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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 52m
When it comes to the two most under-discussed stories in 2025, I’d offer: 1. Democrats being massively outspent 2. The largest and fastest loss of health insurance ever
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Techdirt @techdirt.com · 4h
FBI Whistleblower Says Emil Bove Directed Agents To Investigate Anti-ICE Protesters Hey, this guy is a judge now! Let that seep in for a bit. Emil Bove used to work for the... www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/fbi-whi…
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FBI Whistleblower Says Emil Bove Directed Agents To Investigate Anti-ICE Protesters
Hey, this guy is a judge now! Let that seep in for a bit. Emil Bove used to work for the DOJ. Then he went to work for Trump, acting as his personal lawyer starting in 2023. Upon Trump's return to office, he was brought back to the DOJ to serve as an "associate deputy...
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 6h
One good thing about being on medical leave is that it lets me feature some of my favorite writers and activists. Today we have a guest post from, @lolgop.bsky.social, written for CARD, about one of my favorite topics: bitter divorced billionaires and their far more sane exes. Enjoy!
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How the Women Who Survived Elon Musk Expose Him Best
The women of “Musk” offer a clarity we’d better act on.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 9h
These same guys already did a coup & have committed so many war & financial crimes over the last year plus that I’d honestly be floored if they conceded election losses of any kind. 1st step is to vote en masse but then we’ve got to be prepared to apply overwhelming pressure to force their hand.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h
come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "Senator Collins is like an arsonist who helps set the fire and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out."
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
4/ “In response to the accusation that the US government organised a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia in order for Tesla to secure lithium there, Musk tweeted: ‘We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.’” www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...
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‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros
Challenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behaviour of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump is declining international election monitors in the United States for first time in over two decades, aligning the country with Russia. Trump will instead deploy his own election monitors to polling sites across the country. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did Blanche submit the handwritten FBI notes re. a woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Trump when she was 13? Per Blanche’s latest filing, he complied, but I explain why he didn’t really & why it’s just to delay those handwritten notes from going public. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWZ...
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AG Blanche FAILS TO COMPLY With JUDGE’S ORDERS In MY Epstein Lawsuit!?
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.
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Save America Movement @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rep. Robert Garcia (@robertgarcia.bsky.social), top Democrat on House Oversight, with @thewarningses.bsky.social: "We have to be unafraid to take these folks on." If you won't, he says, "let somebody else take the job." Fighting corruption is the job.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 06/10/2026
I'm sincerely sympathetic to the difficult situation Senate institutionalists are in during our time of corporate lawlessness and executive overreach. But codifying Trumpism is not the answer
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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Cali-Lib (doc/hey you) @cali-lib.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In this case, probably neither. It appears a crew of guys stealing diesel fuel from local farms (the UK police story) have been branded as Iranian terrorists by Trump and his minions. The UK refused to railroad those arrested on terrorism charges, and Trump is raving.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ken Paxton suddenly learning what it's like to have a bunch of old freaks in D.C. make irreversible, life-altering decisions about his body without his consent.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
British government ‘complacent about food as a national security matter’
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British government ‘complacent about food as a national security matter’
Experts say country does not have plan to feed people in a crisis and is unprepared for future shortages Britain does not have a plan for how to feed people in a crisis and is unprepared for potential future food shortages, according to a warning from more than 150 experts delivered to Andy Burnham. The climate crisis, geopolitical shocks, cyber-attacks and energy outages are among the threats to food chain security, according to the open letter, which claims the government is “complacent about food as a national security matter”. Establish a new system of local food resilience committees under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Audit the UK’s reliance on a few very large food companies and food imports. Realign national food production around nutritional needs. Create national, regional, local and community food storage schemes. Support the decentralisation of the UK’s food supply. Continue reading...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Disability advocates warn these changes could push more people into institutions by making the support they need at home harder to get. This affects children, adults, and elderly parents. Nobody should have to give up their freedom to get the care they need.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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doktor ross sewage @sewage666.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
people who’re like “people need to calm down, covid is just the flu” the flu killed an estimated 45,000 americans last year, so okay, yeah
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you’ve read about TN this week, please take a moment with this piece if you didn’t read it when we published it: It’s an investigation into the execution team Alabama has put together. It’s officers with a history of violence who choose each other. Eye-opening to what happens in executions.
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In Alabama, Prison Guards Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions - Bolts
As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026
I also really think Dems need to air ads pointing out that Trump never sent anyone a Doge check or a tariff check. Because everyone wants five grand. It’s insulting and illegal but I bet you it works on a lot of people. Remind them that his promises are worthless.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 03/10/2026
If I ran the Democratic Party ad campaigns, I would just air clips like this superimposed with the words “why does he think he can lie to you?” Or “does he think we believe this?”
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Agree with you broadly here but remain skeptical that Dems are doing the anti-corruption policy development to be ready for implementation when they retake chambers and / or the presidency. Like until I’m seeing a Nuremberg 2.0 pdf I’m not sure they’re gonna go for it even with a wave election.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Broadview 6 Were Selectively Prosecuted emptywheel.net/2026/10/03/t...
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The Broadview 6 Were Selectively Prosecuted - emptywheel
Last year, when Andrew Boutros was dropping shitty ICE cases left and right, he made the decision to keep trying until he charged Kat Abughazaleh with a felony.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Over on Xitter, there's a really interesting new schism between those clinging to conspiracies about the pipe bomber and those who learned differently.
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This situation surrounding Brian Cole MUST be addressed immediately. This is down right abuse of a person with special needs. 
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Dan Bongino celebrated this…

He’s no better than Christopher Wray.

The agent doing this was the head FBI agent in my case SA Nick Hannak.

Shameless and disgusting. x.com/sarahiscensore…
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Dear General,
You’re a fraud. It’s way past time to tell people who you really are, and why you do what you do. They need to hear it from you. Have some dignity and tell the truth. Stop disgracing the uniform.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 02/10/2026
Recently, workers at Jack in the Box in Northern California organized a strike due to wage theft at the store. In California, wage theft is a crime. We won’t back down until we get paid. #UnionsForAll #MoneyPowerRespect
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 02/10/2026
We absolutely do not have to fall over ourselves saying that we want to hug and kiss technological progress. The onus is on AI bros to explain to us why we should be excited about new corporate-owned tech while there are microplastics in every mother's breast milk and our rivers are drying up.
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We cannot have a rational debate about technology.
As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is brilliant
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How I Taught My Daughter Math in Prison With Cheetos I helped my daughter conquer her hardest school subject with a lot of orange dust.
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How I Taught My Daughter Math in Prison With Cheetos
I helped my daughter conquer her hardest school subject with a lot of orange dust.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."
Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence 
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However, 
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most 
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans 
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism 
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize 
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who 
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see 
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and 
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and 
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the 
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.
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Rege @rjserinko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Russle Vought confuses himself with Congress.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 02/10/2026
All forms of torture are acceptable to John Yoo. He literally wrote the book on how to make torture legal in the Bush administration (derogatory).
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Victor Tangermann @vtanger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there's something deeply unsettling about the statement Zilis posted about the abrupt end of her relationship with Musk. troubling power dynamics? a long history of Musk throwing his ex partners under the bus? prolonged and brutal custody battles? futurism.com/future-socie...
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Mother of Elon Musk's Children Says She Has Been "Let Go" by the Billionaire
Musk is seemingly ready to move on from his latest, longtime girlfriend and former employee, Shivon Zilis, who has had four of his children.
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In her response, Angie Nixon referred to Vance as "the most ordinary man imaginable." talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/jd...
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JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’
A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance...
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump has closed the US Embassy in Brasil & all its consulate while issuing a security warning for US citizens in Brasil. This is a political stunt. We are seeing no uptick in violence, but Trump claiming Brasil is unsafe will generate negative press for Lula ahead of Sunday’s election!
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EUA fecham todos seus consulados no Brasil por ‘questão de segurança’ - ICL Notícias
No comunicado, o governo norte-americano afirma que “os serviços consulares na Embaixada e nos Consulados dos EUA no Brasil serão suspensos a partir de
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Following the Pope’s encyclical about AI, you’re going to see a lot more religious intervention in shaping public opinion about tech companies. There are only two social institutions resilient enough to counter AI politically — states and religion. They bought the first. Standby on the second.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My man looks like the long lost cousin of Zonker from "Doonesbury"
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John O’Donnell @jodami.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yellow Alert is when you’ve pissed yourself. Red Alert means you have to see Dr Crusher.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s appointing the “weirdo, beardo, and fatty” he just banned from the military.
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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is illegal.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's a problem we see in cybersecurity where hyperfocus on high-tech threats prevents people from defending against the low-tech methods everyone will try first. Like, before burglars build teleporters, they'll ring all the doorbells, hoping someone buzzes them in.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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