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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20/05/2026

If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22/03/2026

Our military is fighting a war Americans don't want, secret police are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, and the regime is trying to suppress the vote in the midterms. Silence isn't an option. Join us on Saturday to make No Kings Day big, loud, and inescapable: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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#BLM/#NMP/#ANTIFA🇲🇽 @sinnu1.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The mission is two-fold: invest in people, and drive your ex-husband and Vampire in training nuts…

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#BLM/#NMP/#ANTIFA🇲🇽 @sinnu1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Let me translate this: “A shit ton of your loved ones maybe sacrificed to keep the nation’s attention off the Epstein files. That is a sacrifice I’m totally willing to make.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

newrepublic.com

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All

In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15/01/2026

. @postbaron.bsky.social: "This administration is salivating for an opportunity to incarcerate journalists," and its open disdain for the press indicates that "things are going to get far worse" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.com

Journalists confront new reality in reporting after FBI raid

Many saw the FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home as a jarring new step aimed at limiting their ability to gather information.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I’ve now seen videos from both the mayor of Minneapolis and the governor Tim Walz, and both of them look like they have not slept in weeks

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We really don't talk about the sunk costs Trump squandered. Billions and billions and billions of both public and private dollars wasted bc he's still humiliated he got beaten by Joe Biden.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/01/2026

Jacob Frey on Fox & Friends: "We are willing to work with people when it's about murder and when it's about crime, but the truth is that this ain't about that ... why is the largest scale immigration enforcement action taking place where we don't even have that many undocumented immigrants?"

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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

They could've just shot out her tires. I think they were told to escalate and kill someone.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/10/2025

We cannot allow AI and robotics to simply wipe out millions of decent-paying jobs. This new technology must benefit workers — not just Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the other tech billionaires and CEOs of large corporations.

wsj.com

Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite

Companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending workers into an unwelcoming market.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Wait…what did you do with the real Chuck Schumer? Is this AI? Because it’s actually good. Maybe you just needed a soundtrack all along. And thanks for bringing up overdose prevention funding.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year. Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders. This is why we need Medicare for All.

jacobin.com

Health Insurers Are Hiking Premiums as Their Profits Balloon

The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and divid

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Read this now The government does have an Epstein list — here’s the proof BY CHRIS TRUAX thehill.com/opinion/whit...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A question every reporter should be asking Trump and Republicans: If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

“Harvard University’s $120B endowment is ammunition for our enemies, & we can’t let the enemy have that much ammunition or we’re gonna lose” - JD Vance, May 2021, at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life (Vance launched his US Senate campaign less than 2 months later. 1/

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Stallfortime @stallfortime.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

He pissed off all the other countries who sell us food and now wants to start a war in California where we grow all the food.

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Donald Trump wants to turn LA into Mogadishu ahead of his parade to show off his ability to use the military to create a dictatorship. Well, I’ve lived here for fifteen years and I don’t think he knows who he’s dealing with. www.mind-war.com/p/testing-te...

mind-war.com

Testing, Testing: Los Angeles Under Attack

Trump wants to turn LA into Mogadishu to expand his military powers

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This is a vitally important point to remember. Big force displays often reveal deep weaknesses—and a profound self-awareness of them.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

NEW President Trump says masks will not be allowed to be worn at protests. He does not have the authority to ban masks at protests.

Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump
Great job by the National Guard in Los Angeles after two days of violence, clashes and unrest. We have an incompetent Governor (Newscum) and Mayor (Bass) who were, as usual (just look at how they handled the fires, and now their VERY SLOW PERMITTING disaster. Federal permitting is complete!), unable to to handle the task. These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLERATED. Also, from now on, MASKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED to be worn at protests. What do these people have to hide, and why??? Again, thank you to the National Guard for a job well done!

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Critically important point from Juliette. The only real justification for federalizing the nat guard over a governors objection is when the civil authorities are defying the law. This is attack on the sovereign right of the people of California to self government.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

whitehouse.gov

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Remember that several people asked Pam Bondi during confirmation SPECIFICALLY what she would do on matters pertaining to Qatar (which she did not disclose) or GEO (pertinent to the Baraka arrest). She said she'd consult top career lawyer at DOJ abt recusal. Then she fired that lawyer.

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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Now here’s a fun fact you can repeat at parties.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother's Day. It's a moral outrage that we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.

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Rob Archer 🎙️ @robarcher.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

So, according to President Trump’s press secretary, illegal border crossings are at historic lows. Meanwhile, Stephen Miller says there’s an “invasion” so severe we need to toss civil liberties out the window.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

To find out more about the curious case of FBI chief Kash Patel receiving $25,000 from a Ukrainian-Russian-American filmmaker who was part of a Putin-financed propaganda operation, I knocked on the door of a house in Beverly Hills. Here's what happened. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-C...

youtube.com

The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000

YouTube video by Mother Jones

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Authoritarianism

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

They’re outsourcing the death camps.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

whoever did this belongs on Rushmore (via www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2...)

from an article describing how crosswalks were hacked so they’d play different recordings: Another video from downtown Palo Alto shows a voice impersonating Musk saying that he would give the listener a Cybertruck if they become his friend.
"You don't know the level of depravity I would stoop to just for a crumb of approval," the
voice says. "I mean, let's be real, it's not like I had any
moral convictions to begin with."

from an article describing how crosswalks were hacked so they’d play different recordings:
Over in Menlo
Park, a video taken near Meta's headquarters
shows a crosswalk
signal with a voice identifying himself
as "Zuck" stating how proud he is of
"everything we've been building together."
"From undermining democracy, to cooking our grandparents' brains with Al slop, to making the world less safe for trans people, nobody does it better than us - and I think that's pretty neat," the voice says.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Memecoins, NFTs, MAGA merch, MaL dinners, super PACs…he’s setup more ways to get paid than any corrupt politician in history.

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Gas is up at the pumps since Donald Trump took office. Coffee costs more. So do eggs. The things that are going down are your rights, your savings, and your retirement accounts.

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Senator Adam Schiff: "These tax cuts aren't free...Working Americans are going to see their costs skyrocket, they're going to see their retirement accounts plummet, and their Social Security and Medicaid ripped apart to give more money to billionaires." Unfortunately so.

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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The “Reorganizing Government Act of 2025” is an effort to renew a long-abandoned process to “reorganize” the government, including deleting entire departments by simple majority. The idea was started by FDR, and will be used to destroy everything FDR did. www.mind-war.com/p/reorganiza...

mind-war.com

Reorganization Act of 2025: Erasing FDR

They want to reverse the New Deal. Curtis Yarvin’s dream come true.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

who did this

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Ossoff: Trump’s cabinet is worth like $60 billion. That’s not even including Elon. They are literally the elites they pretend to hate.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

See how this works?

Post by Parker Butler (@parker_butler
). The text of the post reads: "Just so we're all following 1) Elon spends ~$300M to elect Trump 2) Trump gives him the federal government 3) Elon gets the agencies that regulate his companies 4) Trump holds an infomercial for Elon’s cars on the White House lawn 5) Elon gives Trump another $100M." The post lists a sequence of events in a numbered format, suggesting a cycle of financial and political influence.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 12/03/2025

Caption this. We’ll go first: “That’s not the gearstick”

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

1. The DOGE website is garbage. The claimed savings has no relationship to the data provided. And the data that is provided grossly inflates the savings from each canceled contract. So we just launched our own site — the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker — that breaks everything down.

muskwatch.com

Introducing: The Musk Watch DOGE Tracker

New tool reveals Musk has overstated verified DOGE savings by at least 92%

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