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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
GOP candidate Brandon Herrera joked about shooting a Democratic voter as he taped a soda can to a metal target before blasting it with his AK-47. Reporter: “What did Dr. Pepper do to deserve this fate.” Brandon Hererra: “He voted for Obama.” 📎 youtu.be/8N_74zv0BVE
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Justice Department has withheld several Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor. It also removed documents from the public database where accusations against Epstein also mention Trump. Many files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release.
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
After pulling out of the World Health Organization, the Trump admin is proposing spending $2 billion a year to replicate the global disease surveillance and outbreak functions the U.S. once helped build and accessed at a fraction of the cost, according to three officials briefed on the proposal.
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After leaving WHO, Trump officials propose more expensive replacement to duplicate it
HHS proposes spending $2 billion a year to re-create systems the U.S. accessed through the WHO at a fraction of the cost, according to officials briefed on the matter.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
Screenshot from STAT article that says


"What we're going to have is a real-world experience of when unvaccinated people get measles," he said. "What is the new incidence of hospitalization? What's the incidence of death?"
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 25/12/2025
An old thread is making the rounds again, so here's an updated version. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is one of the most enduring and adapted works of literature in history. But did you know that he wrote 22 sequels? Some are great! Some are trash! Some are bizarrely fascinating.
An old timey illustration from The Chimes, showing a frightened old men surrounded by goblins. The caption reads "What Trotty saw in the belfry"
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:
Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the
Department's operational status.
Thank you.Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.
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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2025
Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"To meet his mass deportation goals, Trump is stripping legal status from thousands of immigrants who followed the rules." Another act of profound cruelty from Trump, Stephen Miller, and the crew. Read Isabela Dias' new article on this travesty. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented
Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.
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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025
Working like that screams he doesn’t have confidence in anyone else doing their job so he demands oversight and control. It never really says what they think it will. I never see it as driven or loving their job. It’s just at the edge of a mental illness I don’t know how to define.
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 28/09/2024
This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.
Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/07/2025
you have to be kidding me
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
"The Ghor are waging insurrection against the Empire"
Empire reporter at Ghorman
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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Well this seems like a pretty huge fucking admission of racial profiling that will be ignored by the mainstream media
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
That there’s a police state.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
There’s a Hindi phrase (usually said by dads) for when someone leaves the lights on that translates to “Is it Diwali again?” A French version is “We’re not in Versailles!” But my favourite version, by far, is the Serbian “Was your grandpa Nikola Tesla?”
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Avi Zevin @azevin.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
not to be the flyspeck nyt copy as if it's the most important thing guy, but seriously wtf is this?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I’m starting to suspect that the president might not be in charge of his administration, but we’ll have to wait four years for Jake Tapper to look into it I guess?
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I don't understand. God's hand saved hundreds, but it missed saving scores of others, including children. Why didn't God do a better job? And can't we just get Him/Her/They to stop extreme weather events caused by climate change?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview. Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.
Cynthia Olivera is a Canadian who’s been living in the US since she was 10

She’s in ICE custody, after being grabbed at her green card interview.

The 45 year old wife & mother has been moved between facilities while her husband begs ICE to let her get on a plane to Canada. 🧵

They’re willing to pay. She’s willing to leave. But she can’t escape. 

This is why we call them concentration camps. 

There’s no due process. Some people go in and never come out.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Siri, show me what it looks like when an authoritarian party that campaigned on turning the country into an ethno-police-state ordained by God controls all three branches of government.
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The little bars show what we spend to protect our American homeland against all forms of terrorism, drugs, gangs, organized crime, child exploitation, and foreign espionage.
The big bar is what we will now spend to deport migrants, most of whom will have no criminal record.
Immigration and Border Enforcement Swamps All Other Law Enforcement Spending
FY 2025 Federal Law Enforcement Appropriations
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IRS-DT
ATF
DHS
DOJ
DEA
Secret Service
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Glad that our watchful authorities are keeping us safe from (squints) ... czech clarinetists
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 02/07/2025
Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Where it starts is never where it starts. The news that DOJ is prioritizing denaturalizations, combined with very vague explanations of who they will prioritize, is deeply concerning. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Before states banned abortion, one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage could easily be avoided: Doctors could offer a dilation and curettage procedure, which quickly empties the uterus and allows it to close, protecting against a life-threatening hemorrhage.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I’m just a simple country political scientist but where I come from if your country has a secret police force that can give orders to members of the national legislature that’s…what’s the right word…bad.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2025
NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I know I’ve said this several dozen times, but right wing lunatics frankensteined together unrelated Bible verses to create “the antichrist” and a description of what he would look like, and then the guy fucking showed up and they love him.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 27/06/2025
Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.
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ciara ✨️ @rhiannon-comma.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I think about this movie a lot.
The scene from It's A Wonderful Life Where Joseph and Clarence are talking about George Bailey. 

"A man down on Earth needs our help."

"Is he sick?"

"No, worse. He's discouraged."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It’s a relatively small thing, but by not using the all-caps it fails to communicate how unhinged our president is.
Washington Post: 28 minutes ago
By Andrew Jeong
Reporter at the Seoul hub
President Donald Trump said the ceasefire between Israel and Iran was now in effect, in a social media post at 1:08 a.m. Tuesday. "Please do not violate it," he wrote.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This goes hard, but the metaphor is on point
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
So according to ICE, there was a pack of armed masked men *pretending* to be them at Dodger Stadium? Uh ....
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Dave Calder @ldsfn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
LDS church owned Deseret News 👀
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/06/2025
Sotomayor blows the idea that discrimination against gender dysphoria is not discrimination against transgender status out of the water:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2025
HIRONO: If a court says this deployment of troops into our cities is not legal, would you follow that court's order? HEGSETH: I don't believe district courts should be determining national security policy. If it goes to the Supreme Court, we'll see.
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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Trump not offering condolences, however insincere, for the victims of the Minnesota shootings is one of the most vile and disgusting things a US President has done in decades
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
mood
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Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Book of the New Sun.
A poster design based on Gene Wolfe's classic Sci-Fi novel, The Book of the New Sun. A figure in a mask is wielding an executioner's sword in one hand and a gem in the other-- his head is crowned by a halo representing the sun. Jungle plants are behind him, as are other characters from the story.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2025
Kristi Noem: "In LA, what we're been going after is the worst of the worst. They're murderers." (They literally raided a Home Depot.)
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