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Alycea Ungaro

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
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Massie, Khanna Say They Have Secured 218 Signatures for New Epstein Files Vote
The announcement comes hours after MeidasTouch reported the discharge petition was just two signatures short of the threshold needed to force a House vote.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The question that keeps occurring to me is this: If a group of people had taken office with the deliberate intention of destroying the global standing, democratic claims, credibility and power of the United States, what would they do differently? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms
Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026
For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs
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September 11 Docs
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨🌲 ALERT 🌲🚨 They're dismantling the US Forest Service. The agency that fights the fires. During fire season. 🔥 27,734 of us have already sent letters. Add yours — it takes 30 seconds and your Member of Congress gets it by name. 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Eric Adams remains the most confusing person in politics hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...
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Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now
The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Reuters finds that judges have ruled Trump abridged speech in 75 cases. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Trump vowed to 'bring free speech back.' Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it
President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censor...
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NPR @npr.org · 04/08/2026
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country's most pristine ecosystems. n.pr/4pSfqqC
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These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country’s most pristine ecosystems.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Blanche’s appeasement is hollow. Trump still gets immunity from tax audits worth $100 million. And last week’s payout to abortion clinic blocker shows the path to payouts to rewrite history will be individual settlements instead of one designated fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 25/07/2026
⚡️Russia preparing to receive additional North Korean troops, Zelensky says. "Russia wants to bring in another 30,000 North Korean troops," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address on July 25.
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Russia preparing to receive additional North Korean troops, Zelensky says
"Russia wants to bring in another 30,000 North Korean troops," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly address on July 25.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/07/2026
For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2026
RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 05/07/2026
⚡️Zelensky meets wounded soldiers, veterans in visit to Odesa. President Volodymyr Zelensky met wounded soldiers and veterans in Odesa on July 4, visiting a medical facility and attending a separate event.
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Zelensky meets wounded soldiers, veterans in visit to Odesa
"It is good to see you. Thank you for your service, for defending our country, and for your courage. We are proud of you and wish you a speedy recovery," President Volodymyr Zelensky told wounded sold...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
No, Laura. It’s not “Antifa.” It was Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization. They covered their faces because they’re cowards who don’t want to be identified. We’ve been saying for over a year that ICE officers shouldn’t be allowed to wear masks either. They are cowards also.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/06/2026
Wow: the cover of today’s NY Post.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.
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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
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Valorie 🐈‍⬛️✨️ @meadowdays.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/w...
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Model scout who sent young women to Epstein: ‘I trusted him’ | CNN
The Epstein files show modeling scouts sent young women to Epstein, even after he registered as a sex offender. CNN’s Katie Polglase questions one of these scouts.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12/06/2026
The US DOJ approves Paramount's $111B purchase of WBD without forcing divestitures or behavioral remedies; state AGs could still try to block the move (Yasmin Khorram/Politico) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Beluga whales can recognize themselves in a mirror, scientists confirm. After realizing the whale in the reflection was them, they did barrel rolls, pec shimmies, blew bubbles, and looked inside their own mouths.
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Belugas join a rare animal kingdom club—they can recognize themselves in a mirror - AOL
Video accompanying a new study shows them barrel-rolling and blowing bubbles at their own reflections.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 05/06/2026
It’s been almost 100 days since the US and Israel began their war and the Strait of Hormuz was shut. Things were supposed to be quite dire by now.
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Where’s the Global Economic Meltdown?
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for almost 100 days, and things were meant to be dire by now. Also on Everybody’s Business, the summer movie industry.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 04/06/2026
⚡️'First such operation in modern history' — Ukraine destroys Russia's drone base at occupied Donetsk Airport. Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces are "systematically destroying enemy infrastructure, making the airport's operation impossible," the military said.
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'First such operation in modern history' — Ukraine destroys Russia's drone base at occupied Donetsk Airport
"A decision was made to carry out systematic preemptive strikes that will disrupt enemy launches and reduce the number of enemy drones that will once again fly to attack kindergartens, high-rise build...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/06/2026
New World screwworm is a fly whose larvae eat living tissue, causing severe wounds in livestock, wildlife, & occasionally humans. Its return to TX after elimination in the US since the 60s is concerning—but surely gutting public health infrastructure & the fed workforce had nothing to do with it 🙂
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Flesh-eating screwworm returns to U.S. after 60 years, threatening cattle herd
The case of New World screwworm was confirmed in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/06/2026
Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance and impact.
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Bot web traffic has overtaken human web traffic, data shows
Cloudflare says 57.4% of requests to a selection of websites it hosts are now automated bot requests, while 42.6% are human-generated.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Family values. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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House bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, children
Millions of WIC recipients would have less money for fruits and vegetables under the legislation, which funds the Agriculture Department and other agencies.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Page One. @miamiherald.com
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"This is the problem that the Trump era has never fully solved. We have no adequate mechanism for keeping full watch on scandals the president has moved past, at least in real time; much of the damage will await the chronicling of history."
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Distracter-in-Chief
South American bombings one of many scandals that rage on while we’re focused elsewhere.
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Alycea Ungaro @alycea.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
NEWS The DOJ is investigating former congressman George Santos for insider trading on Kalshi. Kalshi detected that Santos was trading, froze his accounts and referred the case to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice. @bobbyallyn.bsky.social scoops
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DOJ is investigating former congressman George Santos for insider trading on Kalshi
The disgraced former congressman allegedly bet on whether he would appear at the State of the Union address, prompting federal investigations.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"Walking away could seem like the least bad option. As a political matter, Trump may well feel he has a better chance of riding out defeat than a much larger war. Defeat for the U.S. is thus not only possible but likely. Here is what defeat looks like." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Checkmate in Iran
Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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SCOTUS used faulty racial voter turnout data to shred Voting Rights Act in recent ruling
The ruling that upended the Voting Rights Act was based in part on a false data analysis about Black and white voter turnout.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/05/2026
This Mother’s Day, let’s remember: Woman didn’t come from man’s rib. He came from *her* womb. One of patriarchy’s biggest lies is naming the father as the life-giver.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 02/05/2026
Yes. The text of the 14th and 15th Amendments explicitly gives the power to decide how to enforce these amendments to Congress. The Civil Rights Movement was an attempt to enforce the Reconstruction amendments. By undoing the work of the movement, you are undoing the results of the Civil War.
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Alycea Ungaro @alycea.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I've written and reported a lot on presidential security over the years, and wrote a quick analysis of what we know so far and some background about security at the Washington Hilton: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/a-quick-an...
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A quick analysis of last night's shooting
So far, it appears the system worked as intended.
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Patricia Zengerle 🎃 @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
As is his duty?
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Alycea Ungaro @alycea.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Bummer
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks
President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/04/2026
In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/04/2026
"Even an elaborate cheating scheme won’t be enough to deliver Orbán victory if the polls are correct." This is a big deal, and it should give opponents of American authoritarianism hope.
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Orbán Will Lose Hungary’s Election in Two Weeks—If It’s Clean
Péter Magyar is a seemingly unstoppable force—but don’t expect the embattled Orbán to give up without a fight.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u... So, we're just not doing that whole Article 1 thing anymore, is that it?
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Trump Directs Officials to Pay All D.H.S. Employees
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2026
Elon Musk has made a particularly bold demand of his Wall Street advisers ahead of the initial public offering of SpaceX. Musk is requiring banks, law firms, auditors and other advisers working on the IPO to buy subscriptions to Grok, his A.I. chatbot.
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Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok
Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
And why do we think it's just Russia. Of all the countries in the world, just Russia. Huh. "The Trump administration has not confirmed whether it will allow countries other than Russia to send oil to Cuba..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...
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Russia Is Sending a Second Oil Tanker to Fuel-Starved Cuba
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
If mail in voting was truly problematic, Trump wouldn't have relied on it over and over again… The reality is this is about suppressing votes from communities that might not support Republicans. #TrumpVotedByMail
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Alycea Ungaro @alycea.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
As usual
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Alycea Ungaro @alycea.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
JFC
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