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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/11/2025
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
When it comes to Epstein, the grand jury transcripts aren’t the ones that people seeking the truth should be interested in. Prosecutors always say, “Follow the money.” That’s as true here as in any other case. Read about how it could happen: joycevance.substack.com/p/laffaire-e...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2025
NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.
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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp.
Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...
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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
#Argentina: PEN International is deeply alarmed by the Milei government’s escalating attacks on press freedom. We call for an immediate end to harassment and full protection of free expression. Read our statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/argenti...
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Argentina: Serious deterioration of freedom of expression under Javier Milei’s government — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
Argentina’s president and his government must immediately end their campaign against press freedom and foster an environment in which writers and journalists can carry out their vital work without obs...
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Farmworkers spread out 13–16 per side and spend the entire day hunched over, picking tomatoes as fast as they can. If they’re on the far end, they run across the field to reach the trailer. The dumper checks each 25lb bucket is full. Then the puncher gives them credit. #WeFeedYou
A tomato dumper standing high up where he is dumping 25 lb buckets of tomatoes all day long
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Katie Whittemore✊🏻💙 @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
11 MILLION PEOPLE!! 💥💥💥 Are we nearing the magic 3.5%?? Never forget….WE hold the power. #nokings
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No kings 
Over 11 million people protested!
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We feed you. They hunt us.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/05/2025
Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.
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Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids
While RFK Jr. said coronavirus vaccines would be removed from the CDC schedule for healthy children, it’s still recommended in consultation with doctors.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Federal judge dresses down Alina Habba: "Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
5/11/72: Cesar Chavez starts his 2nd long fast in Phoenix after AZ passes a law basically outlawing the right of farmworkers to organize. Coretta Scott King, widow of #MartinLutherKingJr, links arms w Cesar & sings “We Shall Overcome" during 24-day fast at the Santa Rita Center.
Coretta Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., links arms with Cesar to sing “We Shall Overcome" during the 24-day fast at the Santa Rita Center in Phoenix.
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Grounded! Well done 🇩🇪💯 @germany.diplo.de
A screenshot of two stacked posts on X (formerly Twitter). The first is by U.S. Secretary Marco Rubio, who criticizes Germany, saying: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise.” He goes on to defend the far-right AfD party, calling it “popular” and blaming “open border immigration policies” for extremism. He concludes: “Germany should reverse course.”

Below, the official account of the German Foreign Office (@GermanyDiplo) replies:
“This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.”
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bartd.bsky.social @bartd.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
He needs to go
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WHO @who.int · 29/04/2025
The #measles vaccine has saved more lives than any other vaccine in the past 50 years. 2 doses = 97% protection against the highly contagious disease. #VaccinesWork #WorldImmunizationWeek
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Cleveland-Cliffs lays off more than 1,200 workers as tariffs hit demand
A number of North American steel manufacturers are struggling to deal with the impacts of the Trump administration’s trade policy.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/04/2025
In March, 48 people were arrested in New Mexico, according to an ICE press release. Why is nothing known about who was arrested or their whereabouts?
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The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Madness. Our enemies couldn’t do more damage…
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/04/2025
The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid. “It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”
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Tariffs are about to hit lifesaving medical equipment
"It's really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable...who need technologies to live."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"Democrats can stand up for what’s right AND win on this issue. All they need is the courage of their convictions—and the confidence to bet that fascism isn’t popular just because Nosferatu [=Stephen Miller] insists it is." www.thebulwark.com/p/no-gavin-t...
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No, Gavin: Trump Disappearing People Isn’t a ‘Distraction’
Democrats don’t need to take Republicans’ word that zero-process deportations are popular.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Judge Boasberg has scheduled an emergency hearing tonight at 6:15pm in on an ACLU motion to issue a nationwide TRO to force Trump Adm to give adequate notice before removing aliens from US under his Alien Enemies Act proclamation. Call-in number below. (No recording or broadcasting.) /1
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.
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y🏳️‍🌈şenaz @ayseneinart.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Meanwhile almost no news channel in Turkey is covering this rally. They are all airing unrelated foreign news or Eid specials to distract people from what’s happening on the street. Complicit media continues to be complicit.
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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me. Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly
The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
DOGE signed an agreement with Louis DeJoy to slash 10,000 jobs from the already-understaffed USPS. The USPS is the nation’s lifeline, ensuring delivery to every corner of the country. We cannot allow it to be dismantled, sold off, and handed over to billionaires for profit.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It is easy to overlook the small, but in incredibly important changes, Trump is making in our country
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Shut down for the first time since 1942
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"No matter how things go from here, we’re going to look back at this period with a lot of regret and a lot of woe. But the critical point is the time to stand up is earlier rather than later. You fight the war when you can still minimize the damage." youtube.com/shorts/gIAwi...
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Steve Vladeck on whether the rule of law will hold
YouTube video by Conversations with Bill Kristol
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
They installed the TV... At his request... So he can play video games... In his office... In the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Watchdog Progressive @watchdogprg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Trump's FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the EPA. Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request, alleging “possible criminal violations." newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Gina McCarthy, an Obama E.P.A. administrator, said it was “the most disastrous day in EPA history. Rolling these rules back is not just a disgrace, it’s a threat to all of us. The agency has fully abdicated its mission to protect Americans’ health and well being.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...
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E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/03/2025
Protesters from Jewish Voice For Peace occupy Trump Tower to protest the detainment of Mahmoud Khalil. (via @btnewsroom.bsky.social)
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Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is not a drill. Many will die because of aid cuts.   The pace and the scale of the funding cuts are a seismic shock to the humanitarian sector. But we will not retreat from our mission. Grateful for opportunity to brief UN press corps.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/03/2025
This. THIS. You guys… THIS.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 12/03/2025
A post from Senator Schumer reads: “Funding the government should be a bipartisan effort. But Republicans chose a partisan path, drafting their Continuing Resolution without any input from Congressional Democrats. Because of that, Republicans do not have the votes in the Senate to pass the House CR. Our caucus is unified on a clean 30-day CR that will keep the government open and give Congress time to negotiate bipartisan legislation that can pass. We should vote on that.”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW: Perkins Coie, the law firm targeted by Trump in an Executive Order, has now sued the Trump Administration in federal court alleging the EO is unconstitutional on several grounds, including violations of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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claindivisible.bsky.social @claindivisible.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
CALL YOUR SENATORS Tell them to fight for the American people and not to vote for this CR unless it has guardrails for Trump and Musk. If the government is shut down over this, we will stand by them!
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House passes bill to fund federal agencies through September, though prospects unclear in Senate
The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.
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bartd.bsky.social @bartd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@schumer.senate.gov Please rally the Dems and your ground. Stop this CR!
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Avery Hudson @averyhudson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Minority Leader Schumer: One thing @democrats.senate.gov can do now is block the ruinous MAGA budget bill that just passed the GOP House. House Democrats showed unity; it's time for Senate Democrats to do the same. I am one of your constituents and will remember your leadership (or lack of it).
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MicMacLisa @mcmaclisa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Repost if you agree: Just in case any Senate Democrats are reading this: I WON’T BLAME YOU FOR A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
He was a few months ahead of himself.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
"Randall hosted a morning town hall Saturday in Bremerton that filled up in minutes. Rather than turning the overflow crowd away, she immediately held a 2nd session. 'I want to hear from everyone who took the time out of their day to be here,' she wrote online..." www.advocate.com/politics/hug...
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Massive turnout at Democratic lawmakers’ town halls as Republicans hide from voters
The GOP struggles to defend the unpopular Trump administration’s policies.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/03/2025
Raskin: "This is what Viktor Orban has done in Hungary -- to clear out the civil service with real expert professionals and people devoted to the public interest and replace them with a bunch of party hacks and sycophants to the dear leader."
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford: effective Monday Ontario is charging "25% more for electricity to 1.5 million Americans in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war." Ontario provides electricity to Minnesota, New York and Michigan. Are we winning yet? apnews.com/article/cana...
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Ontario slaps 25% tax increase on electricity exports to US in response to Trump's trade war
Ontario’s premier, the leader of Canada’s most populous province, is now charging 25% more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans.
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