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Colleen

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
John Eastman concocted a ridiculous, unconstitutional theory of the vice president’s power in an attempt to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. The J6 Committee interviewed multiple witnesses with knowledge of Eastman’s scheme, which Trump adopted as his own: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/04/2026
NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Congratulations to JD Vance & the International Council of Nationalists for helping cost Orban the election & providing a road map for defeating our fascists at home. If a Dem nominee won’t clean house & punish the monsters administrating concentration camps on American soil, they’re a collaborator
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 12/04/2026
Viktor Orbán has been ousted—and efforts by Washington and Moscow to prop the autocratic leader up give his defeat implications that extend far beyond Hungary, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Budapest. Read more: theatln.tc/KdGVkPGT
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Right now, we are witnessing a preview of what could happen in the USA this November. Hungary's opposition party, Tisza, is so far ahead in the polls that they are on track to win a supermajority in the parliament, spelling the end of Orban. The only way Orban can remain is to subvert the election.
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Rob Pattenden 🔶 @polrobuk.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I love this for both of them 🇭🇺 #orban #vance #hungarianelection
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 03/04/2026
Under Trump, women will always have a ceiling they will hit before being discarded; the only power they have acquired has been conditionally given and therefore can be taken away. What did Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem expect?
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Trump’s Disposable Women
Under Trump, women will always have a ceiling they will hit before being discarded; the only power they have acquired has been conditionally given and therefore can be taken away. What did Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem expect?
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
HEADLINE OF THE DAY: 😆 #BuhBYE
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings
An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1.	He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2.	He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3.	He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4.	He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5.	He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6.	He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7.	He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8.	He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9.	He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10.	He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11.	For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12.	For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13.	For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14.	For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15.	For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16.	For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17.	For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18.	He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19.	He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20.	He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2026
The local leaders of the union representing TSA workers characterized the ICE officers in airports as unhelpful and a distraction. “It doesn’t address the problem, and it’s not going to work,” said Everett Kelley, the national president of AFGE.
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T.S.A. Union Leaders Blast Trump’s Deployment of ICE Agents in Airports
The local leaders of the union representing T.S.A. workers characterized the ICE officers in airports as unhelpful and a distraction.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"The Republican who previously held the seat had won by 19 percentage points in 2024." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Democrats flip seat in Florida state house in district that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
Emily Gregory defeats Republican Jon Maples in district that is home to US president’s Palm Beach estate
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Congressman Juan Vargas @vargas.house.gov · 17/03/2026
DOGE was a disaster from day one. Now, a new whistleblower report is alleging that a DOGE employee stored the private information of 500M+ Americans onto a personal thumb drive and planned to give it to their private employer. Unacceptable and needs a full investigation.
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Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
More Americans have died in the illegal undeclared Iran War than died during the Afghanistan withdrawal that was portrayed to the American public as a presidency-annulling catastrophe for Joe Biden.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New NBC poll finds Trump deeply underwater on top issues: 44-54 on immigration 43-54 on foreign policy 41-54 on handling Iran 36-62 on inflation and cost of living More confirmation that Trump has hit the trifecta, tanking on GOP friendly issues of immigration, economy, national security:
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 06/03/2026
The US customs agency is preparing a system that will be ready to process refunds on illegally ‌collected tariffs in 45 days without requiring importers to sue, a customs official said in a court filing reut.rs/4utouUW
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.
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Colleen @cotu.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 10/02/2026
“Parliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.” Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. p. 331
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Again, there is one constitutional mechanism for solving problems like "The president threatens to nationalize & overturn valid elections." For the previous 45 presidents, it would have been used already. Everyone is just kidding themselves at this point & pretending there are other solutions.
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Mary Beth Williams @mbwilliams.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Here's my obligatory posting of the flow chart I created two years ago to help folks understand whether they'll be able to register to vote under the SAVE Act. (Red lines are no, green lines are yes.) (I apologize that I don't have an alt description for this chart.)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 28/01/2026
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Union representing CBP and ICE agents calls for the firing of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller.
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Congresswoman Lori Trahan @trahan.house.gov · 28/01/2026
Two Republican senators have now called on Kristi Noem to resign. If she won’t leave and Trump won’t fire her, we must remove her from office. Keep pressing.
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Two Republican senators call for Kristi Noem to resign as DHS secretary
Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Thom Tillis are the first GOP members of Congress to call for Noem to step down as secretary of homeland security.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/01/2026
Ecuador’s minister of foreign affairs has filed a protest with the U.S. Embassy after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tried to enter the Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis without permission Tuesday.
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ICE chief must appear in court to explain why detainees have been denied due process
The chief federal judge in Minnesota says the Trump administration has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear before him Friday to explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
if polling is so tilted against DHS/ICE that Laura fucking Ingraham is calling the post-9/11 creation of DHS unnecessary bureaucratic overreach on Fox News, the Democrats shouldn’t be aiming for moderate reforms as a negotiated compromise position - they should be pressing this advantage.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
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ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A major newspaper publishing guide to help people identify the munitions their government is using against them is a real "Late Republic America" timepeice that future historians will comment on.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Further to my post about the Cities Church case and DOJ's effort to strong-arm Chief Judge Schiltz, DOJ has now *withdrawn* its request (that Schiltz reconsider the magistrate judge's refusal to sign five of the eight arrest warrants for which it had applied): www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...
Screenshot of docket entry noting that the government has withdrawn its request for five arrest warrants in the Cities Church case.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
No notes
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It’s a little confusing because on the ground everyone uses “ICE” as an umbrella term for feds of any stripe, but there are many agencies that have been thrown into this paramilitary invading force - ICE, ERO, Border Patrol, HSI, FBI, US Marshals. Border Patrol is easily the most militarized
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 25/01/2026
Training doesn't fix this.
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