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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.

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White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers

The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He’s literally building a fortified bunker, now an arch that holds major weapons, and controls the military and nukes. He has zero plams to leave, people better wake tf up

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026

NEWS: France’s Epstein investigation is expanding, with prosecutors identifying multiple potential recruiters and at least 13 previously unknown victims as they trace his trafficking network across the country.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s pretty blackpilling that Republicans are actively trying their best to destroy the world and the biggest media outlets in the U.S. (in some cases owned by said Republicans) are making shit up about progressives instead of covering it. We need to replace that whole media ecosystem

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

nothing screams pathetic old loser than threatening to use FCC to go after polls that show you and your party are going down the tubes

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Trump, empowered by SCOTUS, entered office convinced he could do insider trading, sell pardons and favors, take bribes, steal and openly flout the law. Now, with the prospect of investigations looming, he is growing ever more fearful that he miscalculated.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sometimes I can’t even fully process the catastrophe that RFK Jr. has unleashed upon the United States. It is infuriating and demoralizing that tens of thousands of scientists and healthcare professionals banded together to oppose his confirmation, and Republicans just blithely ignored us all.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Major media aren't reporting that Trump is out of his mind, though he obviously is. (See Strait of Hormuz as "U.S. territory," Canada as "51st state," AI slop showing Trump as Jesus, etc.) Either they think Trump’s broken brain is so obvious it’s not news, or they think insanity is "normal" now.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Maddow: While Hegseth has lost this war of choice & left US troops in jeopardy, he’s still had time to organize countless fly-overs for his boss including 9 straight hours of flyovers on July 4th.

Screen grab of maddow show story on navy air craft carrier food shortage

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let’s talk about Medicare for All. What would it mean for the individual American? ⬇ The day you’re born you get a card that gives you health insurance with no premium, co-pay, or deductible. Doesn’t matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26 or 65, get married or divorced — it's there for you.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“. . . unless you give some of the money you stole to my boss, in which case you’ll get a pardon and a government contract.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.

In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation.

When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”

Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.

As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I want a president who likes the democratic governments of Canada and Ukraine more than the dictatorships of North Korea and Saudi Arabia.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You just know there's a notebook with "Natalie Trump" written in cursive thousands of times.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/08/2026

At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)

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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

AOC is freezing her eggs and conservative men are losing their minds. This was never about the birth rate, families, or “life.” They just don’t like it when women do things on their own terms.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026

Q: Were you prepared for pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as too extreme for Wisconsin? HONG: What's extreme is Rep. Tiffany has voted against interests of Wisconsinites over & over. What's extreme is that he's an election denier & continues to protect pedophiles

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.

Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Trump's holding another North Korean style cabinet meeting. www.c-span.org/event/white-...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Get set for ethnic cleansing in Ohio. Our country has become a carnival of hatred and cruelty.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18/07/2026

I want trials for every last one of these mother fuckers.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16/07/2026

If Democrats rig elections, how did Trump become president twice?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026

Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

AOC on Trump’s Thursday address: I don’t think we should be contributing to the platforming of lies about our elections. Many of these outlets often receive transcripts, and I think we have an ethical obligation not to air things that undermine our elections and are not rooted in fact.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/07/2026

continue to be fascinated by this alternate reality created by the business community and the business press in which people say a lot of words, but most of it is highly performative it's a world where you'll notice corruption, and resulting collapse of the regulatory state, simply don't exist

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

this is probably going to be the largest single genocide the US has ever committed. and the bar is high.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

absolutely bananas to make people stand out here in 90 degree heat to hide your shame for you

Wider view of the front plaza showing how empty it is

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum, implies during a press conference her government will take action after an ICE agent killed Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dear news media, You heard Trump refer today to “the Islamic Republic of Japan." You heard him repeatedly refer to Zelenskyy as "President Putin.” His brain is broken. Warn the public about it. It’s your duty.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/07/2026

Please rescind your endorsement of Platner immediately, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social, so that the Maine Democratic Party can pick another candidate before it's too late.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It’s almost like there’s very little difference

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 27/06/2026

Welcome? This witless chowderhead doesn't know that passports are issued to US citizens for use traveling abroad? Welcome? Christ, he's so relentlessly stupid.

Trump post showing him on the new passport saying "the USA's new passport which says "welcome but be good."

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 23/06/2026

He’s going to keep changing the story until it turns out the pool itself was actually stolen by antifa and we have to invade Cuba to get it back.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

IF YOU ARE STILL IN LINE TO BOO TRUMP, PLEASE STAY IN LINE

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

1. For the SECOND TIME IN SIX MONTHS, a foreign real estate development led by Jared Kushner has been derailed by a GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION SCANDAL and mass protests. Follow along for all the gory details. 🧵 popular.info/p/kushners-a...

Jared Kushner’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Iran War are not going well.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Get out and vote today in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Oregon and Pennsylvania! 🗳️

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

In unusual deal, a $1.8 billlion fund that could help Trump allies is created.
The agreement to end the Trump family’s lawsuit against the IRS grants a commission broad authority …

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 16/05/2026

The fact that president trading stock is reported matter-of-factually, no big deal, shows what a clusterfuck we're in.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

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The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe

A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Hey legacy media, how many times does Trump have to fall asleep in the Oval Office on-camera before y'all start questioning it?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Notice to anyone who wants to comment that it's already too late: Fuck off. If you're not going to help, shut up and get out of the way. The rest of us are busy fighting for our freedom.

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