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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Kentucky Gov. Requests McConnell Update the Public on His Health Amid Weeks Long Hospitalization talkingpointsmemo.com/news/kentuck...
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Kentucky Gov. Requests McConnell Update the Public on His Health Amid Weeks Long Hospitalization
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) formally requested an update on Sen. Mitch...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain Massachusetts' unredacted voter file. A victory for our clients the New England NAACP and the MA Alliance for Retired Americans and the Commonwealth. My firm is now 4-0 in these cases against DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/massac...
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🚨 United States of America v. Galvin
Learn more.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Statement from Jasmine Crockett.
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Bill @bill-maxwell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Still, nobody on the right will care about the contradiction. They will only care how it effects their bank account. And it will.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The fire department was called to the SOTU ten times because of all the gaslighting.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Bovino reached out to praise a Border Patrol agent who shot a 30-year-old Chicago woman five times last October, new documents show. "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" @schwartzesque.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
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Top Border Official Praised Agent Who Shot Chicago Woman, Evidence Shows
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Reuters @reuters.com · 26/01/2026
Gold prices push South Africa's rand closer to 16/$ handle reut.rs/463mBDD
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Gold prices push South Africa's rand closer to 16/$ handle
South Africa's commodity-linked rand strengthened in early trade on Monday, edging closer to a 16-per-dollar level thanks to record gold prices, while traders awaited the central bank's first rate-setting meeting this year.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
It’s par for the course these days for mainstream news outlets to downplay the dangers to our democracy. But at Democracy Docket, we’re going to keep sounding the alarm. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICYMI at Democracy Docket: DOJ’s new anti-voting lawyers; and the hilarious incompetence of its push for state voter data
Read more here.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I disagree with the suggestion in the NYT story today that rule of law is not working to stop Trump Yes the "Trump judges" have been disproportionately bad, but the overall win rate of over 60% or >320 wins is still EXTRAORDINARY And the wins in the most important areas have been even bigger👇 1/x
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A Year of Fighting for Democracy–in Print and in Court
Exactly one year ago today, Jen Rubin and I and a small band of colleagues were furiously working to launch a new publication dedicated to the idea of honest but unabashed defense of democracy.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
jfc
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
White House staff reportedly liken the immigration hardliner to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler.
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Insiders Spill on Stephen Miller’s Daily Yelling Meltdowns
A scathing profile reveals that staff liken the immigration hardliner to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The Democratic base is Black voters, not white leftists Bernie Sanders & Jeff Merkley.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“The appetite for jumping into Venezuela right now is pretty low,” one oil industry source told CNN. “The president’s desire is different than the industry’s. And the White House would have known that if they had communicated with the industry prior to the operation.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/05/b...
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Big Oil doesn’t share Trump’s dream of making Venezuelan oil great again | CNN Business
President Donald Trump may have made a major miscalculation about Venezuela’s oil.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
(Reuters) - Greenland belongs to its people, and only Denmark and Greenland can decide on matters concerning their relations, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Britain, and Denmark said in a joint statement on Tuesday. @reuters.com
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Jan. 6, 2021:
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Five years on. #RadioFreeAmerica www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Five years after Jan. 6, Trump is rewriting the narrative around the Capitol siege
The president is expected to take more actions this year, including possible payments to compensate Jan. 6 defendants.
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Eddie in a Blue State @edmondvalpoort.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Promise to oil companies ✅
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/01/2026
Brazil says US crossed 'unacceptable line' over military strikes on Venezuela reut.rs/4quUXXY
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Brazil says US crossed 'unacceptable line' over military strikes on Venezuela
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday condemned the U.S. military attack on neighbor Venezuela and the capture of his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro, saying it crossed "an unacceptable line."
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A consequence of our new illegal war: cancelled Caribbean flights, with spillover effects on domestic travel. Sitting in an airport now because there is no pilot for our plane. Pilot was coming in from San Juan. Airlines scrambling to staff domestic flights. Make America Late Again.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trump claiming on Fox News that Venezuela emptied out its jails and mental institutions into the United States as justification.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Maduro facing charges while our president and members of his administration committed a war crime and an illegal attack‼️
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
See, I'm not interested in seeing the leader of another country held accountable for legitimate crimes...until I see the leader of THIS country held accountable for legitimate crimes. I'm funny like that.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
If Nicolás Maduro stands trial in the United States and gets convicted of 34 felonies, does that mean he’s qualified to be our next president now? Just checking what the standards are these days.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Welcome to A New Era, Cea Weaver!
Cea is joining as Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants. She’s been leading Housing Justice for All and the New York State Tenant Bloc, where she helped pass the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, landmark legislation that closed loopholes landlords used to raise rents and push apartments out of stabilization.

Now she’ll work with us to hold landlords accountable and ensure New York City tenants are living in safe, clean homes.Cea Weaver sitting at a table signing a paper, with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on the left and a white soccer jersey with Brooklyn written on it hanging on the right. Mimicking a sports team signing a major player graphic.

“Cea Weaver” written and signed in the top left and “Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants” written on the top right.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
In his first press conference as NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced three executive orders on housing and tenant protection One will revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. He also revoked prior orders issued since Eric Adams’s indictment
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Mayor Mamdani announces housing-related executive orders
In his first press conference as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced three executive orders around housing and tenant protection.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
here's today's post: "elderly golfer suffering from advanced fuckbrainscabosis" — please help find a cure. or not. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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elderly golfer suffering from advanced fuckbrainscabosis
please help find a cure. or not.
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/01/2026
The Traitors review – this amazing new twist changes everything
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The Traitors review – this amazing new twist changes everything
‘We don’t need middle management,’ yell the new batch of traitors. With just one audacious tweak, the hit show promises to become even more satisfying – and full of bombshells
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This infuriates me. Aside from how blatantly wrong and unfair it is, who would ever trust us again? Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan. Now, refugees across the U.S. are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE. newrepublic.com/article/2048...
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Trump Is Ready to Send Afghan Refugees to Their Death
ICE is detaining Afghan refugees in the wake of the National Guard shooting. Those in the Dallas-Fort Worth area fear for their lives, in both their new home and their old one.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 31/12/2025
The West African countries say the bans are equivalent to those imposed on their citizens by the United States.
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Mali, Burkina Faso ban US citizens in response to Trump travel bans
The West African countries say the bans are equivalent to those imposed on their citizens by the United States.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for Months “while she was under his authority”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/12/2025
“It’s definitely welcomed news — very happy to hear it — but with the caveat that this whole thing took way too long,” said Lisa Warwick, whose husband, Scot, died after Weiner subjected him to 11 years of unnecessary treatments including chemo. By @davidmcswane.bsky.social
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Medical License Revoked for Montana Doctor Linked to Suspicious Deaths
Oncologist Thomas C. Weiner will never practice medicine in Montana again after a decision by the state medical board. A 2024 ProPublica investigation detailed how Weiner had long been suspected of hu...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/12/2025
Elon Musk clearly buys into an Asperger’s-era image of the unempathetic, relentlessly rational autistic man, but it’s a lazy excuse for a brand of “fuck your feelings” shitposting that’s ubiquitous on the right.
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The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
In a win for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal judge blocked the White House's attempt to defund the agency
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Judge Stops Trump's Agency Exterminator From Kneecapping The CFPB
At the heart of this case was whether White House budget director Russell Vought could effectively shut down the agency and lay off all of its employees.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Exclusive: A year after Tenet Media was busted for funneling Russian money to MAGA pundits like Benny Johnson and Tim Pool, a Trump administration effort involving State and the FBI has welcomed Tenet's founders back into the US. @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-che...
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Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/12/2025
The secrets of the body clock: how to tune into your natural rhythms – and have a better day
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The secrets of the body clock: how to tune into your natural rhythms – and have a better day
Our circadian cycle doesn’t just affect our sleeping and waking, but our motivations, mood, behaviour and alertness. Whether you are a lark or an owl, here’s how to recognise your own rhythm
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Today is the anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Let’s hope history repeats itself with its successor.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
KIMMEL, to the UK: “.. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. .. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. .. Give us about three years.” @jimmykimmel.com
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 01/12/2025
The reality we live in.
Alina Habba Is Serving Unlawfully as
U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, Appeals Court Says
The ruling deals a blow to the Trump administration and most likely sets up a showdown at the Supreme Court.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/12/2025
They aren't working on behalf of Americans, just for themselves www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Airbus issued an emergency update to protect their planes from falling out of the sky—roughly 3,000 A320 jets were in the air at the time of the announcement.
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Thanksgiving Travel Chaos as Airbus Issues Warning for 6,000 Planes
The plane manufacturer said 6,000 planes must update their hardware and software to protect them from falling out of the sky.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay
Me on a candlelit vigil for AIDS in 1987. Me last week. Looking pretty healthy for 58 (28 years living with HIV).
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
www.salon.com/2025/11/21/d...
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Donald Trump's piggish, savage behavior hits new low
From insults to death threats and princely thugs, the president is out of control
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
There’s a turn up for the books. As they used to say in the old days.
The Telegraph 
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Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure
Leaving the EU has reduced Britain's GDP by up to 8pc, according to a devastating US study
"It's the ghost that nobody -other than Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader - wants to talk about."
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