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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Iran has won the short-video meme war with Trump. Now consider this from our neighbors to the north. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SUA...

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Canadian Resistance Army - Trade War (Official Music Video)

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Brian T. Brown @briantbrown.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tom Brokaw stories bookended NBC's coverage of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The first was about the greatest neighbors the world had ever known. The second, a documentary, told how Canada came to our rescue on 9/11. VIMEO password is SMG. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrA4... vimeo.com/98362823

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Tom Brokaw Explains Canada To Americans

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.

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Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A US president has done more damage to American elections than any foreign adversary.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

E. Jean Carroll spent nearly a decade in court fighting one of the most powerful men in the world. She fought with tenacity and grace — and she won. She is one of my personal heroes. We all owe her a debt of gratitude.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/07/2026

Be ready for when Trump tries to sabotage the midterms: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

(next to an image of Trump) THE REGIME WILL LIE, CHEAT, AND STEAL TO CLING TO POWER.

We’re organizing in all 50 states — because we can’t wait until November to get into election protection formation.

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HANDS OFF OUR VOTE

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“When did Fox become a tabloid? Are you even a real news organization?” Amazing

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This Must Be Done….. “BREAKING: AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, which bans the construction of data centers until Congress addresses all impacts of AI on our society and planet. 💪 I support this 💯”

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South Carolina Department of Propaganda @southcarolinadop.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If you’ve ever worked with epoxy you know it’s pretty darned tough. It’s possible to cut the flexible type as I’m assuming they used here but that won’t make it come up in big sheets; you’d get smaller flakes. It sticks really well if the surface is prepped correctly which this evidently was not

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 After qualifying for the next round of the World Cup, the entire Norwegian squad sits on the field and starts rowing together with their fans in the stadium… simply wonderful 🤩🤩🤩

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2026

The reason Obama used water from the river for the reflecting pool and not city water is because city water is treated with orthophosphates, which is food for algae, causing massive blooms that produce cyanotoxins that kill wildlife.

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Eastcoastitnotes @eastcoastitnotes.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Corporations: "We invented a robot that drinks water!" Everyone: "What? Why would you do th-" Corporations: "All of the water actually!" Everyone:.... Corporations:... Everyone:... Corporations: "Also your taxes are going up!"

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

People laughed when Trump said the war would only end with unconditional surrender but he's a man of his word and he has now surrendered unconditionally

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 12/06/2026

Sorry for the poor sound quality, but stay for the ad.

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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is the mindset of the Trump regime and the GOP—Rep Mike Flood, R-NE, told working class & retired Americans they don't have the $$ for healthcare-& the crowd booed him to his face. We won’t be fooled. Every other wealthy nation affords it, but the GOP is giving that $$ to billionaires instead.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is how it’s done. State the facts and refuse to entertain their bullshit.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

There are many in the fallen world of American politics who are more mendacious, more corrupt, more self-aggrandizing. But no one -- and I mean no one -- is as empty, soulless and craven as this man.

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The Halfway Post @halfwaypost.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

BREAKING: Knicks fans are reportedly preparing set lists of anti-Trump chants to lead nonstop during his attendance of the game tonight, including "Trump's a pedo," "Impeach Trump now," "Trump for prison," "Inflation's your fault," "End the tariffs," and "New York hates you."

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is Completely Unacceptable! You know what to do New Yorkers….

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Go ahead, White House Correspondents Association. Invite this guy to your dinner next month. The one honoring the press and the First Amendment. See how far that gets you.

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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 07/06/2026

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

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FactsOverFeelings @thunderstorming.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Don’t forget that Bongino saw the files too.

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Fight like Michael Collins @praying4peace.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It’s pretty clear that we’re never going to get the rest of the Trumpstein files while we leave the people who are implicated in them with the power to decide what we will & won’t get. Our country is literally being run by the pedoligarch’s now. And they have no intention of losing this power.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/06/2026

Kaine to Rubio: "By not sharing the [Iran] legal opinion with the Article 1 oversight branch, you give us the opinion there's something you don't want us to see. Could you use your influence as the president's chief national security adviser & secretary of state to share the opinion with Congress?"

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

NEW: Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling on Todd Blanche to resign. "[W]e must demand that Todd Blanche resign. An Attorney General who has disgraced himself by settling a bogus lawsuit with a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded bonanza payout to convicted cop beaters."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Talarico campaign is 100% focused on the kill shot here. And nice work, whoever made the ad -- there's one creepy courtroom clip of Hoffman replayed multiple times to good effect, while every shot of Paxton looks like he was just caught trying to fuck a poodle at a PetsMart.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The second point cannot be emphasized enough. Guiliani put the command center in WTC against the advice of experts, and as a result of his horny incompetence, the city's command center was obliterated in the worst terrorist attack on NYC and its response suffered. But he got good photos so...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tel everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is a terrific way to think about this. Southern Baptists used to stand at the forefront of fighting for the separation of church and state and always portrayed Catholicism as the greatest menace to freedom in America, and then they just became what they feared.

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sam1am4bg.bsky.social @sam1am4bg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

IF Americans vote overwhelmingly for Dems & give them at least 60 Senate Seats & at least 300 House seats not only could they Impeach & Remove this entire corrupt regime but they would have the votes to remove the corrupt SCOTUS Justices Too! Hope that gives you some incentive to get everyone out /1

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

DOJ identified 4 green card holders who voted in 2024 in NJ, or 0.00006% of total votes. As I wrote in 2024, noncitizen voting remains extraordinarily rare. Audits find only a tiny handful of cases, most often green card holders who got bad advice from others.

What do those 68 cases tell us? First, it demonstrates that proven cases of noncitizen voting are incredibly rare. Even an organization engaged in a major effort to document voter fraud produced fewer than 70 proven cases of noncitizens who voted in elections in the last 40 years.
Given that over one billion votes have been
cast over that period in thousands of elections, the incidence of proven noncitizen voting is below 0.0001%.

Third, the data tells us that most cases of noncitizen voting involve lawful permanent residents-people with green cards who have been in the community for years, many who end up voting due to bad information given by government officials themselves.
The most common scenario in the cases
included in Heritage's database includes a lawful permanent resident who was encouraged by a government official to vote or falsely told that they were eligible.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

To be fair, maybe they actually *meant* "Untied States"? www.wired.com/story/the-ju...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A few words on legacy media. Conference on World Affairs University of Colorado Boulder April 15th, 2026

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S.L. Price @byslp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Chicagoland becomes Ground Zero for women's lacrosse Memorial Day weekend when Northwestern hosts the NCAA Final Four -- one more culmination in the rise, fade and re-rise of the most unlikely sports dynasty in America. Start the celebration a week early: www.thebookloftoakpark.com/event-detail...

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Meet S.L. Price & learn more about the Best Seller, "The American Game"

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A project for some reporter/wonk with time to kill: Scrape Trump’s posts/speeches/interviews for uses of the phrase “low IQ” and figure out what percentage of the time it’s aimed at a black person. Because my sense is it’s in the ballpark of like 80%+

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Bruce Coffman @brucecoffman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is all exactly what America wanted. They either voted for it, refused to vote against it or did do the bare minimum of voting against it just so they could coldly claim, "I did my part." You didn't. You didn't prevent it. So, enjoy. We are all just prisoners here of our own device.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We don’t talk enough about how weird—just weird!—it is that so many GOP and admin officials spend so much time just standing around the Oval watching Trump do stuff. All of these people have jobs! Sometimes important ones! But just being the awkward backdrop of the Mad King’s rantings matters more.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A Supreme Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places the Court at odds with democracy itself. This is the legacy of Chief Justice John Roberts. I opposed his nomination back in 2005, and I stand by that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2026

Whitehouse filets Zeldin: "You even set up a special polluter email address that give polluters a drive-up window for exemptions from the Clean Air Act"

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