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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 10/07/2026
“To Trump, a modest Washington, with its low limestone buildings and reflective memorials, is a city for losers.” More ↓
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Trump Is Turning D.C. Into a Theme Park for the American Century
President Trump's efforts to build monuments to himself in Washington D.C. can't hide the destruction he's doing to the democracy around the world.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This is a level of billionaire surveillance & control (and downright pettiness) that should send chills down all of our spines. To what lengths will Jim Dolan go to assess the "risk score" of MSG attendees? And why in the world would his enterprise identify their sexual orientation in a database?
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
All 3 men inside of the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “‘reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van…They came in and started shooting from the sides.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers
Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Come. On.
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"The decision by the university’s AAUP chapter to retain outside lawyers is the latest example of faculty members and other groups choosing to fight settlements with Trump in ways that the colleges themselves often seem reluctant to." @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social
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Yale Professors Vow to Fight Trump if the University President Won’t
The opposition to a potential deal with the government reveals a strategy that Yale groups have spent a year honing.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/07/2026
The Republican Party 4 months before midterms: "You're not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights" Great message.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 05/07/2026
Astonishing behavior from FIFA, which rents—but barely uses—an office in Trump Tower.
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A Yearslong Effort to Woo Trump Culminates With the World Cup
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#TrumpChumps.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 04/07/2026
Six bankruptcies. Guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Find $2M for using his foundation for business and political purposes.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 04/07/2026
It is 1919 in the White House today bsky.app/profile/joel...
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Investors? No, they were marks.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
100 years ago.
The klan marching in front of the US Capitol in 1926
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American @cincocento.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Yet more grift.
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New Day Tex @newdaytx.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
That was an AMAZING game! Best game of the tournament. There needs to be a movie made about the Cabo Verde team.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/07/2026
The White House announced on Friday that President Trump had issued pardons to 11 men, most of whom had been convicted of crimes related to the Clean Air Act, a bedrock environmental law.
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Trump Pardons Violators of the Clean Air Act and a Major Donor
The president used his clemency power to further undermine environmental laws and to help a political supporter who pleaded guilty in a fraud involving Jack Abramoff.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/06/2026
Missouri’s governor supports an amendment that would make it harder for citizen-led ballot initiatives to succeed, arguing they are susceptible to “out-of-state special interests.” He also backs a ballot measure funded by dark money from Delaware.
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Missouri’s Governor Is Opposed to Out-Of-State Funding, but Not for His Own Ballot Measure
Gov. Mike Kehoe says “out-of-state special interests” are influencing citizen-led efforts to amend the state constitution. His own ballot measure, a push to eliminate the state income tax, has receive...
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 30/06/2026
Marc Andreessen is appointed to the DOD's Defense Policy Board, a committee tasked with giving strategic advice to the defense secretary and other top officials (Nick Wadhams/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026
The more I had to say: I've said it now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Fire Any Agency Head Who Doesn’t Make John Roberts Wealthier
It is very important for presidents to be able to fire agency heads at will, unless that agency is very important to John Roberts.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 30/06/2026
A JetBlue pilot reported hitting a drone as he approached JFK International Airport to land in New York Monday morning.
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JetBlue pilot reports hitting drone as plane approached JFK airport to land Monday morning
A JetBlue pilot reported hitting a drone as he approached JFK International Airport to land in New York Monday morning.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/06/2026
His refusal to sign a bipartisan affordable-housing bill demonstrates his obliviousness to the economic concerns of voters. www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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Donald Trump Has Officially Lost the Plot
His refusal to sign a bipartisan affordable-housing bill demonstrates his obliviousness to the economic concerns of voters.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 30/06/2026
As we come up on America’s 250th birthday, Princeton History Professor Kevin Kruse joins @timdickinson.bsky.social to discuss MAGA’s ideology from a historical perspective. Watch:
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MAGA Wants to Reverse American Progress
Princeton Professor Kevin Kruse explains our current moment with a historical lens
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In case Trump asks... I am not tired of winning.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
"Greenwater Services got a no-bid contract and is partly owned by a twice-convicted felon who is a Trump friend..." www.wsj.com/us-news/linc...
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American @cincocento.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
It’s not stupidity or incompetence, it’s graft.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
USG is making moves to intervene in Trump's lawsuit against the BBC, bc the BBC is asking for discovery from government agencies that will show that Donald Trump is a criminal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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CORPORATION a/k/a BBC, BBC
STUDIOS DISTRIBUTION LIMITED,
and BBC STUDIOS PRODUCTIONS
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Defendants.
Case No. 1:25-cv-25894-RKA/EAL
NOTICE OF POTENTIAL PARTICIPATION BY THE UNITED STATES
TO: CLERK OF COURT, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA; AND ALL PARTIES AND THEIR
ATTORNEYS
The United States respectfully advises the Court that it is considering participating in
this litigation as allowed by 28 U.S.C. § 517, which authorizes the Attorney General of the
United States to send any officer of the Department of Justice to “attend to the interests of the
United States in a suit pending in a court of the United States, or in a court of a State, or to
attend to any other interest of the United States.”
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
GOPers were shocked when Trump declared he wants mass voter suppression rather than passing a bill on housing costs. But they were only shocked because he said this openly, screwing *them.* On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is so good in dissecting this moment: newrepublic.com/article/2123...
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Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms So Vile It Even Shocks GOPers
As Trump’s demands for voter suppression get so absurd that even Republicans balk, the author of a piece on his narcissism explains how he’s royally screwing them in the midterms—and himself, to boot.
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American @cincocento.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Karma will not be kind to her.
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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Just kiss his ass. It’s a really high ROI activity.” @profgalloway.com and @karaswisher.bsky.social on why tech billionaires are so eager to join Trump’s mob protection racket.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
thenation.com
Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This confirms what the CDC leader said before she was fired. Kennedy wanted the science to be cooked until it aligned with his politics.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/06/2026
BREAKING: New Mexico's governor calls for criminal probe after AP report that DEA let staggering number of fentanyl pills hit street.
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New Mexico governor calls for criminal probe of DEA allowing fentanyl shipments to hit streets
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is calling for a criminal investigation into whether federal authorities broke state law by allowing fentanyl pills to reach the streets.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 25/06/2026
Interior spox’s dad is David Spady, a GOP-leaning lobbyist.
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American @cincocento.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Trump administration spend every waking moment of every day thinking of ways to both disenfranchise and fleece the American people.
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T. Craig M. @tcm01.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I taught US history and government for many years and was always careful not to include a current president in any discussion of presidential rankings. We need time for evaluation and perspective, I'd say. But the past year and a half have been too stark to ignore. Worst. President. Ever.
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Miz Anthrope @mizanthrope01.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/06/2026
Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges. (Published May)
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Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.
Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were "full steam ahead" looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.
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bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Also this…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/06/2026
This is very dangerous: voter registration group being treated as criminal www.ms.now/news/ohio-pr...
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FBI raids Ohio voting rights organization
Sources tell MS NOW that agents also fanned out across the state, showing up at staff members’ homes.
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Sinister Golden Bear 🎃 @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
They came at Dolly. We ride at dawn.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/06/2026
TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)
propublica.org
Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
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American @cincocento.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Wtf?
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
World Cup hasn't kicked off yet, but so far... 1. Somali referee denied entry to US at Miami airport (ESPN story below) 2. Iraqi team photographer denied entry to US at Chicago airport 3. Iraqi player questioned almost 7 hours at Chicago airport More on Iraqis: abc7chicago.com/post/photogr...
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Somali referee for World Cup denied entry into United States
Somali referee Omar Artan has been denied entry into the United States after getting selected to officiate in the World Cup.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Organizations that provide anonymous legal advice for military members grappling with orders they fear are illegal said they had received calls from service members concerned about the legality of the boat strikes, some from people directly involved in them..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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US boat strikes killed over 200 people. Service members have questions
Legal hotlines have received calls from service members concerned about US military boat strikes that have killed more than 200 people.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump celebrates pride month 🌈
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.
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American @cincocento.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Disgraceful
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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We still don’t know why he met privately with Ghislaine Maxwell and then why she ended up at Club Fed afterwards. 🤔
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American @cincocento.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Democrats need to get it together and realize that their normal bs no longer works. People are tired of lip service. They want swift and concrete action. For anyone making excuses, you’re part of the problem. Be quiet or step aside. Progress will not wait for you.
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