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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Chief Justice John Roberts
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In any normal parliamentary democracy, the no confidence vote would be taking place tonight.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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anatxu.bsky.social @anatxu.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This administration is really helping the business case for EVs.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Playing in our faces
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Trump voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary, according to local voting records — even as he continues to rail against mail-in voting with lies of fraud.
politico.com
Trump votes by mail again in his home state of Florida
Voting records from Palm Beach County show the president requested his ballot in late July and it was returned on Aug. 13.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
struck by this clip of Josh Johnson standup: he doesn't really develop the theme, no real punchlines. he just says what people have been complaining about re: The Odyssey and everyone laughs for *3 minutes* because a professional comedian *could not improve upon it* www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKcv...
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Some people were so mad about the casting of The Odyssey
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The SAVE America Act mandates that all voters must bring to the polls specifically a photo ID which has proof of citizenship “on the front of the document.” So REAL IDs don’t count. If the ID does not precisely conform to that standard, you must also bring separate proof of citizenship.
SEC. 3. PHOTO VOTER
IDENTIFICATION
REQUIRED FOR
VOTING IN A FEDERAL ELECTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each
individual voting in an election for Federal office shall present an eligible photo identification document.
(b) PRESENTATION
REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) IN-PERSON
VOTING.—In the case of an individual who votes in-person, the eligible photo identification document shall
(A) be a tangible
(not digital) document; and
(B) be presented at the time of voting.(c) ELIGIBLE PHOTo
IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT.—For purposes of this section:
(1) IN GENERAL.—The
term "eligible photo identification document" means any document which
(A) is issued by an authority described in paragraph (2); and
(B) meets the requirements of paragraph (3).(3) REQUIREMENTS.—A
document meets the
requirements of this paragraph if the document contains
(A) a photograph of the individual identified on the document;
(B) an indication on the front of the document that the individual identified on the document is a United States citizen; and
(C) either
(1) an identification number issues by the entity described in paragraph
(2)(A); or
(11) the last four digits of the social security number of the individual identified on the document.(4) USE OF ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTATION.—
(A) USE OF ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTATION.—A document which fails to meet the requirements of paragraph (3)(B) shall not fail to be treated as an eligible photo identification document if the document is presented together with another identification document that indicates the individual is a United States citizen.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This Getty photo is one for the ages
FIFA president Gianni Infantino attempts to usher Donald Trump away from the victorious Spain team as they lift the 2026 World Cup (Getty via The Independent)
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Happy 250th anniversary from the Supreme Court
SCOTUS gives us back a king
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/06/2026
Internal documents and former company executives revealed how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)
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How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/05/2026
NEW: When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism. We found that the request came directly from the White House.
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The White House Intervened to Get a $620 Million Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
About three months before the Pentagon announced plans to lend money to Vulcan Elements, Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm took an undisclosed stake in the company.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 19/05/2026
The $1.776B “anti-weaponization fund” announced today is a theft of our tax dollars and a fraud on the American people. Congress needs to step up and block this settlement before Trump helps himself to the rest of our tax dollars. Please share and help sound the alarm. youtube.com/shorts/4bnF4...
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Trump’s $1.8B “anti-weaponization fund”
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/04/2026
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/04/2026
This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
thehandbasket.co
Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Someday, someone is going to make a movie about the tech-bros who recklessly dismantled the professional US administrative state and it’s going to be devastating. Gripping excerpt from “Into the Wood Chipper,” Nicholas Enrich. h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...
thehandbasket.co
Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Kushner looks like even he can’t believe he’s getting away with being a lead negotiator when he’s the son in law of the president and their family has billions of dollars worth of deals in the region
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/04/2026
BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
It says something really ugly and frightening about us as a country that we can have a president spouting deranged threats to commit unambiguous war crimes & it’s just another week; no immediate action to remove him from office.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/04/2026
WATCH: The White House took down this video, but we still have it. Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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Local Action @localclimate.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Solar saved Europe €3bn in fossil fuel imports in March: Which country is leading the way? #EndFossilFuels #InvestInGreen #CleanEnergy #LocalAction #ClimateJustice #Solar #Renewables #Resilience www.euronews.com/2026/04/01/s...
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Solar saved Europe €3bn in March. Which country is leading the race?
A new analysis found that Europe’s solar capabilities could save the continent €67.5 billion by the end of the year if gas prices remain high.
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Did you know, beef has the highest emissions per kilogram compared to any other protein rich food? #animalagriculture
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Trump’s war in Iran is costing the US economy 10,000 jobs a month, Goldman Sachs says. fortune.com/2026/03/26/t...
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Trump's war in Iran is costing the U.S. economy 10,000 jobs a month, Goldman Sachs says | Fortune
The bank sees the Iran-driven oil shock stripping 10,000 jobs a month from U.S. payrolls through year-end. Leisure, hospitality, and retail are hit worst.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Here’s Brendan Carr discussing how the Trump regime is trying to destroy American journalism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.
Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com
@nancyayoussef
The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me.
12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views
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Greta Bedekovics @gbedekovics.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A House vote on the SAVE Act is imminent. If enacted, 69 MILLION married women would have a much harder time registering to vote bc their name doesn’t match their birth certificate. It shouldn’t be harder for women to vote than to their husbands…why do we even have to say that #HandsOffHerVote
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 24/02/2026
DHS posted this for Romulus, MI. "ICE proposes to acquire and retrofit the existing warehouse facility at 7525 Cogswell Street [...] for use as a Detention Processing Center." "Any individual, group, or agency wishing to comment on the project may do so via email at icesustainability@ice.dhs.gov."
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Notice of Activity in a 100-Year Floodplain | Homeland Security
EO 11988 Posting
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Mike Johnson is scolding democrats for not attending the SOTU because “their constituents need them there”. Yes, the same Mike Johnson who kept the House out of session for 266 days last year.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/02/2026
I do really wish more reporters would just ask "Speaker Johnson, do you think it’s appropriate for the Speaker of the House—third in line of succession to the presidency—to be so consistently unfamiliar with current events?"
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/11/2025
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
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KILLY krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 10/11/2025
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Texas… it’s not just Grijalva…. #TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"...editing out the “tears and screams of the children & families” helps DHS meet its goal of “normalizing” the militaristic activity" Good analysis from @chicago.suntimes.com about the Trump administration's made-for-TV propaganda efforts in Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds
The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening in communities across the nation’s third-largest city and its suburbs. Nick Cull, a professor at USC's communications a...
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Did you know? About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5. About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development. The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.
11.1% of SNAP recipients are kids under age 5, 27.7% kids 5-17, 41.6% adults 18-59, 19.5% adults aged 60 & older 

https://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1124/snapparticipantage.xlsx
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
> @newyorker.com
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.
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Quid Pro Presidency
Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…
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Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer.com · 13/10/2025
Stephen Miller's comment on "plenary authority" was not a glitch. It's a key piece of Project 2025. I'll explain. youtube.com/shorts/-kqO8... @katiecouric.bsky.social
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Plenary authority, explained
YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.
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