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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h
Historian Tim Snyder compares what Trump is doing in Latin America to Soviet tactics in Eastern Europe after WWII: rig elections, apply threats, install the leadership you want. His description of Trump’s approach: “smash and grab.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 5h
NEW: I have obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Trump's name in the Epstein files for supervisory review. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: MSW Media has Obtained Descriptions of NINE Epstein Files Redaction Training Videos in FOIA Lawsuit
Sources confirm that two videos instructed agents to flag documents including Trump’s name for supervisory review.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4h
He is the embodiment of every negative human trait. Every single one.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RAPE GANG OR ICE? BOTH? No ID. No badges. No uniform. Masks. An unmarked van. How are you supposed to know? PAXIS.app explains your rights during ICE encounters. Free: GoFundMe.com/PAXIS This is the shit we grew up hearing about in dictatorships. Now it’s here. Record EVERYTHING.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 4h
Convicted Felon Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, know with the Midterms around the corner, DELAY is the name of the game
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 6h
Memorable Presidential Quotes In History From FDR: "The only thing we have to fear... is fear itself." From JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." From our Vulgarian-In-Chief:
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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 7h
Curious about how Republican senators, many of whom served for years alongside Biden, feel about this - including that the former president is battling cancer.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 10h
A Senegalese basketball player for Kentucky State University was detained on August 7 at an airport while traveling with her team and has been in ICE custody ever since, despite her removal order being rescinded by an immigration judge.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 8h
Since 1973, in the US over 200 death row prisoners were exonerated and released due to evidence of innocence. This ratio means that for roughly every 8 people executed 1 person on death row has been exonerated. Via Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h
I’d love to see Jack Smith appointed Attorney General by the next Democratic president! 🇺🇸💙
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h
"Congress has already said no to taxpayer funding for the big, beautiful ballroom, and this should have been a stop order on the project." So if Congress already said no, how is this pet project getting taxpayer dollars?
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 11h
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 10h
A new lawsuit by journalist @bubbaprog.xyz shows the DOJ secretly searched his digital accounts for a wide range of materials. And prosecutors failed to tell judges about a federal law protecting the press from search warrants… again.
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DOJ’s secret search of journalist’s accounts omitted press law
Journalist Tim Burke’s new lawsuit challenges the government’s search of months of emails, messages, files, and other information from his Google and Twitter accounts
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7h
Plague outbreak in Russia from a lab. We MUST ban all commercial flights to and from Russia NOW
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: In my lawsuit, the FBI has admitted to having NINE Epstein files redaction training videos. TWO of them instructed agents to flag files with Trump’s name for supervisory review. I will cover at NOON PT here: youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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LIVE: FBI’s Trump-Epstein Training Videos Finally DISCOVERED…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 7h
"Latino voters overwhelmingly disapprove of the president’s handling of the cost of living (78%), the economy (74%), foreign policy (68%) and immigration (69%). Trump’s best issue of the five tested is border security — where 39% approve and 58% disapprove of his handling."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h
After inspectors turned the lens back on him, the Federal Housing Finance Agency head moved to slash its budget.
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Bill Pulte said he was cracking down on fraud. Now he’s firing the investigators.
After inspectors turned the lens back on him, the Federal Housing Finance Agency head moved to slash their budget.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10h
America is literally deporting people to countries they have no connection with, countries they’ve never been to. This is wildly unlawful. It’s cruel. It’s un-American. It’s evil.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 10h
Kristi Noem is raising eyebrows over a lavish final act as Homeland Security secretary.
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ICE Barbie's Wild Final Morning in Office Revealed
Kristi Noem is raising eyebrows over a lavish final act as Homeland Security secretary.
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commonsense202424.bsky.social @commonsense202424.bsky.social · 9h
Kennedy supports an “a hole” President?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
TN-9 candidate for Congress Brent Taylor: “I support Trump’s tariffs.” 🤔 As you pay more for everything, remember Taylor is a rubber-stamp for those policies. @justinjpearson.bsky.social is not. #Trumpflation
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h
Every day more instances of disgusting & blatant corruption revealed as our money is being plundered by the Trump Crime Family & their cronies. Do American voters care anymore about corruption? I guess we’ll find out soon because it’s just staggering with this crew of criminals.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 10h
Trump’s wild public disclosure of a Republican senator’s phone number has quickly turned into a fiasco.
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GOP Senator Flooded With Venmo Requests After Trump Post
The president put Sen. Tom Cotton’s phone number online, and the internet did its thing.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
High school senior Elder Chavez Carranza is an immigrant living in the US legally under a program for abused or neglected children One day he went to buy food when a cop asked for his papers-which he didn’t have that day. So ICE put him in detention He has been incarcerated for more than 200 days
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
HASSETT: If people were unhappy, it'd show up in the data TAPPER: It seems to be showing up in the data, just not the data you're looking at
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "We achieved price differences of, listen to this, 300, 400, 500, 600, and in some cases even 700 percent"
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
Trump: "China's great, you know?"
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another NEW development in my case against AG Todd Blanche: he has now filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings, trying to get rid of my case at this stage of the lawsuit. Blanche must be a glutton for punishment because he just recycles the same losing arguments. youtu.be/32RC_CPlZhI?...
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WOW!! AG Blanche BEGS Judge To DISMISS My EPSTEIN LAWSUIT!!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
"Thank you President Trump for being here!" -- Husted gets on stage with Trump and yells a bit before giving Trump a hug
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h
Trump: "I get along great with Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un, you know who that is? North Korea. When people have 112 nuclear missiles, it's nice to get along."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Trump: "Husted, now that he's a senator, he's a pain in the ass. He calls me all the time. He always wants money. Think of it -- if an Amy Acton got in, I don't know anything about her ... I'm not gonna help her probably."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h
Trump: "I know more about inflation, I know more about everything than anybody in this room, anybody, anywhere in the world. Well, there's a woman sitting right over there. She's a housewife. But she's very good…She perhaps knows more than I do, but I actually don't think so."
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h
Trump: "If Amy Acton got in, I don't know anything about her. She's never going to call me. I'm never, probably, going to work the same way. You just can't. It's human nature. But I'm not going to help her, probably."
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CNN @cnn.com · 23h
CNN spent a month in Hettinger, North Dakota, to examine the impact of immigrant workers and how they were viewed in a rural part of the country that mostly voted for President Donald Trump. cnn.it/4rIIG4d
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 23h
This is batshit. This is vastly worse than any Biden decline. Trump has come unglued. He's a danger to the republic.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h
Oh no the very popular president is going to spread his popularity around and make other Republicans as popular as he is oh no
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 23h
If they win, the Democrats would push to expand Medicare coverage to include dental, vision and hearing benefits.
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Medicare update: Major changes proposed by Democrats if they win midterms
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
"Were he trying to raise the cost of diesel, Trump would be hard pressed to improve upon the combination of trade wars, tariffs, and a Strait of Hormuz-choking Mideast war. At this point, he may as well propose doubling the 24.4 cents per gallon federal diesel tax."
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Diesel Don is tanking the GOP
Record high prices are one of Trump’s defining political failures.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23h
Alberta separatists sought US help to break up Canada, offering the province's oil, water and land while Trump threatened Canada with tariffs and annexation; US Republican operatives offered the separatist campaign voter-targeting technology. #cdnpoli
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Alberta separatists asked the US to help break up Canada and offered the province's oil, water and land in return
Albertans vote on 19 October after separatists offered the US government the province's oil, water and land, Michigan Republicans brought in software that exposed nearly three million voters' data, an...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23h
Trump’s Ohio speech tonight is at the Butler High School gym. Here is a photo of what it looks like on a regular day as posted by a user to Google Maps.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 23h
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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CNN @cnn.com · 23h
Sudden unexpected infant death claimed the lives of about 3,400 babies in the US in 2024. A new report from the CDC found that nearly three-quarters of these deaths examined from 2020 through 2024 involved unsafe sleep factors: cnn.it/4hnqWru
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Unsafe sleep factors found in nearly 75% of sudden unexpected infant deaths, CDC says | CNN
Nearly 75% of sudden unexpected infant deaths examined from 2020 through 2024 involved unsafe sleep factors, a new CDC report found. Here are steps parents can take.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 22h
Ramaswamy’s first mistake was deciding that a 10-year-old was still within the acceptable weight range for the politician’s traditional baby-hoisting photo op.
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MAGA Candidate Suffers Brutal Campaign Moment on Camera
Vivek Ramaswamy invited a “military kid” onstage, hoping for a picture-perfect campaign moment. Things did not go as planned.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22h
The masked men behind Kamloops’ “Got bones?” banner belong to a white-nationalist group that trains with US fascist networks tied to MAGA and promotes “remigration,” a far-right agenda pushed by Trump. Its founder told followers to “arm up now.” #cdnpoli
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Second Sons: foreign-trained in Texas with a militant US right-wing group, promoted by promoted by Trump allies
The masked men behind Kamloops' "Got bones?" banner belong to a federally registered white nationalist group that trains with US fascist fight clubs and pushes the "remigration" agenda Donald Trump ha...
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