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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."
newrepublic.com
I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.
An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.
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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver @cleaver.house.gov · 26/08/2025
“Tariffs raise costs, and their uncertain implementation has customers of the equipment makers more cautious in their investments.” Costs are rising and workers are losing jobs thanks to the president’s chaotic and reckless tariff taxes. www.wsj.com/opinion/deer...
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Opinion | A Deere in the Tariff Headlights
The farm equipment maker takes an earnings hit and lays off workers.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/08/2025
Let’s all take a moment to reflect on how this just absolute alpha male sprayed on his hair for TV
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Beaver Bones Robertson @darickr.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
“People like Stephen Colbert are too talented, and too essential, to go away,” Conan O’Brien said. “It’s not going to happen. He’s not going anywhere. Stephen is going to evolve and shine brighter than ever in a new format that he controls completely.”
thedailybeast.com
Conan O’Brien Says Late-Night TV Is Doomed
O’Brien says the format is dying, but voices like Stephen Colbert will find new life elsewhere.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/07/2025
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted. Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/06/2025
Abusive messages, fear of physical violence and violations of privacy are the cost of elected office in the U.S. now, according to nine Gen Z and millennial state lawmakers.
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After Minnesota shootings, young lawmakers ask: Is politics worth it?
In an era where safety precautions and online abuse are often part of the job, young American lawmakers wonder if politics is just too dangerous as a career.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025
I didn’t have “arguing if the Constitution is constitutional” on my 2025 bingo card. Did you?
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Maurene Comey: The defense says Combs didn’t need guns because he is a hands-on guy. Sure he was - with his girlfriends. When he was going to kill another man, he needed a gun. When he was beating women half his size, he didn’t. Audible gasps in the courtroom.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 28/06/2025
Im still baffled daily on how even the brains of seemingly reasonable people are just broken now.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/06/2025
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
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CrazyUs @crazyus.com · 19/06/2025
Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill. Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸 Pass it on!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Meiselas: And now, the little engine that could—the one people said could never happen—the MeidasTouch Network has hit 5 million subscribers, 33 million views every 48 hours, more views than Fox News and any cable news network… we are so grateful to share this moment with you all.
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with  Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
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Eliana @otrodia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#FuckICE
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/06/2025
LA DODGERS just now: “This morning, ICE agents came to Dodger Stadium and requested permission to access the parking lots. They were denied entry to the grounds by the organization. Tonight’s game will be played as scheduled.” Right on, Dodgers! More of this, please.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement.

Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.
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JaValle @handle.invalid · 07/06/2025
Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
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Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Beneath contempt.
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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely
Picture of a translucent hooded, caped, skeleton wrapped around an alarmed looking man seeming to move him involuntarily
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Every day, we should all be asking the same questions of our political representatives and political reporters: Has the president been removed from office yet because of his obviously broken brain? No? Why not?
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Let’s start with the basics.
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Chris D. Jackson @chrisdjackson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🚨 NEW: These are photos from Pennsylvania @GovernorShapiro’s home after police say an arsonist set it on fire while the Governor and his family were sleeping around 2 a.m. Cody Balmer of Harrisburg was arrested. Charges expected: attempted murder & terrorism. Trump and his administration? Silent.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/04/2025
there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego
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Chris D. Jackson @chrisdjackson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
So Trump ditched tradition, broke protocol, and took down Barack Obama’s portrait—just to hang his own. Straight-up tin pot dictator energy. Insecure and petty to the end. 🫤
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Consumer sentiment is now lower than it was during the Great Recession and the second lowest reading since 1952. The guy who inherited hundreds of millions from his father and squandered it now inherited an economy that was the envy of the world and squandered it.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
They didn't spell tariffs correctly, but I'm impressed they could hold the magic markers.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Crockett: It has taken Texas’ largest measles outbreak in 30 years with more than 500 confirmed cases and the deaths of two children for the secretary of health and human services to say what we already knew. The most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the vaccin
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025
McGovern: "How is any company supposed to forecast for their future, build a plant, hire workers, if they have no idea what the hell this president is gonna do in his next tweet? ... I need a neck brace to be able to get through all this."
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Elections have consequences
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
He is so toxic.
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Musk Slammed For Criticizing 'Suicidal Empathy' Of SCOTUS Justices Who Ruled In Favor Of Due Process
He's such a toxic person.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Hahaaha...so the market just went back up briefly on the fact that no one in this Administration knows what the fuck is actually going on and is just making shit up. Luckily Karoline stepped in to get it falling again.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 07/04/2025
Good news. The American empire is falling. Bad news. I’m an American
Dow jones down 1900 for yearS&P down 840 this month. Now 875 since I took screenshot one minute ago
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.
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polillitam G.M. 💙🦋🦋🦋 @polillitam.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Raw truth 👇
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
These are the same people that were willing to let their grandparents die so they could eat at Arby's again without a mask
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You do NOT need the new iPad
You do NOT need the new Cell Phone
You do NOT need the new video game console

You WANT them

There is a big difference and if you look at the people whining about the tariffs I challenge you to ask them how their lives have been affected in any way
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
China doesn’t panic. This is just moronic.
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