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Thirty-one year African American FBI veteran. Criminology & law graduate. Evidence based centrist.

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Darkblue714 @darkblue714.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@michael-feinberg.bsky.social What’s up? www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/p...
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Special Agent in Charge of FBI Chicago field office pushed to retire | CNN Politics
Douglas S. DePodesta, the special agent in charge of the FBI Chicago field office, was pushed to retire after disagreements with the local US Attorney Andrew Boutros, according to two people familiar ...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“I do think people are beginning to understand that this Court is really problematic and maybe even anti-democratic in certain ways.” @profmmurray.bsky.social joins @preetbharara.bsky.social & me to discuss this SCOTUS term on a new @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider episode: cafe.visitlink.me/NTvc44
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“We should not minimize the threat this Supreme Court represents to our democratic republic in its rejection of equal justice and its desire to maximize presidential power. Reforming the Supreme Court must be at the top of the agenda….” www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
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Snapshot: The Fight Over Birthright Citizenship
This Supreme Court barely protected this foundational right today, underlining the necessity of court reform
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The SCOTUS headlines tell you who won and lost. They don’t always tell you what the decisions will mean. Here’s my look at where we stand after the Court’s final day of issuing opinions in briefed & argued cases. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Beyond the Headlines: The Supreme Court's Final Decisions
The Supreme Court never really sleeps.
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Independent Americans @indyamericans.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A four-star general who spent 36 months in combat just said out loud what cable news won't: we went into Iran with no strategy, no congressional authorization, and no country behind us. The most powerful military in human history is being run… youtu.be/FfKTNdc_86Q
A four-star general who spent 36 months in combat just said out loud what cable news won't: we went into Iran with no strategy, no congressional authorization, and no country behind us. The most powerful military in human history is being run…

https://youtu.be/FfKTNdc_86Q
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Trump gets more than $2 billion richer while most Americans struggle to get ahead. The ads write themselves.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Not even close. I just want the Democrats to be an effective opposition to Donald Trump. Instead, it’s a party of kittens chasing laser pointers.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Democracy Docket is hiring a Legal Research Director. Join the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...
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Legal Research Director | Work With Us
Job Overview  Tracking key voting and election cases is at the heart of Democracy Docket’s mission. The Legal Research Director leads ...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Why making Bill Pulte acting Director of National Intelligence is a window into Trump's election subversion plans for 2026 and 2028.. He's put the key national security agencies under the control of Trump loyalists who have no intention of giving up power. open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...
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Trump’s Election Takeover Is Already Underway
Bill Kristol and Tom Joscelyn warn that Trump’s new intelligence chief could be part of a broader effort to target the 2026 election.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: "The pendulum swings back and forth.That's sort the natural order of the political system, especially in a democracy…The authoritarian push is to stop the pendulum from swinging back, and the way you do that is by stopping free and fair elections."
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and I discuss the Trump regime’s plotting against our elections - focusing on what’s happening in the intelligence community. We are alarmed! newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/trumps-ele...
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Trump’s Election Takeover Is Already Underway
Bill Kristol and Tom Joscelyn warn that Trump’s new intelligence chief could be part of a broader effort to target the 2026 election.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The Termites of Authoritarianism open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...
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The Termites of Authoritarianism
A quiet war on truth, expertise, and critical thinking.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The average life expectancy of a new Russian recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies somewhere between 10 days and three weeks. Once sent onto the battlefield, they survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes. @peterfrankopan.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/25/r...
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As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man
Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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How Russian services gain access to encrypted conversations without breaking the encryption
In the coming years, most competition between intelligence services will be driven by the human factor rather than by attempts to break encryption
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is 100% correct. Many of the people who claim subscriptions cost too much willingly hand over the same amount for Amazon prime and middling shows on HBO Max. Care about civil society? Support a newspaper or long form journal. And stop complaining about paywalls that allow them to exist.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I spoke with @joycewhitevance.bsky.social this week about the state of politics in the US. Video: snyder.substack.com/p/strongmen-...
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Strongmen Can Fail if We Act with Joyce Vance
A recording from Timothy Snyder and Joyce Vance's live video
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Check out the newest episode of It's Happening Here:
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Trump’s Election Takeover Is Already Underway
Podcast Episode · It’s Happening Here · June 27 · 41m
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social: "Trump ordered Gabbard to oversee the Fulton County operation to seize 2020 election ballots…This is pretty much a five-alarm fire. They're trying to find a way to use these records to justify these conspiracy theories as a pretext to interfere in the elections."
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
When I approach a passport control officer when entering a foreign country, I always say, "Welcome, but be good!" Thanks to our stable genius leader who knows exactly what passports and asylum are and how to stop hurricanes and algae, I no longer need to do this. 🙏🏼
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Watch the full episode of It's Happening Here:
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Trump’s Election Takeover Is Already Underway
Podcast Episode · It’s Happening Here · June 27 · 41m
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
.@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social on Pulte's appointment: "He doesn't mention Russia, China. We're in the middle of a war with Iran…Instead it's all about the election. It's part of the election subversion and authoritarian project central to what Trump sees as the core mission of his presidency."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28/06/2026
Venezuela’s “grand housing mission” delivered government-built apartments to thousands of families after the socialist revolution of President Hugo Chávez. Now, the homes have been reduced to a mountain of cement and rubble.
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These homes rose out of Venezuela’s socialist revolution. Now they’re rubble.
In the absence of government help, ordinary Venezuelans dug barehanded through the rubble of the week’s earthquakes for loved ones.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/06/2026
Trump's delusion has reached a new level, escaping the reality of his failures in D.C. and hosting a rally in Pennsylvania, surrounded by crowds that won't push back against his claims. lnk.thebulwark.com/44rhUlP
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The President Finds His Happy Place
A smaller and smaller slice of the voting public is still all-in with him.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/06/2026
Europe’s approach to Donald Trump has long been appeasement—but this is a faltering strategy, Robert Kagan argues: “Whatever you did for Trump yesterday is forgotten today.”
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Mark Rutte Needs to Stop Talking
Flattering Trump will get Europe nowhere.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Here’s why you shouldn’t clap when the Supreme Court refuses to let Trump rewrite the Constitution and end birthright citizenship. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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This Disappointing Term of Court
When the Supreme Court issues its decision in the birthright citizenship case, likely this week, the odds are that it will be a loss for the Trump administration.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Last month, Trump's DOJ inexplicably dropped the prosecution in the largest ($20 billion!) Iran sanctions violations case ever: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/n... Now one month later, they're bragging about how they're going to so so so sooooo prosecute Iran sanctions: www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Migrants deported from the United States by Trump "routinely disappear into El Salvador's prisons the moment they land or in the weeks that follow. Many are held incommunicado, cut off from family and lawyers for months, even years."
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Human rights groups raise alarm over fate of Salvadorans deported from U.S.
Migrants deported from the U.S. routinely disappear into El Salvador's prisons the moment they land or in the weeks that follow. Many remain incommunicado from family and lawyers for years.
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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Kash Patel is flying FBI’s $70 million Gulfstream V jet to Vegas “most weekends” where he “Drinks to excess“ at a high dollar private club ‘The Poodle Room’. At $15,000 an hour each trip cost the taxpayers $75-80,000. More if Kash stops to pick up his girlfriend in Nashville #USDemocracy #DemsUnited
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 18/04/2026
Secretary Hegseth has become emblematic of how incompetent this administration is.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
At 250 feet tall, Trump's arch would be the biggest such structure in the world. Asked last fall what this modern-day arch was meant to commemorate, Trump pointed to himself and replied, “Me.” @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Trump Thinks He’s Become Orange Jesus
In Trump 1.0, people mocked the President by calling him Orange Jesus. In Trump 2.0, he actually thinks he’s become Jesus, Susan B. Glasser writes.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The story behind the ex-Brazilian model, arrested in South Florida, who claims she has compromising material on the President and First Lady. via @jkbjournalist.bsky.social www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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Ex-model, arrested by Aventura police and deported, causes White House stir
A Brazilian brought to the U.S. on an Epstein plane at age 16 lashes out at the Trumps, saying she was betrayed by her friend Melania.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/04/2026
24 hours ago: Trump says Iran will never close Hormuz. Today: Iran closes it and fires on ships. Add in Vance celebrating defunding Ukraine—and yeah, it’s a mess. I break it all down in this week’s review 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsI_...
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"In three weeks, Blanche has made clear there is no floor he recognizes. He is all in, past Bondi, past any limiting principle." harrylitman.substack.com/p/meet-the…
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Meet the New Boss; Worse than the Old Boss
Blanche takes the DOJ to even lower depths.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/04/2026
Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security. theatln.tc/SS6krazR
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say
One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.”
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸 THIS IS WHAT AN INSURRECTION LOOKS LIKE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/04/2026
JD Vance is bragging about cutting weapons to Ukraine while cozying up to authoritarians. This isn’t America First, this is America Last. I unpack all of this in my Week In Review on my YouTube page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsI_...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Here we go. With new polls showing a Doomsday Scenario for Republicans in the midterms, Trump escalates efforts to try and steal the midterms with an unconstitutional and illegal order.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
True.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
8 million No Kings protesters Zero police officers beaten Zero police officers killed Zero feces smeared on walls.
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newshound827103.bsky.social @newshound827103.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
@maddow.bsky.social NO KINGS BOSTON 3-28-2026
NO KINGS- Boston Common 3-28-2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/03/2026
From "TOTAL EXONERATION" to "Mueller was Trump's persecutor," these guys have never told the truth about any of this. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4bG6Cxd
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MAGA’s Mueller Myths
The 7 lies that Trumpists still cling to.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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The incredible shrinking CPAC
Once the center of conservative gravity, CPAC can't get a single Trump family member to show up.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Seems about right.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Apparently, the GOP has a Nazi problem.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
According to Politico the Pentagon is planning for war with Iran through September.🤔 Our tax dollars at work for Trump and Bibi’s war of choice, enriching defense contractors (and distracting from the Epstein Files) www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Nicolas Bouchet @nickbouchet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
"The oil is beginning to flow"
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Following reports that anti-voting activists are coordinating with the White House on an emergency executive order allowing President Donald Trump to take control of voting, top Democratic lawmakers warned Trump is setting the stage to steal the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Top Democrats, voting rights experts slam Trump's draft illegal order to seize control of voting
"This is unconstitutional and insane," said Norm Eisen, the executive chair of State Democracy Defenders Fund and a former Obama administration official.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“We are at a defining moment in our nation’s history,” Spanberger said. “Virginians and Americans across the country are contending with rising costs, chaos in their communities, and a real fear of what each day might bring.”
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