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Way Yuhl - Cultural Persepctive @wyuhl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Americans pay about 7.3 trillion dollars in taxes a year. China's people pay a quarter of that per person and get more. Compare the two properly. . #USTaxes #ChinaVsUSA #Healthcare #HighSpeedRail #CulturalPerspective
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/08/2026
President Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II.
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The $1 Trillion Black Box
The U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe...
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Way Yuhl - Cultural Persepctive @wyuhl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump's 2025 deportations, did they create jobs for Americans? The independent studies find the opposite. The complete analysis is on Substack at culturalperspective.com, plus paid subscriber content here on Instagram. #CulturalPerspective #Deportation #Immigration #Jobs #USEconomy
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Barchart @barchart.com · 23/08/2026
The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Trump administration literally won't answer Qs about why it has sent people -- not convicted of any crime -- to rot in a torturing dictatorship. tucson.com/news/local/b...
"Once an alien leaves the United States, ICE is no longer responsible for tracking their location or activities outside the country," Burgos said in a July 27 emailed statement to the Star. He referred the Star to the U.S. State Department, which signed the secretive agreement to give Equatorial Guinea $7.5 million to receive deportees from the U.S. The State Department did not respond to the Star's questions.
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Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · 18/08/2026
Jason White has lived in and around Berkeley since the early ’90s. He’s on a mission this year to hike every path and staircase in the hills.
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Green Day guitarist is obsessed with the hidden pathways of the Berkeley Hills
Jason White has lived in and around Berkeley since the early ’90s. He’s on a mission this year to hike every path and staircase in the hills.
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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 14/07/2026
Permanent daylight saving time comes with serious health and safety concerns.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/08/2026
NEW: The DOJ announced it will deploy 1k election monitors to the polls for the midterms. At one level, this can be explained as a diversion from the narrative that Trump is losing. But to dismiss it as a PR stunt ignores how it fits into his broader plan to subvert elections, Marc Elias writes.
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DOJ is 0-23 in court, so now it’s sending 1,000 monitors to the polls
Donald Trump's Justice Department took a major step toward subverting elections this fall.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
All students in Seattle public schools will receive free school meals starting this fall, joining dozens of other states and cities. Kudos to Mayor Katie Wilson and City Council for getting this done. It’s a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.
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Free meals at all Seattle Public Schools will begin this fall
All Seattle Public Schools students will receive free school lunch starting this fall after a unanimous City Council vot
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/08/2026
Michigan is preparing for potential violence as far-right activists plan a massive anti-Islam protest in Dearborn. Meanwhile, national leaders are silent. trib.al/OdjPX3D
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Michigan Leaders Raise Alarm Over “Christian Crusader March”
Michigan is preparing for potential violence as far-right activists plan a massive anti-Islam protest in Dearborn. Meanwhile, national leaders are silent.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/08/2026
Florida’s most crowded GOP primary has two Trump-pardoned felons. John Strand is one of them.
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The international underwear model who stormed the Capitol is now running for Congress
Florida’s most crowded GOP primary has two Trump-pardoned felons. John Strand is one of them.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Stars & Stripes publisher announces sudden retirement, telling staff his philosophy of leadership and “understanding of the value and mission" of the newspaper differ in “fundamental ways” from the direction DoD wants to go in. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
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Stars and Stripes publisher announces retirement
Max D. Lederer Jr., the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, announced his retirement, ending a three-decade career at the organization.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“.. All indications are that he’s quite serious about stealing the upcoming elections, including through dubious if inventive means.” @nymag.com @eliehonig.bsky.social nymag.com/intelligence...
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 19/08/2026
Congrats, @gilduran.com! Looking forward to diving in!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/08/2026
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Under Trump, More Than 1,000 Nonprofits Strip DEI Language From Tax Forms
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statem...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/08/2026
Remember the electric shock gloves ICE just paid $20 million for? The ones human rights groups have called “readily misused for torture”? Well, despite the manufacturer’s warning against shocking children, school resource officers across the country have used the gloves for years.
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Cops love ICE's new shock gloves. Parents want them out of schools.
Omaha requested 40 pairs of the gloves for just under $66,000 in 2025.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19/08/2026
Nvidia shares could be trading at a discount of as much as 50% as investors overstate risks related to the leader in AI chips, according to Bank of America.
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BofA Sees Nvidia Trading at Up to 50% Discount on AI Risks
Nvidia Corp. shares could be trading at a discount of as much as 50%, as investors overstate risks related to the leader in artificial intelligence chips, according to Bank of America.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Anti-voting hardliner Ashley Moody won Florida’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate. Moody has backed restrictive voting laws, including a bill that could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters.
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Sen. Ashley Moody, anti-voting hardliner, wins Florida GOP primary for U.S. Senate
Measures Moody has supported include Trump’s SAVE America Act, which she co-sponsored when it was introduced in the Senate earlier this year. If passed, it would disenfranchise millions of eligible…
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Election denier Byron Donalds won Florida’s GOP primary for governor. Donalds voted against certifying 2020 election results and has backed several measures meant to disenfranchise eligible voters.
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Election denier Rep. Byron Donalds wins Florida GOP primary for governor
Besides supporting federal legislation to restrict voting, Donalds has also defended state-level anti-voting measures, such as the Florida SAVE Act.
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Barchart @barchart.com · 19/08/2026
Stock Market Crash Hindenburg Omen Triggered 🚨 The Hindenburg Omen, an indicator that correctly detected the 1987 and 2008 stock market crashes, has triggered 15 times in the past 3 months for the $SPX 🤯 The record is 16 times, which was followed by a 19% dump 📉📉
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
As private schools fueled by taxpayer dollars proliferate, states are taking a hands-off approach to regulating them. School founders — in one case, a woman prosecuted for sexual abuse — often aren’t screened. Some states can't even say how many of these schools exist.
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Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 17/07/2026
Y’all, @atrupar.com is about to watch this speech so that we won’t have to, so PLEASE consider showing him some love by subscribing to Public Notice. It’s fantastic journalism and a fantastic value.
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Sign up for independent, incisive coverage of US politics and media, right in your inbox five times a week. Click to read Public Notice, by Aaron Rupar, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousan...
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Confirmation hearings for Blanche are moving to day 3. We still have time to stop it—add your voice and tell your Senators to block this dangerous nomination.
#LoserTrumpsElectionLies
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Tell Your Senators: Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General
Contact Congress today!
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 17/07/2026
Trump: China illegally downloaded the voter records of millions of Americans. Elon Musk: Hold my beer.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tell your senators to oppose permanent DST (the Sunshine Protection Act) and support permanent Standard Time (the new Sunshine for Our Kids Act)! www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam...
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Tell Congress to Ditch Daylight Saving Time with Permanent Standard Time!
Tell your members of congress to oppose the Sunshine Protection Act, and to sponsor the Sunshine for our Kids Act. Ditch Daylight Saving Time and Save Standard Time!
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God @thegodshow.com · 16/07/2026
The treasury just ended plans to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill but they’re currently printing Trump’s face on a $1 gold coin while he’s still alive. All racist fascists go to Hell.
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's big news is China acquired the publicly available voter file? Bro, DOGE employees took off with our Social Security info on thumb drives.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/07/2026
Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of President Donald Trump or Britain's King Charles III, and Anthropic's chatbot would oblige. Prompted to do the same for Thailand's king, Saudi Arabia's crown prince or China's leader, and the artificial intelligence model declined. to.pbs.org/4fipAfh
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AI chatbots at risk of fueling government restrictions on online speech, new study says
A Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday shows that major AI systems, including those built in the U.S., are more likely to refuse to criticize restrictive leaders or governments.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump must be impeached for undermining and subverting our free and fair elections. And when he sends ICE agents to the polls, then we must turn civic action into civil disobedience and take to the streets. Sit in. Protest. Withhold our labor. Everything must be on the table.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Contact Congress asap! www.votervoice.net/ditchDST/Cam...
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Tell Congress to Ditch Daylight Saving Time with Permanent Standard Time!
Tell your members of congress to oppose the Sunshine Protection Act, and to sponsor the Sunshine for our Kids Act. Ditch Daylight Saving Time and Save Standard Time!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/07/2026
On Monday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were involved in yet another fatal shooting. This time in Biddeford, Maine. The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine said the victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the US.
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Colombian immigrant in Maine reportedly killed by ICE agents
The victim is one at least 9 people who have been killed by immigration agents since last year.
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snkscoyote @snkscoyote.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Stuart Stevens: We've Got Death Squads on Our Streets
The Bulwark Podcast · Episode
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Host: Trump is building a new granite helipad on the South Lawn. This really says, "I'm concerned about affordability America." We're gonna have to track who ultimately pays for what, because remember when the ballroom was gonna be paid for by just private donors?
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NPR @npr.org · 07/07/2026
A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration is divulging details of Iranian asylum seekers to the government of Iran. n.pr/4f0axGX
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New lawsuit alleges US shared asylum application details with Iran
A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration is divulging details of Iranian asylum seekers to the government of Iran.
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 07/07/2026
At a time of declining trust in politicians, this is exactly the kind of spectacle that corrodes faith in democracy. Britain needs stronger rules on donations, standards and transparency, so public life is shaped by voters, not wealthy interests.”
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Trump's DOJ has filed a motion to block the release of Todd Blanche's communications about the Epstein files.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Trump administration has dropped a plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
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International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) @irena-official.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is seeking an exceptional international leader to serve as its next Director-General. The vacancy announcement for the Director-General of IRENA is available here → www.irena.org/About/Employ...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/07/2026
UPDATE: The USPS appealed an order blocking its proposed rule that forces states to share voter lists with the federal government before receiving mail ballots. If the rule is allowed to stand, it would be an alarming step in Trump's sweeping attack on mail voting.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 07/07/2026
That's right, we are still fighting about a Trump admin birth control rule *from 2017.* The Biden admin waited until 2023 to try and reverse it, and had to withdraw the attempt because time ran out. Many such cases in the reproductive health space...
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 07/07/2026
Just eight companies make up the majority of meatpacking production in the U.S. They've taken in more than $500M in tax subsidies since 2006. minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/07/m...
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Major meatpackers have taken in more than half a billion in tax subsidies since 2006 • Minnesota Reformer
Just eight companies make up the majority of production in U.S. beef, pork and poultry.
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Scripps News @scrippsnews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Trump said the U.S. will lift sanctions on Turkey and consider restoring Ankara’s access to F-35 fighter jets during talks with Erdogan at the NATO summit.
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Trump says US will lift sanctions on Turkey, reopen door to F-35 talks
Trump said the U.S. will lift sanctions on Turkey and consider restoring Ankara’s access to F-35 fighter jets during talks with Erdogan at the NATO summit.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 07/07/2026
Israel continues to ignore international calls to free the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, from over 18 months of Israeli detention without charge.
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Calls Grow for Israel to Free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Amid Reports of Torture
Israel continues to ignore international calls to free the director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, from over 18 months of Israeli detention without charge. After seeing Dr. Abu...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
New footage shows an ICE agent shooting a peaceful protester at close range with a pepperball gun.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 07/07/2026
"What these people are proposing is the idea that women would be potentially sterilized if they wanted to come to America." trib.al/6h0jXkB
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Transcript: MAGA Wants to Force Women to Pee in Cups at Airports
As MAGA personalities start demanding a ban on women coming to the U.S. and having babies, a writer who covers Trumpism explains what this reveals about today’s right—and why we should take it seriously.
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Read our full release: www.citizen.org/news/trump-a...
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Trump Administration Shares Confidential Information with Iran, Risking Lives of Asylum Seekers and Violating U.S. Law - Public Citizen
Washington D.C. — Today, on behalf of the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund (IALDF), Public Citizen Litigation Group filed a…
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 07/07/2026
In Trump's own words, SCOTUS's decision in Trump v. Slaughter was "the greatest increase in presidential power in the last 100 years." He's not wrong. Here's what the ruling could mean for all of us.⬇️
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 07/07/2026
StopScams SF aims to protect residents from fraud through free financial counseling, multilingual public alerts and a payment verification directory of city offices.
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S.F. has new tools to fight scammers who impersonate city government
StopScams SF aims to protect residents from fraud through free financial counseling, multilingual public alerts and a payment verification directory of city offices.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/06/2026
One old trick in politics is to oppose something possible while calling for something impossible. Example: Here's Gavin Newsom leading the charge for a "national billionaires tax" while he and his paid goons work to kill a state billionaire tax. This allows him to be on both sides for 2028.
Screenshot of Gavin Newsom email: When 10% of the people in this country own two-thirds of the wealth, when we have minted the first trillionaire in human history, and yet your wages have stagnated, and your healthcare costs have skyrocketed, something is fundamentally broken.

It's time for a national billionaires’ tax and a new social compact.
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