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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hawaii enacted a law that could neuter Citizens United. Montana could soon follow suit via a ballot referendum. Here's what you should know about the plans to get Big Money out of politics — and how they could be replicated where you live.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admits errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, NOT VANDALISM, caused the pool’s blue liner to peel and break loose. Atlantic is being paid $14.7 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump’s claim that his $5k payoff isn’t a quid pro quo for voting Republican is undercut by the fact he’s not pushing to do it now, when Republicans already control Congress
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.
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areyousayingpam.bsky.social @areyousayingpam.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gov. Ivey: Please respect the jury's decision and stop the execution of Jeffery Lee in Alabama. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/go...
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Gov. Ivey: Please respect the jury's decision and stop the execution of Jeffery Lee in Alabama
Jeffery Lee was convicted of killing Jimmy Ellis and Elaine Thompson, and wounding Helen King in 1998. There is no question of his guilt, but the jury that convicted him was persuaded to sentence him ...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026
Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren.
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Saint Jimothy #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are we ever going to find out what happened to mitch McConnell
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026
Retired Navy Commander Bobby Jones on the part of Doris Miller’s story too many Americans were never taught: His heroism at Pearl Harbor should have earned him the Medal of Honor. Why didn’t it? “I’ll give you one guess. He was a Black man.” Now they want to take his name off an aircraft carrier
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
💃 Dolly & Kermit 🐸 Singing Everyday People, '87
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/08/2026
In Gary, Indiana, without refrigeration insulin supplies are being spoiled, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks due to lack of electricity. A public health disaster.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/08/2026
Jon Ossoff found the one button in Washington labeled DO NOT PRESS and immediately leaned on it with both elbows.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🧐 Marco Rubio in 2016: “I will make this promise to you today, I will do whatever it takes....Donald Trump, a con artist, will never get control of this party...We cannot allow a con artist to get access to the nuclear codes of the United States of America.”
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When the banks needed help, they called it “stabilizing the economy.” When airlines needed help, they called it “protecting jobs.” When corporations got tax breaks, they called it “pro-growth.” When working people need health care? “SOCIALISM.”
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/07/2026
This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
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Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Khanna: Katie Phang brought a lawsuit under the original Epstein transparency act, and the judge has ruled that Todd Blanche needs to release the remaining files. And he has been in defiance of already a federal judge's order
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you have *real* evidence of election fraud, you file a lawsuit. But if you are a pathetic sore loser who wants desperately to believe any fiction that excuses your actual loss, you go on TV where, unlike in court, you won’t be held accountable for your brazen and ridiculous lies.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
McConnell staff releases new proof of life photo of the Senator.
Black and white photo of a young Mitch McConnell
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areyousayingpam.bsky.social @areyousayingpam.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The device I read recipes on should not be the same device I scroll social media on
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 15/06/2026
Via Anna Barrett: Voters across Alabama go to the polls Tuesday to select party nominees for the 2026 midterm elections in five statewide and six legislative primary runoff elections. Here's a guide to the races. ow.ly/SqJ850ZbAL3
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Anti abortion activists said “leaving abortion to the states” would alleviate partisan rancor and get the justices out of the “abortion umpire business.” Now they’re demanding the courts force pro choice states to help enforce abortion bans. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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So Much for Leaving Abortion Up to the States
Louisiana’s case against the FDA is not just about one drug.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
'Donald Dump' - 2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an illuminating example of what politicians in power *can* do. Donald Trump is an illuminating example of what politicians should never have the power *to* do.
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areyousayingpam.bsky.social @areyousayingpam.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Immigration in America and Alabama” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Immigration in America and Alabama · Indivisible
Birmingham Indivisible invites the public to a timely community Town Hall on Immigration in America and Alabama—an issue shaping families, communities, and public policy across our state right now. As...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The U.S. Supreme Court erased all doubts about the sweeping nature of its recent voting rights jurisprudence Tuesday night with a shadow docket ruling that effectively reverses the Court’s own decision in the same matter just three years ago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court's Alabama redistricting ruling marks striking reversal of its previous stance
"More and more, this Court shows itself to be little more than a partisan tool engaged in results-oriented jurisprudence," Prof. Hasen wrote.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. A Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places it at odds with democracy itself. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20/05/2026
Donald Trump is getting a $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for by YOU. To do what? Fund the guys that rioted and beat up police officers? It’s unbelievable.
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Donald Trump is getting a $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for by YOU.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026
NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
More than 70 of these facilities had active EPA violations in the past five years. They weren’t complying with the old rules, and now they don’t have to comply with the new ones either. The EDF map showing exempted facilities: www.edf.org/maps/epa-pol... Link: www.propublica.org/article/clea...
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EPA Pollution Pass Map 2025
A map of 500+ industrial facilities in the United States showing whether they've requested or been granted an EPA pollution exemption, who lives nearby, and more.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
They were already doing it. The exemptions were given to mostly coal power plants (71 of them), more than any other category. Medical sterilization facilities emitting carcinogenic ethylene oxide. Oil refineries, copper smelters and chemical plants.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
To invoke it, the president has to certify that the industry is essential to national security AND that the technology needed to comply simply doesn’t exist. Multiple utilities had already publicly said they were installing the required pollution controls. The technology exists.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
trade group was the one who set up the system. The White House reviewed the requests. The White House approved them. The legal justification was “national security”. The Clean Air Act does have a presidential exemption clause, but it had never been used this way before in U.S. history.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
monitoring data, input from Native American governments and public health groups. All gone with a signature. The EPA scientists played zero role in approving any of it. The agency itself said so. Instead, a political appointee who previously worked for a utility company and a petrochemicals
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
public records requests. The result over 180 facilities across 38 states and Puerto Rico got a presidential pass to ignore updated air quality rules for two years. Rules that took years to develop. Rules that went through public comment periods, air
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
can get a two-year exemption from Clean Air Act rules. No application or scientific review it was just an email. They came flooding in. ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of them through
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In March 2025, the Trump administration set up an email inbox through the EPA. They sent word to coal plants, chemical manufacturers, oil refineries and other industrial facilities telling them to send us an email by the end of the month and you
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/05/2026
NEW: Trump is going to give himself $1.7B from the treasury to pay his allies who were prosecuted under the Biden administration- including pardoned insurrectionists. This is a “settlement” deal in his $10B suit against the IRS. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...
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Trump poised to drop IRS suit, launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies: Sources
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund for victims of governmental "weaponization," sources say.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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