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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
Jon Husted took more than $115,000 from Jeffrey Epstein's longtime financial backer Les Wexner, including a maximum donation last year. Then he voted against releasing the Epstein files. @timmiller.bsky.social digs into the Ohio senator's troubling ties to Wexner.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15h
Russia is resupplying Iran with missiles. Guess who is, in effect, paying for those missiles when we pump $$$ to Russia for diesel? That's right. Another masterstroke from the genius-in-chief.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
We know. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 21h
Senator Tammy Duckworth: "Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just despicable people. All of them. It’s not just that they’re corrupt and shitty at their jobs - they’re terrible humans.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/10/2026
troy jackson came to play, huh you love to see it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After the First Gulf War, the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, and the Iran War, Republican voters are just going to have to accept at some point that warmongering is their brand, despite how often the people who start them talk about peace.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump’s $50 billion tax on Americans and counting. And we got absolutely nothing for it.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey look, more blatant corruption. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
14/ We sifted through social media, DHS statements, court records and local reports to find cases where citizens were held against their will for any amount of time. The courts consider someone detained if they aren’t free to leave. Full methodology: propub.li/4yoIKb7
How We Counted Incidents
We found and vetted cases from a number of sources, including English- and Spanish-language social media, DHS statements, court records and local news reports, in addition to our own reporting. We included an incident in our dataset only if we could find at least two sources for it. For additional details about the incident, like whether crowd control weapons were used, we accepted one source in some cases.

When DHS provided a response specific to an incident — including about whether it happened or the circumstances under which it happened — we noted that response in cases for which we offered detail beyond a simple count of detained citizens. DHS responses that generically denied ever detaining citizens or that are proven inaccurate by our reporting were not included.As with our count a year ago, most of the detained Americans on our list fell into two broad categories. The first is Americans who were held because agents questioned their citizenship. This time, we found more than a hundred such cases. The second category is Americans arrested by immigration agents after being accused of assaulting or impeding officers at protests or during immigration arrests of others. In that category, we tallied roughly 300 Americans. In many of these cases, the government accused but never charged these individuals with assault. Sometimes agents detained people because of questions about their citizenship but later accused them of crimes. While public attention often focuses on ICE, the immigration dragnet often relied on officers from agencies across the government.

Since the government itself does not track these cases, our list is almost certainly an undercount...
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jos. A. Bank Made in China/Vietnam lol
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I thought Trump’s tariffs were specifically designed to dramatically reduce this number to zero.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The world significantly underestimates how morally grotesque Megyn Kelly is
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Megyn Kelly on Cornell's Jane Doe: "I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs."
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"We are headed in a direction where what comes after Trump...It’s going to be even nastier, it’s going to be even more corrupt, it’s going to be even more hateful. You can lose people by behaving this way. And Texas GOP is showing that." — Alan Elrod, political theorist 🧾 t2m.co/RvmBhCY
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Transcript: Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as GOP Panics: “Wake Up!”
As the Trump-GOP position worsens, a political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a values-based Democratic politics to emerge.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
LET'S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

REAGAN '80
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We will never again be a democracy if we don't get the big money out of American politics. There should not be any higher priority. davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/one-priori...
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One Priority Above All Others
We Must Drain the Poison Out of Our Body Politic If There Is to Be a Better World After Trump
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One thing we know for certain. Russia is the best in the world at lying and hiding these things. saltypolitics.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
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Breaking: What Russia May Be Hiding About the Plague
A likely case of pneumonial plague is prompting questions the Kremlin won’t answer
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our failure to support Ukraine will be a forever stain. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
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Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine
Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🎯🎯🎯🎯
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/10/2026
Plague outbreak in Russia from a lab. We MUST ban all commercial flights to and from Russia NOW
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess he missed Hegseth’s speech at Quantico this week.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Restaurants are warning that the tariffs Ken Paxton supports could end free chips and salsa.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
Alito weighs retirement. We MUST win the Senate so we can block any Trump judicial nominee. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fair Q
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This 👇
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump Has Failed,Bigly.......
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
During the World Cup.
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We seem to be amused that the president cannot remain conscious during virtually any Oval Office event. This is a very sick man. He is unfit for his job. It is an issue the country should take more seriously.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the US had such good intelligence on the RAF Fairford suspects, then why did it take a 999 call to arrest the guys? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot
US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith made it crystal clear that his investigation was sound and lawful, that the president had committed crimes and that the GOP attacks on him were the actual weaponization of our justice system. He showed courage and moral clarity and continues to be one of the heroes of this moment.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's something special about a man falling asleep on live television three minutes after calling his predecessor "Sleepy Joe."
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Blue Turquoise @bluet-urquoise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How do we really feel? This is the time we all need to speak out the elections are up ahead and anyone that reads our comments will benefit.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
. MAGA doesn’t care either .
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The orange felon went to Tennessee today to see a football game on taxpayer dime and Tennessee lost. His death curse continues unobstructed.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Damn.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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