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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after workers poured hydrogen peroxide into the water in an effort to reduce algae blooms. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.

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Ella Mc @ecmccrystle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

@nicollewallace.bsky.social @deadlinewh.bsky.social @ms.now Got through almost a whole episode again today until 1 min left; I learned the outcome of the Dem Primary in TX. Are you trying to make Nicolle's show unpopular? Interestingly nobody from her show seems to care either.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 29/05/2026

This isn’t being talked about enough: The Trump Organization is apparently involved in developing the Trump presidential library—adding yet another avenue for influence-seeking and corruption. It’s far from the only concern.🧵

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Ella Mc @ecmccrystle.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@deadlinewh.bsky.social I get this as a subscriber on my (hated, but kept to avoid ads, iPhone.) Yesterday 0 hours. Today confusion. @nicollewallace.bsky.social seemed so behind, despite that timestamp. On my free android app AND on paid Apple pods, nobody knows the time or date @ms.now ?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The administrative time crunch issue is real but not insurmountable, if there was the political will. For one thing, you can update the system with the new map in parallel and then switch or not as needed. It sounds more like a convenient excuse for lacking the political will to nuke the court.

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Ella Mc @ecmccrystle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Dems cowed into doing nothing while all over the country the GOP imposes their will on the people. #VADems want you to vote harder w/ your suppressed vote. Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won’t Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats newrepublic.com/article/2102... via @newrepublic.com

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Trump Wins Big as Virginia Dems Won’t Go Nuclear to Save 4 House Seats

The state’s Democrats have decided against forcing resignations on the state Supreme Court to preserve their redistricting. Funny how Republicans always find a way, and Democrats don’t.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/05/2026

"The way I always describe it is that it’s like a bomb going off in that there’s the immediate impact, but then there's always sort of the lingering side effects on the folks that remain." @jcollins.bsky.social reports on the continued impact of Operation Metro Surge inside the Twin Cities. #ICYMI

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‘The damage was already done’: Minnesota immigrant families struggle after ICE deportations

The most recent data shows that about half of the 3,700 immigrants detained by federal agents during the ICE surge have been deported. Many detainees left behind families that depended on them, who ar...

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Ella Mc @ecmccrystle.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

@thebulwark.com Did I miss the Bulwark's take on 'Lil Marco's opening ad? It's got Reagan and everything! Please 🙏

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 08/05/2026

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

1. **Job Growth Slows, Sowing a Mix of Concern and Calm**
- U.S. employers added 150,000 workers in October, falling short of expectations, but the labor market remains spark nearly three years into a recovery.
- By Talmon Joseph Smith
- Nov 3, 2023

2. **U.S. Job Growth Remains Strong Despite Economic Clouds**
- Employers added 339,000 workers in May, the Labor Department said, though the report also offered signs of shakiness.
- By Sydney Ember
- June 2, 2023

3. **Against the Odds, the U.S. Economy Chugs Along, as Fears Linger**
- Hiring slowed last month, a sign that the Federal Reserve's inflation-fighting campaign is taking hold. But with rising wages and low unemployment, the labor market remains resilient.
- By Talmon Joseph Smith
- July 7, 2023

4. **Job Market Slows Significantly, Raising Economic Jitters**
- U.S. employers added 144,000 jobs in July, far short of forecasts, and unemployment rose to 4.3 percent, the highest level since 2021.
- By Sydney Ember
- Published Aug 2, 2024
- Updated Aug 7, 2024

5. **June Jobs Report**
- U.S. Job Growth Cooled in June
- Hiring slowed last month, a sign that the Federal Reserve's inflation-fighting campaign is taking hold. But with rising wages and low unemployment, the labor market remains resilient.
- Published July 7, 2023
- Updated May 10, 2025

6. **U.S. Employers Keep Hiring, but Signs of Easing Are Seen**
- The economy added 311,000 jobs in February despite higher interest rates. But hourly earnings rose more slowly as the pool of available workers grew.
- By Lydia DePillis
- March 10, 2023

7. **Job Growth Slowed in April, Muddling Expectations**
- The increase of 266,000 fell short of estimates, though strong economic growth is still forecast for the months ahead.
- By Patricia Cohen
- May 2022

8. **Job Openings and Hiring Are at a 3-Year Ebb**
- March data showed a cooling labor market, but layoffs remain low. The overall trend is likely to be welcomed by Federal Reserve policymakers.
- By Ben Casselman
- May 1, 2024

9. **Weak Job Gains Leave Washington on High Alert**
- The Federal Reserve and White House had hoped for strong job gains, and the August report did not deliver. That makes coming numbers critical.
- By Jeanna Smialek and Jim Tankersley
- Published Sept 3, 2021
- Updated Oct 8, 2021

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Ella Mc @ecmccrystle.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Can anyone explain why so many cases at SCOTUS come out of Colorado? Google thinks it's because Colorado is a bastion of progressive culture warriors. Um, I don't know Colorado well but seriously? Not all are about "culture wars." Confused 🤔

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Ella Mc @ecmccrystle.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

@lauralippman.bsky.social I wanted to thank you for loaning your beautiful art to Baltimore and by extension my family and myself. It was kinda funny: I said, "I follow Laura Lippman on Substack and I'm pretty sure she has this artist's work." Then I turned around and there you were.

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Ella Mc @ecmccrystle.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I love @theatlantic.com but 7 stories about the failed attack on their "featured" page is absurd and insulting to subscribers. The press needs to get over themselves.

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Ella Mc @ecmccrystle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Where is Congress? Do your jobs!

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Take a step back from the play-by-play. It is intolerable that this deranged man is in charge of our military. And everyone with a platform should be yelling that until he is stopped. No matter how unlikely that may seem right now. It is a moral imperative. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

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The war makes it more urgent for journalists to call out Trump’s derangement | Press Watch

The commander-in-chief is unfit for duty.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 24/03/2026

A month ago, we noted that Jared Kushner’s appointment as special envoy for peace meant he would need to file a financial disclosure so that he could resolve potential conflicts of interest and called on him to proactively divest from Affinity Partners. He hasn’t.🧵

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 21/03/2026

Gas prices at one of my local stations in Maryland, today. All thanks to Donald Trump.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 17/03/2026

Senator Markwayne Mullin, who Trump has tapped to become DHS secretary, is one of the biggest stock traders in Congress. On December 29th alone, he traded 31 stocks worth up to $2.8 million. He's gotten a whole lot wealthier during his time in Congress.

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How Trump’s Homeland Security Pick, a Prolific Investor, Got a Lot Wealthier in Congress

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Michael @michaelr12.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Keep calling out Fox BS propaganda, this is so disrespectful to both Dignified Transfers just to make Trump look good

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Had to doublecheck the date on this

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This is Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Jaggers, an aviation survival technician based out of Astoria, Oregon. He died Thursday after suffering critical injuries Feb. 27 during a rescue off the coast of Oregon, the Coast Guard says. RIP.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hungarian authorities kidnapped employees of Oschadbank along with cash-in-transit vehicles and valuables. Is this the "force" Orbán was talking about? Shame!

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Russia will bomb more Ukrainian apartment buildings, the war will last longer, and your own negotiation process will be even more useless because of this.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 05/03/2026

On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died. Just another day/reminder of how “the richest and most powerful nation in the world” cannot do mass transit. We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

congress needs to stop this madman

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/03/2026

"Under Joe Biden, the share of Y Combinator companies that were AI companies rose from something like 20% to 90%. So this idea that the Biden admin. wasn't going to allow AI startups to exist certainly runs in the face of the evidence." @dkthomp.bsky.social challenges Marc Andreessen's claim.

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Paul Rieckhoff @rieckhoff.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The total number of US troops disclosed by DoD as KIA is now up to 6. Again, to help the families of these fallen servicemembers in this time of unimaginable pain and loss, please support the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS): www.taps.org

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas
Detained for 70 days

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by
@micarosenberg
et al for ProPublica:

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Lucha @iustitia100.latinsky.app · 16/02/2026

Important bills for Marylanders The 287(g) Ban - to end contracts that turn local police into ICE agents. The Community Trust Act - to stop law enforcement from collaborating with ICE. The Data Privacy Act - to block ICE from accessing state and local government data.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 16/02/2026

This change is more unacceptable because of the “crossover” deadline. That’s the time in the legislative session when proposed bills must move from one chamber to the other. This year, crossover is Mar 23. After that, bills that haven’t crossed over are considered “dead” for the rest of the year.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 16/02/2026

Unfortunate development on the HB630 front. The MD legislature has moved the committee hearing to March 11th. We don’t yet know why. Every delay in the process of resisting ICE’s use of shipping centers for mass detention centers is unacceptable. More to follow as we learn more.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/02/2026

Once again, Republicans in Congress are spewing horrible, dehumanizing anti-Muslim comments without condemnation from their peers. We need to call out this poisonous pattern of hatred from Republicans, and they need to answer for it.

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Jeff Galvin @docgalvin64.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/02/2026

Looks like Ring cancelling the Flock partnership is helping alter the narrative. Headline after headline reads “Amazon cancels partnership with surveillance company” when a more accurate read is that 2 surveillance companies pause proposed partnership.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 14/02/2026

“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. interc.pt/4bVVAG2

A photo of a person pausing near the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents on Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis, overlaid with the headline, "The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid."

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 14/02/2026

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

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Nonbinary Themperor @nonbinarythemperor.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Yes, ‘Perfidy’ is specifically prohibited by the Geneva Convention, under Article 37 added in 1977. Section 1, subsections a through c seem applicable here from what I am reading. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy

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Perfidy - Wikipedia

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Steel Rat Gamer @steelrat.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

This is called Perfidy, it is an international war crime anyone with decent training knows why you do not do this. because it puts the innocent civilians who do need aid or are offering it in harm's way because of distrust

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