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Andrew Tressler

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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Momentum doesn't knock on doors. It doesn't turn out voters. It doesn't drive people to the polls. We've still got to do the work if we want to take advantage of this Blue Wave in 22 days.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Don’t believe a poll that has Democrats ahead any more than you believe a poll that has us behind. 26 days until Election Day. Run through the tape.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Seems bad.
"Onion person" saying on Twitter "there is no innocent Israeli"
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
there is a deep moral and social rot in rural and red state america and people pointing it out are not the cause of it
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"People like Trump because he has contempt for them, not in spite of it, because they do not respect themselves" is a basically underrated element of the entire Trump age
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 03/08/2026
which Democrats. which Democrats "want to cave on this issue". name names. "what issue JC" ANY OF THEM. all of them. if you're naming and shaming Dems who *are* being shit in some capacity that's a mitzvah, and if you can't then you're lying for Republicans' benefit
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
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Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Some white guy in San Francisco complains that the Democratic Party does fundraising and a chunk of this site claps like trained circus seals. You fucking tea sippers wanted your candidates to refuse PAC money then got mad when those candidates needed money to run a campaign.
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Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
ALT: Succession Logan Roy: You Are Not Serious People
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Every liberal I know hates Trump more than they’ve ever hated anyone, and we have not failed to notice that leftists as a group hate us a lot more than they hate him.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
THIS is the photo that perfectly encapsulates America on its 250th. It's this. Should be on every front page tomorrow. And future time capsules
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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
what the fuck did yall think she meant
one of Hillary Clinton's warning tweets prior to the 2016 election which many many many many people mocked and/or ignored. she was right.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
At a certain point everyone needs to come to grips with the fact that the reason voters around the globe are electing the parties they are is because many of them are atavistic racist morons and not because [random policy you prefer] wasn’t enacted
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 16/06/2026
ppl are engaging with a fantasy version of platner that's just kind of a scruffy chode instead of a dem-hating nazi who's voted Republican his entire life this was a response that was embarrassing but, like, legible, to Fetterman (who at his worst was never remotely as bad as Platner, also)
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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So now absolutely nothing matters but beating the GOP. You couldn’t ride with this logic in 2024 but now that it’s a straight White man with a Nazi tattoo and troubling allegations it’s eyes on the prize. Fuck y’all racist piece of shit hypocrites for real.
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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Some in the Democratic chattering class will forgive a lot of things. The one unforgivable offense? Being old. Not bigoted opinions . Not bad judgment. Not moral failures. Just having too many birthdays. I am a forgiving person… but damn!
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Democrats @democrats.org · 02/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights.
A graphic with black text on a light blue to pink gradient that reads: "Trans rights are human rights." At the bottom is a white donkey symbol.
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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 30/05/2026
The fact is that the most correct observation anyone can make about US politics over the previous decade is that voting for Hillary Clinton would have fixed literally everything you’re currently suffering from, and you only think this isn’t the case because of misogyny
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Illyana - American Zionist 🟦 @rasputina.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
But if all you do is attack the Democratic Party while Black leaders are being targeted, Black voting rights are being dismantled, Black political power is under assault, and HBCUs are under attack, then don’t expect me to treat you any differently than I treat Trump and his MAGA acolytes.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/04/2026
I'm increasingly coming around to the idea that the answer to the question, "How can you run a reasonably successful democracy in the face of an artificially empowered psychotic reactionary minority?" is: you can't.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Virginia state govt losing most of its electoral support and getting six months of bad press and constant attacks in order to scrape out four new districts while Florida does it overnight with no discussion or controversy is going to be the story of the next few years of post-VRA gerrymandering.
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waxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
instead of talking about what the dems should say just be a dem and say it
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 07/04/2026
After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:
Donald Trump is completely unhinged. His statement threatening to eradicate an entire civilization shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response. The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III.

For years, Republicans have enabled and excused Donald Trump’s deeply dangerous and extreme behavior. Enough is enough. Our brave men and women in uniform have been put into harm’s way in the Middle East. Over a dozen have already been killed and hundreds injured. Gas prices are skyrocketing, the cost of living in America is out of control and billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a reckless war of choice.

It’s time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 06/04/2026
There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 05/03/2026
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Hey remember when Proton’s CEO said Republicans are better than Democrats when it comes to regulating Big Tech and standing for “the little guys”?
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hillary Clinton just posted her opening statement to the Comer Committee which she is testifying before today. It's part of the Save Donald from Epstein Investigation. The committee has essentially taken over the town of Chappaqua for the purpose. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/02/2026
"People have to give birth in their homes in secret, because if they were to go to a hospital to have their baby, masked agents of the state would abduct them....This is lived reality right now. This is the country you live in." JVL and Tim Miller on what they saw in Minneapolis.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
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‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico
A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"Haunted" #IceOut #IceOutComics
A comic in black/white/blue.
Lucy rolls her bike through an alley, by a crew building a fence.
Narration: My neighbors hired a crew to rebuild their fence.
Crew member: "Do you need us to move our stuff out of the way?"
Lucy: "Oh! No, you're all good, thanks!"
Lucy: "Have a good one!"
Crew member: "You, too!"Narration: I was teaching when my phone started lighting up with alerts from the rapid response network and neighbor chat.
Lucy's back is to us as she shows a group of enthusiastic children something on a notebook. Behind her, her phone in her bag is buzzing.

Narration: By the time the lesson was over, they were already gone.
Lucy is reading messages on her phone.
Messages: 
Alert: black SUV
Sighting: be on alert for...
Confirmed abductionL alley between ----- and ----. SUV plates...
We tried to get them inside, but it was too...
...Contacting an I.R. lawyer. Heading to Broadview later today.Lucy is riding her bike home.
Narration: On the ride home, I kept thinking "If I'd been there, could I have warned them? Would my ICIRR* training have helped?"
*Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Get trained and know your rights at ICIRR.org.

Narration: I'd taken the training after Halloween, when the violent ICE raids had locked down our schools and driven our neighbors indoors.

(Image of a halloween bucket in the shape of a jack-o-lantern)

Narration: Halloween is fun here-- The community filling the streets and opening our doors to one another. But this year's was tense, frightened and subdued. Haunted.
Lucy is standing in the alley, staring at the newly built fence.
Narration: When I got home, it was all done. The other two guys who had gotten inside in time stayed and finished the build.

The new fence is superimposed with the brief exchange from earlier in the comic ("Have a good one" You, too")
Narration: I see it every day and think about how those guys built this in the spot where strangers in masks took their friend.

Narration: How many other places in our communities are similarly haunted?
(Drawings of sidewalks, buildings, streets and windows)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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Gary Whitta @garywhitta.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 24/01/2026
These monsters are sick.
A graphic comparing two quotes:

"Fuckin' bitch."
ICE agent after Renee Good was shot and killed two weeks ago.

"Boo hoo."
Federal agent after a man was shot and killed today.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is why we have patrols and watches and rapid response. Because cars that look like this, full of men who look like this, are slowly circling our schools, hospitals, and businesses. Idling in our alleys. At any moment they could jump out, heavily armed, and they do.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement. "I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish. Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature. Minneapolis, MN
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 21/01/2026
people: "the Dems need to be doing bold things to stand up against fascism" the exact same people, a year and change ago: "the Dem candidate bringing a Republican on stage to talk together about why we need to fight fascism is Cringe and proof that Dems are just the same as Republicans"
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress. He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If you want better policy, elect more Democrats. Every race, every year, every place. This dumbass solution is the only one that works. The advanced version is "also, elect better Dems whenever you can". It requires holding two ideas in your head at the same time so many struggle with it
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
People know ICE is making us less safe. And they support major reform.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Minnesota Star Tribune Editorial Board: "ICE presence has disrupted all aspects of life in Minnesota, and led tragically to the death of Renee Good. It’s the outcome of government overreach that favors force over legitimacy." www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
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Editorial | Minnesota is under siege. This cannot stand.
"What we are witnessing is the storming of the state by the federal government," the Editorial Board writes.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
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