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BertSaysWoof

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Not sure how to navigate the fall of American democracy but I’m here. She/her Please don't DM me unless given permission. I will block you otherwise.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 02/10/2026
This corruption must be investigated.
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Ben TG @ben-tg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump’s cuts to NOAA, which regulates fisheries, has left the agency slower to respond to the industry’s needs, fishermen said. Staff cutbacks also resulted in the agency reducing weather balloons used to gather data fishermen rely on. apnews.com/article/dona... @standupforscience.net 🧪
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Trump tried to make allies of fishermen. Some are turning on him
Some commercial fishermen have come to question whether Trump is meeting the needs of an industry he has long leaned on for support.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NEW: GOP Gov nominee Victor Marx says he'll respond today to domestic violence allegations - video/audio where he describes slamming his wife into a door and throwing his toddler across a room. Voters/reporters new to Marx may not realize he has a long history of justifying violence.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Marx acknowledged throwing his toddler son across a room onto a bed in anger, but said the boy was not hurt. "I'm not proud of that," Marx said. KNUS' Jeff Hunt again reiterated: "No calls to police. No reports. No charges. No convictions related to any of that incident."
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today, Victor Marx threatened legal action against journalists who have reported on his own past statements. "People are going to be held accountable," Marx told KNUS. "These spineless folks who hide behind a pen or a mic or an article, they have no clue who they're up against."
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro. techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/m...
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Musk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president | TechCrunch
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
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Mark @ferl67.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A New Trump Rule Could Transform Gun Sales. The President’s Son Is Poised to Profit. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/1… #USA #Trump #Aems #Guns #Gunviolence
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A new Trump administration rule could transform gun sales. The president’s son has a stake in a company poised to profit.
It’s one of a slew of changes to federal gun policy pursued under Trump this year. And according to a veteran gun violence prevention attorney, “probably the most dangerous action taken by the US government to increase gun violence.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Were you feeling left out, Mumps? Measles getting all the attention? And since you're back... any word from Rubella? Some antivaxxers would like to introduce it to pregnant women.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The collapse of our institutions in the face of fascism is really something to behold. Here, the American College of Surgeons, the largest professional organization for surgeons in the country, platformed Trump’s ousted FDA chief Marty Makary, letting him riff about the challenges facing healthcare
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Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary Examines Four Challenges Facing Healthcare
Former FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, examines four challenges facing healthcare and opportunities to address them.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most dangerous part of Trump's corruption isn't the money he's pocketed. It's the precedent he's setting: that a president can be openly transactional and face zero consequences. #PayToPlayPresident
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Matt Leeds @mleeds2048.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kushner Serves The Interest Of Israel & Netanyahu! He is their asset & owned by the Saudis for $2B Netanyahu,& SA MBS, are his handlers. Netanyahu has been molding him. He stayed at his house all the time growing up He is an International Criminal,& Future Prison Inmate bsky.app/profile/kryt...
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 02/10/2026
Yeah man meet this fucking guy. Meet this fucking guy who got exposed in 2016 as having given $10k to an explicitly neonazi PAC. I have gone to hell while I am still alive because I am cursed with recall of things that happened more than five minutes ago.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump administration has begun sending $500 government checks to nearly 1 million Affordable Care Act customers in 30 states. Each payment comes with a letter from Trump telling recipients that the Biden administration overcharged them to operate HealthCare.gov. #TheCityBrief
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 02/10/2026
The Pentagon is quietly reviewing nuclear guidance to give Fuckface more options, in a closed hearing, while he muses about annihilating Iran. A senile narcissist who can't finish a sentence gets a bigger menu of ways to end the world. Why is nobody covering this?
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Panic as Pentagon quietly moves to expand Trump's 'nuclear options'
Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, openly admitted recently that the Defense Department was actively working to increase the “[nuclear] options available” to President Donald T...
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And he didn't do it alone.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He promised to cut energy bills in half in 6 months and gas prices would be under $2. He never said he couldn’t do that because he’s “inheriting a mess.” He said he would do it & it would be easy. So he can try & blame Biden now all he wants, but he blatantly lied & is a buffoon.
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Democracy Dies in Cowardice @savedemocracy25.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great source of independent news now free thru the mid-terms….
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
A deep dive into the Baltic states' extensive preparations for a Russian invasion, from @isaacstanbecker who tracks "the emergence of a new order, in which Ukraine matters as much to the security of Europe as the United States" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Baltic States Prepare for War
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 02/10/2026
This administration is literally looting a national memorial to a murdered president.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The most powerful men in government have all been involved in sexual assaults. This is the Republican Party. 
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Rambo009 @rambo009.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tech Executives At AI Roundtable Donated Over $200 Million To Trump’s Super PAC and Pet Projects www.citizen.org/news/tech-ex...
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Tech Executives At AI Roundtable Donated Over $200 Million To Trump’s Super PAC and Pet Projects - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Big Tech executives met with Donald Trump for a meeting about the threats posed by…
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 01/10/2026
“This was a miscarriage of justice, and what happened to Mr. Hearn is an outrage that should shock every American. This administration chose to pursue an unjust prosecution against Mr. Hearn."
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Judge bars U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro from charging ex-Olympian in Reflecting Pool case
The judge dismissed the case against David Hearn with prejudice, citing “exceptional circumstances” that included President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Pirro’s office.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
💥 Trump Crime Family. CNN investigation revealing Jared Kushner, tasked by Trump to negotiate peace in Gaza, owns a company with a major stake in a firm linked to Israel's military
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 02/10/2026
Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says ft.trib.al/VFLqMHL
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Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every time Trump shows up Paxton’s poll numbers go down. I wonder why. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.
Pete Hegseth drunk and drenchedKash Patel drunk
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026
The Cornell story is horrific, but I’d like to shine a light on what happened at LSU with a current football player on the team:
In July, the school found Shanklin responsible for "forcible rape" and issued a one-year suspension, which is a full ban from campus and activities, according to documents reviewed by ESPN. After Shanklin appealed, an administrative law judge who handles appeals per LSU policy upheld the finding that the athlete was responsible for "forcible rape," but reduced the punishment to four semesters of probation with no restrictions, which allows Shanklin to remain enrolled and on campus and to participate in activities as long as he stays out of trouble.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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brainthink @brainthink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why winning the Senate matters: - Only it can remove a President from office - Only it can approve treaties - Only it approves cabinet Secretaries - Only it can approve military promotions - Only it can approve judges - Only it can remove Supreme Court justices - It must approve all legislation
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea. H/t UKHE
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you wanted to spot the precise blind spot of higher ed journalism, it would be this: what is happening is not the usual ups & downs HE has always had, but an intentional DOGE-like destruction of a crucial infrastructure of lives & careers that serve literally millions of lives. @chronicle.com
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."
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Waiting for the next Mr. Death
I don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured
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