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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Former President George W. Bush marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by unveiling a series of 9/11 paintings — including the moment he learned America was under attack. The artwork quickly left social media users stunned. Link in comments ⤵️
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is insane.
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attyjulie.bsky.social @attyjulie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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De Music @dakotapiano.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't understand how anyone in other countries can look at the US right now and say "yep! That's the kind of government we want here!" Add on forgetting their own history. There must be massive disinformation.
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Stephen Morrison @stephen-morrison.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I still feel like we're replaying 1928. It's good to see, though, that some folks at least seem to have paid attention in history class and are working to make this version end a bit better.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
SO the election is alarming but there are many reasons to believe that the "free basic democratic order" (as they call it) is still intact and relatively protected.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
c) far-sighted Germans who saw this coming amended the constitution and constitutional court act two years ago to prevent the Constitutional Court from being captured as Germany lurches rightward, and that will be a brake on the worst possible outcomes.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
b) the AfD did not win outright yesterday but needs a coalition partner to govern and that is going to be tricky,
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a) the election is in Germany's smallest state and while support for this party nationally is too high, it is nowhere near enough support to form a government at federal level,
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 07/09/2026
Good thread re: the AfD news:
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
NEW: Gerrymandering opponents urged the Supreme Court not to restore a Republican-backed congressional map in Missouri for the midterms, arguing that the “adequate and independent state ground doctrine” renders the case unreviewable by federal courts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Gerrymander foes urge Supreme Court not to revive GOP map in Missouri
A voting rights group files its objection to Missouri GOP's appeal to the Supreme Court asking it to greenlight a gerrymander without voters weighing in.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
No peace agreements regarding the war in Ukraine are expected in the near future. Putin’s position has hardened further, and he believes he is winning the war. For now, the options for ending the war appear to be Putin’s death or direct intervention by China to stop it.
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David Schwartz @davidschwartz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Today, the entire nation watched him outmaneuver the richest man in the world, who tried to push through a self-serving government funding deal, and he emerged as the de facto Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America. 🇺🇲
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You nailed it!
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K.M.F.0990 @kmf0990.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
👍🤣🤣🤣🤣communism is at large in the USA 😱
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 02/09/2026
President Donald Trump's aides are quietly preparing untested legal tactics to blunt a wave of Democratic investigations they expect after the midterms.
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Trump aides quietly prepping untested tactics as Dem clash nears 'uncharted territory'
President Donald Trump's aides are quietly preparing untested legal tactics to blunt a wave of Democratic investigations they expect after the midterms.According to an article by Politico, new preparations have started since Will Scharf took over as the White House counsel on Tuesday. An August 10 J...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 02/09/2026
GOP candidates in competitive House races told a columnist they don't know whether they'll appear at President Donald Trump's midterm convention because of scheduling conflicts.
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Republicans are quiet-quitting Trump's big party with suspiciously timed conflicts: report
GOP candidates in competitive House races told a columnist they don't know whether they'll appear at President Donald Trump's midterm convention because of scheduling conflicts.In a Tuesday column, political commentator Joe Perticone noted a "conveniently timed epidemic of GOP scheduling conflicts" ...
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attyjulie.bsky.social @attyjulie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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attyjulie.bsky.social @attyjulie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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We FINALLY Know Why Trump Wants to Cancel The Midterms…
We’re building Endless Urgency into the independent media operation this moment demands—and I need your help to do it.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 01/09/2026
“Trump was surprised when Driscoll told him how many generals and other top officers had been fired, pushed out, or passed over for promotion under Hegseth”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry, a lyrical Kentucky farmer who wrote award-winning poems, novels and essays, has died at 92.
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I just can't imagine why Bari Weiss is so fixated on El-Sayed in particular. I can't fathom it for the life of me. It is almost as though there is something about him that she especially hates.
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attyjulie.bsky.social @attyjulie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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El-Sayed apologizes for comments responding to attack on Michigan synagogue
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has apologized to the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus
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attyjulie.bsky.social @attyjulie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️journalists ‼️‼️‼️‼️💔
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
ICE arrests are surging as the administration targets more immigrants www.npr.org/2026/08/29/n...
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ICE arrests are surging as the administration targets more immigrants
ICE made nearly 50,000 arrests in July -- the highest monthly total of Trump's second term -- as enforcement expands to more places like airports, courthouses and immigration check-ins.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fears for communities near Colorado River as drought means future is uncertain www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Fears for communities near Colorado River as drought means future is uncertain
The severely depleted Colorado River is causing grave concern for those who rely on it
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 30/08/2026
Judge finds mother with postpartum psychosis not guilty of murdering her two children in case echoing Lindsay Clancy trial
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A recent case echoing Lindsay Clancy’s trial, the mother was found not guilty
The NYC verdict comes as a Massachusetts jury deliberates in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Really looking forward to someone explaining that VZ owes an enormous amount of money to US companies and that has been one of the reasons why real oil companies don't want to invest which this corrupt deal is meant to bypass. Does VZ just dissolve PDVSA and roll it into this?
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
¶19 in WSJ's latest on Trump's VZ oil deal (which focuses on how the "Department of War" will own part of it). www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Faced with an unpopular and grinding war with Iran, which has squeezed global energy supplies, the Trump administration felt a sense of urgency to announce it had secured a long-term source of crude in the Western Hemisphere, people involved in the talks said. Trump also sought a political win in portraying the Venezuela deal as a way to insulate Americans from the costs of the turmoil in the Middle East ahead of November’s midterm elections, they added.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Trump, empowered by SCOTUS, entered office convinced he could do insider trading, sell pardons and favors, take bribes, steal and openly flout the law. Now, with the prospect of investigations looming, he is growing ever more fearful that he miscalculated.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
POV your drive in Naples just took a wrong turns
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 30/08/2026
India likely grew at more than 7% last quarter, a pace most major economies would envy. Yet, that may still be too slow to deliver on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a developed nation. Read more: bloom.bg/4gZ41SV 📷️: Brendon O'Hagan/Bloomberg
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The agreement covers 17 oilfields and eight new exploration blocks, while Venezuela retains ownership of its resources. Rodriguez said the deal could generate about $209 billion in state revenue and help revive the country’s energy sector.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez said the new U.S.-Venezuela energy deal will run for 25 years and aims to raise oil production to more than 1.5 million barrels per day.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
From El Pais US edition, ten days before Trump announced the deal (it also describes that Spanish criminal case against Betancourt was reopened in June). english.elpais.com/internationa...
Betancourt left a week after his arrival on June 27 and returned to Venezuela on July 22, according to another flight plan obtained by EL PAÍS. Supposedly he did so on a private aircraft that departed Florida bound for Maiquetía. According to that document, he was accompanied by his wife, his sister, his two children and several Spanish entrepreneurs, friends, and investors in the various businesses Betancourt has backed. The charter listed in the registry departed the United States at 14.42 and landed in Venezuela at 17.30, according to the flight tracker FlightAware, but there is something mysterious about this trip.

Although the document places the aircraft in Venezuela, two of the passengers deny having been there and say that, in that timeframe, the trip they took with Betancourt was from New York to Miami after attending the World Cup final. In addition, the information for that same flight was sent twice with different data and in the second document — same route, same day, same aircraft, same crew — sent while the plane was in flight, there is no trace of Betancourt or his guests.

In their place only Laura Hietamies, a Finnish financier, and her husband, American Jacob Hirshman, co-founder of digital bank Erebor, which serves tech, crypto, and defense companies, appear. Hirshman has traveled to Caracas several times this year to connect the country to the U.S. financial system. Neither responded to EL PAÍS’s messages.

The swapping of names and documents, the complete substitution of one passenger list for another, is, according to a source familiar with the case, a deliberate attempt to disguise Betancourt’s arrival in Venezuela. EL PAÍS sent multiple messages to the businessman, but there was no response. Two of his associates refused to act as intermediaries.
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Mary Peltola @marypeltola.com · 29/08/2026
Pass term limits. Ban congressional stock trading. Overturn Citizens United. Get foreign influence out of our politics. It won't fix everything, but it's a start. We need leaders who are willing to fight to fix the broken system that’s shutting down Alaska.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 29/08/2026
🚨 Russia weaponizes global hunger. It has launched 134 strikes against Ukrainian ports and civilian ships since July 1. By sinking grain vessels and targeting ports, Moscow is intentionally driving up global food prices and cutting off food supplies to vulnerable nations in Africa and Asia.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
They misspelled the word stole.
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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attyjulie.bsky.social @attyjulie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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attyjulie.bsky.social @attyjulie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@whitehouse can you idiots do something dignified?!! @marcorubio @statedept.govmirrors.com
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s been almost 90 days since the American people have seen or heard from Mitch McConnell. We’re still paying his salary.
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JB Poersch @jbpoersch.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This so great. Trump is so dumb, he couldn’t complete a sentence about half of the guys on this list.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 27/08/2026
i can't think of a clearer "smart glasses are cooked among anyone remotely cool" moment than this futurism.com/artificial-i...
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NYC's Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever
Basement, one of NYC's buzziest nightclubs, has announced a total ban on smart glasses amid growing controversy.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/08/2026
L.A. residents accustomed to a succession of splendid days during the summer are now facing something unusual: humidity.
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Summer Weather in L.A. Was Perfect. Then Came Humidity and Mosquitoes.
Warmer water off the coast has made things slightly swampy for residents used to a succession of splendid days.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/08/2026
The Kennedy Center was never the city’s most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.
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The Kennedy Center was part of DC life. Trump destroyed it.
It was never the city's most daring arts venue. It was something better: all ours.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
THIS is what a tribute to Dolly Parton looks and sounds like.
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attyjulie.bsky.social @attyjulie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Boat Strikes Are Murder www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.
By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.
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