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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This has to be a Pulitzer finalist. @gettyimages.com
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
One of the saddest things I’ve written. Excellently edited and shepherded by the Bulwark team, and I’m grateful for the space to say these children’s names and write about their short lives
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Ossoff: On Wednesday of this last week he said the war was "Done." And then on Thursday another ship was struck. On Friday the president was bombing again. This is what happens when you send your son-in-law, Jared, to cosplay as a diplomat
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In addition to football, women, Black people, all ethnic food, medicine, science, literature, and all good music, it appears the left got counting in the divorce
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/06/2026
We aren’t talking about this enough. Trump’s lawsuit against his own IRS, the one that he settled to create the $1.776 billion dollar January 6 slush fund, was over the leak of his tax returns. But they were leaked when he was in charge of the IRS.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/06/2026
Hochul: "I was actually surprised to see the president and Gov. Abbott with their memes of me -- they're dunking me on the court -- that they're supportive of men and women competing in the same sport together. I found that very interesting."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/05/2026
Mamdani: "Govt efficiency — these are words that somehow have been understood as if they are R priorities, when in fact they're priorities of anyone who believes in the public sector. Any yet, Elon Musk used it to cut as many jobs that were as critical as possible for so many of the neediest people"
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/05/2026
It might be hard to see from this picture today of the White House, but Donald Trump is very focused on lowering costs.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Kash Patel has gutted FBI field offices, bungled investigations, and – according to numerous accounts – misused government resources to party around the world. Americans are less safe with Patel at the helm of our federal law enforcement.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Trump keeps claiming that the conflict in Iran is almost over… in reality, the Strait remains closed, gas prices are up, and we’re still deep in this forever war. The man that ran on lowering costs and ending wars is 0/2.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/05/2026
This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 07/05/2026
Hantavirus is the latest virus outbreak in the news right now. I promise you it won't be the last. It's not a question of IF there will be another pandemic, it's a question of WHEN. Americans need to realize Trump is razing our public health infrastructure to the ground.
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Why Experts Are Worried About the U.S. Response to Hantavirus
While it’s unlikely the virus could become a pandemic, health experts say the CDC isn’t doing enough.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but the National Institutes of Health in 2025 said the work wouldn't continue
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Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus behind deadly cruise ship outbreak
The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but the National Institutes of Health in 2025 said...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/05/2026
thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Exactly and that’s precisely why they do it.
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 30/04/2026
They're just making sh!t up at this point.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This article should've been published before the First Iran War, and republished every few weeks since. Trump is more responsible for the current state of Iran's nuclear program then any living non-Iranian. We're paying for his venality and incompetence.
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Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Atomic Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 24/04/2026
Outrageous. Afghan allies who fought alongside us — including family members of American service members — could now be abandoned by Trump and his henchman Miller. America must honor our commitments — not cruelly discard our friends.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., says the new map passed because Virginians want a House delegation that’ll stand up to Trump if he tries to steal 2026 or 2028 election—after Virginia Republicans sided with Trump on J6. He says he still favors a federal gerrymandering ban and that Republicans should join him.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
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Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 05/04/2026
Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:
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Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 27/03/2026
This piece features no acknowledgement that this tech is built on theft at scale, owned by demonstrably anti-democratic billionaires, and being purposefully deployed by bad actors to undermine the core function & financial viability of journalism. The WSJ should be mortified, too—for publishing it.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/03/2026
President Trump on Saturday blamed Iran for an airstrike that hit an Iranian elementary school on February 28, killings scores of children. An analysis by The New York Times indicates that the school was most likely hit by an American airstrike. Follow live updates.
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Live Updates: Strikes Launched Across Middle East, With No Compromise in Sight
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I’m sure he’ll resign in protest.
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
All of the claims the Trump administration made this week to justify possible U.S. military action against Iran were either false or unproven: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...
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In Trump’s Case for War, a Series of False or Unproven Claims
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
To commemorate the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States will be invading Iran.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service." Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I cannot vote for Democrats because their excessive regulations hamper free enterprise. Here’s why I’m revamping my company’s entire operations to appeal to Donald Trump’s ego.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
There is so little good coverage on the millions left to die by the richest human on earth so bless ProPublica for this.
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What Really Happened When USAID Was Cut
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We have a President who can’t get over the fact that he lost in 2020… and sees the writing on the wall with his plummeting approval rating. Is he preparing to massively intervene in the midterms?
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 02/02/2026
Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is now without question the biggest politico-financial scandal in United States history. Teapot Dome was trivial in comparison.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
What the hell is Tulsi Gabbard up to?
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"They're taking a wrecking ball to the system of nuclear safety and security regulation oversight that has kept the U.S. from having another Three Mile Island accident," said Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
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The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules
The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I don’t understand why Trump has to threaten Iran again over their nuclear program when he angrily insisted months ago that international proliferation experts were wrong and he completely obliterated their program and set them back many years with his previous bombings.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Public executions will continue until the citizenry is silent.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Donald Trump ran on lowering costs, but has spent his first year firing up trade wars that make all of our costs go way, way up.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Jesus Christ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...
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Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’
The principal deputy director of the CDC said he would not view the loss of the United States' measles elimination status as a significant event.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Trump has destroyed our economy, unleashed an untrained homicidal secret police force on our streets, and is now randomly invading other countries. But the wine moms on BlueSky won’t shut up about Heather Cox Richardson. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 16/01/2026
DONALD TRUMP WANTS TO POISON OUR KIDS
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
If Donald Trump kills fewer than 25 Minnesotans with his ICE militia, he deserves a second Nobel Peace Prize. by Hugh Hewitt
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Whether it’s Donald Trump tanking the economy, shredding the Constitution, and executing civilians or Joe Biden having a raspy voice at a debate, both men have defiled all that is sacred about about our nation.
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