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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 14/09/2026
RFK Jr. mocked vaccinations in Lancaster County. Now two are dead of measles, and Pennsylvania’s outbreak is spreading.
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Amish Country Is Seeing a Major Measles Outbreak. RFK Jr. Is Making It Worse.
RFK Jr. mocked vaccinations in Lancaster County. Now two are dead of measles, and Pennsylvania’s outbreak is spreading.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
WOW. The ex-wife of the ICE officer who shot a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine has come forward to say that he had mental health issues and was abusive in their relationship. She says after the shooting he called asking her to vouch for him — instead, she went to the press.
Ashley Brouillette told the Portland Press Herald in a phone interview Thursday afternoon that her ex-husband called admitting to the shooting and defending his actions. The Press Herald reviewed a screenshot of incoming calls Ashley Brouillette received from her ex-husband’s current wife’s Facebook account on Wednesday.

“He was asking me to lie for him and to cover for his character,” Ashley Brouillette said. “I told him that I was not going to lie for him. And then he tried to say that it was a justified shooting because the guy tried to hit him with his car.”

She said she has seen videos of Brouillette on the scene of the shooting and confirmed that was him on scene, telling him: “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

“In his head it’s justified. He’s unusually calm about it,” she said.Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship. She said that she’s been inundated with calls, since reports of Brouillette’s involvement began circulating online, threatening her and her family.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 10/07/2026
With each of these killings by ICE, the administration is telling us: they decide who is worthy of citizenship, they decide whose lives have value.
newrepublic.com
ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Like a dung beetle’s ball rolling down a hill, the reflecting pool keeps picking up more layers. Incompetence, antiscience, corrupt contracting, and now now the self-protective police state and sabotage conspiracy theories.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 19/06/2026
The NYT photo is from 2002. If you’re wondering “Has this guy been turning more into Paul Bearer since then” you better believe the answer is yes
Patriot Takes post (https://x.com/patriottakes/status/2007259008336318819) of the Cafaro guy who did the reflecting pool dye job and a mean looking lady at Mar A Lago. Cafaro is in a red velvet suit with a worse dye job than the reflecting pool and a cigar that somehow looks photoshopped into reality
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
should i go out there and get pieces to sell on ebay
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you can safely attend a game at Madison Square Garden, you don’t need a ballroom.
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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 07/06/2026
Bari Weiss tried to get “60 Minutes” to make Minneapolis protestors look more violent, AFTER the Feds killed two of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m... (Gift link)
From the NY Times interview with Scott Pelley: You've now accused Weiss of injecting "falsehoods and bias" into at least one of your politically sensitive stories. What did she specifically ask for? What story? That's February, and my team and I are doing a story about the protests in Minneapolis against the ICE crackdown there. We've interviewed Senator Rand Paul, Republican, because he's going to hold hearings into this, and the
fact that a Republican was going to do that was quite newsworthy. So, we interviewed Senator Paul and then built out a story about what had happened — the killing of Renee Good, the killing of Alex Pretti, the protests. I felt it was very important to identify that the protesters themselves were being very aggressive and that they were half of these confrontations, and so I instructed my producers
to find images in which we see the protesters acting aggressively. We found a picture of a protester chest-bumping an officer. We
found a picture of an officer being hit in the head with a snowball. We culled together a lot of video of protesters screaming in the faces of officers because we were going to talk about the killing of Pretti and the killing of Good, and it seemed to me important to tell the audience about the entire context. I thought we'd done a really good job with this. We also included a picture of Alex Pretti before he was killed kicking out a taillight on a police car and made a point
of saying, this is Alex Pretti and this is what he did.So, the story goes through screenings. It's very well received. There are notes as always and we do rewrites as always. But this is on a very tight deadline. It's Sunday; we're going on the air that night. And in the case of stories that are, as we say, crashing, our deadline on Sunday is noon. So, we work on all of these things. We get the piece approved by everyone. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I'm paraphrasing. I don't have the quote, but that's what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee
Good's car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer. This is not what you see on the video. On the video, you see the officer standing slightly off the front of the car. And you clearly see Ms. Good's wheels turned completely as far as they will go, away from the officer. But he shoots her in the head, kills her, and says
something about her that I can't repeat in polite company. We have gone out of our way in our plan from the very beginning to show the protesters for the responsibility that they had. We had
already scrubbed the video archives, looking for those scenes. Somehow that wasn't enough for Ms. Weiss. The video showed that the officer wasn't standing in front of the car and she wasn't driving toward him, but that's what the president said about that,
and that's the way she wanted it described.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Free Speech Champion(tm) Bari Weiss demanding CBS News smear an American executed by her government for protesting bsky.app/profile/elio...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
What the actual hell
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
In 2024, Bill Pulte, the acting Director of National Intelligence received a trophy declaring he “fu¢ks only the young” at a bizarre event focused on dildos. He organized this to promote his conspiracy theory that Bed Bath & Beyond never actually went bankrupt. Only the best people, amirite?
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Forbes @forbes.com · 03/06/2026
Former Rep. George Santos repeatedly claimed in posts on X he would attend the State of the Union address, only to miss the event and place a bet on Kalshi that he would skip it.
forbes.com
George Santos Under Investigation Over Kalshi Bet On His Own State Of The Union Attendance
Former Rep. George Santos repeatedly claimed in posts on X he would attend the State of the Union address, only to miss the event and place a bet on Kalshi that he would skip it.
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 24/05/2026
Water this dirty should never be treated like a secret. Texans have the right to speak up when something looks wrong in their community without fearing intimidation or arrest. We need clean water, transparency, and leaders willing to stand with people over the Greedy Few.
A graphic featuring a screenshot of a bathtub filled with murky brown water covered in patches of white foam. At the top is a headline from The Dallas Morning News that reads: “North Texas woman sues town after arrest over Facebook post about water quality.” The image highlights concerns about contaminated or unsafe water conditions.
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Jim Acosta just trashed Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld for gloating over a photo of the staff of Colbert Show - dozens of people. "You are celebrating the fact that all of these people are losing their jobs. All because your dear leader can’t take a joke. Seriously, wtf is wrong with you,"...
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Rick Paisano @sicilianrick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admitted that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from the Epstein files release. DEATH? The truth is probably far worse than anyone can imagine. Blanche needs to be prosecuted as well.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/05/2026
NEW: You've asked for the text of my $8.647 million dollar claim to Todd Blanche pursuant to the $1.7B slush fund so you can write your own. Here it is: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ive-fi...
muellershewrote.com
NEW: I've Filed a Claim with Todd Blanche's $1.776B Slush Fund. I'm Seeking $8.647 Million in Damages
I posted my claim on social media and have received tons of requests for the template.
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M.K.McDaniels @mkmcdaniels.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I can't believe the people of this country are allowing him to get away with this nonsense.
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Parente said during the grand jury sessions, prosecutors used vouching, which he called a "101 no-no for any prosecutor," kicked out grand jury members who disagreed with them, did not disclose that a No True Bill – which indicates no indictment – had been returned to either the defense or the public. Parente also said that after receiving the No True Bill from one grand jury, they re-presented their case after excluding grand jurors who disagreed with them. The grand jury then returned a True Bill to indict the "Broadview Six."

Parente also said that while Judge Perry thought only 30 lines in the transcript had been redacted, prosecutors actually left out entire pages and never informed her.
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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Let that sink in…🤔 #ReleasetheEpsteinFiles #Epsteinvictims #justice #womensrights
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, 412 women have been arrested for pregnancy-related prosecutions. Since the Epstein files were released, there have been ZERO arrests.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...
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I. Antifa @lion-mane101.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/04/2026
I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/04/2026
Do it Hungary. Couch that mfer.
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🇺🇸🇨🇿🇺🇦⚫ @czeckmate2024.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Senator Ron Wyden is one of the more restrained members of the Senate who carefully chooses his words. I’ve never seen him angry. When RON WYDEN says this, LISTEN:
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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Just remember, your homeowners insurance dies not cover acts of War. If we are attacked, civilians, we will face a total loss.
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NurseQ AntiFascist: boycott big businesses @nursequixote.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
ICE & NOEM LIED minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/06/n...
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Newly released surveillance footage of Jan. 14 ICE shooting contradicts agent's account • Minnesota Reformer
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis in north Minneapolis in January told the FBI that by the time he opened fire, he had been “fighting an...
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Gus Moyer (梅子超) @gusmoyer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Shared 👇comment: 😉 48 of Nixon's cabinet went to prison over Watergate..... #tRumpAdministration
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/03/2026
If you think No Kings is too vague or insufficiently radical, I sincerely encourage you to go to your local No Kings rally tomorrow and hand out flyers/zines to recruit folks to your org/cause. It's a perfect recruitment event! Thousands of people eager to DO STUFF! Get out there!
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/03/2026
they hate you, personally
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
When I say that large swaths of public life are now cut off for me, I mean it
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
As a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, 2 Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republican of Vietnam Cross of Valor, and numerous other medals.
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Linda Patch 💙🌊🐶 @lindapatch.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The wrong one died.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/03/2026
The wrong guy died today.
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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an emergency situation sign with a red light on it
ALT: an emergency situation sign with a red light on it
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
About ten minutes after he said this, Iran hit an F-35 with anti-aircraft defenses.
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monique @thejournalista.com · 17/03/2026
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal was taking his children to school on Friday morning when eight masked ICE agents detained him. He Saturday.
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Afghan Man Who Served As US Military Ally Dies In ICE Custody 1 Day After Arrest
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal was taking his children to school on Friday morning when eight masked ICE agents detained him. He Saturday.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours. Betrayed and murdered by the United States government. 42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Afghan man dies in ICE custody Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal was legally evacuated out of Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul and had served with US forces for ten years. He leaves behind six children, one of whom is a US citizen.
independent.co.uk
Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record
Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/03/2026
Breaking News: A lobbyist whose client was pardoned by President Trump was arrested by the FBI and charged with attempted extortion. Court documents strongly suggested that the targets of his threats included the client Trump had pardoned.
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Lobbyist Arrested in Extortion Attempt of Client Who Received a Trump Pardon
Josh Nass, a lawyer and lobbyist, had recently represented Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home executive pardoned by the president late last year.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions. Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.
washingtonpost.com
Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions, Pentagon estimates
The figure, accounting for the war’s first two days, is likely to intensify concerns in Congress that U.S. forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
No he's not
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/03/2026
i am hearing that any draft would only involve verified bluesky users
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sp-fxx.bsky.social @sp-fxx.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Five and a half decades ago Frank Zappa predicted the likes of Noem, Loomer, Leavitt and their ilk in the song Plastic People. youtu.be/oITN5JPSiWI?...
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Plastic People
YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Don't let up!!! #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Boebert: Have you reviewed any Epstein files that were released that you believe reference or relate to those specific 2016 claims regarding the Podesta emails Comet ping pong pizza used as code possibly. Clinton: Pizzagate was totally made up. I can't believe you're even referencing it
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Just a Cog @eclecticlynn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Today is a good day to read the Afghistan Papers. Nothing changes.
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Buffalo Temple of Music, Sports, and Whatever @sethfromthe716.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Trump has not been exonerated of a fucking thing. He just tampers, obstructs, denies, projects, and lies to pretend he's not one of the biggest criminals history has ever seen.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"More than 200 employees from Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter stating their solidarity with Anthropic in limiting the use of advanced AI for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous warfare."
axios.com
Google, OpenAI employees call for unified front on military use
Tech workers call for their companies to stand with Anthropic in opposition to domestic surveillance and autonomous warfare.
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