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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution: adopted July 9, 1868, states: 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.'
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/06/2026
Data centers don’t just magically appear. Texas didn’t become the data center capital by accident. They go where politicians offer billion-dollar tax breaks, cheap power, weak regulations, and a giant welcome mat. If we’re serious about fighting these projects, follow the incentives.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...
I.R.S. officials prepared a 25-page memorandum outlining what they saw as flaws in Mr. Trump’s suit and advising the Justice Department to move to dismiss it, according to two people familiar with the memo. That memo was provided to Treasury officials in April, and it is unclear if they passed it along to its intended recipients at the Justice Department, according to the people, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal government deliberations.

No lawyers from the Justice Department ever appeared in court to respond to the suit or disputed any of Mr. Trump’s claims, which demanded at least $10 billion from the I.R.S. for not doing enough to prevent the leak of his tax information. The Justice Department instead made to a highly unusual deal in the case. In exchange for Mr. Trump dropping the suit, the Trump administration created the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for people who say they were wrongly targeted by the federal government.

The existence of the internal memo, which has not been previously reported, shows that the Trump administration disregarded readily available defenses to a lawsuit filed by the president against an agency he controls. While the Justice Department has said that Mr. Trump will not receive money from the new fund, critics have slammed the arrangement as a corrupt attempt at paying Mr. Trump’s political supporters, including, potentially, those who were convicted and later pardoned for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/05/2026
BLANCHE SHIELDS TRUMP: In a newly posted order signed by Acting AG Todd Blanche, the Department of Justice states that the federal government is now permanently barred from pursuing a wide range of tax-related claims and reviews against Donald Trump, his family members, and affiliated companies. 1/
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
⚖️ Jack Smith: "We have a Department of Justice today that targets people for criminal prosecution simply because the president doesn’t like them.. fails to move on cases because they might uncover facts inconvenient to narratives the president would like to press" 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
So let me get this straight: a war of choice unilaterally declared by one man is causing death and destruction at a cost of $1B+ per day? And it's driving up prices everywhere to the point where corporations are now asking for taxpayer funded bailouts? Is this what the "New Golden Age" looks like?
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Budget Airlines Ask Trump Administration for Billions as Fuel Costs Rise
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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
They’re charging James Comey for posting “8647” on his Instagram, saying it’s a threat. Do you know how stupid this is? I worked in food service. When we “86’d” someone, that meant “throw them out.” Not KILL the customer.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
We need to do more than win in November. We need a massive blue wave. The only way to stop the MAGA shenanigans of the Trump regime is to win big, limit their power, and then do it again in 2028. Please follow the people on this list who are on the frontlines fighting for US. go.bsky.app/K6JGV3h
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
According to NASA's Clean Air Study,the Snake Plant is so Effective in producing oxygen that if you were locked in a sealed room with no airflow,you would be able to survive with just 6-8 plants in it. NASA recommends 15 to 18 medium-to large size plants for 1,800 square home.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists. Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Oh my, we are dumb!
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We have the 25th Amendment for a reason This is it #25thAmendmentNow
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
THIS is why the 25th Amendment was ratified. TODAY. NOW.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026
Trump on speaker phone at the Orban rally: "I just want to tell you I'm a big fan of Viktor, I'm with him all the way. The United States is with him all the way."
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Alex Jones in calling for Trump to be removed via the 25th Amendment.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
WHATEVER is making you CRAZY about AMERICA right now, SATURDAY is the day you come out to EXPRESS it. We NEED every single one of YOU. www.nokings.org youtu.be/Y43lD7aYnqI
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NOW is the TIME
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.
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RogerWagnerMDPhD @rogerwagnermdphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
#HistorySky #AcademicSky @hcrichardson.bsky.social Interesting way to contribute
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.
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John W Dean @johnwdean.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
R.I.P. Alex… Alexander Butterfield, Who Revealed Nixon Tapes in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 99 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
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Alexander Butterfield, Who Revealed Nixon Tapes in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 99
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/03/2026
This is stolen valor. Markwayne Mullin never served a single day in the military. 📌 Clipped from a 6-minute Fox News interview he posted on his own YouTube channel earlier this week.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Trump is threatening to militarily attack and invade Spain, an EU and NATO member, for refusing to take part in the US and Israel illegal war in Iran. Orders all trade with Spain to be cut in revenge. “If we want, we can just fly in and use it. Nobody is going to tell us not to use it”
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Les Wexner's attorney during his House Oversight deposition on Epstein: "I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words, OK?" And now I feel as if Wexner’s lawyer should be deposed.
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True Blue 🇦🇺🐨 @spbmckenna.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
🚨 It's alarming that Thomas Massie posted that he's NOT suicidal In 2019 Giuffre wrote on X she was NOT suicidal in "any way, shape or form" & stated, "If something happens to me, in the sake of my family do not let this go away & help me to protect them" On 4/25/25 she lost her life to suicide!
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 14/02/2026
The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/02/2026
Keith Ellison: "The president is openly promoting authoritarianism and tyranny. That is what's happening in America. Most of us thought we would never see it, but here it is right in front of our eyes."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator. The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him. It's time for a massive general strike across the country.
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Annes Mien @annesmien.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Tilly the cockerpoo! A watercolour pet portrait from a photo. #dogs #petportrait #watercolours #art #paintings #cockerpoo
A commission I had for someone's pet cockerpoo called Tilly.  Isn't she just so cute?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/01/2026
Wow! This read-along of the NYT moment-by-moment leading to the murder of Alex Pretti should shake everyone awake. He was a Good Samaritan. Agents fired at least ten shots in roughly five seconds. DHS and Pam Bondi claim Pretti approached them armed and intent on a “massacre.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“LET US OUT!” women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc. In our name🇺🇸
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/01/2026
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Tracy Edingfield @tracyedingfield.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
And her children allowed that shit to stand. Unforgivable
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
They've been spineless since Trump's first term
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I have noticed a disturbing number of calls for violence against ICE agents. One word: DON'T! Around the world, dictators WANT violence because it provides cover for them to launch massive militarized retaliation. Dictators even stage false-flag operations to provide themselves with an excuse.
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DebmBudd @tuppenceforthem.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Just sharing something completely normal and not at all stressful or disturbing. My cat thinking he's hidden under a piece of paper.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.
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We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to p
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Jesus. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Reid Forgrave
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then arrest workers
Federal agents detained three workers from a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Willmar yesterday, hours after four agents ate lunch there.

It was not immediately clear what the immigration status of those detained was, or whether the people detained included the restaurant’s owners or only workers.

An eyewitness who declined to give a name for fear of retribution, told the Minnesota Star Tribune that four ICE agents sat in a booth for a meal at El Tapatio a little before 3 p.m. Staff at the restaurant were frightened, said the eyewitness, who shared pictures from the restaurant as well as video of the arrest.

The arrest happened around 8:30 p.m. near a Lutheran church and Willmar Middle School as agents followed the workers after they closed up for the night. A handful of bystanders blew whistles and shouted at agents as they detained the people. “Would your mama be proud of you right now?” one of the bystanders asked.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/12/2025
Ossoff: "She's gonna have to give up her insurance in the middle of chemotherapy while she's fighting breast cancer. What are people supposed to do when they lose health insurance in the middle of a cancer battle? ... this is life or death"
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
For some reason this breaks my heart… “Danish postal service stops delivering letters after 400 years…. “ www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
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Danish postal service stops delivering letters after 400 years
Postvæsenet (now PostNord Danmark) was founded in December 1624, and at its peak carried nearly 1.5 billion letters.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/12/2025
credit to NYT for not sanewashing the appalling bigotry we saw today in the WH "Even for Mr. Trump — who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries — his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry."
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ in Anti-Immigrant Tirade
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/11/2025
When you know it’s going to be good… “Save me a plate”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2025
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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