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Alyssa Rayne

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Priorities.
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2025
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Stunning how far we’ve fallen already.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 30/09/2025
Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.” Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement. rsf.org/sites/defaul...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
What I would give for a completely honest, anonymous assessment of this appalling and ludicrous spectacle from the commanders in the room.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If you think they’re not coming for the very right to vote, think again.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/08/2025
The Department of Homeland Security is holding up more than $100 million preapproved dollars intended to help hurricane-battered North Carolina clean up storm damage and fix infrastructure, according to documents obtained by The Post.
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DHS is delaying millions in already approved North Carolina recovery funds, documents show
Communities across the region still need to be reimbursed for about a hundred projects including debris removal, waste water treatment repairs, roads and bridges, damaged buildings and parks, as well ...
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“The document contains multiple references to CIA human sources reporting on Putin’s plans. Such sources are among the agency’s most closely guarded secrets.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia report
CIA officials worried the release of the House Intelligence Committee report on 2016 Russian election interference could reveal top-secret spying techniques and sources. Tulsi Gabbard overrode their c...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "There ought to be independent commissions in every state. The fact of the matter is that doesn't seem like it's possible. We have to recognize that, even though I'd love to see it for Illinois, we're not going to unilaterally disarm when R states are drawing crazy maps."
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
They’re not arresting criminals. They’re arresting resistance. And if that doesn’t shake you, read this twice.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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This Is Not a Drill: When the FBI Hunts Lawmakers for Political Resistance...You’re in a Coup
The coup isn’t coming. It’s underway. And unless we treat it like a five-alarm fire, we lose everything.
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halcorley.bsky.social @halcorley.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Lawrence O’Donnell is giving a scathing and profoundly relevant to August 2025 indictment of the lax, ethically compromised, historically disengaged White House Press Corps. It should be widely circulated tomorrow and used in every journalism department in the nation. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A depressing number of news outlets are reporting this without mentioning the minor detail that it would be unconstitutional.
Trump rants about ordering a new census excluding the undocumented population
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/08/2025
A man who screamed “Kill ’em!” at police during the January 6 riot now works for the Department of Justice. And the DOJ says they “appreciate his contributions.” If you’re not chilled by that, you’re not paying attention. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-doj-ju...
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The DOJ Just Hired a Man Who Cheered for Cops to Be Killed
He called Capitol police “Nazis” and screamed “Kill ’em!” Now he’s working at the Department of Justice.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/08/2025
NEW: As the Supreme Court continues to enable Trump, we can’t pretend it will spare us from the authoritarian hill we’re tumbling down. While the Court’s brazen partisanship continues to damage our democracy, the work of lower courts becomes even more vital, @rachelrossi.bsky.social writes.
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The Supreme Court Doesn't Need Trump to Dismantle Democracy, But He Helps
Read more here.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
He’s destroying the country and the white house
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/08/2025
Grocery stores that have been eating the cost of tariffs are about to pump the brakes. Some are looking to be more transparent about the coming price hikes. Starting tomorrow, new tariffs of 15% to 50% hit a wide range of food items. If you’ve got a household food budget, this is a must-watch.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“We’re watching the worst president in history manipulate the worst White House press corps in history every day,” says MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell. And to that I say amen. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "Texas Rangers can come to Illinois and enjoy our lakefront, but they're not arresting anybody and taking them away."
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/08/2025
NEW: Trump calls for a new census that excludes noncitizens and uses information from the 2024 election. The proposal represents yet another illegal move from the executive, as federal law prohibits using mid-decade census data for apportionment counts. From: @jimsaksa.com
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Trump Calls for New Census, Sans Noncitizens, Based On ‘Presidential Election of 2024’
Trump Calls for New Census, Sans Noncitizens, Based On ‘Presidential Election of 2024’
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/08/2025
Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect. According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.
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Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban
New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "A rightwing blogger, who has credentials at the WH, came to an area where some of the legislators are staying and started reporting online about it. He then put up a map and put a pin on the map and said, 'This is where these Texas legislators are.' So that started this."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This quote from Bill Burr highlights how cruelty from the wealthy towards the people who make them their wealth, is something that we accept, the status quo. No raises this year. No holiday bonuses! We're laying off 20% No dental insurance. But executive bonuses are 8 figures. That's wrong!
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/08/2025
Somewhere around a decade ago, a conservative activist told me that it was his mission to end abusive FOIAs of activists fishing through the emails of professors at public universities. I think about that often.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/08/2025
I am aware of reports that threats were made against Texas elected officials in our state. Threats of violence will be investigated and those responsible will be held accountable. I have instructed @ilstatepolice.bsky.social to ensure we maintain public safety.
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🇺🇸💙💙🤔🤨CJ🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
They Are Running Out Of Sick Minded Recruits…. Now they’ll take on anyone! SMDH🤨🤨
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Jessica: I also heard no complaints when Mike Johnson decided to abdicate his job to say actually congress isn't in session anymore because I don't want to have to vote on turning over the Epstein files…. so be equal opportunity in your complaints about fleeing your job
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
If we are not educating our children, what are we even doing here?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."
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We Can Save Public Radio and Television
Viewers and listeners like us.
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Politico @politico.com · 31/07/2025
Federal judges decry political attacks from the White House.
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Federal judges decry political attacks from the White House
They say it's emboldened bad actors, leading to death threats and political intimidation.
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 01/08/2025
Not only is today’s employment report uniquely bad, but revisions to the prior months show that, on average, we have seen 35k net new jobs created for the last 3 months: JAN: +111K FEB: +102K MAR: +120K APR: +158K MAY: +19K JUN: +14K JUL: +73K No way to put lipstick on this pig.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/08/2025
ICYMI: Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a misconduct complaint against Judge James Boasberg, the judge overseeing high-profile lawsuits against the Trump administration, escalating Trump’s ongoing assault on the judiciary.
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Bondi Escalates Assault on Judiciary With Misconduct Complaint Against Judge
Read more here.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Olympic level cognitive dissonance.
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Andy Beshear @andybeshearky.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Keep the faith, y'all. Let's keep showing up, raising our voices for what's right and loving our neighbors. We can get through anything together.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Fascism is here. You can say you don’t care, but you can’t say you don’t know.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
To save his decrepit orange peel skin, Trump does not rule out pardoning a pedophile who abused and trafficked young girls. He does not care about the ONLY victims, the girls. Let that sink in: "Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro Quo" www.thedailybeast.com//ghislaine-h...
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Ghislaine Handed DOJ 100 Names in Shameless Pardon Quid Pro Quo
The late convicted sex offender’s partner met with the deputy AG for two days of questioning.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
An initiative launched last year by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has now erased $429 million in medical debt for 352,000 Arizonans. Elections matter. www.abc15.com/news/state/m...
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Medical debt for over 350,000 Arizonans erased, Governor Hobbs announces
Gov. Katie Hobbs has announced that $429 million in medical debt has been erased so far for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/07/2025
Wait. Marc Thiessen has never heard of batteries? And he's still employed by the Washington Post?
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
What a DISGUSTING perversion of the facts. Ghislaine Maxwell is no victim. She is a convicted sex trafficker of little girls as young as 14 years old. She enticed and groomed little girls for sexual abuse.
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