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All strings cross through Trump. The people who know, know. Lack of Truth is Soviet-esque

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 26/09/2026
Imagine finally getting the right to vote… and being warned not to wear lipstick to the polls. In 1946, Italian women voted nationally for the first time. Women were advised to avoid lipstick because a mark on the ballot could invalidate their vote. 💄🇮🇹 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance #Vote
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over the wedding party controversy: Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.
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GOP support grows for subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr. over wedding party controversy
Five Senate Republicans (and counting) are taking the burgeoning scandal seriously, which is five more than usual.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you’re a random person and you have to deal with death threats and harassment from internet stalkers, it’s my understanding that the FBI basically ignores you in most circumstances. But the Millers are so powerful they can demote the head of the FBI’s DC field office for investigating too slow.
The orders from the bureau's DC chief Darren Cox stemmed from frustration shared by the Miller family that the field office was moving slowly in probing allegedly harassing phone messages left with prominent conservative podcaster, Katie Miller, added the people, who spoke anonymously to avoid retaliation.
Several of the individuals said Director Kash Patel was also displeased with the office's progress on the case.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The right lives in Bizarro World. It is truly fascinating. It’s like listening to someone from another country talk about current events where they live and you don’t know any of the history, people, or plots. What a very strange time to be alive. Mass culture (now gone) apparently had some value.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Today’s decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees, who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back, baby!
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If someone leaks the remaining Epstein files, the course of history could change.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In 1933 Adolf Hitler shook down German industrialists for millions of Reichsmark to establish what he called the Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft—a slush fund he used to pay off Nazis whose violence got them into legal trouble. In 2026, Donald Trump is quietly doing the same thing.
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Obscure Group With Trump Ties Plans to Route Funds to His Allies for Legal Fights
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026
another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The most significant of the two remaining glaciers in West Papua, Indonesia has lost 95% of its area since 2002. The glaciers are rapidly losing mass as fossil fuel pollution heats the planet and melts the ice. "It is planetary destruction on fast-forward.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’
Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining “eternal snow” in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its ice
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🚨 DON'T SCROLL PAST THIS! 🚨 Our public lands are under direct threat. Trump is illegally trying to dismantle the US Forest Service. We can stop him if we flood Congress with letters TODAY. Send yours in 30 seconds here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal Plan to Destroy the US Forest Service
Contact Congress today!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/05/2026
COLLINS: You talked a lot about Hunter Biden. Eric Trump is with his dad in China. He does not have a position in the govt. JORDAN: I think it's certainly fine for people to travel with the president COLLINS: Even despite his business ventures? JORDAN: I don't have any issues at all
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Ex-GOP operative reveals why these midterms will be the most 'dangerous' ever #AlterNet
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Ex-GOP operative reveals why these midterms will be the most 'dangerous' ever
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
For as long as I live, I will never understand how January 6th wasn’t the end of Donald Trump. I will never, ever understand it.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We want Taiwan. ~ President Xi No. ~ Trump Here’s a cheeseburger and a Diet Coke. How about now? ~ Xi Um, still no. ~ DJT Five burgers, three Diet Cokes, and fries? ~ Xi Still no. ~ DJT Ten cheeseburgers, eight Diet Cokes, and three 12yo girls? ~ Xi Sold! No takebacksies! ~ Trump
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/05/2026
Housing foreclosures have spiked to a 6-year high. Trump's Housing Director: "I'm not particularly concerned. I think the housing market is safe and sound right now"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/05/2026
Red states didn’t wait. The second SCOTUS butchered the Voting Rights Act, they went all in. Louisiana: Roughly one-third Black, and now they’re pushing maps that could leave the state with zero Black representation in Congress. The solution: Blue states need to match the urgency.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Interesting to note the different reactions on the dais the moment gunshots were heard at the WHCA Dinner:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Citizens Bank annual shareholder meeting (April 23rd in Providence Rhode Island) to face protesters critical of the bank's financial ties to ICE: www.mobilize.us/southcountyr...
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DE-ICE CITIZENS BANK · South County Rising RI
On April 23, Citizens Bank will be holding their Annual Shareholder Meeting at its headquarters in Providence, RI. In response, a coalition of progressive organizations from the surrounding area will ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/04/2026
Fox News: "Breaking right now -- Iranian state media says Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2026
The fact that republicans are getting away with everything and we don’t have much power to stop them is why we kept saying 2024 was an incredibly important election.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/04/2026
Q: As of today, who controls the Strait of Hormuz? LEAVITT: We expect that the strait will be opened immediately Q: Who controls the strait right now? LEAVITT: *refuses to answer*
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"What we have learned is that local resistance works when it is persistent, scrappy, and deeply informed. This... fight has been built on facts, records, legal pressure, public health evidence, and relentless visibility..." blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/rachel-mad...
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Rachel Maddow on Stopping the Hagerstown ICE Detention Facility: This Is the Moment to Increase Pressure, Not Reduce It
Rachel Maddow tells her audience that Hagerstown Rapid Response may be the blueprint to stop ICE camps nationwide.
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
After yesterday, we know exactly how far Republicans will go to stay silent. All the way to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.
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PJ @pjvelez.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The only drug epidemic (outside the CIA's provision of crack to urban America) that matters is whatever freaking drugs people have been taking to erase that entire VIETNAM WAR thing.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Airline carriers worldwide are cancelling flights due to fuel scarcity, from Vietnam to New Zealand and expected to expand to more countries. Oman Air announced flight cancellations to numerous regional countries as well as parts of Europe until at least April 15.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-war-hormuz-closure-oil-shock/
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The entire point of the Trump regime is to support white supremacy at home, and abroad. It is literally their whole schtick. Every single move that they make is in service of that one singular goal.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Democrats have sued to block Trump's dubious executive order restricting mail voting — arguing that the U.S. Constitution empowers states and Congress, not the president, to determine who is eligible to vote by mail.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Trump is preparing to release a fiscal year 2027 budget plan on Friday that will frame the GOP's midterm election message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cuts to domestic agencies, health-care and other services.
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Trump Budget to Frame Midterms With Defense Boost, Domestic Cuts
President Donald Trump is preparing to release a fiscal year 2027 budget plan on Friday that will frame his party’s midterm election message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cut...
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
USA Today: Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Arkansas restaurant told her to leave. That awkward moment when you are upset about being denied service, after you have spent decades defending the rights of store owners to deny service to gay people. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/03/2026
BREAKING: Robert Mueller, former FBI Director and Special Counsel who led the Russia investigation into the 2016 election, has died at 81. He had reportedly been battling Parkinson’s disease.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What could go wrong?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It’s time to make Citizens United history. Montana — and now California — can lead the way. Here's how. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-cali…
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"May the tribes, I pray, ever retain if not love for us, at least hatred for each other — for while the destinies of empire hurry us on, fortune can give no greater boon than discord among our foes."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
AOC: I think we know without a doubt that this is a war of choice—that Donald Trump has initiated all of these hostilities, killing American service members and innocent Iranians alike, and for no reason. He has a different reason every day.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/03/2026
Check this out. The DOJ redacted a conversation showing Trump never threw Epstein out of Mar a Lago.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/03/2026
Trump is delivering a speech to House Republicans this afternoon during their retreat at one of his private clubs in Florida. Do prediction markets have odds on him passing around Kool-Aid? +900 feels about right.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Nicely played, @fpwellman.bsky.social
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Now they’re floating a draft? For a war they said we wouldn’t have and isn’t justified? Congress, WTFU. youtube.com/shorts/pe1au...
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WE ARE the BAD GUYS Now
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 08/03/2026
The White House put out a series of hype videos about the war. Some have been defending it by saying military members themselves share these kinds of videos. This is true. But they aren’t the White House. The WH is a bunch of children, and have no sobriety about the serious business of war.
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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Rep. Lieu calls for a new investigation into Epstein’s death after released documents show a prison guard responsible for checking on him deposited $5000 into her account 10 days before his death and googled him right before he was found. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Lindsey is particularly blood thirsty for wars he won't be fighting or sending his kids to fight. It's all just a fun game of talking tough by a small man.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
JOHN BOLTON: "The best counter-drone technology in the world is from Ukraine. And if you want to know the virtue of alliances, this is it right now. We need to turn to the Ukrainians and say: 'Excuse me, could we lease your technology so we could build cheaper drones?'"
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