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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Pleased to announce that 2001 Nobel Prize winning economist, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, will deliver a keynote about the systemic economic risks from disinformation and platforms that amplify it at the Cambridge Disinformation Summit. business.columbia.edu/stiglitz
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Joseph E. Stiglitz | Columbia Business School
Learn about Columbia economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winner in Economics. Explore his research in public policy, inequality, and global finance.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/03/2026
Trump: Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever hit before. THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IF THEY DO, WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This guy is dropping truth. Awesome man.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2026
I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 24/11/2025
When Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old from Texas, asked doctors about terminating her high-risk pregnancy to save her life, they assured her she had nothing to worry about. Then she died of preeclampsia.
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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20/11/2025
So it's just an open-air prison now? "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious" www.independent.co.uk/news/border-...
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.
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nikkineem.bsky.social @nikkineem.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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North Carolina Republicans Erased This Speech From Official Record
YouTube video by Red Wine and Blue
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Trump on President Xi: "During the meeting, he's here, and he's got about 6 people on each side. And every one of those people were at attention. And I made a comment to one of them and it got no response. And President Xi didn't let him. I said, I want my cabinet to behave like that."
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.
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Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law
Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.
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kari @kgd26.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
shout out chicago.
a large road sign with the text fuck ICE located on a corner of an intersection in chicago
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A thing you're not seeing if you haven't checked Twitter in the last week is all the political betting markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) are actively caping for Cuomo and spreading Zohran conspiracies on there. Usually this would be a cause for some sort of regulatory oversight but that no longer exists.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/11/2025
"The Republican Party has created an entirely avoidable mess for itself. By taking a resolute stand in favor of making healthcare unobtainable for many Americans, and now threatening to starve children to achieve that perverse goal, they have made performative cruelty their political calling card."
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Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We need a functioning Republican Party that believes in Congressional oversight, not whatever this is they have become.
A tweet from Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) quotes Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA):
“‘I wish they would have got up and walked out of the damn room,’ Sen. Mark Warner says of his Republican colleagues who received a classified briefing from the Trump administration on U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats, while Democrats were excluded.
‘My Republican colleagues, many of them afterwards said, “Oh yeah, that was not really good,” Warner says. ‘Everyone knows partisanship should not be involved in these national security matters, particularly when we are putting our soldiers and sailors in harm’s way.’”
Below is a screenshot of Warner speaking on Face the Nation.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
SNAP benefits will be gone, small businesses will suffer, insurance premiums will double, air traffic will be delayed/halted: All of these things are happening because when the gov't shutdown ends, the Epstein Files get released.
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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Sam Corcos, who entered government with DOGE earlier this year, decided to kill DirectFile after one meeting with with tax software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
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DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists
A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/11/2025
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
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How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
DC needs a better answer for teenagers than saying they can never legally go outside after 8pm again
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 04/11/2025
Earlier this year, lower courts determined that the president did not have the power under IEEPA to set tariffs.
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Donald Trump Issues Supreme Court Warning Before Tariffs Hearing
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I’m sure there are many horror stories about sudden spikes in premium rates. This was totally avoidable and exactly why Democrats drew a hard line.
A tweet from Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) reads:
“Just got this message from a constituent:
‘Holy crap. My ACA health insurance premiums jumped from $763 to $1195. This is a 64% increase. It’s 23% of my income.’
Holy crap is right. Republicans CHOSE THIS.”
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.
Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.
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starwalker @starwalkers.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
He knows her name, but he’s too butt hurt to say it. It’s Maria Cordina Marchado, Donald. She worked for years for freedom and democracy in Venezuela.
Tweet from Acyn: “Trump: The person who got the Nobel prize called today and said I am excepting this in honor of you because you really deserve it... I think she might have.”
Below is a C-SPAN screenshot of Donald Trump speaking at a podium with flags behind him and several men standing nearby.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...
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MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
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Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Food banks had scheduled 94mil(!) pounds of food deliveries through a government program that buys meat, dairy, eggs and produce from American farmers and sends them to help people in need. Trump’s USDA abruptly canceled those deliveries. projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Kristi Noem joined ICE in a Chicago raid this morning. Agents blew the doors off a U.S. citizen’s house, handcuffed him, and put him in a propaganda video even after realizing it was a mistake. This is America under Trump. No one is safe.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Weird, indeed.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.
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Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020
A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.
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Joe Segal - Create Positive Solidarity @joesegal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
every "Blue State" should coordinate together to do things like this in unison.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...
MANKATO, Minnesota (AP) - Charlie Kirk stood 80 miles from where George Floyd was murdered, faced an overwhelmingly white audience, and declared he was going to say things "no one dares say out loud."
What followed was an avalanche of aspersions and debunked claims about Floyd, the Black man whose death at the hands of a
Minneapolis police officer set off a global reckoning over racial injustice and broad calls for change. But the white conservative agitator had a counter view: Floyd was a "scumbag," he said, unworthy of the attention.
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Joe Segal - Create Positive Solidarity @joesegal.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
@democrats.org Need to understand the existential nature of this presidency not just for democracy, but our republic and the world. No United States Congressperson or Senator should ever give Trump a single vote for a nominee or a bill! Nor should we fund the government without undoing every cut!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/09/2025
Health insurance premiums are spiking. Hospitals are closing. Democrats are ready to fix this health care crisis RIGHT NOW. But Donald Trump and Republicans in charge of Congress and the White House would rather shut down the government than save health care.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Masked men kidnapping U.S. citizens off the streets based on their ethnicity vs. impunity for tax evasion by regime allies www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
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Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Now Trump will come out for the 150th time & say “the killing has to stop” but it’s “Biden’s war” & “both sides” are to blame for it, and he’s “going to talk to Putin” and he’s “pretty sure we will get a deal done very soon” or there will be “serious consequences” in “2 weeks.”
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SayItToMyFace💙🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Postal traffic to U.S. drops over 80% after trade exemption rule ends, U.N. agency says Now they will try and privatize the post office due to their issue they created.
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Postal traffic to U.S. drops over 80% after trade exemption rule ends, U.N. agency says
The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Aug. 29.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Trump is raking in billions of dollars, often from dubious or unknown sources. Literally unprecedented corruption.
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Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My God. Chills.
“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a lot wage job. Rather than stand idly by while out constitutional freedoms are lost, i dissent.”
—Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
It's not normal for an American president to send troops to American cities in times of peace. Chicago, document what you see and be loud for America.
Quote from Gov. JB Pritzker: Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
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Will🇺🇸📎✌️☮️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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