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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The corruption is endless. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
💯 There has been so much corruption and insider trading.
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the lie that universal healthcare and raising the minimum wage will somehow “cripple the economy” but billionaires not paying the same tax rate as the rest of us is somehow “healthy for the economy.”
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There’s no difference between men marching in white masks and men marching in white hoods. None.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 12/06/2026
It’s beyond sickening that Elon Musk – the world’s first trillionaire – pays a lower effective tax rate than truck drivers, firefighters, or nurses. It’s not complicated – we need to actually TAX THE RICH.
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Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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NPR @npr.org · 09/05/2026
The vast majority of Americans — 8 in 10 — say there should be age caps for members of Congress, as well as term limits, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
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In a new poll, Americans voice broad bipartisan support for age caps in Congress
The vast majority of Americans — 8 in 10 — say there should be age caps for members of Congress, as well as term limits, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 09/05/2026
“It’s going to take a really strong push by the public to get a Congress that’s willing to reform voting rights,” says a redistricting expert. “And while we’re there, there’s an awful lot that could be done on court reform.”
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“The Court Interred the Voting Rights Act Without the Dignity of a Funeral” - Bolts
Two redistricting experts answer your questions on the latest Supreme Court ruling that guts the VRA—did it kill Section 2, what can states do, and how may Congress respond?
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Wearing a penis costume to a No Kings rally is a 1st Amendment right. Alabama’s efforts to prosecute were firmly rejected today. www.al.com/news/2026/04...
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Fairhope protester acquitted of charges after inflatable costume arrest during anti-Trump rally
Renea Gamble, 62, was cleared of all charges Wednesday after her arrest at a "No Kings" protest drew national attention and raised First Amendment questions.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
April 8, 2026
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April 8, 2026
On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
TRUMP: “Do everything I ask or I’ll bomb you back into the Stone Age!” IRAN: “How about, instead, you do everything we ask and we’ll call it a day?” TRUMP: “Deal.” FOX NEWS: “Awesome Trump is the world’s most masterful negotiator!”
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/03/2026
Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥
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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The next time a career politician says Universal Healthcare isn’t a right because it would “bankrupt” America, I hope all of us will remember these past few weeks and the $200 billion PeteHegseth and @POTUS want for their Iran misadventure
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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What Was Actually in the Mueller Report
There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
37 indictments, plus: Trump associates repeatedly lied about their contacts with Russians. Trump refused to answer questions about his obstruction. A statement signed by over 1,000 former federal prosecutors, that anyone else who engaged in that obstructive conduct would have been indicted.
Trump asked his White House counsel, Don McGahn, to arrange for Mueller to be fired in June, after he started work. Trump denied he’d done this when a reporter broke the story about the requested firing in 2018.

Trump tried to get McGahn to deny reporting about his conduct as it surfaced, and once threatened to fire McGahn if he wouldn’t. McGahn refused. Trump summoned McGahn to the Oval Office and ordered him to create a false record that denied that Trump ordered him to fire Mueller, which would be a federal felony if proven.
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HCR HQ @hcrhq.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
March 23, 2026 Shortly after the close of the U.S. stock market on Friday, President Trump appeared to try to address the losses it had sustained since his February 28 attack on Iran by posting that the war was “winding down.” This reassurance appeared designed to calm market fears over the weekend.
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March 23, 2026
Shortly after the close of the U.S.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 22/03/2026
A birth certificate AND your marriage license. If you changed your name after you got married, like the First Lady, the 'SAVE America Act' will demand you provide BOTH documents in order to prove your identity and vote in the next election if you don’t have a passport.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 22/03/2026
I'll say it again: we could fully fund TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard & other agencies within DHS TODAY. But Republicans keep blocking those efforts because they want a blank check for ICE & CBP.
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Instead of passing TSA funding, which Democrats have proposed 7 different times, Trump’s fix to these outrageously long lines is to send ICE agents who have no relevant experience and killed American citizens into our airports.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 22/03/2026
Even with Trump helping Putin, Ukraine keeps winning. Over 3200 Russian casualties in just two days; 2200 likely fatalities.
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3,230 Russian Casualties in the last 2 Days
Including 1,710 two days ago - the largest of teh war
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Trump administration is gearing up to kick an estimated six million more people off of food assistance programs — including nearly two million children. The move would save just $1 billion a year, while Trump spends upwards of $1 billion per *day* on his new forever war. Priorities.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 22/03/2026
Trump appointees at the Dept. of Energy used their personal email accounts to evade transparency laws in their efforts to make it easier to pollute, and EPA was in on it.   We are demanding answers and accountability for this blatant disregard for the law.
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Senate Dems probe personal email use in endangerment finding repeal
Court documents show members of a Department of Energy working group used personal email addresses.
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Find Out Podcast @findoutpodcast.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Our allies are watching Donald Trump’s dangerous moves with confusion. He’s not only alienating NATO partners but empowering Putin while dragging us deeper into conflict. We must demand accountability and integrity from our leaders. @vanhollen.senate.gov #Trump #NATO #FindOutPodcast
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 22/03/2026
In America today, wealth inequality has become so extreme that the top 1% now own as much stock and mutual funds as the bottom 99% combined. No democracy is sustainable when so few have so much while so many have so little. We need an economy that works for all, not the 1%.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22/03/2026
French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC:
• Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards
• I cannot make any purchases
• I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal
• Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated
• A colleague told me my name won't be removed from the blacklist until Trump's term ends
• Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Mike Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Kid Rock, mostly
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 26/02/2026
NEW! From the same clueless Republicans who brought you doubling premiums: $31,000 deductibles. Only an out of touch billionaire would think that counts as affordable.
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New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Breaking NBC: Jeanine Pirro's office has decided to stop pursuing the case against six Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military and intelligence communities in a social media video not to comply with unlawful orders, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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Jeanine Pirro's office shelves pursuit of Democrats over social video, sources say
A federal grand jury in D.C. unanimously rejected the attempt to indict six lawmakers who told military and intelligence community members on social media not to obey unlawful orders.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
1. On January 23, Crypto.com donated $5 million to MAGA Inc, Trump's primary Super PAC. (The donation was first disclosed in a FEC filing Friday night.) Less than 1 month later, on February 17, the Trump administration intervened on Crypto.com's behalf in a high-stakes federal lawsuit.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a 9-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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New GDP data falls far short, shows 2025 ended with weak economic growth
In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a nine-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low. It’s worth asking why.
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Jeff Merkley @jeff-merkley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The Trump family has pocketed more than $4,000,000,000 from their crypto schemes—using the office of the President to line their own pockets. That’s why I wrote the End Crypto Corruption Act—we need to stop this grift in its tracks.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2026
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026
"The version of Christianity that Trump's most devout supporters embrace (and he pretends to) has no room for Christ’s actual teachings. Anyone who references Jesus’s declarations to aid the sick, poor, and vulnerable is quickly labeled a socialist and/or antifa."
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Trump is clowning his evangelical base
He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"I’ve wanted Marc Elias to be wrong for seven years, or six years, for as long as he’s been coming on my show. I have wanted his warnings to be wrong, but every single one of them has been either affirmed or prescient."--Nicolle Wallace. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
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It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Donald Trump has produced the lowest GDP growth of any President in the last 80 years.
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Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
On all the outrage toward Bad Bunny’s halftime performance
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Ground News @groundnews.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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More Americans want to abolish ICE than not: YouGov
A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery have all rallied against ICE...
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Ground News @groundnews.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
📊 Poll: YouGov asked Americans whether the killing of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis was justified. 🔵 Democrats: 83% say not justified ⚪ Independents: 50% say not justified 🔴 Republicans: 13% say not justified
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
RFK Jr. and Mike Tyson want you to believe that MAHA is just about eating healthier. But in reality, MAHA has been focused on firing the food and medical research experts who actually make America healthy.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
If the US did what the French are doing right now, the effects on Twitter and Facebook would be enormous.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People
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