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Baba O’Riley

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Wasted in a teenage wasteland.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Raul" harvests tomatoes at Gargiulo and is excited about his new 3 year UFW contract. He'll earn $0.90 per 25lb bucket for first-pick round tomatoes, a 4-cent increase from last season. Based on average production he might earn around $1.50 more per hour. #WeFeedYou
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/05/2026
BREAKING: It took eight tries, but the Senate has voted 50-47 to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s war on Iran. Bill Cassidy flipped after losing his primary, joining Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul in voting with Democrats. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote against.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/05/2026
Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law. (Published Sept. 2025)
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What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It is all connected. Billionaires are building the data centers to power the artificial intelligence that will replace our jobs and the US government is doing it for mass surveillance and war. Oh and they’re building the data centers over farmland to reduce our food supply, since their AI robots
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/05/2026
Scott MacFarlane reports Democracy Forward has ordered the Trump administration to preserve all records tied to Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS and the newly created slush fund. CEO Skye Perryman: “Preserve your documents, because we’re going to see you in court.”
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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
BREAKING: President Trump is caught on camera trying to sexually assault himself. #DonaldTrump
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/05/2026
There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Don Lemon: “If Barack Obama had sued his own government, settled with himself in secret, created a billion dollar fund with no congressional oversight to pay his political allies. What if he did that? They would’ve had him in chains before sundown. The National Guard would have been called in
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The amount of corruption that is happening is absolutely ridiculous. The Justice Department has agreed to permanently shield Trump, his family, and his businesses from IRS tax claims a last-minute addition to the slush-fund deal.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This is outright theft. Trump is stealing $1.7 BILLION of your money to set up a totally unprecedented, first-in-American-history political slush fund that he can use to dole out cash to win loyalty and favors for him and his family.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
this is a masterpiece
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
No qualifiers needed Senator. It IS an obvious abuse of power
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Brilliant job today by Sen. Van Hollen. Blanche can't handle the truth. He doesn't act like an Attorney General. He was Trump's criminal defense lawyer, now he's Trump's personal retribution prosecutor and grift dispenser. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
As if people don't remember what football and its (mostly) white fans did to Black athletes just taking a knee during NFL games?! What is the plan to support these athletes if they make this move?
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Voters of Tomorrow @votersoftomorrow.org · 19/05/2026
two dumb corrupt bitches telling each other exactlyyy
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Zoe Washburne Rebel Scum @zoewashburne.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
President Biden cut the cost of insulin - Sauron reversed that. Insulin now costs $300 Phuck Sauron
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Announcing: Platypus Economics — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the world. It belongs to everyone — not just the people who happened to take it in college. 🧵
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/05/2026
Oh my god
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/05/2026
Trump tore down nearly half the White House, without approval, then told you this ballroom would not cost any taxpayer money. Now, Republicans are requesting $1 Billion of your money for security features related to it. #ballroominflation bit.ly/4tdZaAg
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Republicans Make Jaw-Dropping $1B Demand for Trump’s Ballroom
The president has insisted his vanity project would be funded by wealthy donors.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“There’s no peace in the Middle East bc Palestinians refuse to believe in the Torah. The Torah says it’s our [Jews] land. And that’s why America must always stand with Israel.” Wow. He just came right out and said it. He really needs to step down
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander
More than 100,000 absentee ballots had been sent to voters across the state. Some had already been completed and returned.
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F Baran @fbaranow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is the correct way of referring to adding justices to the SCOTUS. Dems need to learn how to frame a movement positively before the right frames it for them in a negative light. Modernizing by right-sizing the SCOTUS to reflect the now 13 circuits is necessary for overall balance and fairness.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Reuters-Ipsos poll: 34% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance. 64% disapprove. Just 22% approve of Trump's performance on the cost of living.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Andys Theory 🦋⚡️💎 @andystheory.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Oh, you go Karma. 🤞🤞💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
He never had the money to pay for the ballroom. It was always a scam. We were always going to have to pay for it. They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill. This is now the time.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Look if Trump wants to keep making the ballroom a big issue, he definitely should. Voters will be thrilled for the President to get a ballroom, on top of the billions he’s grifted, while their grocery and gas prices continue to climb. Great issue for R’s to campaign on in 2026.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Not to be overly alarmist, but everyone should be worried about DOJ’s indictment of SPLC. Here’s why: joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...
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What’s Wrong With The SPLC Indictment
DOJ's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center is a critical moment in the administration's war on democracy
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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 27/04/2026
Four Democratic senators say they are investigating whether the Pentagon left U.S. troops at a command post in Kuwait without sufficient protection ahead of an Iranian drone attack that killed six American servicemembers and left more than 20 wounded.
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Democratic senators launch investigation into Kuwait strike that killed U.S. troops
Surviving troops disputed Pentagon's account of the attack on the command post in Kuwait, saying the unit "was unprepared" to defend itself.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/04/2026
Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent of Vermont, is pressing top Democrats to require candidates to reject super PAC support in primaries or face punishment from the national party and its affiliates.
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Bernie Sanders Pressures Democrats to Reject Super PAC Support in Primaries
The independent senator from Vermont says top Democrats should tell candidates they will otherwise lose access to party resources.
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deanna @scarsandhearts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Still gonna bitch every day until everyone wakes up to electing a shitty businessman to dissolve all social value in government to privatize the things that make him $ & drive away our best minds & scientists to better countries to lose forever. Your government was never intended to profit off you.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/04/2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said today the United States is being “humiliated by the Iranian leadership.” He also questioned the endgame, warning that entering a conflict without an exit plan risks repeating failures seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
RFK's rage and self-righteous sense of entitlement are obvious and scary. He is not someone I would want to be around at work or personally.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
AOC Renews Call to Oust Trump After Report on His Exclusion From Situation Room #TruthOut
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AOC Renews Call to Oust Trump After Report on His Exclusion From Situation Room
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/04/2026
I wrote about Eastman's efforts back in Nov 2021.
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Analysis | What did John Eastman really want to have happen?
The Trump-loyal attorney is trying to reframe his pre-Jan. 6 arguments as sensible. Their genesis was anything but.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/04/2026
For Netanyahu, the war in Gaza was not enough. Iran was not enough. He is now waging a full-blown war of expansion in Lebanon. The time is long overdue for Congress to listen to the American people and end U.S. military aid to the extremist Israeli government.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans. After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company. Now, the states have won.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The USS George H.W. Bush is sailing around the tip of Africa right now... toward a war zone...carrying 6,000 Americans. A third carrier. 10,000 more troops arriving before April 22nd. That's the ceasefire deadline. Do the math. Full breakdown at the link. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Steve Inskeep @steveinskeep.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Why did Dave Chappelle agree to a comedy show in Saudi Arabia? Why does he live in Yellow Springs, Ohio? And why did he pay for a new headquarters for the NPR station there? Just an amazing NPR Newsmakers conversation with Michel Martin. youtu.be/3zEbK4VPNO8?...
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Dave Chappelle wants his audience to ‘remember how good it feels to be together’ in turbulent times
YouTube video by NPR
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15/04/2026
Can confirm
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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 15/04/2026
As soon as today, the US Senate will vote on a House resolution that allows copper mining by a Chilean company near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The Boundary Waters is the most-visited wilderness area in the country, and it cannot be replaced.
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Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 13/04/2026
What the f*ck is Melania Trump talking about?
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