling places to making it harder to prove residency. Just last month, Indiana banned student IDs for voting. boltsmag.org/indiana...
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Indiana Republicans Are Banning Student IDs for Voting
The new restriction, paired with Indiana’s stringent voter ID rules, is poised to make it much harder for many young people to vote in a state that already ranks near-last in turnout.
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Ann from Allen @aainatx.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
@grantbrisbee.bsky.social please petition mlb for more activity over here on @bsky.app Like, we need an account for Position Players Pitching! (Cough, cough the Texas Rangers)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This guy, Dom Lucre, shared child sexual abuse material on Twitter, got banned for it, and then Musk reinstated him. Absolutely wild to see him being treated like a real journalist.
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/04/2025
Trump says he would like to be the Pope. The antichrist wants to be the Pope.
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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
i wrote this as a wacky illustration but i am still entirely unsurprised that this just literally happened
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon" theonion.com/woman-remind...
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Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
LOWELL, MA—Doing her best to follow her therapist’s advice for dealing with stressful situations, area woman Holly Debling reportedly reminded herself Tuesday not to catastrophize after she spotted fo...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“.. a tax increase for low-income families that is more than three times higher than what wealthier Americans would pay ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
All this shows is compliance with court orders, although I guess that's something.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 22/04/2025
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🤣🤣
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CyborgMaMa @cyborgmama.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thank you for including me!!
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I propose swapping the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador with the man mistakenly elected president of the United States
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 14/04/2025
Blue states should pass laws requiring that tariffs are itemized and clearly shown in purchase receipts, by the way. Let people know how much they’re paying extra thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Congress.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“I’m telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass." And that's what it's all about. Republicans, stop enabling this con man.
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Trump brags world leaders are ‘kissing my ass’ as tariff chaos rocks markets
President boasts at National Republican Congressional Committee dinner: ‘I know what I’m doing’
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2025
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This seems like a good idea. bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 07/04/2025
We're approaching the 120-year anniversary of Teddy Roosevelt saying we need to publicly finance elections in order to root out corruption.
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Ann from Allen @aainatx.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Where are the songs of the resistance? Please share. The music helps us get through the madness.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
/11 But why, exactly, should I accept the alliance of a country ruled by a faction that is very happy for my children to live under fascism if it makes their children freer to kill Palestinians?
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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Mademoiselle Purr is 7 years old and stuck at a Petsmart in New Jersey. Let’s get this lady home. Can you help? @jortsthecat.bsky.social @missybbbobtail.bsky.social @catsofyore.bsky.social @fishtopher.bsky.social ws.petango.com/webservices/...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers. First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts. Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
You wouldn't know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women's teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn't find that detail worth including
A news article headline reads, "White House Plans to Pause $175 Million for Penn Over Transgender Policy." The subheadline states that the decision is part of a broader effort to push universities to end diversity programming and adopt stricter discipline. Below the text is a photograph of a historic building on the University of Pennsylvania's campus, with a statue in the foreground and leafless trees framing the image. The article is authored by Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender, published on March 19, 2025.A news article continues discussing the Trump administration's decision to suspend $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania due to its policies regarding transgender athletes. The article references a White House social media account announcing the move, citing Penn's support of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as a justification. A response from Penn states that they have not received official notification and assert they are in compliance with all relevant regulations.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/03/2025
The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It is human trafficking.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/03/2025
Key word is “actual.” They want to eliminate due process for deportation and this is their test case. Kind of like how they wanna arrest protestors without due process, and fire government employees without due process, and indict people without due process, and seize assets without due process.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Mr. Vice President, I'm sure you don't mean to mislead anyone, but the hard data suggest that in fact you've inherited a stronger economy than any administration in your lifetime.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If this is really the Senate D plan, it's a joke. Come on, @schumer.senate.gov, this is too clever by half. The test is this: If you don't use your power to stop the Trump-Musk reign of lawbreaking and destruction, and instead facilitate it, you've failed. This plan could end up doing the latter.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The "decision to not run the column...underscores that the traditional freedom of columnists to select the topics they wish to address and say what they think has been dangerously eroded" - Ruth Marcus resignation email (and editorial cartoonists)
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