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@brigettek123.bsky.social
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A Canadian keeping an eye on the US, hoping democracy will hold for future generations.

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 10/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 10/10/2026
Russia just bought large quantities of diesel from South Korea because it has run out of the fuel. Could Putin be defrauding a gullible Donald J Trump? Perish the thought!
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Local woman says if referendum results show none of the problems she invented are a concern of the majority of voters then she will then work hard to look for new problems.
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‘Not as long as I’m premier’: Danielle Smith rules out 2nd separation referendum if Albertans vote to remain | CBC News
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was definitive Friday when asked whether she’d commit to not holding another referendum on Alberta separation should a majority of Albertans vote to remain in Canada on ...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/10/2026
The people who don’t want you to watch miss rachel want you to watch a public execution
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
More Trump administration corruption At the request of lobbyists Continental Strategy, Susie Wiles-Trump’s Chief of Staff-met a Putin aligned member of Bosnia’s presidential delegation at the White House Why is this significant Because her daughter-Katie Wiles-is a partner at Continental Strategy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In Trump's second term, Bezos has received... -Huge new tax cuts for himself and Amazon -Millions of dollars in new Blue Origin federal contracts -A slap-on-the wrist FTC settlement for Amazon -A gutted NLRB led by a union-busting lawyer No wonder he's been such a Trump sycophant.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026
NEW: Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a one-minute notice from Border Patrol. A convoy of contractors — guarded by masked agents — was en route to conduct testing for a coming border wall. The tribe was warned: Do not interfere.
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As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Can you give my dad back? I miss him.” 💔 ICE kidnapped her father Luis at a DOT inspection. Her mother says he is legal and did everything the right way. #AbolishICE
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Shot in the back. No criminal record.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Chuck the Coward is constantly looking for people to blame while never criticizing the person who caused the problem.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The DOJ sent letters threatening criminal prosecution to election officials who wouldn't hand over private voter files—including Republicans. Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson's response: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-had-...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Since Trump claims that it was “the military” that requested to use the arch to store sniper ammo & drones, these are the times when a Democratic majority could bring Gen. Dan Caine before Congress to find out from him if that is true & why. As usual, Republicans will do nothing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In case anyone is unclear why Trump really backs A.I. 👇🏽
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is National Voter Registration Day! 🇺🇸 If you’re not registered, register. If you are, take a minute to check your registration and make sure everything is up to date. Your voice matters. Your vote matters. Make sure you’re ready for Election Day. 💙 #GetReadyToVote
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "The barbarian is in the White House, and we're seeing the consequences of that"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "They want to make this about a streamer in California. I want to make this about affordability in Michigan, and they can't talk about it because it's their policies that are driving [prices] up"
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars at work, folks...
motherjones.com
What Does FBI Director Kash Patel Actually Do?
He spends his time complaining about online posts.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Seems like this should be a bigger deal. 🤷🏼 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/08/2026
The contractor on the project has predicted more than $300 million of the project will come from public funds.
forbes.com
Trump Again Claims Taxpayers Aren't On The Hook For Ballroom—But Contractor Says Otherwise
The contractor on the project has predicted more than $300 million of the project will come from public funds.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It’s a searing indictment of the media that the family business run by the US president had *hundreds* Of bank accounts closed by Capital One based on suspicions that they were involved in money laundering And-especially since Trump is a convicted felon-it barely registered as a story
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 16/08/2026
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) had to answer for comments made by Attorney General Todd Blanche a week after the GOP senator confirmed him.
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GOP Senator stunned silent by Todd Blanche's 'back the blue' stump speech
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) had to answer for comments made by Attorney General Todd Blanche a week after the GOP senator confirmed him.Cassidy cast the decisive vote to confirm Blanche as Trump's Attorney General and gave a speech where he assured his constituents he was making the right choice despit...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
KY @govandybeshear.bsky.social : “I have heard nothing back from Mitch McConnell.” Without proof of life the scam being run on Kentucky taxpayers warrants criminal charges— at the very least his staff is stealing paychecks. Reminder: McConnell blocks paid leave, universal health care, etc
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
🤷🏼
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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Omar Navarro, who pleaded guilty to embezzling $250k from his congressional campaign, says he was told he could get a Trump pardon if he paid $2m-$3m to a law firm. He won't say who told him this, because the person "is pretty powerful in the government … so I’m very scared to even say anything.”
nypost.com
How Trump’s presidential pardons became booming business for law firms: ‘You have to pay $2 million, $3 million’
Pardon-seekers are paying lobbyists millions for “executive relief” under President Trump, but critics warn most are being scammed, and even $600,000 couldn’t get rapper Boosie Ba…
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 18/07/2026
President Donald Turmp wanted a "bombshell moment" with his primetime speech about election interference, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Friday — but if an explosion happened, it was one more of the Looney Tunes variety.
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'Always blowing himself up': Trump mocked as Wile E. Coyote by MS NOW's Jen Psaki
President Donald Turmp wanted a "bombshell moment" with his primetime speech about election interference, MS NOW's Jen Psaki said on Friday — but if an explosion happened, it was one more of the Looney Tunes variety."Remember that cartoon character, Wile E. Coyote?" said Psaki. "Okay, he spent every...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you have *real* evidence of election fraud, you file a lawsuit. But if you are a pathetic sore loser who wants desperately to believe any fiction that excuses your actual loss, you go on TV where, unlike in court, you won’t be held accountable for your brazen and ridiculous lies.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Ossoff brilliant at this
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/07/2026
Ossoff points out that Trump's conspiracy theories "put Georgia Rs in a terrible bind, because now not only do they have to defend this president's economic record, not only do they have to defend doubling health insurance premiums, they also have to defend all these bizarre conspiracy theories"
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
2. Denial will not reverse one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in recent history. More in today's Popular Information:
popular.info
Straight talk about Hormuz
No matter how many times Trump says it, it doesn't make it true.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
1. On at least two dozen occasions since the outset of the war Trump has declared that the Strait of Hormuz was “open” or controlled by the United States. The Strait of Hormuz is not open. The U.S. does not control the Strait of Hormuz.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/07/2026
BREAKING: E Jean Carroll has her money. www.ms.now/news/e-jean-...
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E. Jean Carroll finally gets Trump’s $5 million — plus interest
Despite the president’s repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll’s legal team this week.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: Judge Sullivan has GRANTED Katie Phang's preliminary injunction concluding she has standing, has been harmed, and will likely succeed on the merits of her case demanding the full release of the Epstein files. Blanche has until 7/2 to respond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Memorandum & Opinion – #16 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 6/25/2026. (lcegs1) (Entered: 06/25/2026)
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Kansas Republicans are reportedly trying to cancel this year’s Senate election because they know Roger Marshall is going to lose to Adam Hamilton.
kansasreflector.com
Kansas GOP leaders' alarming plot to cancel U.S. Senate elections unfolded in plain sight last year • Kansas Reflector
The possibility of GOP leaders executing an anti-democracy stunt to keep U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall's seat in the party remains real.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please keep hammering this. It's an obvious and effective message that plays widely, especially with low-info voters.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Michelle and I had fun surprising the first group of visitors to the Obama Presidential Center on Juneteenth. Come check it out!
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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just insane own goals. Generational errors. Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...
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Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 18/06/2026
President Donald Trump's claim that wealthy donors will fund the White House ballroom continues to unravel, as reports unearth the real cost to taxpayers.
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Trump's unraveling ballroom story reveals he has been 'lying the whole time': Analyst
President Donald Trump's claim that wealthy donors will fund the White House ballroom continues to unravel, as reports unearth the real cost to taxpayers."Trump has been lying the whole time with full knowledge of the cost and the cost to taxpayers," political analyst Brian Tyler Cohen said, pointin...
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Jack’s House Radio Free NAFO 🇺🇦 @houseofjack1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
No lies detected.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Another one of Trump's personal lawyers was just confirmed as a federal appeals court judge. Justin Smith was Trump's lead attorney at the Supreme Court in the effort to upend the millions of dollars in damages that E. Jean Carroll won against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation.
ms.now
Trump’s lead Supreme Court lawyer against E. Jean Carroll will now be a federal judge
Justin Smith is the latest, but likely not the last, Trump personal lawyer to win a federal appellate judgeship.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/06/2026
Trump wants reporters to know he’s very mad at Netanyahu
motherjones.com
Trump wants reporters to know he’s very mad at Netanyahu
The president embraces a time-honored American tradition: cursing out Bibi while funding his wars.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
CNN’s Harry Enten: “The big problem with these UFC fights for Trump is that they reinforce the idea that he's out of touch with Americans. Just 16% say these fights are appropriate. Even just 31% of the GOP do. This comes as 60% of voters and 80% of independents say the White House is out of touch.”
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 14/06/2026
A pro-Trump influencer is getting mercilessly mocked after pushing a voter-fraud claim about former reality star Spencer Pratt that collapsed over a single fatal detail: the location doesn't exist.
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'Stupid' new MAGA election lie dismantled as city at heart of scandal shown not to exist
A pro-Trump influencer is getting mercilessly mocked after pushing a voter-fraud claim about former reality star Spencer Pratt that collapsed over a single fatal detail: the location doesn't exist.The account Paul White Gold Eagle, a prolific conspiracy-minded influencer, posted what he billed as "B...
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This ⬇️ is a real American hero! Congresswoman Joyce Beatty is a Kennedy Center trustee who sued after the unlawful renaming of the center. Late Friday her suit prevailed and the center’s rightful name was restored. Thank you @repbeatty.bsky.social, we love you! ❤️
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