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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇
Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just realized I forgot to post this: Here’s part 2 of my AI and National Security series: This part is focused on strategic risks, threats we aren’t yet measuring, and risk mitigation. Unlocked for everyone. www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog/pos...
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AI and National Security: Part 2 | Angry Staffer
In Part I, we talked about where AI is already changing warfare: intelligence analysis, targeting, cybersecurity, and increasingly autonomou
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Republican Tom Barrett gave $83 BILLION in tax breaks for data center developers. Michigan-07 wants him OUT, and @wewill2026.bsky.social IN.
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banffsprings.bsky.social @banffsprings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I hope the Sox continue their winning. But good luck going to a game unless you have deep pockets.  Average ticket price is about $792, well above the median price of $620, TicketNetwork shows. I guess it shows the state of our elite economy. America's game is out of touch with the average American.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’re calling on Congress to investigate these incidents: www.citizen.org/article/coal...
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Coalition Calls on DOJ and Congress to Investigate Growing Wave of AI Cybersecurity Incidents - Public Citizen
September 30, 2026 Dear Attorney General Blanche, Chairman Jordan, Chairman Grassley, Chairman Cruz, Chairman Guthrie, Ranking Member Raskin, Ranking Member…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Book-banning GOP governor wants you to buy his book.
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Book-banning GOP governor wants you to buy his book
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is promoting himself as a "peacemaker."
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Aubrey Martinson @aubreymartinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm so proud of @galvinalmanza.bsky.social and her phenomenal book for this well-deserved recognition!
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To be noticed in this way isn't just an incredible honor, it's also an incredible benefit to the mission of the book, which is to push our legal system to solve more problems and rely less unpunishment. Thank you so much for this recognition!
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 02/10/2026
The minute anyone tries to hold Susan Collins accountable for her contradictions, POOF! She's gone
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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Lee @5newmanl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts
When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Local Iowa Report Provides Scathing Fact-Check of Trump’s New Steel Mill: ‘That’s Not True’ www.mediaite.com/media/news/l...
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Local Iowa Report Provides Scathing Fact-Check of Trump’s New Steel Mill: ‘That’s Not True’
Donald Trump announced a "done deal" to build a $15 billion steel plant in Lee County, Iowa, but local media reported that Trump's claims "don't match reality."
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says
The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/10/2026
The Trump administration's scare tactics ahead of the midterms have hit a usual refrain: "migrant caravan." In reality, it's about 600 people (mostly families) who are 1,000 miles from the border. Just when gas prices keep climbing, Trump world is looking for a distraction. This is their attempt.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
The illegal power grab by Donald Trump continues. The real question is whether my Republican colleagues will finally find their collective backbone and do something about it.
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America
The chief justice of the US has painted himself as a modern institutionalist over the past 20 years. Experts say he’s emboldening Trump’s drive toward authoritarianism
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What does tyranny look like? What does authoritarianism look like? What does cruelty look like? It looks like #ICELawlessness! It looks like this! It looks like people being arrested, brutalized & assaulted for no reason & not read their Miranda rights. Please read Gideon's Trumpet! Vote blue! 🧵
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/09/2026
JUST IN: Senate Republicans are backing Trump’s war despite your skyrocketing gas prices. Remember that in November. #BlueWaveIn40Days
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minnesota-2024.bsky.social @minnesota-2024.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We really, really need new leadership. Schumer and Jeffries are not it.
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Brad Davidson @braddavidson77.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jeffries isn't ready to do shit. He's already said (several times in fact) that the dems in the House are not going to persue Articles of Impeachment. He needs to lead or get out of the way and let someone else lead
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/09/2026
Diesel just hit the highest national average ever recorded: $6.53 a gallon. Farmers, truckers and consumers are about to feel it even harder.
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FactCheck.org @factcheck.org · 21/09/2026
Trump Repeats False and Misleading Vaccine Claims As we wrote back in August, there’s no evidence vaccines cause autism or that the size or number of doses under the current vaccination schedule is harmful. On Sept. 18, Trump repeated these claims. www.factcheck.org/2026/08/trum...
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 18/09/2026
A member of the Chicago region’s Potawatomi tribe, Kitihawa was Jean Baptiste Point DuSable's business partner, say the artists who wanted to give her some recognition.
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DuSable's partner, Kitihawa, honored in Ravenswood school mural
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
A disturbing video from Trump’s Virginia golf club shows children scooping live fish out of a swimming pool during a Labor Day weekend activity. Now the footage is going viral, and the questions are piling up.
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“Animal Abuse”— Internet Reacts to Trump’s Fish Swimming Pool Kids Activity
Viral poolside video shows bizarre event at Trump’s Virginia golf club.
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banffsprings.bsky.social @banffsprings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Marco Rubio: "For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.” (2016)
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/09/2026
If you need proof Zach Lahn has no problem screwing Iowa Farmers, just take a look at his running mate.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 15/09/2026
🗣️ “We all get on our flights and have to worry about taking too much water in our water bottles, and meanwhile, there are ammunition handling systems and F-35 parts and tank sites ... on these flights, without us actually knowing,” Movement Research Unit investigator Abdullah told The Intercept.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 15/09/2026
The Intercept revealed that United Airlines is resuming shipments of military equipment to Israel aboard civilian passenger flights, without them knowing. "These arms onboard constitute an ‘effective contribution to military action’ under [international humanitarian law]."
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'Come fly the deadly skies': Ex-official claims United using passengers as 'human shields'
A bombshell report from The Intercept revealed that United Airlines is resuming shipments of military equipment to Israel aboard civilian passenger flights, sparking several blistering condemnations from prominent figures.United previously used passenger flights to transfer military cargo to Israel ...
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 15/09/2026
President Trump just wiped away tariffs on Irish whiskey at whim because the Irish Open was hosted at a golf resort he owns and profits from. Trump's tariffs were never about policy. They're about his personal power and profit. Ridiculously corrupt.
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Trump cuts Ireland’s whiskey tariff as a parting gift
The president said Ireland’s distillers would no longer face tariffs as a thank-you gesture for his hosting of the Irish Open golf tournament.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 15/09/2026
JUST IN 🚨: U.S. 30-Year Mortgage Rate jumps to 7.22%, the highest level since January 2025 📈 🏡
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trump’s EPA will no longer limit pollution from gas and coal-burning power plants. Reminder: Trump took millions of dollars in donations from Big Oil, and his EPA chief Lee Zeldin is cozy with the coal industry. Is there anything this regime won’t destroy to please its bankrollers?
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Trump's EPA repeals pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants
The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants.
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The EPA has fundamentally overhauled its policies toward environmental and human health in pursuit of the Trump administration’s “energy dominance” and MAHA agendas. Read my latest for @motherjones.com
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Susan Perri @perri4health @perri4health.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everyone needs to vote out all republicans! Vote as if your life depends on it 🪦 Because the truth is , it does 🗳️
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Jase 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇮🇪 @jasonboerema.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He has a convicted felon and pedophile’s endorsement, how proud he must be.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/09/2026
Trump Jr - who recently received a $620M defense contract - had his wedding bankrolled by a Putin associate. Guests of the wedding recently met with Zelensky to pressure him to give parts of Ukraine to Russia. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 14/09/2026
A “strong and smart President” would not trust billionaire AI tech companies to regulate themselves and put people before their own bottom line. We cannot wait. Congress must act.
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Raw Story: GOP Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson got a letter from the DOJ announcing she was under investigation for breaking federal voting laws, by failing to hand over voting records to the federal government. Democrats defend America. Republicans defend Fascism. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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DC🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Who is Umar Kremlev? He’s the powerful Russian sports official running the International Boxing Association (IBA). But a deeper look reveals an oligarch tightly bound to Vladimir Putin’s geopolitical agenda & hyper-nationalist subcultures 👇
Photo of Umar Kremlev smiling with Vladimir Putin.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
STOP SCROLLING Why I’m sounding the alarm: VoteSafe. org is run by Elon Musk’s America PAC, the same political operation working to turn out Republican voters in the midterms. The site collects voter and political info, and allows your information to be shared or sold to business partners.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/09/2026
I’ve been saying Democrats need to flip 4 Senate seats. We better make it 5 because at this point, we can’t bet the Senate majority on John Fetterman staying a Democrat. Watch…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can I let you in on a little secret? It's easy to create lots of jobs that don't pay very well. Yes, the economy added jobs last month, but inflation under Trump continues to eat up wages. The paychecks of most American workers aren’t covering rising costs — they’re getting poorer.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 02/09/2026
Gabe Evans has never held an in-person public town hall since taking office. What would he rather use taxpayer money for? Using $320,000 of it on ads to promote himself ahead of his reelection bid.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Trump administration is pressuring the National Park Service to give a piece of Yosemite National Park to a private developer. This isn't Trump's first attack on our beautiful national parks. Here's what you need to know.
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Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks
Americans love their national parks.There’s a reason why they were once described as “America’s best idea.”So why are Tr
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 19/08/2026
The Boundary Waters will remain exactly as it should: wild, pristine, and unharmed.
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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.altgov.info · 19/08/2026
So what can you do: 1️⃣ Call Congress now 2️⃣ Vote like your public lands depend on it this November 3️⃣ Share this with your friends and family For the Rio 💪🏼 ❤️ RR #NoBigBendWall #KeepBigBendWild
Text reads: So what can you do? Call Congess now. Vote like your public lands depends on it in November.  Share what is happening with your friends and family. A photo of colorful no wall shirts with wall graphics.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
HATCH ACT VIOLATION: We filed a complaint alleging that Todd Blanche violated the Hatch Act by speaking at a NY campaign rally to boost a Republican candidate. As Attorney General, it's illegal for Blanche to engage in partisan political campaigns. This must be investigated.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Elephant Aquatics or Water Aerobics – you be the judge. Kitich favours an energetic freestyle, thrashing the water with his trunk. Loldaiga has perfected a more leisurely routine, flopping onto his side to make sure every wrinkle gets a proper soaking. Who gets your vote—Kitich or Loldaiga? 🥇
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?
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