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George Orwell said, "The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.' He certainly wasn't wrong about that.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 8h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 6h
This location in Oregon is so iconic several of us in the replies guessed where it was just from the pebbles and the sound. If you ever have the chance to visit Yaquina Head I highly recommend it.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 6h
President Donald Trump's latest campaign swing through Texas was a rambling mess delivered to a sparse audience, according to a progressive commentator.
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Trump's 'disastrous' Texas stop plays to 'very small low-energy crowd': analyst
President Donald Trump's latest campaign swing through Texas was a rambling mess delivered to a sparse audience, according to a progressive commentator.On Thursday's episode of "The MeidasTouch Podcast," host Ben Meiselas said Trump "just wrapped up a disastrous speech in Texas in front of a very sm...
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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 5h
Premiere of the 3D conversion of Guillermo del Toro’s PAN LABYRINTH at the Academy Museum.
Guillermo del Toro presents PAN’S LABYRINTH at the Academy Museum
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h
Trump asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro. techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/m...
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Musk's AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela's president | TechCrunch
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h
TED LASSO and SLOW HORSES are both on Apple TV, and unless my entire childhood lied to me, that can only mean one thing. We're due for a very special crossover episode. Can't wait.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
This isn't real
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 17h
AP: The Council of Europe said Tuesday that the US formally notified it a day earlier that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — Russia and Belarus. This comes as a surprise to no one. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 11h
The October 2026 playlist: Dungeons & Drag Queens
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October 2026: Dungeons & Drag Queens
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19h
South Korea says Trump is lying
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h
NEW: As diesel prices hit record highs, Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson admitted in court that the “America First Refining” oil refinery he co-owns with MAGA figures including Donald Trump Jr. is set to send its fuel to India, per AJC.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h
Trump announced a $54 BILLION South Korean investment. The problem? South Korea says it hasn’t actually agreed to it. That’s not the only thing Trump is claiming despite a lack of evidence.
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Trump Announces $54 Billion Deal. South Korea Says Not So Fast.
As Trump threatens retaliation over the Flydubai attack and touts a sweeping energy win, South Korea says its Alaska LNG decision still depends on legal and commercial review.
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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 17h
This is what Bibi calls self defense
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BILLIONAIRES: We’re not ‘confiscating’ anything. 45 years ago, you made society a promise that if we reduced your taxes, you would use some of that money to improve conditions for all Americans. Instead, you chose to do the opposite. You had a great ride…your greed is why we’re here. ➡️ TAX THE RICH!
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“Dear billionaires, we’re not “confiscating” anything. 45 years ago, you made society a promise that if we reduced your tax bill, you would use some of that money to improve conditions for all Americans. Instead, you chose to do the opposite. That was the choice you made. So now we’re demanding to go back to what worked before - taxing you at the proper rate. You had a great ride, but, let’s be clear - your greed is why we’re here.”
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Lpeterp @lpeterp.bsky.social · 18h
NOTE: these positions are now CENTER in the US...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 9h
They never really do anything about the bullying. The safety of our students...bs. Hie many stories do we have to hear about kids or their parents asking fir help and never getting it. l.smartnews.com/p-8Br2JJvi/O...
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Bullied high schooler jumps to his death after brutal beating by classmate (California Post)
The Benjamin Franklin High School student who jumped to his death from a four-story buildingin Highland Park was brutally beaten up by another classmate befo...
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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 10h
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Fired DOJ Lawyer Drops New Bombshell About Trumpy Actor (The Daily Beast)
The Justice Department is refusing to automatically bar domestic abusers from owning guns because Donald Trump wanted to please Mel Gibson, it has been...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h
"We are as incompetent at getting Americans to believe our fictional numbers on the economy as we are at running that economy. How are consumers finding out that gas prices are not going down? Is is magic? Are traitors leaking this secret information from electric signs at gas stations?"
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h
“No agency on Earth could fail eight audits and still get a $1.5 trillion check, except the Pentagon.”
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Think Trump’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is outrageous? This'll blow your mind.
We already spend at least that much on the US military each year, and maybe a lot more.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h
Judicial supremacy is an elite, anti-majoritarian check on the nation.
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How the Supreme Court seized power to rule over the rest of us
A false mythology put the justices on top. The people could knock them down.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h
This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13h
The average 30-year fixed rate just climbed to 7.28%. “We’re going to bring mortgage rates down very fast. We will drive down the rates, so you will be able to pay 2% again, and be able to refinance your homes drastically at much lower costs.” — Donald J. Trump www.wsj.com/economy/hous...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Furious MAGA caller abandons Trump over Iran war, inflation
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(🚨) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Part II of the Proof series on the unprecedented midterm election-rigging by Trump has just been published—and it’s a must-read. Other journalists have identified a few such schemes, but Proof has exhaustively detailed *22* election-rigging plots and counting—all fully sourced.
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PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Ten More Ways Trump and His Agents Are Rigging the Coming Elections
In Part II of its series on pre-midterms election-rigging by Donald Trump and his agents, Proof shows that the plot is exponentially more vast than once believed—a historic bid to end our democracy.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.
Pete Hegseth drunk and drenchedKash Patel drunk
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
“What a crock of sh*t!” Katie Phang torches Todd Blanche after he declares, “There’s not a prosecutor in this country that should ever, ever violate a court order,” pointing to the Trump DOJ’s documented noncompliance with court orders in her OWN Epstein files lawsuit.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 30/09/2026
Democrats hear me, believe me & act. Tell everyone! This is in your hands!!
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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not sure we are ever going to recover from what they are doing. l.smartnews.com/p-8B15JI0U/S...
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Marco Rubio knowingly awarded State Department contract to a firm with Russian ties (Morning Honey)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio‘s State Department awarded a $50,000 contract to Oxygen Forensics on August 28, the same day federal officials learned of alle...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Send me to right the Redcoats, send me to fight the communists, send me to fight the Islamists. Send me."
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 30/09/2026
Worst president and worst regime in U.S. history. Let’s start extracting the cancer and making them accountable on Election Day.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jesus Christ dude
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
Buried away and completely hidden out of sight in a dense forest, more than 1,600 immigrants are imprisoned here on any given day in what is the largest immigration detention center in the Northeast.
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Trump’s mass detention machine in Pennsylvania
"ICE is just churning bodies into the detention system."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump is sitting down with AI billionaires today, including Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Huang, worth a combined $1.7 trillion. None of them are worried about losing their jobs, freedoms, or lives because of AI. Millions of Americans are.
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Exclusive: Full list of attendees at White House AI lunch
Expect a flashy gathering of the world's most powerful officials and executives.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 28/09/2026
"The magnitude of the corruption is compounded by its elusiveness. Trump’s venal debasement of the presidency does not fit the usual categories, making its full extent unusually difficult to measure." Historian Sean Wilentz breaks down Trump the mob boss ↓
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How Trump Became Mob Boss of the United States
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in United States history. He's been preparing to use the government for self-enrichment his entire life.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
“The clearest example of that is George Santos.” Why Nevada Republican David Flippo’s multiyear failure to file a congressional financial disclosure is raising red flags for campaign finance experts.
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The mysterious millions powering a Nevada Republican’s bid for Congress
David Flippo, who has reported funneling nearly $2.5 million to his campaigns, has repeatedly failed to file financial disclosure forms since 2023.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs. “It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity.”
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Trump aims to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs
"It’s going to create a lot of conflict and confusion and animosity."
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DISGUSTING #PedoPOTUS
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Republicans BLOCKED my bill to make sure YOUR tax dollars aren’t wasted on a monument to Trump’s ego.
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 28/09/2026
Whether you vote early or on Election Day, make your plan and get to the polls by November 3. Make sure you’re registered. Know your polling location. And let your voice be heard. Vote like your nation depends on it. Because it does. 💙 🗣️ jnevarae (IG)
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MacFarlane: The Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio has got the same issue. Last year, they paid $50,000 for diesel to transport their food. Now, they’re paying $150,000 for the diesel to transport their food.
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