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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
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Study: Shock gloves traumatized Army volunteers
After tests, military personnel said "just seeing the glove" that ICE plans to adopt scared them into obedience.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/10/2026
People often call money from the opioid settlement “blood money,” and you might expect that it would go mostly to the families of people who died of overdoses. But much of it has gone to law enforcement—for squad cars, jail costs, drones, and more. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Millions from the Opioid Settlement Are Being Spent on Law Enforcement
People often call money from the opioid settlement “blood money,” and you might expect that it would go mostly to the families of people who died of overdoses. But much of it has gone to law enforcement—for squad cars, jail costs, drones, and more.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are trying to deport the kids.
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Trump administration plans to have its own lawyers represent migrant kids
Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm profoundly against this depraved record and want to do the exact opposite: pass Medicare for All.
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Mike Rogers voted against children’s health coverage over and over - Detroit Metro Times
Mike Rogers repeatedly voted against efforts to expand health insurance for children of working families.
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Danielle Lang @danilang-votes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excited to share this episode of Democracy Decoded from @campaignlegal.org where I get to talk about the First Amendment, dissent, and share the mic with my former law school dean Robert Post: lnk.to/DDS6E3SM
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Democracy Decoded
Let’s face it: This is an unprecedented time for our democracy. Many of our government’s checks and balances are being challenged or outright ignored. We did not arrive here because of one person or o...
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KJ doesn't obey in advance 🇺🇸 🇨🇦🇮🇨✌🏼 @katemjackson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the upside-down moral universe of MAGA, the worst offense against democracy in our lifetimes wasn't Trump's damnable attempt to overturn the 2020 election; it was Smith's admirable attempt to hold him accountable for it with criminal charges. www.rawstory.com/eric-schmitt...
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'Sloppy' GOP Sen. Schmitt pilloried by home state paper over 'cringey' public humiliation
The editorial board of Missouri's largest newspaper joined the pile-on after Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) embarrassed himself during his interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith on national TV.S...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The empathetic folks at Mar-a-Lago react to hearing you lost your healthcare, your child has measles, and you can't afford to gas up your truck:
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter, with OpenAI’s chatbot fueling the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Freedom United @freedomunitedhq.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Epstein survivors continue to face lost income, healthcare costs, and professional consequences after coming forward. Some employers are even labeling them "too political" to hire. It's a reminder that trafficking survivors need long-term financial support, not just justice. ow.ly/QMQ150ZRRwA
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to emancipate white people from Black elected officials—but not to help Black people elect officials—signals its fundamentally racist priorities.
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the document (Gift Article)
Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/09/2026
Trump, for over a decade: "I wouldn't give him a state dinner." This week: A full state dinner at the White House for China's Xi Jinping, complete with the arrival ceremony, a gift, and billionaires everywhere.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Putin’s trolls are again looking to help Donald Trump and the GOP.
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How a Russian attack on the midterms deepfaked Mother Jones
Putin's trolls are again looking to help Donald Trump and the GOP.
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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Democracy in decline.
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AliceinBlunderland @lifeofpi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apparently we missed an epic ass-kissing today by Trump toward Communist leader XI accompanied by communist journalists. You won’t see this because Trump decided certain pro democracy US reporters might hold him to account, so he defied court order today, refusing to return their press passes
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Lauren Brewer @styleseer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The reaction of so-called democracy Israel to this film tells you everything you need to know about the real Israel.
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Kimberly DeFalco @kimdefalco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Prayers for this man and for our democracy.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last week, my new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America," was published. I relentlessly promoted it. But if you missed this video about it, check it out. Guess who the narrator is before the credits roll. Learn more or order the book at HowRussiaWon.com.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/09/2026
Trump’s costly campaign to make Washington “safe and beautiful” is flopping. Case in point: The Kennedy Center. It’s hard to avoid the similarities to a creepy courtship. If he can’t possess it, he threatens to kill it. Video by @sonelcutler.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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abcdef 🕶️ @onecaliberal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Todd Blanche is in the Epstein files. He is protecting himself along with the other serial child rapists.
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I guess it’s also worth a reminder here that history’s corrupt autocrats always seek to destroy art and appropriate the culture for themselves www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...
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How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center (Gift Article)
Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.
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Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸 @lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rep. Thomas Massie is one signature away from forcing a new Epstein files vote. He says DOJ continues to "unlawfully withhold over 3 million Epstein files that should be released to the public." Speaker Johnson canceled two House workweeks Massie says were meant to stop him.
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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I know I shouldn't get pulled in. But aside from absurdity of how this idea must have even gotten started, the actual safety and regulatory process to necessary to make this happen would take decades and billions of dollars.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Mr. Ron @mrrevron.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is how stupid our moronic president sounds. What a total Idiot and disgrace.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Four more troops have died than Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense has admitted, new reporting reveals.
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What else is the Pentagon hiding from us?
Four more troops have died than Pete Hegseth's DOD has admitted, new reporting reveals.
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james, but scary. @abacadabber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They really should be explicit in the headline that the rise in South Asian hate rhetoric is stemming directly from the united states government.
Screenshot from article: “A recent example came last week when the Department of Homeland Security posted an image on social media depicting an Indian man with the words "Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh."”
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18/09/2026
“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social : “To see what Patriots owner Robert Kraft did to line up all the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way… this isn’t just about one artist.”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Christian Mike Johnson defends his guy's comments describing women as "cum trophies." bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Cheryl by the Sea 🌊 @peachycheryl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sources: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti... www.epi.org/press/new-re... www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-2...
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Trump touts over $20 trillion in new U.S. investments, but the numbers don't add up
President Trump's claims of a historic multitrillion-dollar investment surge don't match federal data or the administration's own numbers.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
Recruitment-by-gaming is a project that the Pentagon has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on, and it has paid big dividends.
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The White House made an arcade game out of deporting people
It’s part of a long American history of gaming as propaganda.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/09/2026
You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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You don't have a right to safe drinking water, US court rules
A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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“I, [state your name]”… @zoomydu.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you don't receive your ballot by mail, hit up early voting events or make plans to vote in-person on election days...by any/all means available. Take a vacation/personal/sick day, if necessary, then treat yourself for taking an active and historic role in protecting our democracy.
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Thomas Janecek @twocatfarm1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This last bit in today’s Letter from Heather Cox Richardson should send chills through all of us - in anyone who believes in democracy. Meanwhile Congress and the corporate press remain silent.
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Galen Stone @galenstone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Oligarchs need to be taxed back to humility.
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Destruction of East India Company Gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for Confronting Big Tech: Historian | Common Dreams
Historian warns of unchecked power in Big Tech firms, drawing parallels to British East India Company. US lawmakers urged to rein in tech giants.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
'The birth if Pegasus' by contemporary Italian ceramics artist Clara Holt #WomensArt
Large ceramic vase with busy black and white decoration featuring an image of a winged horse
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just imagine if a President of the United States was an asset for Russia. Now imagine that President bankrupts and steals from the country to give to oligarch’s. And at the same time, completely depletes the military. This is “just if” of course.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/08/2026
The Supreme Court may be deferential to President Donald Trump and the legal arguments put forward by his Justice Department. But when it comes to their own physical safety, the justices seem to view the administration with appropriate skepticism.
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Supreme Court’s security upgrade fits the world it helped make
The justices keep ruling for Trump—but don't trust him to keep them safe.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Dr. Implorable @drimplorable.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Want to keep her memory alive? Do a lot of kind things, for a lot of people, no matter who they are. And do it with a happy and humble heart.
Mural portrait of Dolly Parton
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Donald Trump were both born in 1946. Parton was born into poverty in a one-room cabin in Appalachia. Trump was born a millionaire in one of the most diverse places on Earth. One dedicated her life to love and joy and generosity. The other dedicated his to selfishness and cruelty.
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