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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
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A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Defend Democracy ICT @defenddemocracyict.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
ICYMI: Wichita, KS | Douglas & Broadway | Noon - 2 PM 10-17-2026 NO Kings - Vote early - mobilize.us/s/GMYXDY Wichita, KS | Location TBD | 10-19-2026 Let's show Trump: Kansas is NOT Your Kingdom www.facebook.com/share/1DcJ6AndvB
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a win for voters, the Kansas Court of Appeals Friday denied Secretary of State Scott Schwab’s (R) latest request to revive a GOP-backed law that would throw out mail-in ballots received after Election Day, even if they were cast on time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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GOP bid to scrap Kansas mail ballot grace period fails again
The ruling means Kansas election officials must continue counting ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within the following three days, including in the upcoming November elections.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/07/2026
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: In a stunning admission, the FBI just confirmed to me the existence of training videos instructing FBI analysts on what to redact in the Epstein Files. I’ll show you the letter and discuss the massive implications in one hour. Link below: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
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BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: FBI Admits it has Epstein Files Training Videos
In a letter sent to me in response to my Freedom of Information Act Request, the FBI admits to having training videos that it failed to release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/05/2026
Trump uses today’s shooting incident outside the White House to once again demand his ballroom
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🔥 @chelseahandler.bsky.social : “Now that your favorite leader is making the draft mandatory, I assume all of you will be signing up to go fight in Iran… Or do you tough-talking pussies only go to the Middle East for comedy festivals?”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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SCOTUS greenlights 11th-hour Alabama redistricting plan for 2026 election
The order means that Alabama will discard its court-ordered congressional map for the 2026 primary elections and use a 2023 map that courts previously struck down as a violation under Section 2 of the...
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 05/05/2026
My resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision now has 79 co-sponsors. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 26/04/2026
2,000 professional journalists literally on the scene when it happened and no one knows what is actually going on?
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Aunt Patty @auntpatty.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Will voters EVER understand the big lie about "scary democratic (small D) socialist policies?!" Bernie has told us for decades, and Mamdani is showing us now. We can instantly fund a WAR but have TO DEBATE for decades about healthcare for all - GEEZUS! They've LIED TO US FOR PROFIT for decades.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is an account close to the Iranian leadership. We are now seeing the shape of why Iran agreed so enthusiastically to this "ceasefire". They will control and toll the Strait for the first time. They keep their nuclear program. They keep their missiles. What a disaster.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 07/04/2026
Kansas governor warns of Legislature’s ‘political games,’ ‘micro-managing’ in eight-bill veto spree | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
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Kansas governor warns of Legislature’s ‘political games,’ ‘micro-managing’ in eight-bill veto spree • Kansas Reflector
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly shot down legislation riddled with “bureaucratic red tape,” “political games” and “micro-managing” as part of her Monday veto spree.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 07/04/2026
Pair of GOP anti-abortion bills draw vetoes from Democratic Kansas governor | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
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Pair of GOP anti-abortion bills draw vetoes from Democratic Kansas governor • Kansas Reflector
Gov. Laura Kelly surprised no one by vetoing anti-abortion bills passed by the Legislature, while GOP leadership vows to override the Democratic governor.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 30/03/2026
‘People are hurting’: Kansas Democrat takes aim at Republican incumbent’s congressional seat | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social #ksleg
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'People are hurting': Kansas Democrat takes aim at Republican incumbent's congressional seat • Kansas Reflector
Katy Tyndell's path to politics began with a meeting last March at Groover Labs, a makerspace in downtown Wichita, where dozens of people came together to talk about how they were going to hold leader...
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KMUW @kmuw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Mayday Health plans to reach 1.2 million people over the course of four weeks with three billboards in the Kansas City area, three in Topeka and one in Wichita. www.kmuw.org/health/2026-...
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Kansas billboard campaign declares 'God made trans people' as legislature targets civil rights
Mayday Health plans to reach 1.2 million people over the course of four weeks with three billboards in the Kansas City area, three in Topeka and one in Wichita.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
It is reported that Iran selected Mojtaba Khamenei in part because Trump said in an interview that he was "unacceptable" to Trump. So Trump has ensured the person running Iran is *more* theocratic and hates the US for killing his wife and father. Well done, Donald! www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran's late supreme leader, is chosen to replace his father
A secretive figure within the Islamic Republic, Mojtaba Khamenei was not seen publicly in the days after an Israeli airstrike targeting the supreme leader’s offices killed his 86-year-old father at th...
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Rep. Linda Featherston @linda4kansas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Fully funding special education = lower property taxes! #ksleg
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The president is sending Jeff Landry, governor of the state ranked 45th in health care quality, to Greenland with a hospital boat
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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The US President, which does not offer free healthcare to his own people, wants his own people to offer free healthcare… to Greenland… which already has free healthcare. Maybe it is time for another brain scan for the US president.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2026
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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sheltomsrevenge.bsky.social @sheltomsrevenge.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It's OK if you're a Republican (apparently) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u... Trump-loving, Mexican-born, mayor of small Kansas town hit with six felonies for illegally voting, to be deported, but local conservatives want ICE to leave him alone. Insane hypocrisy.
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The Immigration Debate Came to Rural Kansas. Locals Stood by Their Mayor.
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Good Trouble @twinkb23.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Are you tired of this shit?? Because I sure af am. Kansans voted to protect abortion rights & the only way to stop this crap is to stop voting for anyone who does not respect a woman's right to choice should never get your vote: in short, stop voting for Republicans!
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Medusa’s Wink @medusaswink.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Kansas Food Source website offers a color coded map by county, served by the Kansas Food Bank, Harvesters Community Food Network, and Second Harvest Food Banks: kansasfoodsource.org
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Kansas Food Source – Your Source to Find Food in the Sunflower State
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
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Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · 13/02/2026
The Kansas State Legislature just passed SB 244, an extremist bill which cruelly targets trans people and their access to restrooms and accurate identity documents. Kansans: The time to act is NOW. 🚨 Contact your legislators and urge them to SUPPORT the veto of SB 244: tinyurl.com/2m77hbkk
Action alert. Kansans: Stop the anti-trans bathroom bounty.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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Anna Kaminski @anna-writes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Rep. Ford Carr, D-Wichita, inserted Malcolm X into a Charlie Kirk remembrance resolution, but Rs voted against it. “I think that vote clearly represents the driving force behind this, and it has absolutely nothing to do with freedom of speech," he said. #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2026/02/09/k...
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Kansas lawmakers debate right-wing activist’s legacy as Charlie Kirk day resolution advances • Kansas Reflector
TOPEKA — Kansas Republicans preliminarily approved a symbolic resolution honoring the late conservative figure Charlie Kirk following an hourlong debate with Democrats on the House floor in a war of w...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 07/02/2026
TrumpRx is nothing more than Donald Trump’s latest vanity project. If Donald Trump cared at all about making health care more affordable, he wouldn't have kicked 15 million Americans off their health insurance.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Re-upping this because it's a huge scandal. What are Susan Wiles and Gabbard covering up? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Elon Musk will sit for a deposition regarding DOGE’s gutting of USAID. Multiple reports estimate that his dismantling of the foreign aid agency directly contributed to thousands of deaths around the world. And that’s just one piece of damage DOGE left behind. Watch.
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The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Musk has stepped out of the limelight, but DOGE is still gutting countless government programs and services that million
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering. www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-45…
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Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown
Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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KSNT 27 News @ksntnews.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A Kansas lawmaker is pushing for a measure to more than double the state’s minimum wage. www.ksnt.com/capitol-bureau/16-an-h… 
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$16 an hour minimum wage bill introduced in Kansas
A Kansas lawmaker is pushing for a measure to more than double the state’s minimum wage.
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 04/02/2026
Proposed bill would require Kansas governor to submit personal food assistance data to feds #ksleg via @crazeywriter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/02/03/p...
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Proposed bill would require Kansas governor to submit personal food assistance data to feds • Kansas Reflector
A battle between the AG and Kansas governor about releasing Kansans’ personal data to the feds made its way to a legislative committee.
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KSNT 27 News @ksntnews.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Kansas lawmakers are stepping in to try and force Kansas Governor Laura Kelly to hand over data to the federal government. www.ksnt.com/capitol-bureau/new-kan… 
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New Kansas bill could force Governor Kelly to release the data of SNAP recipients in Kansas
TOPEKA (KSNT) — Kansas lawmakers are stepping in to try and force Kansas Governor Laura Kelly to hand over data to the federal government. During a Senate Committee on Government Oversight on Feb. …
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dyanneo @dyanneo.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Fuck us wrong with Kansas?!
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Robert Gibson @robertgibson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Whoopsie. Andover (and Kansas in general) are deeeeeeep red. Seems those Trump tariffs aren't working out so great, huh.... www.bizjournals.com/wichita/news...
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Andover manufacturer Vornado announces more than 70 layoffs, citing tariffs and supply chain challenges - Wichita Business Journal
Learn more about how tariffs and supply chain issues are straining the Andover-based manufacturer.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026
They told us there was no money for healthcare. No money for kids. No money for families drowning in medical bills. But there’s always money for ICE. More cages. More raids. More cruelty. That’s not a budget problem. That’s a values problem. Fund care, not punishment. #FundHealthcareOverICE
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/02/2026
holy shit
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
Crockett: "Now my colleagues want to be the protectors of girls & women. I didn't hear them screaming this when Renee Good was killed in the middle of the street by the same people the vast majority of you just voted to give more money to. It was a lot of crickets, including about the Esptein files"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Brutal column in the Kansas City Star about a local real estate company trying to avoid public scrutiny for selling ICE a property for a massive prison camp: www.kansascity.com/opinion/arti...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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