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Keshia Janay @keshiajanay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@corybooker.com @jasmineforok.bsky.social @julianastratton.bsky.social @angieforfl.bsky.social @byrdforsenate.bsky.social @marquitabradshaw.bsky.social @booker4ky.bsky.social @scolom.bsky.social @jamieforlouisiana.bsky.social
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SPOTLIGHT OHIO FFS ...Here's Ramaswamy on teachers unions in Ohio.. Yep ..Ohio teachers who are dedicated, hardworking, underpaid, & EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN PASSIONATELY Ramaswamy also loves those DATA CENTERS ONE CHOICE VOTE AMY ACTON ! @amyactonoh.bsky.social Amy Acton for Governor
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/08/2026
donate your miles! help us add to the list of 100+ families we’ve gotten to reunite with no money changing hands!
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 22/08/2026
Haitian TPS holders are caregivers, nursing assistants, & essential to our economy. With the termination of TPS for Haiti, our seniors, their families, & extended communities will bear the consequences. The Senate must do the right thing & pass our bill to extend Haiti TPS NOW.
An article by Reuters titled: US families, healthcare providers under strain after Trump crackdown on Haitian immigrants
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 22/08/2026
Here's your daily reminder: Trump and Republicans are kicking 15 million Americans off their health care so that people like Mark Zuckerberg can buy another yacht.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"When contacted for comment, Acting Pentagon Press Secretary Joel Valdez told Newsweek: "The claims made by MS NOW are obviously false and are crazy lies from a Fake News outlet with Hegseth Derangement Syndrome." okay show us the base then? www.newsweek.com/pete-hegseth...
newsweek.com
Pete Hegseth accused of covering up USS Abraham Lincoln resupply problems
President Donald Trump has dismissed reports of low morale aboard an aircraft carrier key to the Iran war.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...
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Hegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t Resupplied
According to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I hate very few people. RFK Jr made the list.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A 58-year-old letter carrier collapsed & died on his mail route in triple-digit heat. He's the third DFW letter carrier to die since 2023. Yet House Republicans JUST advanced a bill to block the federal heat rule. Working shouldn't be a death sentence.
dallasobserver.com
Despite high-profile deaths, ‘nothing has changed’ for USPS carriers working in heat
Less than half of Dallas-area postal workers have access to air conditioned vehicles, the USPS said in a statement.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
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ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Senate Republicans blocked an extension of Haitian TPS last week. Ohio Senator Jon Husted declined to comment on the bill.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s shocking and shameful that in the United States we have allowed for investors to make money off of child imprisonment. Children as young as two-months old. Alongside 110 House Democrats, I am calling for the Dilley Trailer Prison to be shut down.
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's attempt to implement an executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the midterms.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Rounding up all the criminals, eh?
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AILA @aila.org · 24/07/2026
"While it may seem like ICE has been quieter, last month, they hit the highest numbers so far, in this administration, in terms of the number of arrests they're making nationwide...it's happening everywhere across the country." bit.ly/4pxoW29
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Six months since federal surge, immigration enforcement has become less visible but more active
Nick Miroff covers immigration and the Department of Homeland Security for The Atlantic. He's been tracking the shift nationwide and shared more of his reporting with MPR News host Nina Moini.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/07/2026
"Tonight's speech is intended to add the predicate that he needs to declare an emergency at or about the time of the elections," says former White House attorney Ty Cobb. to.pbs.org/4fEBoK5
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Trump setting stage to declare emergency around midterms, former White House attorney says
For perspective on what President Trump is trying to achieve with Thursday night's speech, the limits of his authority and the potential consequences for future elections, Geoff Bennett spoke with Ty ...
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Taking cues from the Manosphere and MAHA, Pete Hegseth plans to screen US Armed Forces for testosterone and offer hormone therapy for men with a T "deficiency." I spoke to an endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins, and you'll be shocked—shocked!—to hear that she thinks this is incredibly stupid:
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Pete Hegseth’s Plan for ‘High T’ Troops Is a Junk Science Fever Dream
The defense secretary’s idea of administering testosterone therapy to service members of the US Armed Forces reveals little understanding of the complexity of hormones.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨 "The three men who were arrested during an operation that resulted in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction." wapo.st/4ydn1Ux
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Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: Federal courts have prevented the DOJ from seizing private data on millions of voters in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. Courts have now blocked the Trump administration from illegally accessing voter data 11 out of 11 times.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22/06/2026
The Mississippi Department of Public Safety alleges that the shooting happened in response to one of two subjects driving “in the direction of” officers. A clip of cellphone video obtained by Fox 13 Memphis shows a car driving away from officers, but doesn't show the shooting. buff.ly/oMSukfJ
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Mississippi Police Officer Shoots and Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Response to Shoplifting Call
A Mississippi police officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley at a Walmart while responding to a shoplifting call.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Susan rice reacts to the MOU after Trump’s disastrous, pointless war
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Children are going hungry because Republicans were desperate to give tax handouts to their billionaire donor class.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Presenting Scientific American's inaugural class of Young American Scientists: 28 researchers who are redefining the future of science. sciam.com/youngscientists
The cover of the July/August issue of Scientific American. It is a special issue called The Young American Scientists and features images of a few researchers as well as colorful scientific art in the background.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Two Native women faced off against each other at last week’s Professional Women’s Hockey League championship: Abby Rocque who is Anishinaabe from Wahnapitae First Nation and Jocelyne Larocque who is Red River Metis. ictnews.org/sports/anish...
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Anishinaabe Abby Roque leads Montreal to women’s hockey championship - ICT
Two of the top Indigenous hockey players face off in professional women’s hockey finals
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 26/05/2026
A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at top universities without their knowledge.
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Fake academic journals are publishing AI-generated papers under real professors’ names
Online academic journals falsely attributed articles, likely written by AI, to several professors, who say the fiasco is a warning about the future of scientific knowledge.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 25/04/2026
HIV drove Zambia's life expectancy down to 37. A program backed by the US helped raise it up to 67, as hundreds of lives were saved. Now cuts to the US HIV program are causing a jump in AIDS deaths, as @stephanienolen.bsky.social reports. Gift link: nyti.ms/41V2Uvq
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/04/2026
A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act to allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to purchase hot rotisserie chicken with their benefits.
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SNAP benefits don't pay for rotisserie chicken. A bipartisan bill might change that
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants government food assistance programs to cover rotisserie chicken from grocery stores.
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Trump proposes cut to Hawaiian Home Lands funding, arguing that Native Hawaiians should not get money under a federal Native American Housing law because he considers them a racial group and not a tribal nation. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/04/20/t...
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Trump proposes cut to Hawaiian Home Lands funding
Trump argued that Native Hawaiians should not get money under a federal Native American Housing law because they are a racial group and not a tribal nation.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 16/04/2026
The tax refunds that Americans are receiving this year are being eaten up by Trump's tariffs—which are costing the average American household $1,700 this year. Thanks to Republicans, billionaires get a kickback and you pay a Trump tariff tax.
nbcnews.com
How Trump's tax law boosts the wealthy and leaves behind some workers he promised to help
President Donald Trump pledged “no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security.” For some who are filing their taxes this year, the reality is different.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/04/2026
When a data center proposal popped up on the Muscogee Reservation, these activists fought to stop it. Their work isn’t over yet.
motherjones.com
In Indian Country, Data Centers Come With a Familiar Threat of Colonialism. These Organizers Are Fighting Back.
When a data center proposal popped up on the Muscogee Reservation, these activists fought to stop it. Their work isn't over yet.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 29/03/2026
Team Crockett would like to wish our boss the happiest of birthdays! We are proud to work for such a fearless & inspiring leader every single day. Happy Birthday, Boss!🎈✨
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#NoKings at San Francisco’s ocean beach — protesters joined to form a human banner saying Trump must go now.
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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
SCOOP: The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, U.S. officials said, as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war should President Trump escalate. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon prepares for weeks of ground operations in Iran
If President Trump approves the plans, such an effort would mark a new phase of the war that could be significantly more dangerous to U.S. troops than the first four weeks.
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NoLaceyNo! @nolaceyno.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#NoKings from the arctic in Utqiaġvik, Alaska the northernmost city in the entire USA!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/03/2026
For about a decade, Shay Taylor-Allen walked the halls of Yale New Haven Hospital pushing a janitor’s cart, mopping patient rooms. Soon, she’ll walk the halls of the hospital again, this time wearing a white coat. “It is surreal,” she said.
washingtonpost.com
After a decade as a Yale hospital janitor, she is now a doctor there
“I still can’t believe it,” said Shay Taylor-Allen, who landed a residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, where she was born and spent most of her adult life on the cleaning staff.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/03/2026
"One woman became so sick from eating the food that she began vomiting blood." "My 4-year-old son…hit his head and developed a black eye while in custody. I am very concerned that he may have suffered a head concussion and his condition has not been adequately addressed."
motherjones.com
Wormy food, intimidating guards, sick kids: Inside ICE’s only family detention center
First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/03/2026
"The unidentified air traffic controller was in charge of both air and ground traffic. While that's not necessarily out of the ordinary — especially late night — it should be. It meant he was in charge of telling planes in the air, on the ground, and vehicles on the ground where they needed to go."
jalopnik.com
'I Messed Up' LaGuardia Air Traffic Controller Was Juggling Sky And Ground Traffic By Himself Right Before Deadly Crash With Firetruck - Jalopnik
I cannot imagine trying to deal with all of this, I'll tell you what.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.
40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is now the LOST generation for all doctoral research, from engineering to public health, from literature to psychology, from religion to economics. Some programs will suffer more than others, but this is a tremendous loss to the future. This is ALL on #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #JDVance.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
RIP Robert Mueller, he was preceded in death by the Rule of Law.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 19/03/2026
$200 billion for a war the American people oppose? NO WAY. Instead of blowing hundreds of billions on Trump's war of choice, we could save the ACA tax credits or make universal child care a reality—you name it. Congress must END this war and focus on FAMILIES here at home.
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
That figure would far surpass the costs of the U.S. airstrike campaign to date and aims to boost production of critical weapons depleted in the conflict, people familiar with the matter said.
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NPR @npr.org · 19/03/2026
People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data. n.pr/4lyzEDy
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ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested
People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.
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National Center for LGBTQ Rights @nclrights.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is running a conversion therapy program. We are calling on everyone — not just those who are transgender, not just those who have loved ones in prison — to recognize what it represents and to oppose it.
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons Is Running a Conversion Therapy Program. We must not let it stand
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Congressman Gabe Amo @amo.house.gov · 19/03/2026
Trump’s health care cuts mean people struggling to pay for coverage are buying fewer groceries. And Trump will spend more on a war of choice with Iran than it would have cost to extend the tax credits & stop this pain. Failure at every turn.
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