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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/10/2025
Donald Trump: *posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on Americans* Mike Johnson: "You can argue [Trump's] probably the most effective person who's ever used social media."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Spread it across social media. Don’t let the MSM censor reality.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Our president is waging war against us. And bragging about it.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is full-on North Korea /Dear Leader/ State TV bullsh*t
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Outrageous. This is blatant censorship. If the broadcasters follow this then shame on them. They’ll be nothing but enablers and complicit in the crimes being committed against America, its people and the world. This is third world garbage.
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Gross violation of the inherent rights of the residents of DC. Analogous to the occupation of the colonies by British redcoats pre revolutionary war. Trump wants to create violence and pretext for martial law. This is a creeping war on the American system and its people.
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Or maybe they’re an authoritarian regime systematically targeting political opponents. Not everything needs to be a “distraction.” They can do lots of bad things at one time. They flood the zone. Dems need to understand this as one big, comprehensive scheme. Not isolated “distractions.” Wake up!
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
What Valerie said!
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social - did you take over the NPR account?
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Anyone else think it is hilarious that the right wing MAGA folks are calling the new Pope a Marxist. I mean come on. Karl Marx called religion the opioid of the masses. These people have no clue what they talk about. They just parrot meaningless phrases.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If they don’t have articles drawn up on day 1, it’s dereliction of duty. Schumer can stay at home to make his guacamole or whatever and let the big kids deal with this.
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Funny how folks like to say that humanities degrees are “useless” while the world is being actively destroyed by people not knowing about history, ethics, media literacy, or how to think critically. But sure, tell me again how STEM alone will save us.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Jesus’s parents were unwed and undocumented. So he got what he deserved. by J. D. Vance
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com Marblehead, MA - Home of the Spirit of 1776. No Kings rally on April 19, 2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Someone needs to offer an amendment on the house floor to eliminate funding for the asshole at the White house producing this racist garbage. It’s called an Holman amendment
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 17/04/2025
The good news is that the constitution provides ways for Congress and the Judiciary to reign in a power-hungry president. The bad news is those people are all scared of him.
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Richie Barna @richstaa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez. American citizen, detained by ICE in Leon County Florida. His mother brought his birth certificate and SS card. Judge told her, “Sorry, he has an ICE hold, despite not having probably cause for his arrest” This is it folks. State sponsored kidnapping. Share this please
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Today @vanhollen.senate.gov was denied entry to the same prison.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/04/2025
Trump is doing this right now btw
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Law professor here: Things are F-U-C-K-E-D up.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Lesson to John Roberts and friends: use clear, explicit, directive language or you will be ignored. (And even with that, you'll probably be ignored, but without it, you definitely will.)
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/04/2025
The president who in 2020 had unidentified federal agents deployed against protesters is now encouraging a foreign dictator to build more prisons to accommodate "homegrown" "criminals," as he ignores a court order to effect the return of a guy sent to a foreign prison without any due process.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. He’s defying the Supreme Court. Don’t you see what’s happening here?
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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, tells Trump that he will not return a Maryland man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to his country. Trump and Rubio agree with the announcement, in direct defiance of the Supreme Court. This is a constitutional crisis.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Watching Trump and Bukele in the Oval Office just now made me feel physically ill.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
DEMOCRATIC ELECTEDS: You need to be holding hearings like Raskin/Schiff did but on the bloodbaths at Social Security and IRS. DOGE can now pocket everyone's personal information. IRS is being set up to make billionaire taxes optional; no more phone support # at SSA. HOLD THE HEARINGS.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
So raise taxes you bozo! Don’t cut taxes for billionaires if we have such a big debt problem. And put into place true estate taxes for crying out loud. All this multigenerational wealth only fuels the power of the most wealthy people and families in America. Make them work like the rest of us
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The billionaires want to gut our ability to forecast the weather so they can make the rest of us pay exorbitant prices for it. We all deserve accurate and free weather forecasts from the government. They are carving up the government and selling us out. TV meteorologists should speak out.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: waffles and eggs, big cup of Folgers, then everyone crowds into the old unmarked van to drive around town grabbing random people and sending them to El Salvador torture prisons. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 09/04/2025
If you weight 2024 imports by the 10%/"reciprocal" tariff amount announced last Wednesday (with China at 54%, Mexico/Canada at 0%), the total tariff rate would have been 21%. Today, with China at 125% and Mexico/Canada at 10% along with ~everybody else, the rate is 26%.
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Are you kidding me? Because this is form over substance. Make it sound like they’re providing opportunity for due process. Every person needs to bring their own individual habeas case. Most of these people can’t afford a lawyer. Might not know a lawyer. Now they’re slave labor in a foreign prison.
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hi, no thanks @hmmvryintrstng.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.

So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I’ve now watched this clip like 10 times and it’s instant first ballot hall of fame. One of the most comically out of touch things I’ve ever heard heard from a public official.
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Why aren’t states filling the void for cuts to govt funding. Blue states could individually or together provide grants and other funding to universities to keep support vital research. Just one example. Act like we are in war time-like footing. Dem states are under assault by own fed govt.
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brentspeed.bsky.social @brentspeed.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yes
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Please repost this and pass it on
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Elysium Designer @elysiumdesigner.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
So much winning...
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Donald Trump is a fascist. Americans of conscience must stand bravely against these attempts to silence speech and political dissent. Shame on Columbia’s administrators for their cowardice in a moment that demands institutional bravery.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is excellent.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Indeed! bsky.app/profile/muel...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
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