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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sen. Ossoff: When you just came from the grocery store where you couldn't buy ground beef because of the tariffs and you could only fill up half a tank of gas because of the war, and you open the notice from your insurance company and your premiums have doubled, Mike Collins is responsible for that.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pete Hegseth trails behind the crowd while running with troops in San Diego

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You never know the lasting impact of a kind word or small gesture…. My mother is a retired public school teacher. She was recently at the grocery store when a black lady came up and asked, “Aren’t you Mrs. —-“. Yes, she was. The lady then gave my momma a hug and took her back to 1970. Her first year

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The Church of Jesus Christ 🤖 @churchofjesuschrist.social · 04/10/2026

"God’s view of us is always more complete and more hopeful than our own." —President Rosemary K. Chibota #GeneralConference www.churchofjesuschrist.org/learn/r…

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

16. Why bother to vet information when every allegation against the Democrats, no matter how unbelievable, is believed? He tracks the pattern going all the way back to Newt Gingrich in the 1980s. Bernstein suggested that the laziness is part of the deeper malignancy affecting the GOP.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are paying CNN and MS NOW to run ads for Donald Trump right before the midterms. You and I are paying for them. And CNN and MS NOW are taking the cash while their hosts and guests say the scheme is illegal. That is the current state of corporate media in America.

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Ann @lifeinthepnw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dear Eric Schmitt: Other places where Jack Smith was not on February 3 — Skateboarding with Tony Hawk Watching a Howard Hawks film Visiting Ethan Hawke Jamming with Hamish Hawk At a Seattle Seahawks game At a Chicago Blackhawks game Birdwatching Cooper’s hawks …but now he’s watching you like a hawk

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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 30/09/2026

The exact moment I knew Republican attacks on Jack Smith were a colossal mistake.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know, it’s actually kind of thrilling, watching someone commit career suicide in just a couple of minutes.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The most bizarre thing about this idiotic, embarrassing line of questioning by Eric Schmitt is that it’s totally irrelevant Even if Jack Smith went to a basketball game in Atlanta-he didn’t-there isn’t even a scintilla of proof that he met, much less conspired with Fani Willis 35 days

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We really need to hear this. “History offers a reassuring reminder: whenever concentrated wealth and elites try to hijack American democracy, from the Antebellum era and Gilded Age to the 1920s, ordinary citizens step up, turn the tide, and restore the balance.” @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nicole Wallace just asked Andrew Weissmann what he would say to MS NOW, CNN, and Politico regarding their lawsuit against the Trump admin over the ban. He said: "You're going to win."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

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Jake V @viraldonutz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was just told a story I almost can't believe. A Haitian man I know, was here on TPS, working and attending church and living his life. He was taken by ICE and fit with an ankle monitor for two weeks. He showed up for the hearing and pled his case to the judge.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This week has been delightful in the AI discourse. AI dudes: Yeah, so, there is, like, a 10% chance this technology could kill us all in less than a decade. Public: WHAT (thread)

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026

i really answered my own question yesterday: how do you get out of feeling useless and crawl out of a depression blackhole? raise $1300 for a mom to pay her rent and buy her kids food and clothes. remember that mutual aid is as important for the helpers as the recipients.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/09/2026

A sundowning old man, addicted to AI slop, surrounded by supplicants and apparatchiks, with control over the US nuclear arsenal.

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Jake V @viraldonutz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Honestly, I sometimes feel the same.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Reflecting Pool. The Kennedy Center. This is Republican governance: The dilapidated ruins of a once-great city now ruled by criminals enriching themselves by the hour.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.

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Beth S. @bsoel97.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of my earliest memories of Dolly Parton was from the Walt Disney World 15th Anniversary Celebration. Dolly had a cute little skit with some of the “gals,” featuring her hit song “9 to 5.” youtu.be/PaM7qC5GAO0?...

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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We need @amightygirl.com to move here full time. Here's an excellent post by them about the development of the pertussis vaccine, aka 'whooping cough.' It is such a great story, and @aetiology.bsky.social is writing a book on the topic. www.facebook.com/share/p/1DPb...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

While gas prices soar Americans lose health care and trapped sailors eat rotten meat

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 13/08/2026

The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million. That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This story is a bit wild. After Elon Musk's DOGE erased decades of USAID data, it was assumed to be lost. But a Canadian college student had previously downloaded much of it in high school for a project. 4,000 PDFs. Thanks again, Canada. Yet again. www.aiddata.org/blog/before-...

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is how you know we need a wealth tax

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/08/2026

Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only change in my life would be that google search suddenly got better again.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Humanitarian assistance cuts aren’t abstract. They mean fewer vaccines, less food, and many more preventable deaths. Americans have a moral responsibility to help people less fortunate than ourselves, especially since we only spend 0.24% of gross national income on humanitarian aid.

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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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Alexander Ross @hardpolitics.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is a campaign video posted by the Jon Ossoff for Senate in Georgia YouTube account over a year ago. It has garnered only 30,000 views on YouTube. I'm sharing this on BlueSky because I believe it's some of the best Democratic messaging that I've ever seen, and I think it deserves more views.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It’s so refreshing to see a senator who knows how to ask questions. Too often, witnesses deflect and the senator moves on. Ossoff does what a good trial lawyer does—persists until he gets an answer or a refusal to answer. Both responses can be deeply revealing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/07/2026

OSSOFF: You stated on the 14th day of this conflict that Iran's military was 'destroyed.' Was that an accurate statement -- yes or no? HEGSETH: Iran's ability to challenge the US-- OSSOFF: That's not what I asked. Yes or no? HEGSETH: What the milit--- OSSOFF: Will you answer the question?

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The human brain, with 86 billion neurons and a million billion connections between them, runs on 20 watts, less than a lightbulb. Think we may be going down the wrong road believing data centres, needing megawatts or gigawatts of power, with all the environmental & climate costs, are the way to go.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 15/07/2026

ossoff's dead serious face and voice have gotten very good since he's been in office

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The man on the left welcomed the Getty photographer who took this shot on July 4. He provided “some comfort to me in a way that I know there’s somebody else there, but most importantly, someone who’s documenting it. It gave me a sense of protection.” My CJR piece here www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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Beth S. @bsoel97.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

From one of my favorite American historians, David McCullough. Absolutely worth one minute of your day! youtube.com/shorts/DByDQ...

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The White House Quote Every American Should Know

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Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:

While John Adams and fifty-five men in Philadelphia debated a resolution on independence and the final wording of the Declaration of Independence, the people of Boston declared their own independence from smallpox. The measures taken in both cities provided hope that America would not only be a republic free of a king but also a country free from disease. On July 3, 1776, a day after independence was declared in Philadelphia, the Massachusetts General Court voted to allow inoculation. Despite the dangers of infection, the people of Boston and the surrounding areas cheered the news. Ezekiel Price, a court official and insurance broker, declared “Liberty is given for to inoculate for the small-pox; many begin upon it this afternoon.” Hannah Winthrop described the scene: “Boston has given up its Fears of an invasion & is busily employd in Communicating the Infection. Straw Beds & Cribs are daily Carted into the Town.” She wrote that “Men Women & children eagerly crowding to inoculate is I think as modish as running away from the Troops of a barbarous George was the last year.” Dr. James Warren wrote to John Adams that the “rage for inoculation” had “whirled me into its vortex.…” Warren and his wife Mercy Otis joined Abigail Adams and her four children who had been invited to be inoculated at Abigail’s uncle’s house in Boston along with Abigail’s sisters Elizabeth Cranch and Mary Shaw and their families. Even though Boston was teeming with the sick, the prospect that the city could conquer smallpox made it "a scene delightful indeed." Cotton Tufts was satisfied that he could now "take my leave of Earth, satisfied that the Day of American Redemption was at Hand."

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Nate 'The Belated' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Kathy I'm lost" I said though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America

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Simon & Garfunkel - America (Audio)

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The top frame is from 2015, when French meteorologists did a “forecast” from a #climate heated August 2050 - a warning on what could possibly happen in 35 years time. Bottom frame: well, it’s happened in barely a decade, only it’s already *much* worse than predicted. It’s a runaway train.

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