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Dad/stepdad of the three best kids in the history of kids. The rest is background noise. He/him ✡️ but not 🇮🇱

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
oh man 😂
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Really unpopular things: -data centers -overt bigotry -CSAM -billionaires trying to buy elections -Hitler salutes -stealing people’s personal data -South African Apartheid -causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of children Fighting against Elon Musk is a political winner
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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silverbeard2026 @silverbeard2026.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FYI
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.
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Chris Kremidas-Courtney @chrysthalassa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just a reminder that its been 323 days since a bipartisan bill requiring the DOJ to publicize unredacted Epstein files within 30 days passed the House 427–1 and the Senate unanimously. And we still haven't seen them.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Dancthtx @dancthtx.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I don’t believe in Hell, but I believe that Stephen Miller is going to Hell (and that Lee Atwater is in Hell).
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?
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JewelzinAZ @jewelzinaz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Either there’s rule of law or there’s not. Either we are defined by a system of justice that holds the guilty accountable or we aren’t. Either we have a democracy that limits abuse to define our public life and the rights of citizens or we have a country collapsing into strongman authoritarianism.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We are facing a psychiatric emergency. We are facing a constitutional emergency. Anyone with eyes and ears who’s paying attention can see it. Our republic is teetering. The good news: We the people have the power to stop this accelerating descent before it’s too late.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 OCTOBER 5 DEADLINE #BlueWaveIn30Days If you live in one of these states, Monday is the voter registration deadline: • Arizona • Arkansas • Florida • Georgia • Indiana • Kentucky • Louisiana • Mississippi • Montana • Ohio • Tennessee • Texas Check your registration. IWillVote.com
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💙Matthew U.💙 @match74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.
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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Political cartoon by Jim Benton 
A casual party for adults, but everyone has extremely wide-open shocked unhappy expressions.
One man: I read this article and it said that, apparently, there was this time in US history when we didn't all stagger around in horrified disbelief.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL? The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?” Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The midterms are being flooded with dark money & Trump is doing everything he can to suppress the vote. But remember — WE THE PEOPLE outnumber Trump and his billionaire backers. Keep phoning. Keep canvassing. Keep getting out the vote for candidates on the side of working people. It is essential.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Fuck that." "I'm Sherrod Brown and I approve of this message."
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the unacknowledged advantages of this awful era is that it's revealing for all to see the putrid connections between great wealth and great power. The intentions of the oligarchs are fully exposed and more blatant than ever. But remember: We outnumber the oligarchs.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 26/09/2026
Just a note... whoever he sent the cancellation to needs to just send back a rejection with notes on the proper procedure to present it to congress and NOT CANCEL. You don't have to do illegal things he tells you to do, it's a choice.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tens of thousands of voter registrations have gone unprocessed in Texas. Affecting large areas deeply. If you’re in Texas, check your registration is up to date and accurate ASAP. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/22/t...
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DPS voter registration applications weren’t sent to counties
Counties will start receiving a surge of applications less than two weeks before the Oct. 5 registration deadline, adding work at one of the busiest points in the election calendar.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
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U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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A. Chill @atchill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They're flooding the zone, with crime.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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Zach @zachlj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Combined with the plan to exclusively resettle White Afrikaners under the presidential determination number, it’s almost impossible to overstate the degree to which full on, blood and soil, white nationalism is the operating principle for this evil regime.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026
Rachel is in need of support and really gave her whole heart to paying people’s rent this year, so let’s make sure we take care of her, please!
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“.. The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reporters covering this new money-grubbing approach to Putin should be asking US officials if they'll proactively rule out any deals involving the Trump and Witkoff families. And when they refuse to do so, that should be a prominent element in the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump Wants Putin to End the War. He May Offer Russia Business Deals First.
A new sanctions bill is meant to pressure President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to end the war in Ukraine. But President Trump is doubling down on a different approach: offering enticements to Russia.
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More fundamentally, it’s an affront to our constitutional design—and deeply dangerous to our democracy—that a state of emergency has existed for a quarter century. Congress should exercise its option under the NEA to enact a resolution terminating the 9/11 emergency. 14/14
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...
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Ashley Holden 🩷 M.Ed. @mrsholden2019.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So #MitchMcConnell just gets to be dead & no one cares anymore? He just keeps collecting a paycheck, taking unlimited time off & everyone shrugs? I'm a teacher fighting stage 4 #cancer & if I was even 10 minutes late to work, I'd hear about it. If I disappeared, didn't call in, I'd be unemployed.
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John Travolta Confused Meme
ALT: John Travolta Confused Meme
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every major news outlet was scooped on the biggest sports story in the US this year by a podcaster, not because they don’t have the resources but because they all primarily do access journalism and boosterism instead of actual reporting.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sure everything keeps getting worse but it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that everything is also getting dumber.
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So, did the whole country just stop talking about the fact that Mitch McConnell is dead and the GOP is still covering it up?
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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026
Watch this the next time you want to say that all Texans are ignorant hicks who deserve everything bad that happens to them. Watch these people fight. Watch how our voting rights keep getting stripped away as they have been for over a decade. If you won't help, then shut up and get out of the way.
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