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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 08/06/2026
The Middle East peace process has reached the “dad yelling at kids from another room” phase.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Most damning part of this @nytimes.com interview with Scott Pelley is at the very end. Where he says that the real problem with Bari Weiss was not her political toadying. It was her ignorance, inexperience, and dumbfounding incompetence.. Check it out: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'd like to propose that we drain all of Sam Altman's blood and then offer to sell it back to him at cost.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Trump administration has slashed housing accommodations for service animals. This will likely evict thousands of Americans, including veterans with PTSD.
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
FUNNY *cof cof* HOW THAT ALWAYS WORKS
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Ray Pride @raypride.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Upon meeting Bobby, are MAHA maniacs expected to present him with modest vitrines of fermented vermin genitalia
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
And the final point to drive it home: if you look at those old projections where we always knew spending was gonna go up, our current projections have spending WAY lower. Still going up, but lower. So literally ALL the worsening of the fiscal outlook comes from tax cuts. We have a revenue problem.
Can't do a better job explaining than the text of the posts themselves
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 20/05/2026
Soft power is out in President Donald Trump’s second term. And so is USAID, which provided food aid and emergency relief to countries around the world. What that means for people who relied on USAID to get by on this week’s “More To The Story.”
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Trump destroyed USAID. Now people are dying.
ProPublica’s Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester examine how America’s foreign aid cuts are threatening the survival of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Messaging advice: Link Trump’s crimes and failed policies to Republicans over-all. The party is a cult of personality, but Trump’s not on the midterms ballot, and a lot of Republicans are likely to cosplay as moderates in the coming months. Don't let them temporarily disassociate from Trump.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“Trump’s claim that he would “drain the swamp” is a cosmic joke. His administration is an ongoing shakedown of the American people.” www.thebulwark.com/p/how-corrup...
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How Corrupt Is Trump? Here Are the Numbers.
He’s the swampiest swamp creature ever.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
A…stunning campaign launch. "My dad got cancer & my mom's employer collapsed. The executives got paid & the workers got screwed. She didn't have the heart to tell us, even when the bank took the house…when she took her own life, the eviction notice was in her pocket." @ahlmanfornebraska.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/05/2026
New in PN: The assault on higher ed goes deeper than you think "This is bigger than budget cuts. It’s not just a continuation of things like longtime GOP efforts to cut Pell Grants. It’s a wide-ranging assault designed to drastically limit access to higher ed for all but the rich & well-connected."
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The assault on higher ed goes deeper than you think
The regime is quietly working to create a permanent underclass.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/12/2025
the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 12/05/2026
Ten years ago today
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
If you're outraged by the Alabama House Speaker's call for overturning the Fourteenth Amendment and want to know more, give Kyle a follow.
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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"Ten Days when the Republicans and Their Lackeys in the Courts Destroyed What Was Left of American Democracy and We Refused Describe It Accurately Because We are So Afraid of Them" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/u...
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10 Days That Shook the House Map and Democratic Confidence
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/05/2026
Pete Buttigieg took a brief leave when his son was in the ICU and Republicans still attack him for it to this day. But Duffy goes on an extended vacation to shoot a reality show while there are all sorts of pressing problems with air travel and Fox News thinks it's awesome. Beyond parody.
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Sarah Fitzpatrick @sfitz787.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The FBI Director’s Unusual Calling Card
“Ka$h Patel” bourbon is his newest innovation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026
The average household supporting an SSI recipient on SNAP earns just $17,000 a year. This isn't a war on fraud. It’s a war on families who are trying to take care of their own.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026
Fewer than one in three SSI applicants ever gets approved, and those who do have spent years navigating medical evaluations, vocational assessments, and hearings before a federal judge.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026
The Trump Administration claims its goal is to root out fraud, but there is no fraud to address here. SSI recipients are among the most thoroughly vetted benefit recipients in the federal government.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026
Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026
This is a cruel betrayal of the values our nation stands for. They are coming for SSI, and they are hoping you aren’t paying attention.
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The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...
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Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Never have 4 people more wished they were still in the deepest, darkest recesses of outer space.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
For more info: www.science.org/content/arti...
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Guns and bulletproof vests: How federal agents arrested Fauci aide
David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This travesty demands a congressional inquiry and the ouster of Kash Patel. His willingness to pervert justice in the name of loyalty to one man and his sheer, mind-boggling incompetence are serious threats to American freedom and democracy.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 29/04/2026
The Florida House just passed this racist, gerrymandered map. A Democratic State Rep in Florida spoke up to stop this unconstitutional vote. Rep. Angie Nixon is running for U.S. Senate. She is the kind of fighter we need. Donate to her campaign: secure.actblue.com/donate/anapril
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2026
Powell: "My concern is about the series of legal attacks on the Fed, which threaten our ability to conduct monetary policy without considering political factors. These legal actions by the administration are unprecedented and there are ongoing threats of additional ones."
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
And to be clear, in case it’s not, democracy cannot and will not exist without these protections. We already see a South so heavily gerrymandered that numerical majorities cannot win elections and where a minority holds supermajorities in state legislatures.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/04/2026
New in PN: The demise of Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Trump's clown cabinet "Sean O’Brien and every Dem who supported Chavez-DeRemer look like fools. Those who agree to work for Trump are, by definition, unqualified & evil. There are no exceptions, &, by this point, no excuse for pretending otherwise."
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The demise of Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Trump's clown cabinet
Her brief, ignominious tenure is illustrative of deep dysfunction.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This is wildest shit I've seen.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Did Russell Brand find that Bible verse yet?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
“A warm wet hole”😕 Yikes —Melissa Isaak, who Trump just hired to be an immigration judge👇🏽 She previously defended 1/6 insurrectionists & Roy Moore 😳
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
fyi this is the kimmel comedy routine MELANIA DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE. definitely do not like and share it or else the MOST UNPOPULAR FIRST LADY IN HISTORY will be mad. youtu.be/GRjKhsJc95o
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Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Trump & His MAGA Minions at Our Alternative White House Correspondents’ Dinner
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Resist the World’s Oligarchy @greyghost65.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
What a disgusting disgrace for a President. 🖕🍊🌮💩 ✊🔥✊
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Trump says that he did not fall down while being evacuated from the WHCD. He says he was asked to get closer to the ground by agents. Lol. 😂 courtesy @acyn.bsky.social
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
You might not remember this because it received near zero coverage
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
An Israeli air strike in Gaza killed Maryam Abu Daqqa, who left behind an 11-year-old son. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Independent Arabia journalist among 20 killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital
Witnesses have told The Independent five journalists and multiple medics were killed in a double strike as they rushed to attend to and document the wounded
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/04/2026
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people - and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/04/2026
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Oh look, someone finally noticed Elon’s feed is a geyser of racist fearmongering. This is who we’re letting poison Memphis and drill a hole in Nashville? P.S. @washingtonpost.com — They aren’t “near-daily” posts, it is all day every day. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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