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NPR @npr.org · 19/08/2026

Elbridge Gerry was an important early figure in the American Revolution, but his decision to approve a "gerrymandered" state legislative map inadvertently won him lasting infamy. n.pr/4x3elip

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Elbridge who? How the name of a forgotten founder lives on in the word 'gerrymander'

Elbridge Gerry was an important early figure in the American Revolution, but his decision to approve a "gerrymandered" state legislative map inadvertently won him lasting infamy.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/08/2026

Quick reminder, there's still millions of files that haven't been released from Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein Epstein ETC...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: 4th Circuit STRIKES DOWN South Carolina law that only allows voters to vote absentee if they are over the age of 65 or fall into several limited categories for violating the 26th Amendment by denying the right to vote to many voters under 65. www.democracydocket.com/cases/south-...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Shock gloves don't belong in our schools.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yup. This.⤵️

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The Texas GOP brought an elephant to their convention, and it immediately pissed on the floor. At least they’re being honest about the circus they’re running. 🤡

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/05/2026

Developers are aiming to build the biggest data center complex in Virginia. It would be 22 million square feet, which works out to four Disneylands, or 61 Pentagons, or—because this is America—382 football fields. And developers are trying to buy up people’s houses and property to do it.

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Data centers are spreading across the country. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.

Our AI future lives inside miles and miles of windowless data centers spreading across the US. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Elon Musk is now worth over $800 billion. Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. Meanwhile, millions of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Incredible stuff

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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The most amazing story isn’t just that Democrats flipped a Trump +12 seat from red to blue — it’s that Trump literally voted by mail in this election while arguing mail in voting should be illegal for everyone else.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

After missing its recruitment goals, the U.S. Army is now raising its max enlistment age to 42 and removing its waiver requirement for a single marijuana possession. Gosh... if only thousands of highly qualified trans soldiers hadn't been kicked out last year for no good reason.

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Bennett Cotten @bennettcotten.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

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Cesar Chavez, a Civil Rights Icon, Is Accused of Abusing Girls for Years

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Currently trending on X.

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Bennett Cotten @bennettcotten.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Epic Fury? Roaring Lion? Someone’s job is to think up cutsie names for the Iran War? FUBAR.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Russia’s full-scale invasion began 4 years ago. It began in winter, and so this winter is the 5th. And, for civilians, the worst. Russia launches missiles and drones at energy infrastructure to force Ukrainians to endure the freezing cold. Here's how you can help snyder.substack.com/p/the-long-u...

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The Long Ukrainian Winter

How You Can Help

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

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Bennett Cotten @bennettcotten.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR should be on every sign, no matter the issue of distraction.

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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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Bennett Cotten @bennettcotten.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

“Pedophile Protector” over and over and over again.

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Bennett Cotten @bennettcotten.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Where is the organization to our resistance? A smattering here and there will not do.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is powerful, important, and infuriating. Please read. Please watch. Please share. @propublica.org is doing outstanding work, tracking and exposing ICE abuses. This 16 yr old was nearly choked to death.

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Bennett Cotten @bennettcotten.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Jake Tapper on State of the Union with Kristi Noem is driving me bonkers. Decent questions. But why is he allowing her to over talk and out talk him?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

ICE/Border Patrol agents have shot a woman, who was a legal observer, in the face and killed her in a Minneapolis neighborhood. Details are still emerging, and the exact circumstances have not yet been officially confirmed. Credit: @thejfreakinc.bsky.social

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

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Bennett Cotten @bennettcotten.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Where can I find the new Find Friends feature on Blue Sky?

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Bennett Cotten @bennettcotten.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Handwriting Experts, we need you on these Lolita quotes.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

“table-sized”

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/11/2025

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Note for Democratic politicians: you don't have to start your condemnations of ICE raids with "We all want to catch violent criminals, but..." Just say "These raids have nothing to do with catching criminals and everything to do with terrorizing innocent minority groups."

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NPR @npr.org · 13/11/2025

A new book by the Nobel-winning pioneer of behavioral economics offers some advice we can all use. n.pr/4oCpO4q

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How to avoid 'The Winner's Curse'

A new book by the Nobel-winning pioneer of behavioral economics offers some advice we can all use.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

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