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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday he’s willing to declare a national security emergency in an attempt to take over American elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Trump signals openness to unconstitutional plot to take over elections
"Stranger things have happened,” Trump said after a far-right media host implored him to declare a national security emergency on elections.
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Dr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Separating the MMR into separate vaccines was Wakefield’s grift when he authored his fraudulent paper that the MMR caused autism. #DrainTheSwamp www.theguardian.com/society/2010...
theguardian.com
Andrew Wakefield found 'irresponsible' by GMC over MMR vaccine scare
Doctor's research triggered a furore and was direct cause of slump in take-up of MMR, which has led to outbreaks of measles in some parts of the country
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Her name is Carolina Molina and she rocks in this interview.🫡
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 10/08/2026
When German lawmakers warn about masked agents, families living in fear & children detained in the US,we should listen! Democracy doesn’t disappear overnight. It erodes when fear becomes normal &people fall silent! The world is watching! #KeepResisting #Democracy #AbolishICE #HumanRights #SheShed
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/08/2026
Christ, now he wants to send kids back down into the coal mines.
minnesotareformer.com
Trump announces $180M for mining education as administration recommits to coal • Minnesota Reformer
President Donald Trump said Friday the federal government will fund $180 million in grants for mining schools across the county as part of his administration’s goal of rebuilding the U.S. coal industr...
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm gutted. Jose's been employed as a maintenance worker for 12+ years by a management company, but does handi-work on the side, including for me. Both he and his wife had work permits and WERE becoming citizens. She was scooped up at a required court appearance and sent back to El Salvador...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We do not call out religious bigotry as religious bigotry like we ought to.
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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
1/ Today, an executive order was signed aimed at childhood vaccines. There's no new scientific data for this policy, but there were a LOT of words and confusing rhetoric at the press conference. Here’s what today actually means for you and your family.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Third Way — which has declared "war" on progressives — is a Trojan Horse for corporate America. Their funding sources are a Star Wars cantina of billionaire megadonors, Fortune 500 CEOs, giant corporations, and corporate dark money bundlers.
robertreich.substack.com
The Moronic Bullshit of the "Third Way"
There's no "middle" between neofascist corporatism and democracy
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My networks of health workers/public health folks are enraged over this pathetic anti-vaxx EO; it has the potential to further drive down MMR vaccination rates This is what RFK Jr & his kooky MAHA movement have been dreaming of for decades; now that he runs the health system, his dream is in reach
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 10/08/2026
Trump is raiding wildfire prevention funding to pay for his vanity projects while over 2.3 million acres burn in Oregon
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bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Too on the nose (of corruption)
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Monday, August 10, 2026
Breaking News
Trump's former lawyers:
Judge Emil Bove swears in Attorney General Todd Blanche at the White House
Todd Blanche was sworn in as attorney general on Monday in an Oval Office ceremony led by his former Donald Trump defense-team colleague, Judge Emil Bove.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
AAP strongly opposes Trump’s Aug. 10th EO. It promotes spacing out childhood shots & splitting MMR vaccine into 3 sep visits. AAP maintains these ideas contradict heavy scientific proof, risk children catching preventable illnesses, & ignore safe combination practices. www.whec.com/ap-top-news/...
whec.com
Trump signs order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines, against medical groups' guidance
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Senate Republicans have taken a major step towards advancing the pro-crypto CLARITY Act. Reminder: crypto is a giant Ponzi scheme. Its only practical uses are for tax evasion, money laundering, fraud, speculation, and crime. No Democrat should vote for this corrupt abomination.
cnbc.com
Senate advances landmark crypto bill before heading on August recess
The move suggests Senate Republican leaders believe they may yet be able to get the 60 votes needed to pass, despite con
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/08/2026
We have very unfortunate news to share today... 😢 I've been an author for this report since 2020, and we just celebrated our 20th anniversary edition last year.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 10/08/2026
Immigration detention has never been humane. But under the Trump administration, every standard of “care” has been neglected. No family should have to pray that their loved ones come out of detention alive.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Like, this should not be the headline! It should be, "Donald Trump Lies About Childhood Vaccines While Signing Anti-Vaccination Executive Order"
Trump signed an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/08/2026
The lab-leak thing was a way for establishment figures to grab onto a little bit of this contrarian cool, and it has visibly led many of them down the dark path described here. It really is like a drug -- feels good in the short term, fucks your brain up long term.
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
To all the shruggies who acted like mud under the wheels of skeptical activism, this is what we tried to warn you about. This is why pseudoscience matters. It should be taught, recognized, and counter-argued, and we all need to fight before it becomes institutionalized in our respective countries.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Last year the Trump admin made a startling claim; that a 1996 law had, unbeknownst to anyone for the last 30 years, mandated the detention without bond of millions of undocumented immigrants. The resulting chaos has drowned federal courts, overwhelmed the DOJ, and spread misery.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In my new OpEd, I discuss the health harms of the MAHA-MAGA-manosphere & ways to prevent them I explore what clinicians can do when they see boys & young men in clinic, what the public health community can do, and what parents can do IMHO, the MAHA-MAGA-manosphere dudes are terrible role models
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Again, it is an *exceptionally* strange situation where the president of the US gets to literally invent preposterous things out of thin air every day and no one can do anything about it
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What’s wild about lies like this is literally 100% of people know this is total bullshit. Not one person thinks that kids are getting filled with two-liter bottles of vaccines. We ALL know this. It’s flagrant lying or delusions. This HAS to be alienating all sorts of non-MAGA conservatives.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Trump stripped legal assistance from thousands of immigrant kids after refusing to pay its bills and allowing a federal contract to expire. The regime has since awarded a new $150m contract to a small, Trump-linked firm with little experience in immigration law:
americasvoicecnn.substack.com
Gut Punch to Immigrant Kids: Trump Administration Strips Legal Assistance from Vulnerable Children
Children “who have fled violence, trafficking, and abuse” woke up Saturday without the legal support they were promised, said one legal service provider.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It is baffling to me that anyone can look out their window in 2026 and conclude anything but that the maximally alarmist position on Trump 2.0 was fundamentally correct. I’m relieved he hasn’t achieved everything he’d have like less than two years in, but that’s pretty slender comfort.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Internal National Park Service records shared with us: 2024 - $7 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades 2026 - $323 million allotted for White House grounds projects and upgrades ===>
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Raw Story: Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig on Trump's criminal lawyer as Attorney General: "Never before in American history has an attorney general been confirmed who was as corrupt as Todd Blanche. The DOJ is already in shambles, he will further ruin it." #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 10/08/2026
The history books will not look kindly on this. And we know that. There is no reason to do this at all other than blatant racism and the desire by those in power to exercise their power for the sake of cruelty.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/08/2026
Can I get an amen?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.
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Dani Welch 🎃 @daniwelch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The lie is that we have time to fix this: "The other scenario, which scientists now say 'recent data aligns more closely with,' is 3C of warming. At that level...up to 4 billion deaths. Four billion. That is half the planet. In 26 years or less."
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
And not a single member of his pathetic, cowardly, and amoral party will speak up about this.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill
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So it goes @jimbolint.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sarah has been trying to get your attention for over a decade It’s way past time to pay attention to what’s really happening
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AJ Mirabelle @ajmirabelle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Especially galling from the admin of a guy who had to be sued to close down his scam university. Its all just revenge. Thats the US Gov now. Laws, indictments, buildings & tariffs dictated by a sliding revenge:profit scale.
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Faulty Frannie @faultyfrannie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This particular rule has consumed my professional life for the better part of a year now and I cannot express how deeply flawed it is and how many professions, schools, and people are going to be absolutely ravaged by it
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
But not every DOGE operator was a digital arsonist. Take Dan Berulis, a DOGE staffer who came out of the private sector and later turned whistleblower over the group's activities, who now faces assassination attempts: www.wired.com/story/he-ble... 29/
wired.com
He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut
A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
DOGE deliberately sabotaged the usability of America's governmental systems to make it harder for the public to access the services they are entitled to and pay for with their taxes. 23/
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Republican Party wanted and still supports all of this. The corruption. The bigotry. The disease. The science decline. The climate collapse. The masked terror police. The resegregation. The ethnic cleansing. All of it.
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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Clergy & Catholic sisters were out in full force this morning to witness Haitian TPS holders arriving at a Cincinnati-area ICE facility where they will be outfitted with ankle bracelets. Communion was offered at the entrance as people prayed for their humanity to be recognized by the Trump admin.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A frankly insane story about how a Trump-linked American drilling company is setting up equipment in Greenland to make exploratory boreholes, *despite* being denied permission by the Greenlandic government. So much for sovereignty, I guess. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags
The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"$2,358 per person...According to a new tool launched by the Economic Policy Institute, that’s the whopping amount American taxpayers are shelling out on average to fund Trump’s mass deportation push." www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
ms.now
Opinion | Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade costs American taxpayers an estimated $2,358 on average
A new tool developed by a progressive think tank helps Americans realize the massive costs of the president’s mass deportation agenda.
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Don makes an important point here about the dismantling of the administrative state. The institutional damage is to: 1.) destruction of *expertise,* honed by credentialing, research, experience, and *tenure* in job
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The idea that deep institutional damage can be easily rolled back seems like a very odd take for a conservative. The damage to the civil service system is huge, and legislation is needed to reassure future hires they won’t be fired on a whim.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/08/2026
A top Treasury official warned the White House that it was at risk of breaking the law by interfering in IRS audits. Then he was forced out. Donald Trump wants an IRS that protects him, targets his enemies, and answers to the White House.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/08/2026
The performance of the Justice Department “has been nothing short of disastrous” since Todd Blanche took the reins, according to Ruth Marcus. His Senate confirmation vote represents a ratification of what has happened on his watch. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fGjRGv
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The Senate’s Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General
A number of Republicans resisted Todd Blanche’s confirmation as Attorney General, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Donald Trump could do even worse.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
With Blanche in place we have to get ready for the incredible f*ckery that is to come. New, 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/with-blanc...
hopiumchronicles.com
With Blanche In Place We Have To Get Ready For The Incredible F*ckery That Is To Come
Blanche's confirmation, at 430am this morning, is one of the greatest betrayals of our country in all our history
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
thehill.com/homenews/sen... GOOD MORNING WELL WE NOW HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUMP NO longer a Department of Justice NO longer an Attorney General, just trump's lawyer Senate now a five week recess The SAVE ACT is set aside for now and so is Trump's demand for billions in military spending
thehill.com
Senate embarks on recess after funding government and confirming Blanche, punting other priorities
The Senate adjourned for a five-week recess early Saturday morning after passing a bill to fund the federal government until Dec. 11 and confirming Todd Blanche as attorney general. Senate Republic…
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