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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If the American people don’t overwhelmingly reject and repudiate what is happening with this govt, Republican Congress, and Supreme Court this November, then this Republic is doomed. We can survive a criminal regime for a short term, but we can’t survive an ignorant populace.

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Wrong 80 year old 😔 Miss Dolly Parton 🫶🏽

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Why would our collective tax dollars go for this? Hire professionally trained local law enforcement officers who abide by local laws vs fear and intimidation instead. ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests | AP www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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ICE pitches legal insurance to help shield local officers who make immigration arrests

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty miscon...

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Ari Melber to Peter Navarro ('Green Bay Sweep' scheme) "Do you realize you are describing a Coup?" 1-4-22 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPDS...

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

After Trump's lawyer Alejandro Brito fell on his ass, the DOJ is trying to ride to his rescue in the defamation trollsuit against the BBC lawandchaospod.substack.com/p/trump-bit-...

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Trump Bit Off More Than He Could Chew Suing BBC, So DOJ Will Chew It For Him

Discovery's a bitch, man.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In 2020, Trump lied before the election, lied after the election and -- when he lost in court -- incited a violent insurrection at the Capitol. Right now, he is lying and losing in court ahead of 2026. He is going to escalate and we need to be ready.

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The networks should not air Trump’s planned speech on his election lies to the nation tonight. He has never proven any of his nutty conspiracy theories about our elections. Trump lost the 2020 election. That is the truth and always will be. Don’t give in to the lies.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Notes on love of country from decades of reporting on presidents and aspiring presidents. Patriots all, until now. I included a bunch of examples from both parties in this 2022 column. I think you'll agree that we know it when we see it, and also when we don't. 1/2 www.yahoo.com/news/trump-n...

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Trump has never been patriotic or defensible. It shouldn't take a coup to figure that out.

Why did it take a deadly Capitol rampage for Cassidy Hutchinson and Sarah Matthews to break with Trump? Why do so many Republicans still support him?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Hard to believe this is from a guy who inherited $413 million from his father only to declare bankruptcy 6 times before convincing an NBC producer to bail him out by creating a fictional show that he was a successful businessman.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Platner, Hunter, Paxton, Hegseth. Really thoughtful, layered political/legal analysis of flaws, power, and a complicated moment, from @nycjayjay.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

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Rupture and Repair: When Problematic Figures Ask For Our Support

Hunter Biden and Graham Platner are asking us to reckon with who they were. Pete Hegseth and Ken Paxton are asking us to look past it.

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KevinReilly.bsky.social @kevinreilly.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy 82nd D-Day Anniversary to ANTIFA! The fight is not over! #DDay #Normandy

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“Assuming courts will save us absolves our political leaders of both responsibility and accountability for allowing this kind of mischief to continue, and it absolves all of us of our responsibility to refuse to tolerate those who would just as quickly shrug their shoulders and move on.” My latest:

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Bonus 228: The $1.776B Political Question

President Trump's $1.776B "Anti-Weaponization" slush fund underscores the limits of judicial remedies—and the need to reinvigorate (even doomed) political ones.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Trump one month before the 2024 election: “Think of it - within one year you’re gonna have electric bills and energy bills and gasoline for your cars is going to be 50% cheaper than it is right now. That’s a big thing.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is far from the most important thing about this story. But I see how hard our reporters work, and how heavy some of these stories weigh on them (because they come at this as humans first, reporters second), and it ticks me off when big national pubs can't even be bothered to acknowledge them.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Um, wow.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Reminder that analysts thought there was a deal to be struck with North Korea in 2017-2018, not to denuclearize (they won't), but to count/verify nukes, stabilize situation. Trump didn't order any diplomatic work for that and instead did a photo op with Kim. His diplomacy and his deals are fake.

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“All gas, no brakes.” Most of the worst gerrymandering is not even in Democratic states—but this is getting out of hand. Texas districts stretch 300 miles. Democrats are at least putting it to voters in California and Virginia.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This was a question I asked Pablo to ask Reps today. You got to listen to her answer because the caption doesn’t do it full justice. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We’ve had presidents who didn’t understand economics, foreign policy, diplomacy, and lacked knowledge of historical lessons. But they were advised by people who did and listened to them. Now we have a president who doesn’t understand anything and won’t listen to people who do.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves.
Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone.
That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.
If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after.
Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Analysis | With Stephen Miller running America's domestic policy, Benjamin Netanyahu running its foreign policy, and Donald Trump heading up interior decorating and bribe-taking, the executive branch has tripled its efficiency.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Can't believe this would happen with tech built by indiscriminately vacuuming up all of the Internet, running a billion Plinko simulations, then training by sociopaths who can't even understand culture much less appreciate humanity.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

@eisendrath.net: "Roberts intervened to give Trump extra constitutional powers for nearly a year. Lower courts were...consistent and clear. Yet Roberts took up the case, then refused to stay the tariffs pending a decision that was never in doubt." edwineisendrath.substack.com/p/congratula...

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Congratulation Mr. Roberts, you've made a mess of American law

John Roberts humiliates our Constitution when he offers a president a year-long you-don’t-need-to-obey-the constitution card before telling us the obvious about Trump’s tariffs

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Johnny Carson once said the fastest measurable unit of time is that which elapses between when a light turns green in NY and someone honks their horn. But the speed with which Trump's name will be torn off his monuments to himself when he's gone will be greater. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls, Mr. President

Trump's mania to erect monuments to himself will soon, quickly (and gloriously) be undone

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/02/2026

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

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Identified: the El Paso BORTAC crew rampaging through the Midwest

One violent duo in particular, U.S. Border Patrol agents Michael Sveum (EZ-2) and Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17), have been frequently seen alongside former commander-at-large Greg Bovino terrorizing crowds wi...

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The only reason Homan replaced Bovino as the face of the occupation is because his lies are more polished and he doesn’t dress like a member of the Third Reich in public. But the policies and the state instigated violence remain unchanged.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Since this lawless Trump Regime refuses to hold their people accountable for crimes, this will happen again & again & again. Nobody will be prosecuted. Nobody will be fired. And Trump will pardon more wealthy fraudsters and drug dealers who pay $1 million to his PAC. Had enough?

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

@andrewsullivan.bsky.social: "For this draft-dodging pig to erase the sacrifice of 1,160 men and women from America’s allies in the post-9/11 war on terror is a disgrace. And for what? NATO is all but destroyed for just the momentary, sick pleasure of mockery." open.substack.com/pub/andrewsu...

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The Abyss

We're through the looking glass. Who we once were — what we once were — is over.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Spotted:

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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The "poverty penalty." Excellent points.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “in 24 hours” with “one phone call” to Putin because he has “a great relationship” with him, “knows just what to say to him,” & “it won’t even be that hard.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

If Trump claims he wants Republicans to vote to release the files now because he has nothing to hide, why doesn’t he just release the files today? Why did he order his AG many months ago not to release them? Why did he threaten Rs who signed the petition?

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The silence of congressional Republicans to all the Trump corruption - from his disgusting pardons, to the UAE crypto money, to the Qatari jet, and the ballroom, should be used against all of them in midterms along with their silence on tariffs which has made things unaffordable.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I am 64 years old and FOR MOST OF MY LIFE two things were true: - fascists were trying to take over the USA - we were beating them Those creeps are beatable. We beat them for decades. In the 30s they tried a form of MAGA and US beat them. The 50s? McCarthy purges. US beat them. Do. Not. Doom.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

T/L cleanser: listen to some legends predict the future bsky.app/profile/wuta...

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Laurie🇺🇸🦅~ 1,219,487 dead Americans bec of Drumpf @loccconsulting.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Geez, MAGA sure have difficulty with truth-tellers, don’t they.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

The fact that the Trump admin first reaction to people peacefully exercising their rights is to launch federal investigations against citizens to intimidate them is exactly why we were out there.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America? That’s really what you are going with? That we hate the United States of America? Fuck you.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet. MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Why are your healthcare costs higher? Why is your electricity bill tripled? Why is everything you buy so much more expensive? Why are your neighbors gone? Why can’t your mom get a cancer treatment? Republicans.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

More Democrats should be talking like this — confident they'll win the House next year at the very least, and already planning the reckonings ahead for "the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals."

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