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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 3h
Last night, Starlink was reportedly restricted in Ukraine due to a political decision made in Washington. Europeans should be aware that it is dangerous to depend on a partly hostile government for your security, as they could blackmail you at any time. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Ukrainian soldiers in combat have access to Starlink satellite internet restricted
Outage of system managed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX comes as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine without any advance warning from US
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What actual DOJ weaponization looks like. We are very far off the cliff.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s residence searched as part of ongoing criminal investigation, DOJ says
A Department of Justice spokesperson said the search was part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In August, Trump purchased between $1m and $5m in SpaceX bonds. Two days later, he signed a memorandum setting out a new policy pledging US government support for space transportation companies: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This infuriates the hell out of me.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NBC News: "Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha
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God @thegodshow.com · 10/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained by ICE, according to ProPublica. 70% of ICE detainees have no criminal conviction. Trump’s promise to go after the “worst of the worst” was always a lie. It was always a pretext to terrorize Black and brown communities. Remember this.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more th
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
Trump just handed Putin a lifeline weeks before the midterms. Energy analysts say his Russian diesel deal won’t meaningfully lower prices. And a tanker that left Russia weeks before the announcement raises an even bigger question: How long was this in the works?
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Trump Reopens U.S. Market to Putin’s Diesel — Consumers Get Little Relief
Days after the White House invoked an emergency to ease diesel costs, Trump promised Russia new fuel sales as analysts warned the arrangement is unlikely to move prices.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/10/2026
Ben Meiselas: And here's a compilation of Trump saying many times that if any country bought oil from Russia, he would go after them...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
How long until they cave and put money in his pocket? Or at least hold a black tie dinner in his honor?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So it’s coordinated to start a race war and demonize Somalis to win an election. Good to know.
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
According to Google there are about 111,000 persons of Somali ancestry living in MN out of 5.8 million folks. That’s about 2%. Over half of those were born in the U.S. And we certainly aren’t letting any more in at this point. Minnesota isn’t being “taken over”.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: Trump’s DOJ put a convicted election hacker on poll duty. Yes, really.
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Trump’s DOJ Put Convicted Election Hacker on Poll Duty
As Harmeet Dhillon rebuilds the Civil Rights Division after roughly 300 career employees left, Justice Department records place David Michael Levin in the federal election-monitoring operation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The backlash against A.I. is a backlash against unchecked inequality”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Page One. @wsj.com
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you’ve decided to start calling something by a new name because Donald Trump decided he wants everyone to call it something different, then you are in a cult of pathetic morons.
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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Mike Quigley @quigley.house.gov · 28/09/2026
It was never about arresting “the worst of the worst.”
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Trump Officials Now Restricting All Legal Immigration Categories
Recent immigration policies of the Trump administration affect American citizens sponsoring family members and employers seeking workers as the economy has slowed down.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course, the vile Trump regime sides with bigoted parents over vulnerable kids.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump invited his billionaire pals to the state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping last night. Since he’s been back in office, the wealthiest households have gained 8,000 times more wealth per household than the bottom 50% of households. It’s clear who he governs for.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/09/2026
Every meal we serve means one less child worried about hunger and one more student ready to learn. That’s an investment I’ll defend every damn day. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Fewer skipped meals, less stigma: New data on the impact of Minnesota’s universal school meals
A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the record: The University of California has never asked me for anything like this. But I am seeing this line of questioning arising in a rapidly growing number of American contexts. It has been asked of me, personally, elsewhere. And that is very, very alarming.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We got real serious problems with these morons dismantling our economy. Even discussing a remote possibility of handing out $5,000 checks is insane, never mind spending many billions so Hegseth can have more missiles to shoot at people to feel like a real boy.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is an absolute disaster from a national security perspective. Obviously, a lot on F-35s is classified, but a weapons-bay door and a canopy with radar-absorbing material are some of the most sensitive. Hard to describe how bad this is.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We roll out the red carpet for Putin and Xi while we shit on our closest allies daily. The American government under Trump and his cultist Republican Party is a disgrace.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23/09/2026
EIon Musk’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $984B Jeff Bezos’s Wealth 2009: $6B 2026: $370B Mark Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2009: $.6B 2026: $256B Federal Minimum Wage 2009: $7.25 2023: $7.25 Billionaire tax rate: 8.2% Worker tax rate: 13% Pay workers. Tax & Abolish Billionaires. Save our economy & country.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Republicans' fear of fake socialism in the United States is bringing about real fascism in the United States. Mainly because they are too ignorant to know the difference.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Remember: Trump's attacks on the IRS were never about "efficiency." They were about making it easier for wealthy and powerful people like him to skirt what they owe.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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