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Ohio Resister. Wife, mom, Army mom, grandma, complete believer in democracy. This is not an experiment. It's who we are.💙✌️🌊🌈🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇸I don't read DM's

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
(Reuters) - Iran's missiles were not in the Memorandum of Understanding signed with the U.S. and "will never be", Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said at a joint news conference with Pakistan's prime minister in Islamabad on Tuesday. @reuters.com
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Having refused to say through multiple requests before publication, Kush Desai now says the obesity drug was not for Trump.
Kush Desai

@KushDesai47
Because this has to be spelled out for 
@LizzyLaw_
, who has proven herself to be an unserious gossip columnist, this application was not for the President.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reversing Judge Cobb, DC Circuit rules, 2-1, that Trump's expansion of "expedited removal" procedures to the max— basically to any noncitizen here illegally who can't prove 2 years' residence—is likely lawful. Walker/Rao in majority; Wilkins dissents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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#01208862854 in Make The Road New York v. Markwayne Mullin (D.C. Cir., 25-5320) – CourtListener.com
OPINION [2179963] filed (Pages: 39) for the Court by Judge Walker, in which WILKINS, J., joins as to Parts I, II and IV, and in which RAO, J., joins as to Parts I–III, IV.B, and V; OPINION CONCURRING ...
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
JD Vance “Worried” His Kids Will Become “Weird Chicken People” Vance: “They love chickens, like almost weirdly.” meidasnews.com/news/jd-vanc...
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JD Vance “Worried” His Kids Will Become “Weird Chicken People”
Vance: “They love chickens, like almost weirdly.”
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/06/2026
President Trump’s new acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, begins purging staff members at the office, a source familiar with the matter confirms to NBC News.
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Top intelligence agency begins mass firings under new Trump appointee, source says
The terminations are taking place under acting Director Bill Pulte, whom President Donald Trump tasked with downsizing the National Intelligence Director’s Office.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ken Paxton sent out a fundraising email featuring Scott Presler
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The number of people enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans has fallen by more than 5 million in the past year. That's in large part thanks to sweeping healthcare cuts from Trump's Big Ugly Bill, which has become so unpopular he's all but stopped talking about it.
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Is This Trump’s Biggest Scam Yet?
The Trump-Republican “Big Beautiful Bill” is actually a “Big Ugly Nightmare.”Much of what’s included in it will begin in
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/06/2026
Trump needed oil. Iran needed money. It was a deal built off desperation. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social looks at the president's choice to allow Iran to sell their oil to the U.S. and the wage "growth" since the Iran War began.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/06/2026
Check out the full piece:
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Thanks to Trump You Can Now Fill Your Car with Iranian Gasoline!
Hope you’re not sick and tired of all the losing—because Trump is just getting started.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/06/2026
"Public health can't effectively serve the public while excluding those of us who most directly understand its failures. When accessibility fails, people do not just struggle indefinitely. Eventually, we leave the workforce. Public health loses exactly the people it cannot replace." Great substack:
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The Infrastructure of Exclusion in Public Health: Everything is Accessibility
An experienced public health professional reckons with disability, exclusion, and the workers who pay the price when disability is treated as an afterthought.
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FreeLuigi @jamscot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It was a day of love, just a few tourists the corrupt GOP liars now say!!!
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Moriah @moriah1121.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Getting arrested for touching the water to take a paint chip as a souvenir… But attacking the Capitol and walking off with treasures was being “patriotic”, and pardoned. Damn— I’m confused!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
MacFarlane: You have a smell that's emanating now that is reminiscent of a high school locker room. You have a police force and National Guard presence that is profound. It's like a jewel heist from the muppet caper is going to happen. It seems to be a misappropriation of resources.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/06/2026
69% of Americans in a new CBS poll said the war with Iran wasn’t worth it.
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Trump Blasts NYT As ‘Treasonous’—For Iran War Criticism Shared By Many
69% of Americans in a new CBS poll said the war with Iran wasn’t worth it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/06/2026
I’m old enough to remember that Obama didn’t have to give Iran $330bn in unfrozen assets, lifted sanctions, and a wealth fund in order to get them to agree to nuclear inspectors.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“He can’t even win a war against algae” 🤣
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“.. Since the end of the Great Recession in 2009, only the top 0.1% of U.S. households have seen their wealth increase--from about $5.8 trillion to $25.1 trillion in the first quarter of 2026.” - Schwab
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The President just made thousands of stock trades — and then he turned around and made decisions that shifted those companies’ bottom lines. It's corrupt, and we need to end it.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 23/06/2026
A demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer outside a Texas immigration center last July 4 was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison Tuesday, while other protesters accused of having links to antifa were given multiple decades in federal prison. to.pbs.org/4eBX6wK
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8 convicted of terrorism charges in Texas immigration center shooting sentenced to decades in prison
One demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer during a protest outside a Texas immigration center July 4 has been sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.
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jaguarr 🐆 @the-jaguarr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yup. bsky.app/profile/the-...
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NC Cranky Crone @crankycrone1.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not paywalled www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ransom note claimed Nancy Guthrie died after abduction
The note from the possible kidnappers reportedly stated that they did not mean for her to die and included an apology to the family.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If your 80-year-old grandpa was insisting that the reason the backyard pool has algae in it is because terrorists are trying to make him look bad and demanding the police arrest somebody, you'd put him in a senior care facility before the end of the day.
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jaguarr 🐆 @the-jaguarr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Release the Trumpstein Files!
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/06/2026
Trump has agreed to let Iran sell oil... to 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social looks at this oil deal and how America benefits from the deal.
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Thanks to Trump You Can Now Fill Your Car with Iranian Gasoline!
Hope you’re not sick and tired of all the losing—because Trump is just getting started.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Bc people are taking Trump's threat to sue ABC seriously (he may!!), here's his complaint about the discovery BBC is demanding in THAT lawsuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
All Documents and Communications Concerning Your claim that you did not explicitly or
implicitly call for violent action on January 6, 2021.
• All Documents and Communications that You provided to the U.S. House Select
Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
• All Documents and Communications Concerning the events of January 6, 2021 that You
provided to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.
• All Documents and Communications Concerning the events of January 6, 2021 that You
provided to Special Counsel Jack Smith.
• All Documents and Communications Concerning the events of January 6, 2021 that You
provided to any other federal, state, or local agency or official.
• All of Your telephone call logs from November 3, 2020 to January 20, 2021.
• All of Your calendars, schedules, and daily diaries from November 3, 2020 to January 20,
2021.
• All Documents and Communications Concerning the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6,
2021 and the speeches given at that event, including Your speech. For the avoidance of
doubt, this includes planning the “Stop the Steal” rally and Your speech, and includes all
Communications with any of the following persons: Stephen Bannon; Christina Bobb;
Jeffrey Clark; John Eastman; Boris Epshteyn; Michael Flynn; Rudy Giuliani; Preston
Haliburton; Bernard Kerik; William Ligon; Ed McBroom; Stephen Miller; Russell
Ramsland; Roger Stone; Phil Waldron; and Kelli Ward, as well as all drafts of Your
January 6, 2021 speech and all Communications about those drafts
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump's AG Todd Blanche: Fraudsters can no longer rip off American taxpayers.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I tried to explain why I don't think people are worried enough about the MN Antifa indictment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviF...
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DOJ Invents Conspiracies Out of Some Dents in a Car
YouTube video by emptywheel
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House Democrats @housedemocrats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Not a SINGLE bill on the floor this week will lower Americans’ costs.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/06/2026
A study on Covid vaccines that the CDC's acting director blocked from publication has been published in a different journal.
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Covid vaccine study the acting CDC director blocked is published in an outside journal
The findings suggest that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness last fall and winter.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Apparently Iran has much more sophisticated weapons than Trump's military experts accounted for ... and is using them to shoot down American pilots. www.cnn.com/2026/06/23/p...
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Exclusive: Downed US pilot reported seeing Iranian drones swarm in ‘jellyfish’ formation | CNN Politics
A US fighter jet pilot rescued by special forces after being shot down over Iran in April described a shocking sight before ejecting from his aircraft: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, mov...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
BOOCKVAR: “.. Most worrying was the further fall in employment .. Factory job cuts are running at the highest since 2009 if the pandemic is excluded, reflecting concerns over the sustainability of the recent upturn in demand ..” peterboockvar.substack.com/p/manufactur...
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
47 chose his unqualified shyster pal to do the pool so he could bilk us, it backfired, ruined an historic landmark, and now "someone vandalized the pool with a knife" is what caused it to turn green? Okay, then, believers. Don't forget to buy your swampland on the way out
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 23/06/2026
It's primary day in Maryland, Utah, South Carolina & NEW YORK!!! Get it done! VOTE!!!
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/06/2026
With America's 250th anniversary fast approaching, @joshuamzeitz.bsky.social revisits Gordon Wood's book, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 which argues the social and cultural revolution in the aftermath transformed America as we know it.
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Still Radical, Still American
Gordon Wood chronicled America’s rambunctious democratic culture. It’s giving way to a new deference to authority.
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hey boss, I'm going to need a raise. My wife just gave birth to six kids.
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Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
God, I sure love New Jersey !
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Anti Neoliberalism @antineoliberalism.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#DataCenters You know what to do.
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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Good morning. Sea otter mama dining on a clam while her pup floats like a cork nearby. Took the shot on the central coast. 🦦🌿🦑
Mama sea otter floating on her back dining on a clam while her pup floats nearby.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A shoebill actually landed on their boat: a real wild experience. Original post
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The growing wave of progressive populists understand that raising taxes on billionaires is overwhelmingly popular — 77% of voters support doing so, including 71% of Independents and 65% of Republicans.
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Taxing Billionaires Is the Easiest Way Democrats Could Gain Voter Trust
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....
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Lisa @mamabear64.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Mike Johnson hopes you’ll forget this. #politics #affordability #economy
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
“.. The efforts show the blurring of the lines between public service and private profit-seeking ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
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Marcy @deadheadgirly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Just checking in to see if all those men so concerned about "fairness in sports" have lobbied the NCAA to ensure that travel/facilities/accommodations for female athletes are equal to their male counterparts. 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗 (ᶦᵗ ʷᵃˢ ⁿᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵃᵇᵒᵘᵗ ᶠᵃᶦʳⁿᵉˢˢ)
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23/06/2026
One way to help the wealth gap and budget deficits: means testing social security
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Politico @politico.com · 22/06/2026
As voters get increasingly upset over the cost of living, a rising populist tide threatens New York’s powerful incumbents.
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A rising populist tide is threatening New York’s powerful incumbents
Voters are increasingly upset over the cost of living, turning to candidates with scant political experience.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Anytime any respectable journalist mentions our two chief negotiators with Iran, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, they should note both receive sizeable paychecks from Middle Eastern nations with deep equities in these talks. It is a fundamental corruption.
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KimGen❌️ @kaw68.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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wow 😲 Bruce Springsteen ❤️ blessed me to 💬🤔 about the good times 😊✨💥
YouTube video by Yahuah voice for the Chosen Prophet Seer
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@redriverdog @redriverdog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Thomas Massie..Even though I don't agree with everything he does I respect his willingness to stand up and speak the truth.
Tweet by Thomas Massie
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