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@bren789.bsky.social
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Believer in equality and individual liberty—care about the well-being of all people — regardless of their race, religion, ability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc. —care about the environment and the effects of climate change

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family sued the U.S. government and several immigration officials Thursday, alleging wrongful death, conspiracy and other violations in the 37-year-old woman's killing by an immigration officer during a federal crackdown in Minneapolis. to.pbs.org/4xRlL85
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Renee Good's family sues U.S. government and immigration officials over her killing
Good was fatally shot Jan. 7 as protests against immigration raids flared across Minneapolis.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power. Remember this.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/08/2026
One of the things I hate the most about tariffs is that we knew they were illegal, and when the court finally decided they were illegal, they forced Trump to refund the tariffs. But the refunds went to the corporations, and not the people the corporations raised prices on. What a scam.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21/08/2026
Wow! Trump slaps tariffs on damn near everything, then gives imported beef a tariff-free boost. I can’t imagine even farmers who voted for Trump are OK with this. They’re already struggling, and now they’re going to have to compete with 300K metric tons of imported beef.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/08/2026
On Monday, President Trump signed an executive order that calls for reducing the number of recommended childhood vaccines. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters. Revisit our March investigation:
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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I Live And Breathe @i-live-and-breathe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The worst of us are in charge;
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Samuel Alito gained up to $2.9m from oil and gas assets since joining supreme court, analysis shows
Critics argue US high court justice should recuse himself from upcoming fossil fuel firms’ climate accountability case
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
As I’ve said for 18 months, Trump can lie to them about a lot of things and they will buy it, but his lies about this stuff aren’t fooling anyone. People know how much they pay for things and how much money is in their bank account. The lies & denials only make people more angry.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 09/08/2026
"I wouldn't want to be a Republican candidate come November"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Eric and Don Jr.’s ties to 15 companies that have received $3.2 BILLION in defense contracts. Here's what you should know about their ongoing grifts.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Trump, his sons, and the Trump Organization could be shielded from paying more than $100 million in back taxes under a deal negotiated by his own Justice Department. You will still have to pay what you owe—but Trump and his sons won’t.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The fact that Blanche refused to terminate the slush fund in writing for Trump’s criminal cronies as well as his IRS immunity deal proves that his testimony at his confirmation hearing that these things were “dead” was always a lie. They were dead only until he got confirmed.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 29/07/2026
Americans are having to adapt to the biggest price jump on groceries in 50 years thanks to Donald Trump. And instead of helping you, he’s adding more tariffs, more gas price hikes, and more chaos at home.
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Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years
Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/07/2026
Another private equity victim: FIRE TRUCKS. PE has ripped off fire departments and overcharged for trucks and engines, putting our safety at risk. Today, I introduced bipartisan legislation that'll force the FTC to investigate this. Our fire fighters deserve better.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A confused Trump overstays his welcome onstage and photobombs the FIFA World Cup winners as they hoist their trophy
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
He won’t leave. They are trying to get him out of there but he won’t leave. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I know consultants tell Dems to only talk about affordability but it seems like you ought to be able to get voters to care about elementary schools being bombed & people being shot in the streets as Trump pardons thieves, drug dealers & violent criminals while grifting billions.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/06/2026
"Any person who cannot see that elections—which are constitutionally mandated and have never been forsaken, even at our darkest hour—are the beating heart of our democracy is not fit for the presidency." New from Robert Dallek: lnk.thebulwark.com/43J2DwF
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Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Giving billionaires and corporations the green light to buy our elections. Making it easier for polluters to destroy the planet. Stripping millions of reproductive freedom. Granting presidents immunity. Gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The shame of the John Roberts court.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Trump and Hegseth are asking for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Trump's ever-expanding list of taxpayer grifts: -$1.8B slush fund for political allies -$1B for ballroom "security" -$1B for Qatar jet refurbishments -$230M in DOJ "compensation" -$100M+ for golf outings When he says he "doesn't think about Americans' financial situation," I believe him.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/05/2026
NEWS: U.S. Consumer Sentiment has officially fallen to the lowest level ever recorded in data going back to 1952, plunging another 10% last month. Consumers now expect inflation to hit 4.8% over the next 12 months. Sentiment is down 21% since February 2026, before the Iran War… 1/
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20/05/2026
"It is Trump’s party. But Trump’s party does seem to be an aging one and a shrinking one. Which brings us back to 'Ninotchka.'"
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How to Rob Taxpayers of $1.8 Billion Without Really Trying
Start by completely bypassing Congress and the Constitution.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/05/2026
Charlie Angus on impact of Canadian boycott of US travel: "Many tourist locations are talking about drops of 50% ... There's areas where the losses have been as high as 80%. We're not bragging as Canadians. We're doing something to defend our sovereignty and put the pressure on MAGA."
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 16/05/2026
Your tax dollars just paid a French oil company to stop building American electricity, and the gas it’s being replaced with is getting shipped overseas to Europe and Asia. The Trump Administration is PAYING to kill projects that would have lowered your costs.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Trump said that repairs to the DC Reflecting pool would cost $1.8 Million. Now? The price tag is $13.1 million. The company doing the repairs got a no-bid contract for the project after previously working on pools at Trump's properties. Where’s the uproar about waste, fraud, and abuse now?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Republicans can now tell every voter that the leader of their party is going to make them pay $1.7 billion of their hard-earned money in taxes to Oathkeepers & Proud Boys convicted of crimes on J6 as well as others convicted of beating police. All of us have to pay J6 criminals.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"An ICE takedown caught on camera left a 19-year-old bleeding and requiring stitches to his head. Cellphone video showed the teen get tackled by agents. Once they figured out they had made a mistake, they dropped him off at a park, bloody and bruised..." www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/d...
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DHS responds to claim of wrongful ICE detention
The Dept. of Homeland Security has responded after a Bronx man said he was injured during what he described as a case of mistaken identity involving immigration agents in Norwood. Jeury Concepcion tol...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
While millions of Americans struggle to afford soaring gas prices due to Trump’s war on Iran, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is focused on releasing a road trip reality tv show. The trip was sponsored by corporations that his department regulates, including Boeing, Toyota, and Shell. Hello?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Republicans want $1 BILLION in new taxpayer funding to shore up security for Trump's White House ballroom. And don't forget: Corporate donations to construct the ballroom will be tax-deductible. Trump is sticking us with the tab for his vanity project while ignoring what the country really needs.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/05/2026
BREAKING: A conservative court packed with Trump-appointed judges just ruled to ROLL BACK access to the abortion pill. This is a page straight out of extremist Republicans’ anti-abortion playbook. Let me be clear: the abortion pill is safe and effective. We must fight back.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is what tariffs were always all about for Trump. Not about revenue, trade, domestic manufacturing, GDP - it’s about giving himself the unilateral power to decide economic winners and losers on a case by case basis, with kings and CEOs coming to him asking forbearance..
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Suddenly Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber just can’t stop making big bucks off shrewd investments in companies making a fortune off connections to the government. They are experts in every industry now.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 09/04/2026
A documentary about the First Lady that costs Amazon $75,000,000 and barely makes a dent at the box office is not a smart investment on its own. But what if that same company secures a $580,000,000 Pentagon contract around the same time? Suddenly, the math starts to look different.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Rep. Garcia: Todd Blanche, as a reminder, was Donald Trump's former personal lawyer. That's the person now in charge of the Department of Justice. He personally met with Ghislaine Maxwell multiple times. He personally has said that this investigation is over.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“Our customer base is doing well,” said Barry Shevlin, CEO of FlyUSA, which has seen sales of private jets take off following Trump's tax cuts for the ultrawealthy.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 06/04/2026
"To have your child abused while in the government's care, to not understand what has happened or how to protect them, to not even be told about the abuse, it is unimaginable," said an attorney representing the girl. to.pbs.org/3PV4hr9
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3-year-old suffered sexual abuse during months in immigration custody, family alleges
An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Host: Donald Trump is now asking taxpayers to be on the hook for renovations to the executive residence to the tune of $377 million. That is according to the new White House budget request for next year. It marks a more than 800% increase from last year.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Basically Trump decided to cause chaos, mayhem, death, destruction, disruption, dissension, depletion of resources, & decades of hatred and mistrust from friends and foe in the Middle East and beyond, then walk away while telling the world he expects them to clean up his mess.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump's DOL just proposed opening 401(k) plans to volatile private equity and crypto investments. Both industries have given millions to Trump's ballroom — and Trump's family leads a multi-billion dollar crypto empire. He's endangering YOUR retirement to line HIS pockets.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
More proof that Republicans wanted to withhold TSA funding to cause airport chaos for negotiating leverage. Everything they said about airports being a mess over the past two weeks is exactly what they wanted.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones. We’re just weeks into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in. Everything is for sale.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
To be clear, the Republicans who policed all of our speech when Charlie Kirk was killed, & who jump on anyone who doesn’t mourn their heroes correctly, have just opened the door for every liberal & leftist in America to post ‘Good, I’m glad he’s dead” when Trump eventually dies.
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