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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There should be no ambiguity as to who Trump thinks his friends are.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 25/09/2026

This week the Trump administration ran a 30-second campaign spot on Fox News and Newsmax, labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government." This kind of propaganda using taxpayer dollars is unacceptable and very likely illegal.

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Administration's pro-Trump TV ad is taxpayer-funded

The Trump administration is running a pro-Trump ad on cable news featuring Trump boasting about his record and vowing the US "will never be a communist country."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A while back @philiprocco.bsky.social wrote about how the Trump administration was already using government resources for propaganda messages in Social Security messaging. Is it illegal? Part of the problem is defining what counts as propaganda... donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-federa...

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The Federal Government is Emailing You Campaign Literature – Can Anyone Stop It?

Is it legal for Social Security to send you partisan propaganda? In theory, no…

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trump announced on Truth Social on Friday that he was banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from all access to the White House due to what he called unfavorable coverage, and threatened that more such prohibitions of media outlets could follow.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Americans did not declare independence from a king only to submit to the supremacy of a different court. @daphnarenan.bsky.social and I are in today’s Globe. Gift link:

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The Constitution belongs to ‘We the People,’ not nine justices - The Boston Globe

The Supreme Court was never meant to have the last word on self-government.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/09/2026

Sure a Russian oligarch paid for Donald Trump Jr wedding, but Hunter once had a laptop!!!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

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Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’m with Robin. There’s just too much money and too few rules for them to slow down

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Garlin Gilchrist II @garlingilchrist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My opponent can't say who won the 2020 election, but wants us to trust him to run our elections? More proof he answers to Trump, not Michiganders. No thanks.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Kristen Welker stated a fact Trump didn't like, so he wants the FCC to rebuke her, even though the agency has zero authority over individual journalists. If a president can weaponize an agency over one accurate sentence, no reporter covering him stays safe. #CorruptTrumpRegime

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“behind closed doors, the first-term senator shows little interest in doing the job beyond cultivating relationships with conservative media figures and advocating for Israel” - Fetterman is the absolute worst, utterly betrayed those who voted for someone different www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator

The first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel.

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Liberal Warrior 🏳️‍🌈👬🌊💙🌊👭🏳️‍🌈 @liberalwarrior.eu · 30/08/2026

I keep hearing the talking point “Does Israel have the right to exist?” The real answer is that all people have the right to exist. Mehdi Hasan breaks this down clearly—worth listening to his explanation. @mehdirhasan.bsky.social youtu.be/JEoIUoH6kZY?...

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Does Israel Have a ‘Right to Exist’? Mehdi Debunks This ‘Bullsh*t’ Argument

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The US President calls on the FCC to do something about polls he finds uncomfortable.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is unfortunately in the best long-term interests of the United States for the rest of the world to treat us as a rogue state and make concerted plans to rein us in.

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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Carney says Trump is using economic integration "as a weapon... Trump has justified tariffs on Canada with continually changing rationales: fentanyl, wildfire smoke, dairy quotas, certification of US aircraft and Doug Ford's anti-tariff ads that quoted Ronald Reagan." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Carney says trade deal became untenable when U.S. 'asked too much and offered too little' | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney told his negotiators to walk away from the table after the Trump administration introduced late unacceptable demands on culture, autos and sovereignty that, when taken in co...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.

In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation.

When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”

Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.

As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”

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“CALL ME MISSUS…Thee Well Read Bonnet” 🖕🏽🤷🏽‍♀️ @wrong1rightday.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

2 weeks without power in Gary Indiana, a blue city full of Black people in a red state full of racists. Munster got their electricity back on.

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Minerva47874627.bsky.social @minerva47874627.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One North Carolina county will be closing polling places on Sunday on religious grounds, regardless of objections from residents, who have pointed out that this makes it more difficult for working people and that many people combine Sunday church with a trip to the polls. This is voter suppression.

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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Trump buys stock & goes on TV to pump it up 45 minutes later. Then he charges people $100,000 a month for the tip-off so they can get in on his insider trading scheme. Rep. Raskin just laid out how Don the Con violated the STOCK Act twice in one scam. #HoldTheCrooksAccountable

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The top 1% of Americans now hold about as much wealth as the middle class. That's not the sign of a strong economy, it’s an economy that's stopped working for most people. Middle class and working families built this country. It needs to start working for them too.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“.. It’s bonkers that a defense secretary would involve his wife .. sharing details of an impending military operation, and face zero consequences,” said John Ullyot, who left the Pentagon .. after three months working under Mr. Hegseth ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/s...

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

There are some ways in which Trump is uniquely awful and ton of ways in which he just heightens the awfulness of the system (war, insider trading, Epstein connections, etc). The press loves to cover the former while it is very cautious about covering the latter.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“She has at times ruffled feathers among White House aides by immediately following through on Trump’s directives without first checking in with the chief of staff, the communications office or the national security team.” Fantastic.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2026

Natalie Harp can be seen exiting Marine One and boarding Bribe Force One as she travels with Trump to Michigan

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Natalie Harp for her foreign policy expertise.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 19/08/2026

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s closest aide, Natalie Harp, declined multiple times over more than a year to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House, sources tell MS NOW.

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Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year

The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The US national debt just surpassed $40 trillion. At least $12.3 trillion (30.75%) of this total was acquired during the 5 yrs and 7 months Trump has been in office. FACTS.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/08/2026

This is absolutely bananas. Trump says we’re suspending exercises with South Korea because of his “really good relationship” with Kim Jong-un. North Korea is nuclear-armed, threatens South Korea, and is actively helping Russia wage war against Ukraine.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In the Eisenhower administration, the ratio between the salary of an entry-level white collar worker and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company was 14:1. Now under Musk it is 2.5 million to one. This is why the pope refers to Musk as a model of the sin of avarice. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Tesla paid Elon Musk 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025

Tech billionaire’s $158.3bn deal an outlier in report showing widening gap of CEO to worker pay at top companies

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick. (Published February)

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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

As President Trump fumed late last year over Colorado's imprisonment of Tina Peters, a convicted election denier, a White House special assistant organized an urgent "brainstorm call."
The goal, outlined in an email sent to officials at five federal agencies, was to "prioritize Colorado for the purposes of ensuring grants and federal support are in line with administration priorities," the assistant, Emily Underwood, wrote on Dec.
15.
"Please come prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado," Ms. Underwood added.
The next day, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy, whose representatives were invited to the brainstorm, announced they were canceling hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants for Colorado projects.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/08/2026

and I wrote about this: newrepublic.com/article/2143...

Each time the anti-woke crowd revive themselves, it is not because anything was stolen from them, but because they feel as if someone has challenged their presumed ownership. This is, as ever, an expression of white power, in particular an expression of its fears that it is losing its historical dominance. That is what happened in
2020. It is not complicated, even as it takes on other forms. It is MAGA crowds holding mass-produced signs reading "mass deportations now." It is endless iterations of the same conspiracy theories about non-white usurpers and invaders stealing elections. It is Southern white prosecutors in Scottsboro.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is how you know we need a wealth tax

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

if i were a dem politician asked about hasan piker i would simply say “i will answer your question about the twitch streamer no one has heard of but first i would like to point out the president was best friends with the worlds most notorious child rapist and yall stopped asking him about that”

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Is Hasan Piker the Attorney General who Republicans confirmed despite him still withholding documents about Donald Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein? Because I oppose that." "No, he's a Twitch streamer who—" "I don't watch Twitch, but I have seen the birthday card Trump gave Epstein."

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Last month was the hottest in US history, at 1.83C (3.3F) above the 20th-century average. It was hotter than in the Dust Bowl, that era climate deniers habitually cite as evidence the planet is cooler www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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July was hottest month ever recorded in US as heatwaves scorched country

Scientists have made clear that the elevated heat in the US was being amplified by the human-caused climate crisis

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I suspect those who've speculated are right. Trump went ballistic on round one of the QatarForce One story because underneath it was this pretty humiliating episode of Trump getting smuggled out of Turkey in a food cart. And he'd do anything to stop that from getting out.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If you’re hiding in a catering truck when you control the most powerful military in the world, you aren’t winning.

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