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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
MAGA: 2016 was fair! (Obama was President) 2020 was rigged! (Trump was President) 2024 was fair! (Biden was President) They’re going to rig 2026! (Trump is President) Why is Donald Trump so fucking bad at securing elections according to MAGA?
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PolReader @polreader.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Pete explains what will need to happen when Republicans are no longer in power.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Good grief 👀 #usaid
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Hello?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
THIS.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/02/2026
Measles is one of the most contagious viruses we know of. Once the percentage of people in a population who are immune to measles falls below ~90%, measles can rapidly infect non-immune and immunosuppressed people throughout a community. This is what we are seeing now across the country.
This image is a public health infographic about measles and how easily it spreads.

Headline:
“MEASLES” appears in large white letters at the top, with the logo of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the upper right.

Main message:

Measles is highly contagious and spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes.

Visual illustration:

A large red figure represents one infected person.

Surrounding orange figures represent people exposed to infection.

One darker figure suggests someone not infected or protected.

Key statistic:

If one person has measles, 9 out of 10 people nearby who are not protected will also become infected.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/02/2026
Need a crash course on Trump's tariffs? We've got you covered.
motherjones.com
A 2-minute crash course in America’s most disastrous tariffs
From McKinley to MAGA.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.
II.
New Policy
When a refugee is admitted to the United States, the admission is conditional and subject to a mandatory review after one year of physical presence in the United States under INA § 209(a)(1), 8 U.S.C. § 1159(a)(1).¹ At one year after admission:

Footnote 1: 8 C.F.R. § 209.1(a)(1) states that every refugee whose status has not been terminated "is required to apply to USCIS one year after entry in order for USCIS to determine his or her admissibility.. ." 8 C.F.R. § 209.1(b) provides that this

The refugee must return, or be returned, to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custody for inspection and examination for admission as an LPR.
If the refugee does not voluntarily return, DHS will return the individual to custody (i.e., arrest and detain) for this purpose.
DHS may maintain custody for the duration of the inspection and examination process.
This detain-and-inspect requirement ensures that refugees are re-vetted after one year, aligns post-admission vetting with that applied to other applicants for admission, and promotes public safety.
SHAI
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/02/2026
“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽
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Lawrence O'Donnell @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Stupidest AG in history
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
So the “elected” President with his elected majority House and Senate says they have to takeover elections because Dems cheat. Make that argument make sense.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Sellers: You all gave Obama hell because wore a brown suit. But yet and still this man comes on stage in front of the world and he rambles and he misspeaks… he could have said that we solved the war between wakanda and namor. Republicans would have been like I'm glad we stopped that African country.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Watch this segment.....5 year old boys are just disappearing in Minnesota. Just disappearing.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
These numbers are a shitshow. The GOP knows they’re not sustainable, but they’re too afraid to actually do anything about it. That’s why you’re seeing so many of them resign. They understand what’s coming in the midterms.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Jones: All you do is keep people fearful because you get paid 45 million a year to keep people fearful so they don’t pay attention to the CEOS taking their healthcare. You don’t care about the American people. You want them to be afraid of immigrants because all you have is fear.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The president of the United States is extorting the Federal Reserve Board Chairman by threatening criminal prosecution if he doesn't lower interest rates. DOJ is compromised, legacy media is cowed and Big Law is AWOL. As I wrote last year: "We are on our own."
democracydocket.com
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/01/2026
This regime is out of control.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/01/2026
BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis. Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/01/2026
It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
Masked federal agents removing crates of belongings from the ICE shooter's home
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
No words. 💔 #Justice4Renee
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026
People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
When my business school colleagues insist that ChatGPT is “just another tool in the toolbox,” I’m tempted to remind them that Facebook was once “just a way to connect with friends.” But there’s a difference between tools and technologies. Tools help us accomplish tasks; technologies reshape the very environments in which we think, work, and relate. As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself. A pen extends communication without redefining it; social media transformed what we mean by privacy, friendship, even truth.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/11/2025
Note—every time a Federal judge rules against Trump, Trump claims "the judge is usurping the President's power." That's a lie. Judge's don't "usurp" POTUS's power—they enforce Constitutional & Congressional limits on power. Wannabe kings don't like it, but that's how separation of powers works.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Sandy @sandy174.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A quiet day at the shelter. No one has shown any interest in adopting MELIA. Its now 796 days. 😭 Please don't let it hit day 1000. The goal was to find her a peaceful adult only home by Thanksgiving. No dogs. Cats are ok. 🤞 Help this dog out! Repost / adopt 😩 💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov ☎️516.785.5220
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group.

Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. 

None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier.

“I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
What he said: 💯 🎯
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/10/2025
Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
They aren’t elected to govern. They are elected to do the bidding of their donors.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/10/2025
This is such a great callout… Does your Christian church have a plan to help the community when SNAP benefits don’t go out in November? If not, you’re at the wrong church.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
No words.
shocking aerial view of White House before and after east wing demolition.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 23/10/2025
Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/10/2025
NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.” The cuts: 📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage) 📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage) 📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage) 📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2025
Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"
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