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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On Saturday a journalist asked Trump, "Last night you said we might be better off not making a deal with Iran." Trump denied saying it Daniel Dale at CNN fact checked it proving Trump had made the remark. I put the two video clips together. Dale and the journalist were correct.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Wednesday, legal scholars and advocates across the country demanded reforms to the Supreme Court to preserve free and fair elections and voting rights in the U.S. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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After Callais, calls to reform Supreme Court grow deafening
"Either Democrats are going to fundamentally remake this institution or they are co-signing autocracy."
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Rudy Terwilliger 🐺 🥷 🍉 @wolftickler2000.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Just for GOP information: the Epstein Files are trending on Bluesky at the moment…
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/04/2026
WOO! John Eastman has been OFFICIALLY DISBARRED.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 (I'm NOT deleting my post below 👇)
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thanks JD !
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
We have a president who took the nation into a war for reasons he cannot fully articulate, without a strategy for how to respond if Iran did the expected and closed the Strait of Hormuz, and without an exit strategy if Iran doesn’t surrender. Reminder that Congress can step up and stop this.
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Jim Cardillo @jimcardillo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I'm old enough to remember when this was called election interference.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11/04/2026
Donald Trump is someone you can't trust. I've tried to work with him — and instead was extorted to say nice things about him while Illinoisans were dying. I'll stand up against him and for the people of Illinois every single day.
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JB Pritzker has always known Trump is evil
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker was interviewed by civil rights activist Al Sharpton during the National Action Network Convention Thursday, where he reminded the audience that his opposition to President ...
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
My controversial opinion is that someone mentioned over 38,000 times in the Epstein files should be removed from office immediately.
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Dee 🦋🦋 @do60een.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 08/04/2026
I’m relieved Trump did not destroy an entire civilization last night, but his unhinged threat and illegal war make it clear he is unfit to serve as president. Trump needs to be removed from office. And we must oppose his administration’s new $1.5 trillion budget proposal for more war.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ceasefire off to a great start Trump on social media screeching about how CNN must be criminally prosecuted for the reporting below Americans still not understanding that this psychopath would *10 times out of 10* kill 20+ million rather than admit he got his ass handed to him
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
1. This is what America looks like with a President who is both a sociopath AND losing his mind. 2. It’s a good time to remind every member of the U.S. military they swore an oath to the Constitution, not an individual, and they have a duty/they are legally obligated to disobey illegal orders.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is the president of the United States. On Easter Sunday. “Open the Fuckin’ Strait.” truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 03/04/2026
There it is. While families can’t afford day care, health care, or even their rent, Donald Trump is willing to spend your money instead on a never-ending war in the Middle East.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
There’s currently a frantic search taking place for two US pilots who were shot down in Iran, and this idiot is talking about taking the oil.
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Dr. Jeffrey Kavanaugh 🇨🇦 @jlkavanaugh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
With only the slightest apology for my language: Who the fuck actually wants these damned data centres?
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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
They’re not hiding it. The goal is to flip the midterms before a single vote is cast.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The call is coming from inside the house.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I mean there it is.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/03/2026
Over the last 25 years, six people who contracted measles in the U.S. died from it. A model built by Stanford researchers predicts that if Americans could no longer get the vaccine, measles could kill about 290,000 people in the next 25 years.
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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish
Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026
New in PN: The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest "Faced with a metastasizing crisis Republicans deliberately inflicted on the country, Dems held firm. Rs, for their part, blustered, caved, caved again, blustered more, then swiftly rushed to bludgeon their faces w/ each other’s fists."
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The Great Republican DHS Funding Rake-Stepping Fest
The shutdown has become a debacle for MAGA.
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orlandovonvegas.bsky.social @orlandovonvegas.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Republicans are pathetic fucking clowns. 🤡
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Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion @nateturner.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
RELEASE THE UNREDACTED EPSTEIN FILES TODAY, DONNIE.....
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Counterpoint, Heritage: If you’re pretending non-citizens vote despite your own study showing otherwise, you’re probably trying to cheat. @MarshaBlackburn #SaveAct #VoterSuppressionNotVoterID
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/03/2026
CROCKETT: Professor, are you saying you believe it's constitutional for the US to blow up people that are accused of being drug traffickers? "It's not going to be a yes or no answer" CROCKETT: I'm going to stop you there. It's unconstitutional.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is the quintessence of narcissistic sociopathy. And just plain stupidity. From @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 15/03/2026
The FCC Chair who spent years fashioning himself as a crusader for free speech is now openly threatening to revoke broadcasters' licenses over their coverage of the war with Iran. This is state-sponsored censorship. Pure and simple. And straight out of the dictators' playbook.
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F.C.C. Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over War Coverage
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is why law firms & corporations knuckling under to Trump & Rufo’s charges of “illegal DEI” programs, and legitimizing the decades-long attack on affirmative action as anti-“merit” has been so catastrophically stupid and harmful. Here’s where it has brought us.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers
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Joel Lava @joellava.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Trump in 2020: COVID will be over by Easter Trump in 2026: IRAN War will be over by Easter
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 05/03/2026
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran. And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program? This is incompetence. Plain and simple.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled: Voters as “Votors” Emergency as "Emeregency" United States as "United Staes" And, it included a non-party in the caption. These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/03/2026
A PSA from Thomas Massie:
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2026
I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 25/02/2026
For all those who didn't watch tonight, allow me to summarize: The liar lied again.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The White House is obsessed with hiding the President's involvement in a child sex ring. It's what they spend most of their time on.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/02/2026
Watch The People's State of the Union live now:
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LIVE: PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION as Dems BOYCOTT TRUMP
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Silly. You need ID (not “voter ID”) to get on a plane. Not “proof of citizenship,” which is what the SAVE America Act requires.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/02/2026
Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 24/02/2026
Much credit to @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/doj-remove...
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DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows
The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.
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