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@bigalincal.bsky.social
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Retired lawyer. Moved from Alabama to California during COVID to look after grandkids Reader and history student. "It was not by making yourself heard, but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage" Orwell, 1984

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h
With Republicans facing increasingly dire prospects in the midterms, some of President Donald Trump’s most desperate supporters have urged him to declare a national emergency and seize control of the elections from the states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers say an obscure rule on Wi-Fi routers means Trump can decide how votes are counted. Here’s why they’re wrong
"The Commerce secretary doesn't have more power than the president. The president has zero power over elections in the United States.”
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Remember that I can do anything I like to anyone." - Caligula. Yes, literally the original mad emperor Caligula.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Every action needs to be assessed in the context of his psychological dysfunction, his cognitive decline and his untethered relationship to reality—rather than the typical framing of a sane president managing the nation’s affairs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...
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We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/08/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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StayingCovidSafe @starlightshelling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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Breaking Bombshell: Full Natalie Harp Letters To Trump Explode On Scene
FORE! They’re Weirder Than You Thought
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/08/2026
For my newsletter, I spelled out once simple trick for the WNBA to shut down that transphobic publicity stunt by two former NBA players: www.burnsnotice.com/heres-how-th...
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Here's How the WNBA Can Win the Anti-Trans Controversy
The league has a golden opportunity to make a definitive and educational point about trans athletes–if it has the courage to do it
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy
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Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Dr. Fauci was a researcher and an advisor. He could not and did not “mandate” anything. The whole thing is a ridiculous a charade, trying to ruin the life of a man who tried his best to to protect as many people as possible. 😔 TT: @ lucasbean_
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ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕟ℝ𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 🏳️‍🌈 ✡️ 😸 🌊 @stevefm20.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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TriciaE @triciae80.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Jon Ossoff just responded to reports that Trump plans to declare him an “illegitimate” senator because of nonexistent voter fraud. Every word of this is spot on. Spread it everywhere and support Ossoff!!!
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 09/07/2026
What Congress actually approved in 1925 was a bridge and two 166 foot columns. Not an arch. The columns were never built. President Hoover scratched them from the plans in 1931 after the Commerce Department warned they could endanger aircraft.
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Cathy🟧 @kitterlecathy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In case you haven't seen this today.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
BREAKING: an anti-Trump march is currently underway in Washington DC — few mainstream outlets will cover it. It’s our duty to keep it going! Let’s go!
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𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙰 🤍 🇲🇽 𝟺𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 @olivia4t.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#WATCH "8647" chants as protesters march through #WashingtonDC with large constitution on #America250
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The fascists will not stop and are only going to get more violent. The Democrats have betrayed us. It’s on us to stop this. We have to carry out a general strike and boycott even if we’re not ready. We have to kill this system before it kills us. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/shut-it-down
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Shut It Down
It's time to stop participating in this awful system and bring it to its knees
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bigalincal.bsky.social @bigalincal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Watching soccer with my wife: Her: who's the blue team? Me: Cape Verde Islands... Me (messing with her) do you know where they are? Her: Cape Verde Clever girl
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Life is exhausting these days for lots of us, and I think I’ve figured out why. I think it’s having to sit through the pretending... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/americans-...
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Americans Are Exhausted From The Right's Pretend Patriotism and Phony Faith
Life is exhausting these days for lots of us, and I think I’ve figured out why.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...
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Trump Has Made the National Mall a Tribute to His Squalid Corruption - emptywheel
Event Strategies, which put on the disastrous Great American State Fair, knows how to put on professional presentations. But since they started getting no-bid contract after no-bid contract, they simp...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/06/2026
Lara Trump sounds like a goat trapped in a tanning bed.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“The Confederate flag at the North Carolina booth is a fitting symbol of how this whole enterprise has been managed. A symbol that the state itself never chose, attached to its flag without permission, displayed at an event meant to celebrate American unity…” open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Of Course a Confederate Flag Showed Up at the Great American State Fair
The Great American State Fair couldn't even get through its first week without embarrassing itself.
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Teri @daisydo333.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Well you were invoked in the Epstien files 38k+ times.
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Release The Imposter Files - Politics Epstein
ALT: Release The Imposter Files - Politics Epstein
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The Whiplash of Trump’s Iran Capitulation America’s foreign policy is about one man and little else. By Tom Nichols www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Whiplash of Trump’s Iran Capitulation
America’s foreign policy is about one man and little else.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The idea of centering anti-corruption is being recognized by more and more people
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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If you’ve ever worked with epoxy you know it’s pretty darned tough. It’s possible to cut the flexible type as I’m assuming they used here but that won’t make it come up in big sheets; you’d get smaller flakes. It sticks really well if the surface is prepped correctly which this evidently was not
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Miko.The.Cat @mikothecat2025.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Trump last month: If you had a knife, you can't even cut the Reflecting Pool. So strong. Powerful rubber.
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Lee Rowan 🐕 🐈‍⬛ 🌳 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 🐉 🇺🇦🦇🪶🖋️ 🇺🇸 @leerowan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"WE?" Corporate media that's owned by the same handful of billionaires who control the repub party? 🙄 Biden was aging, yes; as often happens, his speech impediment gave him more trouble. If you watch that disastrous debate, HE HAD COVID symptoms, was diagnosed a day or 2 later. He was ill.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/06/2026
BREAKING: Qatar and Pakistan have released a joint statement announcing the conclusion of the Lake Lucerne Summit and the first High-Level Committee meeting involving the United States and Iran.
Joint Statement by the State of Qatar and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Regarding The Conclusion of Lake Lucerne Summit, First High-Level Committee Meeting with Participation of the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran

The first session of high level talks under the framework of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding have concluded in Burgenstock, Switzerland, with the participation of representatives from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States of America, and the two mediating parties, the State of Qatar and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

The Lake Lucerne Summit was conducted in a positive and constructive atmosphere. Encouraging progress has been made including the creation of a mechanism for further technical talks.

Building on the MoU, the parties have agreed to the establishment of a High Level Committee, which will provide political oversight on the mediation. Chief negotiators will report regularly to the High Level Committee and lead working groups focused on nuclear, sanctions, and a monitoring and dispute resolution group to ensure the effective implementation of the MoU, and on other matters.

The High Level Committee has agreed upon a roadmap towards reaching a final deal within 60 days, laying the foundation for the immediate commencement of further technical talks. In addition, a communication line between the parties has been formed for the period mentioned in paragraph 5 of the MoU to avoid incidents and miscommunication with the aim of safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.

Moreover, the parties agreed on the creation of a de-confliction cell, between the parties, the Lebanese Republic and facilitated by the Mediators, to ensure the adherence of the termination of military operations in Lebanon as per the MoU. Technical talks will continue for the remainder of the week at the Burgenstock resort on all issues.

The mediating parties will continue to do their utmost to ensure that t…
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.
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Joe Darkmoon @skulduggery-joe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
There are reasons I say never trust a conservative.
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Lorraine Montez @lorrainemontez.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The reflecting pool is doing exactly what the reflecting pool is meant to do. Which is why it is currently swampy, stagnant, and degenerating. Because that is the America Trump has made.
Algae blooms in DC reflecting pool
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/06/2026
Iran’s FM is disputing reports that the Strait of Hormuz has been closed. However, FT reports Iranian forces fired warning shots at ships and broadcast that the strait would remain closed until key conditions are met. The situation remains volatile, and the state of the strait is unclear.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Rep. Jamie Raskin just introduced a bill to create a commission that can determine whether a president is fit to serve. Urge Congress to get it done. Because unfit leadership threatens everything — including Social Security. #HandsOffSocialSecurity
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Tell Congress: Pass Raskin’s Bill to Create 25th Amendment Commission
Contact Congress today!
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
While Trump puppets swear they’d “never cut” Social Security, Sen. Mike Lee is on tape saying he wants to pull it “up by the roots and get rid of it entirely.” Believe what they say when they think it doesn’t matter. It matters. Vote like your retirement depends on it. #HandsOffSocialSecurity
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/06/2026
Tweets like this from today make sense when you know where they are coming from:
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The US-Iran "memorandum of understanding" is public. It amounts to US surrender. US WAR AIMS: Unmentioned or punted to further talks. IRAN GETS: Immediate concessions, including economic benefits. No wonder the White House hesitated to make it public. I went through the deal point-by-point, here:
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The U.S.-Iran Deal is Basically American Surrender
Examining the U.S.-Iran "Memorandum of Understanding" point-by-point
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ossoff: The president has been humiliated on the world stage. Many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity for the office. It’s deeply distressing to Americans to see a president so incompetent attempting and failing to represent the nation.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Icy mountains of PLUTO captured by NASA’s New Horizons probe after 9 years and a 3-billion-mile journey
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bigalincal.bsky.social @bigalincal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Trump just said he may not sign the deal because he's "not sure that's something his name should be on", and then freely agreed to a "question" indicating if this deal fizzles, he's blaming Vance.
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bigalincal.bsky.social @bigalincal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That was a trainwreck, a big beautiful trainwreck
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bigalincal.bsky.social @bigalincal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So, the plan is we may do a deal, maybe not, but if we don't we'll just bomb and bomb, until there's a deal. Sounds like a forever war in the middle east
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