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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
.@kfile.bsky.social: "One thing that we found really interesting was these flight logs from Epstein's private jet, which were part of that investigation into Ghislaine Maxwell. And they really tell you a story of how close these guys are." youtu.be/tR2HfyCmVKA?si=AjvK0vSe5tXS8yi0
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Trump’s Epstein scandal is getting worse by the minute and I’m here for it. I love this for Trump. He deserves all of it, everything.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
You can talk about being family friendly, and offer money for people to have more kids, but you can't really build a thriving and attractive society via authoritarianism. People who know better, who value freedom, with options - they will leave.
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.
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Virginia Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent abuse survivors, dies by suicide
Other Epstein victims credited Giuffre with giving them the courage to speak out.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Mystified as to why DOJ’s withholding of the Epstein files so upsets Trump’s base? It’s simple. 👉 A third of MAGA Republicans are QAnon. 👉 QAnon teaches that government, media, and financial elites are Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles. prri.org/spotlight/th...
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Guys, I’m starting to think all of Trump’s talk about protecting young women was insincere.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/07/2025
The Trump administration declined to release nearly $7 billion in school funding that helps pay for after-school programs and other services. trib.al/CIBxpaX
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Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion for Schools, With Little Explanation
The money, which was allocated by Congress, helps pay for after-school programs, support for students learning English and other services.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 09/06/2025
Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
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Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

(Added Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, $ 18(a), 70A Stat.
626; amended Pub. L. 86-70, § 17(d), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 144; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIlI,
§ 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub.
L. 117-81, div. A, title X, § 1045(a), Dec. 27, 2021,
135 Stat. 1904.)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Stand back. Rescind this illegal, and immoral order. The absurdity of threatening the people of the United States with their own military— Act like the Commander-in-Chief. If you want to be president, at least try to play the part. Fake it, if nothing else. Stand back— We’ll clean up your mess.
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 22/05/2025
Republicans snuck an amendment into this bill to ban Affordable Care Act insurance plans from covering abortion care. This is part of their play for a national abortion ban, in the middle of the night, and ripping healthcare away from millions.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This feels like a perfect time to remind people at Georgia fired its entire maternal mortality review committee after details of two deaths were uncovered. We know maternal and infant death rates rise in States with abortion bans. But they don’t WANT us to know:
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Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
AOC: Donald Trump is a criminal. He was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, found liable for sexual abuse. If he wants to find the rapists and criminals in this country, he should look in the mirror
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This Could Be The End Of America As We Know It I spoke to a host of legal experts and they warned of the very real chaos that could ensue if the Supreme Court rolls over for the Trump administration. I hope you will read and share: www.huffpost.com/entry/this-c...
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This Could Be The End Of America As We Know It
Legal experts warn of the very real chaos that could ensue if the Supreme Court rolls over for the Trump administration.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/05/2025
"Culture wars" or teaching kids to read?
The white guy with a ponytail and a jabra bluetooth headset who plays with his jacket zipper while absolutely rhetorically destroying the "economic growth or LGTBQ rights" debater in a viral video
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Elon Musk may be stepping back from the federal government, Julia Angwin writes, “but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration — the likes of which we have never seen in the U.S.”
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Opinion | ‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
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CNN @cnn.com · 25/04/2025
The Trump administration is considering eliminating the 988 Suicide Prevention and Crisis Lifeline’s specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth as a way to cut back on funding for next year’s discretionary budget for mental health, according to an internal document reviewed by CNN
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988 suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth would be eliminated under leaked budget proposal | CNN
The Trump administration is considering eliminating the 988 Suicide Prevention and Crisis Lifeline’s specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth as a way to cut back on funding for next year’s discretionary...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/04/2025
Millions of dollars are being thrown at loneliness. But many of these start-ups aren’t even targeting the right problem, Faith Hill writes:
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You’ve Probably Already Met Your Next Best Friend
The loneliness industry is trying to solve the wrong problem.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/04/2025
The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
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The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We spent nearly 8 minutes this morning trying to set the record straight on a number of health matters. I’d expect the Surgeon General or NIH Director to do this, but since they’re not, here it is in 4 clips. #medsky
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/03/2025
That’s right. 🇺🇦
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
He skis like shit.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"So yes, some people are too quick to label people they don’t like as Nazis. But also, people who don’t want to be called Nazis should avoid giving Nazi salutes." by me www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Slava Ukraini. 💙💛Zelensky. Go fuck yourself Trumpy.
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The Washpost, which is bleeding millions of dollars and shrinking its staff, accepted -- and then rejected -- a $115,000 ad that criticized Elon Musk. Anyway, here's the ad that the Post's business side didn't want its readers to see ⤵️ thehill.com/media/514849...
Who’s
running
this
country:
Donald Trump or
Elon Musk?
Since day one, Elon has created chaos and confusion and put our
livelihoods at risk. And he is accountable to no one but himself.
The Constitution only allows for one president at a time. Call Your
Senators and tell them it’s time Donald Trump fire Elon Musk
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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“The goal of Trump--like all autocrats and dictators--is to make you feel that “resistance is futile,” but history shows that people standing up to that leader has inspired others to do the same.” @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social talks with @deanobeidallah.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...
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Authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat: It's time to take our country back from Trump/Musk—and here is how.
Resistance is not futile!
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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