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Ali Dobbs

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey #MAGA, What's so much better today than 2 years ago?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is rape culture.
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
msmagazine.com/2026/07/25/u... “It took until July 7 ‘26 for world’s leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: reproductive violence. …adopted unanimously, UNHRC recognized “reproductive violence” specific, systemic gender-based violence.
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A Groundbreaking U.N. Resolution Calls Forced Pregnancy What It Is: Reproductive Violence
It took until July 7, 2026, for the world's leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: reproductive violence. In a landmark resolution adopt...
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realKyleKeegan @realkylekeegan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
No one seems to want to explain this, so I will. When MAGA Republicans say “freedom” they mean the freedom to exploit workers, consumers and the environment for excessive profit and pay no taxes on it.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who murdered former MN House Speaker, Melissa Hortman, & her husband, Mark Hortman, & attempted to murder MN Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, Yvette, & his daughter, Hope, was sentenced to two Life sentences plus 40 years with no parole. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Vance Boelter gets 2 life terms, no parole for Minnesota lawmaker shootings
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Vance Boelter two life sentences plus 40 years in the killings of Melissa and Mark Hortman and the attacks on John Hoffman, his wife Yvette and their daughter Hop...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Smithsonian does not belong to the President or a political party. It BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! We will not let them rewrite our history! We will fight back in Congress, the Courts, and in our Communities because this is OUR story!
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Rep. Stansbury: Standing Up to the President's Political Witch Hunt at the Smithsonian
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Schiff: The judge, in that decision on Monday, referred Blanche, basically, to the New York Bar Association because of his conduct. How is it possible that after being referred to the bar association for potential discipline on Monday, we’re contemplating this guy for attorney general on Wednesday?
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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 13/07/2026
Under Trump, more than 50 people have died in immigration detention. At least 21 people have been shot in encounters with ICE agents, and this is the second person killed by ICE in the last week alone. None of this is normal. We need an immediate end to this brutality.
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"I cannot muster kindness or compassion for a man who spent a lifetime working against the best interests of a country & a people I love" "[He was] a cautionary tale of total moral capitulation. He spent his final years groveling to a dictator, & history will afford him no mercy" No lies detected.
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Normally, I'd Offer Condolences - Not This Time
Gone, but quickly forgotten.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Who could have guessed that when you gut the CDC and put a quack with no medical expertise in charge of American healthcare, diseases we had eradicated would come back and there would be explosive diarrhea situations happening. Just no way to know.
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Grace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
How Graham Platner's implosion demonstrates that leaning into masculinity doesn't equal electability — and highlights the double standards for which candidates are allowed to be flawed & get second chances: 19thnews.org/2026/07/grah...
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Democrats say they want a fighter. Does it have to be a White man?
Democrats went all in on masculinity as a winning strategy. It fell apart in Maine.
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Jas 🪶🐻🦉🇺🇸🇨🇦 @itistherealjas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You've entered Friday's eve. You look great! You've done well & have accomplished much! Keep your momentum going. Stay on your course & follow your route. Give way to others & allow them to pass, if they want to. Forward! Let's go! Be careful. Be safe. Be shiny. Be glimmer. Be you. Take no shit.
Text reads: You don't have to be everyone's butterfly.  

Be a bee.  

Mind your business, make your honey, and sting people when necessary.
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
By the way, the man running is a member of Patriot Front. So now we've added these guys to the Frog Protester Brigade. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.
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WingChick🐸❌👑 @wingchick49.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Where are the apologies from independent media that refused to believe women when they told us who this man is?! I am so infuriated and sick and tired of this misogynistic society. I’m looking at you, Mehdi Hassan,The Bulwark,POD Save America,Wajahat Ali. Had enough ladies?! We know who to trust.
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Boner Vivant @dougtilley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We have the lowest possible standards for politicians and they still seem entirely unable to meet them.
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TJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026
It's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump and Vance Ruined the Fourth of July
Celebrating the ideals of the Declaration of Independence is hard if you don’t believe in them.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Really psyched to see that the @liberalcurrents.com Reconstruction Papers have just been released! Congrats to @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and this whole team of great writers and thinkers for imagining how to rebuild post-Trump with ambition: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...
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The PDF of The Reconstruction Papers Is Now Free to the Public
If you've been waiting to read The Reconstruction Papers, wait no longer.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Lock the undesirables up. It's easy and convenient ... as long as you're lacking in empathy, respect, and concern for human dignity.
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Rebecca MV @rebeccamv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Excellent piece from @damemagazine.bsky.social www.damemagazine.com/2026/06/03/r...
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The Case for Rebuilding America’s Immigration System
Public anger over ICE is fueling calls to reduce detention, strengthen oversight, and reform U.S. immigration enforcement.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Here’s @frankel.house.gov’s real-time reaction to the Republican budget for public health, education, and labor programs. Her #CupOfJoe is pushing back on the obvious #WarOnWomen.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 16/06/2026
A group of Democratic senators and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees, sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network. to.pbs.org/49YsS5F
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Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling of a $386 million ocean observatory project
Monday’s pushback against the Republican administration’s actions comes as scientists are set to remove instruments from the Pacific and as an El Niño event is predicted to arrive this summer.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/05/2026
this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
great piece. please read if you have a moment: presswatchers.org/2026/05/its-...
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It’s Black disenfranchisement, not ‘partisan warfare’ | Press Watch
Too many journalists are averting their eyes from the racism of redistricting
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Raise your hand high if you are 100% AGAINST Trump hijacking the 250th anniversary of The Declaration Of Independence by holding a Christian Nationalist revival rally meant to "rededicate" America as a "Christian nation"… Because it’s NOT! 🤚
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”
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Colleen @wildplumbay.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
@kaitlancollins.bsky.social @brianstelter.bsky.social Crazy that every single journalist has not sent a letter of protest to the WH regarding Trump’s behaviour towards women reporters. @donlemonofficial.bsky.social @allinwithchris.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Dobbs was supposed to return the question of abortion to the states to decide. Yeah, right. A ruling on Friday by a federal panel in Louisiana in fact just imposed a nationwide requirement of in-person dispensation for a popular abortion medication. My write-up in the replies.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 04/05/2026
While Donald Trump's reckless and costly war with Iran forces families to pay more for gas and groceries, his Big Oil donors are profiting from his attempt to illegally restart the Sable pipeline. California is demanding the court block this flagrant abuse of power.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
‼️1/2 Trump regime continues its rampage to hurt the most vulnerable (incl many MAGA fams). @propublica.org: WH proposed rule change would slash benefits or end support for up to 400K SSI recipients w/disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits. 🧾 www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/04/2026
How to watch tonight… www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
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How to watch the CBS California Governor's Debate
Top candidates for California governor will face off in the CBS California Governor's Debate at 5:30 p.m. PST on Tuesday, April 28.
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GoodPlaceJames @goodplacejames.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"Stochastic Terrorism." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochas... You reap what you sow.
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Stochastic terrorism - Wikipedia
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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
MEDIA: do your job! His cries for his bunker-ballroom have nothing to do with the Correspondent's Dinner. It was a private event, not a gov't event. So unless he's looking to rent the ballroom for weddings & Bar Mitzvahs, it would not have been held at the WH It's the media's job to POINT THAT OUT
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/04/2026
Hey folks, who’s watching the California governor debate tonight? I’m looking for every Dem on that stage to take it to the Republicans, no soft-pedaling, no playing nice. What are you looking for tonight? Tonight, Wednesday, April 22, 7 PM PT on KTLA. Link to watch in 🧵
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
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Valorie Nichols @meadowdays.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Happy National Library Week! 💙📚
Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES
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Ali Dobbs @alidobbs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Sen. Duckworth: "I'm here to call bullshit on the President of the United States."
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/04/2026
Tax breaks for data centers in North Carolina keep as much as $57 million each year out of state and local government coffers, state figures show, an amount that could balloon to billions of dollars if all the proposed projects are built. From our colleagues at @insideclimatenews.org:
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The actual economic impact of data centers on a place? That's a secret.
Some North Carolina officials are rethinking tax breaks for an opaque industry.
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We’re All Underreacting @pdxmicroscopy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
What if men just stopped sexually assaulting people
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Diane @dyn13.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
OK, i do not trust anything translated by Grok!
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 03/04/2026
RT if you miss having a President with empathy
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors: "When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...
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🇨🇦 CATNAP 😼 @cmcd54.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm tired of a President like no one has ever seen before. And his 400 hundred word vocabulary.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/03/2026
A federal panel voted to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision will have outsize impact on endangered species such as Rice’s whales, sea turtles and whooping cranes. wapo.st/3QbEeMn
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Well done. #NoKings
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