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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/09/2026
Violent crime is falling — and the reasons why are likely more complicated than simply increased policing. . bit.ly/4xMoks9
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Crime Prevention and Mental Health Spending May Have Contributed to Drop in Violent Crime
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the federal government spent billions of dollars shoring up state and local budgets and funding new public safety initiatives.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026
Raddatz: "What do you think the job of the press is? What does the First Amendment mean to you?" Blanche: "What it means to me is not the issue…When it comes to the White House, it's the people's house. It is a privilege and not a right to be there."
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026
Multiple ads I believe
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trying to keep up with BYD’s expansion is almost impossible. Everyday news of new factories they build overseas, new models, new batteries. It’s Alexander the Great conquering the auto world, yet its market cap is 1/12th of Tesla’s ( $120 billion vs $1500B) cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com/explorer.html
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...
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CARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapy
A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s...
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Right on schedule.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elon Musk blocks the Catholic Bishops Conference of Brazil because they criticize Bolsonaro, whom he supports. paydayreport.com/x-blocks-acc...
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X Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back Lula
Polls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When Republicans wail about "communism," remember: They applauded last week when Trump bragged about seizing shares of companies and sending free money to everyone. They're fine with "communism," as long as their guy is doing it. If you know anybody who's falling for this BS, send them this video.
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Republicans’ “Anti-Communist” Obsession Backfires Spectacularly
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 15/09/2026
This would end careers BT.
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NotCIAreally @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Russia-gate was real and is ongoing. Turns out it was/is Russia Russia Russia
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unpersoned.bsky.social @unpersoned.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It still sickens me this bigot mocked a disabled reporter and millions of Americans said, “No big deal. That’s who I want as president.”
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jamelle Bouie: what it means to be Haitian in Springfield after JD Vance's dehumanization campaign: “They can be smeared and libeled and hounded and hunted. They can be treated as less than human. They can live under a miasma of hate brought on by him, his boss and their enablers."
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Opinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Not Be Dead
Pierre Damas Bel should still be alive.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/08/2026
It’s about ‘kitchen-table populism’: focusing on Americans’ day-to-day economic struggles
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We surveyed 6,000 Americans. Here is the winning message for Democrats | Dustin Guastella
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/08/2026
The annual commemoration in New York historically hasn’t allowed politicians’ speeches and won’t make an exception for Trump. trib.al/Oa7rq8e
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
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The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations ransacked our system. In 1952,
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
At the CDC, Trump has gutted programs on Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, sickle cell disease, smoking, overdoses, maternal mortality, rape prevention... apnews.com/article/cdc-...
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The CDC has zombie programs. Congress funds them, but few people are left to do the work
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has several programs funded by Congress that lack staff to operate them.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think this is an accurate assessment - at least somewhere around this number. The problem isn’t rebuilding the bases, it’s force protection. Iran knows what works, now they’re reconstituting their capabilities during the lull in fighting. Emboldening them was a grave mistake
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026
It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 22/08/2026
This is outrageous. A free press cannot function under constant threats and retaliation from the government. Reporters must be free to hold those in power accountable — without fear of retribution. The assault on the free press must end!
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Great reporting by Politico. 1 Trade talks have centred on cars, steel & aluminum 2 Heavy trucks have lots of steel. Both sides agreed to reduce auto tariffs. On Friday, US thought that didn't include heavy trucks under steel tariffs, Canada thought it did. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Inside the 72 hours that cratered the US-Canada trade deal
Trump announced a “DEAL” on Tuesday night. Then things went south. Now the $1 trillion trade relationship is unraveling.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Good piece
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
ICE agent Martin Lagunas, star of a viral clip this week, is all in for homicide as standard ICE operating procedure. migrantinsider.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: Two DHS Sources Confirm to Migrant Insider — The ICE Agent Who Pointed His Gun at a U.S. Citizen in Virginia Is Martin Lagunas
Watch now | The Chicago-based agent was already identified on social media and by Unraveled Press. Now, two Department of Homeland Security sources have confirmed his name to Migrant Insider.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
stockpiles. At this point, Kyiv must plan for a winter with severely disrupted power, and disperse and fortify life-support systems such as water, sanitation, power and heating."
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
North Korea is hacking our infrastructure. Sending troops and weapons to kill Ukrainians and providing weapons and support to Iran. South Korea is a democratically ally.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When religion becomes a mere artificial façade to justify a social or economic system—when religion hands over its rites and language completely to the political propagandist, and when prayer becomes the vehicle for a purely secular ideological program, then religion does tend to become an opiate. It deadens the spirit enough to permit the substitution of a superficial fiction and mythology for the truth of life. And this brings about the alienation of the believer, so that his religious zeal becomes political fanaticism. His faith in God, while preserving
its traditional formulas, becomes in fact faith in his own nation, class or race. His ethic ceases to be the law of God and love, and becomes the law of might-makes-right: established privilege justifies everything. God is the status quo.
—Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer (1969)
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
At the request of the US Embassy, Israel dispatches large IDF forces to West Bank villages under attack from violent illegal squatters. However, the IDF forces stand by and do absolutely nothing to stop the squatters. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
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Settlers continue to roam Palestinian villages despite massive IDF presence
A large number of troops have been deployed around the mountain villages of Qusra and Jalud, but they have been unable to remove the settlers from the area. The CEO of NGO Yesh Din described the incid...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Any American reader today of Stefan Zweig's Die Welt von gestern will get the quick sense he's living through much the same things that Zweig experienced in Germany and Austria in the 1930s.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/08/2026
Blanche’s latest move reflects poorly on all the Republicans who voted to confirm him—but especially Senators Bill Cassidy, John Cornyn, and Tom Tillis, who bought into the AG’s promises to limit the scope of a different immunity for the president. trib.al/lHmpjUC
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Surprise! Todd Blanche Immediately Breaks His Promises to GOP Senators
Hours after being sworn in as attorney general, Blanche gave Donald Trump even more protections.
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Vox @vox.com · 14/08/2026
Big Bend National Park is the latest casualty of Trump’s border wall obsession. www.vox.com/the-logoff-n...
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Why Trump is tearing up a beloved national park
Big Bend National Park is the latest casualty of Trump’s border wall obsession.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/08/2026
Detainees at a federal immigration camp in Mississippi were also forced to stand outside in extreme heat during the leak. trib.al/BOl5PPF
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ICE Refused to Give Detainees Medical Treatment After Gas Leak
Detainees at a federal immigration camp in Mississippi were also forced to stand outside in extreme heat during the leak.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump’s pressure campaign on the Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh, puts him “in a difficult position, forced to choose between what the economy needs and what the president wants,” Phillip Braun writes in a guest essay.
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Opinion | Stagflation Has Returned. Kevin Warsh Must Defy Trump to Protect Our Economy.
The Northwestern professor Phillip Braun says the return of stagflation brings new urgency to the Fed chairman Kevin Warsh’s next moves.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/08/2026
Trump "now finds himself instead frittering away his last days of trifecta power flogging his incompetent lackeys to figure out some way, any way, to make somebody pay for the violence done to his poor Reflecting Pool."
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Trump’s Summer of Lost Causes
Rather than starting new fights, Trump is fixating on ones he’s already lost.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/08/2026
@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Ken Paxton is wildly corrupt and there's a lot of good faith Republicans in Texas who really do not like him — I hear that in focus groups. And the fact that that Trump is unpopular, it gives Talarico an opening and it seems like he's willing to grab it."
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 12/08/2026
The hypocrisy writes itself. #SheShed
Graphic from Occupy Democrats labeled “BREAKING” showing Donald Trump in front of a Palm Beach property. Text claims a ProPublica investigation found that Trump engaged in mortgage practices similar to those he has accused political opponents of, and says he hung up on a reporter when questioned.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/07/2026
Funny how transparency became optional.
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Just James @bojabi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Q: What's even scarier than a president who is this STUPID? A: That he's smarter than all the people who voted for him.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
As War restarts, I keep hearing "tactical success, strategic failure" as a summary of US-Israel war on Iran because of enormous destruction of Iran's military and economic capacity & regime decapitation. But its better described as "tactical failure, strategic failure". Good note by @policytensor
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Corrupt immoral coward Lindsey Graham has died after a sudden illness and history will remember him as an insurrectionist who did everything he could in public office to help a vile deranged treasonous felon commit election fraud and sedition against the United States.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Important statement from the New York Times
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Lonewolf @lonewolf1970.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
And I will say everything they hate and more, and party like hell.
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