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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Crypto is Mary Kay for Men 💄
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larshields.bsky.social @larshields.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
1. Make a large contribution to Trump's PAC 2. Receive private national security briefings. 3. Take knowledge received from national security briefings and place bets in prediction markets. 4. Make multiples of your initial contribution in profit.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/03/2026
Charles Exum, the Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez five times, texted a group chat with fellow agents a few days after the shooting. “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys,” he wrote. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fkS3Cl
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The Preschool Teaching Assistant Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, with it, a sense of reality.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 10/03/2026
A DOGE software engineer is alleged to have taken records on more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... by @merylkornfield.bsky.social et al
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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...
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NBA @nba.com · 14/02/2026
Ant 🤝 KAT Reunited at NBA All-Star Media Day presented by AT&T!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/02/2026
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Breaking: Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’
The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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Trump, Extreme Wealth Concentration, and Our Societal Crisis | Common Dreams
The US government simply has not done enough to ensure that the livelihoods of all Americans are protected or improved in this new Gilded Age. What it has done is made sure the rich get richer by the ...
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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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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 27/01/2026
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 16/01/2026
Bari Weiss and Trump exchanged kisses on the cheek following ‘60 Minutes’ interview
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Bari Weiss and Trump exchanged kisses on the cheek following ‘60 Minutes’ interview
Bari Weiss and Trump exchanged kisses on the cheek following ‘60 Minutes’ interview
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
U.S workers are taking home the smallest share of the economic pie since the feds started collecting the data in 1947.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
U.S. billionaires got $1.5 trillion richer during Trump's first year in office. americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires...
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U.S. BILLIONAIRES GOT $1.5 TRILLION RICHER IN TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR - Americans For Tax Fairness
22% Boost in 2025 Lifted Total Wealth of Nation’s Billionaires to $8.2 Trillion Even as families struggle with unaffordable healthcare, housing and groceries, billionaires are flourishing in Donald Tr...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
House Republicans are now seeking to cut the IRS budget by another billion dollars, which would let rich tax cheats off the hook even more.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 13/01/2026
Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot
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‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say
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Always Thinking @alwaysthinks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
For someone so obviously obsessed with self image, clearly trump hasn’t considered how embarrassing it will be to inevitably have his name removed from the Kennedy Center.
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/11/2025
“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Still working our way through approx. 23,000 pages of Epstein related documents released by House Oversight Cmte. In another email.. this one from Feb. 2017.. Epstein references Trump ==>
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
How Wall Street turns your monthly bills into its debt payments. #News #Finance #WallStreet #Debt #Infrastructure #politics
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The Pentagon accepted an anonymous $130 million donation to help pay troops' salaries. Fiscal policy experts are questioning the legality of the move.   "In general, you may not spend money that has been donated because the Constitution and the Anti-Deficiency Act say that you can't."
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Pentagon to use $130 million anonymous donation to help pay troops
The amount is less than a day’s worth of salaries. Fiscal policy experts say the move also raises legal questions.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
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The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/09/2025
The oligarchs are consolidating all of the legacy media. This would leave David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in control of CBS News and CNN. On top of that, 2 major studios in Paramount and Warner Bros. This is a hostile takeover of the information space. www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Here’s a 2019 story about the “model”, explains how she was pulled into Epsteins orbit, eventually raped, taken to the private islands, etc. This seems around the same time she was passed on to Trump. just say mid-90s. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...
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How a British teen model was lured into Jeffrey Epstein's web
Anouska De Georgiou, who grew up in an affluent family, says she fell into Epstein's circle of abuse through well-connected friends.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/06/2025
In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇
Photo of President Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, during a meeting in the Oval Office in April 2025. Trump has praised Bukele as “one hell of a president.” Credit: Al Drago/The Washington Post/Getty Images
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/05/2025
Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.
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CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Just since I left town on Friday: -Stephen Miller floats suspending habeas corpus -ICE arrests a mayor under dubious pretext -DHS threatens to arrest members of Congress -Qatar gives Trump a $400 million plane he *gets to keep* -Trump's emissary is negotiating with Russia using Putin's interpreters
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie. ➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact. ➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie. ➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true. 🔄 Repeat
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The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying
Creating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.
Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
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Always Thinking @alwaysthinks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Schitt’s Creek cast at The White Lotus … 🤯✨
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/03/2025
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
More of: I can do whatever I want because I’m President. He is daring someone to challenge him. How far off can, “and I’m sticking around for a third term”, be?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today EPA chief Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is rolling back 31 regulations. He's taking aim at mercury, soot, and toxic pollution restrictions, and federal protection of wetlands. The EPA will also rewrite rules limiting pollution from fossil-fuel plants and cars, and more.
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Gish Gallop @gishgallop.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Steve Liesman perfectly sums up every one of us that are losing our 401k, retirement etc
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🧐 “Donald Trump’s insistence on playing golf at his Florida courses has now cost American taxpayers more than $18 million since he regained the presidency, setting him on a pace to exceed the $151.5 million he spent in his first term, according to a HuffPost analysis.”
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Trump Golf Weekends’ Cost To Taxpayers Hits $18.2 Million
Donald Trump has played golf at his own courses in Florida on six of the seven weekends since his second term began.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Tesla shares have declined every week since Elon Musk went to Washington cnb.cx/3De2aJc by the definitive @lorak.bsky.social
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Tesla shares have declined every week since Elon Musk went to Washington
Tesla's stock has dropped for seven straight weeks, a stretch that dates back to the beginning of Donald Trump's second term in the White House.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“The vast majority of the Pentagon purge targets women and minorities, including notable milestones made in the military. And it also removes a large number of posts that mention various commemorative months — such as those for Black and Hispanic people and women.” apnews.com/article/dei-...
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War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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New DOGE Staffer Has Ties to a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch
Corcos, a new member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team, reportedly showed up at the IRS demanding detailed info about American taxpayers to hunt for fraud.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/03/2025
NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west). My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: DOGE put a not-so-secret CIA training facility up for sale, apparently in error. "Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property," says the chairman of the local county board of supervisors.
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A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale
Plans to redevelop a Northern Virginia warehouse site have long been complicated by the area’s worst-kept secret—the presence of a CIA facility. The GSA put the site up for sale anyway.
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