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Old ink-stained wretch turned writing prof | Just here for the news.

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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The cautious centrists and center-left politicians who have dominated the Democratic Party for so long have failed. Voters see this, which is why the uprising within the Democratic Party is unlikely to be contained. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...
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Opinion | The Democratic Establishment Is Finally Getting the Reckoning It Deserves (Gift Article)
The Democratic Party needs shaking up.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/07/2026
Plume evolution shows the toxic core over DC's Ward 8 and PG County in Maryland, the part of the region with the highest Black population
DC region racial demographics https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-washington-dc/
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026
another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4a7l1TR
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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Their offices are open and taking calls - 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...
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No War With Iran ⭑ 5 Calls
On February 28th, Trump partnered with Israel to launch “major combat operations” in Iran, killing Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah …
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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“As an untested model, household voting still has some basic problems, people at King’s Way acknowledged. Unmarried women, they suggested, could be represented by fathers, brothers or uncles. But in their ideal, women would be married, and only to men. (Gay couples have no place in this system.)” 🤬
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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Small town, big crowd, great signs #NoKings North Kingstown RI
Sign: Eggs are expensive because all the chickens are in CongressSign: if you aren’t antifascist then what are you?Sign: For the Epsteinth time, no kingsDog sign: No kings, cookies OK
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
“.. QuitGPT is the first true consumer-driven, social-political movement against AI .. it is a first sign of a crack developing in the AI race.” - Fed Watch Advisors @markruffalo.bsky.social quitgpt.org
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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)
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda. 1. Vote no on DHS funding bill. 2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE. 3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents. 4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.
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Eddie S. Glaude @esglaude.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It would be amazing to air the Jack Smith deposition on @DeadlineWH tomorrow.
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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“They began to starve, and many — mostly children — died because their malnourished bodies couldn’t fight off infections. Mothers had to choose which of their kids to feed. Pregnant women with life-threatening anemia were so desperate for calories that they ate mud.”
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Here’s how a 50-year mortgage would work
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/11/2025
Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Whole lotta love for America and democracy in little North Kingstown #rhodeisland #NoKings
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2025
my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)
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Opinion | Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
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The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 10/09/2025
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 22/08/2025
"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy. It’s more than policy, though. It’s woven into the fabric of this country since its inception." Read our latest op-ed from @thetattooedjew.com ⤵️
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From Famine in Gaza to Trump Cutting SNAP, Child Hunger is An American Pastime
"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2025
NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.
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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I should be working. Instead, Republicans sent me home to protect pedophiles.
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WHO @who.int · 18/07/2025
People are getting killed trying to get food. 877 people have died and 5666 were injured in #Gaza trying to get food in recent weeks.
As of 15 July, 877 fatalities and 5666 injuries have been reported among people trying to access food supplies. Image of an empty bowl and spoon against black background.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025
"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
“When an ethnic group has nowhere to go and is constantly displaced from one so-called safe zone to another, relentlessly bombed and starved, ethnic cleansing can morph into genocide.”
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/06/2025
Republicans are putting 17 million lives at risk in their “Big Beautiful Bill.” These are more than just numbers. These are real people who deserve to live a life without worrying they will go broke if they need health care.
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amgdunk.bsky.social @amgdunk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
5calls.org
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/06/2025
That ought to do it
A bar graph showing that Republicans are cutting over $800 billion from Medicaid, compared to the $25 billion rural Hospital relief fund they think will be enough to cover those cuts.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
In recent weeks the Trump regime arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayor • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC. Schumer's Sen. Dems have returned the favor by voting with Republicans to gift Trump a massive shady crypto bill to sign making him richer.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 31/05/2025
Someone was up late in Senate Approps minority staff going through detailed Trump Friday night news dump. Here's a rundown of cuts proposed his FY26 budget. Like all presidential budgets-it is DOA. Congress will revise. But still, what Trum proposed www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...
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Senator Murray on President Trump’s Budget Request | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 22/05/2025
Dear Americans, Republicans in the House just passed the largest transfer of wealth in history to the top 1%. Those of us with the least amount of money will suffer the most.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We're witnessing the United States' demise as the most powerful force for innovation in science, health, and technology in the 21st century. China will usurp that position.
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Opinion | America’s Brightest Minds Will Walk Away (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/05/2025
Breaking News: President Trump plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar that he will use as Air Force One and will keep using after he leaves office. The plan — involving possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government — raises substantial ethical issues.
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Trump Is to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
We cooked
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I remain shocked by the fathomless stupidity and ignorance of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
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National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration
The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025
wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership
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Opinion | Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not. (Gift Article)
Every time we make ourselves into obstacles, we also make it a little less likely that the administration’s authoritarian fantasy becomes our reality.
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