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Jennifer Lindquist

@desert-walker.bsky.social
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 16h
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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 27/09/2026
Vote! Pres. Carter was right: "Our American democracy is not a luxury, but a necessity — not the salt in our bread but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion.” President Jimmy Carter, farewell address, Jan. 14, 1981
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
Q: Mr President, did you call on President Xi to stop buying oil from Iran? TRUMP: ... Q: What about guardrails on AI? TRUMP: ... Q: Why are you banning media outlets? TRUMP: ... Q: Should US taxpayers pay for ads about you? TRUMP: *walks away*
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...
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Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold
Minnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields.
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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 13/09/2026
I spend a lot of time at Section 60 in Arlington, visiting friends I lost in Iraq. Now Trump wants an ugly arch within view of that sacred ground. This isn't about liking the guy. It's January 6th. It's the DOJ. It's putting his name on the Kennedy Center. None of it earns a monument.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/09/2026
Nothing says “the economy is working” like screaming at the person who asks why you’re mailing everyone money.
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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
HISTORY: diesel has crossed $6/gal nationally for the first time ever, according to live GasBuddy data. every truck, every delivery, every package, every grocery run just got more expensive. the cost of moving everything in america just hit a record. Statement⬇️ (9/10/26, 3p CT)
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It seems that nobody when talking to these ghouls follows up with "eighteen months ago Iran didn't have a nuclear weapon. A year ago President Trump said he completely obliterated Iran's nuclear arms capacity. Six months ago he said he super-ultra-obliterated Iran's nuclear arms capacity. So...?"
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Jennifer Lindquist @desert-walker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Musk’s open attempt to buy elections for the Republicans should be bigger news, not only because of the political power his money has given to one man, but also because of what his behavior says about the MAGA administration’s ideology and its goals heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 8, 2026
On Sunday, Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternativ für Deutschland, or AfD) party won 43.8% of the vote in a legislative election in the small state of Saxony-Anhalt, formerly part of ...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Rice: The world is looking at this and seeing the United States and Israel throwing the military kitchen sink at Iran and failing. So it’s more than the lies and the bluster and the memes and the threats. It’s the real perception of a weakened American deterrence…
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I assume what AP means is: "Lies about noncitizen voting are being used by Trump to attack elections his party is set to lose and to set up an authoritarian effort to overturn the results" If so, they should just say that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/08/2026
This should be setting off alarm bells. Service members trying to leave the military on moral grounds have surged to SIX TIMES the normal rate since Trump’s war with Iran began in February.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That's not how executive orders work and that's not how naming things work and this isn't how political reporting should work either. This event should be covered, yes, but as another sign of the president's steady descent into complete ineffectiveness and utter insanity.
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Trump is charging $100,000 for early access to his own posts on Truth Social. Posts that move markets. At least 10 companies already paid up. That’s insider trading with a subscription fee. Don the Con rakes in more while Americans suffer. #TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS
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Jane Voter @janevoter2018.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you live in a state with wild horses, tell your governor to be like AZ Governor Katie Hobbs & shut down the wild horse slaughter pipeline. Also AZ, Katie Hobbs is a keeper. Get ready to vote for her again in 70 days! She is a fearless fighter for AZ!
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
"“The modern digital environment trains kids to expect everything to be summarized into a 280-character tweet or a short-form video clip,” Mr. Chen said in a message. His goal was to make sure his children “know how to do things the slow, hard way.”"
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
"Phones are banned at the Waldorf School of the Peninsula, two miles from Google’s headquarters. “No phones means no distraction, no social media anxiety, and no constant comparison. Just real childhood,” the school explains. Waldorf’s price for a real childhood: as much as $47,500 a year."
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Are we going to drop bombs on the bond traders? Video: buff.ly/uzdPmTh
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Jennifer Lindquist @desert-walker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“…airports in Colorado, Texas and Arizona have told TIME that ICE agents have become a recurring presence in recent weeks. With protocols for handling such encounters unclear or inconsistently applied” time.com/article/2026...
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ICE Is Asking Gate Agents To Help Arrest Passengers. Some Are Pushing Back
An airline manager warned a passenger that ICE agents were waiting at her gate, helping her avoid a possible arrest.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/08/2026
One of the things I hate the most about tariffs is that we knew they were illegal, and when the court finally decided they were illegal, they forced Trump to refund the tariffs. But the refunds went to the corporations, and not the people the corporations raised prices on. What a scam.
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saint-timonious.bsky.social @saint-timonious.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Loyal Losers is good shorthand for: "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." Hannah Arendt
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
BOSTON…😕 ✈️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Trump/Republican agenda in one chart 👇🏽
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Madison @madison8.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🧵 1/? Then ALL Presidents that have restored the Kennedy Center should have their names on the building. * Lyndon B. Johnson broke ground for the Kennedy Center in December 1965. The building opened in 1971, after Johnson left office, so he was responsible for getting the project underway.
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Mark Zandi @markzandi.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The job market is struggling — and not just for foreign-born workers. Native-born workers are having a tough go of it, too. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, according to proponents of stiffer immigration policy. Fewer immigrant workers meant more jobs and higher wages for the native-born.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The lede of this story says Trump might be willing to walk away from Iran without a nuclear deal if it reopens Hormuz, which to me sounds like trading an Iranian nuclear weapon for recognizing Iranian sovereignty over the strait.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 30/07/2026
Albanians don’t want their islands sold off to Trump and Kushner ft.trib.al/V7JQvGO | opinion
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Albanians don’t want their islands sold off to Trump and Kushner
Ivanka and Jared won’t let snakes, landmines or the region’s tortured past get in the way of Balkan real estate deals
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 26/07/2026
A good design decision to put the domestic money at the bottom, so you can see that it — putatively Trump’s real business genius — barely moved at all.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]
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Jennifer Lindquist @desert-walker.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“The 301s allow a permanent tariff without going to Congress to settle the dispute…The president doesn’t want to knock on the front door of Congress, so he’s trying every side door and every unlatched window to get in.” ~ Barry Appleton open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 26, 2026
From the time he took office in January 2025, Trump and his cronies have not simply challenged laws or constitutional provisions.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/07/2026
Please, Arizona, defeat Trump’s election deniers at the midterms. #BlueWaveIn100Days
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Jennifer Lindquist @desert-walker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Grifting all the way
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 26/07/2026
NUCLEAR CASH President Trump, his family and his circle of advisers have monetized crypto, the predictions markets, the data center boom & rare-earths mining. Now they are seeing there's money to be made in a new vector: The nuclear industry. The NYT takes a look www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
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Trump Is Pushing Nuclear Energy, Including Saudi Deal. His Family and Supporters Could Benefit. (Gift Article)
In some cases, no direct line can be drawn from the president’s domestic nuclear agenda to his family or close allies. But they have overlapping business ties that could position them for gains.
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Jennifer Lindquist @desert-walker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“What is at stake is more than just buildings. It is the whitewashing and bulldozing of our history and culture, created over centuries by the many people who have built the United States…” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 25, 2026
It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Amen. If you go into the archives looking to confirm a hunch, you'll likely find some random bit of evidence that fits. This is why "originalism" is considered a joke by actual historians. Finding one quote from one member of the founding generation who agrees with your hot take is pretty easy!
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Jennifer Lindquist @desert-walker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“The recent diarrhea debacle …” www.wired.com/story/diarrh...
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Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Who forgot to tell Mr. al-Houthi that we do ceasefires on Mondays. Fridays are for escalations.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 17/07/2026
Government officials who declare that dissent deserves “bloodshed” are poisoning the democratic institutions that Americans cherish, endangering our rule of law, and thus bringing incalculable harm to all Conservatives and all Liberals.
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Critical Thought Is Powerful 🤔 @logicallyspeaking.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
So lifetime appointments of unaccountable radical justices legislating from the bench to overturn decades of precedent for gains in bodily autonomy, voting rights, environmental & consumer protections, & established independence of our gov't agencies are just inconvenient reuslts of a gamed system?
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's extremely annoying how this wound up being both a huge regressive tax on actual Americans and a huge deficit financed election year stimulus for corporations simultaneously
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Simple question: If Democrats could somehow cheat Trump out of reelection in 2020 when he was President, why didn't they cheat him out of winning in 2024 when they were in charge of everything? It doesn't make the least bit of sense.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“.. The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and Justice Department policies, the people said, adding that the couple was escorted out of their office ..” @ms.now www.ms.now/news/fbi-kas...
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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Commander in Thief.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Compelled speech is not free speech. Story: buff.ly/RusuUOq
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Jennifer Lindquist @desert-walker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“And what we've got is a full court attack on fundamental principles of constitutional law, of judicial precedent, of long-standing norms and interpretation.” newsletters.democracydocket.com/my-conversat...
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My conversation with Secretary Hillary Clinton
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makemlivunderlibs.bsky.social @makemlivunderlibs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Congress was gonna ban individual stock trading for members of Congress, but they also wanted the ban to apply to Trump, Vance, and cabinet members. But Trump said he’d veto any bill that banned his ability to trade stocks while in office, so Republicans got scared and the bill died. Behold:
Trump made so so so so many trades
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