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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The implosion of the GOP is only beginning. And it will accelerate. But we can't just sit by and idly watch. We need to keep pushing for accountability—and ultimately for impeachment and removal of the president and his cabinet (of which the vice president is a member).
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And ONE REASON why Trump is lying about what he was briefed is bc if you look at what Swanson was saying in the weeks before the war -- that is, if you look at the advice Trump WOULD have gotten had Loomer not purged him -- you can see how much better off we'd be. emptywheel.net/2026/04/25/t...
It is easy to see why Trump would believe that the warnings about another attack on Iran are overwrought and that he can repeat his formula of decisive action and a clean exit. But this time is different. I spent 18 years working on Iran in various U.S. government capacities, including as President Joe Biden’s Iran director and on Trump’s negotiating team in the spring and summer of 2025. From that experience, I can see that Trump fundamentally fails to grasp that Iranian weakness will not lead the country to capitulate at the negotiating table. On the contrary, Iran’s present fragility only narrows the space for meaningful compromises. Nor does Trump understand that Iran faces entirely different conditions than it did in June 2025, when it chose to de-escalate. The Islamic Republic now believes that Israel and the United States intend to repeatedly strike its ballistic missile program—the foundation of Iranian self-defense—and that it must be more aggressive to forestall the kind of perpetual assault that could topple it altogether.

Trump’s own behavior also increases the risk of escalation. The president’s ever-intensifying wish to be seen as a historic peacemaker has led him to an unnecessarily binary choice—strong-arm Tehran into a major new deal or use substantial force. And the nebulousness of his motives makes this flash point much more dangerous. Trump seems interested, in no particular order, in demonstrating the prowess of the U.S. military, strengthening his negotiating position, showing he was serious when he vowed in a January Truth Social post to protect Iranian protesters, and differentiating his approach from President Barack Obama’s. This mishmash of objectives contrasts with the focus he brought to his previous successful operations and will make him less prepared if a strike does not yield the expected, swift capitulation. All told, today’s conditions mean that an attack by the United States on Iran could result in unexpectedly deadly retaliation…
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“From here out, any U.S. ally or partner has a strong interest in trying to get as little done with the United States as possible until Trump is gone…Since the end of World War II, much of the world has looked, with some grumbling, to the U.S. for leadership.” www.thebulwark.com/p/prepare-fo...
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Prepare for a Post-America World Order
It will take a long time to recover America’s credibility after Trump’s foreign policy chaos.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Because of course he did. newrepublic.com/post/210174/...
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Ear Rick @ericlars2.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I Googled crowd sizes for PGA tour events and it averages about 40,000. I know 100 people compared to 40,000 to watch golf isn't a legitimate polling metric but the 33% approval rating the MSM claims he owns seems like a juiced # when fans boycott HIS event at this scale.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 08/04/2026
Good lord. If we cede control of the strait to Iran…. And agree to REPARATIONS…. This will be the biggest humiliation in American history
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#USDemocracy #Pinks
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/05/2026
THE TIMELINE 📌 April 28: All 6 conservative justices— John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett— showed up to a white-tie dinner at the White House honoring King Charles. 📌 Next morning: The Voting Rights Act was gutted in a 6-3 decision.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A key point made by analyst Danny Citrinowicz.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Trump wakes up this morning attacking his long time supporters again.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Reagan’s OMB Director:
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11/04/2026
Elon Musk and DOGE said they were going to root out waste, fraud and abuse. But during that time, Trump's DOJ dropped OVER 900 criminal cases of fraud. For Trump and Musk, it was never about rooting out waste. It was always about corruption and power.
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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration
Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history," one of the world's top democracy researchers says in a new report. I wrote about it here for CNN: www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...
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US downgraded in democracy index as press freedom concerns grow | CNN Business
“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Here is what you need to know about the SAVE Act: 1. It started as a stunt by Mike Johnson to protect his speakership. 2. It has evolved into a massive voter suppression bill. 3. When it fails, Trump will escalate to something even more dangerous. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...
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The SAVE Act started as a political stunt. Now it's a real threat.
As we entered 2026, it became clear that Republicans were set up to lose control of Congress in the midterm elections. What followed was predictable.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Well, this aged exactly how I was afraid it would
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Clarence Thomas is in the #EpsteinFiles. A file said that he raped a 4 year old. There’s a lot of rot amongst the elite. Expose & prosecute them all.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 08/03/2026
Can you believe that with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf." — Donald Trump (Oct 2014)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Holy shit. Crude oil futures going nuts tonight.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The #BondiTop
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Food prices climb because Trump's trade policies broke supply networks. Your grocery bills display this economic chaos. Working families pay while billionaires and corporations profit from the disaster he created and Republicans in Congress enabled. #TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Sounds like Kash Patel is a co-conspirator covering up a murder.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/03/2026
Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
ABSOLUTELY AGREE 💯%.......
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Kristi Noem pushed a grotesque story about a detainee “eating himself” to justify immigration crackdowns. Now her colleagues say it was made up. If you need to invent a cannibal to sell your policy, your policy is the problem. She’s disgusting! 🤢 #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AgKzu2iUtSue...
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‘ICE Barbie’ Called Out by Feds for Pushing ‘Made Up’ Cannibal Story — The Daily Beast
Kristi Noem repeatedly cited the case of a detainee she said “started to eat himself” on a deportation flight to justify immigration crackdowns.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/02/2026
Judge Cannon claims that she *strains* to find an example where a special counsel released a report after in indictment that did not result in a finding of guilt. Here’s one off the top of my head: Sussman, who was charged and acquitted, is mentioned 311 times in Durham’s final report.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"A 3-year-old company with fewer than 5 employees is being considered for a $25 billion contract... raising red flags among investors. "The company is unknown in the nuclear industry, never completed a nuclear project and is headquartered out of a WeWork office... www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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‘Just a couple of guys’: How a little-known company could score big from a Trump trade deal
President Donald Trump's levies on automobiles and auto parts were unaffected by the Supreme Court's Friday tariff decision, likely meaning Japan will stick to its pact with the U.S.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It’s a week later but I haven’t forgotten that President Trump is trying to arrest leaders in Congress who oppose him politically. Never before in the history of the country has this happened. And we shouldn’t normalize it.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.
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I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News"
How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative
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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
A clearer picture of how the 2024 election was illegally rigged for Trump in GA is emerging. Elon Musk sends tens of thousands of prefilled absentee ballots ahead of the election, boosting Trump's early voting. Election day, Russia targets majority black precincts with bomb threats. 1/
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Our government shot & killed an American citizen during a stop last year. We’re only finding out about it now. Where’s the outrage ⁦‪from Senators Cornyn‬⁩ & ⁦‪Cruz‬⁩ ? This is their constituent. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Texas U.S. citizen was fatally shot by an immigration agent last year during a stop, new records show
The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of at least six deadly shootings by federal officers since the start of the Trump administration's nationwide immigration crackdown.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Even Fox News is telling Trump to pump the brakes on accusing SCOTUS of being controlled by foreign actors, reminding him he has other "big cases" before the court. John Yoo: "I think President Trump would be wise to no longer call the justices somehow tools of foreign influence."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/02/2026
OMG I thought this was a joke. He actually said "I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
They will face accountability one day.👇
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
By choosing not to publicly release three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser—interviews the DOJ gave Ghislaine Maxwell at trial—Trump's DOJ has allowed Maxwell to retain potential blackmail over the president. But that leverage over Trump vanishes if DOJ made them public, as law requires
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Relatedly, days before DHS released the files that revealed DHS was behind this killing, Todd Lyons boasted that ICE had opened a whopping 37 use of force investigations, when the number of incidents must be well over 400. emptywheel.net/todd-lyons-b...
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Todd Lyons Bragged of Investigations into Just 37 Use of Force Incidents Out of Hundreds - emptywheel
Todd Lyons thinks that investigating 37 incidents of excessive use of force by ICE officers is accountability. But it's really a confession.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
An uncomfortable truth: many of the crimes in the Epstein files can no longer be prosecuted. Pam Bondi, who was the Attorney General in Florida (where much of the human trafficking happened) and is now the US Attorney General, deliberately let the statute of limitations run out.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Colbert and Talarico ended up talking at length about Freedom of Religion in the interview that Brendan Carr censored. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The candidate for US Senate endorsed by Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t vote for 20 years, including the 2016 & 2020 presidential elections. apnews.com/article/dere...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"I’ve wanted Marc Elias to be wrong for seven years, or six years, for as long as he’s been coming on my show. I have wanted his warnings to be wrong, but every single one of them has been either affirmed or prescient."--Nicolle Wallace. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...
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It’s not too late for states and Congress to stop Trump from subverting the midterms
With only nine months before the midterm elections, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026
"The version of Christianity that Trump's most devout supporters embrace (and he pretends to) has no room for Christ’s actual teachings. Anyone who references Jesus’s declarations to aid the sick, poor, and vulnerable is quickly labeled a socialist and/or antifa."
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Trump is clowning his evangelical base
He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...
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"Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.
What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s…
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