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Athena Speaks

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Historian. Feminist. Human.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
FOX BUSINESS: Are there plans for Trump to come back and campaign again in your district? MIKE LAWLER No. FOX: Okay. Alright.
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Sarah Gaines @sarahgaines.bsky.social · 28m
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Trump Suggests Iran Can ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego In Crazy War Rant
YouTube video by Don Lemon
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 51m
The federal government is lying to you. And we have the receipts. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12h
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Julie @julie3500.bsky.social · 4h
🤬But Mar-a-Lago is closer!
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Ms. Lonnie🦋🩵🫂 @lonsj.bsky.social · 11h
Wannabe gangsters Treat government funds like their personal stash Lawlessness! Vote Blue to start fixing everything Be patient, it will take time
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@AshleyTheWriter💙✍️ (advocate) @ashleythewriter.bsky.social · 5h
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 4h
He is delusional 🙄
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5h
Who you gonna believe, the lying liar or your own eyes? 👀
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16h
Oh, spare me the bullshit redemption tour. Everyone knew what this was going to be. “Thom Tillis calls his vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth his “biggest regret” and says Hegseth should resign.” apnews.com/article/thom...
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Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 20h
How has Vought et. al disrupted NIH funding? 1. Grants were awarded more slowly in 2025-2026. 2. Peer reviewed grants enter a digital black hole. 3. Most of the staff that process the awards is gone. 4. Grants are flagged if they contain banned words. 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...
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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 14h
Machine gun? Karoline Leavitt is barely capable of being a Temu bidet.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
10/5 Santa Maria: ICE crashed into a parked car after jumping out to kidnap a community member this morning. ICE Has been terrorizing our neighbors in Santa Maria ALL MORNING! If you have any information on the incidents today, please call our hotline or send a message! 805-870-8855
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14h
Fox runs an In Memoriam segment for former Republican Speaker and admitted pedophile Dennis Hastert. Courtesy of @acyn.bsky.social
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Republicans who spent years promoting a lie about secret biolabs in Ukraine are suddenly quiet about the plague outbreak from a Russian biolab.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18h
Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Ailani 🌺 Brown Eye Girl @browneyegirlhi.bsky.social · 14h
Ya, one thing I've learned in life; you don't mess with people's kids, jobs, & nobody's damn money. Git the greedy out; tax ALL of them, we'll have a better country.
YOU'RE A DUMBASS
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PROVE ME WRONG
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 14h
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h
“.. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991 ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h
Ah yes, the pneumonia plague. Just inject bleach - probably knock it right out.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19h
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 22h
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/10/2026
Clowns with flame throwers
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 30/09/2026
Thirty-seven people have died while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since last fall, the deadliest fiscal year on record for the agency.
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Immigrant Deaths in ICE Custody Nearly Double as Oversight Wanes
Thirty-seven people have died while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since last fall, the deadliest fiscal year on record for the agency.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
😂 Democracy, russian style. Communists in Moscow held an officially approved rally. Then they started chanting “Down with the Tsar!” And suddenly the “approved rally” wasn’t so approved anymore - police beat them and dispersed the crowd.
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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 01/10/2026
According to ICE's statement published this morning, Julian Curo-Churata, a 47-year-old man from Peru, died on Tuesday, September 29th at LSU Health's Monroe Medical Center in Monroe, Louisiana. www.ice.gov/news/release...
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Illegal alien from Peru passes away in ICE custody in Louisiana
ICE is committed to ensuring that all those in custody reside in safe, secure and humane environments.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h
NEWS: Republican congressional candidate Rick Jackson spent the primary tying himself closely to Trump. After winning the nomination, Trump’s name quietly started disappearing from his campaign website.
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Rick Jackson Quietly Scrubbed Trump's Name From His Campaign Website After Winning the Primary
The Georgia GOP nominee who promised to be "Trump's favorite governor" is now hiding him from voters.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 23h
Pretending that expertise becomes unnecessary when the questions involve war, public health, financial stability, aviation, or national security is reckless. steadystate1.substack.com/p/hold-fast-...
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Hold Fast: The Importance of a Nonpartisan Civil Service
Tell Me What I Need to Know
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22h
“We’re not going to just put our hands up and say, ‘Oh well, we tried.' When it opens, it’ll be even more important to pressure to close it. At that point, people are being harmed. We’re just going to keep making a stink of it. "We'll never go away until it’s closed." www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨 LIVE SHUT DOWN Delaney Hall ICE Prison Rally | LIVE From New Jersey. Status Coup's Jordan Chariton is LIVE at 12pm EST at the NJ Statehouse where protesters are calling on Gov. Mikie Sherrill to shut down Delaney Hall ICE prison. www.youtube.com/live/53EU7wD...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23h
Byron, tell us again how you came to Florida?
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 22h
Here's how petty and snide Karoline Leavitt is. Last year, she said: “As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios.” The same New York Times reporter who praised her today as "steely and nimble" wrote this story about that policy.
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Pronouns in Bio? You May Not Get a Response From the White House. (Published 2025)
Some Trump administration officials have declined to answer questions from several journalists on the basis of their email signatures.
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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 21h
Well this isn’t getting enough attention! Do conservatives SEE the pattern yet? Or is that what they value in a GOP candidate?
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 05/10/2026
airbrushed photos of these goons aside, your periodic reminder to stay TF away from Log Cabin repubs. if this dopey flier inspires even 1s of people to canvass it would shock me 🎩 @whodat35.bsky.social
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/10/2026
NEW: Remember when John Oliver opened a church to expose how easy it was to get tax exemptions? This year, ProPublica reporters set out to establish private schools to test if, truly, anyone could open one. We founded two. Here’s how.
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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
I wonder if they miss the days when they had diesel so cheap they could run massive trucker caravans against democrats.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Trump Ten Years, Have Been Some Of The Darkest Years.......
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 22h
"I'll believe it when I see it..." IS BACKWARDS. The only way to see it is to DO IT--BE IT. Not sit around and wait for others to prove it to you. BE THE CHANGE. BE THE FUCKING CHANGE!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” in an interview that sparked an instant backlash from critics of the major AI companies. His comments came after one of his company’s safety experts resigned, saying at the weekend that its “culture is broken”. Continue reading...
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
BREAKING: European leaders are reportedly pissed that Donald Trump is hosting the next G20 meeting at his own property so their countries have to pay him personally, and more pissed that he invited Putin because they all have intelligence proof he’s being blackmailed by Putin.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every. Single. One. Of. Them. 😎✨
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reassured about my belief (which I've had for a couple of months) that Dems will take the Senate by Mark Penn saying, "I still think the Republicans hold the Senate." www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/1...
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Mark Penn: GOP Holds The Senate, "Democrats Have Incredibly Weak Candidates In Maine And In Michigan"
On "Hannity," pollster Mark Penn said the midterms are hard to predict given how close the races are, but he ultimately expects Republicans to retain Senate control. SEAN HANNITY: Now, Democrats, the...
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the deadline to register to vote in the following states: Arizona Arkansas Florida Georgia Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Ohio Tennessee Texas Please don't miss out. ✍🏾🗳️
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Register for Next Steps Conference
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