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Terri Hamlin

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Retired teacher, writer and editor.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump just fired all these people www.justsecurity.org/146430/elect...
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What is the Election Assistance Commission With No Commissioners?
An expert backgrounder on the implications of President Trump's removal of all members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Brought to you by the Admin who says “it’s not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein” … a document manifest showing 4 interviews the FBI conducted with a woman who accused the President of sexual abuse as a minor. If there’s nothing to hide, why are they hiding these documents? ⬇️
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/02/2026
Read the full story here:
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With SAVE America Act stalled, Florida House passes its own version
The alarming legislation represents the state-level component of a national Republican effort to make voting more difficult for American citizens.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/02/2026
BREAKING: The Florida House of Representatives voted to advance a sweeping voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of state voters. The move comes two weeks after the U.S. House passed the GOP-led SAVE America Act, which the measure closely mirrors.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/02/2026
DHS has so much money (thank GOP) that now new secret service detail agents get two new tailored suits each! "The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
$10B for Trump's "Board of Peace" $10B for Trump's IRS lawsuit $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $135M for Trump's golf outings The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Four interviews of a girl who says Trump sexually assaulted her when she was underage are gone -- missing from DOJ's release of the Epstein files. #ReleaseTheInterviews
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/01/2026
NEW: Trump and his two eldest sons sued the IRS for $10 billion of American taxpayers’ money over the leak of his tax returns during his first term. The lawsuit raises the possibility that his political appointees in the IRS will have a hand in responding to the unprecedented move.
democracydocket.com
Trump and sons demand $10 billion payout in new lawsuit against IRS
Any payout would effectively allow the president to pocket tax dollars.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Trump ties failure to win Nobel Peace Prize to efforts to acquire Greenland www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/e...
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Trump ties failure to win Nobel Peace Prize to efforts to acquire Greenland | CNN
US President Donald Trump told Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre that he no longer feels bound “to think purely of Peace” because the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not award him the Nobel Peace...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The ICE agent who killed Renee Nicole Good: www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
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Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/01/2026
While the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension was originally set to investigate Good’s killing, the FBI’s refusal to cooperate has forced them to withdraw from the process entirely. The FBI will now have full control over the investigation. trib.al/sqM95xA
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Wow. Could Trump be receiving the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi? It is administered via IV in the hand, causes swelling in the brain requiring regular MRIs, and one of the main side effects is tiredness. Is the President taking secret Alzheimer’s drugs? -Keith Edwards
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lucasnoll.bsky.social @lucasnoll.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A thought…keithedwards 17m Wow. Could Trump be receiving the Alzheimer's drug Leqembi? It is administered via IV in the hand, causes swelling in the brain requiring regular MRis, and one of the main side effects is tiredness. Is the President taking secret Alzheimer's drugs?
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Trump reversing the safe staffing mandate is his way of saying, “Happy Holidays and I hope your loved ones die.”
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Trump administration repeals Biden-era nursing home staffing mandate
HHS repealed the rule on Tuesday, which would have required nursing homes to increase staffing, saying the regulations would have disproportionately harmed rural communities.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
NEW tonight from @premthakker.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me: zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...
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Trump Admin Lawyers Now Warn Boat Strike May Be Illegal, as Hegseth Passes the Buck
‘If the Washington Post is right, then a crime was committed,’ a Trump admin lawyer tells Zeteo, as Pete Hegseth tries to pass the buck.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Trump reposted on Truth Social multiple accounts from X this weekend who have been identified as foreigners posing as American MAGA supporters. meidasnews.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump Amplified Foreign-Based Accounts This Weekend
One account boosted by Trump promoted banning Ilhan Omar from office. The account is based in Africa.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“His abusive and excessive use of the GV Jet for his personal adventures and the assignment of SWAT-qualified special agents to guard his girlfriend are indicative of his lack of leadership experience, judgment and humility,” he added... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/11/2025
The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses? Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow. This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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Laura Rozen @lkrozen.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
wth wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
POTUS on social media in the last few hours: * Calls for prosecution of Democrats who advised troops to not carry out “illegal orders”; * Calls for network to fire comedian who makes fun of him; * Posts AI video of him kicking ball a soccer star * random quote praising himself
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Yes Trump just reshared a post calling for the Democrats who called for the Military to uphold orders to be HUNG.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Trump signs a bill releasing all unclassified Epstein documents within 30 days. Bondi still has ample discretion to decide what exactly to release, including any she deems as possibly compromising federal investigations. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
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Trump signs bill to release the DOJ's Epstein files
The legislation requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all unclassified records related to Epstein within 30 days.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/11/2025
A federal appeals court panel has affirmed the dismissal of President Trump’s $475M defamation lawsuit against CNN for using the term “the Big Lie,” calling his claims “unpersuasive” and “meritless.” It's the latest of Trump’s failed lawsuits against media reporting on his lies. trib.al/EiMwW34
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13/11/2025
NEW REPORT from ProPublica finds that Fox News manufactured riots fit for air, using old footage or footage that was not of Portland, for months leading up to September. It was so convincing that the network apparently prompted Trump to send federal forces to the Pacific Northwest. trib.al/koDwQMR
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Trumpstein Panic, Episode 3: 1) calls to GOP signatories to Epstein release bill 2) emergency meeting if Kash can make it 3) Trump crazytown post
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“.. Mr. Trump has also been reaching out by phone to Representative Nancy Mace .. .. The two have not yet connected.” @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"Trump and his administration on Wednesday ramped up a pressure campaign on congressional Republicans who are pushing for a full release of the [DOJ] files about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein... Top officials met in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday with" Rep. Boebert.
nytimes.com
Trump Ramps Up Pressure on G.O.P. To Thwart Epstein Vote
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The silence of congressional Republicans to all the Trump corruption - from his disgusting pardons, to the UAE crypto money, to the Qatari jet, and the ballroom, should be used against all of them in midterms along with their silence on tariffs which has made things unaffordable.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/11/2025
Voters sent Trump a clear message last week: they will not stand for his chaos and cruelty. The president’s response? Calling on lawmakers to smooth a path for voter suppression measures such as mandatory voter ID and mail-in voting bans. bit.ly/3LxNFn7
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After Voters Chastise Trump, He Demands End to Filibuster to Pass Suppression Laws
Read more here.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
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Trump Wines Sold At Coast Guard Stores On Federal Property
Exchanges in Washington, D.C., and Virginia have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider, allowing his family’s business to earn revenue from sales on federal property.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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Michael McKee @mckonomy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Another YGBFKM moment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
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Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The 3 shutdown strategies of Mike Johnson: 1. Label many millions of peaceful protesters domestic terrorists who hate America. 2. Keep Republican Reps home. 3. Refuse to seat a swing-state, latino-American member, which also highlights his Epstein obstruction. Pure genius.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 08/09/2025
Trump promised to cut electricity bills in HALF. Instead, they’re rising TWICE AS FAST as inflation. Families are paying more while he blocks clean energy and props up aging coal plants. His politics = higher bills for all of us. www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/b...
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Trump vowed to halve electricity prices. But they’re rising twice as fast as inflation | CNN Business
On the campaign trail last summer, President Donald Trump promised to swiftly cut electricity and energy prices in half if voters returned him to the White House.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
1. If passengers book a flight from the EU and it is canceled or significantly delayed, they are entitled to cash compensation — $300 to $700. In the US, flyers were supposed to get similar rights soon. But those plans have been scrapped by the Trump administration. Here's how it happened. 🧵
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How airlines lobbied away your flight compensation
After a $62 billion federal bailout, the airline industry secures the repeal of a key consumer protection.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
SCOOP — Members of DC National Guard are preparing to carry M17 pistols, multiple sources confirm to me. This follows earlier reports that the guard reversed course and would soon be arming members in DC. Now we know they’re making sure they meet requirements if/when the order to arm them comes.
thehandbasket.co
DC National Guard members actively training to carry pistols in capitol mission
Sources confirm to The Handbasket that task force members are preparing to be armed.
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 19/08/2025
Trump's renewed war on mail-in voting is threatening to sabotage his own party. After the GOP spent millions to reassure supporters, his scaremongering could erase their gains and set up a new round of election denials should the party lose the mid-terms. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
politico.com
The GOP spent millions supporting mail ballots. Now Trump’s attacking them again.
Trump wants to roll back mail voting that he baselessly claims is ripe for fraud.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/08/2025
SCOOP: The Justice Department escalates its hunt to obtain voter lists, threatening at least one state with legal action if it doesn't hand over sensitive voter data. This move marks the latest step in the DOJ’s push to gather state voting information to investigate illegal voting.
democracydocket.com
In New Letters, DOJ Escalates Hunt For State Voter Data, Threatens Legal Action
Read more here.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Thank GOD he's so easily manipulated... wapo.st/3HrEWBp
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Live updates: Trump pledges ‘a lot of help’ to Ukraine in congenial Oval Office meeting
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders at the White House.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2025
Bondi: "Our law enforcement officers are telling us that people are coming up to them on the street, they said a lot of people are walking by, whispering, saying 'thank you thank you thank you.'"
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
On the Texas House side, there is a new, new congressional map as a committee substitute. The new map is Plan C2333. dvr.capitol.texas.gov/Congress/89/... #txlege
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Jane Mayer @janemayer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The president has no authority over the “manner of elections” under the Constitution, yet Trump Says He’ll ‘Lead a Movement’ to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Says He’ll ‘Lead a Movement’ to Eliminate Mail-In Ballots
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 02/08/2025
Trump just moved to outlaw women veterans who are victims of rape or incest from getting abortion care at VA. Republicans don’t care if your health is in danger, if you’re a veteran, or if you’ve been raped—they want abortion outlawed everywhere, for everyone.
thehill.com
Trump administration revokes Biden era abortion rule for veterans
The Trump administration revoked a Biden era abortion rule on Friday that allows veterans to receive abortions under their medical package.  The Department of Veteran Affairs is reversing a 20…
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Axios @axios.com · 01/08/2025
Trump said he fired the BLS commissioner for making a huge downward revision on 2025 jobs data, saying the numbers were "manipulated for political purposes." Revisions are normal and expected, however — here's what to know.
axios.com
Trump says he'll fire BLS chief over "faked" numbers. Here's why there are revisions
The Labor Department characterized revisions for job growth in May and June as "larger than normal."
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Heading directly into Orwell territory right now. www.politico.com/news/2025/08... Trump demands firing of BLS chief after soft jobs report - POLITICO
politico.com
Trump demands firing of BLS chief after soft jobs report
The monthly jobs report showed just 73,000 jobs in July, with big reductions to May's and June's numbers
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