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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
MAGA is OBSESSED with presidents who are crooks. They elected Trump twice and now they're spending tax dollars to rewrite RICHARD NIXON'S legacy. They're revisiting Watergate because it's the only time that a president's party has told him to stand down. And that's something they're incapable of.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Deadline White House with Nicolle Wallace @deadlinewh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What began as an attempt to relitigate Jack Smith's two indictments against Donald Trump during a hearing on Capitol Hill today ended in embarrassment for Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Watch @nicollewallace.bsky.social's coverage NOW on YouTube:
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'A HUMILIATING mistake': Nicolle reacts to GOP's mortifying SELF-OWN during Jack Smith hearing
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So @propublica.org debunked Susan Collins www.propublica.org/article/debu...
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call your Senator and tell them to vote “NO” on Dr. Heidi Overton 🚫
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/09/2026
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter. (Published Jan. 2025)
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Counterintelligence experts told us it’s no secret Russia has long been trying to penetrate the Trump family inner circle, so a Putin-linked oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding raised all sorts of red flags. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: propub.li/47fu7eJ
“The expert take was … if you are the president’s son, you don’t get into a place where you are indebted to a Russian oligarch who is funded by the Russian state.” - Brett Murphy, ProPublica reporter
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks to the community speaking up, Wilber has left the detention center to get medical care. This is important news & a positive first step. Now, we have to make sure he fully recovers, is reunited with family, & gets to tell law enforcement the full story of how he was shot in the back by ICE.
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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In light of the current administrations attempt to suppress news media outlets, I’m reminded of this quote by our third president of the United States. "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” — Thomas Jefferson
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Keith Edwards Show has officially raised more than $100,000 to help Democratic candidates take back Congress.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/09/2026
A German doctor whose hospital treated an unvaccinated boy who later died of diphtheria told our reporter of the infection: “It was taught as history,” he said. In the U.S., measles was taught as history, too. Now it isn’t.
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/09/2026
The rise in rulings on the “shadow docket” has been driven, at least in part, by Trump’s losses in lower courts. “The patterns show a court going out of its way to enable Trump,” one scholar said. “That’s the real blow to the court’s credibility.” (Published July)
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A Troubling Milestone: Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes With Little Justification
ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Whether President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting will be allowed to move forward despite ongoing legal challenges now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court after the parties involved submitted their briefs. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court to decide on Trump mail voting order after parties make their case
Whether President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict mail voting will be allowed to move forward despite ongoing legal challenges now rests with the U.S. Supreme Court after the parties involved submi...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people. Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
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Ryan Nobles @ryanobles.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
President Trump keeps claiming the arena is completely packed.. he just said it’s filled all the way to the rafters. It’s just not. It is a decent crowd.. but the entire upper deck is empty. His claim that every seat is filled & “thousands” of people are outside is false.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"The Trump administration is shuttering research projects key to the federal government’s fight against cyclospora, the foodborne parasite sickening thousands of Americans this summer..."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Trump administration proposes new rule to dismantle requirement for datacenters to publicly report air pollution" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn
Trump administration proposes new rule to dismantle requirement for datacenters to publicly report air pollution
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You think this regime can't get any more cartoonishly evil, but then it finds a way. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"GEO donated $1 million to Trump's PAC on July 16, three days after the company announced it had signed an $85m contract with ICE. "On July 29, GEO announced it had received another $80m ICE contract; two days later, GEO gave Trump's PAC an additional $413,000..." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...
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Prison Firm Donated to Trump’s PAC After ICE Gave It $165 Million a Year in Contracts
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
President Donald Trump wants to interfere with mail voting during the upcoming midterm elections, and he’s betting the U.S. Supreme Court will let him. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Explainer: The battle over Trump's bid to restrict mail voting hits a pivotal point. Where things stand and what comes next
"By issuing this final rule, the Trump administration has flouted the court’s injunction."
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Listen to @therickwilson.bsky.social on trump killing the federal government youtu.be/nz4cAoqyAiY?...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/08/2026
Outrageous. Let’s see the few republicans to speak up actually blame Trump here instead of “bad advice”
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/08/2026
This is absolutely bananas. Trump says we’re suspending exercises with South Korea because of his “really good relationship” with Kim Jong-un. North Korea is nuclear-armed, threatens South Korea, and is actively helping Russia wage war against Ukraine.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 12/08/2026
More than 50 spouses and parents of active-duty military service members have been detained by DHS amid Trump’s immigration crackdown. Democratic lawmakers are demanding changes in an open letter. Read more from Laura Haefeli:
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Dozens of military family members were detained by ICE. Democrats demand changes.
U.S. Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juarez’s wife was arrested by ICE. He’s one of dozens of service members whose spouses or parents have been detained by federal agents.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 12/08/2026
"What is another $300 million?" MS NOW's Katy Tur breaks down a new Washington Post report that puts the cost of White House renovations potentially costing more than $900 million.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨BREAKING:In a victory for voters, a Michigan judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee that sought to make it easier for partisan poll challengers to dispute voter eligibility and interrupt the state’s ballot-counting process. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Michigan judge tosses GOP lawsuit that aimed to make it easier to challenge voter eligibility
The RNC sued Michigan in June to overturn guidance issued in October 2024 limiting the number of poll challengers at each voting location.
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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump Blows Through ALL Post-Watergate Safeguards, Directs DOJ to Prosecute an Innocent Man! youtu.be/DtDKn1EqLGs?...
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Trump Blows Through ALL Post-Watergate Safeguards, Directs DOJ to Prosecute an Innocent Man!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: A Nebraska court Wednesday rejected the RNC’s lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens abroad from voting in the state, handing the national GOP another major loss in its escalating legal campaign against overseas voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Nebraska court throws out RNC lawsuit targeting overseas voters
The ruling is a major defeat for the RNC, which has filed a wave of lawsuits across the country targeting so-called “never resident” voters — U.S. citizens born abroad who are eligible under state law...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/08/2026
So i guess the GOP is cool with ICE using electric shock gloves? That feels a bit…. Hmmm…. Communist?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/08/2026
Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. (Published May 2025)
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The Price of Remission: This Cancer Drug Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 07/08/2026
This is a BIG under the radar issue: major bank closed HUNDREDS of Trump accounts for money laundering red flags: Sam and I discuss this on The Bulwark: youtu.be/FZ0u7nSEJOg?...
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Capital One Just Dropped an Atomic Bomb on Trump (w/ Andrew Weissmann) | Illegal News
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Bowe suffered injuries to her face, head, right knee, right arm and right hand. An MRI identified a kneecap fracture and torn meniscus…” www.newsweek.com/nurse-allege...
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US nurse alleges ICE agents broke her kneecap in $500,000 legal claim
Norma Bowe, a nurse and professor, has filed a $500,000 claim against the government, saying ICE agents threw her to the ground.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“The world's richest man is also one of the world's most vociferous and vocal bigots," says Chris Hayes.
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Musk to pour millions into GOP races as his extremist posts draw new scrutiny
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
It takes me 2.5 minutes to explain why it’s a lie that we gave all the weapons to Ukraine that we needed for Iran. But the lie can be said in one sentence. We’re at a disadvantage when reality is nuanced. But the truth is essential
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Top homeland security official resigns, citing "brazen corruption," as well as the Trump Administration's "war on immigrants... war on feds... war on facts": www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
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DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Reversing course on measles would require a nationwide push to improve vaccination rates, a prospect that experts said seemed unlikely under the leadership of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. " www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...
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Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🚨BREAKING EPISODE: Trump's DOJ has filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court to let his mail voting executive order take effect before the midterms — a move that could let the administration decide who gets a mail ballot and who doesn't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBI7...
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BREAKING: Trump's DOJ asks Supreme Court to Let Him Block Your Mail Ballot
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here’s something new: The same day he’s due to get a cmte vote on his nom to be AG, Blanche has to respond to a court order from a judge who seems skeptical of his truthfulness. And that’s just Thursday. Read this piece to see what else to expect in the week ahead. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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The Week Ahead
July 26, 2026
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
for the texas statewide position that regulates oil and gas, dems run a normal candidate. repubs run a guy who says his opponent killed the tsars! and we should be rhodesia now! and native americans are "third world savages" who should be kicked out of the US! www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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A GOP Nominee for Texas Office Keeps Peddling Fascist Ideas
Bo French was once criticized by members of his party for his offensive posts. Now that he’s the nominee for the Railroad Commission, they’re silent.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"It’s such an awful illness. Even the best possible course is going to be one of the worst diseases most children ever go through..." www.wired.com/story/the-ch...
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‘The Child Is Terrified’: Measles Doctors Speak Out
Hear from six pediatricians in measles hot spot Utah, as the US faces infection levels not seen in over three decades and prepares to lose its status as a country that eliminated the dangerous disease...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Our president took away funds from Americans just because they live in a state that voted against him? That violates his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The public, and all who knew and loved the victim, deserve a full, independent investigation. apnews.com/article/ice-...
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Man shot and killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Sen. Angus King says
The motorist killed by ICE officers in a Maine shooting Monday was not the target of the warrant the officers were executing, Sen.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks to Republicans in Congress and Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"... An Indiana 40-year old, making $65k per year, who last year was paying $316/month for health insurance, will next year be paying $546/month for that same plan: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 11/07/2026
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Trump is telling us what he is going to do in the midterms and beyond. Why else dismantle election commissions that are there to assure free and fair elections, dismantle DHS and DOJ teams that do t...
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New report details how Trump & Musk’s gov't 'chainsaw' cost taxpayers $11 billion youtu.be/Lx5S5CPjGfM?...
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Election expert sounds alarm on Trump's election agenda youtu.be/wkzHGccsCVM?...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/07/2026
Looking for any updates… has anyone gone to jail yet from the Epstein files release? Are their still millions hidden?
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