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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Weakness is dangerous, and Trump is dangerously weak. And, as weaklings do, he blames others for his own failures, and thereby makes everything worse." My latest essay: "War Through Weakness: Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia" snyder.substack.com/p/war-throug...
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War Through Weakness
Trump’s Superpower Suicide in Iran and Russia
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 18/09/2026
ROFL!
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I didn't know any of this. Of course, none of it matters to someone who supports Trump.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
James Talarico: I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m. I wish our government would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish our government would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars.
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billparton.bsky.social @billparton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump Took Control of Another Country’s Oil Fortune. Where the Hell Is the Money? open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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Trump Took Control of Another Country’s Oil Fortune. Where the Hell Is the Money?
Trump boasts about billions from Venezuelan oil, but lawmakers are still fighting to learn where the money is, who controls it, and who’s getting paid…
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billparton.bsky.social @billparton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump Offers Supreme Court $5000 Each to Change Mail-in Voting Decision open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Trump Offers Supreme Court $5000 Each to Change Mail-in Voting Decision
In a leaked phone call with Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Trump said that the 7-2 decision meant “I just need to find three votes.”
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 04/09/2026
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 am. I wish they would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish they would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars in the Middle East.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936
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billparton.bsky.social @billparton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Hegseth Freaks Out After Testing Positive for Estrogen open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Hegseth Freaks Out After Testing Positive for Estrogen
According to those familiar with the test results, Hegseth’s estrogen count would place him in the 99th percentile of all women.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
One of my cartoons for Monday's Metro
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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Why does the media ignore Trump’s madness?
His Truth Social posts show he's better suited in a mental institution than at a negotiating table.
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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 13/05/2026
And here comes @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social from the top rope
Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergum: "When the sun goes down, solar panels produce zero electricity. The whole machine doesn't work." 

Rep. Jared Huffman: "I request to enter into the record this *amazing* new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of. It's a battery."
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 06/05/2026
Discover how America’s debt crisis was built by the GOP and why everyday people are now stuck paying the price… hartmannreport.com/p/they-blew-...
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They Blew Up the Debt, Stalled America’s Future, and Stuck You With the Bill. All to Enrich the Top 1% and Win Elections…
Discover how America’s debt crisis was built by the GOO and why everyday people are now stuck paying the price…
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We live in a world where Trump can post this, but James Comey apparently gets indicted for laying out some seashells saying 8647 and then apologizing and deleting the image.
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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Let's all share this widely to help educate the DOJ.
8647 -- a foot, giving Trump the boot out of the White House.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
unrelenting
Episode IV 
IT WAS ALL SO STUPID
Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was.
Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff, by the absolute worst people., And what made it worse was knowing that we'd brought this on ourselves.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I saw this yesterday. I love when words have multiple meanings.
@ BobGolen

The speed at which a virus spreads depends on:
1. How dense the population is.
2. How dense the population is.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 15/04/2026
From Hungary to Ukraine to America, one message wins: expose the rigged system and mobilize voters to defeat it… hartmannreport.com/p/democrats-...
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Democrats: To Win America Back, Confront Trump's and the GOP's Naked Corruption
From Hungary to Ukraine to America, one message wins: expose the rigged system and mobilize voters to defeat it…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Meanwhile, the typical American will pay a federal income tax rate of 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. [Via @itep.org]
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A reminder: The Attorney General of the United States should be the people's lawyer, not the president's personal attorney. The Department of Justice should act to protect the public, not the occupant of the Oval Office and his political allies.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 02/04/2026
His escalating contradictions are forcing a question about congressional and cabinet powers designed for moments like this… hartmannreport.com/p/trump-is-u...
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Trump Is Unraveling: Isn’t it Time to Act Before He Destroys the World?
His escalating contradictions are forcing a question about congressional and cabinet powers designed for moments like this…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Is it any wonder people feel the system is rigged?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
You’d think expensive oil would make our government focus on solar and wind energy, you would of course be wrong
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Somehow, all the programs that help the majority of Americans are decried as “wasteful spending,” but the ones that help billionaires aren’t… Funny how that works.
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Renee Orr @renee17.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
HCR “Haitian TPS holders pay $1.3 billion a year in taxes”; which is about $1.3 billion more than trump paid in 5 years. #trumpsucks
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It's important to understand what Trump is trying to plot. robertreich.substack.com/p/could-tr…
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Extreme demands by the Democrats don’t seem extreme when the context in which they are made is murder by the state. Demand that Noem be fired. Demand that Miller be fired. Hell, demand that Trump resign. How extreme can that be compared to murder by the state?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Trump and his thugs can do a great deal of damage if not stopped. We must not succumb to fear or despair. What can we do now? A few action items occur to me: robertreich.substack.com/p/mourning…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's time for a truly massive general strike. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
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Flip Switch 🍉🟥 @flipswitch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
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It's important to note that most
 global unrest in the past 5 years has
 been caused by three 70-something
 white boomer losers desperate to
 stay out of prison.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
January 24, 2026
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January 24, 2026
This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
As Trump’s dementia worsens, several axioms are useful for interpreting his increasingly incoherent bloviation. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-4th-…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social -- Think it's important that people tune in to either @ms.now or @pbs.org to watch the hearing live to let those news outlets know they have viewers willing to support their choice to, as Christiane Amanpour says, "be truthful, not neutral." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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WATCH LIVE: House Democrats hold special Jan. 6th hearing on five-year anniversary
The Democratic leadership is reconvening the now defunct Jan. 6 committee to hear from police, elected officials and regular Americans about what they experienced that day.
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Maduro Requests Lindsay Halligan to Prosecute Him
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Nita Cosby @5-2blue.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Pentagon cuts Sen. Mark Kelly’s military retirement pay as punishment over ‘illegal orders’ video. www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/p...
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Pentagon cuts Sen. Mark Kelly’s military retirement pay as punishment over ‘illegal orders’ video | CNN Politics
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Monday that the Pentagon is taking administrative action to punish Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, by cutting his retirement pay for participating ...
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 04/01/2026
The Constitution is clear: Congress has the power and responsibility to authorize the use of military force and declare war. Congress has a duty of oversight. Congress must serve as a check, not a rubber stamp to the President. On these counts, Congress has failed.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The Congress can & should stop a rogue president from waging illegal and unconstitutional war against a country that has done us no harm for reasons that are blindingly political. What he's done hasn't even risen to the level of a war crime, because there is no legitimate war. It's a high crime.
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